Speaker 1: Team Buck. Welcome to the Freedom hud on this lovely Thursday,
Speaker 1: the twelfth of August. Let's get to it. The schoolmask
Speaker 1: rebellion is under way. How many COVID breakthrough cases are
Speaker 1: there where the vaccine doesn't actually stop someone from getting
Speaker 1: infected and passing the infection on? The New New York
Speaker 1: Governor Hokel threatens to shut down schools and institute a
Speaker 1: mask mandate. Lori Lightfoot of Chicago says, the police budget's
Speaker 1: definitely going to increase next time around, and cobble could
Speaker 1: be in Taliban hands within a month. Let's let's jump
Speaker 1: into it, my friends. Let's get to a first off,
Speaker 1: The reality right now is that masks in schools have
Speaker 1: become the center, the center area of battle over whether
Speaker 1: we're going to have the permanent COVID state or not.
Speaker 1: Because let's just review for a second here. We were told,
Speaker 1: in very clear terms. We were told that the vaccines
Speaker 1: were the end. We were told that the vaccines had
Speaker 1: over ninety four percent in the case of fiser effectiveness. Right,
Speaker 1: that was that number, ninety ninety five percent vaccines better
Speaker 1: than our wildest dreams, and so that was it. Get
Speaker 1: the shot and you're done now. I understand there are people,
Speaker 1: many people, including myself, who have not gotten the shot.
Speaker 1: But we're at about half the country in total vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and yet here we are being told that Florida is
Speaker 1: having record caseload, Texas is having a record caseload in
Speaker 1: some areas. What the heck is going on? I want
Speaker 1: to return to that for a second, but just I
Speaker 1: wanted to put that thought out there. How could that be?
Speaker 1: We have at least half the country has the vaccine,
Speaker 1: which means that you've got a much smaller population for
Speaker 1: the virus to spread. You also have over one hundred
Speaker 1: million people who have natural immunity, So if the vaccine
Speaker 1: is piled on top of at what's going on? They
Speaker 1: don't want to ask these questions, and some people are
Speaker 1: starting to. I just want to be clear. They're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to hide from this forever. But
Speaker 1: something's up. Friends. What they've told you is not correct.
Speaker 1: I don't have all the answers, but they don't have
Speaker 1: all the answers either about what's going on. Right now?
Speaker 1: Just get the shot. Just get the shot, Shut up
Speaker 1: and get the shot. That's not enough. That doesn't explain
Speaker 1: what's happening. But let's get too masks in schools. First
Speaker 1: of all, in a purely human behavior based analysis, you
Speaker 1: can tell that masks in schools are stupid beyond words.
Speaker 1: Kids are going to be pulling them up, pulling them down,
Speaker 1: taking them on, taking them off. They're gonna have, you know,
Speaker 1: juice time, cookie time, They're gonna pull their masks down.
Speaker 1: They're going to be in close proximity to each other.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to know them, and how
Speaker 1: dumb this stuff is the fact that they have kids
Speaker 1: separated in some classrooms by plexiglass, which just doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything. Imagine you were in a classroom
Speaker 1: and there was there was you know, phosphine gas or
Speaker 1: chlorine gas, something really toxic and lethal in the air,
Speaker 1: and someone said, oh, hold on a second, and they
Speaker 1: put a plexiglass partition in front of you and then
Speaker 1: just had a whole bunch of free airflow all around
Speaker 1: you and the plexiglass. Would you say, oh, great, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I feel safe now. This is how
Speaker 1: stupid people are and how the COVID security theatrics have
Speaker 1: been indefensibly dumb for a very long time. And then
Speaker 1: that brings me to masks. The biggest studies of this
Speaker 1: have shown that masks in schools don't do anything. And
Speaker 1: by the way, when I say study, you can just
Speaker 1: line it up and look at data for places that
Speaker 1: have had masking in schools, look at places where they
Speaker 1: were incredibly strict about it, where they weren't strict about it,
Speaker 1: And there's no indication that this is an important policy.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of indication that this just is
Speaker 1: a reminder. Remember what I told you back in May.
