13 - THE CRISIS CONTINUES AND OTHER THINGS YOU MISSED

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Well hello World of Blaze listeners and welcome to this late Monday, early Tuesday release

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of the show. I want to go ahead before we get started and once again thank Iceland.

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Iceland is coming on strong as listeners of the show, looking at the stats right now.

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And oh no, guess who's back? Look who's back to the party. It's Canada. Although I don't

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know if what I see from Canada is just Justin Trudeau once again listening and monitoring

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our show and deciding whether he wants to ban us in Canada or not.

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But we welcome you anyway.

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All right.

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So a lot's been going on.

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Presidential, you know, getting ready for the presidential race here, the Republican

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primary going on.

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We need to stop the madness because, listen, Republicans, you already know Donald Trump's

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going to be the nominee.

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So let's just get that out of the way.

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but in light of all of that happening we've been missing out on on other things that kind of been

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flashing here and there in the news but getting swept under the rug really quick it's almost like

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oh yeah we'll acknowledge it kind of happened but it's not really happening you know just just

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just go ahead and sweep that over here lift that corner of that rug over you know up and then there

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you go there's the lump that's what they're doing they're just they're just covering things up so

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let's talk about what we don't want to keep talking about, but it just keeps coming up because

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I don't know how to not notice what's going on. The Texas border, it's a mess. Immigration right

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now is not really immigration. It's just looking like an all-out siege. It's ridiculous. So

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let's start here. Let's start with what's going on that I know many of us missed.

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And let's talk about California being one of the first states to offer health care to undocumented people

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I got this article here from calmatters.org

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Again, that's calmatters.org, health slash 2023

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You can go ahead and look this up

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I'm going to go ahead and read this off right now

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It says, Perla Lopez hands a stack of papers to a 44-year-old undocumented immigrant and a day laborer.

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She has just helped him apply for Medi-Cal at the Benefit Center at St. John's Community Health in South Los Angeles.

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The application takes less than 20 minutes.

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The paperwork, though brief, marks a major milestone in California's decades-long expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants.

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Beginning January 1st, the first time undocumented immigrants of all ages will qualify for Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for extremely low-income people.

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It makes California among the first states to fund comprehensive health care for undocumented immigrants.

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Oregon in July dropped age restrictions for undocumented immigrants in its low-income state health insurance program.

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The man this article has been referred to has been denied coverage before and has asked,

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and this is freaking hilarious here,

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this person has asked that his last name not be published to protect him from immigration authorities.

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What the fuck?

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He wants to be protected from immigration authorities, but wants to get free health care.

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All right, anyway, moving on.

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The article continues to say that he will join more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants

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between the ages of 26 and 49 who will become eligible for Medi-Cal as part of the state's

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final expansion of the program, the realization of a long-awaited dream for Californians without

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legal status.

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That's right.

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I read that.

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700,000.

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Okay, moving on.

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Governor Gavin Newsom and the state's

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Democratic-led legislature have

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committed more than $4 billion

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to the Medi-Cal expansion

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annually. That's right, folks.

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I said $4

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billion.

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My God.

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It says that

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Newsom's 2022 budget,

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I know we're in 24, but it says

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his 22 budget is what

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made the latest expansion possible.

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although the state is now headed into a $68 billion deficit.

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Advocates say the positive impact of Medi-Cal will have on individual health is priceless.

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Okay, so California is heading into a $68 billion deficit,

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but yet Gavin Newsom is committed $4 billion annually to this Medi-Cal expansion,

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which gives undocumented immigrants free.

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Okay, free, free, not reduced, not that they have to pay anything, free.

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Free medical.

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Medical that normally most people don't get.

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Medical that for the most part is age-restricted, but not anymore.

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And guess how this is going to be funded?

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Yep, you're correct.

