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Speaker 1: your podcasts. I really do think it's depressing that we
Speaker 1: all expect things to just get worse in Minneapolis, and
Speaker 1: we expect that this will spread to other cities. We
Speaker 1: should be able to have a national conversation or at
Speaker 1: least have some kind of understanding that we the American
Speaker 1: people all want justice and that there needs to be
Speaker 1: a cooling of passions and tempers here because a lot
Speaker 1: of innocent people are going to get hurt otherwise. But instead,
Speaker 1: it's just it seems so clear that the wave of
Speaker 1: mayhem and anarchy is just going to continue to build up,
Speaker 1: and the Democrat demagoguery around all this is just going
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Speaker 1: station in Brooklyn Center. If you've seen the photos of it,
Speaker 1: if you see what's going on here, it looks like
Speaker 1: they're prepared for a protracted siege. You have law enforcement
Speaker 1: officers that have nothing to do with the specific incident
Speaker 1: of the shooting, the killing of Dante Wright, who are
Speaker 1: being attacked by angry people in a mob Antifa self
Speaker 1: described Antifa members now showing up. This is a litmatch
Speaker 1: thrown into a tinderbox sitting atop a big pool of gasoline.
Speaker 1: This is a highly combustible situation right now, and everyone
Speaker 1: needs to just take a step back and think about
Speaker 1: what's really going on here. The city of Minneapolis has
Speaker 1: already been through far too much, and the rest of
Speaker 1: the country has dealt with the reverberations. As you recall,
Speaker 1: last summer, there were b LM protests that broke out
Speaker 1: across the country, and it needs to be said more
Speaker 1: more people need to know this, need to hear this
Speaker 1: that in a year of a pandemic where we had
Speaker 1: lockdowns and we had people interacting less, far fewer people
Speaker 1: than in living memory, going to bars and restaurants and
Speaker 1: subways and being out in public places, so you should
Speaker 1: expect that the violence rate in the country would be far,
Speaker 1: far lower than in previous years. Instead, what we had
Speaker 1: was a massive spike arise of murders and other violent
Speaker 1: crimes and including rapes, sexual assaults, assault with a deadly
Speaker 1: weapon arise across the country not seen in over twenty years.
Speaker 1: The worst murder rate. They're expecting. They still compile the
Speaker 1: numbers and they'll give us the official date. I believe
Speaker 1: in September, the worst murder rate since nineteen ninety five nationwide.
Speaker 1: And there's one major factor in all of this. The
Speaker 1: George Floyd police incident in Minneapolis, his death, the riots
Speaker 1: that ensued afterwards, the undermining of police, the call through
Speaker 1: defund police, and communities becoming less safe as a result.
Speaker 1: People suffer because of these bad ideas. People suffer because
Speaker 1: of these lies. We all need to understand this. We
Speaker 1: need to be honest about it. I know right now
Speaker 1: that there is that cheap virtue signaling going on all
Speaker 1: over the place by people who live in safe communities,
Speaker 1: who don't know crime from a firsthand experience, and who
Speaker 1: think that standing in solidarity with rioters and looters is
Speaker 1: somehow making anything better. It actually just makes everything worse.
Speaker 1: But the ruling class and the elites, members of the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party, Silicon Valley, corporate America, they are very clear
Speaker 1: and where their sympathies lie. And there's also it seems
Speaker 1: very little willingness to say to people, stop being reckless,
Speaker 1: stop saying things that are not true. People with major platforms.
Speaker 1: Corey Bush, member of Congress, tweeted this out about Officer Potter,
Speaker 1: who has already resigned and who is now facing criminal culpability.
Speaker 1: There have been about fifteen of these taser firearm mistake
Speaker 1: shootings that have occurred over the last decade or so.
Speaker 1: So this has happened before, and in most of the
Speaker 1: cases there was no criminal charge, especially if the person
Speaker 1: and if no one was killed. In a couple of
Speaker 1: cases there have been criminal charges. An Officer Potter may
Speaker 1: very well get an involuntary manslaughter charge as a result,
Speaker 1: but that's already in process. Right there. There is an
Speaker 1: accountability that is going on here that will never be
Speaker 1: true justice in the sense that you can't bring back Dante,
Speaker 1: right there's nothing to bring him back to stop that
Speaker 1: tragic accident from happening. But here's what Cory Bush. Remember
Speaker 1: the House representative said about all this that she would
Speaker 1: rather she tweeted this. The twenty six year veteran cop,
Speaker 1: former president of the police union doesn't know the difference
Speaker 1: between a taser and a gun. And you say more
Speaker 1: training would have fixed this, Nah, But I bet you
Speaker 1: would have known the difference if Dante wasn't a black boy,
Speaker 1: or if he was her loved one. And quote that's
Speaker 1: from a representative, Cory Bush. That is a in sight
Speaker 1: unfair and deeply unhelpful thing to say. Right now, there
Speaker 1: is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of racial animus in this incident.
Speaker 1: In fact, if anything, what we see on video is
Speaker 1: someone who is clearly trying to do one thing, makes
Speaker 1: an awful mistake that she is responsible for, and then
Speaker 1: realizes the error that she's just committed and that the
Speaker 1: tragedy that ensued, and knows that it's too late and
Speaker 1: she can't take that bullet back. But this has happened
Speaker 1: before the timing of this, I mean beyond just the
Speaker 1: fact that it's a tragedy in and of itself, but
Speaker 1: the timing of this right before we're expected to hear
Speaker 1: about the George Floyd verdict. I mean it rather the
Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin verdict about the death of George Floyd, which
Speaker 1: is next week. I mean the jury could be deliberating
Speaker 1: as soon as next week. Right now, it would be
Speaker 1: hard to think of a more tense situation. And people
Speaker 1: who have platforms, people who have power here in the
Speaker 1: national conversation, should use it responsibly. But we shouldn't expect
Speaker 1: that to happen, not with today's Democrat party. We've got
Speaker 1: an open border, we've got out of control spending, we've
Speaker 1: got real fears of inflation. People are starting to wise
Speaker 1: up to the fact that the Faucii consensus is never
Speaker 1: going to just let us go back to normal. That
Speaker 1: they're not even really thinking there is such a thing
Speaker 1: as everyone just stops wearing masks and lives their lives,
Speaker 1: that they're not going to give up that control. People
Speaker 1: are starting to see through this Biden administration and so
Speaker 1: what do they want here? That's right, an issue of
Speaker 1: racial justice according to the left, to rally around to
Speaker 1: make it seem like there is a righteous cause for
Speaker 1: the left, when in this case and this reality, what
Speaker 1: they're going to do is just create excuses for more destruction, violence,
Speaker 1: and anarchy in the streets. What was better as a
Speaker 1: result of BLM riots lad Year? What improved? Oh, they
Speaker 1: got the main demand, which was defunding of police in
Speaker 1: some cities, and crime sword and people died and misery spread.
