Flying foreigners around the nation (09-27-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk a little bit about flying foreigners all around the Fruited Plain.

[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one particular foreigner. A guy who apparently we have still not learned how to

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: write or pronounce his name? Volodomir Zelenskyy. Because now they've added another Y to his name.

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know when that happened. Like, I thought it was Vladimir Zelenskyy. Then it was Volodomir.

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And now it's Volodomir Zelenskyy with two Ys at the end. The Ukrainian president. That's another thing.

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I grew up calling it Kiev. And now it's Kiev. And honestly, I know like the background on it

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and all that because I went and looked it up like how do you pronounce this? Why is it

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: changing all of a sudden? Well, it's going back to its non-Russian pronunciation and I get it.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But Kiev sounds cooler. I don't know. I know it's very shallow. I know. I have self-awareness.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But it just seems to me like the name Kiev, it's, I don't know. It sounds like a bodily

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: function or something. You know, it anyway. I know it's shallow. I'm just saying it's just

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: it's a cooler sounding place. Kiev. It's stronger, you know?

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So the Ukrainian president is in America. Oh, also apparently the leader of Iran

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: is in America too. He's got quite the security detail. So much security is surrounding him on

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: our dime that Trump can't do an outdoor rally up in Wisconsin. They told him to go inside

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: because we don't have enough secret service agents for another outdoor venue for you

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: because we had to send all the resources down to New York City and the United Nations to protect

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: the lunatic leader of Iran. Anyway, Ukrainian president, yes, the same guy who

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: the same guy who's in charge of the country that did the hack on Trump's campaign gave the

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: dossier on JD Vance to the media. Now I see some people have published it and it's just a dossier.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just like, hey, here's the guy's background or whatever. So the Ukrainian president is in

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: America. He's been here for a few days. Still hasn't been able to purchase a collared shirt

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: or blazer as far as I can tell, which is weird because we have a lot of them. We have stores

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: all over the place. You could totally pick up a blazer and a collared shirt. I know people don't

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: wear ties so much anymore, like that's out of fashion. But I don't know. I just think if you're

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: going to be going around meeting world leaders and such, you should wear a blazer, have a collared

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: shirt at the very least. I mean, even Jim Jordan does that. So Zelensky flew around and

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you saw this video. He landed in a key U.S. swing state this week. He went to Pennsylvania,

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Scranton, old Scranton Joe, Pennsylvania, named after Joe Biden, the town named after Joe Biden,

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Scranton. So this was a taxpayer-funded aircraft that brought him there and it did so after he

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: publicly criticized Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. And then he walked around a munitions factory

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: where Josh Shapiro, who I believe was super excited because there was finally somebody in the room

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that he was taller than. But he, I'm sorry, I know that's a cheap shot. That's a cheap shot.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I take them. I'm sorry. The world is my straight man. So Josh Shapiro started signing

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: ordinance, not an ordinance, but ordinance like shells, missiles. He started signing some of these

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: things on camera that I guess now is going to go to Ukraine. Ukraine's going to go use them to

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: kill a bunch of Russians. Do you think Russia might be a little, I don't know,

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: miffed at that? Right? Do you think they may have some thoughts on the matter? I know you

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: don't care about what the Russians think, but they have nuclear weapons and I assume

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: there's still some old guys on staff that know how to shoot them. I assume that. I don't know

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that to be true, but I have to believe there's somebody that's still in the government over there

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that remembers how to launch the codes. It's been a while. I'm just saying,

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: like you don't really hear a lot about it. They have a lot. They have a lot of nuclear

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: stockpiles and I'm just saying that if we're like, hey look at us giving him all these

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: missiles, I'm going to sign like, to Russia with love, Josh Shapiro. I'm thinking that could be

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: perceived in a certain way by the Russians. Do you know, we got sucked into a war

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: hundreds of years ago because we were selling weed to the French. Okay, well it was hemp,

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: but still. We were supplying the French in their war against the British.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: We were giving them hemp, sales and rope, which was military as war material. This is stuff that

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: they could use and the British didn't take too kindly to that and we got jammed up there.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So why don't we think a little bit? I mean, you want to spend the money,

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: you're like, we're going to support Ukraine, we're going to give them money and sell them

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: some arms and stuff. Like, why don't you just keep some of this on the down low?

