April 17, 2026
145: The Military Industrial Complex
We talk about the current war we are in as well as how much money we are spending on war.
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Welcome back to another episode
of a record, My father.
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Today we're going to be talking
about the war machine, the
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military industrial complex in
the US It's it's going it's
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going a little bit up here.
It's going a little bit up.
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It's kind of interesting too,
what I think about most
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apparently that everybody was
talking about how Joe Biden was
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a war monger for defending
Ukraine and now we are defending
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Israel's rights to wiping Iran
off the face of the planet.
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So I think that this is an
interesting kind of talk about
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in the way that America is kind
of going to support that little
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country in the West, you know,
or east.
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I mean, I, I worry the most
because I, I, when I, when you
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think about the war machine, you
think about where we're going.
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They're now proposing a 2 1/2,
No 1 1/2 trillion dollar budget.
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And now this is going to go to
an agency that they, they don't
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audit the whole agency.
They audit 12 parts of it and
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like 9 parts of it have failed
audits every time.
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They've never been able to
audit.
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They don't know.
And failing an audit typically
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would be a red sign that they
don't know where the money's
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going.
So it would seem odd that, you
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know, if I gave you $100 and I
said, and you said, hey, I'm
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going to invest this in stock.
And then I hired an accountant
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to come in and audit your books.
And then he comes in and he
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goes, well, he got the $100.
We found it in his account, but
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then it just, it got transferred
somewhere.
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We don't know where it went.
And then I'd be like, and then
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you come back and you say, you
know, I need 150 next year.
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I'm I'm going to invest it.
And I'm like, but but you
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failed.
Yeah, but I need, I need more to
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make it more, to make a better
investment, to make you safer.
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You know, I'm an invested in
security, right?
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I'm an invested in security
because in the essence, when you
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think about Department of
Defense, it's supposed to be or
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the Department of War, whatever
you want to call it, it is.
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It's about creating a feeling of
safety for Americans, right?
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I mean, when you think that that
that's kind of the mindset and
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there's a.
Phrase security theater that
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exists in the US.
It was specifically in airports
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where I with those full body
scanners.
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Man, I'd love to know what the
the contract deal on that.
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What is it?
It's like say what is the
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company?
It's like sei say so or
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something.
I I can't remember what it is,
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but it's crazy how many of those
and how expensive it's.
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Not US either it's not AUS based
company, it's international.
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Is it really No, Oh my gosh, I,
I remember and I was like, we,
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we keep offshoring this stuff.
And it's like when you hear like
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what we do with the offshoring
and it's like, let's go back to
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the budget.
I'm going to get crazy.
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I mean, some of the things that
are happening because now we're
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at war.
And you saw that the the
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Pentagon, which got a $990
billion budget last year, last
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year, needs a special 4 1/2
billion dollar payment because
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they ran out of Tomahawks.
And you're thinking like, well,
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can't you just slide over some
of that other money from the
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other pockets full of gold that
you have instead of making us do
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this?
Can't you make, you know, 1 less
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F35 jet 11 less?
Can you do that?
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Can you, can you, you know, and
it's just it, it bothers me that
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when you look at what we're
doing and what we're spending
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it, it's, it's basically a
mirror of what Russia did.
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And the 80s when they collapsed,
'cause they were was the Cold
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War, it was the we were raising
the military budget.
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They raised the military budget.
They could not afford it.
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The the world, they're, they're
their economy collapsed and then
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they needed a new person.
They needed a detente.
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And some of the things they did
is they walked away from Eastern
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Europe and they did all sorts of
things like that because they
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overspent, they put too much
money on taking other people's
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shit.
And if you look at what we're
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doing, that's what we're doing.
We're, we're, we're, we're not,
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we're not attacking people that
have directly attacked us.
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We're attacking people that have
attacked other people that we
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know, you know, you know, we, we
and, and, and then it's vague.
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It's, it's, it's really vague
and the, the purpose and the
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reasoning behind it.
And there's, you know, there's
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not 3 or 4 different reasons
that you can look at that are
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really clear as to why we're in
this war today, why we did what
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we did in Venezuela and what we
are promising to do in Cuba.
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And who knows what else is going
to be pulled out of the sleeve
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for us to go after and do
because they don't seem to have
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a very cohesive long term plan
about what we're going to do and
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how we're going to do it.
Generally, you, you, you, you
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build a cohesive group of allies
around these particular
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decisions to share the expense
and to share the fear and the
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grief and all that kind of
stuff.
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I mean, and we're in this thing
and we're calling that the
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Israeli American war.
And yet they're not going to put
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ground troops on.
So if we got people dying and
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they don't, then I'm sort of
like questioning whether, and
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it's like, well, they're being
bombed.
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Well, you know, they were they
were fronting all the bombing.
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And you know, and you know when
you hear you hear it, you're
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like no ground troops in a war
that you're gonna you want us to
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go to war with these people?
We did.
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And and you, your troops run
away.
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We're fighting Lebanon.
Well, why are you at war in
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Lebanon?
War, and I mean.
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Americans have been dying
already for for profit
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healthcare when we have been
allowing citizens of of Israel
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to have free healthcare, which
is so funny.
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So, I mean, there's already
Americans dying for Israel,
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hanging away and away.
We can go in all the reasons
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that no but.
I'm saying you're, you're saying
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that Americans.
Are I agree?
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I agree.
We're fighting a war at home, I
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mean, over this as well.
We are, we're, we're, we're
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fighting in a, a war against the
political structure here that
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where the majority of the people
think that we should not be
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funding and we shouldn't have
and funding the war in Gaza,
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which really wasn't a war.
It was A1 sided slaughter that
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we should have been doing that.
And yet we did.
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And you're thinking like, well,
you know, 80% of the population
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says stop sending money and your
your congressperson just goes
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mute every time you ask that.
Question the.
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Bigger the bigger question is,
is water wet?
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And you're like, no, you, you
sound like a bought hooker, you
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know, And and that's, and I and
I understand that everybody says
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that about all politicians, but
it seems that now that it's
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really being shoved in her face
how purchased the people are.
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I think I said this about two
years ago on the podcast.
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I wish they were as good or they
were good at lying again.
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You know, I wish it wasn't a so
self-evident.
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Yeah, just the miss, the
absolute screwing of the
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American people.
You know, I miss when it was
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more like smoke and mirrors.
And you're like, maybe that
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conspiracy theory is true and
then no, no, it actually has
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been true.
And I'm going to tell you it's
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true, but you're not going to be
able to do anything about.
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It and hiding it, yeah, that
kind of thing.
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And then, and then I look at it,
we and back to the budget, we
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talked about some of the things
that are that are crazy.
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The new 4 1/2 billion for
Tomahawk missiles.
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That's one that's just nuts.
They, they couldn't, they
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couldn't pay for it.
Now here's the other thing.
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They're getting shot out of the
air with $30,000 drones.
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So at what point do you say
maybe we shouldn't build $30
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million missiles that get shot
out of the air with three
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$30,000 drones?
Maybe we should maybe, maybe we
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should do something different.
Maybe we should do this.
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You know, am I, I'm not sure
that all my numbers are
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absolutely correct, but it's
like 100th.
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They're, they're just, they're
just getting wiped out by
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things.
We need to change the military
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as a whole, I believe.
First off, the number one thing
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is where's the money going?
I, I cannot, and, and I don't
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know how anybody could give them
any more money until we know
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where it's going, because this
is, this is just the, the, the,
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it's a definition of stupid.
You're, you're giving people
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money and you don't know where
it's going.
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How many people put money in a
bank and then don't see their
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balance rise?
And then they're OK with that
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and then they do it again and
they do it again and they do it
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again.
Well, it's because these
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politicians.
That are approving these things
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already have investments in
these companies.
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I I have a found belief that
it's purposeful, that we've lost
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every war since Vietnam because
it increases.
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No, no, no, no.
We, we won.
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We won Vietnam.
Bush, Bush won.
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Did when we had, when we
attacked Qatar, we attacked Iraq
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in 88 or whatever.
When Bush 98991, whatever the
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hell it was when he went in
there, he had a very clear and
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defined mission that we will go
to the Qataris border and we
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will stop and we will monitor it
with our weaponry going forward
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to keep the Iraqis out.
And we did just that.
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And I totally stabilized the oil
price, everything.
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And we and it was a very clear
mission.
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We couldn't everybody was like,
you should have gone there and
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killed Saddam, who's saying you
should have kept going.
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And it's like, well, but what
happens when you when you unseat
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a government?
You can't, there is no, there's
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no easy way to sway the opinion
of 30 million people or 5
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million people.
I mean, you know, we're, we're
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it's a whole new game.
And this is not, this is not
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going to be the same kind of
thing that people have.
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They're just, you know, Rumsfeld
screaming, they'll be meeting us
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saying we're saving them.
No, that's not going to happen.
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Didn't happen before.
Hasn't happened ever.
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Hasn't happened in didn't happen
in Vietnam, didn't happen.
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Didn't happen in Afghanistan,
didn't happen.
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Some of them do.
We leave our weapons behind for
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them to use and they drop them
on the ground and let the enemy
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take them.
So we should never do that
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again.
Biden did it again this last
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time.
And you know, they didn't, I
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don't even think the the Afghan
army touched them.
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I think they they were changing
their clothes as we were going
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to the shinier ship.
You know, so sad.
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But you start to look at this
and say, like, well, you know,
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we always talk about us having
the greatest military and the
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most expensive military.
But what exactly?
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I mean, it gives you Peace of
Mind, I guess, to have all this
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stuff.
But I mean, we saw this, this
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jet or, or you know, you're
seeing these Tomahawk missiles
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get shot out of the air with
nothing.
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We had a, we have a jet program
called the F35 and it's like,
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it's huge.
It's it's a 20 year program to
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beat a, to build a stealth jet,
the best jet ever.
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This is it.
It goes out on missions in Iran
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and gets shot down.
Trillion dollar program
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unshooted downable.
That's good.
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That's my new world.
Unshooted downable and and it
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gets shot down.
And anyway, well, it's a lucky
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shot.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I would I would sue Lockheed if
I was in the government right
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now and I'd say what the fuck
you, you, you did this, you said
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this would do this.
It did not.
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It didn't work.
The American taxpayer deserves a
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response to that.
A trillion dollars.
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I mean, I can understand if you
stole my Snickers bar that
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you're you're and you took a
bite out of it.
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But holy shit, this is wrong.
And it's just, it's just, it's
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it's just wholesale robbery, you
know, and it started, I don't
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know when it started.
It's happened over and over and
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over.
I mean, I remember I had
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somebody in in Iraq and they
said that they were shipped,
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they were shipping pallets of
money to change people's
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opinions.
Think about that.
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The pallet of money were
American dollars, because that's
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what the currency.
Everybody love the American
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dollar because they could use it
and that's a big thing.
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So they're handing that out to
change the minds of people and
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think about it, if you so you
would they would they would give
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people a guaranteed income in
Iraq, but they wouldn't do it
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here.
Think about that.
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That's just cause a.
National minimum wage of $15.00.
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That would be wrong, you know,
that would be wrong.
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People could afford groceries,
you know, and people could be
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happy.
And what did we accomplish?
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We unseated A dictator.
We have a whole unstable region.
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We increase the power of Iran to
now.
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And it's like you're we had
somebody that was against them
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and we took it.
We took their enemy out.
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And you think about that is, I
mean, on paper it's dumb.
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And it's like when you look at
Iran like what we're doing now,
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it's dumb.
It's just dumb.
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There's no what we, we're,
we're, we're very, very, very,
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very clear that before we fired
a single shot in this war, there
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was no uranium.
None.
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We had wiped out all the stuff
and stopped.
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The president had said we had
wiped it all out.
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Yet we're going there because
they have nuclear capabilities.
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No, they don't.
They're lying.
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You're lying.
You're lying.
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Why are you lying to us?
Why do you want us to do this?
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What I mean, this is a monetary
thing.
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We we were blowing what, seven,
$8 billion a day there military
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equipment.
Well then the first week it was
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a astronomical sum.
And you think you're asking it
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to?
Well here's this one thing.
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Ever since the Ayatollah's
so-called is dead.
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I don't know if he really is,
but I had a lot of people that
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are Iranian, they said they
couldn't express more happiness,
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You know, yeah, there, there's
a, a wide range of happiness and
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it's kind of interesting 'cause
I don't think that that's why we
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did it.
I, you know, like, I don't know,
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but I don't think that that's.
Why we use If you use killing
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the leader, If you use killing
the leader as a barometer and
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how many people you would make
happy?
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Who would we kill today?
There's one man we would kill
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that would make the whole world
a happier place.
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OK?
So let's not use that as a
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barometer because, I mean, it
would make hundreds of it would
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probably make billions of people
happier, OK, OK, so let's not,
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let's not go there.
And I'm not talking about Putin.
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Putin would certainly make
hundreds of millions of people
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happier.
Why can't we use it as a
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barometer?
Well, because I don't think that
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that's the biggest one now.
Fair, but that's just my opinion
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anyway.
Anyway, it's like that's, it
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just seems like when you start
to look at this, that and, and
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we were talking about what we're
talking about the war machine
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and the budget is like, we
don't, there's no, we don't have
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financial oversight, which on
anything in the world,
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everything we talk about always
budgets this, that and the other
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and how we spend and how we're,
we're going after the Somalis
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for spending inefficiently or
they're stealing something and
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they're being investigated or
they are being investigated.