Speaker 1: It's very straightforward. The cops are not the problem, all right.
Speaker 1: We have to be adults in America. We have to
Speaker 1: be willing to say things that are obviously true. We
Speaker 1: have to fight this effort to shut down your ability
Speaker 1: to observe what you know to be true. There is
Speaker 1: a war on observation going on right now. You can't
Speaker 1: see what's actually true and not true about lockdowns and
Speaker 1: vaccine policies and all the rest of it. Shut up
Speaker 1: and do what you're told you can't see and come
Speaker 1: to your own conclusions about how crime is getting worse
Speaker 1: and how BLM activists by million dollar mansions for themselves
Speaker 1: while they're actually supposed to be, you know, helping poor
Speaker 1: communities and dealing with police relations. Right you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to notice these things. You're told what to think, and
Speaker 1: if you disagree, you're shouted down. They're not even trying
Speaker 1: to convince you of anything anymore. And you're certainly not
Speaker 1: supposed to notice that BLM as a movement has blood
Speaker 1: on its hands. You look at what's happened over the
Speaker 1: last year, over the last twelve months, and because of
Speaker 1: the defunding of police, because of the change in perception
Speaker 1: about community police relations and the fact that law enforcement
Speaker 1: does not feel backed up in their jobs, more people
Speaker 1: are dead than one otherwise be more people have suffered.
Speaker 1: And what exactly is gained by all this defund police
Speaker 1: which I know Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company,
Speaker 1: has now said that they want to abolish police. Look,
Speaker 1: they're a bunch of morons who have done far too
Speaker 1: much to push type two diabetes on the country. Okay,
Speaker 1: by the way, boycott them. Let me just throw that
Speaker 1: out there right now. Donat that ice cream. If every
Speaker 1: person who had a rational view of America in the country,
Speaker 1: who was center right said I'm not going to buy
Speaker 1: anywhere Ben and Jerry's, they may actually feel that a
Speaker 1: little bit. They may actually realize shut up and make
Speaker 1: my you know, Oreo cookie swirl or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Whatever they make, I usually can't eat it because they
Speaker 1: have gluten in a lot of their ice cream. That's
Speaker 1: the truth. We need to take action or else this
Speaker 1: stuff continues. Defund the police is moronic. It's a stupid
Speaker 1: thing to say. There are bad people in this country.
Speaker 1: There are bad, violent, destructive people of all races and backgrounds,
Speaker 1: and we all need to be universally held to account
Speaker 1: for our actions. We cannot break the law, we become
Speaker 1: a lawless society. The foundation upon which everything else is built.
Speaker 1: All of our prosperity and all of good fun stuff
Speaker 1: out there, and all the systems that we benefit from
Speaker 1: every day, they all start to crumble if we don't
Speaker 1: have rule of law and we are all responsible as individuals,
Speaker 1: as human beings for our actions. There is no license
Speaker 1: to loot or riot or attack. And getting rid of
Speaker 1: cops is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in
Speaker 1: a public policy debate. It's honestly the stupidest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever heard. What are we going to do? Then? We're
Speaker 1: gonna start sending in social workers? Have they thought this through?
Speaker 1: Do they think that unarmed social workers are going to
Speaker 1: want to be involved in violent domestic disputes? You're going
Speaker 1: to send in a social worker if somebody's calling the
Speaker 1: police because they're worried that there could be a drive
Speaker 1: by in their neighborhood. I'm glad the social worker will
Speaker 1: be there to say, hey, let's all be nice to
Speaker 1: each other while the bullets are flying over their heads.
Speaker 1: Could it be any dumber? No, But this is where
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party is now, reckless demagoguery, brainwashing and stupidity
Speaker 1: on a national scale to pretend they care so much
Speaker 1: about minority communities. You know, all these MSNBC anchors who
Speaker 1: are millionaires, who live in very safe areas, who send
Speaker 1: their kids to private schools, they're the first ones to
Speaker 1: tell you, Oh, but you know, we don't need so
Speaker 1: much police. Really, they should spend a few nights in
Speaker 1: the highest crime areas of major cities, especially these days,
Speaker 1: and walk around the streets and see how they feel
Speaker 1: about cops after that. I have a feeling it would
Speaker 1: change their tunes. But it's just a bunch of virtue
Speaker 1: signaling cowards, just reveling in their demagoguery. That's what they do,
Speaker 1: and that's what they care about. The full text of
Speaker 1: of of what of your requests? Uh? And UH make
Speaker 1: sure that you know we sit down and and go
Speaker 1: through it and see how we can implement. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: every time they they're they're making a traffic stop or
Speaker 1: or engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for uh
Speaker 1: for weapons. We know that are other many other jurisdictions
Speaker 1: or even around the world where that is, you know,
Speaker 1: necessarily the case it's not needed. So that's the mayor
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, which, as I understand it has
Speaker 1: been a place that's very much deteriorated to the last
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen years and much higher crime. And this
Speaker 1: is this is someone who has a public platform, has
Speaker 1: public power and trust, who's saying something that is just
Speaker 1: is just shockingly stupid, but also somewhat commonplace these days
Speaker 1: to say things that no rational person would think is
Speaker 1: a good idea. Yes, because we have we've had a
Speaker 1: major surge in violent crime in the country last year.
