Transcript/1109: January 4. 2026

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Yes they do like it.

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We are where Washington is.

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We are who we are.

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This is Chinese culture and we will love you, it's easy.

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Now Erica why does it matter to your poor Indeed story and question why it's the opposed

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family is Dock, slow down the paragraphs always uh.

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as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.

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Knowledge fight.

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Dan and George.

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Knowledge fight.

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Riddle Earth.

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Riddle Earth.

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Riddle Earth.

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I need, I need money.

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Riddle Earth.

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Riddle Earth.

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Riddle Earth.

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Andy and Chansles.

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Andy and Chansles.

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Stop it.

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Andy and Chansles.

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Andy and Chansles.

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It's time to pray.

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Andy and Chansles, you're on the air.

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Thanks for holding us.

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Hello Alex, I'm a first time caller.

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I'm a huge fan.

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I love your room.

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Knowledge fight.

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Knowledge fight.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Knowledge fight.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Knowledge fight dot com.

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I love you.

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Hey everybody, welcome back to Knowledge Fight.

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I'm Dan.

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I'm Jordan.

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We're a couple dudes, like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene and talk a

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little bit about Alex Jones.

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Oh indeed we are, Dan.

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Jordan.

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Dan.

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Jordan.

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Quick question for you.

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What's up?

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What's your bright spot today buddy?

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Well, it is January so as a tradition you go first.

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Oh that's true.

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I guess my bright spot is today I would say for the first time in a while I finally feel

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like I'm over the sickness.

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That's great.

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Like I've kind of still got a little bit in my throat.

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I got a little bit in the back of my head but I was doing my full exercise this morning

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and I didn't suddenly go, so that was great.

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I feel back at it.

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So you're basically the reverse of ooh-ah-ah-ah.

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I am now ow-ooh-ooh-ooh.

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Right.

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Yep.

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Congratulations on being ooh-ah-ooh-ooh.

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Auk-auk.

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Auk-auk indeed.

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Up with the health.

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Yeah, I'm feeling, yeah, no, I feel good.

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I took my little bandage off my tattoo finally.

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Got to watch that.

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Have you shown the good people of America the tattoo?

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No.

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Because I know that some people had wanted to see it.

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No, I don't do social media.

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Yeah, I know, but some people wanted to see it.

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I mean do you want to show people?

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I don't know, it's your body.

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It is my body and my choice.

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I know that some people online are like I want to get a look at that piece.

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You talk so highly of this artist and you're the tat guy.

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We'll figure something out.

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Okay, I mean eventually I feel like someone wants to see it.

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We'll figure that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, alright.

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Alright.

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Cool.

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Well I'm glad you're feeling better.

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What do you got with your Haribos?

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Well it is January so as is tradition we're going to have to consult this Haribo advent

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calendar.

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Here we go.

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Dan eats the bear.

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Thank you so much to Zachary for that.

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Oh, I apologize.

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This is from the band Murmatron.

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I like it.

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So thank you so much Murmatron.

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Good work Murmatron, I appreciate that.

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Direct to the point.

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And I eat the bear.

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You do eat the bear.

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Unfortunately too many of these are bears.

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Just bears.

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So we're going to the 16th.

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Alright.

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Oh.

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Here we go, what do we got?

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It looks different.

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Does it?

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It is a, oh it looks like a now and later kind of thing.

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Can they do that?

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Or a Laffy Taffy.

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It's a gummy Laffy Taffy?

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It's Maowam.

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Maowam?

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M A O A M. I noticed that some of these things are labeled that as like a brand.

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It might be an offshoot brand of Haribo.

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This looks like a happy raspberry.

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Interesting.

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Is there a joke?

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Oh, I gotcha.

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Here you go.

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Oh wow.

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Look at you Mr. Fantastic.

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I'm quick, I'm quick.

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Bendy.

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I don't see a joke.

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But I'm going to open this up and try it and here's the part with your vamp.

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My vamp today is going to be about the traders.

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Now obviously there's the main traders, the US traders starring the great Alan Cummings,

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who's fucking killing it of course.

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But also concurrently there is the UK traders with just regular ass people.

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Hosted by a woman who is famous in Britain for being a raven or something.

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And I was thinking about the difference between the two of them.

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The great part of the traders in the UK, the real people traders, is that they don't know

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what they're allowed to do.

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They don't understand that there's no real rules yet.

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The people on the US traders, so many of them have their self-created personas is kind of

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their job.

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Like, who am I?

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I'm the person who does this.

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This is what I do.

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They've played other reality TV shows so they kind of understand what producers are going

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to, like what lines are going to be.

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Like you can't cross this line.

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They're aware of editing.

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And these people are just baby birds.

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Just baby birds and some of them are there to play the game, but they are not really

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aware of the reality TV game around the game.

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They're not really aware of the like, well maybe I want to be back on season 20 of the

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traders.

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Where's all these...

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I'm going to launch a brand or I'm going to continue my brand through this appearance.

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Yep.

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All these US people.

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It's a little annoying.

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I know that we were talking about it and you were saying you fucking love this Rap-a-port

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guy though.

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Fuck off.

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You said you were pulling for him?

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The worst dude ever.

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It is so funny whenever you know.

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I knew he was the worst and my wife had no idea.

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She was like, oh he's from movies.

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And I was like, you're... and then he is the worst.

