1 00:00:11,697 --> 00:00:14,977 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,977 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:18,017 --> 00:00:19,737 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. 4 00:00:20,217 --> 00:00:22,817 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. On this episode, 5 00:00:22,857 --> 00:00:26,057 Speaker 2: Matthew Tierman is with us investigative journalist, a man who 6 00:00:26,057 --> 00:00:28,577 Speaker 2: knows many things about many people in places all over 7 00:00:28,577 --> 00:00:32,577 Speaker 2: the world. He was just in Ramala, place I haven't 8 00:00:32,577 --> 00:00:35,217 Speaker 2: been to in a while, but I have been, and 9 00:00:35,617 --> 00:00:37,857 Speaker 2: I'm sure it is every bit as lovely as what 10 00:00:37,937 --> 00:00:39,777 Speaker 2: I was there. Tell me about your trip into the 11 00:00:39,777 --> 00:00:43,377 Speaker 2: West Bank, mister Tierman, and what you learned, what you saw, 12 00:00:43,417 --> 00:00:44,057 Speaker 2: what's going on. 13 00:00:45,017 --> 00:00:47,937 Speaker 1: Well, you know, Ramala is just the money laundering capital 14 00:00:47,977 --> 00:00:50,337 Speaker 1: of the world. I know how long ago you were there, 15 00:00:50,417 --> 00:00:53,497 Speaker 1: but you got to say it's kind of nice. Maserati's 16 00:00:53,537 --> 00:00:59,457 Speaker 1: not Rickshaw's range Rovers, Mercedes, BMW's jeeps with American flags 17 00:00:59,457 --> 00:01:01,297 Speaker 1: on him, believe it or not. I mean lots of 18 00:01:01,337 --> 00:01:04,177 Speaker 1: Western goods and accoutreman. I mean that place is loaded. 19 00:01:04,897 --> 00:01:07,217 Speaker 1: It was a little bit shocking to the degree that 20 00:01:07,337 --> 00:01:07,737 Speaker 1: it was. 21 00:01:08,657 --> 00:01:11,377 Speaker 2: I could tell you I was there almost twenty years 22 00:01:11,377 --> 00:01:14,497 Speaker 2: ago and it was not like that. So yeah, yeah, so. 23 00:01:14,497 --> 00:01:15,977 Speaker 1: That tells you a lot. I mean I know that, 24 00:01:16,017 --> 00:01:17,937 Speaker 1: you know, I was there during these hostilities. I went 25 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:21,377 Speaker 1: in on a Polish passport, since you know, American relations 26 00:01:21,377 --> 00:01:24,497 Speaker 1: are not so good. I did not, you know, telegraph 27 00:01:24,537 --> 00:01:26,937 Speaker 1: that I'm an American Jew from New York, even though 28 00:01:27,297 --> 00:01:28,937 Speaker 1: I don't know look at me, they might have figured 29 00:01:28,977 --> 00:01:30,857 Speaker 1: that out. I ended up talking to some guys from 30 00:01:30,937 --> 00:01:34,017 Speaker 1: Chicago and New York. But I mean that place is 31 00:01:34,257 --> 00:01:37,057 Speaker 1: loaded now twenty years of money laundering since you were 32 00:01:37,137 --> 00:01:40,857 Speaker 1: last there, between US taxpayers, EU taxpayers, the United Nations 33 00:01:40,897 --> 00:01:45,377 Speaker 1: being the the vehicle through which those laundered funds enter Ramala, 34 00:01:45,817 --> 00:01:50,417 Speaker 1: American school uners, schools. The place was over the top. 35 00:01:50,897 --> 00:01:54,457 Speaker 1: People were pretty friendly. It's not Gaza. The hostilities were not, 36 00:01:54,577 --> 00:01:57,617 Speaker 1: you know, of the of the same sort. They certainly 37 00:01:57,817 --> 00:02:00,897 Speaker 1: referred to Israel as an occupying force and they do 38 00:02:01,017 --> 00:02:05,177 Speaker 1: hate Israel and even going to Yasir Arafats too. They 39 00:02:05,217 --> 00:02:08,097 Speaker 1: said that it's removable so that