Speaker 1: Now's the time, in a country with hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of firearms in circulation already, now's the time to tell
Speaker 1: cops do your jobs, but don't be armed. That's what
Speaker 1: the guys saying. Yeah, for traffic stops, don't don't be armed. Um,
Speaker 1: perhaps the this individual doesn't spend much time on the internet,
Speaker 1: he would know that a New Mexico State Police officer,
Speaker 1: darry And Jarrett, was murdered just over the weekend. You
Speaker 1: didn't You didn't hear a lot about this one. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of solidarity marches, and not a lot of
Speaker 1: people walking around trying to raise awareness about the risk
Speaker 1: that law enforcements. Law enforcement takes. Omar Felix Queva had
Speaker 1: a rifle and executed Officer darry and Jarrett at close
Speaker 1: range during a routine daylight traffic stop. But sure, let's
Speaker 1: give our cops even less of a chance anytime they
Speaker 1: pull over somebody who has an outstanding warrant for a
Speaker 1: violent crime, like, oh, that's right. As we've now found out,
Speaker 1: because the stories are never accurate in the early hours
Speaker 1: about the victims. When BLM decide that somebody is one
Speaker 1: of their hallowed victims, one of the one of the
Speaker 1: martyrs of the movement, the initial story are never really
Speaker 1: true about their background. That that's always the case. There's
Speaker 1: there's this you know, we at first it's usually the
Speaker 1: person's you know, a family man, an honor student and
Speaker 1: everything else. And then when we say, well, hold on
Speaker 1: a second, this person actually, in the case of George Floyd,
Speaker 1: for example, held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly
Speaker 1: during a home invasion. They said, that doesn't matter. Well,
Speaker 1: it mattered when we had all these photos of somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, either in their high school graduation cap and gown,
Speaker 1: or when we're being told that they were an honor
Speaker 1: student or a family man, or a hard working person
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever it is, that's all to be said.
Speaker 1: But then we find out the person either resisted or
Speaker 1: rest had a long criminal history, had a violent criminal history.
Speaker 1: In the case of Dante Right, the individual, this individual
Speaker 1: held a gun to a woman and tried to rob
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars from her. Okay, that's that, you know,
Speaker 1: arm armed robbery. But if you talk about this so
Speaker 1: you're you're it's a problem and understand this. That doesn't
Speaker 1: change anything about the culpa bill of the officer, Officer Potter,
Speaker 1: but it does affect the narrative and the perception of
Speaker 1: how these events affect society, of how people should view
Speaker 1: these these situations. Same thing where you bring up, you know,
Speaker 1: resisting arrest, it is possible to say, don't resist arrest, Comma,
Speaker 1: and this officer made a terrible mistake. Those are both true. Statements.
Speaker 1: You should not resist arrest, you should not violently fight
Speaker 1: with cops when they're trying to rescue, and you, if
Speaker 1: you're a cop, you gotta be able to discern, even
Speaker 1: in very tense moments, between your taser or your fire
Speaker 1: or or else. You shouldn't be a cop. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: I remember when you know, when I was, when I
Speaker 1: was overseas, it was just on all the basis. I
Speaker 1: mean an a D. If you got an and I
Speaker 1: mean an a D out on the range, accidental discharge,
Speaker 1: an a D. You know, walk into the to the
Speaker 1: dining hall or whatever, if you fired off around by
Speaker 1: accident you or you were going home. Basically you were done,
Speaker 1: even if no one was hurt. So you know, they
Speaker 1: that's the It's a cardinal rule of firearms safety. And
Speaker 1: obviously officer Potters is paying, in our own way, a
Speaker 1: very high price for this. But we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: now disarmed It was defund police. Now it's gonna be
Speaker 1: disarmed police. Who's gonna want to take these jobs? I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of law enforcement that listens to
Speaker 1: this show all across the country, and I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell them in good in good faith, Yeah, keep
Speaker 1: doing your job, especially if you're in a relatively high
Speaker 1: crime area. You know, I mean, I have I have
Speaker 1: an uncle who is a police officer in south central
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, police officer in south central Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell him to walk around without a firearm
Speaker 1: and to go up to people and get involved in
Speaker 1: disputes and pull them over and try to write them
Speaker 1: a ticket and try to you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most dangerous things cops do is in fact, traffic stops.
Speaker 1: But you see the voices out there right now that
Speaker 1: get attention for the Democrat media aren't people who actually
Speaker 1: know anything about law enforcement, about you four incidents. They're
Speaker 1: people that appeal to the masses with their emotions. You know,
Speaker 1: they're They're the people at MSNBC who just oh, they're
Speaker 1: just channeling all this emotion right now, But then they
Speaker 1: say things that end up hurting people when they're implemented.
Speaker 1: There are negative consequences to bad ideas. Something we always
Speaker 1: have to remember. This stuff is not without a cost.
Speaker 1: But the people who bear the cost are not you know,
Speaker 1: wealthy upper middle class journalists or well off or wealthy
Speaker 1: TV news anchors or people who are making pr decisions
Speaker 1: at big corporations. No, they don't pay the price. No. Instead,
Speaker 1: the people that are the most likely to suffer from
Speaker 1: violent crimes in the neighborhoods in the first place, their
Speaker 1: percentages just go up. And when things get worse, and
Speaker 1: that sense of misery and foreboding that exists. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I've I've spent because of my time in the NYPD,
Speaker 1: considerable time in the actual worst neighborhoods in New York City,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you that it feels like a
Speaker 1: different place than the wealthier or even just more run
Speaker 1: of the mill parts in terms of crime of New
Speaker 1: York City. And I wish some of these journos would
Speaker 1: do the same, because maybe they would shut their mouths.