Speaker 1: I was complaining to you then when they said the
Speaker 1: mask man it's going to said, they're keeping it on
Speaker 1: the planes. They're keeping it in the background like a
Speaker 1: virus that can come roaring back. All the lockdown measures,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And now the Biden administration is really
Speaker 1: ready to flex federal muscle in the process too. So
Speaker 1: it's in a sense even worse. Now, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: as I'm telling you, all this fatality from the virus
Speaker 1: are down seventy seventy five percent from the peak, maybe
Speaker 1: more like eighty percent from the peak. So far fewer
Speaker 1: people are dying from COVID. But you wouldn't get that
Speaker 1: sense because the people are controlling the narrative right now,
Speaker 1: want maximum fear. Doctor Fauci has just gone out there
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, you know what you are going to need.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need vaccination boosters. So we've gone from it
Speaker 1: about three months. Get the shot and you're done to
Speaker 1: get endless shots. Carry proof of those shots and mask up,
Speaker 1: and maybe there'll be future lockdowns. Shut up, peasant, do
Speaker 1: what you're told. Don't bring up that this isn't what
Speaker 1: we told you was going to happen. How can people
Speaker 1: be so very very stupid. Why aren't we all seeing this,
Speaker 1: at least at some baseline level, in a rational way.
Speaker 1: Why why can't everyone just understand that clearly the public
Speaker 1: health authorities, the government bureaucrats that work on health, the CDC,
Speaker 1: the NIH they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Speaker 1: When they make predictions, they're wrong over and over again.
Speaker 1: They don't know. Oh, this variant, that variant, this variant,
Speaker 1: that variant. Well, now it seems like we actually got
Speaker 1: a real variant, right. How many times do they tell
Speaker 1: us about variants before? Oh, watch out for this. There
Speaker 1: was the alpha variant, the beta variant, gamma, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I forget how many variants there there
Speaker 1: have been. But now we're seeing the fight in the
Speaker 1: schools play out, and we're getting into the you don't
Speaker 1: have the freedom to control how you breathe because it
Speaker 1: can affect other people. I mean, this is the ultimate
Speaker 1: totalitarian excuse, isn't it. You're not even allowed to breathe
Speaker 1: normally until we say so. You don't think this is
Speaker 1: having a massive psychological effect on society, your children. You
Speaker 1: can't even protect your children's right to breathe fresh, free
Speaker 1: air from the grubby little fingers of the state. That's
Speaker 1: what's going on right now. Some people are starting to
Speaker 1: see this little Fauci and his minions and the morons
Speaker 1: who think he's some kind of a genius and a hero.
Speaker 1: They want to mask up. Your kids all day sitting there,
Speaker 1: struggling to breathe, feeling anxious because it's it's doing nothing
Speaker 1: for them, it's not giving them safe. We all know this.
Speaker 1: Just think about it. How well did masks work during
Speaker 1: the pandemic? Just think, yeah, did it really really slow
Speaker 1: the spread? Here's the mayor of Austin, Texas, a lib
Speaker 1: of course, saying that it's sorry, no parental choice involved here.
Speaker 1: Play one. The choices that people are making not to
Speaker 1: get vaccinated for themselves are not choices just for themselves.
Speaker 1: The choices that they're making to leave themselves more vulnerable
Speaker 1: for ending up at a hospital is impacting everyone. That's
Speaker 1: why it's important to especially protect our children. A parent
Speaker 1: can make a choice for their child, except that the
Speaker 1: choice that they may impacts everybody else in the classroom.
Speaker 1: And people should have a right to pick a choice
Speaker 1: to be able to be in a classroom that keeps
Speaker 1: their children they're most safe. And we're gonna do everything
Speaker 1: we can. We're gonna, as we said from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: we're gonna follow the doctors and the data, even when
Speaker 1: we have a governor that seems to be following the
Speaker 1: donors and not the doctors. Little uh cheap shot at
Speaker 1: Abbot there at the end, the governor of Texas. Look,
Speaker 1: they want they want to make Texas and Florida bend
Speaker 1: the knee. Now think about that, after what eight months
Speaker 1: of getting vaccinated in this country, now they expect Texas
Speaker 1: and Florida to bend theneae fully a Texas already did before, sorry,
Speaker 1: but now they want to They want to fight Rhonda
Speaker 1: Santis on this. And what's so critical to them about
Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis and the schools issue is if they get
Speaker 1: schools to close, if they get the schools to uh
Speaker 1: sorry to mask mandate. Closing schools might happen here in
Speaker 1: New York, but if they get a mask mandate in Florida,
Speaker 1: they won't have a control group. I wish there was
Speaker 1: a way I could place a large bet on this.
