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[00:00:28] I'm going to talk about a couple of grenades that Biden has left for Trump, but Owen has been hanging on the line. And because it's Friday and I'm feeling generous, I'll talk with him. Hello, Owen. How are you? Welcome to the program.
[00:00:40] Hello. How are you doing, Pete?
[00:00:42] I'm all right, sir. What's up?
[00:00:44] I just wanted to share with Fat Man. He took my license from him, my gun license. And I'm just ready for him to be out of here, man.
[00:00:52] Why did he take your gun license?
[00:00:55] I had some priors on it, but they got dropped. And I'm just ready for him to leave.
[00:01:06] Okay. Do you vote in Democrat primaries?
[00:01:10] No, I vote Republican. And I'm telling you this right here, Pete.
[00:01:13] Yeah, but you're not going to be able to get him out if you don't vote in the Democrat primaries.
[00:01:18] That's okay, but I'm going to leave. Listen to what I'm going to do, Pete.
[00:01:23] Okay. I have a business, right? I don't know. I'm ready to say, N-word, you're fired. I can't wait.
[00:01:32] Really? You're going to say that? To who are you going to say that?
[00:01:37] To my employees. N-word, you're fired.
[00:01:38] You're going to say that to your employees?
[00:01:43] Yes, sir.
[00:01:44] Do you have any black employees?
[00:01:46] That's what I'm talking about. I'm ready to get rid of them all.
[00:01:49] You're going to fire your black employees?
[00:01:51] I'm tired, yes, sir. Don't give a...
[00:01:53] What's the name of your company?
[00:01:57] I have a landscaping company.
[00:01:58] You have a landscaping company and you hire...
[00:02:01] Yes, sir.
[00:02:01] And you have a lot of black employees that you have hired on your landscape company.
[00:02:06] And you're going to fire them all and call McFadden, the N-word.
[00:02:10] You got it right. You got it right.
[00:02:13] How are you going to continue to operate your landscape company?
[00:02:18] What's the name of your landscape company?
[00:02:19] I have my sons. My sons run it.
[00:02:21] Your sons are black?
[00:02:22] No, they're white.
[00:02:25] Wait. But then how are...
[00:02:28] Wait. So you're not going to fire your own sons?
[00:02:31] No, I'm not going to fire them.
[00:02:33] Why wouldn't you fire them, too?
[00:02:35] They're us, Pete.
[00:02:36] What do you mean they're us?
[00:02:38] They're us. They're Anglo-Saxons. They're us.
[00:02:40] We're Americans here.
[00:02:42] What's the name of your landscape company?
[00:02:45] That's right.
[00:02:45] I'd rather not disclose that name.
[00:02:47] Why not?
[00:02:49] Because. I'd rather not disclose it.
[00:02:51] Why not?
[00:02:52] Because I don't want to.
[00:02:54] Why?
[00:02:55] Don't you want...
[00:02:56] You're on...
[00:02:56] Dude, you're on the radio.
[00:02:57] This would be great business.
[00:02:59] We can do anything we want, please.
[00:03:01] You can get...
[00:03:02] Oh, and you could get a lot of business.
[00:03:04] I mean, you're on a radio station.
[00:03:06] Huh?
[00:03:07] No, I'm not going to get no...
[00:03:09] I don't want...
[00:03:09] You don't...
[00:03:10] You're not going to get any business.
[00:03:11] I got all my business I need, Pete.
[00:03:13] Well, I don't know if you're going to be able to complete all that business once you fire all of your workers.
[00:03:18] I sure will.
[00:03:19] By the way, Owen, why wouldn't you have hired...
[00:03:22] Why wouldn't you have hired illegal aliens?
[00:03:25] Because they're illegal.
[00:03:26] I don't want them either.
[00:03:28] Wait, but...
[00:03:28] Wait.
[00:03:28] So wait.
[00:03:29] But wait.
[00:03:30] I can deal with the N-words instead of the other ones.
[00:03:35] Why?
[00:03:35] Why?
[00:03:36] What's the difference?
[00:03:38] They're different.
[00:03:38] They're different.
[00:03:39] They've been here all their life.
[00:03:41] That's so...
[00:03:42] But they're still going to get fired.
[00:03:43] They've been here all their life.
[00:03:44] Right.
[00:03:44] But you're still going to fire them.
[00:03:46] You don't...
[00:03:47] You don't want them right, Pete.
[00:03:48] Right.
[00:03:48] And the name of the company was what?
[00:03:50] I've never told you and I'm not going to tell you.
[00:03:52] Why not?
[00:03:55] Because...
[00:03:55] Why would I?
[00:03:57] For the publicity.
[00:03:59] I don't need the publicity.
[00:04:00] I got the...
[00:04:01] I got my clients.
[00:04:02] Right.
[00:04:02] Don't you want more?
[00:04:04] No, I got...
[00:04:05] Do you want to turn your business over to your sons?
[00:04:07] I like $1,500 every three days, Pete.
[00:04:11] Okay.
[00:04:11] So that's not worrying about me.
[00:04:13] But every three days, even in the wintertime?
[00:04:16] Yes, sir.
[00:04:17] Really?
[00:04:17] Because I do other things in the landscape.
[00:04:19] What do you do besides landscaping?
[00:04:22] I finish kitchens.
[00:04:23] You finish kitchens.
[00:04:25] Do you finish kitchens for black clients?
[00:04:29] Oh, no.
[00:04:29] I don't go in their houses.