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your taxes. Although, if you're in California,

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it has been argued that undocumented immigrants

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have contributed to the taxes

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that are collected, allegedly, according

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to some article I found. Now, I can say that, true, they may

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contribute in terms of sales tax and whatnot, but undocumented immigrants don't even have a social security

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number. Hence, most of them, if not all, I would

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let's say 99.5% are paid under the table.

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So the benefits of Social Security,

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they shouldn't get any part of that

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or anything that's funded from Social Security.

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And since there isn't any other taxes taken out

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that go towards the state for funding these programs,

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I mean, especially, you know, Medi-Cal,

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how is it that they suddenly are able to just reap all the benefits of those like you and me

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who are paying these taxes and having the taxes taken out of our checks every single pay period

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now i don't want to sound like some asshole here and what i mean by that is

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if someone needs health care

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and they really need it, they should get it.

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And that's not so much the point

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that I'm upset with. It's how it's

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being handled. It's

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given to someone for free and they taking advantage of the everyday working person legal working person who is being raped on their paychecks to pay for all these programs that we supposed to be able

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to take advantage of at some point in our lives. But yet we can't. But the undocumented workers can

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or the undocumented immigrants can. I mean, that is just fucking ridiculous.

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So since we're going to stay on the border here, this just happened.

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Like literally today is January 22nd.

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This came out about 14 minutes ago.

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I'm going to read this from Reuters.

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This is going to shock many people.

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The U.S. Supreme Court lets Border Patrol remove Texas razor wire fencing.

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What the fuck?

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All right.

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Let me read this.

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January 22nd.

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Reuters.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to temporarily let U.S. Border Patrol agents cut or remove razor wire fencing that Texas officials placed along part of the Republican-governed state border with Mexico to deter illegal border crossings.

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The justices in a 5-4 decision granted a request by President Joe Biden's administration to pause a lower court's ruling that temporarily blocked federal agents from disturbing the fencing while litigation proceeds.

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Now you could read the whole article if you want, but I'm going to give everyone out there, especially our listeners around the world, a little background on what's going on here.

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The federal government in Texas are literally fighting each other right now.

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I mean, not physically, not going to blows and, you know, army against army or anything like that.

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But Texas is dealing with a huge influx of illegal immigrants every single day.

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Every day.

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This isn't an exaggeration.

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How much you ask, I'm glad you asked that.

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Because, you know, anyone can Google this.

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As of now, at least as of 12 hours ago, it is said that in the Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass,

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federal agents have recorded more than 393,000 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2023,

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which ended in September.

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Okay, so let's go ahead and do the math there.

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We're looking at, you know, quite a bit of people now.

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So, you know, let's take our 393,000 and let's divide that by the nine months.

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and we're looking at 43,666 people a day

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just in that section of Texas border.

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Just that section.

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Just the Del Rio sector.

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That's it.

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That's not counting everybody who's coming over the border.

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It's just that section.

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That's a huge influx of people.

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To put that in perspective,

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that would be like, I don't know, 43,000.

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that would be probably like a really good sized

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concert let's think like

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an Elton John or

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you know something like that

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a Coldplay maybe

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we're talking about stadium

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you know Rolling Stones even though that would probably

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be a bit much higher but I'm just

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trying to paint the picture here

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or a large sporting event

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that amount of people

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every single

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day coming across

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your fence

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walking through your yard, that's what's going on.

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And so while Texas Governor Abbott has pleaded with the federal government

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to please take control, they have refused because they are using the race card

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and saying that it is racist for Governor Abbott to want to control

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the influx of illegal immigrants coming in across the border.

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Now, it's not racist to want to control the influx of people who come to your border

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I mean, there's border protections for a reason

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It's to vet those who are coming in, know who is coming in

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And truly see if they are, and this is a big one

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If they are willing to basically amalgamate themselves into the culture

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Which, to date, most do not

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Most do not

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so Texas took it upon themselves

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after pleading and pleading and pleading

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to just use their own National Guard

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to patrol the border now

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and to put up razor wire fencing

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to help deter the massive amounts of people

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coming across the border every single day in that area

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should the state of Texas be fighting the federal government over this?