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When I saw that casting decision I was like, this is a mess.

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What are they doing?

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And it lived up to it.

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And it was.

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So that's fine.

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Yep.

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It's different.

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I will give it credit that it is different than all the rest of the gummies and stuff

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that have been in this.

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But it's...

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I don't care.

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Not in its favor but otherwise...

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Faint praise.

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So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.

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And it might be a little bit shorter.

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And that is because today is a monumentous day.

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We gotta go see the Bone Temple.

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We gotta go see the Bone Temple.

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We got tickets to the first screening of the Bone Temple.

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It's a huge day.

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Been waiting for quite a while for this because I love that 28 days later.

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Love that 28 years later.

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Love that Bone Temple.

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We're about to find out how much we love the Bone Temple.

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Yeah.

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I think that it's really critical that this be decent.

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Because I think it could really ruin the first one if it's a mess.

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I really think that it's... but the first one's good enough that I have high hopes.

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So we'll see eventually when we... future episodes.

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Perhaps my vamp will be very heavily focused on the Bone Temple.

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And how wrong I was for having hope.

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But we'll see.

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We'll find out.

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But until we know, let's do an episode.

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And let's start by saying hello to some new wonks.

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That's a great idea.

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So first, Rory Manganis.

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We're proud of your work.

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Don't forget the Shy Pot L sauce.

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Thank you so much, you're now a policy wonk.

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I'm a policy wonk.

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Thank you very much!

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Hello!

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Next, I too find my phone navigation too convenient to not use and it has destroyed my sense of

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direction.

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Thank you so much, you're now a policy wonk.

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I'm a policy wonk.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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And Dan, I saw you.

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You're literally above me waiting for the dollop.

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Like right now.

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Thank you so much, you're now a policy wonk.

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I'm a policy wonk.

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Thank you very much!

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Yep.

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I probably was spotted in the lobby of the... what theater was that?

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The Vic?

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Is it the Vic?

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Yeah, I think so.

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Well, anyway, I was there.

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Yep, we were.

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Thank you for seeing me.

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We also have a technocrat in the mix.

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So thank you so much to Evan and Brent.

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Don't trust Paul.

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Thank you so much, you're now a technocrat.

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I'm a policy wonk.

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Four stars.

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Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.

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Someone, someone sodomized and sent me a bucket of poop.

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Daddy shark!

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Bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp.

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Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.

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He's a loser little, little titty baby.

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I don't want to hate black people.

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I renounce Jesus Christ.

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Thank you so much.

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Yes, thank you very much.

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Also, we can timestamp things a little bit about that sighting because you were also

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there.

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Yes.

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But you showed up late.

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I did.

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So the fact that they didn't say that both of us were there means I was spotted before

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you arrived.

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Right.

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When I was just hanging out with Angela Lampsbury and her partner.

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Or that it is a enjoyable and exciting experience to see you and a let's hope non-talk-about-able

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to see me.

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In any case, I can't imagine.

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So today we're going to be talking about January 4th.

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This is Alex's Sunday show after Trump has taken Maduro.

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Sure.

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And obviously it's time that we rationalize this and we live in the world post regime

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change.

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Sure.

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And so Alex starts off the show with that being his main focus.

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That's why when Hegseth came out and the reporters like this is like Iraq regime change,

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he says it's the opposite.

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Because the previous regime change was about destabilizing the Middle East and balkanizing

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it.

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The United States wants to go in and have free and fair elections and turn Venezuela

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of its own power back into the most wealthy country in Latin America.

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But you have to know the history.

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You have to know the Monroe Doctrine.

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You have to know what gunboat diplomacy is.

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You have to know the Barbary policy of Thomas Jefferson.

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You have to understand all of that to understand this is a no brainer.

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So one thing that anyone listening to Alex's show could not help but notice is that in

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the past six months or so, he's been constantly making references to Thomas Jefferson and

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his Barbary Coast precedent.

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This is a reference to the Barbary Wars of the early 1800s where Jefferson sent Marines

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to fight against pirates in the waters near Tripoli.

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The idea is supposed to be that these pirates posed a national security threat so Jefferson

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was within his right to attack and kill them at sea, which is then used as an argument

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that Trump has the right to do this with the Venezuelan boats.

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It was part of the justification of Trump's militaristic action.

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This idea is combined with references to the Monroe Doctrine, which is a bit convoluted.

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The Monroe Doctrine essentially says that the US has control over everything in the

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Western Hemisphere, so any hostile powers trying to take over countries on our half

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of the world can be seen as enemies.

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This has nothing to do with Jefferson's actions during the Barbary Wars because that was centered

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around North African states which are in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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The point I'm making here is that Thomas Jefferson Barbary War stuff is a talking point, and

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I'm pretty convinced that he's been told to push this by someone else.

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It's not a point that he ever brought up before 2020, and even then it was in the context

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of an interview with a historian talking about Jefferson's actions in the Barbary Wars.

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It was not to defend sinking boats.

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It was a fun fact back then, and now this is a piece of information.

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And precedent and shit.

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Typically when the Barbary Wars were mentioned on Infowars, it was because someone was trying

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to insist that white people weren't the only ones who ever engaged in slave trafficking.

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That context changed on September 4th, 2025, after which point Alex began consistently

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repeating this new talking point about Jefferson's actions in the Barbary War as a justification

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for Trump sinking Venezuelan boats.