[00:04:30] You don't go in their houses either?
[00:04:32] No, sir.
[00:04:33] Why not?
[00:04:33] Are you afraid it's going to get on you or something?
[00:04:36] Yes, sir.
[00:04:37] Really?
[00:04:37] I don't want that smell on me.
[00:04:39] That what?
[00:04:40] I don't want that on me.
[00:04:42] You think it's going to...
[00:04:43] You think like you'll turn black or something?
[00:04:46] No, not that.
[00:04:47] I just don't want it.
[00:04:48] I can't...
[00:04:49] I can't...
[00:04:49] It's not right.
[00:04:51] It's not right.
[00:04:52] I'm American.
[00:04:53] You're American.
[00:04:54] So are the...
[00:04:55] So are those black employees.
[00:04:57] January 20th is going to be a new day in America.
[00:05:00] Uh-huh.
[00:05:02] So did you get everything out that you wanted to get?
[00:05:04] Oh, he's gone.
[00:05:06] Yeah.
[00:05:06] See, that's the problem with when you call in and you commit to a bit, Owen,
[00:05:14] you've got to really commit to the bit.
[00:05:17] You didn't.
[00:05:19] Sorry.
[00:05:20] Like, you should have had a name for your landscape company.
[00:05:24] Right?
[00:05:25] That would be commitment to the bit.
[00:05:29] That would be like...
[00:05:31] Oh, I don't know.
[00:05:32] You could have come up with something like, you know...
[00:05:35] What was the name of the landscape...
[00:05:37] Oh, the Four Seasons Landscape Company.
[00:05:42] Remember that?
[00:05:43] That was the landscape company that they did the press conference in front of, Rudy Giuliani,
[00:05:48] in front of the land...
[00:05:48] People thought Four Seasons Hotel, but no, it was a Four Seasons landscaper, landscaping company.
[00:05:54] Something like that.
[00:05:56] Oh, I love it.
[00:05:57] Steve.
[00:05:58] Supremacy scaping.
[00:06:01] Nice.
[00:06:03] Clanscaping.
[00:06:05] Right?
[00:06:06] Owen's clanscaping.
[00:06:07] You could have done that.
[00:06:08] Come on, Owen.
[00:06:10] I expect more.
[00:06:12] If you are a leftist, you guys are supposed to be the most creative people among us.
[00:06:19] I expect more from you guys.
[00:06:22] If you're going to come up with this elaborate, constructed character, and you're going to try to mock conservatives as racist and this and that,
[00:06:32] then I expect commitment to the bit.
[00:06:35] I mean, come on, man.
[00:06:36] Have some integrity.
[00:06:39] Right?
[00:06:39] Take pride in your work.
[00:06:41] I hope your sons are taking more pride in the landscape work than you're taking in that bit.
[00:06:48] My goodness.
[00:06:49] You know what I'm starting to think?
[00:06:50] He doesn't even actually own a landscaping company.
[00:06:53] You know?
[00:06:54] See, people don't know this about me, but I have volunteered in my neighborhood,
[00:07:04] and I am the landscape committee chairman in my neighborhood association.
[00:07:10] I have worked with a lot of landscaping people and companies.
[00:07:17] So I know a little something about those types of operations,
[00:07:21] and I've interviewed small operators, large operators, talked to them, their crews and such.
[00:07:32] And I don't know anybody that would work for you.
[00:07:35] I don't think a lot of people would work for you.
[00:07:38] I know if your story is correct, you're not going to have any employees,
[00:07:41] and you're not even going to be able to keep up with your business.
[00:07:43] Your sons are going to hate you because you fired all of your staff based on their skin color,
[00:07:50] which, by the way, they could then use your call as a piece of evidence at trial
[00:07:57] and take you for all your worth, all your $1,500 every three days.
[00:08:01] He also finishes kitchens, but not for – he doesn't take any – apparently any black line.
[00:08:06] I didn't get to ask him if he does kitchen remodels for any other minority groups.
[00:08:15] I wonder how he would do that.
[00:08:16] Does he show up?
[00:08:17] Does he take the – like what happens if – oh, gosh, I missed this opportunity.
[00:08:22] What about a biracial couple?
[00:08:24] If you went to the biracial couple's house, like let's say the white person called,
[00:08:29] booked the appointment, you show up, and then, oh, oh, my gosh.
[00:08:32] Do you say, like, I can't do this work?
[00:08:36] Sorry, I can't be – or do you just quote them a price that's so high that they won't use your service?
[00:08:41] Is that how you get around that?
[00:08:43] Yeah.
[00:08:43] By the way, I'm – oh, they're nice.
[00:08:47] KKK kitchens or kitchen sink.
[00:08:55] Yeah, in case it's not obvious, I don't believe Owen in any of – I don't believe that was his name,
[00:09:02] and I don't believe that he owns a landscape company, and I don't believe anything that he said.
[00:09:08] He sounds like a guy that has called before, and these are caricatures that he does,
[00:09:12] of what he thinks right-wingers sound like and what right-wingers believe.
[00:09:16] He thinks he has his pulse on what conservatives believe.
[00:09:21] Conservatives, who I might add, nominated Mark Robinson for the lieutenant governor and the governor post,
[00:09:29] that's who he thinks he's channeling right there.
[00:09:33] So, it is always interesting, and this is why I didn't hang up on him immediately,
[00:09:38] is because I want to provide a window into that mindset of what a lefty thinks a right-winger sounds like.