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no, the federal government should

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And it is the federal government's job to protect the borders and the lands and the rights of its citizens.

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They're ignoring this.

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They're completely ignoring this.

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And I can't understand why, other than maybe they're trying to mold and turn America into something else,

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or actually just maybe even completely destroy us from the inside.

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Who knows?

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I don't want to be conspiratorial here, but, yeah, look.

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all the signs are pointing one direction

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alright, they're just pointing one direction

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so that's where we're at

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so anyway, just for all the listeners, that's kind of what's going on here

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Texas and the federal US government

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are feuding over this, and I gotta side with Texas

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in fact, I side with every American

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who is concerned about unchecked

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amounts of people coming across the border

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you know, this also reminds me

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I don't have it pulled up right now, but there was a video circulating

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around Twitter to where there was a Middle Eastern man

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who was being questioned, basically just like

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what's your name and what are you doing here and why do you want to come across?

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And this person got offended, speaking perfect English, perfect English

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and literally threatened the guy.

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He's saying, you don't know who I am, well you will know who I am soon.

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Literally said that.

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It's on

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It's recorded

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Go ahead and try to look that up on Twitter

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It's circulating around

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It is very very disturbing

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That that person had such gall

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In perfect English

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To go ahead and respond

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You will know who I am soon

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Sounds like a direct threat to me

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So there's what's happened

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so far

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and what's going on with the border

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look California is giving free health care

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the first state to give free health care

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to all undocumented immigrants now

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so we're paying for that

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and we're just letting them do

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whatever they want and we're going to take care of them

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great

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so that's one thing that happened that I know

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that most of us all didn't really hear

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too much of because with everything

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going on with the Republican primary

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and everyone just

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getting ready for the election that's coming for the presidency,

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this got swept under the rug. I bet you didn't even hear about what happened

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with the U.S. Supreme Court overruling the removal of Texas razor wire

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that was put up by Governor Abnett because of the large amounts

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of undocumented immigrants coming across the border.

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Another thing that got swept under the rug.

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And the amount of people coming over is ridiculous.

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I guarantee you didn't even hear about that I mean should we be concerned fuck yeah we

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should be absolutely I mean it it gonna turn into what happened in or what is happening in Denmark right now I believe was Prime Minister of Denmark was literally going over

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the five steps that he was going to take to

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remove immigrants

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who have come over and refuse to amalgamate themselves

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into the culture and respect the laws of Denmark

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and he's being applauded because why shouldn't a country want to remain a country a country that

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they formed and became a country that wants to protect its own identity and its old culture

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look if you're going to go to another country whether you're an immigrant or you're just

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visiting it is your responsibility to respect the culture to live according to the culture of that

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country and to ultimately respect the laws.

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You don't come over with your bullshit and try to make that country bend around you and

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what you're bringing with you.

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That's not how it works.

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If that's what you want, stay where the fuck you are.

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Period.

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Because that is the way things really should be.

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all right moving on part two to something you may not have been um aware of or maybe slightly

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aware of with everything going on donald trump versus biden nikki haley the worst republican

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slash democrat ever did you know that we are slowly being dragged into a war it seems like

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is being set up to be a war.

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No, no, I'm not talking about Ukraine.

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We're still sending money there for whatever fucking reason.

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Is it sad? Sure.

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But can we afford to keep sending money to everybody?

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Not really.

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Are we talking about Palestine?

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It's a little bit related here.

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It does have to do with that area a little bit.

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What about the Houthis?

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I mean, it's kind of come up here and there.

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Do you even know what's going on?

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I'm going to read a little something from the BBC here that came out just recently.

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So, basically, it reads, who are the Houthis and why are they attacking the Red Sea ships?

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I bet most of us didn't even know that was happening.

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All right.

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Why are the Houthis attacking Red Sea ships?