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What I'm getting at here is I don't believe this is organic.

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If Alex truly felt like Jefferson's attack on the Barbary pirates justified whatever

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military actions a president could argue were meant to protect the American people,

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then it would have come up in conversations about things like the invasion of Grenada

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or Clinton's planned attack on Haiti.

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Probably.

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I would bet that someone like Roger Stone or General Flynn advised Alex to start justifying

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the boat attacks using this language because the increase is just too much to be a coincidence.

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And he didn't come up with this on his own.

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The same thing is happening now more recently with the term gunboat diplomacy.

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Alex is starting to use that expression more as a way to justify Trump's belligerent actions

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against other countries.

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Peace through strength was an acceptable maxim to throw out until you had real military actions

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and overthrows that you needed to spin, and it feels to me like this appealing to gunboat

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diplomacy is the way Alex is trying to escalate that.

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The problem is that gunboat diplomacy means a number of different things to different

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people.

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For political science types, it usually refers to a country replacing their diplomatic efforts

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with threats, so the international agreements they make aren't based on shared self-interest,

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but rather on one party knowing that the other will kill them if they violate the agreement.

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Or even more to the point, it involves more powerful countries using displays of their

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superior maritime weaponry as a means of coercing less powerful countries to make those agreements

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in the first place.

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Alex fully understands and opposes this practice, as he's made clear repeatedly about China's

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actions in the South China Sea.

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He cannot actually support the principle of gunboat diplomacy without giving up any reason

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why he should care about the idea of China invading Taiwan.

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From my position of having listened to a ton of the show, I don't believe that Alex supports

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gunboat diplomacy as a concept, but there's a larger issue.

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On Infowars, gunboat diplomacy is not a concept that involves a state intimidating another

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state using a show of strength.

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On Alex's show, the term has a specific meaning, and it is about corporate imperialism.

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Here's him explaining this to a caller from April 2004.

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Huh.

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The way Alex is using the term gunboat diplomacy in 2026 doesn't match how he's always used

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it in the past.

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In the past, the term has always meant something specific.

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The only context Alex ever used the term gunboat diplomacy is captured here in this clip from 2011.

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They give him a $20 million loan, and openly it would come out and tell him, don't pay

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this back, leave in one year with the money to Switzerland or to New York.

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That's why a lot of Mexican presidents actually moved to New York after they steal a bunch

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of money.

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Just a few decades ago that happened, or in the mid-90s.

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So it's the same system.

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Or they go to Switzerland.

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That's kind of the place where they nest, and it's a free zone they allow.

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And then the public's told, well, with interest, it's been 10 years.

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You don't owe us 20 million in 1905.

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You owe us 300 million.

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And the country says, back then, that was before the inflation we have, it was equivalent

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to 300 billion or something.

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They said, we don't even make that in 20 years.

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We can't pay it.

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Oh, that's fine.

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From the shores of Montezuma, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

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And the Marine Corps top general, two-time congressional Medal of Honor winner, Spendley

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Butler finally quit and went public and said, look, it's all about money.

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These people don't owe it.

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We invade them.

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In Infowars language, gunboat diplomacy refers to the practice of the IMF and World Bank

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giving corrupt leaders in struggling countries huge debts that they know can never be repaid.

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The leader plays ball and gets to be rich in Switzerland, but they've sold out their

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country which goes broke because of their inability to pay the loan, at which point

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the globalists come in and buy up all their infrastructure.

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If their leader doesn't play ball, we send in the Navy and the military.

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This was the only context Alex ever used the term until December, 2025.

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After that point, he started using it to mean the more traditional definition of the expression,

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which is to use military and particularly Naval intimidation to force American foreign

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policy objectives.

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And he started presenting this as a positive thing that is good that Trump is getting back

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to.

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If Alex thinks the US should impose its will on the rest of the Western hemisphere through

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murder and threats of wars, then he should just say that.

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He probably feels like he can't because he spent so much of his career pretending to

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love freedom and hate empires, but he needs to get over that hurdle.

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This is just bullshit.

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I understand that no villain ever really just comes out and says, hey, I'm the bad guy,

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but if you pay any attention to Alex, notice the language that he's using, the way things

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are changing, he's sending the message pretty fucking clear.

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It does seem pretty obvious.

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Almost stark in its alteration, making it even clearer.

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You know, like at least again, but that's what makes him so much better than everybody

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else is he doesn't bother with subtlety.

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No, no.

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You want me to say this?

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Now I'm going to say it all the fucking time.

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And I always did.

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I always said it.

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Sure.

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You can see a transcript of everything that I've said for the past 30 years and I didn't

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say it right.

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But didn't I though?

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Have you seen the white papers?

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Ah, Montezuma.

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See what's what's wrong is that I should have said it back then.

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So why don't we moving forward?

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Just assume I did say it back then.

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See, that makes more sense.

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It's cool.

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Yeah.

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Um, I find this to be sloppy on his part and I don't think he should use these expressions

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that have loaded histories for himself.

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Yeah.

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Uh, but oh well.

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It's funny to me how many different expressions we have to just avoid saying extortion.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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We want your share.

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We are going to take it.

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That's the end of this story.

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How do you want this conversation to go is up to you.

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We use however many euphemisms you like.

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Yeah.

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We got things that go boom.

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Absolutely.

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And you are susceptible to things going boom.