when they take back Jerusalem, 40 00:02:08,177 --> 00:02:11,737 Speaker 1: they can remove Arafats too from Mamala and put it 41 00:02:11,737 --> 00:02:15,337 Speaker 1: in Jerusalem, as per his dying wish. Uh So, it's 42 00:02:15,697 --> 00:02:18,057 Speaker 1: the place is very very odd. It's a it's a 43 00:02:18,097 --> 00:02:21,217 Speaker 1: study in contrast the contrast of what the mainstream media 44 00:02:21,257 --> 00:02:23,857 Speaker 1: conception of the West Bank is versus what it's like 45 00:02:23,897 --> 00:02:27,857 Speaker 1: on the ground, gleaming new malls, Palestinian development bank with 46 00:02:27,977 --> 00:02:32,457 Speaker 1: top quality building materials for its you know, fifteen story skyscrapers. 47 00:02:32,777 --> 00:02:35,777 Speaker 1: Food was quite good, it was It was interesting. I 48 00:02:35,817 --> 00:02:37,897 Speaker 1: was there with Visagrad twenty four group I do work 49 00:02:37,937 --> 00:02:41,857 Speaker 1: with based in Europe, who's been covering the ongoing conflict 50 00:02:41,897 --> 00:02:44,817 Speaker 1: in the Middle East quite tightly on social media. So 51 00:02:44,857 --> 00:02:47,137 Speaker 1: we were interviewing people over there and it was interesting. 52 00:02:47,937 --> 00:02:51,857 Speaker 2: What do they think the Ramalin's, I don't know what 53 00:02:51,857 --> 00:02:56,057 Speaker 2: you call Ramalins and the people of the West Bank. 54 00:02:56,577 --> 00:03:00,777 Speaker 2: Are they basically of the mind that Israel's going to 55 00:03:00,777 --> 00:03:02,457 Speaker 2: do what it does in Gaza and business is going 56 00:03:02,497 --> 00:03:04,017 Speaker 2: to continue over here. What are they saying? 57 00:03:04,817 --> 00:03:08,457 Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. I don't think they think that Israel's 58 00:03:08,457 --> 00:03:11,097 Speaker 1: going to be coming in anytime soon and leveling it 59 00:03:11,097 --> 00:03:13,057 Speaker 1: the way they are with Gaza. And even though they 60 00:03:13,097 --> 00:03:16,297 Speaker 1: are supportive of these terrorist cells, whether it's in the 61 00:03:16,297 --> 00:03:19,737 Speaker 1: North that has Blah or Hamas and Gaza, they don't 62 00:03:19,737 --> 00:03:23,337 Speaker 1: seem as proactively involved. They like their gravy train of 63 00:03:23,457 --> 00:03:26,737 Speaker 1: un money laundering and under schools, and you know, it 64 00:03:26,777 --> 00:03:28,857 Speaker 1: was funny. We're walking, We're going to the main mosque, 65 00:03:28,897 --> 00:03:32,257 Speaker 1: the abdel Nasser Mosque, and we're at this, you know, 66 00:03:32,257 --> 00:03:34,177 Speaker 1: the equivment of what you have in New York, a bodega, 67 00:03:34,257 --> 00:03:38,337 Speaker 1: a little shop with you know, low level food and Sundrys. 68 00:03:38,697 --> 00:03:42,337 Speaker 1: And you had Logan or Jake Paul's new drink Prime 69 00:03:42,577 --> 00:03:45,177 Speaker 1: selling there, which you can't even get in some cities 70 00:03:45,177 --> 00:03:47,937 Speaker 1: in the US because it's so sold out. And so 71 00:03:48,417 --> 00:03:52,577 Speaker 1: there's a weird level of westernization there, the brand and 72 00:03:52,657 --> 00:03:57,017 Speaker 1: licensed logoing copying that goes on. There are American food 73 00:03:57,057 --> 00:04:00,937 Speaker 1: operators there like Pizza Hut KFC, one of our guides 74 00:04:00,977 --> 00:04:04,217 Speaker 1: suggesting KFC stands for Kentucky Fried Camel, but that was 75 00:04:04,377 --> 00:04:10,977 Speaker 1: a licensed, actual American enterprise there. Popeye's Louisiana Kid was 76 00:04:11,017 --> 00:04:12,337 Speaker 1: there a lot and I was there. 