[00:09:52] That's what a left-winger thinks a right-winger would say,
[00:09:56] which actually tells you a lot about them.
[00:10:00] And, to be fair, I did kind of throw out some bait there.
[00:10:04] He didn't take it.
[00:10:05] I threw out some bait about Hispanic workers,
[00:10:08] because I was curious to see what kind of racist rantings were in his heart and mind
[00:10:14] that he could just let flow with that.
[00:10:17] I'm kind of curious about that, too.
[00:10:19] But he didn't take that bait, unfortunately.
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[00:11:25] It's a Pete mail from Scott who says,
[00:11:29] Pete, it is so nice of you to help the starving actors in the area.
[00:11:35] Yeah, Owen, I don't know if that's his name that he used the last time,
[00:11:39] but he has called before.
[00:11:40] And, again, it's an interesting window into the mindset of a leftist
[00:11:46] who will swear up and down that he's not racist,
[00:11:50] yet somehow or another is able to conjure up all of these thoughts of a racist.
[00:11:57] It's always interesting.
[00:11:59] It's like when leftists accuse a straight guy in an argument of being gay.
[00:12:07] You know, maybe you harbor some gay tendencies.
[00:12:10] Like, what would be wrong with that?
[00:12:13] Right?
[00:12:14] Or are you saying that as a slur?
[00:12:16] Why would you use that as a slur?
[00:12:17] Why is that a bad thing?
[00:12:18] Why?
[00:12:19] That doesn't make sense.
[00:12:23] Ah, this would do it.
[00:12:25] Yeah, Jan says for a biracial couple,
[00:12:26] he would only do half the job.
[00:12:30] That's stupid.
[00:12:33] Oh, here's a good one.
[00:12:34] David, a quick thought on racism.
[00:12:37] It occurred to me a couple of days ago
[00:12:39] that if somebody really wants to know where Americans stand on racism,
[00:12:43] all they need to consider
[00:12:45] is that a large portion of the country
[00:12:47] was rooting for a 58-year-old black man
[00:12:51] to knock out a 27-year-old white man on a national stage.
[00:12:58] Right?
[00:12:59] That's true.
[00:13:01] And a guy with all of Mike Tyson's baggage,
[00:13:03] no less, right?
[00:13:07] Like, I wanted to see Tyson win that fight.
[00:13:11] And then, well, first I wanted him not to get hurt, you know?
[00:13:14] And then when he came out, he was doing pretty well,
[00:13:16] and I was like, man, I hope he wins this thing.
[00:13:19] That'd be really cool.
[00:13:20] And then it was after the second round,
[00:13:22] I was like, oh, gosh,
[00:13:23] I'm back to hoping he just doesn't get killed.
[00:13:25] So.
[00:13:29] A couple of Pete tweets.
[00:13:32] Jonathan says,
[00:13:33] Pete, I need you to run the tape back on that idiot caller
[00:13:36] and listen to his GPS closely
[00:13:39] to see if we can triangulate where he's at.
[00:13:42] I heard it several times in the background
[00:13:44] while he was spewing his ignorance.
[00:13:50] And Icky Fu says,
[00:13:53] the left can't meme.
[00:13:55] That's so true.
[00:13:56] That is so true.
[00:13:59] By the way, in case you are unaware,
[00:14:01] a meme, online memes, right?
[00:14:02] The gifs and the pictures and the mockery,
[00:14:05] like Pepe the Frog,
[00:14:07] the NPC head guy,
[00:14:08] all of that stuff.
[00:14:09] All right.
[00:14:10] These are memes.
[00:14:10] And the left,
[00:14:12] and this is,
[00:14:14] it is,
[00:14:15] I think it is,
[00:14:15] it is representative of a larger cultural shift.
[00:14:19] I remember like 15 years ago,
[00:14:23] the common narrative was that,
[00:14:25] you know,
[00:14:26] there's nobody funny or creative on the right
[00:14:29] because all the creativity is on the left
[00:14:32] and all the comedy is on the left
[00:14:34] and they're the tastemakers.
[00:14:35] They're the cultural magnates.
[00:14:38] They push the culture.
[00:14:39] They push the envelope.
[00:14:41] They,
[00:14:41] right.
[00:14:41] They are the creative force in America
[00:14:43] because the right doesn't think like that
[00:14:46] because the right is just a bunch of,
[00:14:48] you know,
[00:14:48] old racist white scolds.
[00:14:52] Fast forward now.
[00:14:53] And have you seen the videos going around
[00:14:55] of all these people doing the Trump dance?
[00:14:58] You know,
[00:14:58] that little hand thing that he does.
[00:15:00] And he did like,
[00:15:01] it's all over the place.
[00:15:03] Like,
[00:15:04] and the people now that have kind of,
[00:15:07] I don't know,
[00:15:08] attach themselves to his orbit.
[00:15:11] I saw an interview with Peter Thiel
[00:15:13] the other day where he talks about sort of like,
[00:15:16] this is like the Star Wars resistance,
[00:15:18] like a bunch of oddballs that all are,
[00:15:21] you know,
[00:15:21] thrown together,
[00:15:22] going against the Imperial authority.
[00:15:26] Like,
[00:15:27] that's what,
[00:15:27] that's what this shift has occurred.
[00:15:29] And the left,
[00:15:31] they're not good at making these memes
[00:15:33] and these jokes because they're so worried
[00:15:36] about any kind of offense taken
[00:15:38] and,
[00:15:38] you know,
[00:15:39] all of this other stuff.
