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[01:38.720 --> 01:41.960]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth
[01:41.960 --> 01:43.880]  is a revolutionary act.
[01:45.000 --> 01:47.160]  It's the David Knight Show.
[01:53.800 --> 01:57.480]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 5th of January,
[01:57.480 --> 02:00.520]  year of our Lord, 2026.
[02:00.520 --> 02:01.600]  Well, it's a new year,
[02:01.600 --> 02:04.240]  and it's already a year of war and chaos.
[02:04.240 --> 02:06.600]  What do you think the consequences are gonna be
[02:06.600 --> 02:09.680]  for the Venezuelan kidnapping and invasion?
[02:09.680 --> 02:12.000]  And I'm not talking about immediate consequences,
[02:12.000 --> 02:13.840]  but long-term.
[02:13.840 --> 02:15.120]  And there will be consequences,
[02:15.120 --> 02:17.680]  domestically and internationally.
[02:17.680 --> 02:19.560]  Where will Trump attack next?
[02:19.560 --> 02:23.880]  It will be Iran, Mexico, Canada, maybe Greenland.
[02:23.880 --> 02:26.160]  And what about this whataboutism
[02:26.160 --> 02:28.720]  that we see his apologist putting out there?
[02:28.720 --> 02:31.320]  Do you understand that is nothing other than
[02:31.320 --> 02:35.560]  the living constitution idea of the left
[02:35.640 --> 02:38.000]  being adopted by the right?
[02:38.000 --> 02:40.880]  It's all about being ruled by precedence
[02:40.880 --> 02:43.880]  instead of by written law.
[02:43.880 --> 02:46.360]  And then we're going to take a look at the calls
[02:46.360 --> 02:49.320]  from Israeli powerful people
[02:49.320 --> 02:52.400]  to end the First Amendment in the United States,
[02:52.400 --> 02:54.360]  as we're told, to save it.
[02:54.360 --> 02:56.360]  We have to end it to save it.
[02:57.320 --> 03:00.880]  And we have fourth turning unrest
[03:00.880 --> 03:02.840]  that is accelerating even in Iran.
[03:03.720 --> 03:04.920]  So we're gonna take a look at this
[03:04.920 --> 03:08.400]  and what did you notice about New Year's Eve this year?
[03:08.400 --> 03:11.320]  We saw something that was radically different
[03:11.320 --> 03:14.960]  in our family and in friends and family across the country.
[03:19.200 --> 03:21.240]  Well, I'm gonna begin with an op-ed piece
[03:21.240 --> 03:24.320]  that we just put up this morning on Substack,
[03:24.320 --> 03:26.360]  my opinions about this.
[03:26.360 --> 03:29.440]  I called it, it's a long title,
[03:29.440 --> 03:32.760]  Trump's Venezuelan Oil Heist,
[03:32.760 --> 03:36.800]  the logical progression of the drug war
[03:36.800 --> 03:41.800]  from domestic theft to global predatory and piracy
[03:43.720 --> 03:45.800]  and the death of law, really.
[03:45.800 --> 03:48.480]  You know, it's been a long time,
[03:49.480 --> 03:51.960]  it's been clear for a long time that Trump's cover story
[03:51.960 --> 03:55.120]  about Venezuela and fentanyl was a lie.
[03:55.120 --> 03:56.280]  Everybody knew it.
[03:56.280 --> 03:57.360]  Trump knew it.
[03:57.360 --> 03:59.120]  They would tell you out loud
[03:59.120 --> 04:00.280]  what they were really going to do,
[04:00.280 --> 04:01.960]  what they really wanted, regime change,
[04:01.960 --> 04:03.760]  the oil, all the rest of this stuff,
[04:03.760 --> 04:06.000]  and then he would come back to it periodically.
[04:06.000 --> 04:08.840]  Well, now they have come back to it again.
[04:08.840 --> 04:10.720]  They've come back to this by pretending
[04:10.720 --> 04:14.360]  that it is a law enforcement operation.
[04:14.360 --> 04:15.960]  Even as the Trump administration spoke
[04:15.960 --> 04:17.440]  about regime change and getting the oil,
[04:17.440 --> 04:19.240]  they would periodically return
[04:19.240 --> 04:23.160]  to the narrative of fentanyl tracking.
[04:23.160 --> 04:25.160]  With such bold defiance of the Constitution
[04:25.160 --> 04:27.040]  as well as international law about the conduct,
[04:27.040 --> 04:30.880]  even a declared war, why return to the drug war narrative?
[04:30.880 --> 04:33.040]  Well, Americans have long been asleep
[04:33.040 --> 04:35.560]  over the true purpose of the drug war.
[04:37.040 --> 04:41.000]  Listen, it was never about ending the drug addiction
[04:41.000 --> 04:43.080]  of individual Americans.
[04:43.080 --> 04:46.000]  It was always about feeding the addiction
[04:46.000 --> 04:48.600]  to power of the US government.
[04:49.440 --> 04:51.760]  And to do that, they had to sweep aside the law
[04:51.760 --> 04:54.120]  as a perfect vehicle for that.
[04:54.120 --> 04:56.000]  And now we've seen this play out,
[04:56.000 --> 04:59.080]  not just domestically, but internationally.
[04:59.080 --> 05:01.480]  Like Trump's phony declared emergencies
[05:01.480 --> 05:03.960]  to give himself powers of a dictator,
[05:03.960 --> 05:06.040]  the drug war has been serving the same purpose
[05:06.040 --> 05:08.280]  for government and law enforcement in general
[05:08.280 --> 05:11.040]  for over 50 years now.
[05:11.040 --> 05:13.120]  So what's new is the aspect of militarized
[05:13.120 --> 05:15.160]  quote unquote law enforcement
[05:15.160 --> 05:19.200]  and global civil asset for taking up to the level
[05:19.200 --> 05:23.840]  of oil tankers with millions of barrels of oil on them.
[05:24.840 --> 05:29.640]  This is something that was created by the drug war.
[05:29.640 --> 05:32.960]  It's being taken to an international level.
[05:32.960 --> 05:36.880]  Gone is the usual CIA tactic of assassination.
[05:36.880 --> 05:38.680]  We have to pretend now that we're upholding
[05:38.680 --> 05:43.200]  some standard of law as they violate every law
[05:43.200 --> 05:46.040]  and moral principle in this action.
[05:46.040 --> 05:49.400]  It's just like the Israeli guy who,
[05:49.400 --> 05:50.920]  Shlomo is his first name.
[05:50.920 --> 05:53.280]  He said, we gotta destroy the First Amendment
[05:53.320 --> 05:55.840]  in order to save it in America.
[05:55.840 --> 05:58.520]  Well, you try to do that and see what happens.
[05:58.520 --> 05:59.880]  That's one of the reasons why there's so much
[05:59.880 --> 06:02.040]  blowback against Israel.
[06:02.040 --> 06:03.960]  Confiscating cars, homes, businesses
[06:03.960 --> 06:05.800]  without finding anybody guilty,
[06:05.800 --> 06:08.320]  without even charging them with a crime
[06:08.320 --> 06:11.600]  has now gone to the international level.
[06:11.600 --> 06:14.120]  We skipped the due process of deliberations
[06:14.120 --> 06:16.240]  and declarations about war,
[06:16.240 --> 06:19.240]  and we just go straight for the spoils.
[06:19.240 --> 06:20.840]  Our government has been operating
[06:20.840 --> 06:23.600]  as thieves domestically for so long.
[06:23.600 --> 06:25.440]  They're now obviously extending the practice
[06:25.440 --> 06:27.960]  to piracy abroad.
[06:27.960 --> 06:29.680]  It's disheartening to see people abandon
[06:29.680 --> 06:31.240]  their former principles,
[06:31.240 --> 06:33.520]  and I'm talking about the grassroots people here,
[06:33.520 --> 06:36.320]  and cheer the theft of oil.
[06:36.320 --> 06:38.920]  Commentators like the Kobayashi letter
[06:38.920 --> 06:42.840]  are so excited that we just took control
[06:42.840 --> 06:46.480]  of $17 trillion worth of oil.
[06:47.720 --> 06:49.480]  He wrote on Twitter, he said, in just 12 hours,
[06:49.520 --> 06:52.320]  the U.S. has gained control of oil reserves
[06:52.320 --> 06:54.320]  worth more than the entire GDP
[06:54.320 --> 06:56.040]  of all countries in the world,
[06:56.040 --> 06:58.960]  except for the U.S. and China.
[06:58.960 --> 07:02.720]  That's four times larger than the GDP of Japan.
[07:02.720 --> 07:06.600]  Most people don't realize how much the world just changed.
[07:06.600 --> 07:09.080]  Well, I have to ask all these people,
[07:09.080 --> 07:11.000]  he put that, or whoever it is,
[07:11.000 --> 07:12.760]  no, he or she or whoever,
[07:12.760 --> 07:15.720]  put that tweet out, and everybody started copying it.
[07:15.720 --> 07:18.760]  I mean, copying it verbatim.
[07:20.440 --> 07:22.400]  Got a tremendous amount of play,
[07:23.800 --> 07:27.200]  and you had a lot of MAGA people,
[07:27.200 --> 07:29.720]  a lot of people who would call themselves conservatives,
[07:29.720 --> 07:32.640]  but they're not trying to conserve anything.
[07:32.640 --> 07:35.120]  They're not trying to conserve morality or the rule of law,
[07:35.120 --> 07:36.520]  any of that stuff.
[07:36.520 --> 07:39.040]  So I just ask you, who is gonna profit from this wealth?
[07:39.040 --> 07:39.880]  Who do you think?
[07:41.880 --> 07:43.560]  You've already had a couple of dozen businessmen,
[07:43.560 --> 07:45.160]  I'm gonna talk about this,
[07:45.160 --> 07:48.240]  have gone down to Venezuela to loot the country.
[07:49.160 --> 07:51.520]  These vulture capitalists will profit,
[07:51.520 --> 07:54.120]  but there won't be $17 trillion paid down
[07:54.120 --> 07:56.320]  on our $38 trillion debt.
[07:57.600 --> 07:58.560]  And think about it.
[08:01.160 --> 08:05.040]  When Trump ran back in 2016,
[08:05.040 --> 08:06.640]  and he was being interviewed,
[08:06.640 --> 08:11.000]  he said, and asked about his opposition to regime change,
[08:11.000 --> 08:13.400]  and he was adamant, we shouldn't be doing that.
[08:13.440 --> 08:18.440]  He said, come on, we've got a $19 trillion deficit
[08:18.480 --> 08:19.320]  here in the United States.
[08:19.320 --> 08:21.920]  We should be taking care of things here domestically,
[08:21.920 --> 08:23.040]  instead of getting involved
[08:23.040 --> 08:24.680]  in these expensive wars abroad.
[08:26.120 --> 08:30.400]  Well, he and Biden have doubled
[08:30.400 --> 08:34.800]  that $19 trillion deficit, a debt.
[08:34.800 --> 08:38.400]  They don't care at all about the debt.
[08:38.400 --> 08:43.040]  And so, of course, as they point out,
[08:43.680 --> 08:46.280]  $17 trillion of estimated wall on the ground
[08:46.280 --> 08:48.080]  at today's market prices,
[08:49.080 --> 08:52.080]  that ignores the fact that you've got to extract that
[08:52.080 --> 08:53.800]  and do other things that are gonna be expensive.
[08:53.800 --> 08:56.360]  But they said, oh, we've been taking half of that.
[08:56.360 --> 08:59.520]  So we got $8.5 trillion that we just took overnight.
[08:59.520 --> 09:00.640]  Isn't that great?
[09:02.240 --> 09:06.120]  We have an America that cheers that.
[09:06.120 --> 09:09.280]  We have conservatives who cheer that.
[09:10.760 --> 09:12.000]  And it's for partisan reasons.
[09:12.000 --> 09:14.320]  You know that they would not be cheering it.
[09:14.320 --> 09:17.400]  If it was the Democrats doing it, they would oppose it.
[09:17.400 --> 09:18.960]  We have no principles.
[09:18.960 --> 09:20.920]  We only have political parties left.
[09:22.000 --> 09:27.000]  And so, when Trump ran, again, it was only $19 trillion.
[09:27.040 --> 09:29.200]  And five years of Trump and four years of Biden,
[09:29.200 --> 09:30.800]  they have doubled that.
[09:32.040 --> 09:33.200]  This is not gonna go into
[09:33.200 --> 09:36.200]  some imaginary sovereign wealth fund.
[09:36.200 --> 09:38.320]  It will go to American oil companies.
[09:38.320 --> 09:39.160]  And guess what?
[09:40.160 --> 09:41.440]  The big businesses like that
[09:41.480 --> 09:43.320]  don't pay taxes.
[09:43.320 --> 09:45.640]  And we're gonna talk about the taxes coming up.
[09:45.640 --> 09:49.000]  Marjorie Taylor Greene wants people to go on a tax revolt.
[09:49.000 --> 09:50.400]  I think you should understand
[09:50.400 --> 09:52.240]  just how revolting this whole system is.
[09:52.240 --> 09:55.760]  And you should understand that they don't care
[09:55.760 --> 09:56.840]  if you don't pay the taxes.
[09:56.840 --> 09:59.240]  Oh, they'll throw you in jail, probably.
[09:59.240 --> 10:01.000]  But it really isn't going to
[10:01.000 --> 10:03.000]  put any kind of restrictions on them.
[10:03.000 --> 10:05.360]  The only thing that's gonna restrict them
[10:05.360 --> 10:07.920]  is a loss of reserve currency status,
[10:07.920 --> 10:11.720]  which is happening because of these types of actions
[10:11.720 --> 10:14.160]  by Biden and by Trump.
[10:14.160 --> 10:15.440]  That will stop them.
[10:15.440 --> 10:18.160]  The income tax is not there to fund the government.
[10:18.160 --> 10:19.960]  Don't be stupid.
[10:19.960 --> 10:23.760]  The income tax is there to defund you,
[10:23.760 --> 10:27.040]  to keep you poor so that you don't threaten them.
[10:27.040 --> 10:29.920]  That's the purpose of the income tax, Charlie Brown.
[10:31.640 --> 10:32.800]  So, it's not gonna go into
[10:32.800 --> 10:34.640]  some imaginary sovereign wealth fund.
[10:35.640 --> 10:40.240]  And it's not even going to go to recouping the costs
[10:40.240 --> 10:42.480]  of this military operation.
[10:42.480 --> 10:44.520]  No, it's gonna go into the pockets of people
[10:44.520 --> 10:48.640]  who are cronies and donors of Trump.
[10:48.640 --> 10:50.240]  It'll be a windfall profit for them,
[10:50.240 --> 10:52.040]  just like the windfall profit
[10:52.040 --> 10:54.640]  that Trump gave Pfizer and Moderna.
[10:56.200 --> 11:01.200]  We paid for their production of these bioweapons.
[11:01.200 --> 11:04.040]  And we handed that stuff to them.
[11:04.200 --> 11:07.800]  And they got to keep all of the profits
[11:07.800 --> 11:10.240]  because it was part of their bigger agenda.
[11:10.240 --> 11:11.800]  Same thing is gonna happen with this.
[11:11.800 --> 11:16.680]  Expect to see a lot of billionaires made overnight
[11:16.680 --> 11:17.760]  out of this type of thing,
[11:17.760 --> 11:20.320]  just like we saw with Pfizer and Moderna.
[11:21.160 --> 11:22.800]  Trump gave them the bioweapon.
[11:22.800 --> 11:23.640]  He paid for it.
[11:23.640 --> 11:24.960]  He put it on the national credit card
[11:24.960 --> 11:27.120]  while he bribed the hospitals
[11:27.120 --> 11:30.560]  to kill people with ventilators and call it a pandemic.
[11:31.800 --> 11:32.640]  And speaking of which,
[11:32.640 --> 11:34.800]  somebody made a perfectly time move in the financial markets
[11:34.800 --> 11:38.000]  just to take advantage of this, just like 9-Eleven.
[11:38.000 --> 11:39.600]  Isn't that interesting?
[11:39.600 --> 11:40.880]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[11:40.880 --> 11:43.560]  and I want to be honest with you for a second
[11:43.560 --> 11:46.480]  about how an act of compassion really feels.
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[11:47.600 --> 11:49.840]  I made the choice to partner
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[11:53.520 --> 11:54.360]  Why?
[11:54.360 --> 11:57.520]  Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
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[11:59.440 --> 12:03.160]  but I had no idea just how much that simple act
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[12:05.240 --> 12:08.880]  I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change
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[13:19.920 --> 13:23.280]  More shocking than Trump's action in Venezuela's reaction
[13:23.280 --> 13:26.160]  to this domestically.
[13:26.160 --> 13:29.240]  Nothing shows the corruption and the moral bankruptcy
[13:29.240 --> 13:32.920]  of the USA more than the, I voted for this crowd.
[13:34.160 --> 13:36.160]  They're cheering lies.
[13:36.160 --> 13:37.840]  They're cheering corruption.
[13:38.840 --> 13:42.320]  They're totally oblivious to the precedents being set.
[13:42.320 --> 13:45.200]  Even as they come back and say, well, so-and-so did it.
[13:45.200 --> 13:46.040]  So what about it?
[13:46.040 --> 13:47.720]  So now we can do it, right?
[13:47.720 --> 13:50.400]  And they don't realize how that is undermining
[13:50.400 --> 13:51.800]  the rule of law, the Constitution,
[13:51.800 --> 13:53.560]  all the rest of this stuff, which again,
[13:53.560 --> 13:56.240]  we know that they take an oath to it
[13:56.240 --> 13:57.800]  and immediately break that.
[13:59.040 --> 14:02.920]  So this is power that they don't realize.
[14:02.920 --> 14:05.880]  This is power that will be used.
[14:05.880 --> 14:08.800]  It will be used by people you don't like.
[14:08.800 --> 14:11.960]  It'll be used for purposes that you don't like
[14:11.960 --> 14:13.440]  and policies that you don't like.
[14:13.440 --> 14:15.480]  Why are they cheering this?
[14:15.480 --> 14:20.120]  It's as stupid as seeing the leftist cheering Mom Danny
[14:20.120 --> 14:22.680]  when he says, the era of big government is back.
[14:22.680 --> 14:25.440]  And they say, oh, I haven't felt this great since Obama.
[14:25.440 --> 14:28.960]  There's a kind of saddo masochism about that, isn't it?
[14:28.960 --> 14:31.400]  It's like, time me up and beat me with government.
[14:31.400 --> 14:33.840]  I just love it when you do that.
[14:33.840 --> 14:35.440]  And it put a gag in my mouth too,
[14:35.440 --> 14:38.280]  like the cutting down on free speech.
[14:38.280 --> 14:40.840]  But the MAGA crowd is doing the same thing.
[14:41.760 --> 14:44.000]  It's not just the precedent for lawlessness
[14:44.000 --> 14:45.520]  and chaos at home.
[14:45.520 --> 14:49.360]  How can the Trump administration even protest China
[14:49.360 --> 14:54.120]  taking Taiwan after this Venezuelan precedent?
[14:54.120 --> 14:55.400]  He can't.
[14:55.400 --> 14:58.120]  He's put a stake through the heart of international law
[14:58.120 --> 15:01.120]  and ethics that says large companies must,
[15:01.120 --> 15:05.600]  countries must not unilaterally take whatever they wish.
[15:05.600 --> 15:10.600]  The rule of law and borders have been erased.
[15:10.600 --> 15:14.280]  Now the new precedent is a prescription for war.
[15:14.280 --> 15:19.280]  It is for a full on melee to loot whatever you can take.
[15:20.360 --> 15:25.000]  When I look at this and I look at what Trump is doing,
[15:25.000 --> 15:27.720]  it looks to me like a riot in a city
[15:27.720 --> 15:29.040]  where people are setting things on fire
[15:29.040 --> 15:31.680]  and just grabbing everything they can get.
[15:31.680 --> 15:34.240]  The difference is that this is billionaires
[15:34.240 --> 15:36.800]  and corporations that are doing it.
[15:36.800 --> 15:39.560]  And Trump, of course, is lighting the fire.
[15:40.640 --> 15:42.360]  The rule of law and borders have been erased.
[15:42.360 --> 15:45.080]  The new precedent is a prescription for war
[15:46.280 --> 15:47.640]  to take whatever you want.
[15:48.640 --> 15:51.160]  Wasn't that the problem that we had with Hitler
[15:51.160 --> 15:52.960]  and Tojo World War II?
[15:53.960 --> 15:55.440]  And you know, there was more justification
[15:55.440 --> 15:58.000]  for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
[15:58.000 --> 15:59.960]  than for Trump's attack on Venezuela.
[16:00.800 --> 16:05.680]  We had been engaged in strangling sanctions
[16:05.680 --> 16:07.680]  as Joe Slente has pointed out many times.
[16:07.680 --> 16:10.320]  When he comes on, he always likes to talk about that.
[16:11.280 --> 16:14.680]  We had been engaged in sanctions that were strangling them.
[16:15.680 --> 16:20.280]  And Venezuela has done nothing to us, nothing.
[16:21.560 --> 16:25.040]  All the guardrails, all the restrictions on unlimited power
[16:25.040 --> 16:28.760]  are being removed globally from free speech
[16:28.760 --> 16:30.560]  and due process and individual rights.
[16:30.560 --> 16:35.760]  And the idea that war should only be done as a last resort,
[16:35.760 --> 16:38.840]  only done defensively for peace,
[16:38.840 --> 16:41.280]  that there need to be some guardrails
[16:41.280 --> 16:42.840]  so we don't have total war.
[16:43.800 --> 16:48.800]  Our professing Christian, War Pete, Secretary of Defense,
[16:50.440 --> 16:54.200]  is the one who's leading the charge on all that stuff.
[16:54.200 --> 16:57.040]  Now they're saying, well, the after round, they found out.