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All right.

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This is from a BBC article.

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Following the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis started firing drones and missiles toward Israel.

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Most have been intercepted.

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On November 19th, the Houthis hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea

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and have since attacked more than two dozen others with drones, missiles, and speedboats.

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The Houthis say they are targeting ships which are Israeli-owned, flagged, or operated,

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or which are heading to Israeli ports.

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However, many have no connection with Israel.

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U.S.-led naval forces thwarted many of the attacks.

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Major shipping companies have stopped using the Red Sea.

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through which almost 15% of global seaborne trade usually passes,

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and are using a much longer route around southern Africa instead.

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So, why are the UK and US bombing Yemen?

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The US and UK carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

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The US says 60 targets across 28 sites were hit.

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President Joe Biden said the strikes were in direct response to the attacks on Red Sea ships,

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which jeopardize trade and threaten freedom of navigation.

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the action was necessary

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and proportionate to protect global shipping.

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On January 11th, US Navy SEALs boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia

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to seize Iranian-made weapons bound for the Houthis.

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The US military says two Navy SEALs went missing and are presumed dead.

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okay so who are the houthis the houthis are an armed political and religious group which

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champions yemen's shia muslim minority the zaidies i think i pronounced that right sorry if i didn't

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they declare themselves to be part of the iranian-led axis of resistance all right let me

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say that again they declare themselves to be part of the iranian-led axis of resistance

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alright

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the US and the wider west

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so hold on

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resistance against Israel

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the US and the wider west

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so basically them against everybody

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mostly the west and Israel

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along with armed groups such as Hamas

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and Lebanon's

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Hezbollah movement

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so they're all in that bucket right there

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of known terrorists

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you know governing organizations

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I say that because Hamas is

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the elected leaders of the Palestinians.

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Elected.

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So moving on.

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Formerly known as the Ansar Allah,

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which is translated as Partisans of God,

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they emerged in the 1990s and take their name

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from the movement's late founder, Hussein al-Houthi.

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Their current leader is his brother, Adul Malik al-Houthi.

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In the early 2000s, they fought a series of rebellions

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against Yemen's longtime authoritarian president.

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in an attempt to win greater autonomy

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for their homeland in the northern Yemen.

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All right.

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In 2015, the rebels seized large parts of western Yemen

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and forced Mr. Hadi to flee abroad.

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The war has killed more than 160,000 people

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according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.

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More than 4 million people have been displaced.

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Who backs the Houthis?

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Here we go.

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The U.S. says Iran enabled the Houthis to target ships

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and President Biden said he had sent a private message to Tehran urging it to stop.

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All right, that's about as much as I'm going to read from the BBC there.

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So there's a little bit.

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I skipped a few things here just to try to get to the meat and potatoes of the article.

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But the Houthis literally are a group of people who side with the Iranian resistance

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or the accents of resistance, and they also side with Hamas and Hezbollah.

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Now, you can say, well, the U.S. claims a lot of things.

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you can just do a search on the Houthis

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and you can find, I mean just in the news here

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coming up from multiple sources

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AP News, Iran is directly involved

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in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks

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DW, not sure what this is

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this came out 14 hours ago

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wow, says Red Sea

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will EU warships deter Yemen's Houthi rebels

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so now the EU is getting involved with warships

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we launched more strikes

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this just came out an hour ago

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on Houthi sites

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Houthi rebels ask Iran

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for more weapons to stop Red Sea attacks.

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That came out a day ago.

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Wow.

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So this is where this seems to be getting dangerous.

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It's like Iran is waging their own little wars

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without directly saying they are by using these groups,

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by funding the Houthis and Hamas,

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and now Hezbollah is part of the party now.