Speaker 1: If Florida schools stay unmasked, and you compare the spread
Speaker 1: of COVID in Florida schools to say California schools with
Speaker 1: masking in place, there will be no statistically significant difference.
Speaker 1: I would bet a large sum of money for me
Speaker 1: on that if I could. That's how certain I am
Speaker 1: of this. It's just obvious. But if Florida has some
Speaker 1: schools masks some not, we can't tell. You know, the
Speaker 1: Blue areas of Florida, the Blue Cities have mass manates
Speaker 1: in place that muddies the water, and so they can say,
Speaker 1: see masked work, they work. That's what they'll tell you.
Speaker 1: It's appalling stupidity. But they're going after Descantists with everything
Speaker 1: they've got because they know that they've got to his
Speaker 1: success in Florida, and this is the next president of
Speaker 1: the United States. If he can keep the momentum going
Speaker 1: that he Scott, so they've got to take him off
Speaker 1: the chessboard. That's why Jensaki is spewing the usual propaganda
Speaker 1: play too. Our work is not on the stand us,
Speaker 1: it's on the virus which we're trying to kneecap. And
Speaker 1: he does not seem to want to participate in that
Speaker 1: effort to kneecap the virus, hence our concern. It's on
Speaker 1: the virus. Descenders doesn't want to help in the effort
Speaker 1: do what we say? What they say does not work.
Speaker 1: How many times do we have to go through this?
Speaker 1: How many times we have to sit through this? I
Speaker 1: just want to know when will they just give it up?
Speaker 1: Stop being crazy libs, stop being crazy. They won't though,
Speaker 1: they won't do it all. Right, here, here you go.
Speaker 1: I'll give you just a little taste of what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Here. This is a New York magazine for libs.
Speaker 1: I mean, New York magazine is all for libs. Don't panic,
Speaker 1: but breakthrough cases. Maybe a bigger problem than you've been told.
Speaker 1: Old and current public health messaging may understate the scale
Speaker 1: and risk. Here you go. This is written by David
Speaker 1: Wallace Wells. The term itself breakthrough as a problem. It
Speaker 1: sounds bad, implying an immune escape mutation likely rare and
Speaker 1: therefore alarming. The vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission,
Speaker 1: only symptomatic disease, and those who knew the science expected
Speaker 1: from the outset that we would see some number of
Speaker 1: such cases and they would be overwhelmingly mild. But delta
Speaker 1: appears to have changed things, not everything. The vaccines are
Speaker 1: working to suppress severe outcomes from COVID infection by more
Speaker 1: than a factor of one hundred for some states, and
Speaker 1: at least fivefold for even the states where the effect
Speaker 1: has been most muted. That is, that is game changingly well.
Speaker 1: But most of the data men analysis comes from before
Speaker 1: the arrival of the delta variant, and during the current
Speaker 1: surge there does seem to be considerably more leakage. So
Speaker 1: the analysis about how oh no, the virus, I mean,
Speaker 1: the vaccine works so well, work so well. They're looking
Speaker 1: at pre delta variant numbers to tell you that they're
Speaker 1: clinging to the old data. This is what they're telling you.
Speaker 1: New York magazine. I'm not telling you, this is New
Speaker 1: York Magazine telling you this. It continues over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, and the way given attention, getting internal CDC
Speaker 1: presentation about how much you know. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: back and forth on this. Breakthrough cases remain rare. They
Speaker 1: said the pandemic was now largely a pandemic on the unvaccinated.
Speaker 1: But it turns out this isn't. These readings are directionally correct.
Speaker 1: The vaccines are performing admirably and protecting the very sick.