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Let me try and explain this.

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It's illegal when the mob does it, but we're a country.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Trump, uh, he is gonna get in there and he is going to fucking run this Venezuelan

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shit.

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He's going to be so good and it's so in line with Alex's beliefs.

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Like you can't even believe it.

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That's nice.

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And if you look at every point, richest oil country in the world production down 95% the

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communists just can't even run anything.

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They're people starving to death.

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Absolute hell.

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Trump doesn't have to spend us money.

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The oil companies will go in.

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He oversees it.

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It makes them redistribute the majority of the wealth of the people.

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You've already seen him do that policy wise here where he told oil companies when he got

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in here ago, he said, all right, you're not really getting any profits.

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National security slash prices, massively increased production.

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You got the Saudis increased production at the same time.

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She said, I want to help the whole world.

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We have to lower inflation globally, which is true.

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If you pay attention to Alex, you cannot possibly believe that he believes anything.

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Every single thing about his political ideology should strongly oppose Trump telling oil companies

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how to do business.

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The idea that Trump could tell companies how to manage supply and demand so he can manipulate

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prices is a state run economy, which is a critical piece of what he's supposed to hate

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about communist countries like China.

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Trump telling oil companies to slash their prices and that they can make no profits is

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a horrible transgression of what Alex's worldview is supposed to be based on, but he can pretend

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Trump is doing it and he reports that to the audience as a positive because he knows that

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even his audience kind of wants socialist leaning policies, even if they don't know

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the words.

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Everyone except people who profit from oil companies hate oil companies.

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Everyone except people who profit from insurance companies hate insurance companies.

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Everyone kind of gets that the game is rigged and the smug libertarian contrarianism of

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the late to mid two thousands, it isn't fun for teens anymore.

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So no one's doing it.

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It's not edgy to be that libertarian dork.

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Now you got to go full Nazi if you want that.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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And it's easier.

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It is so much easier.

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Yeah.

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The kid who probably would have been like, I read the Mises website.

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Like that kid's just racist now.

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Yep.

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He doesn't have to try.

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Yeah.

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That's the good stuff.

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This stuff that Alex is saying, like in that clip, it isn't true.

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But even if you pretend that it is, he should declare war on Trump for doing it.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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He should be horrified.

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Yeah.

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It is something that has become more and more clear in our present time that I misunderstood

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how the world works based on how words work.

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Right.

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Like to me, a principle was only really confirmed when it sucked.

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Yep.

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You know, like that whole idea of free speech, protect speech, you hate speech.

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You like, fuck me.

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It sucks to do this.

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That is, but it's a principle.

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So I have to, right.

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It feels like that is something that other people did not particularly find interesting.

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Like every time people find a principle and they're like, oh, it sucks to have this principle

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right now.

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They just change it.

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True.

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And I think that a lot of the people who are busy off changing their principles are a lot

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of the people who would rant and crow at you about how principles are only important when

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they're inconvenient.

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Sure.

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I would love for kids to be safer in schools, but what about the guns?

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What about the guns?

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What if we encroach on the right of people to have guns?

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We can't.

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Yeah.

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So fucking principled.

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Yeah.

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So fucking principled.

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I think that is a form of gaslighting that exists on a large scale for most of our lives.

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Yeah.

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It's bullshit.

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Yeah.

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Because it is something that I'm listening to him talk and it's like, I guess people

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will listen to the reasons maybe I guess and think like, oh, this is a good reason

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to do this thing.

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But in my head it's like, oh, you can give me all the reasons you want, but that you

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can't do the thing.

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So because you did the thing, none of your reasons mean anything to me.

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You fucked up.

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Um, right.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah.

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There's, there's probably some edge cases where somebody does something that you instinctively

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think and maybe no is wrong and then you could be persuaded by reasons.

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Sure.

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Like there may be some cases like that, but yeah, generally the actions are, you know,

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it's pretty tough to justify when the action is the action.

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Yeah.

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Sorry man.

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Yeah.

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Weird.

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So through those actions that Trump is taking, there is an argument that could be made, I

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believe that the rules are changing.

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International rules changing to the point of non-existence maybe?

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Well.

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And so Alex celebrates this return to chaos.

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Okay.

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So by Trump grabbing $18 trillion in oil that's now on the US ballot sheet and that's damn

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rights what it is.

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What do you think we did until the globalist era after World War II?

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You think the US didn't go around grabbing stuff before?

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Think we didn't grab Cuba from Spain and then turn around and give it to them?

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As long as, you know, they let us have a military base there for God.

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I mean, the US has been the partner to have that won't screw you over and let you run

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things just don't screw us until the end of World War II and then the CIA and we become

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globalists and then all the things that came out of it because we're working for globalist

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interest, British empire interest, new world order interest, not the people's interest.

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But if you think in this world that we can have our country and just hide in it and can't

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be engaged or can't be involved, but I got a bridge I'm happy to sell you.

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So we're going back to US policy here.

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The bridge that he's sold you is his career.

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Yeah.

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Like he's already done it if anyone is listening.

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You've actually purchased quite a few bridges over the years.

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Yeah.

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The info warriors.

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Good for you.

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So this is a fine position for Alex to have.

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And I want to be clear that I respect him saying it explicitly.

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I wholeheartedly disagree with his position.

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And I think it's delusional to pretend that this doesn't just benefit giant corporations

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and tyrants, but I think it's closer to what Alex sincerely supports.