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so no matter what happens

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and what is said, Iran's behind it

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Iran is funding it, Iran's giving these people the weapons

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now you can say that the US does the same thing

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we fund and we give weapons to Israel

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and we're funding the Ukraine, fair enough argument

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but

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we're also not going around saying that the rest of the world has to die

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and has to conform to our insanely crazy strict religious laws or well you just shouldn live We not saying that There a big difference there

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So, how is it the U.S. has gotten itself in a position to where we're just

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tossing money away to Ukraine?

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We're tossing money away to Israel, which I've got to be honest,

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I'm not anti-Semit, don't you ever label me that,

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but I don't believe we should be giving Israel money anymore.

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I have literally said that we shouldn't be giving money to any nation that can stand on its own

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They have their own exports

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They have their own very highly trained military

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They're very smart people

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They can handle themselves

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As far as Ukraine is concerned, the only reason we're giving them money is because we don't want to let Russia grow

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Just be honest

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That land has been in dispute for ages between Russia and the people of that region

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But to forget

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Now that I'm on that part of this

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To forget that

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President Zelensky himself

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Is not a corrupt

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Person

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Now he's a good guy just because

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Russia seemed as the bigger

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Badder guy I guess

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Don't forget

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Again a lot of things have been swept under the rug

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Zelensky has tortured

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And imprisoned his political opponents

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and anybody who's spoken up against him

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until now because he wants to be the nice guy

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so he can get more money from

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Big Daddy USA

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so

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the USA is

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very dangerously

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right now on the brink

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of overextending and

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getting dragged into what could very

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well turn into a World War 3

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we got Russia out of control

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we've got Israel

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always out of control lately

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we've got

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the Houthis

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terrorist organization. We got Hamas

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terrorist organization.

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And we got Hezbollah.

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All coming together here

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I mean maybe not literally

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but everything going on at the same time.

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We got China at any

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minute sounds like they just want to do

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something. They're just kind of seeing how the field plays

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out. Which is a

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huge power. Let's just not

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even overlook that or think that they aren't

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because they are.

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so everything going on with this

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US presidential race and the Republican

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primaries, all anyone cares about, and while you're not caring about anything else

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we are slowly being dragged into

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so many little wars and skirmishes that it seems

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like it's just going to turn into something horrible, not that what is going on

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now isn't horrible, but we're definitely taking on more than we can

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handle. And I don't want to admit

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that as an American, but we are.

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And, well, you know,

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I gotta say this. You know what Americans

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really want? True American citizens

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really want? And I'm saying this because

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we have a lot of listeners around the world.

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This is what Americans want.

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I know you all assume a lot about Americans.

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You know what we really want? True Americans?

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We just want to tend to

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our own fields. We want

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to just protect our own backyard.

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And we want our money

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to stay in America

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to help America remain great.

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We really don't support all this funding going everywhere.

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And none of us are really in support of all these little wars that are going on.

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The problem with what we're dealing with is what many people in other countries deal with.

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You have a lot of really good people and good human beings around the world,

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but you're at the mercy of your governments

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that are going back and forth and just bickering and fighting,

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trying to see who has the bigger dick.

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You know, that's such bullshit

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If these guys really want to

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Use us

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As pawns to their benefit

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We need to somehow figure out how to stop that

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But I say, you know what, if you guys are so tough

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And you really have these differences

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Go jump in the ring and just get it over with

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Hell, even give them a couple of guns

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And see who walks out

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Stop dragging your citizens

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And other people in the world

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Into your bickering bullshit

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Because it's not needed

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and we don't need it.

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So, just a little recap.

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The border is still out of control.

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And America is slowly being dragged in

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to multiple wars and overextending itself

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by funding, seems like,

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almost every fucking country in the world.

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And I said seems like.

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I'm sorry.

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Not trying to offend the rest of our listeners,

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but it does seem that way.

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That's how it feels.