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Yet one of those jets, one 3% of
that program is more than that,
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you know, and it's like, well,
really, what are we doing?
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I I think that I think the.
It is kind of funny too, because
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you have the same thing going on
in California right now about
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this Hospice care that people
are talking about and how it's
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been robbing the California
State taxpayer because you have
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all of these fake hospices that
have accrued millions of
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dollars.
But I mean, you have like, what,
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like a $3 trillion program?
Are they being?
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Sued or are they going after or
well, that's the whole the whole
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thing is people used to talk
about Medicare fraud, right?
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Medicaid fraud.
Well, if if you look at the
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numbers, just the pure numbers,
yes, there's fraud in Medicaid.
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Yes, it's a huge cash number,
dollar number, but it's it's
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under 3% of the program.
So, but if you look at it in
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that way, which is kind of the
way you're supposed to look at
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how you're investigating things,
unless you want to only look at
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the size or the amount of the
fraud, like we don't know how
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much fraud is in Department of
Defense.
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This whole program that went out
at the beginning of this current
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administration, they purposely
didn't focus on the number one
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funded thing that we do.
They didn't focus on DoD, not,
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not one thing.
Why not?
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Why wouldn't you think that they
focus on a $550 million agency
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when you're talking about a $990
billion agency?
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I mean, if you really want to
save money, and I'm not talking
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about going there and making
sure that privates are using
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plastic toothbrushes instead of
throwaway ones.
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I mean stop that bullshit.
I'm talking about just usually
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when they do stuff like that,
they focus at the lowest end and
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they talk about you get you get
butter with your mashed
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potatoes.
You should be using fake.
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Butter.
Oh yeah.
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They always take it away from
like a sense of humility stand.
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They always look.
Down to the small people and
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then you and then you feel bad
because you're shitting on the
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guy that's got nothing and it's
like no the.
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Giant.
Airplane, we need to look at the
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payments that have gone to
Lockheed and the payments that
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have gone to General Dynamics
and the payments that have gone
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to the, you know, the BIG4.
And what are we getting for
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that?
You know, because it seems like
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one thing we're getting is we're
getting incredibly wealthy CEOs
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of those companies and the
shareholders are making a lot of
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money.
I mean, and who are the
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shareholders?
Well, the shareholders.
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Well, politicians, but there's
also all of us, not all of us.
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There's there's what the top 20%
of people in the US put money
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into the four O 1 KS in stock
market and stuff like that.
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So.
You know, and, and that's it.
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If you put money in Vanguard,
Vanguard and you do it in a
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general fund, you're going to,
you're going to own a piece of
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well, the.
Reason why I say politicians too
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is you see this is a bipartisan
issue that like time and time
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and the cross public servants
that cap out at like what like
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two 5150 something like that.
Are worth 4. $100 million, like
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what?
Like, how is that even that in
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China these people would be
killed and they should.
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Well, there's, there's it's
crazy bills, there's bills in
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front of Congress, which I I
would like to see that if there
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was a way we could, we could
push legislation through that
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was good for the people.
That just something simple that
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rules that apply to the public
apply to Congress.
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You know, and just you know you
would.
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I don't think we're ever going
back to taking care of people
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ever again.
I mean I.
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Don't really well see see if we
continue on this road, I see us
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doing exactly what Russia did in
the 80s.
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I see us running out of money.
I see no longer is the US dollar
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the world currency.
I see that the, the lack of
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regulation and deregulation in
the new on all the different
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exchanges.
You know what more stock is
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traded on our exchanges than
anywhere else.
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It's because it's, it's because
it's trusted.
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And when you start taking away
disclosure requirements, you
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allow shitty people in to steal.
And everybody steals in these
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markets and there there's all
sorts, but nothing compared to
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what's stolen in other markets.
And that's, you know, regulatory
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rules and regulations on how you
report what you make and how you
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make it are incredibly
important.
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And I think that, you know,
those are some of the things
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that, that, that keep the US
strong.
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And that's what keeps us one of
the strongest financially strong
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countries in the world, which we
seem to be throwing that away at
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a record pace now.
You know, and, and, and it's
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just, we owe so many people so
much money.
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And we're, we're, we're living
in like 2035 right now and it's,
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and we're not there.
And we're, we're going well
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behind that.
I mean, look at, I mean, how in
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the world could you look at a
straight face and say that what
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was it 10 years ago, the
military budget was 600 billion.
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And today, 20/20/16 it was 600
billion.
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And in 2026, it was a trillion,
400 and like 4400 billion.
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So almost 100% increase.
And in 2016 to now, do you feel
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safer?
No, I don't.
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I don't.
I don't, yeah, don't care.
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I don't.
I don't feel any safer.
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I feel less safe.
And I feel like I feel that
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we're less financially stable.
The stronger we are, the
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stronger we are financially and
the stronger we are as a
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country, this, the better
infrastructure we have, the
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better our country's going to
be.
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And I think that we, we have,
we, we've watched this stuff get
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tapped out and sucked out.
And we're listening to these
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people that will say whatever
gets them elected, we will, we,
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will, we hear this over and
over.
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And it's like, and, and the same
thing.
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And, and, and I'm guilty of
this.
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I'm guilty of this.
I vote.
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I voted, I have voted many,
many, many times for absolute
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pieces of shit.
But you know what?
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It was never for them.
It was against the other person
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or persons that I thought were
more pieces of shit, you know,
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and that still stands.
You know, I'm, I'm, I'm running
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into that over and over and over
again where I see and I'm like,
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my God, you know, and that's I,
I, I, I, I, it worries me about
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our country.
It worries me about the, the
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inability to keep up with China
and infrastructure.
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They have surpassed us like
tenfold.
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And anytime someone talks about
a high speed train, all they do,
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all people do is they bitch
about California or Chicago and
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they talk about what went wrong.
Well, you know what's so, well,
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why don't you just come in and
make it right?
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Look at the, the, the you look
at, case in point, Boston Big
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Dig, people talked about that,
said it was supposed to be like
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10 billion or 5 billion or 20.
I don't remember what the number
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was.
But the, the, the Big Dig was
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underneath it brought the
airport into the city.
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You didn't have to go over the
bridge and it connected all
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sorts of parts of the city.
Well, the amount of commerce
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that happened was triple what
they expected.
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So they ended up getting like
$10.00 for every overly inflated
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dollar that they put into that
project back.
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And you're like, well, why are
we not doing things like that?
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Like, you know, you connect San
Francisco to to LA at high speed
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train, you connect DC to New
York.
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I mean you connect the world by
connecting.
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We will be a closer country if
if you go to Chicago in three
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hours, we would go there.
If I could go visit you in six
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hours, I would do that.
I would do it on a weekend.
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I would say, hey, I'm coming
out.
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I got the train.
We're going to do lunch on
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Sunday and we're coming back.
And it'd be like, you know,
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it's, it's it, it totally
changes the way that you feel
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all of a sudden.
And the idea that we're big,
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shut up.
China's big OK.
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The whole thing too, is that 98%
of people in China own their own
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homes.
And I had this kind of
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discussion with somebody that I
know the other day, like they
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said, well, have you seen those
houses?
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I'm like, so it's better to
sleep outside.
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So it's better to sleep outside
and then have to pay a mortgage
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for the rest of your fucking
life.
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I didn't realize.
And then they're like, well,
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they actually don't own them.
I'm like, it's an 88 year land
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lease.
I mean, yeah, they basically
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own.
Their they own to their debt.
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Stop like, stop it like London.
Does a lot of that too.
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It's.
Semantics.
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You're basically picking apart
semantics when it's better to
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sleep outside and die from a
garnished wage from healthcare
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right now.
Like, I don't understand that.
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I don't, I don't get that.
I don't get these borderline
444
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,640
childish defenses.
We and I and I think over and
445
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,200
over when you keep running at
this, it's we, we can do better.
446
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:44,360
And right now, I mean, where I
am, I think the center of
447
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,720
everything is defense.
It is it is something that gets
448
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,960
smoothed over every single
person.
449
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,800
You want to protect America, You
hate the troops.
450
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,440
You know all the things that
people say when you start to
451
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,040
question the budget.
Whether or not we spend 4 1/2
452
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,360
billion on Tomahawks or not will
make no difference to the
453
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,920
troops.
OK, sorry.
454
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,520
Won't make any difference.
Nope.
455
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:22,560
I Because if we spent $998
billion last year, what'd we get
456
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,640
for that?
We didn't didn't we didn't get
457
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,200
enough ships and boats and
planes.
458
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,880
We have a we have a shrunken
force.
459
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,200
So it isn't like we are paying
the money.
460
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,880
We don't the oversight is this
where was all of it going?
461
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,360
Was going to technology.
OK.
462
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:41,080
Technology for what?
Protecting us?
463
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,560
I don't know.
I mean, because they haven't
464
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,040
passed an audit.
I mean, I mean, I, I would, I,
465
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,640
I, these, these huge programs
that come out of there that
466
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,760
reward all the states by giving
people jobs, you know, the
467
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,280
military jobs, Hey, it's jobs.
Well, you know, so is building a
468
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760
bridge, so is building a high
speed train.
469
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,920
And that doesn't kill anybody.
And it also makes our country
470
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,040
stronger.
And I think that we need to look
471
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,160
for better ways to make our, our
country stronger than being
472
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,840
bullies, the bully on the block.
Because right now we're the
473
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,280
bully on the block.
And in the past, we had the
474
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,080
power or we thought we had the
power to be the bully on the
475
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,480
block, but we weren't.
And now we are.
476
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,920
We go into another country and
we take the leader and remove
477
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,480
him like we did in Nicaragua,
like we did in Venezuela.
478
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,800
Or the country is doing that.
Nobody is.
479
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,720
There was this comedian that did
a a bit about how he grew up
480
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,760
really poor and he was talking
about how he wanted to join the
481
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,120
military, but then he couldn't
really come to terms with being
482
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,520
homeless after.
And I thought that that was just
483
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,880
the cherry on top.
He's like, whoa, in the
484
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,240
military, but I didn't want to
be homeless after.
485
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,840
And I think that that is it's
it's very interesting.
486
00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,400
I mean what?
Have you?
487
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,120
Unless you're willing to stay.
Since the GI Bill.
488
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,240
I mean like, really.
And unless you're willing to
489
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,920
stay for a long time, it's it's
crazy.
490
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,760
We don't, we don't.
And, and if you get hurt, you're
491
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,120
you're in trouble.
If that veterans are well
492
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,760
financially, we don't take care
of them, you know?
493
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,920
You've heard stories about the
VA as well.
494
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,360
It's crazy.
Yeah.
495
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,680
And they're, I mean, we're
getting better.
496
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,560
We're getting better.
I mean, we should be.
497
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,280
That's how time works.
You know, like.
498
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,520
We should be Yeah, no, not
always.
499
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,000
We we get worse and then we get
better and then we get we focus
500
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,160
on.
It's like every issue that
501
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,600
America has, we truly focused
our financial effort and our
502
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,680
willpower and our brain power.
We can do a lot of things, you
503
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:53,920
know, but it's like, let's make
you know when it when I hear
504
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,920
let's make America great again.
Well, wouldn't you know, a fully
505
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,640
connected country be great.
You know, I think that to me
506
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:09,680
would be amazing and
irrespective of airlines, it
507
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,640
would cut fuel costs.
It would do all sorts of things
508
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,960
that it would create huge new
commerce pools because people
509
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,440
could transport when they came
to the US, they could go all
510
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,000
over it instead of just staying
in DC or just staying in New
511
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,560
York, just staying in Miami.
You know, oh, I go to Miami and
512
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,840
I go there and then I got to go
home because you can't, you
513
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,200
know, I can't go to DC because
it's, it's a 24 hour ride on a
514
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640
train.
No, exactly.
515
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,120
And it's 3 times more expensive
too, which makes.
516
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,120
Sense like wow.
Somebody did the.
517
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,000
I watched a video about the
train from DC to Miami.
518
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Yeah.
And and how it was 24 hours.
519
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,120
I think it was $2500.
I took that for a sleeper.
520
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,960
I took that trainer.
Yeah, you did.
521
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,240
Yeah, I didn't do the sleeper 1.
I did the, I did the cheapest 1
522
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,360
I could do on the way back and
it was that wasn't a sleeper.
523
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,280
Yeah, that was no, no, it wasn't
a sleeper in. 2000 Yeah, it was
524
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,920
a seat.
On the train from Jacksonville
525
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:18,080
to DC and I think did you do
that 1981 I had me and a buddy
526
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,680
had gone out and we had a week
off spring break.
527
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,200
We were working concrete.
We said, hey, we want to take a
528
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,720
week off and oh, you shouldn't
it's like, well we want to do it
529
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,720
anyway.
So we went we, we took a week
530
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,440
off We, we hopped on a train.
No, we went out to the
531
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,560
Springfield.
No, not Springfield.
532
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,840
We went out to what the heck was
it Aqua Max that we walked out
533
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,920
on?
And we stuck our thumbs out and
534
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,080
started hitchhiking.
And this is 2 guys that you
535
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,320
know, he's 6263.
I'm nearly six.
536
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,720
We got bed rolls and backpacks
on carrying our stuff.
537
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,280
I'm wearing a top hat.