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In 2008, when he was trying to boost his career by latching onto Ron Paul supporters who were

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mostly mad about the war, do you think he would have said anything like that?

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Not getting involved in foreign wars was a central piece of the messaging back then.

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So Alex pushed that.

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Alex was positioned against the system and regardless of whether Bush or Clinton or Obama

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was in office, they were representatives of the system and they were doing the wars.

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It's super easy to be opposed to their wars and then convince your audience that you're

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principally opposed to all war and you're not.

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Make no mistake about it.

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Alex built his career on the illusion that he was opposed to things like colonialist

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adventure and regime change because of principles that he believed in about things like freedom,

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sovereignty, and non-interventionism.

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He presented himself as the alternative to the hawks like Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News

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crowd, and without that fiction, he never would have been able to sell himself to a

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larger audience.

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People who weren't extreme right-wingers and racists were drawn to him because they were

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pissed the fuck off about the Iraq war and he was giving them a message that they could

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get behind and it seemed to transcend politics.

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People like Tucker would get in their bow ties and argue on TV about how Bush was right

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to attack Iraq and Afghanistan, but Alex told the audience that you were more likely

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to get struck by lightning than ever meet a terrorist and that the war was being sold

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to you on false pretenses.

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The people who were pissed off about the war agreed with that and because Alex was saying

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it, it made him look like he was more honest than his competitors.

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But how many of the people who marched with no blood for oil signs would have gotten on

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board with Alex saying that the US should take stuff and plunder freely, like how things

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were before the World War II international order?

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How seriously could any of these people ever have taken him if his argument against the

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war wasn't that it was happening, but he didn't like the people benefiting from it?

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The argument for why the globalists are bad is supposed to be that they do bad things,

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like carry out regime change wars in order to steal resources.

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By accepting and celebrating Trump doing the exact same thing, Alex has in effect removed

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the whole reason to oppose them.

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Because the guy who made millions of dollars as the anti-system guy now has to be a cheerleader

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for the system, he can no longer keep up the charade that any of the stuff that he used

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to care about matters.

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The principles he used to mask as his mask, they're all destroyed.

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And what's left of it is the shit that was there all along and was the real motivating

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factor which is white nationalism, Christian identity, protection of business interests

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over people, and colonialist exploitation of Uyghur countries' natural resources.

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That's really what this is all about.

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Yeah.

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What a weird team to join.

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What a weird team to have secretly been on.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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It feels like it wasn't worth it.

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But maybe, I mean, just going by everything that he's done, said how he's lived, all the

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things that I know about him, I would say it's not worth it.

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But you know, maybe somewhere in his head it was.

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At least Alex finally freed the children.

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Yes, that is nice.

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That was nice of him.

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Fucking prick.

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Yeah, no, I find his...

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It's this weird mix of, fuck you, and also like, thanks.

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Thanks for just saying this.

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Like kind of no.

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There was the part that was annoying in like, you know, 05, 06 where it's like, oh, we're

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helping the people of Iraq.

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We're there for the people.

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It's because Saddam is evil and we're there for the people.

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But man, they didn't even give them that one.

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They didn't even give us that one.

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They were just like, buddy, we're going to steal their oil.

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Yeah, but now it's in reverse.

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Right.

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Like what's happening is essentially, you know, Trump is immediately being like, I want

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that oil, baby.

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I'm going to steal it.

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I'm going to steal their stuff.

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I'm stealing their stuff.

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And now is a part of rationalizing that it's Alex's job to explain to the audience...

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It is good for the people.

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Right.

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For us to steal all of their stuff.

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We're going to give the money to the people of Venezuela.

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They're going to be great.

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That sounds true.

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Right.

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Based on things we've done in the past.

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It's just a silly mirror of the exact same shit.

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Same kind of excuses and arguments being made.

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It's just the main difference that we've experienced so far is that there isn't like a giant insurgency

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that's happening right now in Venezuela.

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Yeah.

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Although who knows what happens down the road.

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Exactly.

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So anyway, Alex immediately, like yesterday on this show, he was like, Trump looks at

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this shit and he's like, I could build a lot of hotels down there.

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Because he's a hospitality guy.

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Oh great.

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He's a hospitality guy.

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Yeah.

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And so some people laughed at him about that.

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Sure.

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Because it was crazy.

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Yes.

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And now he's a little defensive about how people were making fun of him.

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I've also seen, I'll get to this, because it's not about me, but it's an example of

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propaganda.

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All these big Democrat talk show hosts taking a clip out of context yesterday, like a 30

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second clip, where I'm saying Trump loves to see golf courses and Trump towers and everybody

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happy and a future for his kids.

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And that got translated into Trump's doing this so he has Trump golf courses and towers

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and so his kids can make billions.

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No, I explained how when he went and met with Kim Jong Un and showed him a video graphic

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of look how wealthy South Korea is.

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You could be that way with all these factories and businesses and golf courses and hotels.

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And Kim Jong Un reportedly cried and said, China won't let me.

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Oh my God.

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So I was explaining Trump doesn't like war.

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He likes prosperity.

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He's a hospitality man.

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He doesn't like plunging economies.

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That's not good for business.

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But the headline is Jones can't wait for corporations to loot Venezuela and fantasizes

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about the about Don Jr. making billions.