[16:58.200 --> 17:01.920]  I gotta say, Pete Hegseth, please cover up your tattoos
[17:01.920 --> 17:04.800]  and stop talking about your Christian beliefs.
[17:04.800 --> 17:08.280]  You are a reproach to everything that Christ stood for,
[17:08.280 --> 17:10.400]  everything that he taught.
[17:10.800 --> 17:14.400]  You have no reason to put that on.
[17:14.400 --> 17:16.560]  You're taking the name of Christ in vain.
[17:17.960 --> 17:21.920]  Well, you know, I've gone on this tirade here.
[17:21.920 --> 17:25.920]  Let me play something for you though, that is a satire.
[17:25.920 --> 17:29.000]  Because I think satires are maybe even more effective.
[17:29.000 --> 17:31.120]  Here's a guy who put up a video
[17:31.120 --> 17:34.360]  talking about how he's done regime change
[17:34.360 --> 17:37.200]  on his next door neighbor in his neighborhood.
[17:37.200 --> 17:38.680]  In a stunning late night operation,
[17:38.680 --> 17:40.480]  I had some friends of mine execute a raid
[17:40.480 --> 17:42.200]  on my neighbor Tom's house.
[17:42.200 --> 17:44.840]  He put up quite a fight, but we got through
[17:44.840 --> 17:46.640]  and he's in custody.
[17:46.640 --> 17:48.320]  I haven't liked what he's been doing over there
[17:48.320 --> 17:52.560]  for a while now, so I've decided to run his house myself.
[17:52.560 --> 17:54.720]  He leaves his Christmas lights up too long.
[17:54.720 --> 17:57.600]  He never trims his avocado tree that hangs over my fence
[17:57.600 --> 18:00.680]  and I believe he's running fentanyl out of there.
[18:00.680 --> 18:03.360]  I can't prove the last one, but it makes sense.
[18:03.360 --> 18:05.320]  I've seen him speak Spanish.
[18:05.320 --> 18:07.640]  I got rid of the wife as well.
[18:07.640 --> 18:08.720]  I didn't really have a problem with her,
[18:08.720 --> 18:10.720]  but we did do a 4th of July block party
[18:10.720 --> 18:14.520]  and she brought empanadas, so better safe than sorry.
[18:14.520 --> 18:17.680]  I've got them at our residence in a couple towns over.
[18:17.680 --> 18:20.320]  I've been using his home as my own little man cave.
[18:20.320 --> 18:21.480]  Pretty great.
[18:21.480 --> 18:24.200]  Turns out he has a fantastic wine cellar
[18:24.200 --> 18:27.080]  that I have tapped into extensively.
[18:27.080 --> 18:28.880]  Anyway, I'll be running his home until a time
[18:28.880 --> 18:32.520]  when I can have a safe, proper, and judicious turnover
[18:32.520 --> 18:34.520]  to some of the guys,
[18:34.520 --> 18:36.680]  which probably won't be happening soon.
[18:36.680 --> 18:38.640]  Just a heads up, I plan to take over
[18:38.640 --> 18:40.640]  some other neighbors' homes as well.
[18:40.640 --> 18:42.680]  Phil, across the street, has a pretty cool car
[18:42.680 --> 18:44.040]  I'd like to be in charge of.
[18:44.040 --> 18:46.960]  And Alex, who lives catty corner from me,
[18:46.960 --> 18:49.080]  has a wife who's a yoga instructor.
[18:50.280 --> 18:51.720]  He'd be taking that one soon.
[18:51.720 --> 18:53.600]  Again, doing it for the good of the neighborhood,
[18:53.600 --> 18:55.840]  so stay tuned.
[18:58.600 --> 18:59.720]  I thought that was following.
[18:59.720 --> 19:01.640]  I'm sorry, I don't know the name of that guy.
[19:01.640 --> 19:02.960]  I would love to give him credit.
[19:02.960 --> 19:05.560]  He deserves credit, that's excellent.
[19:05.560 --> 19:08.200]  The person who posted that up that I saw
[19:08.200 --> 19:09.680]  was not the same guy who did it,
[19:09.680 --> 19:11.320]  so I don't know who did that.
[19:11.320 --> 19:12.800]  But I do know who's doing this.
[19:12.800 --> 19:15.400]  You know, it was despicable over the weekend
[19:15.400 --> 19:18.600]  to see conservative outlets, news outlets,
[19:18.600 --> 19:19.760]  cheering all of this stuff.
[19:19.760 --> 19:23.600]  It began with Breitbart.
[19:23.600 --> 19:24.440]  Look at this, they said,
[19:24.440 --> 19:27.120]  and it had pictures of more ships being blown up.
[19:27.120 --> 19:30.720]  Operation Southern Spear, isn't that great?
[19:30.720 --> 19:34.000]  You know, this childish love of war that you see
[19:34.000 --> 19:37.880]  with Mr. Lethality War Pete.
[19:37.880 --> 19:40.840]  Five narco terrorists killed on New Year's Eve.
[19:40.840 --> 19:44.400]  Three more on December 30th, isn't that great?
[19:44.400 --> 19:46.360]  And you know, as this stuff rolled out,
[19:48.280 --> 19:52.400]  you saw the headlines, that's Breitbart's headline,
[19:52.400 --> 19:55.160]  before the invasion started, when the invasion started.
[19:55.160 --> 19:57.880]  This is from Infowars, I'll read it to you.
[19:57.880 --> 20:00.240]  Saturday, emergency broadcast,
[20:00.240 --> 20:03.720]  powerfully executed Blitzkrieg
[20:03.760 --> 20:06.640]  destroyed Venezuela's forces in minutes,
[20:06.640 --> 20:08.480]  clearing the way for Delta Force
[20:08.480 --> 20:11.360]  to capture the Venezuelan dictator Maduro.
[20:12.640 --> 20:17.440]  You know, Alex, you wonder why they call Trump a Nazi?
[20:17.440 --> 20:18.560]  That's because you're selling,
[20:18.560 --> 20:20.760]  who was it that invaded other countries
[20:20.760 --> 20:22.800]  because they felt like they had a need?
[20:22.800 --> 20:24.760]  Who was it that did Blitzkrieg?
[20:25.960 --> 20:28.600]  You guys are owning yourselves.
[20:28.600 --> 20:30.800]  It makes me disgusted that I ever worked
[20:30.800 --> 20:34.120]  for that shill of an organization and that guy.
[20:34.120 --> 20:35.280]  When I see that type of thing,
[20:35.280 --> 20:38.240]  I would have never worked for a company
[20:38.240 --> 20:40.680]  that did that kind of trash.
[20:40.680 --> 20:43.040]  And that's what it is, it's trash, Alex.
[20:43.040 --> 20:45.920]  You should be ashamed of yourself for pushing wars.
[20:45.920 --> 20:48.440]  When I went to work for you, you were pushing against wars.
[20:48.440 --> 20:50.240]  You've done a complete 180.
[20:50.240 --> 20:51.240]  You become a cheerleader
[20:51.240 --> 20:53.000]  for the military industrial complex.
[20:53.000 --> 20:55.840]  You become a disinformation agent for the CIA.
[20:55.840 --> 20:58.800]  It's disgusting to see what you have become.
[20:58.800 --> 21:00.640]  As a matter of fact, I'll just put this here.
[21:00.640 --> 21:02.480]  I was gonna play it later on,
[21:02.480 --> 21:04.800]  but I wanna put this here.
[21:05.840 --> 21:07.760]  You know, what will you be remembered for?
[21:07.760 --> 21:08.840]  Somebody put up.
[21:10.480 --> 21:12.480]  Think about how you wanna be remembered.
[21:14.240 --> 21:15.080]  It's very creepy.
[21:15.080 --> 21:16.520]  This is frozen stuff.
[21:17.640 --> 21:21.800]  Dead Charlie Kirk cobwebs, frozen.
[21:21.800 --> 21:24.960]  Dead Laura Loomer cobwebs.
[21:24.960 --> 21:26.080]  There's Alex.
[21:27.120 --> 21:27.960]  Same thing.
[21:28.960 --> 21:32.160]  Cobwebs in the mouth, all the rest of this stuff.
[21:32.160 --> 21:34.680]  Is this how you wanna be remembered?
[21:34.680 --> 21:37.160]  There's Elon Musk with his Nazi salute.
[21:38.120 --> 21:41.920]  Of course, the technocracy is not simply Nazi stuff.
[21:41.920 --> 21:45.480]  And here's Joe Rogan and Donald Trump
[21:45.480 --> 21:50.120]  covered with cobwebs, frozen, dead, and Tucker Carlson.
[21:51.520 --> 21:52.560]  All these people.
[21:52.560 --> 21:57.360]  Ah, and there he is, Mr. Prosperity Gospel himself,
[21:57.520 --> 22:00.000]  Copeland, and Erica Kirk.
[22:01.600 --> 22:05.240]  Grifters, taking the name of Christ in vain.
[22:06.480 --> 22:08.040]  And I don't know who these people are,
[22:08.040 --> 22:12.080]  but I guess January the 6th rioters.
[22:12.080 --> 22:14.160]  So yeah, think about that.
[22:14.160 --> 22:17.320]  You know, we're just passing through this life.
[22:17.320 --> 22:19.200]  None of us has that much time left.
[22:20.800 --> 22:23.480]  A decade, two decades, three decades, whatever.
[22:23.480 --> 22:24.640]  That's not much time.
[22:25.640 --> 22:28.280]  Anyway, this is the kind of garbage these people,
[22:28.280 --> 22:32.720]  but cheering Blitzkrieg War, cheering invasion.
[22:32.720 --> 22:35.680]  And it's oh so cool because look at our elite forces.
[22:36.920 --> 22:41.240]  You know, if you have that kind of power
[22:41.240 --> 22:45.560]  and you use it in an evil way, that's nothing to cheer about.
[22:45.560 --> 22:48.800]  I'm not cheering Delta Force with all this stuff.
[22:48.800 --> 22:50.280]  It's disgusting.
[22:50.280 --> 22:52.640]  I wish we didn't have that power, quite frankly.
[22:53.640 --> 22:56.040]  It makes us all left less safe.
[22:56.960 --> 23:01.760]  So when you look at this, the US Southern Command,
[23:01.760 --> 23:04.080]  this is Breitbart, revealed on Wednesday
[23:04.080 --> 23:06.960]  two different military operations against drug trafficking.
[23:08.600 --> 23:10.160]  December 30th to 31st,
[23:10.160 --> 23:12.040]  it's part of Operation Southern Spear.
[23:12.040 --> 23:14.120]  And we've got Delta Force out there
[23:14.120 --> 23:15.640]  and these people are all regurgitated.
[23:15.640 --> 23:16.840]  Oh, look at the weapons they use.
[23:16.840 --> 23:19.040]  Look at how efficient this was
[23:19.040 --> 23:21.320]  and all the rest of this stuff.
[23:21.320 --> 23:22.160]  Cheerleaders.
[23:22.800 --> 23:24.080]  Cheerleaders.
[23:24.080 --> 23:25.080]  Cheer the war.
[23:26.040 --> 23:27.240]  Trump and War Pete.
[23:29.160 --> 23:32.080]  I think maybe somebody in the future
[23:32.080 --> 23:35.520]  ought to get rid of them without due process.
[23:35.520 --> 23:37.760]  Of course, that's all about, it's now,
[23:37.760 --> 23:38.600]  why doesn't that happen?
[23:38.600 --> 23:40.920]  Not because they don't deserve it,
[23:40.920 --> 23:43.800]  but because people don't have the force
[23:43.800 --> 23:46.360]  and we're now going to live in a world
[23:46.360 --> 23:49.760]  where there is no rule of force, no right or wrong.
[23:49.760 --> 23:51.320]  It's just rule by might.
[23:51.320 --> 23:53.360]  That's what these people represent.
[23:53.360 --> 23:54.840]  No principles whatsoever,
[23:54.840 --> 23:57.280]  except I want it, I'm going to take it.
[23:57.280 --> 24:00.520]  I mean, that's what Trump is saying about Greenland, right?
[24:00.520 --> 24:05.520]  So again, three narco-terrorists, this is Breitbart again.
[24:05.640 --> 24:07.160]  Aboard, the first vessel was killed
[24:07.160 --> 24:08.000]  on the first engagement,
[24:08.000 --> 24:09.520]  the remaining narco-terrorists abandoned
[24:09.520 --> 24:11.080]  the other two vessels, jumping overboard,
[24:11.080 --> 24:15.120]  distancing themselves before follow-on engagements
[24:16.680 --> 24:17.920]  on their respective vessels.
[24:17.920 --> 24:20.000]  In other words, we just keep going
[24:20.080 --> 24:23.200]  until we kill everybody, no quarter given.
[24:24.080 --> 24:28.000]  We become Santa Anna, that's what we become.
[24:29.800 --> 24:31.040]  It's disgusting.
[24:34.000 --> 24:35.720]  I may not be able to move to France,
[24:35.720 --> 24:38.120]  but I'm going to stop calling myself an American
[24:38.120 --> 24:40.360]  after what America has become.
[24:40.360 --> 24:42.880]  It's just, I'm disgusted with this
[24:42.880 --> 24:44.840]  and I'm disgusted with the people
[24:44.840 --> 24:47.820]  who call themselves conservatives who cheer this stuff.
[24:48.740 --> 24:50.660]  The two operations announced by Southern Comm
[24:50.660 --> 24:53.500]  over the past hours reportedly brings the total
[24:53.500 --> 24:55.620]  of known narco-trafficking vessels
[24:55.620 --> 24:57.740]  struck in international waters to 35
[24:58.620 --> 25:01.900]  and the number of people killed to 115.
[25:02.820 --> 25:05.900]  And they don't have a problem with that at all.
[25:05.900 --> 25:07.860]  They label these people narco-terrorists.
[25:07.860 --> 25:11.180]  Let me tell you who the real narco-terrorists are, the CIA.
[25:12.420 --> 25:16.740]  It's the deep state, the CIA that Trump is serving,
[25:16.780 --> 25:19.300]  that Biden is serving, that Alex Jones is serving,
[25:19.300 --> 25:20.740]  that Breitbart is serving.
[25:21.740 --> 25:24.620]  That's the narco-terrorist organization out there.
[25:25.860 --> 25:28.420]  The deep state, they're cheerleading the deep state
[25:28.420 --> 25:29.980]  that wants perpetual war.
[25:31.140 --> 25:32.100]  That's what's really going on.
[25:32.100 --> 25:36.060]  So then they went from Operation Southern Spear
[25:36.060 --> 25:39.580]  to Operation Absolute Resolve.
[25:39.580 --> 25:40.860]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson
[25:40.860 --> 25:43.540]  and I want to be honest with you for a second
[25:43.540 --> 25:46.460]  about how an act of compassion really feels.
[25:47.100 --> 25:49.780]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[25:49.780 --> 25:53.460]  with an amazing organization called Compassion International.
[25:53.460 --> 25:54.300]  Why?
[25:54.300 --> 25:57.460]  Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[25:57.460 --> 25:59.380]  It was a nice idea, sure,
[25:59.380 --> 26:03.140]  but I had no idea just how much that simple act
[26:03.140 --> 26:05.220]  would change my life as well.
[26:05.220 --> 26:08.820]  I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change
[26:08.820 --> 26:10.420]  right in front of my eyes,
[26:10.420 --> 26:13.980]  going from starving literally alone on the streets
[26:13.980 --> 26:16.100]  to getting the healthcare and education
[26:16.740 --> 26:20.060]  that she needs to reach her God-given full potential.
[26:20.060 --> 26:22.260]  I got to be a part of that change
[26:22.260 --> 26:26.180]  and the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her,
[26:26.180 --> 26:28.260]  it illuminates now in me.
[26:28.260 --> 26:30.860]  That is the power of compassion.
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[27:20.420 --> 27:23.580]  Grow up, Pete, or else go back to your house
[27:23.580 --> 27:26.140]  and play with 10 soldiers on your desk.
[27:26.140 --> 27:27.940]  Trump telegraphed his plans for months,
[27:27.940 --> 27:32.140]  yet when it happened, Washington and Caracas were stunned,
[27:32.140 --> 27:34.100]  says the Wall Street Journal.
[27:34.100 --> 27:35.580]  I don't think at all we were stunned.
[27:35.580 --> 27:40.140]  I mean, I was surprised that they didn't kill Maduro
[27:40.140 --> 27:43.060]  because that's really what the narco-terrorists
[27:43.060 --> 27:46.300]  at the CIA typically do when they overthrow government.
[27:46.300 --> 27:47.540]  Why didn't they kill him?
[27:48.620 --> 27:50.780]  I mean, even if this is supposedly
[27:50.780 --> 27:53.580]  some kind of a law enforcement action,
[27:53.580 --> 27:56.900]  they're just bragging about how they killed 115 people
[27:56.900 --> 27:59.300]  without any due process because they knew they were guilty,
[27:59.300 --> 28:02.140]  just from a distance you could tell it.
[28:02.140 --> 28:04.180]  So why didn't they kill Maduro?
[28:04.180 --> 28:06.460]  That's the real question.
[28:06.980 --> 28:10.460]  Perhaps it was because Trump wanted to parade him around,
[28:11.460 --> 28:14.540]  put this picture out on Truth Social,
[28:15.420 --> 28:17.940]  and of course, even stranger,
[28:17.940 --> 28:22.140]  Trump put him in a van in New York City,
[28:22.140 --> 28:24.780]  and they drove around with the doors open
[28:24.780 --> 28:26.940]  to show everybody this is what it looks like.
[28:28.940 --> 28:30.900]  They literally did a parade.
[28:30.900 --> 28:33.660]  Folks, this is like a Roman Caesar.
[28:34.660 --> 28:38.460]  It goes out and conquers and overthrows other countries
[28:38.460 --> 28:41.340]  and then brings back the leaders and parades them around.
[28:41.340 --> 28:45.340]  This is the 21st century equivalent
[28:46.340 --> 28:48.380]  of a Roman triumph parade.
[28:48.380 --> 28:50.740]  And of course, as this is all happening,
[28:50.740 --> 28:54.140]  Trump is building a massive monument to himself,
[28:55.780 --> 28:59.540]  like the Arc de Triomphe in France.
[28:59.540 --> 29:02.380]  Many people calling it the Arch of Trump.
[29:03.220 --> 29:05.220]  Which is really what it is.
[29:05.220 --> 29:06.860]  So does that make you feel safe?
[29:06.860 --> 29:09.420]  Is that a win for Team America?
[29:10.620 --> 29:12.940]  It's pathetic, it's foolish.
[29:12.940 --> 29:17.100]  It is utterly ignorant about the precedents
[29:17.100 --> 29:18.900]  and the implications for the future.
[29:20.140 --> 29:23.020]  But of course, this is also one aspect of this
[29:23.020 --> 29:25.380]  that James Carville pointed out,
[29:25.380 --> 29:28.140]  because James Carville would know.
[29:28.140 --> 29:29.780]  He was right there with Clinton
[29:30.420 --> 29:33.620]  when Clinton did his wag the dog war
[29:33.620 --> 29:38.180]  to distract attention away from his sexual predations.
[29:39.220 --> 29:42.380]  Given it's Ken Starr turned the spotlight away
[29:42.380 --> 29:43.620]  from the sexual predations
[29:43.620 --> 29:47.220]  and talked about a consensual relationship.
[29:47.220 --> 29:51.300]  He made it about Clinton being embarrassed
[29:51.300 --> 29:52.500]  to tell the truth about that
[29:52.500 --> 29:54.580]  and committing perjury under oath.
[29:54.580 --> 29:56.060]  It was a technicality.
[29:56.060 --> 29:58.700]  He completely, Ken Starr completely overlooked
[29:58.700 --> 30:01.020]  the very credible allegations
[30:01.020 --> 30:03.780]  from Juanita Broderick and many others
[30:03.780 --> 30:06.900]  about sexual assault and rape.
[30:06.900 --> 30:10.500]  And Hillary Clinton called them bimbos and trailer trash.
[30:10.500 --> 30:11.340]  Remember that?
[30:12.340 --> 30:13.780]  That's kind of the same type of thing
[30:13.780 --> 30:16.100]  that we're seeing now here, isn't it?
[30:16.100 --> 30:17.380]  It's kind of interesting.
[30:17.380 --> 30:19.980]  I'm sure it's just a coincidence, don't you think?
[30:19.980 --> 30:23.300]  That a key Epstein deadline arrived
[30:23.300 --> 30:24.940]  just as Trump got everybody to look at
[30:24.940 --> 30:27.220]  what was happening in Venezuela.
[30:27.220 --> 30:29.260]  I'm sure it's just a coincidence
[30:29.260 --> 30:31.780]  like it was with Bill Clinton.
[30:31.780 --> 30:34.420]  James Carville knows it's not a coincidence
[30:34.420 --> 30:37.740]  because he was probably orchestrating this type of stuff
[30:37.740 --> 30:39.580]  inside the Clinton administration.
[30:39.580 --> 30:41.820]  He kept saying, people don't care about that.
[30:41.820 --> 30:45.620]  They don't care about Monica Lewinsky.
[30:45.620 --> 30:47.860]  They're gonna vote their pocketbooks, right?
[30:49.460 --> 30:51.180]  So yeah, we just gotta have good economy
[30:51.180 --> 30:52.660]  and they don't care about this kind of stuff.
[30:52.660 --> 30:55.020]  But of course we can distract them with a war.
[30:56.020 --> 30:58.180]  So Trump invaded a sovereign nation
[30:58.180 --> 30:59.700]  and kidnapped its leaders
[30:59.700 --> 31:02.660]  just as an inconvenient deadline was looming
[31:02.660 --> 31:03.940]  for the Justice Department
[31:03.940 --> 31:08.140]  to explain its controversial Epstein redactions.