Speaker 1: There's so much you're just not allowed to say about
Speaker 1: COVID and lockdowns. It's very frustrating. As you know, it's
Speaker 1: been one of the things that's made me particularly angry
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Speaker 1: But I've got to tell you, the way that big
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Speaker 1: about if you have received the J and J vaccine.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks are probably wondering what should I do,
Speaker 1: what should I look out for. What's your advice to them? Well,
Speaker 1: the first bit of advice is really don't worry very
Speaker 1: much because, just as we've said, it's a very very
Speaker 1: rare event. That's the first thing. The second thing, the
Speaker 1: bracket of time when this occurs was between six and
Speaker 1: thirteen days, so it's between one and two weeks. So
Speaker 1: if you've got your vaccine several weeks ago, then it
Speaker 1: makes it even less likely that you should have any
Speaker 1: concern at all. If you've had it within a few days,
Speaker 1: just stay heads up for symptoms severe headache, abdominal pain,
Speaker 1: chest pain, things like that. But again underscoring Savannah, it
Speaker 1: is a very very rare event, so you don't want
Speaker 1: people who've just received the vaccine to be overly worried
Speaker 1: about this. This is a rare occurrence. The pause is
Speaker 1: just as an abundance of caution to really scope out
Speaker 1: the situation a little bit more closely. The pause is
Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. You know, you got to mitigate
Speaker 1: because there could be a diminution of the parabellic upswing
Speaker 1: of the hypotheses of the Isosceles triangle. And you know,
Speaker 1: I really do feel like sometimes this guy is just
Speaker 1: broke it into a few high school textbooks and wants
Speaker 1: to just throw out a bunch of a bunch of
Speaker 1: science sounding jargon, math and science jargon at us. You know,
Speaker 1: when you have Savannah, you get the shot, and when
Speaker 1: the photosynthesis kicks in and you have the oxo ribo
Speaker 1: nucleic acid that is a part of the overall you
Speaker 1: know Dalwinnian notion of it. Just just blabber right that.
Speaker 1: But people go home, doctor Foucher, You're so smart. Doctor
Speaker 1: Foucher's so smart. He's such a smart man. What are
Speaker 1: we doing? So now it's don't worry. Yesterday was pause
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Now it's don't worry. And I just want
Speaker 1: to say when I tell you guys, because I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about this all the time, and I know I get
Speaker 1: I get a lot of feedback from you all, and
Speaker 1: I want the feed. I want you to tell me
Speaker 1: what you think about what we're doing here. You you
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Speaker 1: Producer Mark sees it too, but I see it. And
Speaker 1: because on the vaccines, I want to be very clear,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to you know, push any water, bully
Speaker 1: anyone in anything. People say, Buck, why would you get
Speaker 1: the vaccine You've already had COVID? And I say, I know,
Speaker 1: isn't it so stupid? The only reason that I would
Speaker 1: get that. I'm scheduled to get a vaccine in about
Speaker 1: sixty days, so in a while, because I do it,
Speaker 1: I've got anybodies in my system, I've already had the virus,
Speaker 1: and in a short period of time, I'm going to
Speaker 1: introduce that same immune response through this, you know, genetic
Speaker 1: coding response or whatever. I mean, very just you know,
Speaker 1: very few people really understand how these vaccines actually work.
Speaker 1: This is not your standard. This isn't putting just dead
Speaker 1: virus into your system. This is something else. But the
Speaker 1: reason that I've said I would do it, And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to push anybody else here. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: because I in New York, where I currently live and
Speaker 1: my family is, and where I work, they have already
Speaker 1: started to experiment with vaccine passports, and you know, so
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take the risk more so so I
Speaker 1: can live a normal I can live a normal life.
Speaker 1: But I agree with some of you say, well, isn't
Speaker 1: that a little bit? I mean, I'm so anti mask
Speaker 1: as you know, outdoor masking moronic, zero reason to do that.
Speaker 1: Indoor masking and limited circumstances at sometimes you know, maybe,
Speaker 1: but in general, I mean, I think mask mandates don't work.
Speaker 1: I think mask mandates are a disaster. And I think
Speaker 1: that masking is the initial knee bending that leads to
Speaker 1: all this other madness in our society. I actually shared
Speaker 1: this was actually this is great I shared on Twitter today.
Speaker 1: If you have probably you also all should be following
Speaker 1: me on Twitter please if you're not already, And it's this.
Speaker 1: It was almost exactly a year ago. It was like
Speaker 1: a year and a week ago, there was a piece
Speaker 1: in the Washington Post. I'm just waiting for this too.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for this to be taken down or
Speaker 1: for social media companies to come after me. This is
Speaker 1: the right below the democracy dies in darkness. You know
Speaker 1: header in the Washington Post everyone wore flu masks during
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighteen I'm sorry, everyone wore masks during the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen flu pandemic. They were useless. That was in
Speaker 1: the Washington Post a year ago. Everyone wore masks during
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighteen flu pandemic. They were useless. That was
Speaker 1: the headline, not that they didn't work that well. Useless.
Speaker 1: And you know what that line is. That line is
Speaker 1: taken from the considered this seminal work work of history
Speaker 1: on the Spanish flu pandemic of nineteen eighteen. The author
Speaker 1: just writes, Look, they did this everywhere. Didn't do a
Speaker 1: damn thing, but people were obsessed, and there was mask fashion,
Speaker 1: and there was you know, mask all kinds of stuff. Right. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you where does your where should
Speaker 1: you shave your mustache? A lot of mustaches back? Then?
Speaker 1: Where should you save shave your mustache so that it
Speaker 1: doesn't affect your mask and all this stuff, and they
Speaker 1: were useless, was the quote. Now, if I say that today,
Speaker 1: I get kicked off social media and treated like a troglodyte.
Speaker 1: But this was in the Washington Post, friends, a year ago.
Speaker 1: And what's amazing is the sheeple out there, mate, mate,
Speaker 1: they they see stuff like this. And when I point
Speaker 1: this out to them, or I of course show them
Speaker 1: the Fauci lines from a year ago, you know, you
Speaker 1: know it may it may actually make you feel a
Speaker 1: little better, but you know, when you're out in the crowd,
Speaker 1: you know it doesn't really do anything to wear a mask.