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you don't need to be making a big show of it, you know? You don't need all the flair.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's tamp down the flair. Fewer pins on the lapel, you know? So during his visit, Zelensky

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: met with high level Democrat Pennsylvania officials like Shapiro and Senator Bob Casey

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and Representative Matt Cartwright and expressed his gratitude for their support. Prior to his trip,

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: to the U.S., Zelensky spoke to the New Yorker magazine and claimed that Donald Trump, quote,

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: doesn't really know how to stop the war. That may be true. I don't know. It's the thing about

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump. You don't know. I don't know what he knows. He says stuff. He may not. I don't know.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Zelensky was even more critical of J.D. Vance, referring to him as, quote, too radical. In an

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: interview with the Sean Ryan show in mid-September, Vance proposed a peace deal where Russia retains

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: the territory it has seized so that a demilitarized zone could be established along the current

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: battle lines. Right? So like, this is the thing. I'm no war historian by any stretch. I'm just

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_00]: a little old radio host. But my understanding is that wars end when one side surrenders or

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: they come to an agreement to stop fighting because they don't want to fight anymore. For whatever

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: reasons, usually it's because of all of the death and destruction they're broke, you know.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: They cannot keep fighting. But if you have a side that refuses to stop, like Hamas, right?

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: If they refuse to stop fighting, then the war doesn't end until they're dead or you're dead.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So what are our options? Now if Ukraine is going to say we will never do any kind of a

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: ceasefire deal, we will not stop fighting until we get our territorial boundaries back.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's their choice. Right? That's up to them. But if you're trying to say we want to stop the war,

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: the war needs to stop, how do we find some off-ramp here, then it is perfectly acceptable

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: to throw out some ideas, this being one of them. There are other ideas that you could toss out

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: there, but this is an idea that you could toss out because there are a lot of people in the

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars to help Ukraine protect its borders while we are

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: flying foreigners all around the country and I'm not just talking about Zelensky. The demilitarized

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_00]: zone would need to be heavily fortified so the Russians don't invade again, Vance had said

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: at the time. Such a deal could also involve the provision that Ukraine does not join NATO.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: This would be an awful idea if a person were actually going to carry it out, Zelensky.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Told the New Yorker, but there's certainly no way this could ever happen

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and it wouldn't necessarily end the war either. It's just slogan.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh. That's not okay. That was not intentional. I apologize. I hit the wrong button.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But it did kind of work. An errant rimshot if you will.

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Volodymyr Volot Volodimyr Zelensky joined the growing list of foreigners campaigning with Kamala

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Harris. David Strom at hotair.com says, no doubt the media mavens of the transnational elite will

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: call for immediate impeachment of Harris for her collusion with Zelensky to interfere in our election.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Right? Yeah, no. It's true that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been funneling uncounted

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: billions into Ukraine and that much of that money has been sucked up by corrupt politicians

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and their buddies. But this is the right sort of corruption, you see. So nobody in the establishment

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: is bothered by it at all. In his harshest criticism yet of the Republican presidential nominee, Ukrainian

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: president Volodymyr Zelensky also described Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, as dangerous and too

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: radical. Quote, his message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But I believe that we have shielded America from total war. That's what Zelensky is arguing,

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: that they have been the reason why we have not been drawn into a war with Russia. Total war,

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: as von Klauswitz would call it, total war. Right? I disagree with that assessment. I don't believe

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would have created total war for America. I don't believe

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: that to be the case. Again, what do I know? Just a radio host. But it seems to me like it would

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: have gone the way of Crimea and Georgia, the country not the state. Right? When Putin went

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: into those places and took those territories, it didn't launch us into a total war with Russia.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that happens with Ukraine either. Unless of course you're saying that there's been

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: some stuff going on in Ukraine that maybe some people would not want exposed and so then they

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: would feel the need to go to total war in order to cover up that kind of thing. I mean,

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just spitballing here. I don't know that to be true. I'm just saying that could be a reason.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00]: JD Vance has been criticized by the supporters of Ukraine for pushing a peace deal that consolidates

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: the Kremlin's control over captured territory. Zelensky said such a deal would disrespect the

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: sacrifices that Ukrainian soldiers have made. It would appease Vladimir Putin and encourage

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_00]: other dictators to invade their neighbors, which I think that is probably true.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know I do. I think that's probably true. I think it would do those things. It would be like