[00:15:39] And they just turned into scolds.
[00:15:42] They're authoritarian scolds.
[00:15:44] They're not cool.
[00:15:45] They've lost the cool factor.
[00:15:48] Right?
[00:15:49] I mean,
[00:15:50] you want another example?
[00:15:52] Our bumper music
[00:15:53] on this station
[00:15:56] is superior
[00:15:57] to whatever garbage
[00:15:59] they're pumping out
[00:16:00] over on the public radio station
[00:16:02] for their bump tunes.
[00:16:04] You get the Tibetan throat callers
[00:16:06] over there
[00:16:06] and here you got,
[00:16:07] you know,
[00:16:08] rock and roll.
[00:16:10] They've lost cool.
[00:16:12] I don't know if they'll get it back.
[00:16:14] All right.
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[00:16:45] Alrighty.
[00:16:46] So,
[00:16:46] uh,
[00:16:47] it may be the end of the world,
[00:16:48] but I feel fine.
[00:16:49] Um,
[00:16:50] Russia launched
[00:16:51] a new intermediate range
[00:16:53] ballistic missile
[00:16:54] yesterday towards
[00:16:56] Dnipro
[00:16:57] in Ukraine.
[00:16:59] An attack that officials
[00:17:01] in Kyiv initially said
[00:17:02] was an intercontinental
[00:17:03] ballistic missile,
[00:17:04] but it turned out
[00:17:05] it was not
[00:17:06] an intercontinental
[00:17:07] ballistic missile.
[00:17:09] It was an experimental
[00:17:12] IRBM.
[00:17:14] An IRBM,
[00:17:16] an intermediate range
[00:17:17] ballistic missile,
[00:17:18] an IRBM.
[00:17:20] So we can all feel better
[00:17:21] about that,
[00:17:22] right?
[00:17:22] Well,
[00:17:23] no,
[00:17:23] not really
[00:17:23] because the IRBM
[00:17:25] also can be equipped
[00:17:27] with nukes
[00:17:28] like the ICBM.
[00:17:30] A U.S.
[00:17:32] official told
[00:17:32] ABC News
[00:17:33] that the United States
[00:17:34] had briefed Ukraine
[00:17:35] and other close allies
[00:17:36] and partners
[00:17:37] in recent days
[00:17:38] on Russia's possible
[00:17:39] use of such a weapon
[00:17:40] in order to help
[00:17:41] them prepare.
[00:17:42] According to the official,
[00:17:43] Russia likely only
[00:17:45] possesses just a handful
[00:17:46] of these experimental
[00:17:47] missiles.
[00:17:49] The launch,
[00:17:50] though,
[00:17:50] raises the prospect
[00:17:51] of nukes.
[00:17:55] Russian President
[00:17:56] Vladimir Putin
[00:17:57] in remarks Thursday
[00:17:59] following the missile launch
[00:18:01] said Russia has the right
[00:18:02] to use its weapons
[00:18:03] against the military
[00:18:04] facilities of countries
[00:18:06] employing their weapons
[00:18:07] against Russia.
[00:18:08] In other words,
[00:18:09] us.
[00:18:10] Us.
[00:18:13] Quote,
[00:18:14] We consider ourselves
[00:18:15] entitled to use
[00:18:17] our weapons
[00:18:18] against military
[00:18:19] objects
[00:18:20] of those countries
[00:18:21] that allow
[00:18:22] to use their own
[00:18:24] weapons
[00:18:24] against our
[00:18:25] objects.
[00:18:27] in the event
[00:18:28] of an escalation
[00:18:29] of aggressive
[00:18:29] actions,
[00:18:30] we will respond
[00:18:31] decisively
[00:18:32] and in a mirror
[00:18:33] manner.
[00:18:34] What is this about?
[00:18:36] Well,
[00:18:37] Joe Biden
[00:18:37] on his way out
[00:18:38] the door,
[00:18:39] not only
[00:18:40] is he quietly
[00:18:42] rushing to implement
[00:18:43] new policies
[00:18:44] to loosen
[00:18:44] restrictions
[00:18:45] on migrants
[00:18:46] entering the U.S.
[00:18:47] illegally,
[00:18:48] you know,
[00:18:49] in an attempt
[00:18:49] to make the problem
[00:18:51] way worse
[00:18:52] for when Trump
[00:18:53] gets in,
[00:18:53] but he also
[00:18:55] gave the green light
[00:18:56] for Ukraine
[00:18:57] to use
[00:18:58] our weaponry
[00:19:00] that we gave him,
[00:19:01] we gave Ukraine,
[00:19:03] against Russian
[00:19:04] targets
[00:19:05] inside Russia.
[00:19:06] And Russia
[00:19:07] was like,
[00:19:08] well,
[00:19:08] if you're going
[00:19:08] to allow that,
[00:19:09] then that means
[00:19:10] we can start
[00:19:11] hitting your stuff.
[00:19:13] We can start
[00:19:14] hitting NATO
[00:19:14] targets.
[00:19:16] The Kremlin
[00:19:17] announced earlier
[00:19:18] this week
[00:19:18] that Putin
[00:19:19] had updated
[00:19:20] the country's
[00:19:20] nuclear doctrine,
[00:19:22] a move
[00:19:23] that lowered
[00:19:23] the bar
[00:19:23] for Russia
[00:19:24] to respond
[00:19:25] with nuclear
[00:19:26] weapons.
[00:19:27] What could
[00:19:28] go wrong?