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Didn't say Don Jr. didn't list a company.

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None of that.

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Trump said, we're going to go in there and get their people production up and get them

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jobs and get them their money.

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Is that what he said?

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And we've seen him do that.

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Is there tax on tips and all the other things he's done to try to every policy is what he

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does.

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And the Democrats try to stay in the way of that.

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So Alex did literally say that Trump looks at a country like Venezuela and just sees

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the potential to build Trump hotels and golf courses there.

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He can pretend this was taken out of context all he wants, but he's fucking lying.

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It was on our last episode.

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Yeah.

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Larger issue, though, the explanation of the context here that Alex is doing doesn't make

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it better.

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Alex is just explaining that Trump likes to do whatever works best for corporate interests,

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and he demands on getting a cut himself.

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Something Alex brings up is an example of something that's meant to benefit the corporations,

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including the no tax on tips thing.

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It's great for working people not to have to pay tax on tips, but that's also part of

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a larger negotiation that involves employers not having to pay tipped positions, fair base

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wages.

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It looks like a huge win for the workers when you only consider the no tax on tips part.

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But when you look at the bigger picture, this is a perfect pressure release valve for the

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corporations to continue making more money.

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They don't have to pay their tipped employees anything more than they did before, but the

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employee theoretically walks home with more money.

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Collected tax revenue goes down, but the business makes the same amount.

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Consider that the alternative to this would be raising the minimum wage for tipped employees,

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and you can see how no tax on tips is a program that's friendly to workers, but even more

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so to corporations.

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Currently, the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13.

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They're allowed to use $5.12 of any tips that they make as credit towards a $7.25 an

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hour minimum wage, so in some ways you could look at any shift as starting about $5 in

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the hole that you need to work off to your boss.

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Only six states and Guam require tipped employees to be paid their state's normal minimum wage,

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while 15 use the federal minimum of $2.13.

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No tax on tips is good for the workers in a direct sense, but the reason that someone

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like Trump or Alex can support it is because they understand that compared to the alternative,

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this is a very good option for big business.

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Also, I'm not the person to get super into the weeds about this, but Trump's shit can

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only apply to federal taxes, so tips can still be taxed at a state level, and companies can

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still apply payroll taxes to some forms of tips, and there's a $25,000 cap, so it's not

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as worker-friendly as this catchphrase name is meant to imply.

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Sure.

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Anyway, I agree with Alex's motivation in that clip.

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He was speaking a bit too loosely in the previous few days about his excitement for Trump resorts

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on conquered lands, so he's probably feeling like he needs to moderate that a little bit.

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Sure.

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And I get that.

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I agree with that motivation.

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It's a smart move.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, there's being a worm tongue, and then there's being a straight-up toady.

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At least the worm tongue gets to whisper, and the king wuts his face as he hears, and

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be like, ah, ah, ah, ah.

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But man, if you're just like, it's okay if he steps on my nose.

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I like it.

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If bleeding makes your nose bigger and stronger.

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He secretly loves me.

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Absolutely, and sometimes, sometimes I whisper his name in the dark, and I bet he hears me.

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Yeah, like at least worm tongue, you can be seen with the king.

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The king, you're right behind him.

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And worm tongue gets him in the end, you know?

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Yeah, it's different.

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He's not getting worm tongue talent.

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Yeah.

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Nope.

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So anyway, Alex, I think, just wants Trump to just fucking take over everything.

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Sure.

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Trump said, we're returning to the Monroe Doctrine and the model used by William McKinley,

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and if foreign powers are projecting their power into our atmosphere and setting up states

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and governments to manipulate our internal operations, we are going to smash your ass.

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You know how many times we've gone into Latin America and New Mexico before World War II?

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Hundreds of times.

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Because of foreign powers coming in trying to manipulate and control.

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We built the Panama Canal.

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We had it for eternity in the deal.

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Carter signed it away.

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Obama finished it.

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Trump came in with a headset and told Panama, hey, the Chicoms are pushing in.

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Make a deal with us or we're going to come in.

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They said, nope, we'll push the commies out.

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Come right in, please.

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And Trump said, good, we'll invest 500 billion dollars.

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How's that sound?

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Weird.

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Sounds chill and cool and awesome.

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Alex should tell his audience the truth.

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Trump made a lot of noise last year about how Chinese companies ran ports around the

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Panama Canal and how that wasn't good for American national security.

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This involved a Hong Kong based company called C.K.

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Hutchinson Holdings, who owned controlling interest over these ports.

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Trump demanded a shakeup, so C.K.

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Hutchinson ended up agreeing to sell their interest in these ports for 22.8 billion dollars.

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The group that ended up with buying that controlling interest is a consortium that's run by BlackRock.

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That seems like it should be relevant to Alex because they're one of his big villains.

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Nah.

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Weird.

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Nah, I mean, it seems fine.

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It's almost as though it didn't really matter too much for national security interests as

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it did for who's friends with whom at what point in time.

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No, yeah.

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And yeah, I mean, I think that it's obviously very easy because they both start with the

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word black, but like the way that Alex was able to make friends with Eric Prince, who

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ran Blackwater after being the huge villains in the Iraq War era.

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Sure.

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Kind of, I think we're going to see the same thing with BlackRock.

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It does feel-

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As Trump works with them and is totally cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, you know, once you've established yourself as evil, fucking go for it.

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Murder the younglings.