It's 8 O clock in the morning.
538
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,640
Got a 2 gallon jug of vodka and
bitter lemon.
539
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,040
And we got a ride in about an
hour.
540
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,280
And that ride took us to Boca
Raton.
541
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,760
I mean, amazing.
It was in a a old Cadillac and
542
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,640
the guy was taking the car down
for his brother.
543
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,680
And we saved him a a night in
Georgia by continuing to drive
544
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,960
because he trusted us and we
drank the whole way.
545
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,960
And, you know, back in the good
old days.
546
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,840
Do you think it was the late 80s
serial killers that changed that
547
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,720
whole hitchhiking thing?
I think there's still serial
548
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,880
killers and I just think that
that was easier and it's so now
549
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,760
if I was to be a how would I
mean, what all you have to do is
550
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,560
you start thinking about if
you're a pedo or you're a serial
551
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,040
killer or whatever.
You still, what would you do?
552
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,080
How would you do it today?
I'd be a I'd be man.
553
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,080
Can you imagine a serial killer
that was a a evangelical priest?
554
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,320
Wow, that would.
Devil All the time.
555
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,480
That's a movie, really.
Yeah, I think.
556
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,720
He was a well, if they're
killing bad people, you know,
557
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,720
and then it becomes subjective
because people say, well, he
558
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,080
killed that person and they knew
and well, not really.
559
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,480
They were pretty sure that he
did something wrong.
560
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:09,440
So, you know, yeah, we just look
at that and go.
561
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,320
And it's, I think like back to
we came in this, we were talking
562
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,400
about wartime, the war machine,
the money, and we need more
563
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,040
oversight.
We need to push for oversight.
564
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:29,280
And I don't know how anybody and
left less interaction from non
565
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,880
registered packs.
You know, we have foreign packs
566
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,400
that are not registered.
We have we have all sorts of
567
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:43,600
things that are just really UN
American, you know, that are
568
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,680
that are driving the way our
trillions of dollars are spent
569
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,040
every year.
You know, we have a big GDP, we
570
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:59,120
are spending a ton of it and and
it's not for the benefit of the
571
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:05,520
people, it's for the benefit of
extraneous people, you know,
572
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,159
other countries.
And it's not for us.
573
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,159
And we need to come back and
say, I mean, if you really think
574
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,440
of America first attacking Iran
is not America first, attacking
575
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,880
Venezuela in America first, OK.
What was the whole Venezuela
576
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,960
thing with Maduro?
I didn't understand that.
577
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,000
I thought it it was very odd.
We would argue a diversion.
578
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,840
You know, I mean over the files,
is that what you're saying?
579
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,239
Yeah, well, they were saying
drugs and all this, but if they
580
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,360
if he doesn't get convicted in a
court of law, it's really going
581
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,880
to be bad.
I don't think he will either,
582
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,040
because it's crazy.
That doesn't make sense.
583
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,960
Yeah.
Yeah, it doesn't seem right.
584
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,840
And also they left the whole
second tier in.
585
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,719
They just took out the head guy.
So it was very just like a
586
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,440
military exercise and we were
blowing up boats in Venezuela.
587
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,480
And Venezuela is not the drug
exporter.
588
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,520
It's always been Columbia.
So it's very weird that I think
589
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,680
and and when you look at it,
Venezuela was collapsing.
590
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:13,120
Venezuela has a ton of oil ton.
Oh, I forgot.
591
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:19,480
About that now we have control
over that oil because we took
592
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,040
the top guy.
So if you really want to look at
593
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,520
it from a strategic point of
view, that is a good thing.
594
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,960
OK, but that's that's an
aggressive tactic that you
595
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,440
would.
But The thing is, the people
596
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,960
that are profiting off of that
are not U.S. citizens.
597
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,360
It's not, it's not helping us.
It's helping companies.
598
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,680
Do you think you'll he'll ever
see a court of law anyway?
599
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,760
Do you really think that he'll
see trial?
600
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,840
No, no, he's already tried.
He's already tried.
601
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,320
He he's in.
He's being tried as we speak.
602
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,000
I'm surprised.
Absolutely.
603
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,520
That's kind of.
Surprising to me.
604
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,880
There's a whole lot of problems
with, well, the DOJ has kicked
605
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,520
out all the really brilliant
people.
606
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,120
So they're, they got people that
are, that know how to talk and
607
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,120
sound bites, but don't know how
to follow the fucking law, you
608
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,720
know, So it's kind of sad, but
we look at this and it's like,
609
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:27,800
you know, when you think about
it, it's, it's I, I, I think
610
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:35,280
that when my parents died and,
and from my generation, when,
611
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:41,440
when the thing was passed to us,
I wasn't worried.
612
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,880
I didn't feel like, you know,
they, they kind of, I felt like
613
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,040
they fucked up racism.
They kind of fucked up the
614
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,640
Vietnam War.
They were a little, they hated
615
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,760
gay people too much or not
enough.
616
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,520
I don't know, you know, there
there was things that the things
617
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,240
from the past generation that I
that I disagree with the you
618
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:02,800
know, the color was the huge,
probably the biggest thing I
619
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,640
see.
But that's everybody has their
620
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,840
own thing, but they were all
things internal and things that
621
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:15,160
through fairness and
legislation, we could protect
622
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,480
people and we can change the way
people see things.
623
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,040
Because I think that a lot of
times, you know, you see that
624
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,440
when you when you do that
internally, that you can make
625
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,880
people understand other people's
situations and they can become
626
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,920
better people.
And I think that that's
627
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:36,360
something that we started to do,
but I think that we have
628
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:41,200
forgotten the, the, the
generation, you know, we forgot
629
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,480
the next round of people.
We thought we're going to,
630
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,320
you're just going to do the same
thing we did when we got out of
631
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,360
high school.
You're going to go and get a
632
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,920
college degree, you're going to
get out and you're going to get
633
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,640
a good job and then you're going
to make money.
634
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,360
And it's like, well, society's
changed.
635
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:58,840
You know, in the 30s, a college
degree was rented money, you
636
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,880
know, and it probably wasn't up
until the 50s.
637
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,240
And then it started to waiver
and it wavered more.
638
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,360
I, I guess in the 30s is high
school, you know, finished high
639
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,920
school, you know, and on and on.
And those that went on to Ivy
640
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,080
League schools or schools
became, and then school became
641
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,640
this megalopolis.
I don't know what the hell it
642
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,480
is.
It's it's it's this huge thing
643
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,640
of offering to continue your
education on any topic
644
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:34,600
whatsoever, whether it benefits,
as long as it benefits them
645
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,600
personally, financially.
I mean, the goal of
646
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,720
institutions, I don't think is
to educate people anymore.
647
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:45,120
I think it's to drive themselves
financially.
648
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,960
And you can see this.
Yeah.
649
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:52,400
And you can see this when you
saw people bowing down when they
650
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,200
were when they said we're going
to take away your federal funds.
651
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,800
And it's like, OK, we'll kiss
your ass.
652
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,840
And you're like, well, but
that's, that's not where you,
653
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,640
that's not what you teach
people.
654
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,640
You teach people to stand up for
their rights.
655
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,480
You teach people to, to, to
fight.
656
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:13,800
Yet you, you Ivy Leaguers and
you large law people and you big
657
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,960
company people, you run like
scared rabbits, you know, and
658
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,000
it's sad.
It's just really sad to see
659
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,480
that, you know, fear has gotten
to a level of just silliness,
660
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,760
you know?
I'm really wondering when the
661
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,520
class war fair is going to start
happening.
662
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,520
I'm really wondering, but I
don't know because you know
663
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,880
what, I was actually talking
with mom about this today.
664
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,840
Yeah, that court gestures back
then used to exist in A1 plane
665
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,600
of media, which was television.
And now court gestures today
666
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:49,040
exist in your phone, in your
hand 24 hours a day and you can
667
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,840
constantly become distracted of
something different and on
668
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,400
purpose.
Exactly.
669
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,120
And that is why I think that we
won't see an uprising for
670
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,880
another 5 to 8 years.
It's because you have such
671
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,840
stringent or intrinsic amounts
of distractions all on your
672
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,760
phone every single day.
Not to mention the
673
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,920
advertisements 1.
To draw people against each
674
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,240
other.
Well, can you see, can you see
675
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:20,400
that you could make people think
a particular way, I mean, if you
676
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,640
if you controlled Facebook.
That was shown in 2016.
677
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,080
You remember that?
Yeah, and you wanted to get
678
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:34,000
people to support or like
something and you could post
679
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:40,240
millions of photos or things or
memes or whatever in front of
680
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,920
every single a billion people.
You can get them to think
681
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,240
something.
You know, every large platform
682
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,760
has that and they have that
ability.
683
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:56,360
And there's no problem to lie.
You know, there's it's not,
684
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,480
it's, it's OK to lie and lie.
Just brutally lie.
685
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,680
Just made-up shit.
The roof of this.
686
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,240
You see it as white, but you're
wrong.
687
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:13,040
It's it's actually, it's blue
and just just lie.
688
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,840
Well, it's weird too.
Because the idea of an opinion
689
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,760
now is seen as truth.
It's seen as truth, right?
690
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,960
And the whole thing, when I
especially, I'll just go back
691
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,400
and say what I was saying before
about the 98% of Chinese own
692
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200
their own homes and this out of
the other.
693
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,560
And I'm like, well, then it's
better than sleeping outside.
694
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:31,840
It's like, well, you can think
that.
695
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,360
And I'm like, what?
Like I don't understand.
696
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,720
No, I'm right.
Like I, I, I'm correct.
697
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Like I'm correct.
And saying that owning your own
698
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,400
home is better than sleeping
outside.
699
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,720
Well, the home is small, but
it's not outside.
700
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,480
Like, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
701
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560
It it's like, it's ridiculous.
They don't wanna, they won't
702
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,200
change.
There's.
703
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,640
No admitting that you're wrong
anymore.
704
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,400
It's, it's just, it's crazy.
It's insane.
705
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:04,680
Whatever happened to being See I
always do I always spend them
706
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,440
wrong?
Probably not, but no, I
707
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,360
definitely do.
I feel like I learn a lot from
708
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,800
that and I feel I learn more and
I get closer to people when I
709
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:19,360
agree with them when I'm wrong.
But when people, when people
710
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:26,720
argue with me, like I remember
under the, the, the to go into
711
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,760
politics, the Trump
administration and the, and the,
712
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,680
and the Obama administration,
when I had an argument with a
713
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,640
guy about the Stock Exchange,
the stock market, and I said it
714
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:43,400
went up dramatically higher
under Obama than it did under
715
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,320
Trump.
I mean, each four year section
716
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,880
total more percentage wise in
the first administration, much,
717
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,240
much more.
And no, it didn't.
718
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,120
And like, yes, you, you can, you
can look at the Dow Jones, you
719
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,520
can count the points, you can
look at the percentage, you can
720
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,400
do this here.
These this is an equation, you
721
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,280
know, OK, it's not, it's not
opinion.
722
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,280
It's not me, you know, and he's
like, well, we'll just agree to
723
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,600
disagree.
I'm like, no, you're fucking
724
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,800
wrong, you know, and it's like,
and it didn't matter.
725
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,920
It didn't didn't matter.
What's that did not matter.
726
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,440
He he just looked at me and goes
like, OK, if you want to think
727
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:27,880
that way.
And I'm like but but it but it
728
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,600
so and I and I would ask people
because I've asked people this
729
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:39,080
and they're like, so when is 2
more than 4?
730
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,160
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
And you're like.
731
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,120
It's because we as Americans,
we've let our egos become too
732
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,440
inflated.
And it really and it's.
733
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,120
We are align ourselves with
people and it's do or die no
734
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,720
matter what, because they did
one thing that I like or I'm
735
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,080
wedded to them because of this
or that or the other.
736
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,080
So I or I forgo all the other
stuff.
737
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,240
It's like people saying, you
know, I've I've heard it over
738
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:06,760
and over.
I don't care how much he steals.
739
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,520
He's he's doing what I want him
to do.
740
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,800
And you're like, you didn't want
him to have a war, and now we're
741
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,960
in a war.
So and then now you're defending
742
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,360
the war so.
Yeah.
743
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,560
And now they're defending the
war.
744
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,960
It's like, and now we have dead
Americans.
745
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,040
We have dead Americans and
wounded Americans.
746
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,880
And that for for four people.
Hated when Joe Biden took the
747
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,480
Americans out of.
Out of a out.
748
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,520
Of a war and then.
People died.
749
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,720
Ending a 20 year war.
You remember that?
750
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,080
I remember that crazy.
Trump didn't take him out.
751
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:44,680
He he organized the surrender.
He let 2000 ISIS people out.
752
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,840
Those people that he let out,
actually one of them is the head
753
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,400
of Afghanistan, which is kind of
funny.
754
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,760
You know, he was a nice leader.
He was in a prison.
755
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,360
We had him.
He gave the prison to Russia.
756
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,600
But that's another story.
Another.
757
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,200
Another story for another time.
I think we're Yeah, I.
758
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,880
Oh, we're about 45 minutes.
So we could I, I think about
759
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,240
like, let's, let's talk about
money.
760
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:17,360
They talk about wanting a 1 1/2
trillion dollar budget that
761
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:23,200
would nearly be 3X what it was
10 years ago, 1 1/2 trillion.