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: if Ukraine did a deal like that, it would be seen, I don't know about disrespecting the

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: sacrifices, but if you're trying to cut your losses and to say we don't want more people

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: dying and if the only way to stop them from killing us is to retreat back behind these lines

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and give up that territory, then so be it because we value the lives more than the land.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Now maybe that's not the case. Maybe they're like screw you. I mean, if somebody came and invaded

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: us like if Canada, I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. Let's say that cartels, they invaded a state

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: we want like Texas, right? Because California would be like, well how much? How much are you

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: taking to California? Because I'm open. I kid, I kid California. But if they invaded and they

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: were like we're taking over Springfield, Ohio or something, maybe we would be like no,

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: you don't get to do that and we will all die. We would all rather die than give up this

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: land to this maniac, right? That's fine but that's your choice as your country's leader

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and as your people. That's your choice. Would it appease Putin for the time being probably? Sure.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It would embolden him no doubt. It would encourage others to invade their neighbors.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's probably true too. This is why peace through strength and the projection of strength

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: leads to deterrence. That's why that's so vital is to project this strength

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: so people don't mess around with you. Whatever you think about Donald Trump, whether you think

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: he's unhinged, crazy, doesn't know what he's doing and all this stuff, sometimes that works.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Trust me, I worked in bars and restaurants with bars and I can tell you

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_00]: you never know what a crazy guy is going to do in the bar. They're unpredictable.

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[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: story. Jeff in Mint Hill wants to know what now do we call chicken Kiev? Is it chicken Kiev?

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a very good question. See people don't they do not take this stuff into account when they

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: just are willy-nilly changing the pronunciation of things. Maybe Chikiev, maybe we call it

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Chikiev or Chikiev in, no never mind. But yeah it's a need of a rebrand Jeff to your point.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So Volodymyr Zelensky began his tour of the United States with a visit to a weapons factory

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: in Pennsylvania that makes artillery shells that gets sent to the front lines in Ukraine.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Now by the way this is one of the things that a lot of people who are opposed to the

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Ukraine funding by America they say oh we're just giving them all this money and

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: while it's true I think that we are giving them cash a lot of it is just going to our

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: weapons manufacturers here the military industrial complex. So that money isn't a

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: in I think it's most of it is staying in America but it's funding the military industrial complex

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: which I think may I mean if I'm just guessing I think they may have an interest

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: in their being conflicts so they can then manufacture more munitions that they can

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: then sell right. I think so I mean I don't know if there's no war I think they probably go out of

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: business because then you don't need to you know replenish all of the the blown up ordinance

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: but I digress he is he met with Biden he met with Harris and then today he met with

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump now David Strom at hotair.com he says I was a supporter of helping Ukraine

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: when Russia was headed to Kiev now not so much if they want to fight it it is Europe's war although

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it is a stalemate and a waste of lives NATO was key to protecting our interests during

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: the Cold War but now that Europe is trying to dictate the terms of American politics it is

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: more of a millstone than anything else this is a very interesting line of thinking this is an

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: interesting angle to this right because you hear a lot of times people in their defense of Ukraine

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and they're attacking Donald Trump you want to give it a NATO right because Donald Trump pressured

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: the European countries to dare I say pay their fair share right something that the left is always

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: talking about when it comes to taxes but when it comes to funding NATO because they're required

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you know the NATO countries are required to spend a certain amount of their GDP I think it's

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: like 2% or something towards the military because what the European countries have done is they have

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: not funded their military instead using that money to fund their social programs and enjoy

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: the protection provided to them by the American military industrial I'm sorry the American

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: military and they then get to what throw barbs at us when we don't have the social programs and

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the social spending that they do yet they don't pay for the military because we're paying for it

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and so Trump I think rightly said you need to pay your fair share you need to pay your dues

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: you're not paying your dues and then he said remember he said something along the lines

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: of if you're not going to pay then what are we even doing this for and oh my gosh

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: the the neocon military industrial complex people they went berserk right and I suspect

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that's what is animating a lot of the behavior against Donald Trump at that level I do I think

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: that there are a lot of people that are concerned about him upending the status quo order of things

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: whether he knows what he's doing or not I don't know okay now people who love him say he's playing

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_00]: 17 dimensional chess I don't know but I think some things are just very commonsensical very