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Once you're already there, fucking, I'm Darth Vader, I don't give a shit.

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Oh, I murdered younglings.

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Buddy, I'm well past that, right?

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What are we doing with this?

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Like, oh, is it okay for BlackRock?

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I think you can only really have the confidence to do that if your boss can shoot lightning.

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And this is something that you keep forgetting.

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I mean, it helps.

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It definitely helps.

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I think morale or at least like following the leader, it's inspired by lightning out

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of the hands.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you know, we give Trump a Tesla coil.

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We give him a big enough one.

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I bet that sounds like enough.

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Give that asshole a Musk coil.

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I mean, listen, did you see the weather a couple of days ago?

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I'm willing to go with weather weapons at this point.

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I'm willing to accept that that sleet storm that just popped up out of nowhere, that's

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fucking real.

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That's weather weapons.

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Sure.

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So, you know.

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Like some sort of pulse.

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Why not?

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All right.

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Angels don't play that harp.

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No, they don't.

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So Maduro has been arrested.

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He's taken to New York.

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Weird.

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He says, fantasized a little bit here about how he's going to flip.

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But the fact that the door is in New York from where?

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Enforcement custody.

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And you know that they are going to be meeting with him.

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You know, it's already happening and saying, look, give us the networks, give us the groups

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that already have his former intelligence chiefs and others.

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And confirm this.

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Go public and you can walk.

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It will dismantle completely Democrats.

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Money laundering operation.

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And then if Trump can get a real AGM and some real people to actually prosecute.

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This is the death blow.

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See what we kind of have to understand is Alex's framing of this relies on his understanding

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of gunboat diplomacy.

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He fantasizes about this idea that Trump will have Maduro in custody.

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And he'll be able to intimidate him into pointing the finger at his political enemies.

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And if you agree to this deal, we will let you out of prison.

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You can be rich in Switzerland.

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That's how it works.

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That's what Alex is fantasizing about.

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Is that Trump would use Maduro in order to roll over on the people that he needs to take

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power away from.

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And I think it's pretty obvious.

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You know, I was thinking about this.

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Right.

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And I think the story of the emperor has no clothes has been misunderstood for its actual

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power.

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Right.

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Now, you say, oh, the emperor has no clothes.

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And then the kid laughs at him.

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But I say instead, the emperor walks around naked with his dick swinging around and then

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hires a bunch of people to scream at you that he's wearing clothes.

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And then if you say anything about him not wearing clothes, he murders you.

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Now that is a good emperor has no clothes story.

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Well, you know how like I think, you know, you watch movies from like the 90s and stuff

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and it's like, wow, this whole plot would be solved by a cell phone.

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Like if there just were cell phones.

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Yeah.

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This is not an issue.

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Yeah, that's definitely true.

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And I think that the emperor has no clothes.

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I think it's hurt by the fact that there's no media.

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Yeah.

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You know, like if the emperor has a propaganda network, he doesn't even need clothes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's not the only one thing to have like, oh yeah, there's a lot of people who

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are going along with the, you know, the fiction that the emperor is cool clothes.

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But like if you had an internet.

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Yeah.

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No, if you could 3D print a new Humpty, fuck that nursery rhyme.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let him fall all he wants.

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I'll make a new one.

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Yeah.

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Tomorrow.

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And I think that we need new lessons.

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We have to start new, our nursery rhymes are useless.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, I think that I've talked.

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That lady has to live in that shoe.

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That's the only place she can afford, man.

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That's where we're at.

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I've talked a bit about how like Alex's world kind of requires a new Bible.

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Yeah.

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And I think that our world also now requires new nursery rhymes.

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Yeah.

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We need a new Aesop.

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We need a new brother grim.

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Just a series of reasons to stay off the internet.

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That's what we need.

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There's a witch.

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Exactly.

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If you get on the internet, you'll get eaten.

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Next next one.

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If you get on the internet, you'll get fucking bitten by a wolf.

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Next one.

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Somebody's going to chop your head off.

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Next one.

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Finding like accidentally finding sex criminals or Nazis or all the things that are on the

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internet apparently isn't scary enough.

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Not enough.

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Not enough.

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Yeah.

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We need to create a monster.

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Yep.

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That's what's going to happen.

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But then it's going to get Slenderman.

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You're going to get Slenderman.

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Yeah.

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That's what's going to happen.

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Fuck.

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Yeah.

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So if the globalists were doing this, taking over Venezuela.

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They would just give that oil to China.

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Whereas FOMP is good.

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Sure.

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Because he's taking it.

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That makes sense.

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And then he's going to give it back.

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That makes sense.

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If this was a normal globalist operation, they'd go in there.

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We take them to Iraq and then China's given the oil fields.

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With Trump, everything he goes and does literally is maximized to pump as much money into the

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average person's pockets as possible.

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FOMP understands hospitality, man.

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If it's a little guy making money, you're not going to have an infrastructure to spend

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yours.

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Henry Ford was the guy that innovated this.

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He said, I'm going to pay my employees three times what other car companies do.

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I'll have all the best workers and I'll give them discounts on Ford vehicles.

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And then almost every employee bought the vehicles.

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Yeah.

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That's grow the pie model.

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Not the great reset maker buddy, poor model.

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Not the new world order communist model, but the American model.

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That's not the only thing that Trump and Henry Ford have encountered.