762
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,080
And we don't know where it's
going to go.
763
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,480
We don't, we don't know who's
going to get paid.
764
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,960
We, we, we know that Congress
people are going to get a lot of
765
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,880
money because they're going to
donate money to them and somehow
766
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,800
they can, I don't know how they
do it.
767
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,720
I'm sure that, you know, at the
end of a campaign they can keep
768
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,720
their money there.
There's all sorts of, they use
769
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:49,960
the campaign paying money to
move all over their family lives
770
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,480
in the campaign money
headquarters and all this other
771
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,760
shit.
You know which there are ethical
772
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,360
people.
There are, you know, where are
773
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,400
they?
Though you.
774
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,480
Know.
Well, I think it's it's we don't
775
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,240
hear about them.
You don't really.
776
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,600
Hear about good things?
Do you?
777
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,000
Well, yeah, because the, you
know, people want to do work and
778
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,960
then people want to, they want
to make the country better.
779
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,440
And the way to do that is not to
go on, you know, MSN and
780
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,960
Facebook and all these places
and bitch and moan about
781
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:30,800
somebody saying wearing, you
know, wearing Charlie Kirk face
782
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,280
or whatever the fuck it is or
wearing or any of.
783
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,760
That the bullet.
The bullet is not a not a what?
784
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,720
Is it the same as the one in the
weapon?
785
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,040
Crazy.
Doesn't match, but.
786
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,880
But we don't.
Surprise, surprise.
787
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,400
We don't care.
Doesn't matter.
788
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,480
Another distraction.
Yeah, well, hopefully that
789
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,760
happens with Luigi too.
But yeah, that was fun.
790
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:52,560
Jailbreak.
Jailbreak.
791
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,080
Yeah.
I remember seeing that that was.
792
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,160
I expected him to kill him in
the prison.
793
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Luigi.
Luigi.
794
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,800
Oh, I'm surprised that he's
still alive.
795
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,480
Because he's, he's like.
That makes no sense.
796
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,800
He's got to scare the living
hell out of everybody.
797
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:13,160
When you, after that happened,
you, you, the amount of security
798
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,600
that went into corporate America
was just, and it's still like
799
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,360
it's Uber nuts, you know, and
that the, I just saw the other
800
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,640
day or Oracle whack 30,000
people after they had the
801
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:37,200
greatest earnings season they've
ever had and OK, and 30,000 OK.
802
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,040
And it was, you know, it was
like a Monday morning, 6:00 AM
803
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,520
e-mail.
Hey, you know, Zach, you've done
804
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,680
a wonderful job, but get the
fuck out.
805
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Your all your shit's cut off.
You can't have anything.
806
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,960
Return it all to Billy Bob.
We'll give you severance of 8
807
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,880
bucks, but if you don't sign
this agreement that says you're
808
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,920
only going to do what we're
going to do, you're not going to
809
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,360
get any severance and we're
going to come after you, you
810
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,600
know, like, and by the way, Zach
worked here 35 years.
811
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,560
That's the cherry on top.
So there and and because of
812
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:15,840
that, there are literally
hundreds of death threats to the
813
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,400
Ellisons.
And that's that's one of the
814
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,920
reasons.
But you know, you're like, whoa.
815
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:27,280
So, you know, we were talking
earlier about this, this, this
816
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,440
continued push towards war and
hate and all that kind of stuff
817
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,600
like that and bullying people.
And you know, every e-mail you
818
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,560
sent see come out of the White
House is there's, there's a lot
819
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,520
of hate in every single e-mail.
It's coming, it's coming from
820
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,840
the top.
And it's, it's about, I hate
821
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,200
these people.
Here's why.
822
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,440
But these people are wonderful.
And I'm going to make it better
823
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,880
when I get rid of these people.
And you're like, well, that's, I
824
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,200
mean, that's bad.
That's the, you know, it's,
825
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:04,320
it's, it's really amped that up.
And I think that, you know,
826
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,400
that's going to grow.
And as it grows from our level,
827
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,480
we're going to see more and more
people take potshots at these
828
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,520
people, you know, and they're
going to be successful
829
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,720
occasionally and.
Hence the class warfare that I
830
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:22,560
was talking about you.
Know right and then we're going
831
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,320
to have to pay more tax dollars
to protect the people that are
832
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,720
fucking us.
You know, sadly I won't you
833
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:34,800
know, because we're rich, so
only poor people will so have at
834
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,000
it.
It's just I mean at some point
835
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,320
you're just like, why are you
why are you punching yourself in
836
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,600
the face?
You know, you done you done
837
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,360
here.
Give me another tax break.
838
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,840
Thanks.
You know, my gosh, it's, it's,
839
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,640
it's, it's ludicrous what people
will put up with, with where
840
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,680
things are doing and how,
because when you look at people
841
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,440
about what we will talk about
the tax situation some other
842
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,560
time.
But it's like, and because that
843
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:09,080
money, that 1 1/2 trillion,
which we don't have, which we
844
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,120
didn't collect because we had a
huge tax break.
845
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:18,760
I did thank you.
And the, the huge amount that's
846
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,560
not being taken care of is added
to the debt and we have to pay
847
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:27,840
interest on the debt and it's
growing and it's growing faster
848
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,720
than it's ever grown before.
And there's something called,
849
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,320
there's a, there's a number that
we will get to, but we will
850
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:45,160
never be able to service it.
And that is when we might have
851
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,800
to refinance our debt.
If we have to refinance our
852
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:55,240
debt, everybody that owns AT
bill will be going, Oh my God,
853
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:58,040
you're going to get $0.50 on the
dollar.
854
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,840
Oh my God, you know, then all of
a sudden we're third world,
855
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,400
we're Mexico, we're we're
Brazil, we're Venezuela, we're
856
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,240
Argentina, all these countries
did that.
857
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,120
We're Greece, We we are we are
pushing ourselves.
858
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,720
I mean Russia, I don't know
institutionally people that
859
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:22,040
invest there because they just
grab your assets if they want so
860
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:27,040
and here who knows when is that
coming when they start?
861
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,640
I mean.
They're is that we're already
862
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:35,200
taking public company positions,
you know, which is very, very
863
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,520
weird.
But I mean, all that being said,
864
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:46,600
we really need to focus on
reducing the military budget or
865
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,760
having full and fair
accountability and a reduction.
866
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:59,840
I don't, I don't understand why
we can the US spend a billion,
867
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:07,960
no 15 times the next country,
why we need to spend more on
868
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:14,400
that than we do on feeding kids.
And you have to ask yourself, do
869
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:19,760
you feel safer today than you
did five years ago, 10 years
870
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,840
ago, 15 years ago, whatever.
And and I don't know how you can
871
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,040
have a gauge for that.
Well, there's no money in
872
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,920
feeding kids.
You have to understand that, you
873
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,000
know?
Yeah, and well.
874
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,960
There, but there is.
But there is, There is.
875
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,520
There is.
There is, There is, There is.
876
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,040
Yes, there is.
There's a longer term thing that
877
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,880
when you take care of your
population, they produce more,
878
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,040
they add more to the GDP, they
make the economy better.
879
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:46,080
They spend money because they
make money as quick as they go,
880
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,640
you know.
No, it's a long term thing and
881
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,480
you're not going to be in office
and you're going to be dead, so
882
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,720
it doesn't matter to you.
And and it's, you know, little
883
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:55,560
Billy Bojangles.
Too, being in the older
884
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,800
demographic, don't really.
Care well we're on this four
885
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,040
year cycle of hell where we go
from we.
886
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,320
Spend the first four years
trying to get the next four
887
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,120
years, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
888
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:07,840
And yeah, that's what it's all
about.
889
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,440
No, just not good, not good at
all.
890
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,120
That's the only thing they focus
on.
891
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:20,640
We need to.
We need, we need to, we need to
892
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,480
rein in the military budget.
We need to figure out where it's
893
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,000
all going.
We need a clear audit that we
894
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,800
will not give them Dimes until
they do that.
895
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,840
There's no repercussions too for
failing an audit either, which
896
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,400
seems well that's what it that's
what bothers me makes sense that
897
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,960
and I saw this $200 OK but then
you're going to not find $2
898
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,440
trillion let's.
Let's roll it in.
899
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,080
Let's roll it in for those that
were successful and those
900
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:49,200
weren't we.
We fought to get Afghanistan for
901
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:53,000
20 years and we were told
thousands of things over the
902
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:58,120
course of those years.
And at the end, we left and we
903
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,320
really didn't change anything.
We, I think of the same people
904
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,680
in power now, maybe a different
group of people are in power and
905
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,760
they they're OK here and there.
But now we're financially
906
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:13,360
supporting them again.
And but we lost that war and
907
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:19,400
then we did the same thing in
Iraq, you know, and, and then we
908
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,480
withdrew the people.
And you can say it's Biden's
909
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,280
withdrawal and it was or it was
Trump made him do it at that
910
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,280
time, whatever you want to say
for the big guys.
911
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:35,120
But in reality, I do not think
and I do not believe that Biden
912
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:40,200
said this is the plan that you
have to do to withdraw the
913
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,080
troops.
I believe that the generals came
914
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,840
together and said the best way
for us to do this, to close
915
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,040
this, do this, do this, do this.
And this is how we're going to
916
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,080
exit it.
And he goes, well, you're the
917
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:51,280
fucking general.
She should know.
918
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,120
OK, bye.
He signs off.
919
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,960
He eats the shit sandwich.
Nobody was fired.
920
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,400
Nobody.
I mean, I would have been.
921
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,720
I've been like, Zach, fuck you.
You're gone.
922
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,920
You fucked up.
I would I would have held
923
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,200
fucking the top layer of
management that handed me that
924
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,360
plan.
We'll be can't you can't.
925
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,240
What do you mean?
People died because of the
926
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,360
because what you told me was
right and I trusted you.
927
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:28,080
And yet he Lily paddled.
It's all my responsibility.
928
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,880
No, you of course it was your
responsibility, but it's also
929
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,080
your responsibility to make sure
it doesn't fucking happen again.
930
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,720
And you didn't, you didn't do
anything to show anybody
931
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,280
anything about accountability.
And that was really, really,
932
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,440
really weak.
That is a a word that we have
933
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,600
none of anymore is
accountability.
934
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,480
Yeah, I, I, I and I and I see
this everywhere.
935
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,800
You see it.
You see it in you.
936
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,320
See it in the normal population?
It's crazy, Yeah.
937
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,760
Yeah, when you do something
wrong, you should be held
938
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,280
accountable.
When you, you know when you're.
939
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,720
The person's fault for believing
in them, too.
940
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,200
It's like, well, why'd you
believe me then?
941
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,320
And then the what?
Like it's crazy.
942
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,880
Why'd you trust me?
You know you and I'm like, what?
943
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,720
That's insane.
Yeah, what is it?
944
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:13,840
Who said that?
You fucked up?
945
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,080
You trusted us.
Remember that?
946
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,320
That was Animal House.
Oh yeah.
947
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,120
Why'd you live in your car?
Well, you fucked up.
948
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,400
You trusted us.
There you go.
949
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,480
That's pretty much the entire
situation.
950
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:25,000
Yeah, that's where we're at
right now.
951
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:29,040
We're trusting the military with
another 500 and almost $600
952
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:33,840
billion and we don't give a shit
what they spend it on.
953
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,200
We don't care.
They'll tell us whatever they
954
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,520
want to tell us and we'll be OK
with that.
955
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,480
And I think that's a good way to
end it because we need to, we
956
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,280
need to create a little bit of
angst.
957
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,680
And, and now people are going to
say, oh, you're against the,
958
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,000
you're against the Army guy.
And then they're going to show
959
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,320
me the enlisted guy and I'm
going like, fuck off.
960
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,720
You know, anytime someone says
that that you're you're you're
961
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:02,200
against the military budget that
they automatically pointed down
962
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:06,000
to the line guy that got
crippled and was fighting in the
963
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,960
war.
And you know, you can be against
964
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,720
an organization without
beginning against the people
965
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:18,040
that work for it.
OK, kind of like Israel, you
966
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:22,280
know, it's not the people, it's
the organization.
967
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,160
But if the people are letting
the organization happen, they
968
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,640
need to be held accountable too.
And we have a lot of people in
969
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,720
the military that are that are,
that are allowing this to
970
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,120
happen, you know, sad, very sad.
And.
971
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,720
It is.
It really is.
972
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,680
Yeah, So what do you have to
say?
973
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,520
I think we're ready to wrap up.
I think we're good.
974
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Well, thank you guys for
listening.
975
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:49,480
As always, check out the shorts.
What are we getting like 2 to
976
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,360
three times a day now?
Yeah, this post on the.
977
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,680
Topic that you were hot on and I
love it.
978
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,760
I love hearing yeah your your
dialogue on it.
979
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,080
I'm heading to South America,
man.
980
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,520
It's interesting.
It's interesting to see somebody
981
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:09,120
who's watched multiple
presidents go through and where
982
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,200
we are today.
You know, I don't know what what
983
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,560
it would have been like if JFK
was never assassinated, you
984
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,680
know, but here we are.
All right, talk to you later.
985
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,880
Bye bye.
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Welcome back to another episode
of a record, My father.
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Today we're going to be talking
about the war machine, the
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military industrial complex in
the US It's it's going it's
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going a little bit up here.