[31:10.060 --> 31:11.780]  While the deadline came and went last month,
[31:11.780 --> 31:14.900]  the Trump administration has faced serious questions
[31:14.900 --> 31:19.660]  regarding its decisions about what to redact.
[31:19.660 --> 31:23.540]  And of course, as Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey
[31:23.540 --> 31:26.140]  are pointing out, they said on Friday,
[31:26.140 --> 31:28.380]  they would be bypassing the Department of Justice
[31:28.380 --> 31:30.660]  to demand that all the files be made public
[31:30.660 --> 31:33.660]  by asking the Southern District Court of New York
[31:33.660 --> 31:36.300]  to appoint a special master
[31:36.300 --> 31:39.340]  to ensure that all the documents are released.
[31:39.340 --> 31:41.820]  They're also seeking to hold Pam Bondi
[31:41.820 --> 31:44.140]  in contempt of Congress,
[31:44.140 --> 31:46.140]  which would result in her being fined
[31:46.140 --> 31:47.580]  for every day that the Department of Justice
[31:47.580 --> 31:50.500]  fails to release the files in their entirety.
[31:50.500 --> 31:52.260]  They estimate that they won't finish reviewing
[31:52.300 --> 31:55.740]  the remaining files until at least January the 20th.
[31:55.740 --> 31:58.620]  They wrote on social media, the Department of Justice did.
[31:58.620 --> 32:01.500]  We have lawyers working around the clock
[32:01.500 --> 32:04.060]  to review and make the legally required redactions
[32:04.060 --> 32:07.340]  to protect Trump, I'm sorry, victims, yes.
[32:07.340 --> 32:11.300]  And we will release the documents as soon as possible.
[32:11.300 --> 32:12.540]  As a matter of fact,
[32:14.500 --> 32:18.300]  she said that they've got 400 lawyers helping with it.
[32:19.500 --> 32:21.060]  You know what you get with 400 lawyers?
[32:21.100 --> 32:22.740]  800 opinions at least.
[32:23.740 --> 32:26.460]  It's amazing that they could get anything done.
[32:26.460 --> 32:30.700]  But anyway, this is another aspect of what's going on.
[32:30.700 --> 32:34.980]  And it's important that we not forget the corruption
[32:34.980 --> 32:36.580]  of Trump, because look,
[32:36.580 --> 32:38.540]  it's these intelligence agencies like the CIA,
[32:38.540 --> 32:41.700]  like the Mossad, they're running the blackmail operations
[32:41.700 --> 32:43.540]  of Jeffrey Epstein to get what they want
[32:43.540 --> 32:45.220]  out of the politicians.
[32:45.220 --> 32:48.380]  I mean, they offer them both a carrot and a stick.
[32:48.380 --> 32:51.100]  You do what we want, and we'll give you money.
[32:52.220 --> 32:54.740]  If you do what we don't want,
[32:54.740 --> 32:56.940]  you'll not only not get the money,
[32:56.940 --> 33:00.540]  but we'll show everybody these videos that we've got of you.
[33:00.540 --> 33:02.580]  That's the reality of how they get their way.
[33:02.580 --> 33:04.020]  It's no mystery.
[33:04.020 --> 33:05.700]  They don't want you to see that.
[33:07.020 --> 33:11.460]  So meanwhile, you've got 20 US investors, they call them.
[33:11.460 --> 33:12.420]  It says Business Insider.
[33:12.420 --> 33:16.260]  Are we planning a trip to Venezuela in March?
[33:16.260 --> 33:17.860]  The Vulture Capitalists.
[33:19.020 --> 33:21.180]  Yes, it is true, isn't it?
[33:21.180 --> 33:23.700]  The love of money is the root of all evil.
[33:23.700 --> 33:26.820]  And it is also the root of all wars as well.
[33:27.700 --> 33:30.740]  You know, you go back and you look at the bankers, right?
[33:30.740 --> 33:32.780]  This has been around forever.
[33:33.940 --> 33:36.540]  Going back to the Civil War, for example,
[33:36.540 --> 33:41.460]  it was commonly said, rich man's war, poor man's fight.
[33:41.460 --> 33:43.300]  Absolutely was true.
[33:43.340 --> 33:46.380]  Rockefeller paid his way out of that war,
[33:46.380 --> 33:48.740]  and he used it to begin to set up a monopoly
[33:48.740 --> 33:50.340]  on the refineries up in Pennsylvania,
[33:50.340 --> 33:52.860]  which at the point in time was the only source
[33:52.860 --> 33:54.700]  of petroleum that anybody knew anything about,
[33:54.700 --> 33:58.260]  and they needed that because they'd lost access
[33:58.260 --> 34:00.700]  to turpentine from the South because of the war.
[34:01.580 --> 34:03.260]  And so Smedley Butler knew that.
[34:04.140 --> 34:05.340]  You know, now it's oil.
[34:06.980 --> 34:09.460]  When he was around a century ago,
[34:10.540 --> 34:13.140]  it was about fruit companies, but now it's about oil.
[34:13.780 --> 34:15.140]  But it wasn't about fruit companies.
[34:15.140 --> 34:16.220]  It wasn't about oil.
[34:16.220 --> 34:21.580]  It was about bankers and money, ultimately.
[34:21.580 --> 34:23.820]  That's what it really is always about.
[34:23.820 --> 34:25.260]  So investors are already eyeing
[34:25.260 --> 34:27.180]  financial opportunities in Venezuela.
[34:28.060 --> 34:32.100]  How long before you have Jared and his friends
[34:32.100 --> 34:33.740]  go sniffing around?
[34:33.740 --> 34:35.300]  Jared Kushner and his friends.
[34:36.340 --> 34:39.100]  But this one guy, Charles Myers,
[34:39.100 --> 34:40.980]  it's quoted by Business Insider.
[34:40.980 --> 34:43.940]  So he's chairman of the political risk advisory firm
[34:43.940 --> 34:46.340]  Signum Global Advisors,
[34:46.340 --> 34:49.060]  and former vice chairman of Evercore.
[34:49.060 --> 34:53.180]  He said, I think the centerpiece of Venezuela's success,
[34:53.180 --> 34:55.620]  looking out 12 months or even 24 months,
[34:55.620 --> 34:56.580]  is foreign investment.
[34:56.580 --> 34:58.900]  And a big part of the Venezuelan story,
[34:58.900 --> 35:01.620]  starting today, is foreign investment,
[35:01.620 --> 35:04.020]  especially in oil.
[35:04.020 --> 35:05.820]  This guy's a real genius, isn't he?
[35:07.100 --> 35:10.420]  They're going to leverage their vast wealth
[35:10.420 --> 35:13.540]  to go in and take over everything.
[35:13.540 --> 35:15.060]  And it is a leverage.
[35:15.060 --> 35:17.780]  I mean, they're going to get thousands of times
[35:17.780 --> 35:20.180]  of their money back off of this stuff.
[35:20.180 --> 35:25.180]  But look, it really is about war for oil, for money.
[35:25.180 --> 35:27.740]  Americans who do not understand why we need to go in,
[35:27.740 --> 35:30.020]  for three, basically for three reasons.
[35:30.020 --> 35:32.020]  You're in Fox Business.
[35:32.020 --> 35:35.900]  Venezuela, for the American oil companies,
[35:35.900 --> 35:38.060]  will be a field day,
[35:38.100 --> 35:40.620]  because there will be more than a trillion dollars
[35:40.620 --> 35:42.500]  in economic activity.
[35:42.500 --> 35:46.060]  American companies can go in and fix all the oil pipe
[35:46.060 --> 35:47.500]  and the whole oil rigs,
[35:47.500 --> 35:48.740]  and everything that has to do
[35:48.740 --> 35:51.660]  with the Venezuelan petroleum companies,
[35:51.660 --> 35:55.420]  or everything that has to do with oil and the derivatives.
[35:55.420 --> 35:56.260]  Number-
[35:57.260 --> 36:02.260]  That's Maria Salazar out of Florida, congresswoman,
[36:03.340 --> 36:04.500]  who is cheering this.
[36:04.500 --> 36:05.700]  It's great, trillion dollars.
[36:05.700 --> 36:07.020]  Look at all the money we get.
[36:07.020 --> 36:09.580]  We see this theme over and over again.
[36:09.580 --> 36:11.260]  It's okay, because we're the strongest,
[36:11.260 --> 36:12.580]  and we just showed how strong we are,
[36:12.580 --> 36:13.700]  and we're going to be the wealthiest,
[36:13.700 --> 36:15.660]  because we steal whatever we want.
[36:17.100 --> 36:19.780]  Again, I'm disgusted with America,
[36:19.780 --> 36:21.780]  from the top to the bottom.
[36:22.660 --> 36:24.860]  Disgusted with what I see.
[36:24.860 --> 36:25.820]  People have seen this coming,
[36:25.820 --> 36:27.900]  especially very smart investors,
[36:27.900 --> 36:30.020]  and many of them actually bought bonds
[36:30.020 --> 36:33.140]  in anticipation of this, said Myers.
[36:33.140 --> 36:36.340]  Well, again, play it like 9-11.
[36:37.460 --> 36:39.900]  So Maduro is going to be indicted in the US
[36:39.900 --> 36:41.060]  after the capture,
[36:42.020 --> 36:45.180]  and after Trump's $50 million bounty on him.
[36:46.180 --> 36:48.500]  That's why he's in the southern district of New York.
[36:48.500 --> 36:51.620]  The charges were filed there,
[36:51.620 --> 36:56.340]  and as one conservative influencer pointed out, said,
[36:56.340 --> 36:58.940]  when Lala Harris pushed back against this
[36:58.940 --> 37:00.700]  and called it criminal,
[37:00.700 --> 37:02.860]  and she's right about that, of all things,
[37:02.860 --> 37:05.660]  but she's only saying it because of partisan reasons.
[37:05.660 --> 37:07.020]  But he came back and he said,
[37:07.020 --> 37:10.180]  you don't even know what happened in your own regime.
[37:10.180 --> 37:11.500]  Yes, she doesn't,
[37:11.500 --> 37:14.100]  because they weren't ruling it.
[37:14.100 --> 37:15.500]  She wasn't in charge.
[37:15.500 --> 37:16.900]  Biden wasn't in charge.
[37:16.900 --> 37:18.020]  Guess what?
[37:18.020 --> 37:20.460]  Same people were in charge then,
[37:20.460 --> 37:22.060]  that are in charge now,
[37:23.580 --> 37:24.700]  and it really hasn't changed.
[37:24.700 --> 37:27.660]  He said, you put a bounty on his head as well,
[37:27.660 --> 37:29.820]  so you're saying that he was guilty.
[37:29.820 --> 37:31.140]  You wanted him arrested.
[37:32.340 --> 37:33.380]  Well, there's a big difference
[37:33.380 --> 37:36.940]  between putting a bounty on somebody's head,
[37:36.940 --> 37:38.420]  and there's a difference between
[37:38.420 --> 37:42.500]  invading another country and bombing civilians
[37:42.500 --> 37:47.500]  in order to do an extraction of an individual
[37:48.060 --> 37:49.660]  rather than extradition
[37:49.660 --> 37:53.060]  when you can't get it from a head of state, so.
[37:53.060 --> 37:54.300]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[37:54.300 --> 37:56.380]  and I want you to pause what you're doing
[37:56.380 --> 37:57.500]  for just one minute,
[37:57.500 --> 38:00.300]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra.
[38:00.300 --> 38:02.180]  She lives in a remote community
[38:02.180 --> 38:06.260]  with very few resources and little to no healthcare,
[38:06.260 --> 38:08.260]  so when Alejandra gets sick,
[38:08.260 --> 38:10.380]  her parents have no real options,
[38:10.380 --> 38:12.620]  no doctors in their community,
[38:12.620 --> 38:16.020]  and no money for real medical care.
[38:16.020 --> 38:18.740]  By the third day, her body was shutting down.
[38:18.740 --> 38:22.020]  She woke up, and just long enough to tell her mom,
[38:22.020 --> 38:24.860]  I can't take the pain anymore.
[38:24.860 --> 38:26.660]  I can't keep going.
[38:26.660 --> 38:29.420]  Her parents drove hours to find a doctor
[38:29.420 --> 38:30.980]  who tried everything,
[38:30.980 --> 38:33.140]  but she needed a private hospital,
[38:33.140 --> 38:36.620]  and that was impossible for her family to afford,
[38:36.620 --> 38:40.580]  and that is when Compassion International stepped in.
[38:40.580 --> 38:43.820]  Now, through compassion, Alejandra was treated,
[38:43.820 --> 38:46.860]  and against all odds, she survived.
[38:46.860 --> 38:50.820]  She lived because someone just like you took action.
[38:50.820 --> 38:53.100]  Right now, unfortunately, there are children
[38:53.100 --> 38:55.900]  just like Alejandra who won't survive
[38:55.900 --> 38:58.460]  unless someone like you steps in.
[38:58.500 --> 39:02.260]  Compassion International partners with local churches,
[39:02.260 --> 39:05.260]  providing children with the support that they need,
[39:05.260 --> 39:09.300]  critical medical care, plus food, education,
[39:09.300 --> 39:13.380]  and the hope of the gospel, all in Jesus' name.
[39:13.380 --> 39:17.140]  So help a child just like Alejandra today.
[39:17.140 --> 39:19.700]  You can visit Compassion.com.
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[39:52.780 --> 39:56.620]  This is where all the MAGA of whataboutism is so,
[39:57.820 --> 40:01.060]  so deadly to the rule of law.
[40:01.060 --> 40:03.540]  Well, okay, so Biden did it, so he can do it.
[40:04.420 --> 40:08.020]  No discussion about what the law says.
[40:08.020 --> 40:13.020]  No debate about whether the allegations are real or not.
[40:14.180 --> 40:16.980]  No due process about any of that.
[40:16.980 --> 40:18.620]  And I'm not taking Maduro's side.
[40:19.620 --> 40:23.300]  I'm not somebody I care anything about one way or the other.
[40:23.300 --> 40:25.620]  I'm just, what I care about is due process.
[40:25.620 --> 40:28.020]  I care about us and our government
[40:28.020 --> 40:32.140]  not becoming a gang of thugs,
[40:32.140 --> 40:35.820]  not becoming the biggest mafia in history.
[40:35.820 --> 40:37.580]  What the Trump administration is, folks,
[40:37.580 --> 40:39.900]  is organized crime.
[40:39.900 --> 40:43.140]  It is racketeering and corrupt organization.
[40:44.100 --> 40:45.860]  That's what it is.
[40:45.860 --> 40:47.460]  Trump's illegal actions.
[40:49.580 --> 40:51.500]  People are complacent about that.
[40:52.700 --> 40:56.900]  So, again, she doesn't know what's going on.
[40:56.900 --> 40:58.980]  Biden didn't know what's going on.
[40:58.980 --> 41:01.540]  The country's being run by the deep state.
[41:01.540 --> 41:03.420]  And you've now got the conservatives
[41:03.420 --> 41:05.660]  cheering the deep state.
[41:05.660 --> 41:07.180]  You've got the news media outlets
[41:07.180 --> 41:10.300]  like Breitbart and Infowars cheering the deep state,
[41:10.300 --> 41:12.540]  cheering the deep state's wars.
[41:12.540 --> 41:13.700]  They're not necessary.
[41:14.700 --> 41:18.100]  The Venezuelan president is going to stand trial in the US
[41:18.100 --> 41:21.500]  as Trump captures the leader and his wife
[41:21.500 --> 41:24.620]  after explosions rock the Capitol.
[41:24.620 --> 41:27.060]  This is a Daily Mail headline.
[41:27.060 --> 41:29.060]  So, yeah, we take the president
[41:29.060 --> 41:31.060]  and we do the due process later.
[41:31.060 --> 41:32.740]  We have the war,
[41:32.740 --> 41:35.860]  and we don't bother with due process at all about that.
[41:36.900 --> 41:41.300]  So, this is done as law enforcement.
[41:42.300 --> 41:43.980]  We don't care about the law.
[41:45.980 --> 41:52.980]  Again, the tortured logic of this illegal war.
[41:52.980 --> 41:54.900]  Trump says that he warned Maduro to surrender.
[41:54.900 --> 41:56.620]  Hey, I told him to get out.
[41:56.620 --> 41:58.980]  He didn't listen to me.
[41:58.980 --> 42:01.340]  You guys need to take my threats seriously
[42:01.340 --> 42:04.380]  because I'm a mafia leader.
[42:04.380 --> 42:07.780]  Well, you know, I don't agree with John Stewart on politics,
[42:07.780 --> 42:10.740]  but he nailed this war thing better than anybody in MAGA did.
[42:10.780 --> 42:12.660]  Iraq, Venezuela, go!
[42:12.660 --> 42:17.260]  We're giving them full opportunity to do it the easy way.
[42:17.260 --> 42:20.140]  And when it doesn't work, we'll do it the hard way.
[42:20.140 --> 42:22.820]  If we can do things the easy way, that's fine.
[42:22.820 --> 42:24.860]  And if we have to do it the hard way, that's fine, too.
[42:24.860 --> 42:27.180]  Chemical weapons is a threat to the United States.
[42:27.180 --> 42:30.980]  Fentanyl poses a chemical weapons threat to the United States.
[42:30.980 --> 42:32.660]  Al-Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq.
[42:32.660 --> 42:34.340]  Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere.
[42:34.340 --> 42:35.620]  We can get rid of Saddam.
[42:35.620 --> 42:37.420]  It could really begin to transform the region.
[42:37.420 --> 42:40.420]  There's an opportunity to transform the entire region.
[42:40.420 --> 42:42.580]  Bringing freedom and democracy.
[42:42.580 --> 42:45.500]  Democracy and freedom can serve as a beacon of hope.
[42:45.500 --> 42:48.300]  Shock and awe.
[42:48.300 --> 42:51.260]  Well, I tell you, they can't even come up with any new lies.
[42:51.260 --> 42:55.620]  This is like a recycled Disney film, isn't it?
[42:55.620 --> 42:59.620]  And it's not Disney values here or the old Disney values.
[42:59.620 --> 43:03.860]  But again, power does not equal authority.
[43:03.860 --> 43:06.020]  Those are two very different things.
[43:06.020 --> 43:10.380]  And they sell, tell you the same lies to sell the war over and over again.
[43:11.380 --> 43:16.020]  Whether it's Iran, or whether it's Iraq, or whether it's Venezuela.
[43:16.020 --> 43:17.020]  Same thing.
[43:17.020 --> 43:20.780]  I told them, I warned them, you have to do what I say.
[43:20.780 --> 43:22.740]  I'm going to come in there.
[43:22.740 --> 43:26.380]  And we have weapons of mass destruction, remember that whole lie?
[43:26.380 --> 43:30.540]  And of course, Trump, when he was running, told everybody, he said, that was a lie.
[43:30.540 --> 43:35.380]  He was the first one of these candidates to come out and say, we were lied into the Iraq
[43:35.380 --> 43:36.380]  war.
[43:36.380 --> 43:38.180]  Everybody knew it at that point in time.
[43:38.180 --> 43:39.580]  But he was the first one to say it.
[43:39.580 --> 43:40.660]  And then what does he do?
[43:40.660 --> 43:45.660]  He takes the woman who produced the lies using torture and then covered up the torture and
[43:45.660 --> 43:52.740]  sold those lies to the administration and the public in order to have the war.
[43:52.740 --> 43:55.580]  Gina Haspel, he put her in charge of the CIA his entire time.
[43:55.580 --> 44:01.700]  I mean, she's technically number two under Pompeo, but Pompeo is basically a figurehead.
[44:01.700 --> 44:06.460]  And then he promoted her in the second half of his administration to CIA head.
[44:06.460 --> 44:07.460]  He owned all that.
[44:07.540 --> 44:14.460]  He told us that she lied us into a war, and then he makes her the head of the CIA.
[44:14.460 --> 44:20.900]  Trump said that Maduro was in a house that was more like a fortress than a house.
[44:20.900 --> 44:25.580]  Does Trump live in a place that's more like a fortress than a house?
[44:25.580 --> 44:26.860]  I mean, what about Mar-a-Lago?
[44:26.860 --> 44:29.740]  You don't think that he's got a safe room in Mar-a-Lago?
[44:29.740 --> 44:33.020]  I wonder how many safe rooms he's got in Mar-a-Lago.
[44:33.020 --> 44:34.820]  What about the White House?
[44:34.820 --> 44:37.420]  Is it a fortress?
[44:37.420 --> 44:38.420]  This is what I said.
[44:38.420 --> 44:46.100]  This is absolutely amazing that this shows that Maduro is a crook because he's living
[44:46.100 --> 44:50.260]  in a fortified house with guards and a steel door.
[44:50.260 --> 44:58.500]  Trump says it had steel doors, what they call a safety space, solid steel all around, and
[44:58.500 --> 45:03.540]  as if he doesn't have that orders of magnitude more.
[45:03.580 --> 45:07.260]  He was trying to get into the room, but he got bum-rushed so fast that he didn't get
[45:07.260 --> 45:08.260]  into it.
[45:08.260 --> 45:10.940]  But he said it didn't matter if he did.
[45:10.940 --> 45:16.860]  The guys that were there had blow torches on them and special steel-cutting equipment
[45:16.860 --> 45:19.180]  that could have broken through the safe room.
[45:19.180 --> 45:24.220]  So it's just amazing, amazing thing, amazing job that these people did.
[45:24.220 --> 45:27.700]  Isn't that great, you know?
[45:27.700 --> 45:36.060]  When you have that kind of force at your fingertips, you have to be held to a higher standard.
[45:36.060 --> 45:41.580]  So I'm just going to say, the way this guy is going to war with everybody globally, Trump
[45:41.580 --> 45:46.180]  better make sure that he's got really good doors in that bunker that he's building that
[45:46.180 --> 45:53.220]  he calls the ballroom, his ballroom bunker, with all the wars that he's starting.