Speaker 1: The current bleak delta wave is being primarily driven by
Speaker 1: the unvaccinated. It keeps going ah, but then it gets
Speaker 1: into a problem. But with delta, plenty of vaccinated people
Speaker 1: are getting sick. Plenty of transmission is going on. And
Speaker 1: my personal opinion is that the whole notion of herd
Speaker 1: immunity from two vaccine vaccine shots is flying out the
Speaker 1: window very quickly with this new variant. Oh oh, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, that's from an epidemiologist name Michael Mina from Harvard.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait a second. We have a Harvard epidemiologist
Speaker 1: quoted in New York Magazine saying the vaccine shots aren't
Speaker 1: going to end this thing. It's certainly not two shots
Speaker 1: based on the actual data from Delta. In the piece,
Speaker 1: it goes on later on to say they think that
Speaker 1: there could be up to five to twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the spread right now is among the vaccinated. Wait a second,
Speaker 1: So people are spreading this all over the place even
Speaker 1: if they get the vaccine. That's what this New York
Speaker 1: magazine piece is saying. I gotta wonder, folks. And then
Speaker 1: you also have the Israeli data, which I've talked to
Speaker 1: Alex Parison about recently, and the Israeli data says it
Speaker 1: indicates very clearly that vaccines, I should say, indicates very clearly, Yes,
Speaker 1: that the vaccines lose potency pretty quickly. So you can
Speaker 1: get vaccinated and you're good for you know, maybe six months,
Speaker 1: seven months, But then it's just not working as well,
Speaker 1: certainly not working as well against this variant. If we
Speaker 1: are only if we're in the first year of vaccination,
Speaker 1: which we are right now, and we already have a
Speaker 1: variant that evades the vaccination in a pretty substantial way.
Speaker 1: What makes us think that this is going to go
Speaker 1: away if we all get the shot? How is that
Speaker 1: supposed to work? This is still gonna be out there.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be mutating, still gonna be going. You know,
Speaker 1: we've never been able to eliminate the common cold, We've
Speaker 1: never been able to eliminate the flu. There are animal
Speaker 1: reservoirs for those diseases. There are animal reservoirs for COVID.
Speaker 1: This will be spreading, it will be out there. So
Speaker 1: what really are are we facing here as our future?
Speaker 1: We're gonna just keep going through matt masks, lockdown, panic shots, masks,
Speaker 1: lockdown shots, panic masks, lockdown shots, pen I mean that's
Speaker 1: the way the world is supposed to work now, I
Speaker 1: say no, I mean we might have to start thinking
Speaker 1: about forming countries where there can be a country for
Speaker 1: people who are like, we're just going to live life
Speaker 1: and try to be healthy. And you know, the sick
Speaker 1: should quarantine. Everybody else should go about their lives. The
Speaker 1: elderly should be more careful. Yeah, get shots if you
Speaker 1: want to get the shots. Sure, if you feel like
Speaker 1: masking up or staying away from people, that's your choice.
Speaker 1: But then the other places you're can have people they
Speaker 1: are doing the Australia model where they're just willing to
Speaker 1: lock you in your home. And I mean They've got
Speaker 1: these like triage tent set up everywhere. It's crazy what
Speaker 1: they're doing. It's crazy, and they're enforcing it in the
Speaker 1: most draconian fashion, the most draconian fashion. So I find
Speaker 1: this all very frustrating. And I will say this. You
Speaker 1: all know, I told you when it looked like we
Speaker 1: were out of this thing, when it looked like the
Speaker 1: pandemic was over, I said, they're leaving some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: the federal mask mandate on planes and transportation. They're leaving
Speaker 1: this in place so that it's easier to turn it
Speaker 1: all back on. You know, I said that many times.