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: obvious which is you guys are supposed to spend this amount and you're not spending

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_00]: this amount and so if you're not going to make good on your end of the bargain then the

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: bargain is off right now if you want to make an argument that we need to be paying no matter

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: what and so we should just absorb all the costs all the time well that's a different argument then

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_00]: right we now have to assess whether this is an effective use of our money

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: now when you add in this layer of political interference where now you've got members of

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: European countries telling us as Zelinsky has that he's basically endorsing Harris over Trump

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: well that sounds like election interference buddy that got that got a president impeached

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you were on the phone call you should remember this so I don't know it just seems to me like

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: if we're paying the freight on this stuff you probably should shut up

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: you should probably shut up otherwise um I think it is in order for us to reassess whether

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: the current status quo the current structure is still serving the original intended purpose

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and that is not a radical idea this is a reassessment you should be doing these things

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: with all programs by the way this is one of the things

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Elon Musk have you uh your I'm sure you've heard a couple of probably a couple weeks ago

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: he made a comment about uh how he would be willing to join a Trump administration

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: as the as somebody who would come in and find efficiencies and and start cutting program services

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: personnel whatever finding these you know inefficiencies in the federal government in the

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: administrative state and just start you know just clearing out the dead wood and of course

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the left lost their minds let me know whatever minds they had to lose but they they went nuts okay

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: they were like I can't believe he's gonna we need this size government like think about just your

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: automatic assumption is that the level of government the size of the government we have

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: is the appropriate size that's their built-in assumption is that it is the appropriate

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: size and if anything if it's not appropriate it needs to be bigger right and I would argue

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: the opposite is that it is too large that if we were actually building a government now

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: it would look a lot different because we don't need as many people doing the things that we are doing

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: right not to mention that we have lost sight of our core mission the core services I talk

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: about this all the time especially at the local level which is why you got potholes all over

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_00]: the place but they're but they're building new and shiny things all over uptown downtown

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: uptown like that because you've lost sight of your core function right when when you don't have

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: enough police officers right when fire protection is lacking uh water and sewer services deteriorating

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: right those are your core functions if you're not doing that stuff correctly then do you feel

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_00]: like you've earned the right to do other stuff you shouldn't be doing those other things if you

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: can't even get the core functions correct so when Elon Musk says I'm going to come in and clear out

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: the deadwood and people lose their minds over it well this is what he has done and he does this

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: frequently in his businesses he did it with twitter when he bought twitter and he fired a

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: whole bunch of people like what was it a third a half three quarters of the staff whatever it

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: fires all these people and what do we hear this is the end of twitter there's not going to be anybody

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: to manage the platform not true it still functions it still runs right because the natural tendency

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: of government but also large organizations is to get bigger it's just it's to naturally grow

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_00]: because after you've you've figured out how to you know build the widget and you manage

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the logistics of getting the widgets to everybody that wants them and everything's running you got

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: all your systems in place now you're like okay well i got some free time now what else can i do

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: it's just not it's the natural tendency and that's why you need to come through

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and prune trust me i work in radio it happens all the time so when i was a kid my grandpa died

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: with alzheimer's and before he died my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: him as he got progressively worse 40 years ago there were no treatments and not much support for

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: caregivers and family things are different today because of the work of so many people including

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the alzheimer's association of western north carolina it's a great organization with awesome

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: people they've got huge hearts i've been a supporter for like 25 years this cause means a lot to me

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: i participate in the annual walk to end alzheimer's and i am leading a charlotte team

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: this year it's called pete's pack you can sign up and join the team and walk with me

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: it's on october 19th at truest field in uptown sign up at alz.org slash walk and then just

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: look for my team pete's pack and there's also a link in the podcast description here also i'm

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_00]: going to be mc'ing the gastonia walk on october 5th so make a team and join us or make a

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: donation to help me hit my goal i would really appreciate it there are a bunch of other walks

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: around the carolinas and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations we are closer

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: than ever to stopping alzheimer's uh and if you can help us get there we would really appreciate

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_00]: it will you come walk with me for a different future for families for more time for treatments

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: this is why i walk um all right back to david strommett hot air dot com he says nato was key

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_00]: to protecting our interest during the cold war but now that europe is trying to dictate the

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_00]: terms of american politics it's more of a millstone than anything else european countries could defend

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: themselves if they spent as much on their military as we do actually they need not even do that since