[45:53.220 --> 45:56.580]  He says he watched the whole thing from his home in Mar-a-Lago.
[45:56.580 --> 45:58.140]  He said it was like watching a TV show.
[45:58.140 --> 45:59.140]  Yeah, I know.
[45:59.140 --> 46:01.660]  I've seen the reruns over and over again.
[46:01.660 --> 46:05.620]  I've seen this movie before.
[46:05.620 --> 46:13.300]  Bondi said they will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil and American
[46:13.300 --> 46:14.300]  courts.
[46:14.300 --> 46:17.300]  Well, your day is coming too, Bondi.
[46:17.300 --> 46:23.300]  You better hope that Trump's got a preemptive pardon for you.
[46:23.300 --> 46:26.060]  And you better hope it sticks.
[46:26.060 --> 46:32.340]  The PSA, here's Vance saying, here's a PSA for everyone saying that this was illegal.
[46:32.340 --> 46:35.740]  Maduro had multiple indictments in the U.S. for narcoterrorism.
[46:35.740 --> 46:36.740]  Oh, okay.
[46:36.740 --> 46:45.580]  So if you've got an indictment against somebody in absentia, then that's a green light to
[46:45.580 --> 46:47.260]  invade a country?
[46:47.260 --> 46:50.060]  That is the absurdity that's being sold by JD Vance.
[46:50.380 --> 46:56.740]  It's also the absurdity that's been bought into by Mike Lee, who likes to describe himself
[46:56.740 --> 47:01.420]  as somebody who follows the rule of law and the Constitution.
[47:01.420 --> 47:05.460]  He got into a lot of trouble for questioning Trump on this.
[47:05.460 --> 47:09.020]  He got ratioed on Twitter.
[47:09.020 --> 47:12.380]  And I'll talk about that in just a moment here.
[47:12.380 --> 47:16.220]  But anyway, this is the war on drugs.
[47:16.220 --> 47:20.580]  The psychological progression, as I said at the beginning, of this cancer that is called
[47:20.580 --> 47:21.580]  the war on drugs.
[47:21.580 --> 47:27.420]  It has metastasized throughout every police department in our country, and now it is moving
[47:27.420 --> 47:28.420]  to the international level.
[47:28.420 --> 47:33.420]  And it's not a surprise, because the war on drugs was not an invention of that despot
[47:33.420 --> 47:34.420]  Richard Nixon.
[47:34.420 --> 47:37.300]  If the president does it, it's not illegal, right?
[47:37.300 --> 47:41.740]  It was created by the United Nations, and they were the ones to cry the first and the
[47:41.740 --> 47:45.420]  loudest about the decriminalization of medical marijuana.
[47:45.820 --> 47:52.460]  It is a UN agenda, and the Republicans love this UN agenda.
[47:52.460 --> 47:58.300]  As I said before, it was never about individual addiction to drugs, it was about the government's
[47:58.300 --> 48:05.380]  addiction to power, and how they had to remove the rule of law in order to be able to satisfy
[48:05.380 --> 48:07.500]  that addiction.
[48:07.500 --> 48:14.740]  So War Pete, tweeting out, he effed around and found out, yeah, good for you, spoken
[48:14.740 --> 48:17.660]  like a thug that you are.
[48:17.660 --> 48:20.460]  Trump says, we will run Venezuela.
[48:20.460 --> 48:27.500]  Okay, well, Trump has tried to run America as well, you know, he's taking over companies,
[48:27.500 --> 48:30.300]  and he wants to run the companies.
[48:30.300 --> 48:34.500]  He's not just like, this is a failing company, that's important, here's some money, you
[48:34.500 --> 48:35.660]  guys try to get this thing together.
[48:35.660 --> 48:41.340]  No, he wants to actually run the companies, and run the country, and he wants to run the
[48:41.340 --> 48:43.540]  country into the ground, quite frankly.
[48:43.780 --> 48:49.860]  It's what he's doing with his tariffs, and his vacillation, actually, it's more like
[48:49.860 --> 48:55.300]  oscillation, because on again, off again, on again, off again.
[48:55.300 --> 49:00.940]  After all of his failed central planning, after all of the failed nation building that
[49:00.940 --> 49:07.540]  we have done, and various places that we've destroyed, he's now going to run Venezuela.
[49:07.540 --> 49:12.940]  Basically, it's going to be Marco Rubio, little Marco's going to run Venezuela.
[49:12.940 --> 49:20.380]  He may deliberately run it into the ground, just because he's got an axe, a chip on his
[49:20.380 --> 49:22.460]  shoulder, and an axe to grind.
[49:22.460 --> 49:26.940]  He doesn't like Cuba, he's trying to run Cuba into the ground, his family migrated
[49:26.940 --> 49:34.540]  from Cuba, so he really has been aching to get back at Cuba for the longest time.
[49:34.540 --> 49:46.300]  Well, you know, Trump has bankrupted half a dozen casinos, we'll see how many countries
[49:46.300 --> 49:52.460]  he can bankrupt, not just the US, but maybe he can also bankrupt Venezuela, we'll see.
[49:52.460 --> 50:01.660]  Again, somebody who is the king of debt, the king of bankruptcy, Trump doesn't know anything
[50:01.660 --> 50:03.940]  about running anything.
[50:03.940 --> 50:07.300]  He's a lucky loser, as the book pointed out.
[50:07.300 --> 50:13.060]  He comes in with a big stash of cash, and he doesn't know how to operate it.
[50:13.060 --> 50:21.260]  We're now closing in, we'll close in in the next year or two, on 40 trillion dollars.
[50:21.260 --> 50:25.460]  That's Trump, it was 19 when he was running for president.
[50:25.460 --> 50:30.480]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
[50:30.480 --> 50:34.700]  and I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion.
[50:34.700 --> 50:39.020]  We say those words all the time, and they sound good, they feel good.
[50:39.020 --> 50:44.880]  But here's the truth, those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action.
[50:44.880 --> 50:50.900]  And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world who doesn't know
[50:50.900 --> 50:57.220]  if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all.
[50:57.220 --> 51:03.080]  And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but that child is waiting.
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[52:04.840 --> 52:07.160]  No service members or military equipment was lost.
[52:07.160 --> 52:08.160]  Isn't that great?
[52:08.160 --> 52:09.160]  Well, it is great.
[52:09.160 --> 52:13.620]  I'm glad to see that no Americans were killed, but they don't care if Venezuelan civilians
[52:13.620 --> 52:14.620]  are killed.
[52:14.620 --> 52:15.620]  That doesn't matter, right?
[52:15.620 --> 52:17.840]  Not in their calculation.
[52:17.840 --> 52:24.000]  That's one of the first issues that shows you how we have lost our moral compass.
[52:24.000 --> 52:28.080]  We're going to stay in Venezuela until such time as a proper transition can take place.
[52:28.080 --> 52:34.880]  We're going to do nation building and a little bit of nation looting as we go along.
[52:34.880 --> 52:42.040]  And right away, he comes out and trashes the woman who was the leader of the opposition,
[52:42.040 --> 52:47.680]  the one who won the Nobel Prize for Peace over him.
[52:47.680 --> 52:54.640]  He trashes her, and he makes overtures to the vice president of Venezuela, who is a
[52:54.640 --> 53:01.400]  hardcore socialist and Zionist.
[53:01.400 --> 53:05.080]  And that was one of the things that was unforgivable for Maduro.
[53:05.080 --> 53:06.760]  He was anti-Israel.
[53:06.760 --> 53:09.000]  He was pro-Iran.
[53:09.000 --> 53:12.520]  In terms of his rhetoric, he didn't really have much that he could do about it, but he
[53:12.520 --> 53:14.420]  had to be taken out.
[53:14.420 --> 53:21.460]  So Trump repeated the claim that Venezuelan seized and stole American oil.
[53:21.460 --> 53:24.580]  You know, that was America's oil in the ground that was there.
[53:24.580 --> 53:27.060]  Yeah, that's right.
[53:27.060 --> 53:29.940]  Trump says what happened to Maduro can happen to others in Venezuela.
[53:29.940 --> 53:33.260]  It can happen to other countries as well.
[53:33.260 --> 53:36.140]  That's why I call him precedent Trump.
[53:36.140 --> 53:39.820]  He says he's not afraid to deploy troops to Venezuela if needed.
[53:40.220 --> 53:45.180]  Well, finally, the Senate may have something to say about that.
[53:45.180 --> 53:49.700]  They're talking about stopping him from sending any more troops, but there's going to be a
[53:49.700 --> 53:55.420]  lot of troops that are going to be necessary to be sent to Venezuela if you look at the
[53:55.420 --> 53:56.420]  past.
[53:56.420 --> 54:01.340]  It would be a shame, he says, if anything were to happen to Venezuela, so you just do
[54:01.340 --> 54:04.180]  what I say, just like a mafia boss.
[54:04.180 --> 54:07.700]  Nice country you got there, a lot of oil you got there, it would be a shame if anything
[54:07.700 --> 54:08.700]  were to happen to that.
[54:08.700 --> 54:14.460]  You know, well, you know, it wasn't that long ago that Tulsi Gabbard, it was only two months
[54:14.460 --> 54:16.420]  ago she said this about regime change.
[54:16.420 --> 54:23.140]  The old Washington way of thinking is something we hope is in the rearview mirror and something
[54:23.140 --> 54:26.100]  that has held us back for too long.
[54:26.100 --> 54:33.220]  For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of
[54:33.220 --> 54:35.820]  regime change or nation building.
[54:35.820 --> 54:43.500]  It was a one size fits all approach of toppling regimes, trying to impose our system of governance
[54:43.500 --> 54:48.940]  on others, intervene in conflicts that were barely understood and walk away with more
[54:48.940 --> 54:51.620]  enemies than allies.
[54:51.620 --> 55:00.100]  The results, trillions spent, countless lives lost, and in many cases a creation of greater
[55:00.740 --> 55:07.380]  security threats, the rise of Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS.
[55:07.380 --> 55:12.180]  President Trump was elected by the American people to put an end to this.
[55:12.180 --> 55:18.060]  From day one, he has showed a very different way to conduct foreign policy.
[55:18.060 --> 55:19.060]  That didn't age too well.
[55:19.060 --> 55:20.060]  That was only two months ago.
[55:20.060 --> 55:25.140]  And of course, Tulsi Gabbard, when she was running for president, was it back in 2020?
[55:25.140 --> 55:26.860]  She was saying the same things.
[55:26.860 --> 55:32.460]  She hasn't changed in what she's saying, but she is completely out of step with the
[55:32.460 --> 55:34.260]  new Donald Trump.
[55:34.260 --> 55:38.420]  And the new Donald Trump is completely out of step with candidate Trump as well.
[55:38.420 --> 55:39.420]  Remember this?
[55:39.420 --> 55:44.140]  We're going to move the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious
[55:44.140 --> 55:47.500]  transition.
[55:47.500 --> 55:54.420]  Our current strategy of nation building and regime change is a proven, absolute failure.
[55:54.460 --> 55:57.660]  We will break the cycle of regime change.
[55:57.660 --> 56:06.660]  We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton
[56:06.660 --> 56:11.780]  pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt, and in Syria.
[56:11.780 --> 56:13.620]  Regime change takes chaos.
[56:13.620 --> 56:16.740]  You've seen how that works over the last 20 years.
[56:16.740 --> 56:17.740]  That hasn't been too good.
[56:17.740 --> 56:20.900]  Not a reckless interventionist globalism.
[56:20.900 --> 56:25.380]  We're getting out of the nation building business.
[56:25.380 --> 56:33.220]  We're going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place.
[56:33.220 --> 56:35.460]  Yeah, that was then.
[56:35.460 --> 56:38.460]  This is now, right?
[56:38.460 --> 56:42.940]  That's one of the reasons why a lot of MAGA people are feeling betrayed yet again.
[56:42.940 --> 56:48.180]  How many times does it take before you people get out of your stupor?
[56:48.180 --> 56:54.340]  And then we've got Kristi Noem talking about the fact that we're going to now bring in
[56:54.340 --> 56:57.620]  Venezuelan immigrants, refugees.
[56:57.620 --> 57:00.740]  And of course, this is one of the things people said from the very beginning is to say, if
[57:00.740 --> 57:05.780]  Trump goes into Venezuela, we're going to be flooded with Venezuelan immigrants.
[57:05.780 --> 57:13.700]  And now Kristi Noem, head of ICE, is actually ICE's department underneath her.
[57:13.700 --> 57:15.460]  But now she's cheering this.
[57:15.460 --> 57:19.700]  Venezuela today is more free than it was yesterday, and it's going to continue to be that way
[57:19.700 --> 57:24.520]  as long as President Trump is in the White House and is making sure that he's protecting
[57:24.520 --> 57:30.060]  the interests of the American people because that ripple effect will continue to bring
[57:30.060 --> 57:32.460]  that kind of liberty to Venezuela as well.
[57:32.460 --> 57:34.940]  These programs, we're bringing integrity back to them.
[57:34.940 --> 57:39.300]  The decisions are made in conjunction with the State Department, with the White House,
[57:39.300 --> 57:43.700]  and then we at the Homeland Security implement them and make sure that they are followed
[57:43.700 --> 57:44.700]  through.
[57:45.020 --> 57:51.300]  Every individual that was under TPS has the opportunity to apply for refugee status, and
[57:51.300 --> 57:55.100]  that evaluation will look forward, but we need to make sure that our programs actually
[57:55.100 --> 57:57.700]  mean something and that we're following the law.
[57:57.700 --> 58:00.540]  And that's how that decision with TPS was made.
[58:00.540 --> 58:06.140]  Yeah, under Biden, they gave them a temporary protected status, I think is what TPS stood
[58:06.140 --> 58:08.100]  for, but that's essentially what it was.
[58:08.100 --> 58:11.540]  That's not exactly the words that they used.
[58:11.540 --> 58:15.780]  You wanted to have more people from Venezuela, and Maduro was opening up his prisons just
[58:15.780 --> 58:24.380]  like Castro had done when I was living in Florida as a young man, sending in criminals
[58:24.380 --> 58:26.820]  into Florida from Cuba.
[58:26.820 --> 58:33.140]  And so it's not just blood, it's not just treasure, it's also immigration.
[58:33.140 --> 58:35.380]  And that's what we get out of all this, right?
[58:35.380 --> 58:39.860]  We get a flood of Venezuelan immigrants.
[58:39.900 --> 58:42.340]  Get a pass to come in, just like under Biden.
[58:42.340 --> 58:44.700]  Isn't that interesting?
[58:44.700 --> 58:50.380]  So, but the thing that we have to focus on, as Trump is saying, no, just focus on the
[58:50.380 --> 58:57.260]  fact this is one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of the American military.
[58:57.260 --> 59:00.780]  Yeah, think of it as a fireworks display.
[59:00.780 --> 59:06.100]  So it was a culmination of months of planning and rehearsal, an operation that, frankly,
[59:06.100 --> 59:09.540]  only the US military could have undertaken.
[59:09.620 --> 59:15.140]  Said the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Kaine.
[59:17.140 --> 59:23.860]  It's something that they have now unleashed as a new Pandora's box of chaos.
[59:23.860 --> 59:26.500]  And they're going to reap the whirlwind with China.
[59:26.500 --> 59:30.020]  You just watch and see what happens with this.
[59:30.020 --> 59:36.380]  So as all this is happening, Warpete says, well, they after round and found out.
[59:36.380 --> 59:41.860]  Trump says, these other people down there in Latin America, they need to watch their
[59:41.860 --> 59:42.860]  ass.
[59:42.860 --> 59:44.660]  That's what he had to say.
[59:44.660 --> 59:47.500]  These guys are crude thugs.
[59:47.500 --> 59:49.180]  They're mafia.
[59:49.180 --> 59:51.420]  They're Rico kind of guys.
[59:51.420 --> 59:58.420]  Finally, Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to directly threaten the leaders of Cuba.
[59:58.420 --> 01:00:02.260]  If I were in power in Cuba, I'd be very worried right now.
[01:00:02.580 --> 01:00:06.700]  He's not very worried about being in power in Venezuela, as many people are pointing
[01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:07.700]  out.
[01:00:07.700 --> 01:00:09.700]  He's going to be the viceroy of Venezuela.
[01:00:09.700 --> 01:00:15.460]  Kind of alliteration that, you know, at least sounds impressive, whether it is or not, just
[01:00:15.460 --> 01:00:17.220]  means he's going to govern it.
[01:00:17.220 --> 01:00:19.540]  You think he's up to the task?
[01:00:19.540 --> 01:00:22.620]  He's already got a lot of different hats that he's wearing.
[01:00:22.620 --> 01:00:28.420]  He's already a secretary of state and other powers that we haven't seen since Richard
[01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:31.500]  Nixon gave that kind of authority to Henry Kissinger.
[01:00:31.500 --> 01:00:36.780]  So now he gets to rule Venezuela as well.
[01:00:36.780 --> 01:00:42.980]  And again, you keep hearing this rhetoric, just as John Stewart pointed out, he didn't
[01:00:42.980 --> 01:00:43.980]  put this one in.
[01:00:43.980 --> 01:00:48.100]  They love to talk about shock and awe, shock and awe.
[01:00:48.100 --> 01:00:50.140]  That's what it's all really about, right?
[01:00:50.140 --> 01:00:53.140]  Just recycled soundbites.
[01:00:53.140 --> 01:00:54.580]  And hey, you know, we've got the...
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[01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:57.000]  We should use it to steal.
[01:02:57.000 --> 01:03:01.800]  Jonathan Turley said this operation will be justified as executing a criminal warrant
[01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:07.360]  and responding to an international drug cartel, a very similar legal framework to the one
[01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.080]  used against Noriega in 1989.
[01:03:12.080 --> 01:03:15.600]  There is precedent for supporting this, he says.
[01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:21.640]  Well, you know what George H.W. Bush did when he went after Noriega was criminal.
[01:03:22.240 --> 01:03:24.840]  The Panama invasion was criminal.
[01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:27.520]  There was an excellent documentary about that.
[01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:29.320]  It was narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery.
[01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:32.840]  I remember we had it in our video store and I pushed it, everybody could.
[01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:37.960]  You should go back and take a look at that precedent that was there.
[01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:43.360]  And you should understand that strong man Noriega, that's what George H.W. Bush always
[01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:47.680]  called him, strong man this, strong man that, and wouldn't call him the president.
[01:03:47.720 --> 01:03:52.360]  They have to pretend that this person is not the legitimate leader of the country, and
[01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:56.960]  that's the same pretense that you see from Marco Rubio now.
[01:03:56.960 --> 01:04:03.160]  And the reality is that Noriega was running drugs with the CIA, with the biggest narco
[01:04:03.160 --> 01:04:11.200]  terrorist gang in the world, the CIA, until he decided that he was big enough that he
[01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:15.160]  would break off from them and go his own way.
[01:04:15.160 --> 01:04:17.880]  That's why he had to be taken out.
[01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:19.080]  It was illegal, but who cares?
[01:04:19.080 --> 01:04:21.200]  We now have a precedent.
[01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:25.680]  And I'm surprised that Jonathan Turley, a lawyer, can't see this, as I said at the
[01:04:25.680 --> 01:04:27.520]  top of the hour.
[01:04:27.520 --> 01:04:33.360]  When you look at what all this precedent stuff is and all this, well, what about this?
[01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:37.040]  Look, Biden did this, or George H.W. Bush did it.
[01:04:37.040 --> 01:04:40.000]  There's never any question about whether or not it was illegal when they got away with
[01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:41.000]  it.
[01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:44.880]  It's just like, well, wait, he stole that, I can steal it too.
[01:04:45.600 --> 01:04:47.080]  If I don't steal it, somebody else will.
[01:04:47.080 --> 01:04:51.000]  But somebody else has already stolen some stuff like that, so now I get to do it without
[01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:53.040]  any penalty.
[01:04:53.040 --> 01:04:59.760]  When you start governing by precedents and by emergencies and executive orders and all
[01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:04.000]  the rest of this stuff, that is a dictatorship, folks.
[01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:07.200]  That gets us away from the rule of law.
[01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:11.760]  And so if you're going to say, well, we can do this, even though it's against the law,
[01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:16.200]  we can do it because we had a former Republican president who did it, or we have a Democrat
[01:05:16.200 --> 01:05:22.880]  president who did it, that is the path to ruin, to lawlessness.
[01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:31.320]  Venezuela's hour of freedom has arrived, said Maria Carina Machado in a post.
[01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:36.240]  And we are ready for the reconstruction of our nation, except that she was immediately
[01:05:36.240 --> 01:05:39.560]  dissed by Trump.
[01:05:39.560 --> 01:05:44.600]  And I do think that I wasn't the only one to say it, I saw somebody else say it after
[01:05:44.600 --> 01:05:45.600]  I said it.
[01:05:45.600 --> 01:05:50.360]  I had not seen what they said, but they came to the same conclusion independently, is what
[01:05:50.360 --> 01:05:56.320]  I'm saying, that part of this is Trump being a sore loser about the Nobel Prize.
[01:05:56.320 --> 01:06:01.720]  He's not going to put the lady that he lost the Nobel Prize to in charge of Venezuela
[01:06:01.720 --> 01:06:03.960]  when he wanted it.
[01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:10.720]  So again, they put this guy on board the Iwo Jima Maduro, and they take his picture, handcuffs
[01:06:10.720 --> 01:06:11.720]  and blindfolds.
[01:06:11.720 --> 01:06:18.360]  You know, I look at that and I think, you know, Americans in my parents' generation
[01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.960]  fought and died for liberty for America.
[01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:29.640]  So this mafia don, Trump, can rule like a cartel warlord.
[01:06:29.720 --> 01:06:34.920]  I'm absolutely disgusted with this country, with this government, with this military,
[01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:37.640]  and the people who make excuses for it.