Speaker 1: And here we are. Here we are because I understand
Speaker 1: they're never going to let go of this power. They
Speaker 1: love this, They love this. It gives them a sense
Speaker 1: of purpose. These are people who are empty, who are
Speaker 1: racked with anxiety and fear, who lack courage, who lack
Speaker 1: intestinal fortitude. They want society. They want the collective to
Speaker 1: keep them safe and warm at night. They want to
Speaker 1: feel a part of their herd. They don't want to
Speaker 1: just have to accept that bad things happen. We're all
Speaker 1: gonna die, We're all on borrowed time. Make the most
Speaker 1: of every day, every minute you have, be a person
Speaker 1: of value, be a person of integrity. You know. None
Speaker 1: of that is what they want to hear. They want
Speaker 1: to hear, Oh, just listen to Fauci. Just listen to Fauci.
Speaker 1: Fouci will save us. He really won't. He's not going
Speaker 1: to buck. I think that's unfair. I have, at various
Speaker 1: junctures of the pandemic, been a source of comfort for
Speaker 1: emotionally inept libs onto television by appearing on a near nightly,
Speaker 1: almost minute by minute basis to say things that are
Speaker 1: not helpful, often untrue, but do make a donation into
Speaker 1: the fear mongering bank, and that is the purpose. So
Speaker 1: I do not think you should. Yeah, I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: we've got today to dive into together. Here got to
Speaker 1: get through it pretty quickly. I mentioned the new governor
Speaker 1: of New York, hokel is saying that she is going
Speaker 1: to institute a mask mandate any moment now for schools statewide,
Speaker 1: and she's considering even shutting down schools for a period
Speaker 1: of time. That's how crazy things are getting in New York.
Speaker 1: I've got my own problems here in New York, where
Speaker 1: I'm being told that if I don't get the vaccine imminently,
Speaker 1: I there's a risk of me not being able to
Speaker 1: participate fully in my own brother's wedding in New York
Speaker 1: next week. So I have that to handle right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Quite honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm not missing my brother's wedding. That's not happening, right.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to throw me in prison to
Speaker 1: get me to not be at my brother's wedding. But
Speaker 1: what do I do. They won't accept prior, They won't
Speaker 1: accept prior. This is the venue, of course, this is
Speaker 1: the you know, the restaurants and the wedding venues and
Speaker 1: stuff in New York now are all trying to be
Speaker 1: so compliant. But what am I supposed to do? I mean,
Speaker 1: people are saying, you know, forge a vaccine passport. They've
Speaker 1: said that, and I say, guys, come on, you don't
Speaker 1: think that the government would They got the opportunity to
Speaker 1: come after someone like me for that, some right wing
Speaker 1: radio host who as a fake COVID pattern, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'd get into all kinds of trouble
Speaker 1: for that one. So not going to do that, Not
Speaker 1: going to break the law in that way and give
Speaker 1: them an opportunity to come at me and cause problems
Speaker 1: for me. So it's either get the shot or what
Speaker 1: and why am I getting the shot? Exactly? I had COVID.
Speaker 1: I had COVID. I have documentation, a medical test proving
Speaker 1: that I had COVID. They don't care. They want to
Speaker 1: control me. They want to control you. I told you.
Speaker 1: Also for those of you in the Red States, oh buck,
Speaker 1: enough of masks were good, Our governor's good, We're I
Speaker 1: told it. The federal government's going to come for you too.
Speaker 1: Is this is where we are now, This is the
Speaker 1: reality we live in. These people have lost their minds,
Speaker 1: all right. Laurie Lightfoot, may or Chicago, says the police
Speaker 1: budget will increase next year. This is the most obvious
Speaker 1: thing you could possibly imagine. Right, of course, the police
Speaker 1: budget should increase next year, because when you look at this,
Speaker 1: you say to yourself, the defund the police movement is
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing the Democrats. I think it's even dumber
Speaker 1: than walls don't work in a sense, right, because walls
Speaker 1: don't work. You know, they they were trying to play
Speaker 1: with the well, walls don't work one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the time, or they don't work well enough. You know,
Speaker 1: they were they got a little ahead of themselves with that,
Speaker 1: but with this one, defund the police, I mean that
Speaker 1: there is no version of that as a slogan that
Speaker 1: is not stupid. Bey, I know, look, walls don't work
Speaker 1: is really dumped too, But there's no version of defund
Speaker 1: police that isn't completely idiotic. And is there any accountability
Speaker 1: for this? You know, the redistricting battle in Congress is
Speaker 1: just about to start because the sense of State has
Speaker 1: come in, So this is gonna be a huge propaganda
Speaker 1: fight because remember, redistricting that benefits Democrats is democracy at work.