It's going a little bit up.
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It's kind of interesting too,
what I think about most
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apparently that everybody was
talking about how Joe Biden was
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a war monger for defending
Ukraine and now we are defending
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Israel's rights to wiping Iran
off the face of the planet.
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So I think that this is an
interesting kind of talk about
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in the way that America is kind
of going to support that little
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country in the West, you know,
or east.
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I mean, I, I worry the most
because I, I, when I, when you
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think about the war machine, you
think about where we're going.
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They're now proposing a 2 1/2,
No 1 1/2 trillion dollar budget.
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And now this is going to go to
an agency that they, they don't
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audit the whole agency.
They audit 12 parts of it and
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like 9 parts of it have failed
audits every time.
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They've never been able to
audit.
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They don't know.
And failing an audit typically
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would be a red sign that they
don't know where the money's
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going.
So it would seem odd that, you
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know, if I gave you $100 and I
said, and you said, hey, I'm
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going to invest this in stock.
And then I hired an accountant
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to come in and audit your books.
And then he comes in and he
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goes, well, he got the $100.
We found it in his account, but
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then it just, it got transferred
somewhere.
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We don't know where it went.
And then I'd be like, and then
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you come back and you say, you
know, I need 150 next year.
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I'm I'm going to invest it.
And I'm like, but but you
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failed.
Yeah, but I need, I need more to
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make it more, to make a better
investment, to make you safer.
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You know, I'm an invested in
security, right?
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I'm an invested in security
because in the essence, when you
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think about Department of
Defense, it's supposed to be or
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the Department of War, whatever
you want to call it, it is.
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It's about creating a feeling of
safety for Americans, right?
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I mean, when you think that that
that's kind of the mindset and
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there's a.
Phrase security theater that
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exists in the US.
It was specifically in airports
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where I with those full body
scanners.
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Man, I'd love to know what the
the contract deal on that.
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What is it?
It's like say what is the
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company?
It's like sei say so or
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something.
I I can't remember what it is,
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but it's crazy how many of those
and how expensive it's.
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Not US either it's not AUS based
company, it's international.
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Is it really No, Oh my gosh, I,
I remember and I was like, we,
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we keep offshoring this stuff.
And it's like when you hear like
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what we do with the offshoring
and it's like, let's go back to
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the budget.
I'm going to get crazy.
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I mean, some of the things that
are happening because now we're
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at war.
And you saw that the the
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Pentagon, which got a $990
billion budget last year, last
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year, needs a special 4 1/2
billion dollar payment because
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they ran out of Tomahawks.
And you're thinking like, well,
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can't you just slide over some
of that other money from the
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other pockets full of gold that
you have instead of making us do
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this?
Can't you make, you know, 1 less
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F35 jet 11 less?
Can you do that?
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Can you, can you, you know, and
it's just it, it bothers me that
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when you look at what we're
doing and what we're spending
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it, it's, it's basically a
mirror of what Russia did.
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And the 80s when they collapsed,
'cause they were was the Cold
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War, it was the we were raising
the military budget.
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They raised the military budget.
They could not afford it.
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The the world, they're, they're
their economy collapsed and then
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they needed a new person.
They needed a detente.
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And some of the things they did
is they walked away from Eastern
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Europe and they did all sorts of
things like that because they
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overspent, they put too much
money on taking other people's
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shit.
And if you look at what we're
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doing, that's what we're doing.
We're, we're, we're, we're not,
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we're not attacking people that
have directly attacked us.
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We're attacking people that have
attacked other people that we
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know, you know, you know, we, we
and, and, and then it's vague.
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It's, it's, it's really vague
and the, the purpose and the
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reasoning behind it.
And there's, you know, there's
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not 3 or 4 different reasons
that you can look at that are
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really clear as to why we're in
this war today, why we did what
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we did in Venezuela and what we
are promising to do in Cuba.
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And who knows what else is going
to be pulled out of the sleeve
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for us to go after and do
because they don't seem to have
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a very cohesive long term plan
about what we're going to do and
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how we're going to do it.
Generally, you, you, you, you
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build a cohesive group of allies
around these particular
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decisions to share the expense
and to share the fear and the
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grief and all that kind of
stuff.
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I mean, and we're in this thing
and we're calling that the
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Israeli American war.
And yet they're not going to put
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ground troops on.
So if we got people dying and
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they don't, then I'm sort of
like questioning whether, and
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it's like, well, they're being
bombed.
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Well, you know, they were they
were fronting all the bombing.
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And you know, and you know when
you hear you hear it, you're
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like no ground troops in a war
that you're gonna you want us to
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go to war with these people?
We did.
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And and you, your troops run
away.
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We're fighting Lebanon.
Well, why are you at war in
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Lebanon?
War, and I mean.
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Americans have been dying
already for for profit
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healthcare when we have been
allowing citizens of of Israel
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to have free healthcare, which
is so funny.
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So, I mean, there's already
Americans dying for Israel,
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hanging away and away.
We can go in all the reasons
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that no but.
I'm saying you're, you're saying
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that Americans.
Are I agree?
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I agree.
We're fighting a war at home, I
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mean, over this as well.
We are, we're, we're, we're
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fighting in a, a war against the
political structure here that
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where the majority of the people
think that we should not be
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funding and we shouldn't have
and funding the war in Gaza,
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which really wasn't a war.
It was A1 sided slaughter that
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we should have been doing that.
And yet we did.
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And you're thinking like, well,
you know, 80% of the population
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says stop sending money and your
your congressperson just goes
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mute every time you ask that.
Question the.
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Bigger the bigger question is,
is water wet?
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And you're like, no, you, you
sound like a bought hooker, you
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know, And and that's, and I and
I understand that everybody says
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that about all politicians, but
it seems that now that it's
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really being shoved in her face
how purchased the people are.
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I think I said this about two
years ago on the podcast.
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I wish they were as good or they
were good at lying again.
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You know, I wish it wasn't a so
self-evident.
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Yeah, just the miss, the
absolute screwing of the
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American people.
You know, I miss when it was
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more like smoke and mirrors.
And you're like, maybe that
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conspiracy theory is true and
then no, no, it actually has
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been true.
And I'm going to tell you it's
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true, but you're not going to be
able to do anything about.
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It and hiding it, yeah, that
kind of thing.
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And then, and then I look at it,
we and back to the budget, we
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talked about some of the things
that are that are crazy.
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The new 4 1/2 billion for
Tomahawk missiles.
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That's one that's just nuts.
They, they couldn't, they
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couldn't pay for it.
Now here's the other thing.
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They're getting shot out of the
air with $30,000 drones.
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So at what point do you say
maybe we shouldn't build $30
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million missiles that get shot
out of the air with three
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$30,000 drones?
Maybe we should maybe, maybe we
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should do something different.
Maybe we should do this.
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You know, am I, I'm not sure
that all my numbers are
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absolutely correct, but it's
like 100th.
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They're, they're just, they're
just getting wiped out by
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things.
We need to change the military
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as a whole, I believe.
First off, the number one thing
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is where's the money going?
I, I cannot, and, and I don't
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know how anybody could give them
any more money until we know
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where it's going, because this
is, this is just the, the, the,
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it's a definition of stupid.
You're, you're giving people
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money and you don't know where
it's going.
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How many people put money in a
bank and then don't see their
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balance rise?
And then they're OK with that
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and then they do it again and
they do it again and they do it
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again.
Well, it's because these
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politicians.
That are approving these things
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already have investments in
these companies.
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I I have a found belief that
it's purposeful, that we've lost
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every war since Vietnam because
it increases.
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No, no, no, no.
We, we won.
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We won Vietnam.
Bush, Bush won.
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Did when we had, when we
attacked Qatar, we attacked Iraq
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in 88 or whatever.
When Bush 98991, whatever the
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hell it was when he went in
there, he had a very clear and
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defined mission that we will go
to the Qataris border and we
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will stop and we will monitor it
with our weaponry going forward
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to keep the Iraqis out.
And we did just that.
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And I totally stabilized the oil
price, everything.
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And we and it was a very clear
mission.
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We couldn't everybody was like,
you should have gone there and
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killed Saddam, who's saying you
should have kept going.
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And it's like, well, but what
happens when you when you unseat
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a government?
You can't, there is no, there's
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no easy way to sway the opinion
of 30 million people or 5
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million people.
I mean, you know, we're, we're
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it's a whole new game.
And this is not, this is not
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going to be the same kind of
thing that people have.
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They're just, you know, Rumsfeld
screaming, they'll be meeting us
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saying we're saving them.
No, that's not going to happen.
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Didn't happen before.
Hasn't happened ever.
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Hasn't happened in didn't happen
in Vietnam, didn't happen.
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Didn't happen in Afghanistan,
didn't happen.
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Some of them do.
We leave our weapons behind for
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them to use and they drop them
on the ground and let the enemy
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take them.
So we should never do that
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again.
Biden did it again this last
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time.
And you know, they didn't, I
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don't even think the the Afghan
army touched them.
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I think they they were changing
their clothes as we were going
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to the shinier ship.
You know, so sad.
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But you start to look at this
and say, like, well, you know,
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we always talk about us having
the greatest military and the
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most expensive military.
But what exactly?
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I mean, it gives you Peace of
Mind, I guess, to have all this
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stuff.
But I mean, we saw this, this
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jet or, or you know, you're
seeing these Tomahawk missiles
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get shot out of the air with
nothing.
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We had a, we have a jet program
called the F35 and it's like,
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it's huge.
It's it's a 20 year program to
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beat a, to build a stealth jet,
the best jet ever.
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This is it.
It goes out on missions in Iran
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and gets shot down.
Trillion dollar program
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unshooted downable.
That's good.
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That's my new world.
Unshooted downable and and it
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gets shot down.
And anyway, well, it's a lucky
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shot.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I would I would sue Lockheed if
I was in the government right
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now and I'd say what the fuck
you, you, you did this, you said
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this would do this.
It did not.
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It didn't work.
The American taxpayer deserves a
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response to that.
A trillion dollars.
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I mean, I can understand if you
stole my Snickers bar that
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you're you're and you took a
bite out of it.
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But holy shit, this is wrong.
And it's just, it's just, it's
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it's just wholesale robbery, you
know, and it started, I don't
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know when it started.
It's happened over and over and
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over.
I mean, I remember I had
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somebody in in Iraq and they
said that they were shipped,
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they were shipping pallets of
money to change people's
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opinions.
Think about that.
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The pallet of money were
American dollars, because that's
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what the currency.
Everybody love the American
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dollar because they could use it
and that's a big thing.
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So they're handing that out to
change the minds of people and
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think about it, if you so you
would they would they would give
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people a guaranteed income in
Iraq, but they wouldn't do it
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here.
Think about that.
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That's just cause a.
National minimum wage of $15.00.
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That would be wrong, you know,
that would be wrong.
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People could afford groceries,
you know, and people could be
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happy.
And what did we accomplish?
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We unseated A dictator.
We have a whole unstable region.
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We increase the power of Iran to
now.
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And it's like you're we had
somebody that was against them
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and we took it.
We took their enemy out.
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And you think about that is, I
mean, on paper it's dumb.
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And it's like when you look at
Iran like what we're doing now,
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it's dumb.
It's just dumb.
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There's no what we, we're,
we're, we're very, very, very,
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very clear that before we fired
a single shot in this war, there
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was no uranium.
None.
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We had wiped out all the stuff
and stopped.
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The president had said we had
wiped it all out.
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Yet we're going there because
they have nuclear capabilities.
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No, they don't.
They're lying.
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You're lying.
You're lying.
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Why are you lying to us?
Why do you want us to do this?
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What I mean, this is a monetary
thing.
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We we were blowing what, seven,
$8 billion a day there military
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equipment.
Well then the first week it was
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a astronomical sum.
And you think you're asking it
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to?
Well here's this one thing.
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Ever since the Ayatollah's
so-called is dead.
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I don't know if he really is,
but I had a lot of people that
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are Iranian, they said they
couldn't express more happiness,
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You know, yeah, there, there's
a, a wide range of happiness and
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it's kind of interesting 'cause
I don't think that that's why we
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did it.
I, you know, like, I don't know,
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but I don't think that that's.
Why we use If you use killing
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the leader, If you use killing
the leader as a barometer and
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how many people you would make
happy?
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Who would we kill today?
There's one man we would kill
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that would make the whole world
a happier place.
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OK?
So let's not use that as a
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barometer because, I mean, it
would make hundreds of it would
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probably make billions of people
happier, OK, OK, so let's not,
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let's not go there.
And I'm not talking about Putin.
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Putin would certainly make
hundreds of millions of people
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happier.
Why can't we use it as a
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barometer?
Well, because I don't think that
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that's the biggest one now.
Fair, but that's just my opinion
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anyway.
Anyway, it's like that's, it
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just seems like when you start
to look at this, that and, and
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we were talking about what we're
talking about the war machine
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and the budget is like, we
don't, there's no, we don't have
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financial oversight, which on
anything in the world,
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everything we talk about always
budgets this, that and the other
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and how we spend and how we're,
we're going after the Somalis
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for spending inefficiently or
they're stealing something and
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they're being investigated or
they are being investigated.
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Yet one of those jets, one 3% of
that program is more than that,
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you know, and it's like, well,
really, what are we doing?
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I I think that I think the.