[01:06:37.640 --> 01:06:42.880]  Critics say the operation goes against Trump's campaign promise to end forever wars and regime
[01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:45.440]  change policies.
[01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:50.040]  As this article on Zero Hedge says, libertarians will probably be furious.
[01:06:50.040 --> 01:06:56.360]  Yeah, yeah, anybody who cares about the rule of law and liberty should be furious.
[01:06:56.360 --> 01:07:01.040]  And yet, pretty much crickets out there.
[01:07:01.040 --> 01:07:08.840]  However, says Zero Hedge, from Trump's perspective, eliminating a hostile communist regime that
[01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:14.080]  is a key ally of China and Russia in the Western Hemisphere fits directly into the administration's
[01:07:14.080 --> 01:07:15.920]  America First policy.
[01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:18.120]  Not at all.
[01:07:18.120 --> 01:07:24.200]  As a matter of fact, he doesn't want the woman who beat him for the Nobel Peace Prize that
[01:07:24.200 --> 01:07:25.560]  he wanted.
[01:07:25.720 --> 01:07:30.800]  Instead, what he's doing is he's taking this really hardcore communist who is the vice
[01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.240]  president and putting her in charge.
[01:07:33.240 --> 01:07:36.560]  All these people in MAGA who are saying, well, you had to get rid of these people because
[01:07:36.560 --> 01:07:41.800]  they're communists, they really don't know what they're talking about.
[01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.840]  Anybody who cares about the rule of law, not just libertarians, but if you care for liberty
[01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:49.080]  and peace, especially, you should be furious.
[01:07:49.080 --> 01:07:53.520]  But that's not what Breitbart Infowars or apparently, you know, WorldNet Daily, any
[01:07:53.520 --> 01:07:57.800]  of these Trump cheerleaders of war, maybe not even Zero Hedge.
[01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:01.320]  That's not really what they care about.
[01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:06.760]  They just want central planning and they don't mind the corruption that comes with it.
[01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:13.760]  So it would appear that a forever war is not in the cards with Maduro in custody.
[01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:16.040]  You don't think so?
[01:08:16.040 --> 01:08:20.280]  You know, what America has been very good at, and I remember when the Iraq war was being
[01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:25.760]  debated, I remember the phrase very clearly from National Review.
[01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:32.760]  They said at the time, the U.S. can and should reduce the Iraqi military to twisted metal.
[01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:38.080]  I think that was during the first Gulf War because I think it was William F. Buckley
[01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:41.600]  and I don't know if he was alive at the second one or not.
[01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:47.520]  But that really stuck with me, especially as we watched this thing unfold.
[01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:55.040]  Yes, the U.S. military is very good at reducing other militaries to twisted metal.
[01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:59.640]  What they're really poor at is occupying a country.
[01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:03.840]  What they're really poor at is building and looting the other countries.
[01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:08.080]  What they're really poor at is asymmetric warfare.
[01:09:08.080 --> 01:09:11.440]  We have failed in that repeatedly.
[01:09:11.440 --> 01:09:16.640]  And so we love to brag about our complex weapons systems that can take out their weapons systems
[01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:21.760]  but over and over again we see that as a Pyrrhic victory.
[01:09:21.760 --> 01:09:25.920]  Venezuela is not the only country south of the border that protects the activities of
[01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:28.280]  drug cartels, said Trump.
[01:09:28.280 --> 01:09:32.240]  So now, you know, we can put some other ones on the list.
[01:09:32.240 --> 01:09:36.280]  Is this starting to sound like what Wesley Clark said about the Middle East?
[01:09:36.280 --> 01:09:40.320]  Yeah, we've got a list of seven different countries and they're just going down the
[01:09:40.320 --> 01:09:41.320]  list.
[01:09:41.320 --> 01:09:45.480]  This is a prescription, folks, for endless war.
[01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:47.720]  One after the other.
[01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:52.240]  I think 2026 is going to be a year of war and I would not be surprised to see China,
[01:09:52.240 --> 01:09:59.640]  they're going through a lot of drills, a lot of buildup for an invasion of Taiwan.
[01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:03.240]  And I would not be surprised at all to see them do that.
[01:10:03.240 --> 01:10:09.720]  So again, the question is, as Zero Hedge writes, Venezuela is not the only country south the
[01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:13.680]  border that protects the activities of drug cartels.
[01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:17.440]  Are you going to still try to sell that lie that this is about drugs?
[01:10:17.440 --> 01:10:18.880]  Come on.
[01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:21.440]  Stop circling back to that lie.
[01:10:21.440 --> 01:10:24.640]  Zero Hedge, you should be better than this.
[01:10:24.640 --> 01:10:28.000]  I know they have a lot of different people write articles and so you get a lot of different
[01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:33.960]  angles from it, but some of them are really stupid and dishonest.
[01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:38.960]  The Democrats will seize on every opportunity to label Trump as a warmonger.
[01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:42.320]  Well, yeah, because he is.
[01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:43.600]  It is a partisan thing.
[01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:48.400]  They would not call their own people warmongers, but they will tell you the truth about Trump.
[01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:51.280]  And I've said this about the foreign press as well.
[01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:56.240]  I like to read RT because RT will tell you the truth about America, but they'll lie about
[01:10:56.240 --> 01:11:01.280]  Russia and the US press will lie about America, but they'll tell you the truth about Russia
[01:11:01.280 --> 01:11:02.640]  and vice versa.
[01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.040]  Well, same thing is true of the two political parties.
[01:11:05.040 --> 01:11:11.200]  Many conservatives are taking a F Venezuela approach and argue that it is high time.
[01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:16.080]  Something was done about an abusive, corrupt communist enclave in America's backyard.
[01:11:17.040 --> 01:11:23.360]  What Trump is doing is putting one of these abusive, corrupt communists and party in power,
[01:11:23.360 --> 01:11:24.240]  right?
[01:11:24.240 --> 01:11:26.000]  And you just do what I tell you to do.
[01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:26.640]  You better do it.
[01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:33.600]  So Pete Hexess says that the US intervention in Venezuela is the exact opposite of Iraq.
[01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:35.060]  Hmm.
[01:11:36.160 --> 01:11:43.200]  Maybe what he means is that instead of nation building, we're going to be involved in nation
[01:11:43.200 --> 01:11:43.600]  looting.
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[01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:23.040]  Be the exact opposite.
[01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:28.720]  We spent decades and decades and purchased in blood and got nothing economically in return.
[01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:33.040]  Trump is now going to flip the script, says Hegsett.
[01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:34.400]  So now we're going to go in.
[01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:35.120]  We're going to take the oil.
[01:13:35.120 --> 01:13:36.160]  We're going to loot the country.
[01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:39.520]  Is that any better?
[01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:40.560]  And who gets that money?
[01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:46.320]  As I said before, it's not going to be even used to pay down the debt.
[01:13:47.040 --> 01:13:49.680]  It's not going to be used to pay for the missiles and the bombs.
[01:13:50.480 --> 01:13:54.160]  And that's not even calculating lives that are lost on both sides.
[01:13:55.280 --> 01:13:56.320]  Who gets this money?
[01:13:57.120 --> 01:13:58.000]  Who gets this money?
[01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:03.920]  Well, as I pointed out, Maria Salazar said the oil company is going to make trillions
[01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:04.960]  of dollars off of this stuff.
[01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:05.440]  That's right.
[01:14:06.240 --> 01:14:08.000]  It'll be money for the big oil.
[01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:09.520]  It'll be money for big pharma.
[01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:17.600]  And you and I get the credit card bill, the national debt, if we don't get killed.
[01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:25.520]  Hegsett said that through strategic action, the US can ensure that it has access to additional
[01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:32.240]  wealth and resources, enabling a country to unleash that without having to spend American blood.
[01:14:34.080 --> 01:14:38.240]  War Peak goes full pirate, full theft.
[01:14:39.440 --> 01:14:46.080]  And again, the love of money, the love of the wealth that is in Venezuela that these
[01:14:46.080 --> 01:14:47.600]  communists can't extract.
[01:14:48.400 --> 01:14:48.720]  Why?
[01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:50.560]  Because they are trying to do central planning.
[01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:54.480]  But of course, Trump's not going to learn any lessons about failures of central planning.
[01:14:55.280 --> 01:14:59.360]  Instead, they're going to cover it up by going down and just stealing stuff from other people.
[01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:02.800]  Except it's not going to be stolen to pay down the debt.
[01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:04.880]  It'll be given to the oil companies.
[01:15:06.160 --> 01:15:09.840]  So Hegsett says the hemisphere will benefit from Trump's bold action.
[01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:12.320]  Let me tell you what I think is a likely scenario to happen.
[01:15:14.160 --> 01:15:22.160]  Now, we're not going to see the Venezuelan military sail into Manhattan like the mouse
[01:15:22.160 --> 01:15:24.320]  that roared or something like that.
[01:15:24.320 --> 01:15:25.360]  We're not going to see that.
[01:15:25.360 --> 01:15:29.760]  As a matter of fact, when we look at the way these wars are going to fold, here's my opinion.
[01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:31.520]  Here's what I see happening with it.
[01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:37.920]  I don't think that if things get really bad and Russia wants to attack us or China wants
[01:15:37.920 --> 01:15:43.600]  to attack us, I mean, there could be a direct confrontation over Taiwan if we're stupid enough.
[01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:49.440]  But the way it's really going to unfold is going to be done in a way that gives them
[01:15:49.440 --> 01:15:50.800]  plausible deniability.
[01:15:52.160 --> 01:15:57.360]  Russia and China even do not want to directly confront the United States
[01:15:57.360 --> 01:15:59.920]  with launching a missile, a nuclear missile.
[01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:03.280]  Only North Korea is crazy enough to do that.
[01:16:03.280 --> 01:16:04.800]  They don't really have the technology.
[01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:09.200]  But China and Russia don't want to do that.
[01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:14.640]  They would much rather use plausible deniability and attack our infrastructure.
[01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:17.760]  Just take a look at what's going on with Ukraine and Russia.
[01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:20.320]  Is Russia unleashing nuclear bombs?
[01:16:20.320 --> 01:16:22.560]  No, they don't want to invite a nuclear war.
[01:16:23.360 --> 01:16:24.720]  They're restraining that.
[01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:30.320]  Instead, what they're doing is they're launching drone attacks and sabotage acts
[01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:32.400]  on each other's infrastructure.
[01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:34.560]  You don't think that's going to happen here?
[01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.320]  If Russia and China really want to start something against us,
[01:16:39.040 --> 01:16:40.640]  they will engage in that type of thing.
[01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:42.320]  And guess who they will use?
[01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:47.680]  Drug cartels in Venezuela and Mexico to do that type of operation.
[01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:53.920]  And we've already seen drug cartels in Mexico go after law enforcement,
[01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:56.640]  go after politicians, assassinate them and attack them.
[01:16:57.840 --> 01:16:59.760]  If that same thing were to happen here,
[01:16:59.760 --> 01:17:02.960]  whether it was the actual cartel doing it
[01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:07.040]  or whether it was a false flag by our own government
[01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:09.760]  claiming that it was a cartel doing it,
[01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:15.120]  that will be the excuse that the Trump administration
[01:17:15.120 --> 01:17:18.560]  will use to enact actual martial law.
[01:17:19.280 --> 01:17:22.320]  And I believe that this rollout of the police
[01:17:22.320 --> 01:17:28.000]  is being done in a confrontational way as preparation for that.
[01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:32.880]  As I said before, if Trump wants to use a lot of force to deport people,
[01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:38.080]  he could have easily started in the states that are going to be friendly to that.
[01:17:38.080 --> 01:17:40.800]  Instead, he decided that he wanted the conflict
[01:17:41.440 --> 01:17:43.040]  more than he wanted the deportation.
[01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:46.160]  So he goes to Chicago, and he goes to New York,
[01:17:46.160 --> 01:17:50.480]  and he goes to Washington, D.C., because he thrives on conflict.
[01:17:51.120 --> 01:17:53.600]  This is the WWE presidency.
[01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:58.480]  And completely ignores the Somalians in Minnesota,
[01:17:58.480 --> 01:17:59.440]  which he knew about.
[01:17:59.440 --> 01:18:02.400]  That's been around since his first term.
[01:18:02.400 --> 01:18:05.120]  It was widely understood that these people
[01:18:05.120 --> 01:18:07.120]  were laundering and stealing money for El Shabaab,
[01:18:07.120 --> 01:18:11.520]  but he doesn't do anything about that in Minneapolis or Minnesota.
[01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:12.880]  Instead, he wants the conflict.
[01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:18.880]  What he wants is the militarized police, and he wants the military as police.
[01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:20.720]  And this is what Obama was doing.
[01:18:21.360 --> 01:18:25.040]  And when I was at Infowars, we went to a great deal of effort
[01:18:25.040 --> 01:18:27.360]  to try to expose that to people.
[01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:33.200]  Biggs and I risked a lot to go into that secure area
[01:18:33.200 --> 01:18:37.200]  within a military base at Fort Hill.
[01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:40.240]  I forget what they've called it now.
[01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:43.760]  They had to rename it because it was named after a Confederate general,
[01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:44.640]  Fort A.P. Hill.
[01:18:45.360 --> 01:18:47.600]  And there was an asymmetric warfare base that was there.
[01:18:48.320 --> 01:18:49.840]  We went in there, we filmed it.
[01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:52.400]  Alex was not happy with that, I've got to tell you.
[01:18:53.120 --> 01:18:57.600]  He did everything he could to deep-six that, and he never showed it again.
[01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:02.720]  But we broadcast live for a couple of hours there before we got arrested.
[01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:06.000]  And we got arrested because he demanded that we go back.
[01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:09.120]  I mean, I knew we were going to get in some hot water.
[01:19:09.120 --> 01:19:10.400]  That's why we left.
[01:19:10.400 --> 01:19:12.720]  I said, got Biggs to give me the cards.
[01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:18.800]  And we went to a mailbox, mailbox, et cetera, type of place.
[01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:20.640]  And I mailed it to my family.
[01:19:22.320 --> 01:19:25.280]  Because I figured we were going to be stopped at the airport before we got to that.
[01:19:25.280 --> 01:19:27.840]  But Alex called back and demanded that we go back
[01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:30.640]  and take pictures at the entrance of A.P. Hill.
[01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:32.080]  Of course, we immediately got arrested.
[01:19:32.640 --> 01:19:34.080]  We both knew that was going to happen.
[01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:35.440]  But anyway.
[01:19:35.440 --> 01:19:42.080]  So when you look at this, Trump has avoided the congressional approval for Maduro's capture.
[01:19:42.080 --> 01:19:42.960]  Of course he has.
[01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:47.680]  It raises constitutional concerns.
[01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:49.760]  Most Republicans, however, have chaired the action.
[01:19:50.320 --> 01:19:51.120]  Let me just say this.
[01:19:51.120 --> 01:19:55.440]  He doesn't want to have congressional approval for Maduro's capture.
[01:19:55.440 --> 01:19:55.680]  Why?
[01:19:56.240 --> 01:19:57.440]  He doesn't want the scrutiny.
[01:19:58.480 --> 01:20:00.720]  It's the same thing that you see with the climate people.
[01:20:01.520 --> 01:20:02.560]  Michael Mann and others.
[01:20:03.200 --> 01:20:04.400]  Don't want you to see my data.
[01:20:04.400 --> 01:20:08.640]  I want you to follow my conclusions and enact policies based on my conclusion.
[01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:10.480]  But you can't examine the data.
[01:20:11.440 --> 01:20:15.280]  Same thing was true of the COVID so-called pandemic.
[01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:17.200]  Don't want you to see the data on that.
[01:20:17.200 --> 01:20:19.680]  Don't want you to see the data on the vaccines.
[01:20:19.680 --> 01:20:21.520]  Just trust me, it's safe and effective.
[01:20:21.520 --> 01:20:22.080]  Don't look at that.
[01:20:22.080 --> 01:20:23.200]  We're not going to show that to you.
[01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:25.280]  So this is always the same thing.
[01:20:25.280 --> 01:20:27.760]  When people are afraid to show you the data,
[01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.960]  when they're afraid to make the case for what they want to do,
[01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:35.920]  when they're afraid to have debates and deliberations about wars,
[01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:38.240]  you know it's a dirty lie.
[01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:40.800]  It's always in the cards.
[01:20:41.440 --> 01:20:43.280]  That's what this is ultimately about.
[01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:48.960]  Well, Mike Lee showed himself to be completely spineless sycophant.
[01:20:49.680 --> 01:20:54.240]  As a matter of fact, what he put out was, first he put out,
[01:20:55.440 --> 01:20:57.760]  I look forward to learning what, if anything,
[01:20:57.760 --> 01:21:00.160]  might constitutionally justify this action
[01:21:00.160 --> 01:21:02.160]  in the absence of a declaration of war
[01:21:02.160 --> 01:21:05.520]  or authorization for the use of military force, he put out.
[01:21:06.480 --> 01:21:09.680]  Well, one hour later, he was begging,
[01:21:10.720 --> 01:21:12.960]  essentially begging for forgiveness.
[01:21:12.960 --> 01:21:16.720]  He got so heavily criticized and ratioed on social media
[01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:19.280]  over that initial post, which was true,
[01:21:20.400 --> 01:21:21.440]  that he comes back and says,
[01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:23.360]  well, I just got off the phone, Marco Rubio.
[01:21:24.240 --> 01:21:28.800]  He informed me that Maduro has been arrested by US personnel
[01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:31.200]  to stand trial on criminal charges in the US
[01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:34.000]  and that the kinetic action,
[01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:36.880]  what he means is dropping bombs on civilians,
[01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:38.160]  that's kinetic action,
[01:21:39.280 --> 01:21:43.440]  that we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend
[01:21:43.440 --> 01:21:45.200]  those executing the arrest warrant.
[01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:47.920]  Now stop and think about the absurdity of that.
[01:21:49.440 --> 01:21:51.600]  So we're doing a law enforcement operation.
[01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:55.680]  So there's a house that's got some drug dealers
[01:21:55.680 --> 01:21:57.280]  and let's say they got a meth lab or something
[01:21:57.280 --> 01:21:58.560]  like Breaking Bad or something.
[01:21:59.120 --> 01:22:01.200]  So law enforcement is going to go in
[01:22:01.200 --> 01:22:04.560]  and it's going to be necessary for them to bomb the houses
[01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:08.080]  in the neighborhood to get this one that is a meth lab.
[01:22:09.360 --> 01:22:10.480]  That's law enforcement.
[01:22:12.080 --> 01:22:15.280]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want to be honest with you
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[01:23:52.400 --> 01:23:53.440]  Law enforcement?
[01:23:53.440 --> 01:23:54.080]  Mike Lee?
[01:23:54.080 --> 01:23:54.960]  Are you kidding me?
[01:23:55.920 --> 01:23:58.720]  You know what this is, you spineless coward.
[01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:02.400]  But he got ratioed even on that.
[01:24:02.400 --> 01:24:04.480]  The comments under that were,
[01:24:04.480 --> 01:24:06.000]  I told you this if you were listening,
[01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:07.760]  he goes, well, and he even came back to that.
[01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:11.040]  He says, you're just some anonymous poster on Twitter.
[01:24:11.040 --> 01:24:13.360]  I'm going to the Secretary of State to know what this is.
[01:24:14.160 --> 01:24:18.240]  And he was making apologies and all the rest of stuff
[01:24:18.240 --> 01:24:22.960]  about having questioned Trump's unconstitutional war.
[01:24:24.480 --> 01:24:26.720]  He pretends that bombing the city is okay
[01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:31.040]  because it is in support of Trump's kidnapping
[01:24:31.040 --> 01:24:31.920]  of a foreign leader.
[01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:32.880]  Really?
[01:24:34.400 --> 01:24:36.800]  That's what we're talking about here.
[01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:41.280]  And it's interesting if you go back and look at
[01:24:42.080 --> 01:24:45.360]  what the extradition process is.
[01:24:46.320 --> 01:24:47.440]  The extradition laws,
[01:24:48.080 --> 01:24:49.760]  when you charge somebody with something,
[01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:53.600]  and we can see this as it's played out with Netanyahu.
[01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:58.400]  The bottom line is this is not a war.
[01:24:58.400 --> 01:25:00.080]  We never had a declaration.
[01:25:00.080 --> 01:25:02.240]  We've ignored the rules of war
[01:25:02.240 --> 01:25:04.800]  as we pretend that it's a war at sea.
[01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:06.960]  This is not about fentanyl.
[01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.160]  It's not about cocaine.
[01:25:09.120 --> 01:25:14.720]  And it doesn't matter if Biden and Trump had a bounty on Maduro.
[01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:17.120]  This is not a legal extradition.
[01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:21.040]  International law and extradition is primarily governed
[01:25:21.040 --> 01:25:24.400]  by bilateral and multilateral treaties between countries.
[01:25:25.680 --> 01:25:28.640]  There is no universal customary international law
[01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:30.880]  requiring states to extradite individuals.
[01:25:32.080 --> 01:25:36.000]  And so what this was, was an act of war.
[01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:38.560]  We don't have an extradition treaty with them.
[01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:42.800]  And of course, you're not going to extradite the leader of a country ever.
[01:25:44.240 --> 01:25:50.640]  They say typically follow the UN Nations Model Treaty on Extradition of 2004.
[01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:54.720]  It is a non-binding framework to guide states in drafting treaties
[01:25:55.440 --> 01:25:58.240]  or defining extradition as a surrender of a person
[01:25:58.240 --> 01:26:02.320]  who sought for prosecution or punishment of an extradition offense.
[01:26:03.280 --> 01:26:08.560]  And so the reality is, is that first of all,
[01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:13.040]  usually extradition is recognized only if there is dual criminality,
[01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:19.680]  if what the person is doing is a crime in that country as well as in our country.