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oh and another thing that got swept under the rug

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January 6th

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very very well known around the world

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as supposedly an insurrection

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even though it wasn't a fucking insurrection

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and we can argue that all day because just by definition it wasn't

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but

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remember the old reports of the pipe bomb

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under the benches

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yeah

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may have forgot because

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well they didn't really cover it much

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it was swept under the rug again

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there's video coming out

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showing people, a person, trying to warn

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what looks like an FBI car, you know,

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SUV or whatever, and a secret service vehicle

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00:29:26,512 --> 00:29:30,312
of the fact that they seem to have found a pipe bomb.

507
00:29:30,772 --> 00:29:33,052
And this individual is just being ignored and not taken seriously.

508
00:29:35,272 --> 00:29:37,252
I'm sorry, but as a secret service agent,

509
00:29:37,252 --> 00:29:39,052
if someone comes to you saying there's a pipe bomb

510
00:29:39,052 --> 00:29:43,612
in an area that is

511
00:29:43,612 --> 00:29:47,552
surrounded by government buildings where supposedly

512
00:29:47,552 --> 00:29:51,472
Vice President Kamala Harris is

513
00:29:51,472 --> 00:29:55,312
or just right before she's considered to be Vice President sworn in

514
00:29:55,312 --> 00:29:59,712
don't you think that they would take that as a major

515
00:29:59,712 --> 00:30:02,972
concern and move into action to find out what the fuck's going on?

516
00:30:03,752 --> 00:30:07,532
Now the video's out there and since this is a podcast

517
00:30:07,532 --> 00:30:12,252
has an audio it's not worth me playing because the audio isn't really worth anything it's more

518
00:30:12,252 --> 00:30:18,712
about the video you can find this please do and watch this because what else is amazing is in some

519
00:30:18,712 --> 00:30:26,332
part of the video it shows where they kind of zoomed in to the bench and they didn't see a pipe

520
00:30:26,332 --> 00:30:31,752
bomb on the video but there's tons of pictures released later of this pipe bomb literally made

521
00:30:31,752 --> 00:30:34,012
out of a pipe with like an egg timer on it.

522
00:30:35,952 --> 00:30:37,972
Very, very weird.

523
00:30:38,512 --> 00:30:39,472
Very strange.

524
00:30:39,992 --> 00:30:41,472
That mixed with the fact that

525
00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:43,752
supposedly the citizen was trying to

526
00:30:43,752 --> 00:30:45,712
warn

527
00:30:45,712 --> 00:30:47,212
two authorities,

528
00:30:47,932 --> 00:30:50,072
two different authorities.

529
00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:53,192
And what's crazier,

530
00:30:53,532 --> 00:30:56,012
Secret Service was one of them that didn't take any action.

531
00:30:56,992 --> 00:30:58,152
I'm not really sure

532
00:30:58,152 --> 00:31:00,232
what that says about what's really going on.

533
00:31:00,232 --> 00:31:02,892
and I'm not going to make the assumption

534
00:31:02,892 --> 00:31:04,632
I'm going to let you make the assumption

535
00:31:04,632 --> 00:31:07,412
I'm going to let you do your research

536
00:31:07,412 --> 00:31:08,132
on that one

537
00:31:08,132 --> 00:31:10,232
so a lot going on

538
00:31:10,232 --> 00:31:13,692
I know this was a little all over the place

539
00:31:13,692 --> 00:31:14,652
but it's

540
00:31:14,652 --> 00:31:16,752
and I got a lot more that I can throw at you

541
00:31:16,752 --> 00:31:18,952
but I think we're going to cut it here

542
00:31:18,952 --> 00:31:21,392
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543
00:31:21,392 --> 00:31:23,112
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544
00:31:23,112 --> 00:31:25,572
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545
00:31:25,572 --> 00:31:26,792
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546
00:31:26,792 --> 00:31:28,292
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547
00:31:28,292 --> 00:31:30,292
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548
00:31:30,872 --> 00:31:32,012
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550
00:31:38,472 --> 00:31:42,272
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552
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553
00:31:54,132 --> 00:31:54,772
All right.

554
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