It is kind of funny too, because
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you have the same thing going on
in California right now about
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this Hospice care that people
are talking about and how it's
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been robbing the California
State taxpayer because you have
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all of these fake hospices that
have accrued millions of
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dollars.
But I mean, you have like, what,
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like a $3 trillion program?
Are they being?
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Sued or are they going after or
well, that's the whole the whole
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thing is people used to talk
about Medicare fraud, right?
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Medicaid fraud.
Well, if if you look at the
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numbers, just the pure numbers,
yes, there's fraud in Medicaid.
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Yes, it's a huge cash number,
dollar number, but it's it's
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under 3% of the program.
So, but if you look at it in
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that way, which is kind of the
way you're supposed to look at
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how you're investigating things,
unless you want to only look at
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the size or the amount of the
fraud, like we don't know how
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much fraud is in Department of
Defense.
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This whole program that went out
at the beginning of this current
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administration, they purposely
didn't focus on the number one
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funded thing that we do.
They didn't focus on DoD, not,
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not one thing.
Why not?
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Why wouldn't you think that they
focus on a $550 million agency
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when you're talking about a $990
billion agency?
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I mean, if you really want to
save money, and I'm not talking
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about going there and making
sure that privates are using
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plastic toothbrushes instead of
throwaway ones.
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I mean stop that bullshit.
I'm talking about just usually
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when they do stuff like that,
they focus at the lowest end and
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they talk about you get you get
butter with your mashed
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potatoes.
You should be using fake.
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Butter.
Oh yeah.
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They always take it away from
like a sense of humility stand.
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They always look.
Down to the small people and
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then you and then you feel bad
because you're shitting on the
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guy that's got nothing and it's
like no the.
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Giant.
Airplane, we need to look at the
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payments that have gone to
Lockheed and the payments that
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have gone to General Dynamics
and the payments that have gone
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to the, you know, the BIG4.
And what are we getting for
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that?
You know, because it seems like
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one thing we're getting is we're
getting incredibly wealthy CEOs
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of those companies and the
shareholders are making a lot of
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money.
I mean, and who are the
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shareholders?
Well, the shareholders.
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Well, politicians, but there's
also all of us, not all of us.
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There's there's what the top 20%
of people in the US put money
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into the four O 1 KS in stock
market and stuff like that.
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So.
You know, and, and that's it.
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If you put money in Vanguard,
Vanguard and you do it in a
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general fund, you're going to,
you're going to own a piece of
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well, the.
Reason why I say politicians too
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is you see this is a bipartisan
issue that like time and time
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and the cross public servants
that cap out at like what like
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two 5150 something like that.
Are worth 4. $100 million, like
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what?
Like, how is that even that in
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China these people would be
killed and they should.
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Well, there's, there's it's
crazy bills, there's bills in
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front of Congress, which I I
would like to see that if there
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was a way we could, we could
push legislation through that
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was good for the people.
That just something simple that
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rules that apply to the public
apply to Congress.
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You know, and just you know you
would.
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I don't think we're ever going
back to taking care of people
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ever again.
I mean I.
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Don't really well see see if we
continue on this road, I see us
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doing exactly what Russia did in
the 80s.
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I see us running out of money.
I see no longer is the US dollar
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the world currency.
I see that the, the lack of
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regulation and deregulation in
the new on all the different
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exchanges.
You know what more stock is
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traded on our exchanges than
anywhere else.
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It's because it's, it's because
it's trusted.
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And when you start taking away
disclosure requirements, you
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allow shitty people in to steal.
And everybody steals in these
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markets and there there's all
sorts, but nothing compared to
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what's stolen in other markets.
And that's, you know, regulatory
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rules and regulations on how you
report what you make and how you
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make it are incredibly
important.
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And I think that, you know,
those are some of the things
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that, that, that keep the US
strong.
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And that's what keeps us one of
the strongest financially strong
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countries in the world, which we
seem to be throwing that away at
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a record pace now.
You know, and, and, and it's
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just, we owe so many people so
much money.
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And we're, we're, we're living
in like 2035 right now and it's,
368
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and we're not there.
And we're, we're going well
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behind that.
I mean, look at, I mean, how in
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the world could you look at a
straight face and say that what
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was it 10 years ago, the
military budget was 600 billion.
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And today, 20/20/16 it was 600
billion.
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And in 2026, it was a trillion,
400 and like 4400 billion.
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So almost 100% increase.
And in 2016 to now, do you feel
375
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safer?
No, I don't.
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I don't.
I don't, yeah, don't care.
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I don't.
I don't feel any safer.
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I feel less safe.
And I feel like I feel that
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we're less financially stable.
The stronger we are, the
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stronger we are financially and
the stronger we are as a
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country, this, the better
infrastructure we have, the
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better our country's going to
be.
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And I think that we, we have,
we, we've watched this stuff get
384
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tapped out and sucked out.
And we're listening to these
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people that will say whatever
gets them elected, we will, we,
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will, we hear this over and
over.
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And it's like, and, and the same
thing.
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And, and, and I'm guilty of
this.
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I'm guilty of this.
I vote.
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I voted, I have voted many,
many, many times for absolute
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pieces of shit.
But you know what?
392
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It was never for them.
It was against the other person
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or persons that I thought were
more pieces of shit, you know,
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and that still stands.
You know, I'm, I'm, I'm running
395
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,480
into that over and over and over
again where I see and I'm like,
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my God, you know, and that's I,
I, I, I, I, it worries me about
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our country.
It worries me about the, the
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inability to keep up with China
and infrastructure.
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They have surpassed us like
tenfold.
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And anytime someone talks about
a high speed train, all they do,
401
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,960
all people do is they bitch
about California or Chicago and
402
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,040
they talk about what went wrong.
Well, you know what's so, well,
403
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,320
why don't you just come in and
make it right?
404
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:24,040
Look at the, the, the you look
at, case in point, Boston Big
405
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Dig, people talked about that,
said it was supposed to be like
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10 billion or 5 billion or 20.
I don't remember what the number
407
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was.
But the, the, the Big Dig was
408
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underneath it brought the
airport into the city.
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You didn't have to go over the
bridge and it connected all
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sorts of parts of the city.
Well, the amount of commerce
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that happened was triple what
they expected.
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So they ended up getting like
$10.00 for every overly inflated
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dollar that they put into that
project back.
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And you're like, well, why are
we not doing things like that?
415
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Like, you know, you connect San
Francisco to to LA at high speed
416
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train, you connect DC to New
York.
417
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,160
I mean you connect the world by
connecting.
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We will be a closer country if
if you go to Chicago in three
419
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hours, we would go there.
If I could go visit you in six
420
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:35,760
hours, I would do that.
I would do it on a weekend.
421
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,600
I would say, hey, I'm coming
out.
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00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:37,920
I got the train.
We're going to do lunch on
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Sunday and we're coming back.
And it'd be like, you know,
424
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it's, it's it, it totally
changes the way that you feel
425
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,800
all of a sudden.
And the idea that we're big,
426
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,520
shut up.
China's big OK.
427
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,440
The whole thing too, is that 98%
of people in China own their own
428
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homes.
And I had this kind of
429
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discussion with somebody that I
know the other day, like they
430
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,120
said, well, have you seen those
houses?
431
00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:04,560
I'm like, so it's better to
sleep outside.
432
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,040
So it's better to sleep outside
and then have to pay a mortgage
433
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,120
for the rest of your fucking
life.
434
00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,000
I didn't realize.
And then they're like, well,
435
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,560
they actually don't own them.
I'm like, it's an 88 year land
436
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,720
lease.
I mean, yeah, they basically
437
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,920
own.
Their they own to their debt.
438
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,120
Stop like, stop it like London.
Does a lot of that too.
439
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:20,200
It's.
Semantics.
440
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,720
You're basically picking apart
semantics when it's better to
441
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,800
sleep outside and die from a
garnished wage from healthcare
442
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,360
right now.
Like, I don't understand that.
443
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,640
I don't, I don't get that.
I don't get these borderline
444
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,640
childish defenses.
We and I and I think over and
445
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,200
over when you keep running at
this, it's we, we can do better.
446
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:44,360
And right now, I mean, where I
am, I think the center of
447
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,720
everything is defense.
It is it is something that gets
448
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,960
smoothed over every single
person.
449
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,800
You want to protect America, You
hate the troops.
450
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,440
You know all the things that
people say when you start to
451
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,040
question the budget.
Whether or not we spend 4 1/2
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00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,360
billion on Tomahawks or not will
make no difference to the
453
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,920
troops.
OK, sorry.
454
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,520
Won't make any difference.
Nope.
455
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:22,560
I Because if we spent $998
billion last year, what'd we get
456
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,640
for that?
We didn't didn't we didn't get
457
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,200
enough ships and boats and
planes.
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00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,880
We have a we have a shrunken
force.
459
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,200
So it isn't like we are paying
the money.
460
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,880
We don't the oversight is this
where was all of it going?
461
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,360
Was going to technology.
OK.
462
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:41,080
Technology for what?
Protecting us?
463
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,560
I don't know.
I mean, because they haven't
464
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,040
passed an audit.
I mean, I mean, I, I would, I,
465
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,640
I, these, these huge programs
that come out of there that
466
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,760
reward all the states by giving
people jobs, you know, the
467
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,280
military jobs, Hey, it's jobs.
Well, you know, so is building a
468
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760
bridge, so is building a high
speed train.
469
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,920
And that doesn't kill anybody.
And it also makes our country
470
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,040
stronger.
And I think that we need to look
471
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,160
for better ways to make our, our
country stronger than being
472
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,840
bullies, the bully on the block.
Because right now we're the
473
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,280
bully on the block.
And in the past, we had the
474
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,080
power or we thought we had the
power to be the bully on the
475
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,480
block, but we weren't.
And now we are.
476
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,920
We go into another country and
we take the leader and remove
477
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,480
him like we did in Nicaragua,
like we did in Venezuela.
478
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,800
Or the country is doing that.
Nobody is.
479
00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,720
There was this comedian that did
a a bit about how he grew up
480
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,760
really poor and he was talking
about how he wanted to join the
481
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,120
military, but then he couldn't
really come to terms with being
482
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,520
homeless after.
And I thought that that was just
483
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,880
the cherry on top.
He's like, whoa, in the
484
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,240
military, but I didn't want to
be homeless after.
485
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,840
And I think that that is it's
it's very interesting.
486
00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,400
I mean what?
Have you?
487
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,120
Unless you're willing to stay.
Since the GI Bill.
488
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,240
I mean like, really.
And unless you're willing to
489
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,920
stay for a long time, it's it's
crazy.
490
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,760
We don't, we don't.
And, and if you get hurt, you're
491
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,120
you're in trouble.
If that veterans are well
492
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,760
financially, we don't take care
of them, you know?
493
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,920
You've heard stories about the
VA as well.
494
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,360
It's crazy.
Yeah.
495
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,680
And they're, I mean, we're
getting better.
496
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,560
We're getting better.
I mean, we should be.
497
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,280
That's how time works.
You know, like.
498
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,520
We should be Yeah, no, not
always.
499
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,000
We we get worse and then we get
better and then we get we focus
500
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,160
on.
It's like every issue that
501
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,600
America has, we truly focused
our financial effort and our
502
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,680
willpower and our brain power.
We can do a lot of things, you
503
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:53,920
know, but it's like, let's make
you know when it when I hear
504
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,920
let's make America great again.
Well, wouldn't you know, a fully
505
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,640
connected country be great.
You know, I think that to me
506
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:09,680
would be amazing and
irrespective of airlines, it
507
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,640
would cut fuel costs.
It would do all sorts of things
508
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,960
that it would create huge new
commerce pools because people
509
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,440
could transport when they came
to the US, they could go all
510
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,000
over it instead of just staying
in DC or just staying in New
511
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,560
York, just staying in Miami.
You know, oh, I go to Miami and
512
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,840
I go there and then I got to go
home because you can't, you
513
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,200
know, I can't go to DC because
it's, it's a 24 hour ride on a
514
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640
train.
No, exactly.
515
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,120
And it's 3 times more expensive
too, which makes.
516
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,120
Sense like wow.
Somebody did the.
517
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,000
I watched a video about the
train from DC to Miami.
518
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Yeah.
And and how it was 24 hours.
519
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,120
I think it was $2500.
I took that for a sleeper.
520
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,960
I took that trainer.
Yeah, you did.
521
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,240
Yeah, I didn't do the sleeper 1.
I did the, I did the cheapest 1
522
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,360
I could do on the way back and
it was that wasn't a sleeper.
523
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,280
Yeah, that was no, no, it wasn't
a sleeper in. 2000 Yeah, it was
524
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,920
a seat.
On the train from Jacksonville
525
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:18,080
to DC and I think did you do
that 1981 I had me and a buddy
526
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,680
had gone out and we had a week
off spring break.
527
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,200
We were working concrete.
We said, hey, we want to take a
528
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,720
week off and oh, you shouldn't
it's like, well we want to do it
529
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,720
anyway.
So we went we, we took a week
530
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,440
off We, we hopped on a train.
No, we went out to the
531
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,560
Springfield.
No, not Springfield.
532
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,840
We went out to what the heck was
it Aqua Max that we walked out
533
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,920
on?
And we stuck our thumbs out and
534
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,080
started hitchhiking.