[01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:23.920]  The alleged act must be punishable as a crime
[01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:26.400]  in both the requesting and requested states,
[01:26:27.120 --> 01:26:31.680]  often with a minimum penalty threshold, such as a year of imprisonment.
[01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:38.400]  Have you heard anybody talk about that and about what Maduro was actually charged with?
[01:26:39.040 --> 01:26:44.240]  I'll get to that in a minute, but it's not really anything that is that outrageous.
[01:26:44.240 --> 01:26:49.280]  As a matter of fact, we look at the people that they have summarily executed in these boats.
[01:26:50.240 --> 01:26:56.800]  The Department of Justice routinely doesn't even bother to charge couriers of cocaine.
[01:26:57.760 --> 01:26:59.520]  And that's really what we're talking about there.
[01:27:00.480 --> 01:27:06.640]  So grounds for refusal are things like terrorism or violence against heads of state.
[01:27:08.240 --> 01:27:09.920]  Those are the exceptions for that.
[01:27:10.720 --> 01:27:14.480]  And when the indicted person is a high ranking official of a foreign country,
[01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:18.480]  such as a head of state or a government minister,
[01:27:18.480 --> 01:27:22.240]  there's additional layers of customary handshaking that goes on.
[01:27:24.480 --> 01:27:29.280]  Serving heads of state enjoy absolute personal immunity.
[01:27:30.240 --> 01:27:33.200]  And under customary international law,
[01:27:33.200 --> 01:27:36.480]  which generally protects them from arrest, prosecution,
[01:27:36.480 --> 01:27:39.600]  and extradition by foreign states while in office,
[01:27:40.480 --> 01:27:43.520]  regardless of the nature of the alleged crimes.
[01:27:44.400 --> 01:27:49.280]  This immunity stems from principles of state sovereignty
[01:27:50.240 --> 01:27:53.440]  and non-interference within a state from another state.
[01:27:53.440 --> 01:27:54.800]  And that's what the issue is here.
[01:27:55.200 --> 01:27:59.280]  It extends to acts performed in both official and private capacities.
[01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:04.960]  I think it's one of the reasons why you see that Trump's hero, Duterte, in the Philippines,
[01:28:04.960 --> 01:28:11.280]  who decided that he was going to just execute people that he thought had committed crimes,
[01:28:11.280 --> 01:28:16.720]  drug crimes, that's why they arrested him and put him in international criminal court
[01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:18.160]  after he left office.
[01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:20.240]  That's typically what you see.
[01:28:20.480 --> 01:28:21.840]  That's typically what you see.
[01:28:23.200 --> 01:28:31.840]  But this is also the reason why Rubio continues to pretend that Maduro is not president.
[01:28:32.400 --> 01:28:33.520]  Now, he wasn't elected president.
[01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:34.560]  He's not president.
[01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:35.520]  He's just a usurper.
[01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:36.080]  He's sitting there.
[01:28:36.080 --> 01:28:37.520]  He's not really the president.
[01:28:38.400 --> 01:28:39.520]  I just have to ask this.
[01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:46.320]  What would Trump and a Zionist who support Netanyahu say?
[01:28:46.400 --> 01:28:51.840]  What would they say if Netanyahu were, assuming that people could do it,
[01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:53.840]  if Netanyahu were kidnapped?
[01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:56.480]  Let's say he's on a foreign trip or something.
[01:28:57.280 --> 01:28:59.920]  What would they say if Netanyahu was arrested?
[01:28:59.920 --> 01:29:05.600]  Because he does have the international criminal court has put out a warrant for his arrest.
[01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:08.640]  Now, that is not a government entity.
[01:29:12.240 --> 01:29:13.760]  It's an international tribunal.
[01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:14.960]  It's not a national court.
[01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:19.680]  But the international criminal court has an arrest warrant out for Netanyahu,
[01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:25.520]  charging him with war crimes, including starvation as a method of warfare
[01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:28.240]  and intentionally directing attacks against civilians.
[01:29:29.440 --> 01:29:35.440]  So would Trump and War Pete be in favor of somebody going and getting Netanyahu?
[01:29:35.440 --> 01:29:39.760]  As a matter of fact, there is a country that has charged him with crimes as well.
[01:29:40.320 --> 01:29:45.760]  In November, this last November, Turkey issued a national arrest warrant against Netanyahu
[01:29:46.320 --> 01:29:52.480]  for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza along with other senior Israeli officials.
[01:29:54.240 --> 01:29:58.560]  So if allegations of something are sufficient,
[01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:02.640]  and if you can go get anybody that you alleged has created a crime,
[01:30:03.280 --> 01:30:05.360]  including heads of state, you can kidnap them.
[01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:09.040]  What is the precedent that is being set here?
[01:30:09.840 --> 01:30:11.360]  That's something we should all think about.
[01:30:11.360 --> 01:30:13.520]  Well, I want to thank Star Barkley.
[01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:14.400]  Thank you for the tip.
[01:30:14.400 --> 01:30:15.200]  I appreciate that.
[01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:16.160]  Right.
[01:30:16.160 --> 01:30:19.600]  So just a tip to start off the new year with both feet on the ground,
[01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:20.480]  not right or left.
[01:30:20.480 --> 01:30:21.040]  Thank you.
[01:30:21.040 --> 01:30:21.840]  Thank you very much.
[01:30:21.840 --> 01:30:22.640]  I appreciate that.
[01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:26.000]  Flump 76.
[01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:26.800]  Thank you for the tips.
[01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:29.120]  As politicians get to rob the treasury blind,
[01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:35.680]  and then just invade other nations to get back on track, rinse and repeat.
[01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:38.400]  I agree, except I don't think that this is going to get us back on track.
[01:30:39.200 --> 01:30:44.720]  I think all this excitement by the MAGA influencers
[01:30:44.720 --> 01:30:46.800]  over this and being picked up by the rank and file.
[01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:48.880]  Oh, look, you know, we just made 17 trillion.
[01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:50.800]  We're on the road to paying off our debt.
[01:30:50.800 --> 01:30:53.200]  No, I don't think a penny of that's going to go.
[01:30:54.000 --> 01:30:57.680]  Good luck in getting taxes from the oil corporations
[01:30:57.680 --> 01:30:59.440]  that are going to get this stuff handed to them.
[01:31:01.040 --> 01:31:02.160]  We all know how that works.
[01:31:03.120 --> 01:31:04.720]  Gard Goldsmith, Liberty Conspiracy.
[01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:05.680]  Good to see you there, Gard.
[01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:06.320]  Happy New Year.
[01:31:07.280 --> 01:31:08.720]  We are not individuals to them.
[01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:09.840]  We're not souls to them.
[01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:13.520]  We're nothing more than building blocks for their greater good.
[01:31:14.480 --> 01:31:15.840]  The pieces of their pyramid.
[01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:16.240]  That's right.
[01:31:16.240 --> 01:31:17.520]  We are livestock.
[01:31:19.120 --> 01:31:22.480]  Henry Kissinger has said as much about the military even.
[01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:24.960]  Hapa Power.
[01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:28.000]  But as well as free to have gay pride parade parties now.
[01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:28.800]  That's right.
[01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.920]  That was one of the things that many people pointed out
[01:31:33.040 --> 01:31:35.760]  is that you can criticize him for being a communist.
[01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:39.440]  And yeah, he gets a zero on economics.
[01:31:40.640 --> 01:31:43.520]  He gets a zero on most liberty issues.
[01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:47.840]  But he also was standing in the ground against the LGBT lobby.
[01:31:48.400 --> 01:31:52.080]  He stood ground against child mutilation and sterilization
[01:31:52.080 --> 01:31:52.880]  and things like that.
[01:31:52.880 --> 01:31:53.440]  DG8.
[01:31:53.440 --> 01:31:54.160]  Thank you for the tips.
[01:31:54.160 --> 01:31:54.800]  That's David.
[01:31:55.440 --> 01:31:59.120]  Tell me again how Trump is a Christian talking like that.
[01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:01.360]  MAGA will believe anything.
[01:32:01.360 --> 01:32:11.680]  Well, Trump, I don't know that he's actually said that he's a Christian.
[01:32:11.680 --> 01:32:12.400]  Pete Hegseth.
[01:32:12.400 --> 01:32:14.400]  I mean, he says he's a Christian.
[01:32:14.400 --> 01:32:16.560]  He's got it tattooed all over his arms and everything.
[01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:22.960]  Let me just say, he's going to Doug Wilson's church plant there in Washington, D.C.
[01:32:22.960 --> 01:32:26.640]  Doug, you need to do some church discipline on this guy.
[01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:32.000]  You need to start talking to him about basic ethical and moral principles.
[01:32:32.640 --> 01:32:37.840]  You need to do a lecture series on the just war, understanding of war,
[01:32:38.400 --> 01:32:42.080]  that has informed Christian civilizations for quite some time.
[01:32:42.080 --> 01:32:43.840]  Ben Ferguson Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.040]  And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute.
[01:32:47.040 --> 01:32:51.280]  And I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion.
[01:32:51.280 --> 01:32:54.480]  We say those words all the time and they sound good.
[01:32:54.480 --> 01:32:55.520]  They feel good.
[01:32:55.520 --> 01:32:57.120]  But here's the truth.
[01:32:57.120 --> 01:33:01.360]  Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action.
[01:33:01.360 --> 01:33:06.400]  And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world
[01:33:06.400 --> 01:33:11.200]  who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn,
[01:33:11.200 --> 01:33:13.680]  or if there's any hope at all.
[01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:17.760]  And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward.
[01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:19.600]  But that child is waiting.
[01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:23.120]  This is where you come in with Compassion International.
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[01:34:21.200 --> 01:34:23.520]  I think he also writes, David, notice that BB comes here.
[01:34:23.520 --> 01:34:27.760]  The very next day, Trump threatens Iran and invades Venezuela.
[01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:29.040]  Who is in charge of the USA?
[01:34:29.040 --> 01:34:30.240]  Well, I think we know, right?
[01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:34.160]  As a matter of fact, when you look at this war for Israel,
[01:34:34.160 --> 01:34:36.400]  I talked about how they were leading this up and saying,
[01:34:36.400 --> 01:34:41.760]  well, okay, we can't get Trump to attack Iran again.
[01:34:41.760 --> 01:34:46.880]  Netanyahu has been selling that lie that Iran is going to have a bomb.
[01:34:47.360 --> 01:34:50.560]  Any day now, any day now, they're going to have a nuclear bomb.
[01:34:50.560 --> 01:34:53.120]  And he's been telling people that for 35 years.
[01:34:53.120 --> 01:34:54.480]  They're just days or months away.
[01:34:55.600 --> 01:34:59.280]  And so now Trump has bombed these facilities and said
[01:34:59.280 --> 01:35:00.240]  he completely destroyed them.
[01:35:00.240 --> 01:35:03.920]  So he can't make Trump lose face in that.
[01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:07.760]  So now they have to talk about the fact that it's about missiles and general.
[01:35:07.760 --> 01:35:09.440]  It's now become really vague.
[01:35:10.240 --> 01:35:12.320]  And it's just a general war against Iran.
[01:35:13.120 --> 01:35:15.280]  And you know, that's the other thing that happened over the weekend.
[01:35:16.240 --> 01:35:20.400]  And that is the fact that, and I'm going to skip the break here, actually,
[01:35:20.400 --> 01:35:22.560]  because I want to talk about this since it was brought up.
[01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:25.040]  What is going on with Iran?
[01:35:25.040 --> 01:35:32.720]  Well, he's going to basically save the behind of the Ayatollahs with his talk.
[01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:33.840]  Yeah, we're locked and loaded.
[01:35:34.400 --> 01:35:36.400]  When you look at what is happening in Iran,
[01:35:36.400 --> 01:35:44.160]  Iran is experiencing the same thing a lot of countries are, you know,
[01:35:44.160 --> 01:35:46.720]  as Gerald Slinty said, this is a trend we're going to see.
[01:35:47.360 --> 01:35:51.760]  Gen Z, the up and coming generation, is looking at this and saying we have no future.
[01:35:52.720 --> 01:35:54.320]  This is happening globally.
[01:35:54.320 --> 01:35:55.840]  You had riots in Nepal.
[01:35:56.480 --> 01:36:00.000]  You had riots in a lot of different areas about this type of thing.
[01:36:01.120 --> 01:36:03.040]  And now it's hitting in Iran.
[01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:06.560]  And Iran's economy has not been all that good.
[01:36:07.760 --> 01:36:11.120]  You know, people, it seems like people will put up a tyranny
[01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:14.240]  as long as the economy is good.
[01:36:14.240 --> 01:36:18.720]  But then once the economy starts to tamper down,
[01:36:18.720 --> 01:36:22.160]  people start to notice the tyranny and get really upset about that.
[01:36:22.160 --> 01:36:25.520]  They get upset because they don't have any future.
[01:36:25.520 --> 01:36:28.640]  And as we're looking at asymmetric warfare, that was the assessment
[01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:31.680]  of the Pentagon planners as they were talking about
[01:36:31.680 --> 01:36:34.800]  why they were doing so poorly in Iraq and other places.
[01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:38.080]  I said, you know, who are these people that are fighting us in Iraq?
[01:36:38.080 --> 01:36:41.120]  I said, well, they're typically not religious zealots.
[01:36:41.680 --> 01:36:43.920]  The religious zealotry comes later.
[01:36:44.560 --> 01:36:48.640]  What happens, first of all, is usually these people are well educated.
[01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:50.240]  Many of them had degrees in engineering.
[01:36:50.240 --> 01:36:55.360]  They had a future that came from a upper middle class or wealthy family.
[01:36:56.080 --> 01:36:59.120]  And then all of a sudden, they feel like that's been taken away from them
[01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:01.200]  because of geopolitics.
[01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:04.000]  That's what motivates them.
[01:37:04.640 --> 01:37:08.320]  Then they bring in the religion aspect after the fact.
[01:37:08.960 --> 01:37:11.040]  But this is what is happening in Iran.
[01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:14.800]  And you go back and you look at what happened under the Shah.
[01:37:14.800 --> 01:37:19.760]  The Shah, the economic growth in Iran was staggering.
[01:37:20.320 --> 01:37:21.760]  We should have it so good here.
[01:37:21.760 --> 01:37:23.440]  We never have, not in my lifetime,
[01:37:24.160 --> 01:37:26.160]  when you look at what has happened in the United States.
[01:37:26.400 --> 01:37:31.840]  They were getting 13, 14 percent a year economic growth,
[01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:34.240]  and it really kicked into high gear with OPEC stuff.
[01:37:34.240 --> 01:37:36.080]  But a lot of that was the U.S.
[01:37:37.200 --> 01:37:41.680]  Even as that was happening in the late 1970s, as I said many times,
[01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:45.200]  there were a lot of engineering students who were Iranian
[01:37:45.200 --> 01:37:47.600]  at the University of South Florida, where I was in engineering.
[01:37:48.560 --> 01:37:50.800]  And I saw these guys out there.
[01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:54.000]  I didn't recognize them, but because they were wearing balaclavas.
[01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:58.480]  And so I knew there were a lot of these guys in engineering classes.
[01:37:58.480 --> 01:37:59.840]  I didn't usually talk to them.
[01:37:59.840 --> 01:38:02.880]  But I was curious because they were having all these protests
[01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:04.080]  and they were wearing these hoods.
[01:38:05.040 --> 01:38:06.400]  So I asked them, I said, what's that about?
[01:38:06.400 --> 01:38:10.880]  They said, well, whenever we have a protest of what the Shah is doing,
[01:38:11.680 --> 01:38:14.720]  there are people in the crowd who are working for his secret police.
[01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:17.920]  They take pictures of us and they identify our families
[01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:21.280]  and they arrest our families, put them in jail, torture them.
[01:38:21.280 --> 01:38:22.560]  That's why we wear the masks.
[01:38:23.280 --> 01:38:24.720]  I said, that's horrible.
[01:38:24.720 --> 01:38:27.600]  Said, yeah, it's your government that trained them.
[01:38:27.600 --> 01:38:28.640]  It was the CIA.
[01:38:29.200 --> 01:38:32.960]  Again, back to the CIA, the criminal intelligence.
[01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:36.880]  Let's just call them agency instead of a-holes.
[01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:42.720]  But the CIA trained the SAVAK and it's very repressive.
[01:38:43.760 --> 01:38:46.480]  But by and large, the people put up with it
[01:38:46.480 --> 01:38:49.760]  until the economy tapered off and started to turn down a little bit.
[01:38:49.760 --> 01:38:52.400]  Part of the reason that it tapered off and turned down
[01:38:53.360 --> 01:38:56.880]  was because of people's reaction to that oppression.
[01:38:56.880 --> 01:39:04.480]  But all of a sudden it accelerated as people and capital began fleeing from Iran.
[01:39:04.480 --> 01:39:06.000]  They could see the handwriting on the wall.
[01:39:07.840 --> 01:39:12.000]  So perhaps the same type of thing could happen in Iran.
[01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:16.800]  You've had a lot of people that have been killed and a lot of riots that were there.
[01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:20.160]  You even had a situation of one guy doing a standoff to the militarized police
[01:39:20.160 --> 01:39:24.000]  and they even called it Tehranian Square or something to that effect.
[01:39:24.720 --> 01:39:26.640]  Referring back to Tiananmen Square.
[01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:29.040]  So what does Trump do?
[01:39:30.080 --> 01:39:31.760]  He threatens Iran.
[01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:34.400]  He threatens the Ayatollah government.
[01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:37.280]  Yeah, we're locked and loaded, he said.
[01:39:38.320 --> 01:39:43.120]  Do you understand that that is already being used by the Ayatollahs to say,
[01:39:43.120 --> 01:39:46.640]  well, look, that's the great Satan that's threatening us.
[01:39:47.200 --> 01:39:48.720]  To coalesce support around them.
[01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:56.640]  Always people will take you to war in order to save their sorry domestic government.
[01:39:57.600 --> 01:39:59.040]  Trump is doing it for them.
[01:40:00.480 --> 01:40:01.760]  He's going to go to war with them.
[01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:03.600]  He's going to go to war with them with rhetoric.
[01:40:04.160 --> 01:40:08.000]  Trump is bailing out the Ayatollahs in Iran.
[01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:11.200]  And this is the insanity of our foreign policy to Iran.
[01:40:11.200 --> 01:40:13.200]  It's been wrong about everything.
[01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:20.480]  And American involvement with Iran did not begin with a takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 79.
[01:40:21.280 --> 01:40:27.680]  That was the end of decades of bad policy and oppression and torture
[01:40:27.680 --> 01:40:30.880]  and a murderous tyrannical regime that we financed.
[01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:35.120]  And we thought we could get away with it because we were funneling money to them
[01:40:35.120 --> 01:40:37.040]  and they were seeing their standard of living rise.
[01:40:38.240 --> 01:40:39.760]  No, not necessarily.
[01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:43.360]  And so you see the same type of thing being done still in Iran.
[01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:46.080]  We never, ever learn.
[01:40:46.800 --> 01:40:47.680]  Never, ever learn.
[01:40:48.400 --> 01:40:51.600]  Gard Goldsmith says even if the U.S. were to overlook international treaties
[01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:52.880]  and not ask for extradition,
[01:40:53.840 --> 01:40:56.720]  the Congress would have to pass letters of marque
[01:40:57.360 --> 01:41:01.920]  to hire people to go after enemy combatants or pirates, etc.
[01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:02.960]  Well, you're absolutely right.
[01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:06.960]  We don't care about any of that anymore, do we?
[01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:13.520]  Well, I am going to take a break here and we're going to be right back.
[01:41:14.160 --> 01:41:18.000]  And I think, well, I do have a new song that we're going to play today.
[01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:19.520]  I hope you enjoy it.
[01:41:19.520 --> 01:41:22.640]  But I want to play a Christmas song here at this point in time.
[01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:25.520]  I know it's after Christmas, after New Year's, but I don't care.
[01:43:36.960 --> 01:43:49.200]  I want to, before I run out of time, I want to talk about
[01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:52.160]  something else that dropped over the weekend
[01:43:52.160 --> 01:43:55.680]  that didn't get nearly as much attention as it deserved.
[01:43:56.640 --> 01:43:59.840]  This is a billionaire, an Israeli billionaire
[01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:03.520]  who is involved in cybersecurity.
[01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:05.920]  And he runs a checkpoint software,
[01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:08.720]  Cato networks and other things like that.
[01:44:08.720 --> 01:44:10.880]  His name is Shlomo Kramer.
[01:44:12.080 --> 01:44:17.280]  He came to the U.S. and said that we need to end the First Amendment in order to save it.
[01:44:17.280 --> 01:44:18.640]  I know it's difficult to hear,
[01:44:18.640 --> 01:44:23.600]  but it's time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it
[01:44:24.480 --> 01:44:26.320]  and quickly before it's too late.
[01:44:26.320 --> 01:44:27.280]  What do you mean?
[01:44:27.280 --> 01:44:31.200]  I mean that we need to control the platforms,
[01:44:32.080 --> 01:44:33.680]  all the social platforms.
[01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:43.360]  We need to stack rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online
[01:44:43.360 --> 01:44:48.960]  and take control over what they are saying based on that ranking.
[01:44:48.960 --> 01:44:51.680]  The government, the government should control the social media.
[01:44:53.840 --> 01:44:54.160]  All right.
[01:44:54.160 --> 01:44:54.800]  Think about that.
[01:44:56.960 --> 01:44:57.760]  What does that mean?
[01:44:57.760 --> 01:44:59.600]  You know, first of all, what does it mean to say
[01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.800]  we need to end the First Amendment in order to protect it?
[01:45:03.440 --> 01:45:05.440]  What absurdity, what doublespeak.
[01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:07.120]  It's truly Orwellian.
[01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:13.120]  And when he starts talking about the state ranking authenticity,
[01:45:13.120 --> 01:45:14.320]  let's talk about that as well.