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I was going to say, there's quite a few things about that.

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For real though, this is an insane level of bootlicking that almost can't be put on a

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chart.

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The way that Alex is justifying Trump's geopolitical military actions relies on assuming a super

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corrupt but benevolent motivation from a business standpoint.

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And that alone should be a problem.

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If Trump is kidnapping world leaders and seizing oil fields, that should be bad.

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But he's doing it because he wants everyone to have a bunch of money.

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So that should be good.

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But he wants everyone to have money because he's a hospitality guy who only makes money

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if everyone has money to spend.

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So that kind of makes his motives look suspicious again.

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It's good to want people to have money and be able to afford things in life.

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But if your reason for wanting that is so you can sell them things, then your ability

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to afford something is really a means to an end that this person is after, which is

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them selling you things.

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It's great to give people more money so they can afford to buy, you know, raising wages.

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What's even more effective than that is giving them company bucks and selling them all the

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things that they...that's super efficient.

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It's so great.

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You could raise their wages so high when that money is just coming right back to you.

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It's great.

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Yeah, yeah, it would be, you know, it feels like at the very least, right, Caesar could

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be like, hey, listen, I will bring back plunder.

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I'm just going to plunder shit and I'll have too much.

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I don't have a place to store it.

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So you'll get some.

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Now it's all in the cloud.

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Like it's on the screen.

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You can't get any of that.

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He's plundering all this shit and then just keeping it on a screen.

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You're not getting a little fucking jewel from Carthage or whatever.

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You're getting shit.

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Nothing.

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It's just on a screen, man.

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Brutal.

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Remember NFTs?

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Doing the thing that was going to last forever and be super awesome for art.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, if Trump can make 50 bucks by getting you a dollar, he's cool with that.

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That's fine.

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Yeah.

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But if the alternative is him getting 51 bucks and you get 10 cents, he'll always choose

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that.

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He will choose that one 100% of the time.

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Always.

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100%.

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And so would Henry Ford and so would BlackRock and all the people that Alex fucking loves.

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Yep.

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So worldview is based on industrialists and rich corporations trying to fleece fucking

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workers.

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Yeah.

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It's hard not to see very clearly that they exist to exploit the space between labor and

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profit.

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Yes.

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And they have no actual value whatsoever.

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And it's becoming too transparent now because they are too powerful.

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Yep.

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We have one last clip here and it's Alex, how he wants to spend his time on such a,

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you know, it's the Lord's day.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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It's a Trump has just overthrown Maduro and ended the globalists.

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Wow.

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So here's where he's at.

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We'll get to Hagstath talking about this being the opposite of destabilization.

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This is stabilization in a moment, but let's look at white liberal women fuming following

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the United States, saying, how dare you violate somebody's sovereignty?

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Well, how dare them send their prisoners here?

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And 8 million people displaced and how dare them starve by the, and how dare them steal

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our elections.

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How about that?

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Got him.

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Yeah.

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I mean, this show, if like he talks about how God tells him what to do and how he's

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like the most important person in the world and has shaped the tides of history and stuff

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and like, great.

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You should be doing something else with the time then, you know, the show shouldn't be

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a meme recap show and you trying to puff your chest out at Tik TOK videos.

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Yeah.

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Like that seems incredibly trivial for God's chosen soldier.

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It does feel that way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there weren't, there weren't a lot of apostles writing stories about Jesus getting

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into a flame war, you know, like it was mainly like, Hey, I'm going to go to this mountain,

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give a little talk.

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Maybe I'll get into, I'll get into a dust up at the temple, get those assholes out of

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here.

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But at no point in time was there like back and forth like, uh, I, how about this one?

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Oh, what about this guy?

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Yeah.

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Even when he's spending the days in the devil, in the desert with the devil, nobody's recording

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that shit.

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Yeah.

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It's just, it's too bad they didn't.

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We don't want that.

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No.

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Cause a magic, it was probably like a nonstop roast.

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Oh my God.

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They're just nitpicking back and forth.

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But like good lines.

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It would have to be literally the best lines in all of history.

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Can you imagine if like the devil and Jesus in the middle of nowhere, like if that was

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on kill Tony,

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zingers

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you're right.

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I think the world should add.

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That is a good point.

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You have, you have argued correctly for the end of the world.

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I give up anyway.

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Um, we're doing a, you know, this is a little bit of a shorter episode and part of the reason

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is because obviously what comes right after this is the, uh, many, uh, Minnesota shooting.

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Yeah.

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Ice shooting.

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Uh, and shit's going to get real.

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Yeah.

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That's going to take a while.

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And the bone temple calls.

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Yeah.

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So I didn't want to have that energy going into the bone temple.

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I mean, it's hard to want that energy going into anywhere.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's, it's something we can't ignore, obviously.

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It must be dealt with, but, uh, but, uh, the bone temple, anyway, uh, we'll be back for

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that unpleasantness.

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Uh, but, um, until then we have a website.

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Indeed we do.

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It's knowledge, right?

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We have a bone temple.

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We'll be back.

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Uh, but until then I'm Neo, I'm Leo.

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I'm DCX Clark.

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I am the mysterious professor.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And now here comes the sex robots.

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Andy in Kansas.

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You're on the air.

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Thanks for holding.

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Hello, Alex.

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I'm a first time caller.

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I'm a huge fan.

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I love your work.

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I love you.