And this is 2 guys that you
535
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,320
know, he's 6263.
I'm nearly six.
536
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,720
We got bed rolls and backpacks
on carrying our stuff.
537
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,280
I'm wearing a top hat.
It's 8 O clock in the morning.
538
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,640
Got a 2 gallon jug of vodka and
bitter lemon.
539
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,040
And we got a ride in about an
hour.
540
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,280
And that ride took us to Boca
Raton.
541
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,760
I mean, amazing.
It was in a a old Cadillac and
542
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,640
the guy was taking the car down
for his brother.
543
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,680
And we saved him a a night in
Georgia by continuing to drive
544
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,960
because he trusted us and we
drank the whole way.
545
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,960
And, you know, back in the good
old days.
546
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,840
Do you think it was the late 80s
serial killers that changed that
547
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,720
whole hitchhiking thing?
I think there's still serial
548
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,880
killers and I just think that
that was easier and it's so now
549
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,760
if I was to be a how would I
mean, what all you have to do is
550
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,560
you start thinking about if
you're a pedo or you're a serial
551
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,040
killer or whatever.
You still, what would you do?
552
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,080
How would you do it today?
I'd be a I'd be man.
553
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,080
Can you imagine a serial killer
that was a a evangelical priest?
554
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,320
Wow, that would.
Devil All the time.
555
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,480
That's a movie, really.
Yeah, I think.
556
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,720
He was a well, if they're
killing bad people, you know,
557
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,720
and then it becomes subjective
because people say, well, he
558
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,080
killed that person and they knew
and well, not really.
559
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,480
They were pretty sure that he
did something wrong.
560
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:09,440
So, you know, yeah, we just look
at that and go.
561
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,320
And it's, I think like back to
we came in this, we were talking
562
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,400
about wartime, the war machine,
the money, and we need more
563
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,040
oversight.
We need to push for oversight.
564
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:29,280
And I don't know how anybody and
left less interaction from non
565
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,880
registered packs.
You know, we have foreign packs
566
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,400
that are not registered.
We have we have all sorts of
567
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:43,600
things that are just really UN
American, you know, that are
568
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,680
that are driving the way our
trillions of dollars are spent
569
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,040
every year.
You know, we have a big GDP, we
570
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:59,120
are spending a ton of it and and
it's not for the benefit of the
571
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:05,520
people, it's for the benefit of
extraneous people, you know,
572
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,159
other countries.
And it's not for us.
573
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,159
And we need to come back and
say, I mean, if you really think
574
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,440
of America first attacking Iran
is not America first, attacking
575
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,880
Venezuela in America first, OK.
What was the whole Venezuela
576
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,960
thing with Maduro?
I didn't understand that.
577
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,000
I thought it it was very odd.
We would argue a diversion.
578
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,840
You know, I mean over the files,
is that what you're saying?
579
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,239
Yeah, well, they were saying
drugs and all this, but if they
580
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,360
if he doesn't get convicted in a
court of law, it's really going
581
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,880
to be bad.
I don't think he will either,
582
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,040
because it's crazy.
That doesn't make sense.
583
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,960
Yeah.
Yeah, it doesn't seem right.
584
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,840
And also they left the whole
second tier in.
585
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,719
They just took out the head guy.
So it was very just like a
586
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,440
military exercise and we were
blowing up boats in Venezuela.
587
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,480
And Venezuela is not the drug
exporter.
588
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,520
It's always been Columbia.
So it's very weird that I think
589
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,680
and and when you look at it,
Venezuela was collapsing.
590
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:13,120
Venezuela has a ton of oil ton.
Oh, I forgot.
591
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:19,480
About that now we have control
over that oil because we took
592
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,040
the top guy.
So if you really want to look at
593
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,520
it from a strategic point of
view, that is a good thing.
594
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,960
OK, but that's that's an
aggressive tactic that you
595
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,440
would.
But The thing is, the people
596
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,960
that are profiting off of that
are not U.S. citizens.
597
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,360
It's not, it's not helping us.
It's helping companies.
598
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,680
Do you think you'll he'll ever
see a court of law anyway?
599
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,760
Do you really think that he'll
see trial?
600
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,840
No, no, he's already tried.
He's already tried.
601
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,320
He he's in.
He's being tried as we speak.
602
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,000
I'm surprised.
Absolutely.
603
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,520
That's kind of.
Surprising to me.
604
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,880
There's a whole lot of problems
with, well, the DOJ has kicked
605
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,520
out all the really brilliant
people.
606
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,120
So they're, they got people that
are, that know how to talk and
607
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,120
sound bites, but don't know how
to follow the fucking law, you
608
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,720
know, So it's kind of sad, but
we look at this and it's like,
609
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:27,800
you know, when you think about
it, it's, it's I, I, I think
610
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:35,280
that when my parents died and,
and from my generation, when,
611
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:41,440
when the thing was passed to us,
I wasn't worried.
612
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,880
I didn't feel like, you know,
they, they kind of, I felt like
613
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,040
they fucked up racism.
They kind of fucked up the
614
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,640
Vietnam War.
They were a little, they hated
615
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,760
gay people too much or not
enough.
616
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,520
I don't know, you know, there
there was things that the things
617
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,240
from the past generation that I
that I disagree with the you
618
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:02,800
know, the color was the huge,
probably the biggest thing I
619
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,640
see.
But that's everybody has their
620
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,840
own thing, but they were all
things internal and things that
621
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:15,160
through fairness and
legislation, we could protect
622
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,480
people and we can change the way
people see things.
623
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,040
Because I think that a lot of
times, you know, you see that
624
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,440
when you when you do that
internally, that you can make
625
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,880
people understand other people's
situations and they can become
626
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,920
better people.
And I think that that's
627
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:36,360
something that we started to do,
but I think that we have
628
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:41,200
forgotten the, the, the
generation, you know, we forgot
629
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,480
the next round of people.
We thought we're going to,
630
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,320
you're just going to do the same
thing we did when we got out of
631
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,360
high school.
You're going to go and get a
632
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,920
college degree, you're going to
get out and you're going to get
633
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,640
a good job and then you're going
to make money.
634
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,360
And it's like, well, society's
changed.
635
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:58,840
You know, in the 30s, a college
degree was rented money, you
636
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,880
know, and it probably wasn't up
until the 50s.
637
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,240
And then it started to waiver
and it wavered more.
638
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,360
I, I guess in the 30s is high
school, you know, finished high
639
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,920
school, you know, and on and on.
And those that went on to Ivy
640
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,080
League schools or schools
became, and then school became
641
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,640
this megalopolis.
I don't know what the hell it
642
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,480
is.
It's it's it's this huge thing
643
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,640
of offering to continue your
education on any topic
644
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:34,600
whatsoever, whether it benefits,
as long as it benefits them
645
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,600
personally, financially.
I mean, the goal of
646
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,720
institutions, I don't think is
to educate people anymore.
647
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:45,120
I think it's to drive themselves
financially.
648
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,960
And you can see this.
Yeah.
649
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:52,400
And you can see this when you
saw people bowing down when they
650
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,200
were when they said we're going
to take away your federal funds.
651
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,800
And it's like, OK, we'll kiss
your ass.
652
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,840
And you're like, well, but
that's, that's not where you,
653
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,640
that's not what you teach
people.
654
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,640
You teach people to stand up for
their rights.
655
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,480
You teach people to, to, to
fight.
656
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:13,800
Yet you, you Ivy Leaguers and
you large law people and you big
657
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,960
company people, you run like
scared rabbits, you know, and
658
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,000
it's sad.
It's just really sad to see
659
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,480
that, you know, fear has gotten
to a level of just silliness,
660
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,760
you know?
I'm really wondering when the
661
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,520
class war fair is going to start
happening.
662
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,520
I'm really wondering, but I
don't know because you know
663
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,880
what, I was actually talking
with mom about this today.
664
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,840
Yeah, that court gestures back
then used to exist in A1 plane
665
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,600
of media, which was television.
And now court gestures today
666
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:49,040
exist in your phone, in your
hand 24 hours a day and you can
667
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,840
constantly become distracted of
something different and on
668
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,400
purpose.
Exactly.
669
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,120
And that is why I think that we
won't see an uprising for
670
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,880
another 5 to 8 years.
It's because you have such
671
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,840
stringent or intrinsic amounts
of distractions all on your
672
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,760
phone every single day.
Not to mention the
673
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,920
advertisements 1.
To draw people against each
674
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,240
other.
Well, can you see, can you see
675
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:20,400
that you could make people think
a particular way, I mean, if you
676
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,640
if you controlled Facebook.
That was shown in 2016.
677
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,080
You remember that?
Yeah, and you wanted to get
678
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:34,000
people to support or like
something and you could post
679
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:40,240
millions of photos or things or
memes or whatever in front of
680
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,920
every single a billion people.
You can get them to think
681
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,240
something.
You know, every large platform
682
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,760
has that and they have that
ability.
683
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:56,360
And there's no problem to lie.
You know, there's it's not,
684
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,480
it's, it's OK to lie and lie.
Just brutally lie.
685
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,680
Just made-up shit.
The roof of this.
686
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,240
You see it as white, but you're
wrong.
687
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:13,040
It's it's actually, it's blue
and just just lie.
688
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,840
Well, it's weird too.
Because the idea of an opinion
689
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,760
now is seen as truth.
It's seen as truth, right?
690
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,960
And the whole thing, when I
especially, I'll just go back
691
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,400
and say what I was saying before
about the 98% of Chinese own
692
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200
their own homes and this out of
the other.
693
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,560
And I'm like, well, then it's
better than sleeping outside.
694
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:31,840
It's like, well, you can think
that.
695
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,360
And I'm like, what?
Like I don't understand.
696
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,720
No, I'm right.
Like I, I, I'm correct.
697
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Like I'm correct.
And saying that owning your own
698
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,400
home is better than sleeping
outside.
699
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,720
Well, the home is small, but
it's not outside.
700
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,480
Like, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
701
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560
It it's like, it's ridiculous.
They don't wanna, they won't
702
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,200
change.
There's.
703
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,640
No admitting that you're wrong
anymore.
704
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,400
It's, it's just, it's crazy.
It's insane.
705
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:04,680
Whatever happened to being See I
always do I always spend them
706
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,440
wrong?
Probably not, but no, I
707
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,360
definitely do.
I feel like I learn a lot from
708
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,800
that and I feel I learn more and
I get closer to people when I
709
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:19,360
agree with them when I'm wrong.
But when people, when people
710
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:26,720
argue with me, like I remember
under the, the, the to go into
711
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,760
politics, the Trump
administration and the, and the,
712
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,680
and the Obama administration,
when I had an argument with a
713
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,640
guy about the Stock Exchange,
the stock market, and I said it
714
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:43,400
went up dramatically higher
under Obama than it did under
715
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,320
Trump.
I mean, each four year section
716
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,880
total more percentage wise in
the first administration, much,
717
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,240
much more.
And no, it didn't.
718
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,120
And like, yes, you, you can, you
can look at the Dow Jones, you
719
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,520
can count the points, you can
look at the percentage, you can
720
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,400
do this here.
These this is an equation, you
721
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,280
know, OK, it's not, it's not
opinion.
722
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,280
It's not me, you know, and he's
like, well, we'll just agree to
723
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,600
disagree.
I'm like, no, you're fucking
724
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,800
wrong, you know, and it's like,
and it didn't matter.
725
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,920
It didn't didn't matter.
What's that did not matter.
726
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,440
He he just looked at me and goes
like, OK, if you want to think
727
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:27,880
that way.
And I'm like but but it but it
728
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,600
so and I and I would ask people
because I've asked people this
729
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:39,080
and they're like, so when is 2
more than 4?
730
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,160
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
And you're like.
731
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,120
It's because we as Americans,
we've let our egos become too
732
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,440
inflated.
And it really and it's.
733
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,120
We are align ourselves with
people and it's do or die no
734
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,720
matter what, because they did
one thing that I like or I'm
735
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,080
wedded to them because of this
or that or the other.
736
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,080
So I or I forgo all the other
stuff.
737
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,240
It's like people saying, you
know, I've I've heard it over
738
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:06,760
and over.
I don't care how much he steals.
739
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,520
He's he's doing what I want him
to do.
740
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,800
And you're like, you didn't want
him to have a war, and now we're
741
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,960
in a war.
So and then now you're defending
742
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,360
the war so.
Yeah.
743
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,560
And now they're defending the
war.
744
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,960
It's like, and now we have dead
Americans.
745
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,040
We have dead Americans and
wounded Americans.
746
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,880
And that for for four people.
Hated when Joe Biden took the
747
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,480
Americans out of.
Out of a out.
748
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,520
Of a war and then.
People died.
749
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,720
Ending a 20 year war.
You remember that?
750
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,080
I remember that crazy.
Trump didn't take him out.
751
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:44,680
He he organized the surrender.
He let 2000 ISIS people out.
752
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,840
Those people that he let out,
actually one of them is the head
753
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,400
of Afghanistan, which is kind of
funny.
754
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,760
You know, he was a nice leader.
He was in a prison.
755
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,360
We had him.
He gave the prison to Russia.
756
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,600
But that's another story.
Another.
757
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,200
Another story for another time.
I think we're Yeah, I.
758
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,880
Oh, we're about 45 minutes.
So we could I, I think about
759
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,240
like, let's, let's talk about
money.