[01:45:15.280 --> 01:45:20.240]  They're going to rank you and they're going to look at your authenticity,
[01:45:20.240 --> 01:45:23.040]  which means do you agree with what the state has to say?
[01:45:24.560 --> 01:45:27.520]  I've talked many times about the CCPA.
[01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:30.080]  I call it the Chinese Communist Party of America,
[01:45:30.080 --> 01:45:36.720]  but actually it stands for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.
[01:45:38.240 --> 01:45:43.440]  And this is a coalition of hardware and software companies
[01:45:43.440 --> 01:45:46.080]  as well as news organizations and governments
[01:45:47.120 --> 01:45:51.200]  to look at your content and to look at who that content is coming from.
[01:45:51.200 --> 01:45:52.960]  That's what they mean by provenance.
[01:45:54.240 --> 01:45:57.120]  They will then authenticate you and rank you.
[01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:02.560]  And if you are a despised person because of your opinions,
[01:46:03.360 --> 01:46:12.160]  you'll not be able to even create audio or video or still picture memes or write articles.
[01:46:12.160 --> 01:46:13.120]  They will block you.
[01:46:13.920 --> 01:46:17.360]  And you've got the big companies.
[01:46:17.360 --> 01:46:20.960]  Microsoft was heading all of this stuff, putting together this coalition.
[01:46:21.520 --> 01:46:26.320]  You had companies like Intel and Arm creating the processors.
[01:46:26.320 --> 01:46:34.400]  You had Adobe Software Creator all coming together in this coalition
[01:46:34.400 --> 01:46:36.720]  to identify you, to identify your computer,
[01:46:36.720 --> 01:46:41.040]  and to keep you from being able to create, keep you from being able to upload.
[01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:42.960]  That's what he's talking about.
[01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:44.000]  This is a very real thing.
[01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:48.640]  This is not just an off the cuff remark from his Israeli billionaire.
[01:46:49.600 --> 01:46:51.760]  And that's the way that Israel blesses us.
[01:46:52.480 --> 01:46:56.240]  Now, when people put that up, a lot of people came back and said,
[01:46:56.240 --> 01:46:58.880]  well, that's not Netanyahu at all.
[01:46:58.880 --> 01:47:00.880]  He doesn't reflect the Netanyahu guy.
[01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:06.400]  Well, it turns out that he and Netanyahu have had their personal differences in Israel.
[01:47:06.960 --> 01:47:16.880]  As a matter of fact, in Israel, this shlomo defended liberal democracy against Netanyahu.
[01:47:17.440 --> 01:47:19.360]  He said, we need freedom in Israel.
[01:47:19.360 --> 01:47:21.040]  He just doesn't want freedom for you.
[01:47:21.920 --> 01:47:27.200]  And understand that Netanyahu is more authoritarian than this guy
[01:47:27.840 --> 01:47:29.520]  who is saying we've got to end the First Amendment.
[01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:33.680]  Of course, he's not going to end freedoms for Israelis.
[01:47:33.680 --> 01:47:36.080]  He wants to end freedoms for Americans.
[01:47:37.280 --> 01:47:40.880]  Your freedom to criticize the Israelis must be ended.
[01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:42.720]  You don't think Netanyahu supports that?
[01:47:42.720 --> 01:47:45.280]  You don't think that they are on the same page with this?
[01:47:45.280 --> 01:47:47.760]  Well, if you think that, you haven't been paying attention.
[01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:53.280]  It's Netanyahu getting the Trump administration to penalize anybody who criticizes
[01:47:54.240 --> 01:47:56.880]  the state of Israel, calling it anti-Semitism.
[01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:58.240]  It's not anti-Semitism.
[01:47:59.040 --> 01:48:02.080]  It's against a political organization, which, as I pointed out last week,
[01:48:05.520 --> 01:48:10.160]  when you look at the vaccine, the pandemic stuff, he was one of the worst offenders
[01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:14.320]  of all the global leaders who were on the same page in lockstep.
[01:48:14.320 --> 01:48:18.720]  But he was one offering his people as lab rats to Pfizer
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[01:50:07.840 --> 01:50:11.760]  And now that that happened and a lot of people got hurt in Israel,
[01:50:13.040 --> 01:50:14.720]  he harmed a lot of Jews there.
[01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:19.040]  And now that people have seen that same reaction that we're seeing here,
[01:50:19.040 --> 01:50:21.040]  people don't want to get the childhood shots.
[01:50:21.920 --> 01:50:23.840]  People are starting to question the whole vaccine thing.
[01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:29.600]  So the Netanyahu administration is talking about how they can penalize financially
[01:50:30.240 --> 01:50:34.160]  people who don't get the vaccine schedule that's been demanded.
[01:50:34.160 --> 01:50:40.400]  So yeah, Netanyahu doesn't care even about the civil liberties of Jews in Israel.
[01:50:40.960 --> 01:50:43.760]  He certainly doesn't care about the civil liberties of Americans here.
[01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:49.360]  This guy who opposed him for attacking the freedoms and civil liberties of Jews,
[01:50:50.240 --> 01:50:55.840]  this Shlomo Kramer, wants to, however, do the same thing to us.
[01:50:57.040 --> 01:50:59.440]  Both of them agree on punishing Israel.
[01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:06.400]  That's your blessing for all the people who misread that biblical passage there.
[01:51:07.520 --> 01:51:13.520]  So again, censorship for us, but not for them.
[01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:16.800]  So a top Department of Justice official
[01:51:17.920 --> 01:51:22.320]  who trained Pam Bondi on ethics rules in the department was then fired.
[01:51:23.440 --> 01:51:26.080]  And if you don't think that these people are fully on board with this,
[01:51:26.080 --> 01:51:31.920]  if you don't think that Pam Bondi is fully on board with censorship over hate speech,
[01:51:32.880 --> 01:51:37.600]  this is an older clip of her talking about that in the context of criticizing Israel.
[01:51:37.600 --> 01:51:40.240]  There's free speech and then there's hate speech.
[01:51:40.240 --> 01:51:46.400]  And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in our society.
[01:51:47.120 --> 01:51:53.280]  Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and
[01:51:53.280 --> 01:51:57.760]  putting cuffs on people so we show them that some action is better than no action?
[01:51:57.760 --> 01:52:00.800]  We will absolutely target you.
[01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:06.400]  Go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything.
[01:52:06.400 --> 01:52:07.440]  And that's across the aisle.
[01:52:07.440 --> 01:52:09.200]  Any speech that we hate, right?
[01:52:10.080 --> 01:52:13.600]  Yeah, we're going to go after you if you say anything that we hate, that we disagree with.
[01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:18.960]  And this has been going on for some...
[01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:22.400]  Look, if you don't tolerate speech that you disagree with,
[01:52:22.400 --> 01:52:23.920]  you don't tolerate free speech at all.
[01:52:24.480 --> 01:52:27.200]  There's no distinction between free speech and hate speech.
[01:52:27.200 --> 01:52:34.080]  If you have hate speech laws, that is a repudiation of free speech.
[01:52:34.800 --> 01:52:37.840]  Well, Bondi says she's going to hold former officials accountable
[01:52:38.480 --> 01:52:40.080]  for government weaponization.
[01:52:41.200 --> 01:52:43.760]  She's talking about getting rid of the First Amendment as well.
[01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:48.400]  Again, she's going to decide what is true and false.
[01:52:49.120 --> 01:52:51.280]  She will decide what is weaponization.
[01:52:52.000 --> 01:52:54.560]  And of course, if she comes after the First Amendment,
[01:52:55.360 --> 01:52:57.360]  it's not weaponization of government at all.
[01:52:58.320 --> 01:53:01.760]  Well, she better start with herself if she's going to come after people
[01:53:02.480 --> 01:53:06.800]  who are weaponizing government against other individuals.
[01:53:07.360 --> 01:53:10.640]  Did Brett Kavanaugh just apologize for betraying the Fourth Amendment?
[01:53:10.640 --> 01:53:11.600]  Maybe, says Reason.
[01:53:13.200 --> 01:53:16.720]  Back in September, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned emergency order
[01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:23.120]  that effectively permitted racial profiling as part of Trump's roving immigration crackdowns.
[01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:28.480]  Writing in concurrence, Kavanaugh claimed that it was only common sense
[01:53:29.200 --> 01:53:32.640]  to allow immigration agents to stop people based on such
[01:53:32.640 --> 01:53:36.720]  relevant factors, he said, as, quote, apparent ethnicity.
[01:53:37.680 --> 01:53:41.920]  Well, it's kind of interesting because now that he's seen a couple of months of this,
[01:53:43.200 --> 01:53:44.720]  he's had a change of heart.
[01:53:44.720 --> 01:53:49.200]  It reminds me very much of the case that I've talked about so many times about
[01:53:49.200 --> 01:53:53.120]  the Cherokee Trail of Tears and how Andrew Jackson
[01:53:54.480 --> 01:53:58.000]  went to the Supreme Court over this, you know, can I move these people,
[01:53:58.000 --> 01:54:01.360]  can I deport them out of their homeland into some other place?
[01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:04.080]  And the Supreme Court green-lighted it.
[01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:08.000]  And then when they saw what was happening with the Trail of Tears,
[01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:11.440]  they had a change of heart and they reversed it.
[01:54:12.160 --> 01:54:17.600]  And Andrew Jackson famously said, well, they've issued their opinion, let's see them enforce it.
[01:54:18.400 --> 01:54:24.800]  He had the force and he actually had the law and the Constitution on his side because of
[01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:25.840]  the separation of powers.
[01:54:26.720 --> 01:54:32.160]  And I've used that illustration many times to say that we do not have to be slaves
[01:54:32.160 --> 01:54:33.760]  to Supreme Court decisions.
[01:54:35.120 --> 01:54:36.960]  And I used it in the context of abortion.
[01:54:36.960 --> 01:54:40.320]  I said, governors should stand against that.
[01:54:40.960 --> 01:54:45.520]  And Roe v. Wade, which was a court case in Texas, the Texas governor at the time,
[01:54:45.520 --> 01:54:47.920]  should have said, well, the Supreme Court's issued their opinion,
[01:54:47.920 --> 01:54:49.200]  let's see them enforce it.
[01:54:49.200 --> 01:54:51.040]  I'm going to protect innocent life.
[01:54:51.040 --> 01:54:51.840]  They didn't do that.
[01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:54.800]  And no government, no president ever did that.
[01:54:54.800 --> 01:55:02.080]  And so for decades, for about 50 years, we had 60-some-odd-million babies killed
[01:55:02.960 --> 01:55:04.400]  because people didn't assert that.
[01:55:04.400 --> 01:55:08.320]  Well, Kavanaugh has now had a change of heart, just like the SCOTUS did
[01:55:08.960 --> 01:55:13.360]  under the Cherokee decision, but it's not really going to make any difference.
[01:55:13.360 --> 01:55:14.640]  He already wrote that decision.
[01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:22.480]  He said last week, the Supreme Court issued another unsigned emergency order on December
[01:55:22.480 --> 01:55:28.400]  23rd in another immigration-related case, except this time Kavanaugh pinned a concurrence
[01:55:28.960 --> 01:55:32.960]  that approached the issue of rights violating federal officers quite differently.
[01:55:33.920 --> 01:55:35.360]  Here's what he wrote last week.
[01:55:35.360 --> 01:55:39.600]  The state and government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated
[01:55:39.600 --> 01:55:43.120]  the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests.
[01:55:43.840 --> 01:55:47.600]  The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are long-standing and clear.
[01:55:48.240 --> 01:55:54.720]  The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion
[01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:59.920]  of illegal presence, not just your ethnicity.
[01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:06.320]  Stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and the officers must not
[01:56:06.320 --> 01:56:07.840]  employ excessive force.
[01:56:08.560 --> 01:56:15.200]  Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race
[01:56:15.200 --> 01:56:16.080]  or ethnicity.
[01:56:16.720 --> 01:56:22.880]  When he originally pinned the first decision, he said, well, I think if somebody is stopped
[01:56:22.880 --> 01:56:26.080]  because of their ethnicity, it'll be brief and it won't be a big deal, right?
[01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:28.960]  But then they saw that it really was a big deal.
[01:56:30.160 --> 01:56:31.360]  And the way this is being done.
[01:56:31.360 --> 01:56:36.720]  Now, go back and get a conscience about what's being done with the TSA, what's being done
[01:56:36.720 --> 01:56:38.880]  with surveillance and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:56:38.880 --> 01:56:42.640]  I mean, this is just one small facet of what is happening.
[01:56:43.440 --> 01:56:52.160]  But as we move into 2026 already, the people are cheering the fact that this is the 250th
[01:56:52.160 --> 01:56:54.880]  anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
[01:56:55.520 --> 01:56:56.560]  It's time for another one.
[01:56:56.560 --> 01:57:04.000]  And yet Chief Justice John Roberts says the nation's legal foundation is unshaken.
[01:57:06.240 --> 01:57:14.320]  No, it's been broken, shredded, burned, and he's had a big hand in all of this stuff as
[01:57:14.320 --> 01:57:14.560]  well.
[01:57:15.920 --> 01:57:19.280]  So yeah, we've had everything's just fine.
[01:57:19.840 --> 01:57:25.120]  Well, once you take a look at civil asset forfeiture, the TSA, at the bombing of boats
[01:57:25.120 --> 01:57:28.560]  and other areas, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, I could go on forever.
[01:57:29.360 --> 01:57:30.560]  The former history major.
[01:57:30.560 --> 01:57:32.720]  I didn't know that John Roberts was a history major.
[01:57:33.440 --> 01:57:37.280]  Extol the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which he said continue to
[01:57:37.280 --> 01:57:39.920]  survive through national discord.
[01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:46.640]  He cited President Calvin Coolidge's comments at the nation's 150th anniversary.
[01:57:47.280 --> 01:57:52.720]  He said, two great charters of freedom and justice remain firm and unshaken.
[01:57:53.680 --> 01:57:57.040]  Robert said it was true then and it's true now.
[01:57:58.240 --> 01:57:59.200]  And he's lying to you.
[01:58:00.160 --> 01:58:04.640]  You know, it's interesting that the as a history professor, you ought to know this.
[01:58:05.520 --> 01:58:10.640]  The it's not just the Constitution and Declaration of Independence that are being
[01:58:10.640 --> 01:58:11.120]  destroyed.
[01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:17.120]  The Magna Carta is being defied and destroyed in the UK and elsewhere in principle.
[01:58:17.680 --> 01:58:18.560]  Everywhere you look.
[01:58:20.160 --> 01:58:21.840]  Here's the situation, folks.
[01:58:22.080 --> 01:58:25.280]  And this is actually kind of comical, something that happened in Japan.
[01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:30.560]  Lance saw this and went hysterical laughing and he showed these clips to me.
[01:58:31.680 --> 01:58:35.440]  America has a reputation now being a police state.
[01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:39.280]  Because of war on drugs and other things like that.
[01:58:39.280 --> 01:58:46.480]  So much so that in Japan, they did a very, very detailed LARP, you know, role playing
[01:58:47.120 --> 01:58:51.280]  game where everybody dressed up like American cops even had
[01:58:51.280 --> 01:58:52.800]  body cameras that were recording.
[01:58:52.800 --> 01:58:54.000]  And you'll see this video.
[01:58:54.000 --> 01:58:56.160]  They've been blurred out people's faces and everything.
[01:58:56.800 --> 01:59:01.600]  And they're knocking on doors and say, Paris.
[01:59:03.360 --> 01:59:05.680]  And then he turns around and says, the other guy is rocked.
[01:59:06.720 --> 01:59:07.520]  The door is locked.
[01:59:08.240 --> 01:59:11.920]  This is actually playing and role playing games.
[01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:16.320]  And this is what I saw with asymmetric warfare, what the military was doing.
[01:59:16.320 --> 01:59:19.440]  But here's Japan playing American police.
[01:59:19.440 --> 01:59:24.720]  They've even got the livery on the cars that says New York Police Department.
[01:59:25.440 --> 01:59:27.120]  And they're all in uniform and everything.
[01:59:28.480 --> 01:59:30.400]  This is the way these guys are playing this game.
[01:59:34.640 --> 01:59:35.520]  Get to play cop.
[01:59:36.720 --> 01:59:40.080]  This is what America is exporting to the world.
[01:59:40.640 --> 01:59:41.360]  Aren't you proud?
[01:59:43.120 --> 01:59:44.640]  This is how they see us.
[01:59:44.640 --> 01:59:46.800]  Here's another actual raid that's going on.
[01:59:46.800 --> 01:59:47.440]  Oh, wait a second.
[01:59:47.440 --> 01:59:48.160]  I got the wrong thing.
[01:59:58.160 --> 02:00:05.040]  These are people playing police, playing American cops in Japan, speaking in English.
[02:00:05.040 --> 02:00:20.640]  Yeah, yeah, they've got like airsoft pistols and all the rest of the stuff.
[02:00:21.200 --> 02:00:24.240]  Sergeant, show me 84.
[02:00:37.920 --> 02:00:40.240]  The door is rocked.
[02:00:46.240 --> 02:00:47.760]  Well, we're going to leave it at that.
[02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:48.560]  You get the idea.
[02:00:49.280 --> 02:00:50.640]  That's the way the world sees us.
[02:00:50.640 --> 02:00:51.360]  And it's accurate.
[02:00:52.240 --> 02:00:55.200]  John Roberts thinks that the Constitution is still in effect.
[02:00:55.200 --> 02:00:56.560]  The Bill of Rights is still in effect.
[02:00:57.200 --> 02:01:00.320]  As John Whitehead pointed out, I didn't realize this.
[02:01:00.320 --> 02:01:03.680]  But Trump's White House, on the very first day of office,
[02:01:04.400 --> 02:01:08.000]  they got rid of the Constitution and Bill of Rights on the White House website.
[02:01:09.040 --> 02:01:09.760]  Think about that.
[02:01:10.320 --> 02:01:11.520]  Think that was a coincidence.
[02:01:13.200 --> 02:01:14.960]  It doesn't really matter if it's there or not.
[02:01:14.960 --> 02:01:18.240]  They've been effectively gotten rid of by them over and over again.
[02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:25.040]  Well, I want to talk a little bit about what's happened over last year
[02:01:25.040 --> 02:01:26.160]  and what happened around New Year's.
[02:01:26.160 --> 02:01:27.360]  I'm going to take a quick break here.
[02:01:28.320 --> 02:01:32.960]  And by the way, this is a I've got lyrics for this song.
[02:01:32.960 --> 02:01:34.240]  I don't have anybody singing it.
[02:01:34.240 --> 02:01:36.160]  That's another issue altogether.
[02:01:37.040 --> 02:01:38.480]  But I put this together.
[02:01:38.480 --> 02:01:39.360]  You've heard this before.
[02:01:39.360 --> 02:01:42.160]  It's actually the tune is from theme from Rudy.
[02:01:43.280 --> 02:01:44.560]  You may like the lyrics.
[02:01:44.560 --> 02:01:45.600]  I hope you like the lyrics.
[02:01:46.160 --> 02:01:46.960]  We'll be right back.
[02:03:48.560 --> 02:03:58.480]  Well, Americans will drop everything and anything to celebrate New Year's Eve.
[02:03:59.360 --> 02:04:00.640]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
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[02:04:37.360 --> 02:04:39.680]  but she needed a private hospital.
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[02:05:59.200 --> 02:06:00.400]  I did see this happen.
[02:06:01.040 --> 02:06:03.760]  New York, you had a massive hoax.
[02:06:03.760 --> 02:06:05.280]  You know, there's always a joke about, hey,
[02:06:05.280 --> 02:06:07.520]  I got a bridge I can sell you in Brooklyn, right?
[02:06:08.160 --> 02:06:10.080]  Well, it wasn't the bridge that they were selling,
[02:06:10.080 --> 02:06:14.800]  but it was fireworks display on the bridge that they were selling to people.
[02:06:14.800 --> 02:06:16.480]  And it turned out to be a hoax.
[02:06:16.480 --> 02:06:20.080]  You had thousands of people who showed up to watch
[02:06:20.880 --> 02:06:24.320]  what had gone around on social media was going to be a fireworks display
[02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:25.920]  at the Brooklyn Bridge.
[02:06:25.920 --> 02:06:27.600]  Thousands of people, and here's what happened.
[02:06:35.440 --> 02:06:35.840]  Nothing.
[02:06:37.600 --> 02:06:38.240]  Wait a minute.
[02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:40.960]  Yeah, it was a lie.
[02:06:41.840 --> 02:06:42.960]  There's no fireworks there.
[02:06:45.760 --> 02:06:46.640]  So, yeah, that's...
[02:06:48.320 --> 02:06:49.200]  I thought that was really funny.
[02:06:49.200 --> 02:06:52.160]  Of course, we watched some of the fireworks.
[02:06:52.160 --> 02:06:55.040]  We watched the ball drop, which we usually do, and then turn it off.
[02:06:55.040 --> 02:06:58.000]  I don't care much for the entertainment that they have in New York anymore.
[02:06:58.000 --> 02:07:01.040]  But anyway, it's not my culture.
[02:07:03.040 --> 02:07:06.080]  There was a fireworks display in London
[02:07:06.160 --> 02:07:10.640]  that's all centered around the big eye of one of the big Ferris wheel that they have there.
[02:07:11.360 --> 02:07:12.560]  And we're watching it.
[02:07:12.560 --> 02:07:18.880]  And there were these projected images in the center of the wheel.
[02:07:19.760 --> 02:07:21.120]  I thought, wow, that's amazing.
[02:07:21.120 --> 02:07:22.000]  What is that?
[02:07:22.000 --> 02:07:23.360]  How'd they do that?
[02:07:23.360 --> 02:07:24.400]  Are they projecting that?
[02:07:24.400 --> 02:07:25.360]  At first, there was a lot of smoke.