77 00:04:12,337 --> 00:04:15,537 Speaker 2: There was a Starbucks ripoff that wasn't spelled Starbucks. 78 00:04:15,657 --> 00:04:17,177 Speaker 1: Is that Stars and Bucks? 79 00:04:17,297 --> 00:04:18,577 Speaker 2: Stars and Bucks? 80 00:04:18,657 --> 00:04:22,217 Speaker 1: Yes, literally the main landmark of Ramala that everybody in 81 00:04:22,257 --> 00:04:24,217 Speaker 1: the Middle East knows. Hey, you go to Vermala, have 82 00:04:24,257 --> 00:04:26,697 Speaker 1: you been to Stars and Bucks? So the story there 83 00:04:26,737 --> 00:04:30,137 Speaker 1: is the guy lifted Starbucks' logo just straight off about 84 00:04:30,137 --> 00:04:33,017 Speaker 1: twenty five thirty years ago, and Starbucks came after him 85 00:04:33,057 --> 00:04:36,257 Speaker 1: for license and trademark infringement, and so he just kind 86 00:04:36,257 --> 00:04:38,177 Speaker 1: of tweaked it a little, so it still looks like 87 00:04:38,217 --> 00:04:41,497 Speaker 1: the Green Circle, but it's now entitled Stars and Bucks 88 00:04:41,817 --> 00:04:43,937 Speaker 1: and it's a coffee shop and a shisha lounge. So 89 00:04:43,937 --> 00:04:46,577 Speaker 1: he smoked some shisha and Stars and Bucks and that's 90 00:04:46,577 --> 00:04:48,977 Speaker 1: overlooking the main square. There are two little squares that 91 00:04:48,977 --> 00:04:51,577 Speaker 1: are connected by one of the main thoroughfares that looks 92 00:04:51,577 --> 00:04:55,497 Speaker 1: like the old prototypical, stereotypical Middle East, very thin road 93 00:04:56,217 --> 00:04:59,977 Speaker 1: congested small shops, and there's you know, the main square 94 00:05:00,017 --> 00:05:01,817 Speaker 1: that Stars and Bucks is over, and then the square 95 00:05:01,897 --> 00:05:04,697 Speaker 1: block away which where there's the monument to the martyrs. 96 00:05:05,177 --> 00:05:07,257 Speaker 1: So you know, old habits do die hard. They love 97 00:05:07,257 --> 00:05:10,737 Speaker 1: the money laundering. But the rhetoric can invect is still 98 00:05:10,857 --> 00:05:14,657 Speaker 1: quite aligned with the Jihattist mentality that West Bank and 99 00:05:14,657 --> 00:05:16,097 Speaker 1: Palestinian affairs were built on. 100 00:05:16,497 --> 00:05:20,017 Speaker 2: Do you have any sense as to what the belief 101 00:05:20,057 --> 00:05:21,977 Speaker 2: over there is not so much in the West Bank, 102 00:05:22,017 --> 00:05:24,897 Speaker 2: more on the Israel side of things, but the future 103 00:05:24,937 --> 00:05:27,017 Speaker 2: of net Yahoo in all of this, people have been 104 00:05:27,057 --> 00:05:29,337 Speaker 2: asking me, and I always tell them like, if you 105 00:05:29,377 --> 00:05:32,737 Speaker 2: think you if you think American politics are opaque and 106 00:05:32,777 --> 00:05:35,937 Speaker 2: overly complicated, go check out what's going on over in 107 00:05:36,017 --> 00:05:37,777 Speaker 2: Israel with the Kanesset and all the rest of it. 108 00:05:38,537 --> 00:05:39,937 Speaker 2: What do you do you have any take on that? 109 00:05:40,097 --> 00:05:44,017 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well, as you know, parliamentary systems are 110 00:05:44,457 --> 00:05:47,297 Speaker 1: by their nature much sloppier because you need coalitions. You're 111 00:05:47,457 --> 00:05:50,897 Speaker 1: very fragmented, many many parties across the entire spectrum of 112 00:05:50,937 --> 00:05:53,377 Speaker 1: far right to far left with everything in between. And 113 00:05:53,457 --> 00:05:55,257 Speaker 1: so net Yahoo I think it was like four or 114 00:05:55,297 --> 00:05:58,817 Speaker 1: five elections they had to hold with fractured coalitions to 115 00:05:58,977 --> 00:06:03,217 Speaker 1: rebuild a government that had some level stability. After October seventh, 116 00:06:03,257 --> 00:06:06,097 Speaker 1: his popularity is way down. That being said, as long 117 00:06:06,137 --> 00:06:08,497 Speaker 1: as they're at war, there will not be a snap election. 