[00:19:30] So,
[00:19:31] I came across
[00:19:31] this video
[00:19:32] the other day
[00:19:33] from Jeffrey Sachs.
[00:19:35] He is
[00:19:35] world-renowned
[00:19:37] economics professor,
[00:19:38] best-selling author,
[00:19:39] innovative educator,
[00:19:40] global leader
[00:19:40] in sustainable
[00:19:41] development.
[00:19:42] He does not
[00:19:43] strike me
[00:19:43] as a right-winger,
[00:19:44] but listen
[00:19:45] to his rundown
[00:19:46] of how the U.S.
[00:19:48] and NATO
[00:19:49] might have,
[00:19:50] maybe,
[00:19:51] just a smidge
[00:19:54] provoked
[00:19:55] this war
[00:19:56] in Ukraine.
[00:19:57] Let me
[00:19:58] just explain
[00:20:00] in two minutes
[00:20:01] the Ukraine war.
[00:20:02] This is not
[00:20:03] an attack
[00:20:04] by Putin
[00:20:05] on Ukraine
[00:20:07] in the way
[00:20:07] that we are
[00:20:08] told every day.
[00:20:10] This started
[00:20:11] in 1990.
[00:20:13] James Baker,
[00:20:14] the third,
[00:20:15] our secretary
[00:20:16] of state,
[00:20:16] said to
[00:20:17] Mikhail Gorbachev,
[00:20:18] NATO will not
[00:20:20] move one inch
[00:20:21] eastward
[00:20:22] if you
[00:20:24] agree to
[00:20:25] German
[00:20:26] unification.
[00:20:27] The U.S.
[00:20:28] then cheated
[00:20:29] on this
[00:20:29] already starting
[00:20:31] in 1994
[00:20:32] when Clinton
[00:20:33] signed off
[00:20:34] on a plan
[00:20:35] to expand
[00:20:36] NATO
[00:20:37] all the way
[00:20:38] to Ukraine.
[00:20:39] This is when
[00:20:39] the so-called
[00:20:40] neocons
[00:20:41] took power.
[00:20:43] The expansion
[00:20:44] of NATO
[00:20:44] started in
[00:20:45] 1999
[00:20:46] with Poland,
[00:20:47] Hungary,
[00:20:47] and Czech Republic.
[00:20:48] Then
[00:20:49] the U.S.
[00:20:51] led the
[00:20:52] bombing of
[00:20:52] Serbia
[00:20:53] in 1999.
[00:20:55] That was
[00:20:55] a use
[00:20:56] of NATO
[00:20:57] to bomb
[00:20:58] a European
[00:20:59] capital,
[00:21:00] Belgrade,
[00:21:01] 78 straight
[00:21:02] days
[00:21:03] to break
[00:21:04] the country
[00:21:04] apart.
[00:21:05] The Russians
[00:21:06] didn't like
[00:21:07] that very much.
[00:21:08] But even
[00:21:09] Putin started
[00:21:10] out
[00:21:10] pro-European,
[00:21:12] pro-American
[00:21:13] actually,
[00:21:14] asked maybe
[00:21:15] we should
[00:21:15] join NATO
[00:21:16] when there
[00:21:17] was still
[00:21:17] the idea
[00:21:18] of some
[00:21:18] kind of
[00:21:19] mutually
[00:21:19] respectful
[00:21:20] relationship.
[00:21:21] 9-11 came,
[00:21:23] then came
[00:21:25] Afghanistan,
[00:21:25] and the
[00:21:26] Russians said,
[00:21:27] yeah,
[00:21:27] we'll support
[00:21:28] you,
[00:21:28] we understand,
[00:21:29] to root out
[00:21:29] terror.
[00:21:30] In 2002,
[00:21:32] the United States
[00:21:33] unilaterally
[00:21:33] walked out
[00:21:34] of the
[00:21:34] anti-ballistic
[00:21:35] missile treaty.
[00:21:36] What it did
[00:21:37] was trigger
[00:21:38] the U.S.
[00:21:39] putting in
[00:21:40] missile systems
[00:21:41] in Eastern
[00:21:43] Europe
[00:21:43] that Russia
[00:21:44] views as a
[00:21:45] dire,
[00:21:46] direct threat
[00:21:47] to national
[00:21:48] security
[00:21:48] by making
[00:21:49] possible a
[00:21:50] decapitation
[00:21:51] strike of
[00:21:52] missiles that
[00:21:53] are a few
[00:21:53] minutes away
[00:21:54] from Moscow.
[00:21:55] In 2004-5,
[00:21:59] we engaged
[00:22:00] in a soft
[00:22:01] regime change
[00:22:02] operation in
[00:22:03] Ukraine,
[00:22:03] the so-called
[00:22:05] first color
[00:22:06] revolution.
[00:22:07] But in
[00:22:08] 2009,
[00:22:10] Yanukovych
[00:22:10] won the
[00:22:11] election,
[00:22:12] and he
[00:22:12] became
[00:22:12] president
[00:22:13] in 2010
[00:22:14] on the
[00:22:15] basis of
[00:22:15] neutrality
[00:22:16] for Ukraine.
[00:22:17] So,
[00:22:18] in February
[00:22:18] 22nd,
[00:22:20] 2014,
[00:22:21] the United
[00:22:21] States
[00:22:22] participated
[00:22:23] actively in
[00:22:24] the overthrow
[00:22:24] of Yanukovych.