Speaker 1: They say, well, but the science has changed, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: how and then they point to some uh, some not
Speaker 1: real world study they point to essentially spray water through
Speaker 1: a mask and saying, well, there's less vapor. So since
Speaker 1: there's less vapor, there's there's you know, it's effective, it's
Speaker 1: stopping the virus. And then then you show them all
Speaker 1: these CDC studies. There was a big one, I think
Speaker 1: it was up in Canada because they say, well, doctors
Speaker 1: to wear them, and you say, okay, well, the CDC
Speaker 1: study fromp in Canada about masks during flu season for dentists,
Speaker 1: specifically for for dental personnel, showed the dentists who wear
Speaker 1: masks during procedures versus those who don't. No change in
Speaker 1: the transmission for those healthcare personnel during the flu season.
Speaker 1: And it was a pretty big So that's a real
Speaker 1: world study. And there's tons of this out there if
Speaker 1: you want to see it. The Danish mask study. Oh well,
Speaker 1: yeah that you know. Sure it didn't stop people from
Speaker 1: getting it, but you could not give it to another
Speaker 1: person if you have it on and they have it.
Speaker 1: There's always there's always an excuse, right, there's always an excuse.
Speaker 1: The CDC numbers on mask mandates within the margin of error.
Speaker 1: That's how well the mandate works. But you can't bring
Speaker 1: this up. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not letting this go
Speaker 1: because friends, they're they're trying to change the wiring in
Speaker 1: our brains with all this stuff. They are making you
Speaker 1: a compliant little stooge. And I hate it. I resent
Speaker 1: it every They do it to me too, because you'll say, well, buck,
Speaker 1: do you wear a mask in New York? I have.
Speaker 1: They will evict me from my home if I don't,
Speaker 1: I will be kicked out of the grocery store. I
Speaker 1: will I will get you know even more dad bod
Speaker 1: going on here without even being a dad. Because I
Speaker 1: can't go to the gym, all these things will happen.
Speaker 1: I have no I have no choice. And if they
Speaker 1: call the police, the police will enforce against me. They
Speaker 1: will arrest me. Right so I am. I am not
Speaker 1: conceited to their argument. I'm conceding to their superior force.
Speaker 1: I tried. I went maskless for months and months and months.
Speaker 1: Then I was told deal man, everyone's complaining about you.
Speaker 1: This is getting out of control. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 1: since I got the virus two months ago when I
Speaker 1: was walking around with no mask on, was I ever infected? No?
Speaker 1: Did I ever put anyone at risk? We know for
Speaker 1: a fact scientifically no. I did not. Never, there was
Speaker 1: no risk, zero risk. But you're not allowed to see
Speaker 1: once again, you're not allowed to observe. There's a war
Speaker 1: on observation right now that the Democrats and the left
Speaker 1: are waging. You don't know what you're seeing, you don't
Speaker 1: know what's really happening. You're not allowed to even say,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, they're pausing a vaccine. If you
Speaker 1: had called for a vaccine, pause on your Facebook page
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. If you had said, guys, I just
Speaker 1: I've read some data on Johnson and Johnson, and you
Speaker 1: know something's going on here. We got to really look
Speaker 1: into this boom. Facebook would lock you out, They shut
Speaker 1: you down, they take your account away. Think of the
Speaker 1: effect that that has on our conversation about this. This
Speaker 1: is the new public square. They are the phone company,
Speaker 1: you know, circa nineteen fifty. This is how people communicate,
Speaker 1: and they control it. The biggest enemies of free speech
Speaker 1: and free expression in the country right now are the
Speaker 1: most powerful platforms of communication in the world. This is
Speaker 1: the great irony we're dealing with. But the point of
Speaker 1: making about the vaccines is does that change the thinking
Speaker 1: at all for the people that believe that they have
Speaker 1: all this figured out? Does that change the hubrists and
Speaker 1: the arrogant mentality of those who say, oh, I just
Speaker 1: listen to the science, I just listen to Fauci. How
Speaker 1: many times did those guys get to be wrong before
Speaker 1: a normal person would say, maybe something's up here now.
Speaker 1: I saw, for example, the Tucker monologue. Lass Tucker did
Speaker 1: a monologue last not on this, and he kept saying,
Speaker 1: why do they want us to wear masks after we're vaccinated.
Speaker 1: He posed this question, and he didn't get to I
Speaker 1: know what their answer is. Even after vaccination, there's a
Speaker 1: tiny percentage of people who could still get infected, five
Speaker 1: percent by the Fiser numbers, whatever it is. And so
Speaker 1: if it saves just one life, this is the this
Speaker 1: is the well spring of all the tyranny. If it
Speaker 1: could theoretically save just one life, you have to deal
Speaker 1: with this for our health policy. Faucism. The fauci id
Speaker 1: consensus is the speed limit must now be ten miles
Speaker 1: an hour. That is what has happened in this country,
Speaker 1: where the speed limit now must be ten miles an hour.
Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, you can't drive, you
Speaker 1: can't leave your home, actually, and we'll arrest you if
Speaker 1: you do anything else. It's not the country I want
Speaker 1: to live in. It's not a country I'm going to
Speaker 1: accept either. And the grubby little fingers of the states
Speaker 1: authoritarian democrats here, they're not taking they're not taking their
Speaker 1: hands off the wheels of power. They're not going to
Speaker 1: do it. They want to control you. They want to
Speaker 1: keep this going as long as possible. They like you compliant,
Speaker 1: they like you scared, stay home, wear a mask, don't
Speaker 1: see people, do what we tell you, get whatever shots
Speaker 1: we tell you. Do you think that that upsets the
Speaker 1: nanny state leftists? Or is this a dream come true
Speaker 1: in terms of the power they have. It could be
Speaker 1: that possibly someone who's had COVID like myself, could they
Speaker 1: be reinfected. They're very small numbers of it, But guess what,
Speaker 1: almost none of them are really getting sick. You're you're
Speaker 1: not reading stories of oh my goodness, thousands of people
Speaker 1: being reinfected, they're in the hospital and they're dying. Those
Speaker 1: stories don't exist. You'll read about a random, very rare
Speaker 1: person getting reinfected or getting infected when they've been vaccinated.