118 00:06:08,617 --> 00:06:12,657 Speaker 1: They are unified behind essentially the military force and the 119 00:06:12,697 --> 00:06:16,497 Speaker 1: military management as it stands, which has many political appointees, 120 00:06:16,537 --> 00:06:18,457 Speaker 1: so they will not be you know, the political strife 121 00:06:18,497 --> 00:06:21,697 Speaker 1: we saw last year with judicial reform rearing its head 122 00:06:21,737 --> 00:06:26,057 Speaker 1: again and creating catalyzing snap elections. Netanyahu has probably done. 123 00:06:26,337 --> 00:06:28,057 Speaker 1: His career is probably done, and we've said that many 124 00:06:28,057 --> 00:06:29,977 Speaker 1: times in the past, but here there is a lot 125 00:06:30,057 --> 00:06:32,657 Speaker 1: of antipathy after what happened October seventh, and certainly there 126 00:06:32,697 --> 00:06:34,577 Speaker 1: are a lot of people who feel that he had 127 00:06:34,617 --> 00:06:36,897 Speaker 1: some blame in terms of being asleep at the wheel 128 00:06:37,137 --> 00:06:39,857 Speaker 1: because they were so distracted with domestic politics they forgot 129 00:06:40,017 --> 00:06:42,777 Speaker 1: that their number one predicate, as you know, leaders of 130 00:06:42,817 --> 00:06:45,897 Speaker 1: this country more than any other, is security and stabilizing 131 00:06:45,977 --> 00:06:49,177 Speaker 1: the security, the defensive capabilities, and there was a failure 132 00:06:49,817 --> 00:06:51,417 Speaker 1: that being said, as long as they're at war and 133 00:06:51,417 --> 00:06:53,457 Speaker 1: it's hot and kinetic and in the north and in 134 00:06:53,457 --> 00:06:56,777 Speaker 1: the south with Gaza, probably open any snap elections. So 135 00:06:57,137 --> 00:07:01,337 Speaker 1: some are arguing and rumor mongering that he has an 136 00:07:01,417 --> 00:07:04,417 Speaker 1: incentive to keep the war going because as a result, 137 00:07:04,457 --> 00:07:06,457 Speaker 1: he will stay in power. I think that's a little 138 00:07:06,497 --> 00:07:09,057 Speaker 1: overly cynical, and I'm quite cynical, but I think that's 139 00:07:09,057 --> 00:07:11,617 Speaker 1: a little overly cynical. Well, everyone in Israel is shaken 140 00:07:11,697 --> 00:07:14,897 Speaker 1: up by what happened and wants to end Hamas and 141 00:07:15,337 --> 00:07:18,977 Speaker 1: restabilize the north where Husbala is continuing to be a 142 00:07:19,097 --> 00:07:19,777 Speaker 1: kinetic threat. 143 00:07:19,977 --> 00:07:22,337 Speaker 2: Let's talk about what just happened with the election in 144 00:07:22,457 --> 00:07:27,697 Speaker 2: Al Salvador, a country that people in the West really 145 00:07:27,697 --> 00:07:30,537 Speaker 2: know about because it used to be the murder capital 146 00:07:30,537 --> 00:07:32,337 Speaker 2: of the world per capital, at least close to it. 147 00:07:32,457 --> 00:07:36,417 Speaker 2: Number one numbers, well, it was Al Salvador was right there. 148 00:07:36,737 --> 00:07:39,697 Speaker 2: I think it was number two. Yeah, but number two yeah, okay. 149 00:07:39,817 --> 00:07:41,337 Speaker 2: As I said number one, number two was one of 150 00:07:41,337 --> 00:07:43,137 Speaker 2: the highest murder places in the entire. 