[00:22:26] They intercepted
[00:22:27] a really
[00:22:28] ugly call
[00:22:29] between
[00:22:29] Victoria Nuland
[00:22:30] and the
[00:22:32] U.S.
[00:22:32] ambassador
[00:22:33] to Ukraine,
[00:22:34] Jeffrey Piot,
[00:22:35] who was a
[00:22:35] senior State
[00:22:36] Department
[00:22:37] official till
[00:22:37] today.
[00:22:38] And they
[00:22:39] talked about
[00:22:40] regime change.
[00:22:41] So they
[00:22:42] made the
[00:22:42] new government.
[00:22:43] The U.S.
[00:22:44] then said,
[00:22:45] okay,
[00:22:46] now NATO's
[00:22:47] really going to
[00:22:47] enlarge.
[00:22:48] And Putin
[00:22:48] kept saying,
[00:22:49] stop,
[00:22:50] you promised
[00:22:50] no NATO
[00:22:51] enlargement.
[00:22:52] Estonia,
[00:22:53] Latvia,
[00:22:54] Lithuania,
[00:22:54] Bulgaria,
[00:22:55] Romania,
[00:22:56] Slovakia,
[00:22:57] Slovenia,
[00:22:58] seven more
[00:22:59] countries in
[00:23:00] the not one
[00:23:01] inch eastward.
[00:23:02] On December
[00:23:03] 15,
[00:23:04] 2021,
[00:23:05] Putin put
[00:23:06] on the
[00:23:06] table a
[00:23:07] draft
[00:23:08] Russia-U.S.
[00:23:10] security
[00:23:10] agreement.
[00:23:11] The basis
[00:23:13] of it is
[00:23:14] no NATO
[00:23:15] enlargement.
[00:23:16] The special
[00:23:17] military operation
[00:23:18] started,
[00:23:19] and five
[00:23:20] days later,
[00:23:20] Zelensky says,
[00:23:21] okay,
[00:23:22] okay,
[00:23:22] neutrality.
[00:23:23] And then
[00:23:24] the United
[00:23:24] States and
[00:23:25] Britain said,
[00:23:26] no way.
[00:23:28] You guys
[00:23:29] fight on.
[00:23:30] We got
[00:23:31] your back.
[00:23:32] We don't
[00:23:32] have your
[00:23:33] front.
[00:23:33] You're all
[00:23:34] going to
[00:23:34] die.
[00:23:34] But we
[00:23:35] got your
[00:23:35] back.
[00:23:36] That's
[00:23:37] 600,000
[00:23:39] deaths
[00:23:39] now of
[00:23:40] Ukrainians
[00:23:41] since
[00:23:42] Boris Johnson
[00:23:43] flew to
[00:23:44] Kiev to
[00:23:45] tell them
[00:23:45] to be
[00:23:45] brave.
[00:23:47] Absolutely
[00:23:47] ghastly.
[00:23:48] We have
[00:23:49] to understand
[00:23:50] we're not
[00:23:51] dealing with,
[00:23:52] as we're
[00:23:52] told every
[00:23:53] day,
[00:23:54] with this
[00:23:55] madman like
[00:23:56] Hitler.
[00:23:57] This is
[00:23:57] complete
[00:23:58] bogus,
[00:23:59] fake history
[00:24:00] that is a
[00:24:02] purely PR
[00:24:03] narrative of
[00:24:04] the U.S.
[00:24:05] government.
[00:24:05] We're playing
[00:24:06] games here.
[00:24:08] So,
[00:24:09] God forbid,
[00:24:10] a nuclear
[00:24:11] power comes
[00:24:12] at us.
[00:24:13] I don't know
[00:24:14] what's going to
[00:24:14] happen.
[00:24:15] But we came
[00:24:16] at them.
[00:24:19] Again,
[00:24:20] that's Jeffrey
[00:24:21] Sachs.
[00:24:22] He is a,
[00:24:24] according to
[00:24:24] his bio
[00:24:26] on his own
[00:24:26] website,
[00:24:27] widely
[00:24:27] recognized for
[00:24:28] bold and
[00:24:29] effective
[00:24:29] strategies to
[00:24:30] address complex
[00:24:30] challenges,
[00:24:31] including the
[00:24:32] escape from
[00:24:33] extreme poverty,
[00:24:34] the global
[00:24:34] battle against
[00:24:35] human-induced
[00:24:36] climate change,
[00:24:37] international debt
[00:24:38] and financial
[00:24:38] crises,
[00:24:40] national economic
[00:24:40] reforms,
[00:24:41] and the
[00:24:42] control of
[00:24:43] pandemic and
[00:24:44] epidemic
[00:24:44] diseases.
[00:24:46] Hardly a
[00:24:47] right-winger.
[00:24:50] Is there
[00:24:51] not a
[00:24:51] measure of
[00:24:52] irony in
[00:24:52] the Russian
[00:24:53] complaint of
[00:24:53] Ukrainians
[00:24:54] flinging
[00:24:54] U.S.-made
[00:24:55] missiles into
[00:24:56] Russia,
[00:24:56] while the
[00:24:57] Russians happily
[00:24:57] fling
[00:24:58] North Korean
[00:24:59] drones full
[00:25:00] of U.S.-made
[00:25:01] components into
[00:25:01] Ukraine?
[00:25:04] Yeah.
[00:25:06] It's just a
[00:25:07] mess.
[00:25:08] Kind of like
[00:25:08] our immigration
[00:25:09] system.