Speaker 1: Redistricting that benefits Republicans jerrymandering, racism, Jim Crow two point
Speaker 1: zero whatever, Right, that's what they'll say. This is the
Speaker 1: kind of rhetoric that's used about these issues. And I
Speaker 1: just hope that there's at some level there would be
Speaker 1: a real backlash against democrats stupidity on this. I mean,
Speaker 1: Democrats absolutely should pay a serious price for the madness,
Speaker 1: for the insanity of the defund the police movement. And
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but just deciding now that they're going to
Speaker 1: live in reality, just deciding now that they're going to
Speaker 1: start supporting law enforcement is not good enough. This was
Speaker 1: obvious from the beginning. This was obvious all along. There's
Speaker 1: simply no reason whatsoever that we had to suffer through
Speaker 1: over a year of some of the worst violence we've seen,
Speaker 1: worst shootings and murders we've seen in major cities in
Speaker 1: over twenty years, so that millionaire CNN anchors can go
Speaker 1: on TV and feel like they're part of the social
Speaker 1: justice movement. Man. Yeah, yeah, it's so fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: The people that go around. I mean, there are white
Speaker 1: liberals in New York City in particular, who I'll see
Speaker 1: on their LinkedIn page. You know, they'll have i know,
Speaker 1: black Lives Matter at the top with like six exclamation points. Okay,
Speaker 1: we all, yeah, yeah, of course black lives matter. So
Speaker 1: are you in favor of defund the police? Are you
Speaker 1: in favor of racial Marxism in America? Like? What? What? What?
Speaker 1: The people that say this have they thought about it
Speaker 1: at all? No, it doesn't they don't care. It's just
Speaker 1: about trying to attach themselves to a brand that they
Speaker 1: think means to others, tells others they're a good person,
Speaker 1: They're one of the good, moral righteous. They're not one
Speaker 1: of those, particularly for white liberals, not one of those
Speaker 1: bad white people out there who don't fully embrace the
Speaker 1: social justice left. No, no, no, that's what that's all about.
Speaker 1: And it's it's a remarkable circumstance, my friends. But we're
Speaker 1: seeing this play at all. So any LORI Lightfoot's gonna
Speaker 1: have more cops in Chicago. And then as of today,
Speaker 1: just some updates on Afghanistan for those of you who
Speaker 1: are what I mean one, this is a new story
Speaker 1: because we're now seeing the results of Okay, we stayed
Speaker 1: for twenty years, we stayed nineteen years too long in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: I think that's become pretty clear. There was there was
Speaker 1: really no durable nation building, There was no durable training
Speaker 1: of the security forces. It was all just being propped
Speaker 1: up by American troops American money. I don't know if
Speaker 1: anyone would try to argue the other side of that
Speaker 1: proposition right now, but that's certainly what it seems like
Speaker 1: to me. And as I watch what's going on right now,
Speaker 1: I just I feel a sense of adness, obviously at
Speaker 1: what's happening to the Afghan people, but also that we
Speaker 1: had so many soldiers, so many members of our military
Speaker 1: who were deployed and spent so much time in this
Speaker 1: place and the collapse of Afghanistan, it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: feel like this wasn't a lot of really bad strategy
Speaker 1: at the top level, a lot of people who wanted
Speaker 1: to go up the chain of command and you know,
Speaker 1: tell their their command staff, or rather tell the president
Speaker 1: if we're talking about like the four Stars, that they
Speaker 1: were making so much progress and everything was going so well.