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: they don't need to project power into the pacific defending their territory would be relatively

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: easy if they wanted to the only reason for the u.s to keep defending europe is to exercise

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: political power over the countries there to advance our interests

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and that is an argument for nato right i understand it just just like the european union right creating

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_00]: an economic uh block which even if it doesn't do a great job on economics it does keep them from

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: attacking each other which just historically speaking has been kind of their jam right so

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: there's like again people think that there's some solution there's like oh here's the here's

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_00]: the good option and there's the bad option as tomasol says there are only tradeoffs

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_00]: so if the argument is to be that we keep funding nato in its current form at the current levels

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_00]: with regards to european levels being low be below where they're supposed to be

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and the point is that we do so to advance our interests through the exercise of political power

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_00]: okay fine but what if the opposite is now happening what if they're messing with our politics

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_00]: what if they are trying to empower a transnational governing quote unquote elite i hate that term

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_00]: by the way i hate the word elite like because they're they're not elite okay they're just rich

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_00]: they're rich and powerful we need to come up with a like they think they're elite

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_00]: but we shouldn't want that i don't want that like i don't care like you could not measure

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_00]: how little i care about how some idiot in luxembourg with a lot of money thinks i should be living

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_00]: my life i don't care you have not invented a machine to measure the littleness of my caring here

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the democrats love to have europe messing around in politics because they share the same vision

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_00]: they even encourage europe to push its agenda on us think censorship big tech right you're now

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_00]: seeing it also with rfk jr they're doing these meetings and and such with uh with regards to

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the food supply look at all these ingredients in the doritos and in america they got all these

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: chemicals and here in the in the e you they ban all those chemicals and so they don't have those

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_00]: ingredients right and while i may agree that you shouldn't be putting formaldehyde in our food

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_00]: i do agree with that i would very much like to see maybe some uh some movement towards

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_00]: healthier foods like that but this is the thing like you have that decision to make for yourself

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you can eat whole foods not the grocery store there's just a lot of brick and mortar there that's

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_00]: not appetizing but you can eat a whole food is something that has only itself as the ingredient

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_00]: like an apple you can eat an apple eat that apple that's a whole food it's just an apple

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_00]: and then you got processed apples which is like if i were to cut it up or mash it down into an

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: apple sauce right that's a processed apple that's still okay because it's a whole food the only ingredient

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_00]: is apples but it's processed so what's called ultra processed food is when you then start

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_00]: adding a bunch of stuff to it and unless you're talking about getting rid of the fda altogether

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and all sorts of the you know the federal laws on what goes into food and what doesn't and all

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_00]: of that then okay if you want to ban these things then go ahead and try to ban them

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_00]: that's what they're talking about doing right that's that's the effort underway but really like

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: did you not know these foods are bad for you like oh wait a minute i mean i know that if i just ate

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_00]: doritos all day that i would you know not be healthy and i would probably get fat

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_00]: but i didn't know they put that in and oh this chemical zz249 like i didn't know that was in there

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_00]: now that's that's too much you need to take that chemical out so i can keep eating by doritos

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and be healthy like really and i'm not picking on doritos i do love doritos too they're very good

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_00]: the sprayed on flavor is amazing the last thing though that we need is to be bullied

[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_00]: by sclerotic countries that are surrendering to islamists says david strong

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_00]: like that's the thing too take a look at how their societies are going is do you want that i don't want

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_00]: that that doesn't seem like a sustainable path forward they don't seem to be leading by example

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_00]: so i don't feel like they should be telling us how we should be governing ourselves that's just me

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_00]: right this gets to the uh the wef stuff too now you know me i'm not a big

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_00]: conspiracy theory kind of a guy but when people organize themselves hold conferences

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_00]: livestream the conferences make the video of the livestreams available to the whole world to watch

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and they tell you what they intend to do from eating bugs to nobody owning any homes

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_00]: right that that is not a conspiracy theory right like that i don't even know if that counts as a

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: conspiracy because conspiracy sounds like you're doing it like illegally you know but these are people

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_00]: that are doing it out of the open and they're going to use government to do the stuff they want

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: done and they're going to try to fashion the world in whatever vision into whatever vision they have

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_00]: for us and i didn't vote for them so all you defenders of the democracy i expect you to make

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: common cause with me on this issue all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for

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