[00:25:11] The Big
[00:25:11] Apple is going
[00:25:12] to be ground
[00:25:12] zero for a
[00:25:13] bunch of
[00:25:13] changes that
[00:25:15] the Biden
[00:25:15] administration
[00:25:16] is quietly
[00:25:17] rushing to
[00:25:18] implement before
[00:25:19] Donald Trump
[00:25:20] comes into
[00:25:21] office.
[00:25:22] The outgoing
[00:25:23] administration,
[00:25:24] according to the
[00:25:24] New York Post,
[00:25:25] intends to
[00:25:26] launch an
[00:25:26] ICE portal
[00:25:27] app.
[00:25:29] Starting in
[00:25:30] early December,
[00:25:31] they're going to
[00:25:32] do it in New
[00:25:32] York City,
[00:25:33] and it will
[00:25:33] allow migrants
[00:25:34] to bypass
[00:25:35] in-person
[00:25:37] check-ins to
[00:25:38] their local
[00:25:38] ICE office.
[00:25:40] Homeland
[00:25:40] security sources
[00:25:41] tell the New
[00:25:42] York Post that
[00:25:43] the app will
[00:25:44] make it easier
[00:25:45] for migrants
[00:25:46] to flee
[00:25:47] authorities,
[00:25:48] in part because
[00:25:49] the software has
[00:25:50] proven to be
[00:25:50] glitchy and
[00:25:51] unreliable.
[00:25:52] even when
[00:25:53] it's working
[00:25:54] correctly.
[00:25:55] Did they get
[00:25:56] the same
[00:25:56] people who
[00:25:57] built the
[00:25:57] Obamacare
[00:25:58] website to
[00:25:59] do this
[00:25:59] app?
[00:26:00] That's
[00:26:00] possible.
[00:26:01] Even when
[00:26:02] the app is
[00:26:03] working
[00:26:03] correctly,
[00:26:04] it does
[00:26:04] not check
[00:26:05] for past
[00:26:07] arrests or
[00:26:08] outstanding
[00:26:09] warrants,
[00:26:10] something that
[00:26:11] the current
[00:26:11] system,
[00:26:12] tied to
[00:26:12] in-person
[00:26:13] appointments,
[00:26:14] does.
[00:26:15] Up to
[00:26:16] 100,000
[00:26:17] migrants will
[00:26:18] be enrolled
[00:26:19] in the
[00:26:20] first wave
[00:26:21] of the
[00:26:21] program.
[00:26:24] And by
[00:26:24] the way,
[00:26:25] the strategy
[00:26:26] here is that
[00:26:26] you implement
[00:26:27] a bunch of
[00:26:28] this stuff,
[00:26:29] Trump comes
[00:26:30] in, tries to
[00:26:30] roll it
[00:26:31] back, you
[00:26:31] file a bunch
[00:26:32] of lawsuits,
[00:26:33] it gums up
[00:26:34] the whole
[00:26:34] works, and
[00:26:35] then he
[00:26:36] can't do
[00:26:37] stuff.
[00:26:38] That's the
[00:26:39] strategy.
[00:26:39] That's the
[00:26:40] plan.
[00:26:41] Former
[00:26:41] Acting
[00:26:42] Customs and
[00:26:42] Border Protection
[00:26:43] Commissioner
[00:26:43] Mark Morgan
[00:26:44] called it
[00:26:45] an
[00:26:46] obstructionist
[00:26:47] transition,
[00:26:48] the opposite
[00:26:48] of a peaceful
[00:26:49] transition of
[00:26:50] power.
[00:26:50] What they're
[00:26:51] trying to
[00:26:51] do in the
[00:26:52] last final
[00:26:53] day, he
[00:26:53] says,
[00:26:54] they're going
[00:26:54] to try to
[00:26:54] put up as
[00:26:55] many road
[00:26:55] blocks and
[00:26:56] obstacles and
[00:26:57] throw as
[00:26:57] many grenades
[00:26:57] as they can
[00:26:58] on their
[00:26:58] way out.
[00:27:00] In the
[00:27:00] New York City
[00:27:01] field office,
[00:27:02] where the
[00:27:02] app will
[00:27:03] launch,
[00:27:04] ICE is
[00:27:04] already
[00:27:05] overwhelmed
[00:27:05] by the
[00:27:06] number of
[00:27:07] illegal
[00:27:07] migrants
[00:27:08] roaming the
[00:27:08] streets.
[00:27:09] police.
[00:27:09] I have an
[00:27:10] idea here.
[00:27:12] I suggest
[00:27:13] we send
[00:27:13] them to
[00:27:13] Denver because
[00:27:14] the mayor
[00:27:15] there says
[00:27:15] he's going
[00:27:16] to get
[00:27:16] the cops
[00:27:17] and the
[00:27:17] citizens
[00:27:18] to try
[00:27:20] to block
[00:27:20] any kind
[00:27:21] of
[00:27:23] militarized
[00:27:25] operation
[00:27:26] to deport
[00:27:27] illegal
[00:27:28] criminal
[00:27:29] aliens.
[00:27:29] the
[00:27:30] Biden
[00:27:31] administration
[00:27:31] is rolling
[00:27:32] out the
[00:27:33] app despite
[00:27:33] extreme
[00:27:34] issues with
[00:27:35] it during
[00:27:36] its pilot
[00:27:36] program that
[00:27:38] they have
[00:27:38] tested in
[00:27:39] several cities.
[00:27:40] You know,
[00:27:41] close enough
[00:27:41] for government
[00:27:42] work.