Speaker 1: But the good is that even if you got infected
Speaker 1: from COVID, after you've been vaccinated, you have some immunity,
Speaker 1: a partial immunity, and it lessens the degree or significance
Speaker 1: of the disease. So almost everything out there's good news.
Speaker 1: This is why I so much think doctor Fauci should
Speaker 1: be voluntarily removed from TV, because what he says is
Speaker 1: such a disservice and such fear monitoring, and almost all
Speaker 1: of what he says isn't even matched by the science
Speaker 1: of his own institute. So really what we need to
Speaker 1: do is here from a lot of different experts, and
Speaker 1: then people need to realize that the risk factors are
Speaker 1: different depending on your age. You mentioned that Johnson and
Speaker 1: Johnson vaccine very very safe, and if you're over eighty,
Speaker 1: without question, it's the only one you can get, take it.
Speaker 1: If you're over seventy, take it, But it does depend
Speaker 1: on your age. If you're under twenty five, the chance
Speaker 1: of dying from this is one in a million. So
Speaker 1: your risk factors do depend on whether you judge whether
Speaker 1: you take a vaccine. It's not the same for everybody.
Speaker 1: Everything Senator round Paul saying there is provably demonstrably true.
Speaker 1: But do you ever do you ever hear this? I mean,
Speaker 1: they've there have been teachers unions that as part of
Speaker 1: their demands, and the teachers unions have just shown what
Speaker 1: a disgraceful, disgusting mess they are in the past year.
Speaker 1: Just just thuggish democrat political machinery. And it's all the
Speaker 1: teachers unions are good for. But the truth here, with
Speaker 1: everything that's going on, the truth of the situation is
Speaker 1: that we can't have real conversations about risk. We can't
Speaker 1: actually have real discussions about who's at risk and who's not.
Speaker 1: They wanted children, Teachers Union wanted children to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: Why kids, The kids are fine. But what they do
Speaker 1: is they say that's not true. Kids can still get it.
Speaker 1: And they'll point and they'll say, look, you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred children have died believed to have died from COVID
Speaker 1: in the United States. Okay, I mean that's one hundred
Speaker 1: children out of a country three hundred and thirty million people.
Speaker 1: There are viruses that you know, that are that are
Speaker 1: floating around in the air all the time that kids
Speaker 1: can still get they can die. We have to accept
Speaker 1: that there's not a zero mortality future from COVID. That's
Speaker 1: not realistic. That's not gonna happen, just like there's not
Speaker 1: a zero mortality from flu future for the world. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the people that have pushed for all this stuff,
Speaker 1: the lockdowners, you gotta understand what their next moves are
Speaker 1: gonna be. We keep seeing these reports, Oh, the vaccines
Speaker 1: are effective for six months. Okay, what happens then we're
Speaker 1: gonna are we supposed to go through this every year? Oh?
Speaker 1: And you know, you can't actually see people and do things.
Speaker 1: You gotta get the second and then what about when
Speaker 1: the booster, you know, doesn't work on the new variant
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, you're just gonna We're all gonna
Speaker 1: go insane. I mean, we're all just gonna completely lose
Speaker 1: our minds over this stuff over time. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people have. I believe that mass media
Speaker 1: has combined to create combined with mass hysteria to create
Speaker 1: the environment we're currently living in. You've never had so
Speaker 1: many hysterics able to reach out and talk to so
Speaker 1: many other hysterics that at one point in human history
Speaker 1: speaking of hysterics, here's CNN with their I guess he's
Speaker 1: still unpaid as a contributor. But doctor Fauci, who really,
Speaker 1: you know he's I know he's at the National Institute
Speaker 1: of Allergy and Infectious Disease, but he really should just
Speaker 1: be chirond as favorite CNN and MSNBC guest, because they're
Speaker 1: also emotionally and professionally invested in this guy not being
Speaker 1: a little tyrannical moron, which I think he is. But
Speaker 1: here's CNN talking about what Tucker said on his monologue,
Speaker 1: which I brought up before Play six TV personality Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson said on TV about vaccines in general. He said,
Speaker 1: if the vaccine, if vaccines are effective, there's no reason
Speaker 1: for people who have received the vaccine to wear masks
Speaker 1: or avoid physical contact. So maybe it doesn't work and
Speaker 1: they're simply not telling you that. Let me repeat that again.
Speaker 1: So maybe it doesn't work and they're simply not telling
Speaker 1: you that. What do you have to say to Tucker Carlson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just the typical crazy conspiracy theory. Why would we
Speaker 1: not tell people if it doesn't work? Look at the data.
Speaker 1: The data are overwhelming. In the three vaccines that have
Speaker 1: been approved for use in an emergency use authimization, the
Speaker 1: Jay and Jay, the Fiser, and the Moderna. You had
Speaker 1: thirty thousand, forty four thousand, and forty thousand people in
Speaker 1: a clinical trial with an overwhelming signal of efficacy. So
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea what he's talking about. How
Speaker 1: dangerous is it for a TV personality like that, who
Speaker 1: does have an audience of millions to speculate about something
Speaker 1: like that. Well, it's certainly not helpful to the public
Speaker 1: health of this nation or even globally. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into arguments about Tucker Carlson, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's just, you know, it's counter to what
Speaker 1: we were trying to accomplish, to protect the safe, the
Speaker 1: end the health of the American public. Why can't that
Speaker 1: little fascists tell us when we can stop wearing masks?
Speaker 1: When give us a date or give us the numbers,
Speaker 1: give us the metrics. Why can't give up the control?