[02:07:25.360 --> 02:07:27.040]  Are they projecting that on the smoke?
[02:07:27.040 --> 02:07:29.200]  But it looked very flat.
[02:07:29.200 --> 02:07:33.680]  It didn't look like it had the profile of the smoke or anything.
[02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:35.360]  It didn't have any missing areas there.
[02:07:36.080 --> 02:07:38.960]  And so they kept doing it, one thing after the other.
[02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:45.280]  And so we looked it up and it was being done broadcast by the BBC.
[02:07:45.280 --> 02:07:49.040]  The BBC was adding those graphics after the fact.
[02:07:49.040 --> 02:07:52.080]  And this is something that the Chinese communists had done a few years ago.
[02:07:52.720 --> 02:07:54.880]  They basically had a situation.
[02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:59.040]  People showed up for a fireworks display, but there was no fireworks display,
[02:07:59.040 --> 02:08:00.320]  except on the internet.
[02:08:00.320 --> 02:08:03.280]  They added the fireworks in post, as we say.
[02:08:04.240 --> 02:08:09.680]  So I guess nobody has gone through and added the fireworks in post for the Brooklyn Bridge people.
[02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:12.800]  Thousands of people showed up to see that and there was nothing there.
[02:08:12.800 --> 02:08:18.240]  And I guess, in a sense, that was the dog that did not bark over the weekend.
[02:08:19.920 --> 02:08:24.960]  Always in the past, whether it was 4th of July or whether it was New Year's Eve,
[02:08:25.680 --> 02:08:29.120]  here in Tennessee, we're up elevated in an area.
[02:08:29.120 --> 02:08:32.240]  And we would, you know, I haven't done fireworks for quite a while
[02:08:32.240 --> 02:08:33.440]  because I thought they were expensive.
[02:08:33.440 --> 02:08:37.360]  But there were tons of people all over the place that were doing fireworks.
[02:08:37.360 --> 02:08:40.800]  And we'd look out over the hills and we'd see them all over the place happening.
[02:08:40.800 --> 02:08:45.120]  But in the immediate area, there were a lot of people setting off fireworks
[02:08:45.120 --> 02:08:47.120]  in their own backyard that were very, very close to us.
[02:08:48.160 --> 02:08:49.680]  This year, nothing.
[02:08:50.640 --> 02:08:51.360]  Nothing at all.
[02:08:52.080 --> 02:08:53.360]  That's really strange.
[02:08:53.360 --> 02:08:56.640]  And then Karen started looking at posts from people that she knows
[02:08:56.640 --> 02:08:58.320]  in different areas of the country.
[02:08:58.320 --> 02:08:59.600]  They were saying the same thing.
[02:09:00.400 --> 02:09:02.160]  Her mother in Florida said the same thing.
[02:09:02.160 --> 02:09:04.720]  She said, as a matter of fact, usually people go out
[02:09:04.720 --> 02:09:06.800]  and they're banging on pots and pans at midnight.
[02:09:06.800 --> 02:09:08.000]  That wasn't even happening.
[02:09:09.280 --> 02:09:10.320]  So what is that telling us?
[02:09:10.880 --> 02:09:14.000]  My first impression was, well, fireworks are expensive.
[02:09:14.000 --> 02:09:15.600]  People are worried about the economy.
[02:09:15.600 --> 02:09:18.000]  Maybe they're not spending the money on the fireworks.
[02:09:19.600 --> 02:09:23.760]  But then I started thinking about, they talk about different countries
[02:09:23.760 --> 02:09:28.320]  and whether or not fireworks are integral to New Year's Eve.
[02:09:29.120 --> 02:09:33.040]  For a lot of people, this is an article from Zero Hedge,
[02:09:33.040 --> 02:09:36.960]  are fireworks integral to New Year's Eve in different countries?
[02:09:36.960 --> 02:09:39.200]  They said, well, it's bad for the environment.
[02:09:39.200 --> 02:09:44.320]  It's distressing to animals and people with conditions such as PTSD
[02:09:44.320 --> 02:09:45.360]  as well as dangerous.
[02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:53.040]  So we did spend one New Year's Eve looking for a little Yorkshire
[02:09:53.040 --> 02:09:57.440]  terrier that got freaked out and ran away at the house
[02:09:57.440 --> 02:09:58.320]  where we were celebrating.
[02:09:59.120 --> 02:10:02.160]  So yeah, I almost get distressed about that.
[02:10:02.160 --> 02:10:04.240]  But that didn't happen this year.
[02:10:05.200 --> 02:10:07.760]  And like I said, not even any pots and pans.
[02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:10.400]  And part of it, I think it goes beyond economics.
[02:10:11.440 --> 02:10:15.760]  I think it also goes to our increasing isolation from each other.
[02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:19.280]  Typically, people in a neighborhood and everything
[02:10:19.280 --> 02:10:20.560]  are going to get together.
[02:10:20.560 --> 02:10:21.840]  You might have neighbors getting together
[02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:23.440]  or you might have somebody having a party.
[02:10:24.160 --> 02:10:26.320]  I mean, if it's just you and your immediate family,
[02:10:26.320 --> 02:10:29.680]  you're going to go out and spend a lot of money on fireworks?
[02:10:29.680 --> 02:10:30.720]  Evidently not.
[02:10:31.920 --> 02:10:34.960]  They're pointing out that fireworks are a bigger deal
[02:10:35.600 --> 02:10:38.240]  according to a poll in Germany than anywhere else.
[02:10:38.240 --> 02:10:41.520]  29% of the people believe they need to have fireworks.
[02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:43.040]  In the US, it's 27%.
[02:10:44.240 --> 02:10:47.280]  Much lower in other countries like Mexico, only 14%.
[02:10:48.480 --> 02:10:54.880]  But the reality is that it's also part of the dying socialization.
[02:10:55.840 --> 02:11:00.320]  And it's kind of funny to me that that was always the first thing
[02:11:00.320 --> 02:11:02.480]  somebody would say to us when we homeschooled our kids
[02:11:02.480 --> 02:11:03.760]  back in the early 90s.
[02:11:04.720 --> 02:11:08.400]  Well, you're not getting them socialized or whatever.
[02:11:08.400 --> 02:11:10.720]  Look at the state of socialization now.
[02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:13.680]  Everybody is isolated.
[02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:15.600]  That's even when it comes to the parties.
[02:11:15.600 --> 02:11:16.960]  The other thing I thought was interesting
[02:11:17.760 --> 02:11:21.920]  was this article coming out of the UK.
[02:11:21.920 --> 02:11:26.480]  An aversion to alcohol is making sober raves
[02:11:26.480 --> 02:11:28.720]  an increasingly popular alternative.
[02:11:29.520 --> 02:11:30.480]  I thought about this.
[02:11:30.480 --> 02:11:34.160]  Look at all of the effort by the US government
[02:11:34.160 --> 02:11:35.600]  to stop people from drinking
[02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:38.880]  and what a total failure the 18th Amendment was.
[02:11:40.160 --> 02:11:44.000]  And yet now people are having, and this isn't just in the UK,
[02:11:44.000 --> 02:11:45.680]  it's also in some Asian countries,
[02:11:46.320 --> 02:11:47.760]  they're trying to get healthy.
[02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:50.720]  They're tired of the way alcohol makes them feel.
[02:11:51.360 --> 02:11:53.440]  They're having coffee parties in the morning
[02:11:53.440 --> 02:11:55.520]  rather than having cocktail parties at night.
[02:11:56.320 --> 02:11:57.840]  That's the gist of this article.
[02:11:58.400 --> 02:12:00.480]  People can figure this stuff out.
[02:12:00.480 --> 02:12:02.480]  They don't need government paternalism.
[02:12:04.480 --> 02:12:06.400]  Let's say Miller123 says,
[02:12:06.400 --> 02:12:08.960]  under Trump, the US has bombed seven countries.
[02:12:08.960 --> 02:12:09.440]  That's right.
[02:12:10.160 --> 02:12:13.760]  Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela.
[02:12:14.560 --> 02:12:16.960]  Scare tactics and land grabs.
[02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:17.920]  That's absolutely right.
[02:12:18.720 --> 02:12:20.320]  I guess that's one of the reasons
[02:12:20.320 --> 02:12:22.560]  why he thought he deserved a peace prize
[02:12:22.560 --> 02:12:24.480]  because Obama started seven wars
[02:12:24.480 --> 02:12:28.000]  and Trump has done that many or revived wars
[02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:30.320]  that were in many cases silent.
[02:12:31.280 --> 02:12:32.800]  DG8, thank you for the tips, says,
[02:12:32.800 --> 02:12:34.720]  David, no arrest for J6 tyranny.
[02:12:35.360 --> 02:12:37.120]  No arrest for COVID tyranny.
[02:12:37.840 --> 02:12:39.200]  No Fauci arrests.
[02:12:39.920 --> 02:12:42.640]  No Epstein client list arrests.
[02:12:42.640 --> 02:12:45.520]  No, the first arrest is a foreign leader.
[02:12:46.080 --> 02:12:47.040]  Pathetic.
[02:12:47.360 --> 02:12:50.240]  Even more pathetic that Trump just before that
[02:12:50.240 --> 02:12:51.600]  had issued a pardon for a guy
[02:12:51.600 --> 02:12:52.960]  who really was dealing drugs.
[02:12:53.680 --> 02:12:54.800]  The Honduran president.
[02:12:55.520 --> 02:12:57.920]  He was caught, he was tried and convicted.
[02:12:57.920 --> 02:12:59.440]  But in jail, Trump released him
[02:13:00.240 --> 02:13:02.880]  and then goes and gets Maduro who,
[02:13:04.160 --> 02:13:06.960]  again, I have, I think Maduro is corrupt.
[02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:09.360]  He's a communist, but.
[02:13:10.240 --> 02:13:11.520]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson
[02:13:11.520 --> 02:13:14.240]  and I want to be honest with you for a second
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[02:13:17.200 --> 02:13:20.480]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
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[02:13:24.240 --> 02:13:25.040]  Why?
[02:13:25.040 --> 02:13:28.160]  Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[02:13:28.160 --> 02:13:30.080]  It was a nice idea, sure,
[02:13:30.080 --> 02:13:33.840]  but I had no idea just how much that simple act
[02:13:33.840 --> 02:13:35.360]  would change my life as well.
[02:13:35.920 --> 02:13:39.120]  I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life
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[02:13:41.120 --> 02:13:44.640]  going from starving literally alone on the streets
[02:13:44.640 --> 02:13:46.880]  to getting the health care and education
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[02:13:50.720 --> 02:13:53.120]  I got to be a part of that change
[02:13:53.120 --> 02:13:54.880]  and the light of that compassion
[02:13:54.880 --> 02:13:56.880]  not only illuminates in her,
[02:13:56.880 --> 02:13:58.480]  it illuminates now in me.
[02:13:59.120 --> 02:14:01.600]  That is the power of compassion.
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[02:14:50.560 --> 02:14:52.800]  That's none of our business, actually.
[02:14:53.520 --> 02:14:56.800]  And lies about the drug stuff
[02:14:56.800 --> 02:14:58.560]  were just cover for what they wanted to do.
[02:14:59.200 --> 02:15:01.760]  Well, as we look at what is coming this year,
[02:15:02.640 --> 02:15:05.760]  you know, I was on New Year's Eve,
[02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:08.000]  I was on Courtney Turner's show,
[02:15:08.640 --> 02:15:09.360]  not Courtney Turner,
[02:15:10.480 --> 02:15:11.600]  Shannon Joy,
[02:15:11.600 --> 02:15:12.400]  Shannon Joy's show.
[02:15:13.040 --> 02:15:14.560]  And I appreciate her having me on.
[02:15:15.120 --> 02:15:18.160]  And when we talked about what was coming up in the next year,
[02:15:19.280 --> 02:15:20.320]  my advice to them,
[02:15:20.320 --> 02:15:22.720]  and I'll give you my same advice to you,
[02:15:22.720 --> 02:15:24.720]  is I think this is going to be a very difficult year.
[02:15:25.520 --> 02:15:27.280]  I think things are going to really accelerate.
[02:15:27.840 --> 02:15:29.520]  We're going to see a lot of chaos.
[02:15:29.520 --> 02:15:30.720]  I think we're going to see wars.
[02:15:31.600 --> 02:15:33.040]  And I think it's, you know,
[02:15:33.040 --> 02:15:35.680]  economically it's going to be challenging for people as well.
[02:15:36.480 --> 02:15:39.760]  And so my advice to you would be to get a diary.
[02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:43.600]  And I'm not selling the book and the bookmark thing now that I sold before.
[02:15:43.600 --> 02:15:44.320]  I'm serious about it.
[02:15:44.320 --> 02:15:46.320]  I mean, get anything and write it down.
[02:15:46.320 --> 02:15:49.360]  I can write it down in something like I've got with this,
[02:15:49.360 --> 02:15:50.240]  keep a record of it.
[02:15:51.440 --> 02:15:53.040]  But do it for your own growth.
[02:15:53.920 --> 02:15:57.440]  Do it because you can see God working in your life in retrospect,
[02:15:58.320 --> 02:16:00.880]  especially when you get into difficult times like this.
[02:16:01.600 --> 02:16:05.200]  And it'll be when you start to see things,
[02:16:06.160 --> 02:16:07.280]  just, you know, after a few months,
[02:16:07.280 --> 02:16:08.400]  you can go back and look at it and say,
[02:16:08.400 --> 02:16:12.240]  wow, that was kind of interesting how God worked that out in my life.
[02:16:13.040 --> 02:16:15.920]  And it's going to give you confidence for what you can do
[02:16:15.920 --> 02:16:18.560]  when you get other types of trials.
[02:16:18.560 --> 02:16:20.720]  It's so important that we don't forget.
[02:16:21.360 --> 02:16:22.560]  And we do forget.
[02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:24.400]  You know, we think we remember, but we don't.
[02:16:24.400 --> 02:16:27.040]  And I have had that experience over and over again,
[02:16:27.600 --> 02:16:30.000]  which really surprised me because really,
[02:16:30.640 --> 02:16:33.040]  when I write things down, I typically remember them.
[02:16:33.680 --> 02:16:36.640]  If I just read it or talk about it, a lot of times I'll forget it.
[02:16:36.640 --> 02:16:39.760]  But if I write something down, I usually remember it.
[02:16:40.320 --> 02:16:42.320]  And yet I was surprised to find that when I went back
[02:16:42.320 --> 02:16:46.400]  and looked at my diaries that I had forgotten a lot of the details
[02:16:47.680 --> 02:16:49.520]  of how God had answered prayer
[02:16:49.520 --> 02:16:55.360]  and how circumstances had been taken care of in various things,
[02:16:55.360 --> 02:16:58.080]  or what we learned from the difficult circumstances
[02:16:58.800 --> 02:17:00.080]  that were not removed.
[02:17:00.880 --> 02:17:04.080]  And so this is an opportunity I think this next year
[02:17:04.080 --> 02:17:07.520]  it's going to be, you know, crisis is danger and opportunity.
[02:17:07.520 --> 02:17:10.320]  That's the Chinese symbol for crisis.
[02:17:10.320 --> 02:17:13.440]  Those two things, a symbol for danger, a symbol for opportunity.
[02:17:14.240 --> 02:17:15.920]  I think this is going to be a very dangerous year.
[02:17:15.920 --> 02:17:18.400]  And I think it's real opportunity for spiritual growth for you
[02:17:19.120 --> 02:17:22.800]  and to take a look at the things that are really important in your life.
[02:17:23.760 --> 02:17:25.920]  And so that'd be my advice to you.
[02:17:25.920 --> 02:17:27.600]  In addition to that, I would say prepare.
[02:17:27.600 --> 02:17:29.760]  You know, I didn't have time to talk about it today,
[02:17:29.760 --> 02:17:34.080]  but there was an article about Victory Gardens
[02:17:34.080 --> 02:17:38.560]  and the massive quantity of vegetables that were grown
[02:17:38.560 --> 02:17:41.760]  during World War II by people through the Victory Gardens.
[02:17:41.760 --> 02:17:44.320]  The government actually actively encouraged people
[02:17:44.880 --> 02:17:46.480]  to grow food for their own use.
[02:17:47.680 --> 02:17:49.440]  I would suggest that.
[02:17:49.440 --> 02:17:52.960]  I would also suggest that you start to do some things
[02:17:52.960 --> 02:17:56.880]  for your own use in terms of energy and other things like that,
[02:17:56.880 --> 02:17:58.480]  that are so easily disrupted.
[02:17:59.440 --> 02:18:01.920]  As we move, and again,
[02:18:02.480 --> 02:18:04.960]  we're moving towards conflict and towards chaos.
[02:18:04.960 --> 02:18:08.480]  That has been the unifying theme of everything that Trump has done.
[02:18:09.200 --> 02:18:12.800]  Everything that he's done has been about conflict and chaos.
[02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:15.280]  And that's going to continue to escalate.
[02:18:16.160 --> 02:18:18.400]  And as we move into that kind of a situation,
[02:18:19.040 --> 02:18:21.280]  it's more important than ever that you prepare.
[02:18:22.000 --> 02:18:26.240]  And that's why I talk about the diaries and, you know,
[02:18:26.240 --> 02:18:28.160]  your own time with God.
[02:18:28.160 --> 02:18:32.560]  That is a kind of preparation that goes beyond the gardens
[02:18:32.560 --> 02:18:35.440]  and goes beyond having, you know,
[02:18:35.440 --> 02:18:37.360]  prepper items that are set there.
[02:18:37.360 --> 02:18:39.120]  You certainly need to do that as well.
[02:18:40.240 --> 02:18:42.640]  But it's a time to prepare yourself
[02:18:42.640 --> 02:18:44.080]  and to think about what's coming on,
[02:18:44.960 --> 02:18:47.280]  because things are going to be very challenging, I think.
[02:18:47.840 --> 02:18:51.520]  And I think you just need to look at it as an opportunity
[02:18:51.520 --> 02:18:54.240]  to grow in your relationship with God.
[02:18:54.240 --> 02:18:55.120]  That's the key thing.
[02:18:55.920 --> 02:18:58.720]  You know, even as we look at electricity prices,
[02:18:58.720 --> 02:19:00.480]  something that's that fundamental,
[02:19:01.680 --> 02:19:06.240]  food as well as electricity are going up rapidly.
[02:19:06.960 --> 02:19:08.960]  And there's some interesting articles
[02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:12.080]  that I don't have time to cover that talk about it
[02:19:12.080 --> 02:19:13.440]  from a partisan perspective.
[02:19:13.440 --> 02:19:15.120]  One of these people said, well, look, you know,
[02:19:15.120 --> 02:19:19.760]  in the blue states, the prices of electricity have skyrocketed.
[02:19:19.760 --> 02:19:21.920]  And they said, and it's because these same,
[02:19:21.920 --> 02:19:24.800]  quote unquote, blue states are putting in
[02:19:24.800 --> 02:19:27.040]  these state renewable mandates.
[02:19:27.040 --> 02:19:28.960]  And it's actually that is something,
[02:19:28.960 --> 02:19:30.720]  the price of electricity is something
[02:19:30.720 --> 02:19:33.760]  that is controlled at the state level.
[02:19:33.760 --> 02:19:36.400]  There's even a federal law blocking the federal government
[02:19:36.400 --> 02:19:38.000]  from setting these electricity prices.
[02:19:38.800 --> 02:19:40.800]  And so that's why there's such a variation
[02:19:40.800 --> 02:19:44.640]  and why you can see that these different policies
[02:19:44.640 --> 02:19:46.240]  are raising the prices and stuff.
[02:19:46.240 --> 02:19:49.440]  Going back to 2008, I was working with a group
[02:19:49.440 --> 02:19:52.080]  that had a lawsuit going against Colorado.
[02:19:52.080 --> 02:19:53.520]  They were the very first state
[02:19:53.520 --> 02:19:54.880]  to do these renewable mandates.
[02:19:54.880 --> 02:19:56.240]  And we knew where it was going.
[02:19:56.240 --> 02:19:58.800]  We knew it would do exactly this type of thing.
[02:19:59.680 --> 02:20:01.760]  But we got clowns on the left
[02:20:01.760 --> 02:20:04.240]  who are pushing this for the green agenda.
[02:20:04.240 --> 02:20:06.480]  And we're going to have clowns on the right
[02:20:06.480 --> 02:20:09.120]  who are pushing it for the AI data centers.
[02:20:10.160 --> 02:20:13.760]  And that's why Trump is pushing to stop
[02:20:13.760 --> 02:20:15.760]  any regulation of AI at the state level,
[02:20:16.640 --> 02:20:18.400]  because that's where you could stop it.
[02:20:19.440 --> 02:20:20.480]  He doesn't want it stopped.
[02:20:21.040 --> 02:20:22.000]  Thank you for joining us.
[02:20:22.000 --> 02:20:22.640]  Have a good day.
[02:20:49.440 --> 02:20:49.840]  Future.
[02:20:51.360 --> 02:20:53.440]  They see the common man as simple,
[02:20:53.440 --> 02:20:55.040]  unsophisticated, ordinary.
[02:20:56.000 --> 02:20:58.560]  But each of us has worth and dignity
[02:20:58.560 --> 02:21:00.480]  created in the image of God.
[02:21:02.720 --> 02:21:04.640]  That is what we have in common.
[02:21:04.640 --> 02:21:06.320]  That is what they want to take away.
[02:21:07.120 --> 02:21:09.680]  Their most powerful weapons are isolation,
[02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:11.520]  deception, intimidation.
[02:21:12.240 --> 02:21:14.720]  They desire to know everything about us
[02:21:14.720 --> 02:21:16.800]  while they hide everything from us.
[02:21:17.760 --> 02:21:19.440]  It's time to turn that around
[02:21:19.440 --> 02:21:21.440]  and expose what they want to hide.
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