[00:27:43] the app
[00:27:44] has not
[00:27:44] worked on
[00:27:45] Android phones.
[00:27:46] That seems
[00:27:47] like a pretty
[00:27:47] big loophole.
[00:27:48] And when it
[00:27:49] is used
[00:27:50] on laptops
[00:27:51] for check-ins,
[00:27:52] it does not
[00:27:53] collect the
[00:27:54] GPS location
[00:27:55] of the
[00:27:56] person,
[00:27:56] meaning that
[00:27:57] they could be
[00:27:58] reporting in
[00:27:59] from literally
[00:28:00] anywhere.
[00:28:02] When they
[00:28:03] use it on
[00:28:04] a phone,
[00:28:04] the app
[00:28:05] only shares
[00:28:05] the location
[00:28:06] of the
[00:28:06] subject
[00:28:07] for one
[00:28:08] week.
[00:28:09] That
[00:28:10] contrasts
[00:28:11] with the
[00:28:11] current system
[00:28:12] where
[00:28:12] migrants
[00:28:12] have to
[00:28:13] provide
[00:28:13] proof
[00:28:13] of
[00:28:14] their
[00:28:14] current
[00:28:14] address.
[00:28:15] The
[00:28:15] database
[00:28:16] also
[00:28:16] constantly
[00:28:17] searches
[00:28:17] for
[00:28:17] arrest
[00:28:18] records
[00:28:18] for
[00:28:18] migrants
[00:28:19] anywhere
[00:28:19] in
[00:28:19] the
[00:28:19] country,
[00:28:20] even if
[00:28:21] they fail
[00:28:21] to show
[00:28:22] up for
[00:28:22] their
[00:28:22] appointments,
[00:28:23] and then
[00:28:23] that flags
[00:28:24] the ICE
[00:28:24] officers.
[00:28:25] That's
[00:28:25] the
[00:28:26] current
[00:28:26] system.
[00:28:27] The
[00:28:27] app
[00:28:27] doesn't
[00:28:28] do
[00:28:28] that
[00:28:28] either.
[00:28:29] The
[00:28:30] app
[00:28:30] and the
[00:28:31] current
[00:28:31] migrant
[00:28:31] tracking
[00:28:32] database
[00:28:32] do not
[00:28:33] speak
[00:28:33] to each
[00:28:34] other,
[00:28:34] making
[00:28:35] it
[00:28:35] harder
[00:28:35] for ICE
[00:28:36] to keep
[00:28:36] track
[00:28:37] of
[00:28:37] migrant
[00:28:38] criminals.
[00:28:39] New
[00:28:40] York
[00:28:40] Post
[00:28:40] says,
[00:28:42] migrants
[00:28:43] will
[00:28:44] also
[00:28:44] be
[00:28:44] allowed
[00:28:45] to
[00:28:45] request
[00:28:46] a
[00:28:46] review
[00:28:47] at
[00:28:47] any
[00:28:47] time
[00:28:48] and
[00:28:48] demand
[00:28:49] that
[00:28:50] they
[00:28:51] be
[00:28:51] either
[00:28:52] downgraded
[00:28:53] or
[00:28:53] terminated
[00:28:53] entirely
[00:28:54] from
[00:28:54] the
[00:28:55] program.
[00:28:56] And
[00:28:56] then
[00:28:56] that
[00:28:57] gives
[00:28:57] the
[00:28:57] illegal
[00:28:58] alien
[00:28:58] the
[00:28:58] ability
[00:28:58] to
[00:28:59] get
[00:28:59] out
[00:28:59] of
[00:28:59] the
[00:29:00] program
[00:29:00] entirely.
[00:29:03] Another
[00:29:04] source
[00:29:04] said
[00:29:05] that
[00:29:05] they
[00:29:05] can
[00:29:05] ask
[00:29:05] to
[00:29:06] be
[00:29:06] de-escalated
[00:29:07] from
[00:29:07] monitoring
[00:29:07] if
[00:29:08] they
[00:29:08] are
[00:29:08] compliant
[00:29:09] in
[00:29:09] the
[00:29:09] program
[00:29:10] and
[00:29:10] if
[00:29:11] they
[00:29:11] get
[00:29:11] rejected
[00:29:12] then
[00:29:12] they
[00:29:12] can
[00:29:12] take
[00:29:13] them
[00:29:13] through
[00:29:13] a
[00:29:13] lengthy
[00:29:13] appeals
[00:29:14] process
[00:29:14] and
[00:29:15] so
[00:29:15] what
[00:29:15] ISO
[00:29:15] officers
[00:29:16] will
[00:29:16] just
[00:29:16] do
[00:29:17] is
[00:29:17] just
[00:29:18] approve
[00:29:18] them
[00:29:18] for
[00:29:18] de-escalation
[00:29:19] just
[00:29:19] why bother
[00:29:20] doing
[00:29:20] all the
[00:29:20] paperwork
[00:29:21] and dragging
[00:29:22] it out
[00:29:22] so they'll
[00:29:23] just
[00:29:23] approve
[00:29:23] you.
[00:29:25] this is
[00:29:25] one of
[00:29:25] the
[00:29:25] grenades
[00:29:26] left
[00:29:26] under
[00:29:26] the
[00:29:26] table
[00:29:27] by
[00:29:27] the
[00:29:27] Biden
[00:29:27] administration
[00:29:28] for
[00:29:28] Trump
[00:29:28] all
[00:29:29] right
[00:29:29] that'll
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