760
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:17,360
They talk about wanting a 1 1/2
trillion dollar budget that
761
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:23,200
would nearly be 3X what it was
10 years ago, 1 1/2 trillion.
762
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,080
And we don't know where it's
going to go.
763
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,480
We don't, we don't know who's
going to get paid.
764
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,960
We, we, we know that Congress
people are going to get a lot of
765
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,880
money because they're going to
donate money to them and somehow
766
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,800
they can, I don't know how they
do it.
767
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,720
I'm sure that, you know, at the
end of a campaign they can keep
768
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,720
their money there.
There's all sorts of, they use
769
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:49,960
the campaign paying money to
move all over their family lives
770
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,480
in the campaign money
headquarters and all this other
771
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,760
shit.
You know which there are ethical
772
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,360
people.
There are, you know, where are
773
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,400
they?
Though you.
774
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,480
Know.
Well, I think it's it's we don't
775
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,240
hear about them.
You don't really.
776
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,600
Hear about good things?
Do you?
777
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,000
Well, yeah, because the, you
know, people want to do work and
778
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,960
then people want to, they want
to make the country better.
779
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,440
And the way to do that is not to
go on, you know, MSN and
780
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,960
Facebook and all these places
and bitch and moan about
781
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:30,800
somebody saying wearing, you
know, wearing Charlie Kirk face
782
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,280
or whatever the fuck it is or
wearing or any of.
783
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,760
That the bullet.
The bullet is not a not a what?
784
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,720
Is it the same as the one in the
weapon?
785
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,040
Crazy.
Doesn't match, but.
786
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,880
But we don't.
Surprise, surprise.
787
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,400
We don't care.
Doesn't matter.
788
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,480
Another distraction.
Yeah, well, hopefully that
789
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,760
happens with Luigi too.
But yeah, that was fun.
790
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:52,560
Jailbreak.
Jailbreak.
791
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,080
Yeah.
I remember seeing that that was.
792
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,160
I expected him to kill him in
the prison.
793
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Luigi.
Luigi.
794
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,800
Oh, I'm surprised that he's
still alive.
795
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,480
Because he's, he's like.
That makes no sense.
796
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,800
He's got to scare the living
hell out of everybody.
797
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:13,160
When you, after that happened,
you, you, the amount of security
798
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,600
that went into corporate America
was just, and it's still like
799
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,360
it's Uber nuts, you know, and
that the, I just saw the other
800
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,640
day or Oracle whack 30,000
people after they had the
801
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:37,200
greatest earnings season they've
ever had and OK, and 30,000 OK.
802
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,040
And it was, you know, it was
like a Monday morning, 6:00 AM
803
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,520
e-mail.
Hey, you know, Zach, you've done
804
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,680
a wonderful job, but get the
fuck out.
805
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Your all your shit's cut off.
You can't have anything.
806
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,960
Return it all to Billy Bob.
We'll give you severance of 8
807
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,880
bucks, but if you don't sign
this agreement that says you're
808
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,920
only going to do what we're
going to do, you're not going to
809
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,360
get any severance and we're
going to come after you, you
810
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,600
know, like, and by the way, Zach
worked here 35 years.
811
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,560
That's the cherry on top.
So there and and because of
812
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:15,840
that, there are literally
hundreds of death threats to the
813
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,400
Ellisons.
And that's that's one of the
814
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,920
reasons.
But you know, you're like, whoa.
815
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:27,280
So, you know, we were talking
earlier about this, this, this
816
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,440
continued push towards war and
hate and all that kind of stuff
817
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,600
like that and bullying people.
And you know, every e-mail you
818
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,560
sent see come out of the White
House is there's, there's a lot
819
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,520
of hate in every single e-mail.
It's coming, it's coming from
820
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,840
the top.
And it's, it's about, I hate
821
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,200
these people.
Here's why.
822
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,440
But these people are wonderful.
And I'm going to make it better
823
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,880
when I get rid of these people.
And you're like, well, that's, I
824
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,200
mean, that's bad.
That's the, you know, it's,
825
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:04,320
it's, it's really amped that up.
And I think that, you know,
826
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,400
that's going to grow.
And as it grows from our level,
827
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,480
we're going to see more and more
people take potshots at these
828
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,520
people, you know, and they're
going to be successful
829
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,720
occasionally and.
Hence the class warfare that I
830
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:22,560
was talking about you.
Know right and then we're going
831
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,320
to have to pay more tax dollars
to protect the people that are
832
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,720
fucking us.
You know, sadly I won't you
833
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:34,800
know, because we're rich, so
only poor people will so have at
834
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,000
it.
It's just I mean at some point
835
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,320
you're just like, why are you
why are you punching yourself in
836
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,600
the face?
You know, you done you done
837
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,360
here.
Give me another tax break.
838
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,840
Thanks.
You know, my gosh, it's, it's,
839
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,640
it's, it's ludicrous what people
will put up with, with where
840
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,680
things are doing and how,
because when you look at people
841
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,440
about what we will talk about
the tax situation some other
842
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,560
time.
But it's like, and because that
843
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:09,080
money, that 1 1/2 trillion,
which we don't have, which we
844
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,120
didn't collect because we had a
huge tax break.
845
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:18,760
I did thank you.
And the, the huge amount that's
846
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,560
not being taken care of is added
to the debt and we have to pay
847
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:27,840
interest on the debt and it's
growing and it's growing faster
848
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,720
than it's ever grown before.
And there's something called,
849
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,320
there's a, there's a number that
we will get to, but we will
850
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:45,160
never be able to service it.
And that is when we might have
851
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,800
to refinance our debt.
If we have to refinance our
852
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:55,240
debt, everybody that owns AT
bill will be going, Oh my God,
853
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:58,040
you're going to get $0.50 on the
dollar.
854
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,840
Oh my God, you know, then all of
a sudden we're third world,
855
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,400
we're Mexico, we're we're
Brazil, we're Venezuela, we're
856
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,240
Argentina, all these countries
did that.
857
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,120
We're Greece, We we are we are
pushing ourselves.
858
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,720
I mean Russia, I don't know
institutionally people that
859
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:22,040
invest there because they just
grab your assets if they want so
860
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:27,040
and here who knows when is that
coming when they start?
861
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,640
I mean.
They're is that we're already
862
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:35,200
taking public company positions,
you know, which is very, very
863
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,520
weird.
But I mean, all that being said,
864
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:46,600
we really need to focus on
reducing the military budget or
865
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,760
having full and fair
accountability and a reduction.
866
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:59,840
I don't, I don't understand why
we can the US spend a billion,
867
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:07,960
no 15 times the next country,
why we need to spend more on
868
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:14,400
that than we do on feeding kids.
And you have to ask yourself, do
869
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:19,760
you feel safer today than you
did five years ago, 10 years
870
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,840
ago, 15 years ago, whatever.
And and I don't know how you can
871
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,040
have a gauge for that.
Well, there's no money in
872
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,920
feeding kids.
You have to understand that, you
873
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,000
know?
Yeah, and well.
874
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,960
There, but there is.
But there is, There is.
875
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,520
There is.
There is, There is, There is.
876
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,040
Yes, there is.
There's a longer term thing that
877
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,880
when you take care of your
population, they produce more,
878
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,040
they add more to the GDP, they
make the economy better.
879
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:46,080
They spend money because they
make money as quick as they go,
880
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,640
you know.
No, it's a long term thing and
881
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,480
you're not going to be in office
and you're going to be dead, so
882
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,720
it doesn't matter to you.
And and it's, you know, little
883
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:55,560
Billy Bojangles.
Too, being in the older
884
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,800
demographic, don't really.
Care well we're on this four
885
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,040
year cycle of hell where we go
from we.
886
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,320
Spend the first four years
trying to get the next four
887
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,120
years, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
888
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:07,840
And yeah, that's what it's all
about.
889
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,440
No, just not good, not good at
all.
890
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,120
That's the only thing they focus
on.
891
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:20,640
We need to.
We need, we need to, we need to
892
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,480
rein in the military budget.
We need to figure out where it's
893
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,000
all going.
We need a clear audit that we
894
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,800
will not give them Dimes until
they do that.
895
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,840
There's no repercussions too for
failing an audit either, which
896
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,400
seems well that's what it that's
what bothers me makes sense that
897
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,960
and I saw this $200 OK but then
you're going to not find $2
898
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,440
trillion let's.
Let's roll it in.
899
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,080
Let's roll it in for those that
were successful and those
900
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:49,200
weren't we.
We fought to get Afghanistan for
901
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:53,000
20 years and we were told
thousands of things over the
902
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:58,120
course of those years.
And at the end, we left and we
903
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,320
really didn't change anything.
We, I think of the same people
904
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,680
in power now, maybe a different
group of people are in power and
905
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,760
they they're OK here and there.
But now we're financially
906
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:13,360
supporting them again.
And but we lost that war and
907
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:19,400
then we did the same thing in
Iraq, you know, and, and then we
908
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,480
withdrew the people.
And you can say it's Biden's
909
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,280
withdrawal and it was or it was
Trump made him do it at that
910
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,280
time, whatever you want to say
for the big guys.
911
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:35,120
But in reality, I do not think
and I do not believe that Biden
912
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:40,200
said this is the plan that you
have to do to withdraw the
913
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,080
troops.
I believe that the generals came
914
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,840
together and said the best way
for us to do this, to close
915
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,040
this, do this, do this, do this.
And this is how we're going to
916
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,080
exit it.
And he goes, well, you're the
917
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:51,280
fucking general.
She should know.
918
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,120
OK, bye.
He signs off.
919
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,960
He eats the shit sandwich.
Nobody was fired.
920
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,400
Nobody.
I mean, I would have been.
921
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,720
I've been like, Zach, fuck you.
You're gone.
922
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,920
You fucked up.
I would I would have held
923
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,200
fucking the top layer of
management that handed me that
924
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,360
plan.
We'll be can't you can't.
925
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,240
What do you mean?
People died because of the
926
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,360
because what you told me was
right and I trusted you.
927
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:28,080
And yet he Lily paddled.
It's all my responsibility.
928
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,880
No, you of course it was your
responsibility, but it's also
929
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,080
your responsibility to make sure
it doesn't fucking happen again.
930
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,720
And you didn't, you didn't do
anything to show anybody
931
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,280
anything about accountability.
And that was really, really,
932
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,440
really weak.
That is a a word that we have
933
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,600
none of anymore is
accountability.
934
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,480
Yeah, I, I, I and I and I see
this everywhere.
935
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,800
You see it.
You see it in you.
936
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,320
See it in the normal population?
It's crazy, Yeah.
937
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,760
Yeah, when you do something
wrong, you should be held
938
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,280
accountable.
When you, you know when you're.
939
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,720
The person's fault for believing
in them, too.
940
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,200
It's like, well, why'd you
believe me then?
941
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,320
And then the what?
Like it's crazy.
942
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,880
Why'd you trust me?
You know you and I'm like, what?
943
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,720
That's insane.
Yeah, what is it?
944
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:13,840
Who said that?
You fucked up?
945
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,080
You trusted us.
Remember that?
946
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,320
That was Animal House.
Oh yeah.
947
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,120
Why'd you live in your car?
Well, you fucked up.
948
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,400
You trusted us.
There you go.
949
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,480
That's pretty much the entire
situation.
950
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:25,000
Yeah, that's where we're at
right now.
951
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:29,040
We're trusting the military with
another 500 and almost $600
952
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:33,840
billion and we don't give a shit
what they spend it on.
953
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,200
We don't care.
They'll tell us whatever they
954
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,520
want to tell us and we'll be OK
with that.
955
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,480
And I think that's a good way to
end it because we need to, we
956
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,280
need to create a little bit of
angst.
957
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,680
And, and now people are going to
say, oh, you're against the,
958
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,000
you're against the Army guy.
And then they're going to show
959
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,320
me the enlisted guy and I'm
going like, fuck off.
960
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,720
You know, anytime someone says
that that you're you're you're
961
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:02,200
against the military budget that
they automatically pointed down
962
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:06,000
to the line guy that got
crippled and was fighting in the
963
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,960
war.
And you know, you can be against
964
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,720
an organization without
beginning against the people
965
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:18,040
that work for it.
OK, kind of like Israel, you
966
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:22,280
know, it's not the people, it's
the organization.
967
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,160
But if the people are letting
the organization happen, they
968
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,640
need to be held accountable too.
And we have a lot of people in
969
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,720
the military that are that are,
that are allowing this to
970
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,120
happen, you know, sad, very sad.
And.
971
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,720
It is.
It really is.
972
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,680
Yeah, So what do you have to
say?
973
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,520
I think we're ready to wrap up.
I think we're good.
974
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Well, thank you guys for
listening.
975
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:49,480
As always, check out the shorts.
What are we getting like 2 to
976
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,360
three times a day now?
Yeah, this post on the.
977
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,680
Topic that you were hot on and I
love it.
978
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,760
I love hearing yeah your your
dialogue on it.
979
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,080
I'm heading to South America,
man.
980
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,520
It's interesting.
It's interesting to see somebody
981
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:09,120
who's watched multiple
presidents go through and where
982
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,200
we are today.
You know, I don't know what what
983
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,560
it would have been like if JFK
was never assassinated, you
984
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,680
know, but here we are.
All right, talk to you later.
985
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,880
Bye bye.