Speaker 1: I mean I read all the assessments. I mean it
Speaker 1: was I mean I read the assessments that were classified
Speaker 1: at the highest level of Afghanistan on a regular basis
Speaker 1: when I was working in the CIA Afghan desk, and
Speaker 1: I could just tell you there was this cyclical nature of, oh,
Speaker 1: we figured it out this time, the new you know,
Speaker 1: the new troop rotation in any place where the new
Speaker 1: general ship you know, you know, nationwide, it would be oh,
Speaker 1: we we figured it out, we know how to stabilize
Speaker 1: the country. And then things would sort of go on
Speaker 1: for a while and they'd say, see, things are pretty good,
Speaker 1: and then there'd be some sense of, wait, we haven't
Speaker 1: really made the same kind of gains that we thought
Speaker 1: we would, and oh, now the next one comes in,
Speaker 1: and then and then then the next general or the
Speaker 1: next you know, the next command staff comes and they said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we think we figured this one out. We
Speaker 1: know what to do now, we know how to stabilize Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: and we've we've learned from the past. And then wash rinse, repeat,
Speaker 1: wash rinse, repeat every time, every time you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: how exactly, how exactly is that going to get to
Speaker 1: a place of honesty about these things? How are we
Speaker 1: going to know what's really working what's not. That wasn't
Speaker 1: really the goal. The goal was for the I'm talking
Speaker 1: about command staff level now, I'm talking about the people
Speaker 1: that are making the decisions, the very top presidential appointees,
Speaker 1: ambassadors for star generals, a lot of careerism, place of
Speaker 1: sober reality. Afghanistan. Oh, I didn't even tell you what's good.
Speaker 1: They say they've taken Condahar, which is depending on how
Speaker 1: you engage at the second or third largest city in
Speaker 1: the country, certainly a critical city and one that a
Speaker 1: lot of Americans fought very hard to keep out of
Speaker 1: the hands of the Taliban, Kandahar seems will fall. Now
Speaker 1: we're at more than half a dozen provincial capitals in
Speaker 1: the hands of the Taliban. I mean, Kabbal, the capital
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, is going to be in Taliban hands. I mean,
Speaker 1: I tweeted today, within thirty to sixty days, it might
Speaker 1: even be. It might even be inside of thirty days.
Speaker 1: I said, thirty to sixty seems like what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: So but maybe maybe in a matter of weeks could
Speaker 1: just fall. Think about it this way. Do you want
Speaker 1: to be part of that last ring of defense around
Speaker 1: Kabble going up against the Taliban? Or you want to
Speaker 1: just say, you know what we lost. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go back to my village, hide my AK forty seven
Speaker 1: under my bed and hope that they don't know that
Speaker 1: I used to work with the Americans. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: I think the choice that a lot of Afghans are
Speaker 1: going to be faced with, this choice they're making right now.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's some lessons in this, obviously in
Speaker 1: a military national security side, but I also think they're
Speaker 1: lessons in the on the purely strategic who's in charge?
Speaker 1: Who do you listen to? Side of things? How many
Speaker 1: people do you know that had seen your roles in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan who came forward and said this is hopeless, we
Speaker 1: should we should just get out of this place. I
Speaker 1: mean the answer is very very few, if any. They
Speaker 1: all were saying, oh no, I know how to fix it,
Speaker 1: I know how to fix it. What does that kind
Speaker 1: of remind you of? The experts knew what to do
Speaker 1: except they didn't. Except their incentives were to present themselves
Speaker 1: as experts who had answers. It wasn't about getting it right,
Speaker 1: It wasn't about the mission set. It was about what
Speaker 1: does this look like for me when I come back?
Speaker 1: Am I going to get that board seat at Raytheon?
Speaker 1: Or Am I going to get that Brookings Institute? You know,
Speaker 1: perch make a two hundred and fifty k year to
Speaker 1: show up to a comfortable office and do nothing all
Speaker 1: day at a think tank? Am I going to get that?
Speaker 1: Or is the National Security and Foreign Policy apparatus going
Speaker 1: to be upset with me for speaking difficult truths? I
Speaker 1: think there are real lessons in all this. I think
Speaker 1: there are lessons we have to pay close attention to.
Speaker 1: But Afghanistan, my friends, is is a huge, huge mess.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Taliban is unless we're willing
Speaker 1: to invade, unless we're willing to have a major US
Speaker 1: military presence, go back in there, which I think we're
Speaker 1: clearly not. This government in Afghanistan is not going to last,
Speaker 1: so we'll continue to follow this. We'll look at this closely,
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