Speaker 1: Better to attack Tucker Carlson for asking that was a
Speaker 1: question that he brought up in the context of a
Speaker 1: fifteen minute monologue where it's clear he's not anti vaccines
Speaker 1: and he's not saying they don't work. He's just trying
Speaker 1: to work through a problem that we're not allowed to
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Speaker 1: announced that he plans to pull US troops out of
Speaker 1: Afghanistan by September eleventh of this year, clearly noting the
Speaker 1: symbolism here of that day and an end to a
Speaker 1: war that has raged for twenty years. We have been
Speaker 1: deployed in Afghanistan. We've had US military in Afghanistan for
Speaker 1: twenty years. And I remember I was in Afghanistan a
Speaker 1: decade ago. The situation then was largely the same as
Speaker 1: the situation now, except there were far more troops in
Speaker 1: the country at that time. But the same things you'd
Speaker 1: hear about how the Taliban is on the offensive, and
Speaker 1: the central government is corrupt and weak in an effective
Speaker 1: and their forces toe to toe without US support, won't
Speaker 1: be able to go won't be able to go up
Speaker 1: in battle against the Taliban without losing. And I just
Speaker 1: remember thinking that everyone that I knew who was handling
Speaker 1: that issue at the at the highest levels honestly of
Speaker 1: the intelligence community in the US government, was very negative
Speaker 1: on the long term product that was in twenty ten
Speaker 1: very negative on the prospects of Afghanistan's future and felt
Speaker 1: like we could stay and just keep holding it together,
Speaker 1: or eventually realized that enough is enough. Well, the same
Speaker 1: voice is the very hawkish Republican voices that you always
Speaker 1: hear on this point are out there telling you, oh,
Speaker 1: we we shouldn't do it. Here here he is the
Speaker 1: guy I've never seen. Lindsey Graham has never seen a
Speaker 1: troop deployment or a war that even like, as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell, I don't know what it is
Speaker 1: with this guy always looking to bomb another country and
Speaker 1: show what it's wrong. So it gets applause from the
Speaker 1: think tank set on K Street in DC. Here he
Speaker 1: is play eleven. Biden's become an incredibly destabilizing American president.
Speaker 1: He took a border that was pretty calm and turned
Speaker 1: it into chaos. The Mid East had been transformed on
Speaker 1: Trump's watch, where the Arabs were working with Israelis and
Speaker 1: had Iran in a box. He's taken Iran and let
Speaker 1: him out of the box. They're talking about enriching uranium
Speaker 1: at sixty percent now, which is a direct threat to
Speaker 1: the existence of the state of Israel. The Russians are
Speaker 1: challenging him in the Ukraine, and now he is withdrawing
Speaker 1: forces in Afghanistan against sound military advice. To all of
Speaker 1: you who are listening, you remember where you're at. On
Speaker 1: September eleventh, two thousand and one, our military told President
Speaker 1: Biden that if you withdraw all of our forces, al
Speaker 1: Kaeda and Isis will come roaring back. Afghanistan would disintegrate
Speaker 1: into civil war, and we can avoid all of that
Speaker 1: by having three to five thousand American forces making sure
Speaker 1: that ISIS and al Kada never come back to hurt us.
Speaker 1: He rejected that advice. Afghanistan is going to tear rate
Speaker 1: pretty rapidly. Al Kada and ISIS are going to come back.
Speaker 1: He's paving the way for another nine eleven. Now, I
Speaker 1: want to be very clear that I don't care that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is a Democrat, and I don't care that
Speaker 1: this may not be the most popular thing to say
Speaker 1: on conservative talk radio right now. I think the war
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan needs to end. I wanted Trump to end it.
Speaker 1: I wanted Trump to end our military presence. He did not.
Speaker 1: I want Biden to end our military presence. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do this thing. I'm not going to play
Speaker 1: this game of saying I want other men and women
Speaker 1: down range fighting, you know, in Afghanistan when it politically
Speaker 1: suits me. No, you know how I felt during the
Speaker 1: Trump years, I wanted the president to end our military
Speaker 1: involvement in Afghanistan. I am going to stand on that
Speaker 1: same viewpoint now, all right, Otherwise what am I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, look, I know there's so many conservatives out there,
Speaker 1: is in the media that's just all about I mean,
Speaker 1: just raising donor money and like, you know, maga hats
Speaker 1: when it's popular, and then you know, oh, they're all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, they're hi ekei and free
Speaker 1: market pioneers when they think that's popular, and then back
Speaker 1: to the maga hat they say whatever they've got to say.
Speaker 1: You all know that I want the war in Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: our involvement, I should say to end there. So I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pretend that that's not what I wanted.
Speaker 1: If I wanted under Trump last year, I wanted under
Speaker 1: Biden now, So I'm not going to do this thing
Speaker 1: and hit him for yet. Is the border a mess
Speaker 1: because of Biden? One hundred percent? Everything else that I've
Speaker 1: said about that stuff is that all stays. But I
Speaker 1: do think the war in Afghanistan are pardon the war
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan needs to end, and I understand that that
Speaker 1: is there's a very real possibility the Taliban will end
Speaker 1: up taking over substantial control there. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you right now that I will if there is a
Speaker 1: terrorist attack plan from Afghan soil that involves the Afghan regime,
Speaker 1: the Taliban, whatever part it may be, I will advocate
Speaker 1: for a not a US military you know, pinprick invasion,
Speaker 1: but scorched earth and whatever we got to do, however
Speaker 1: we gotta do it. Not not letting them take another
Speaker 1: generation of Americans, you know, twenty years worth of people
Speaker 1: who are serving the in the military and wound them
Speaker 1: and kill them. And we're trying to create democracy. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: if they if they if they poke the dragon again,
Speaker 1: we go back breathing whatever fire we have to. That
Speaker 1: should be our attitude. It's the way it used to be.
Speaker 1: So it's the old approach in America when we when
Speaker 1: someone decides that they're going to attack us, we go back.
Speaker 1: We hit them with everything we've got until they can't
Speaker 1: hit us anymore. And that's that. So that really should
Speaker 1: be the attitude. I think it's not that we're going
Speaker 1: to go rebuild other people's countries for them, and that
Speaker 1: has been the case for for a while. Now. Now
Speaker 1: I understand people say it's a relatively small military presence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but maybe in three years it won't be relatively small.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Taliban becomes ascended. In our three thousand troops
Speaker 1: there's not enough. And now now we're going to get
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper into it. You know, there is the
Speaker 1: quagmire theory of how these things work. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: not a lie. This can happen. Marco Ruby another, You've
Speaker 1: got all these Republican foreign policy hawks, you know, making
Speaker 1: sure that the raytheon stock stays where it is and
Speaker 1: keeps going up. Here's Marco Rubio plate twelve. Well, that
Speaker 1: was a decision that began under President Trump, and so
Speaker 1: they've just what they've announced is that they're going to
Speaker 1: stick with President Trump's decision with regards to Afghanistan. Look,
Speaker 1: the outcome is going to be a terrible thing. The
Speaker 1: Taliban's i believe, will eventually take over the country as
Speaker 1: they were in charge before, and it's not going to
Speaker 1: be a good outcome. The flip side of it is
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure what the pathway to a better
Speaker 1: feature in the near term ones. And you know, given
Speaker 1: all the other needs we're facing around the world. You know,
Speaker 1: once President Trump made that decision, I think the die
Speaker 1: was cast in that regarden. Do you think the US
Speaker 1: has made enough progress on training the Afghan security forces?
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope so. I don't have a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of I hope I'm wrong because of the implications,
Speaker 1: but I don't have a lot of faith that the
Speaker 1: current government Afghanistan will be able to survive or hold
Speaker 1: on for long the Taliban. My personal opinion everything I
Speaker 1: mean I know is I think the Taliban will have
Speaker 1: an Afghan againstand control by the Taliban again, and that
Speaker 1: not a good outcome. But it's a direction that we're headed,
Speaker 1: and the previous administration agreed to that. The current administration
Speaker 1: stuck with it, and that's where we're going. I think
Speaker 1: that's where we should go. And I'll have to revisit this,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe in a year, maybe in eighteen months,
Speaker 1: because I think what Mark Rubio says here, he understands
Speaker 1: the basic facts and storyline of this. The gods, the
Speaker 1: Senate Form Relation Committee. I mean, he's he's pretty he's
Speaker 1: pretty knowledge about this stuff. Uh yeah, the Taliban will
Speaker 1: be ascendant, and there's a chance of Taliban will take
Speaker 1: over much, not all, but much of the country, and
Speaker 1: perhaps they will then forward some kind of a power
Speaker 1: sharing agreement. But it's not my problem. You know, We've
Speaker 1: we've gone through this, right, we remember, we're rock. We
Speaker 1: try to build a better country, and then they want
Speaker 1: you know, now they want us out. And then we
Speaker 1: had Isis and all this stuff, and we're all told, oh,
Speaker 1: we're imperialless in America. Now we we've done this, we
Speaker 1: try to go in and get rid of the bad
Speaker 1: dictators and get rid of the Jihatas and build nice societies. Nope, enough,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't want anyone being sent on our
Speaker 1: behalf as the American people, to go do this anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, what we really need to be concerned about
Speaker 1: is if things get really hot with China in the
Speaker 1: next five to ten years, are we ready for that?
Speaker 1: All right, Afghanistan is done well, we've been through this,
Speaker 1: We've done everything that we can do. Well, we'll still
Speaker 1: give them aid and you know, the thing that you
Speaker 1: gotta remember, there's also going to be support, back channel
Speaker 1: support and stuff that you know, you can't talk about
Speaker 1: publicly that's going to be going on where the US
Speaker 1: government's gonna be helping the Afghan government. That's obviously going
Speaker 1: to happen, but it's just no longer going to be
Speaker 1: our military presence holding this whole place together. And people say, well,
Speaker 1: what about South Korea and what about Germany? The Taliban
Speaker 1: isn't about to take over Germany. I mean, there's not
Speaker 1: an imminent threat of war in these countries. So those
Speaker 1: are strategic military bases with host partner nations that actually
Speaker 1: want us for the most part, in country, and our
Speaker 1: troops are not at any risk in Germany, or or
Speaker 1: in South Korea, or or in Japan. So that's a
Speaker 1: very different circumstance, isn't it. If the Nazis were still
Speaker 1: running around Germany controlling you know, the whole states, you know,
Speaker 1: the Nazis were running Bavaria as the Taliban is running
Speaker 1: parts of Afghanistan, and then you'd have a more similar circumstance.
Speaker 1: But it's time to go, and you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people change their stuff. I
Speaker 1: know they're you know, there are people who as radio
Speaker 1: hosts were calling Trump an idiot and he's awful, and
Speaker 1: then they were the big Trump cheerleaders, even they were
Speaker 1: pretending they weren't. I thought we should have ended Afghanistan
Speaker 1: under Trump, and this is the timeline that the Trump
Speaker 1: administration then sent out. Biden's going to stay with it.
Speaker 1: I believe this is the right move, and I think
Speaker 1: it will get ugly. I think there will be cost
Speaker 1: to this, but it's not I couldn't sit here and say,
Speaker 1: if you made me Secretary of Defense, I could not
Speaker 1: sit here and say to you the American people, including
Speaker 1: all the people listening to this who are active and
Speaker 1: former military. We've got people in the Special Operations community
Speaker 1: who listened to the show. We have seals, we have
Speaker 1: sf we have Marines who listened to this show. I
Speaker 1: could not say to them, yeah, I want you to
Speaker 1: I want you to stay in Afghanistan. I think this
Speaker 1: mission is worth it. And I certainly couldn't say to
Speaker 1: any their earns, I want to put your your children
Speaker 1: in harm's way for this mission set And so if
Speaker 1: that's how I feel, would I send my own son
Speaker 1: if I had one to secure Hellman Province at this point.
Speaker 1: If I were the Secretary of Defense, no, I would
Speaker 1: not so come with May. That's how I feel about this,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm not going to trash this policy because
Speaker 1: the Biden administration is following through on it. Our troops,
Speaker 1: our national security is more important than those kinds of games.