151 00:07:42,977 --> 00:07:45,697 Speaker 1: Honduras was like I remember friends from Honduras, from San 152 00:07:45,737 --> 00:07:48,057 Speaker 1: Pedro Sula, which is the second city in Honduras, and 153 00:07:48,057 --> 00:07:50,337 Speaker 1: that place like laps everywhere else. It's like, you know, 154 00:07:50,897 --> 00:07:52,777 Speaker 1: in Detroit, it's like, what like four out of one 155 00:07:52,817 --> 00:07:55,297 Speaker 1: hundred thousand get murdered, and San Pedro Sue it's like 156 00:07:55,337 --> 00:07:57,377 Speaker 1: three hundred out of one hundred thousand. 157 00:07:57,417 --> 00:08:00,537 Speaker 2: The numbers are staggering. 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You know, much like we'll talk about Argentina with inflation, 184 00:09:22,177 --> 00:09:24,497 Speaker 1: but you know, when you have a massive crime problem, 185 00:09:24,617 --> 00:09:27,097 Speaker 1: the guy who actually says and then does deliver on 186 00:09:27,137 --> 00:09:30,017 Speaker 1: cleaning up crime gets a big mandate. I think this's 187 00:09:30,017 --> 00:09:32,657 Speaker 1: got to be the biggest mandate in any democratic systemic 188 00:09:32,697 --> 00:09:36,897 Speaker 1: election ever. Eighty five percent or something of the popular vote, 189 00:09:36,897 --> 00:09:39,457 Speaker 1: fifty eight out of sixty seats in the National Assembly, 190 00:09:40,217 --> 00:09:43,577 Speaker 1: which is what that's what like ninety eight ninety six, 191 00:09:43,697 --> 00:09:46,537 Speaker 1: ninety six percent or so of the seats in Parliament 192 00:09:46,617 --> 00:09:49,417 Speaker 1: are now you know Buukelly's party, which has been built 193 00:09:49,457 --> 00:09:52,377 Speaker 1: around him. Of course, you have to worry about cultive personality, 194 00:09:52,377 --> 00:09:54,617 Speaker 1: you have to worry about dictatorial power creeping in. But 195 00:09:54,937 --> 00:09:58,777 Speaker 1: so far all of the Western media sphere lies or 196 00:09:59,217 --> 00:10:03,057 Speaker 1: smears that, you know, he's a dictator, the cool dictator 197 00:10:03,097 --> 00:10:05,697 Speaker 1: they call him. Well is he Are you a dictator 198 00:10:05,697 --> 00:10:08,417 Speaker 1: if the people vote for you overwhelmingly. We've had the 199 00:10:08,457 --> 00:10:11,097 Speaker 1: debate about Victor orbon as well. You know, he keeps 200 00:10:11,137 --> 00:10:14,097 Speaker 1: winning these mandates and the West says, oh, he's a dictator, 201 00:10:14,177 --> 00:10:17,497 Speaker 1: or he's an autocrat or a fascist. Weill, Bukelly has 202 00:10:17,537 --> 00:10:21,537 Speaker 1: done something really pretty revolutionary in this hemisphere, especially south 203 00:10:21,537 --> 00:10:24,857 Speaker 1: of that border and looking southwards, these are very dangerous 204 00:10:24,857 --> 00:10:28,897 Speaker 1: areas as we're talking about massive massive cartel activity, kidnapping 205 00:10:28,937 --> 00:10:34,137 Speaker 1: and ransoming, mass murder over the slightest trifling things. But again, 206 00:10:34,177 --> 00:10:36,577 Speaker 1: the drug trade is the main reason human migration as 207 00:10:36,617 --> 00:10:40,377 Speaker 1: well human trafficking, and he has cleaned up that area. 208 00:10:40,457 --> 00:10:41,977 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we have this gangs in New 209 00:10:42,057 --> 00:10:44,537 Speaker 1: York like MS thirteen that hearken from these regions in 210 00:10:44,617 --> 00:10:48,337 Speaker 1: Central America, and we can't clean up Long Island from 211 00:10:48,377 --> 00:10:51,337 Speaker 1: these drug gangs. But he's cleaned up his country very 212 00:10:51,417 --> 00:10:54,257 Speaker 1: quickly within one term, and so he's gotten a second term, 213 00:10:54,497 --> 00:10:57,297 Speaker 1: and so they'll, you know, say he's a dictator. But again, 214 00:10:57,417 --> 00:11:00,617 Speaker 1: largest mandate popular mandate maybe in history by percentage of 215 00:11:00,657 --> 00:11:03,777 Speaker 1: any country in the world. What he's doing, you're right, 216 00:11:03,937 --> 00:11:06,737 Speaker 1: is instructive. Apparently when you have high crime, tough on 217 00:11:06,817 --> 00:11:11,337 Speaker 1: crime does pay. Just like Malay getting elected Argentina over 218 00:11:11,377 --> 00:11:12,057 Speaker 1: economic issues. 219 00:11:12,137 --> 00:11:14,017 Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to ask you about you were down 220 00:11:14,057 --> 00:11:15,257 Speaker 2: there right in Argentina. We'll get into that. 221 00:11:15,337 --> 00:11:16,817 Speaker 1: And was there for the inaugeration? Yeah? 222 00:11:16,857 --> 00:11:20,937 Speaker 2: Yeah, what is Latin America? Why can't they figure this out? 223 00:11:21,097 --> 00:11:25,897 Speaker 2: Honestly on crime and on economics, specifically inflation. What do 224 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:28,137 Speaker 2: they not get? I mean, the regimes that run these 225 00:11:28,137 --> 00:11:33,057 Speaker 2: countries and just across the board. Almost a few exceptions. 226 00:11:33,057 --> 00:11:35,497 Speaker 2: El salvad we're talking about one and the new leadership 227 00:11:35,497 --> 00:11:38,897 Speaker 2: in Argentina. But Latin America is poorly, poorly led right now, 228 00:11:39,177 --> 00:11:42,017 Speaker 2: right whether you're talking about Mexico or Venezuela or Brazil 229 00:11:42,217 --> 00:11:44,417 Speaker 2: or what's going on. What do they have to figure 230 00:11:44,457 --> 00:11:46,257 Speaker 2: out Communists? 231 00:11:47,177 --> 00:11:48,697 Speaker 1: And we've talked about this in the past, and I 232 00:11:48,697 --> 00:11:50,937 Speaker 1: did a lot on this. During the Brazilian election, there 233 00:11:50,977 --> 00:11:54,577 Speaker 1: was a group, an entity called the Forum sell Palo 234 00:11:54,657 --> 00:11:58,297 Speaker 1: that was charted around nineteen ninety one by Fidel Castro 235 00:11:58,417 --> 00:12:01,657 Speaker 1: and Lula da Silva, the current again president of Brazil, 236 00:12:01,737 --> 00:12:04,937 Speaker 1: led out of prison to run election was brazenly stolen. 237 00:12:05,617 --> 00:12:09,377 Speaker 1: There's more than enough evidence out there. And the Forum 238 00:12:09,457 --> 00:12:11,697 Speaker 1: sell Palo was created to fill the gap when the 239 00:12:11,697 --> 00:12:14,257 Speaker 1: Soviet Union went bust, because that was all the money 240 00:12:14,257 --> 00:12:17,297 Speaker 1: that was coming into the hemisphere of these third world nations, 241 00:12:17,337 --> 00:12:19,217 Speaker 1: just like in Africa, just like in the Middle East, 242 00:12:19,257 --> 00:12:22,297 Speaker 1: in uh In uh In incubating the p l O 243 00:12:22,457 --> 00:12:26,017 Speaker 1: and other of the Jahada separist movements. Uh in South America, 244 00:12:26,057 --> 00:12:28,217 Speaker 1: it was a Forum South Palo and they filled the 245 00:12:28,257 --> 00:12:31,297 Speaker 1: gap from the Soviet Union with with Castro and Chavez 246 00:12:31,377 --> 00:12:33,417 Speaker 1: running it out of Cuba, and that's how they took 247 00:12:33,457 --> 00:12:35,977 Speaker 1: over Venezuela. That's how they took over in Nicaragua, That's 248 00:12:36,017 --> 00:12:40,937 Speaker 1: how they took over uh, Bolivia, Brazil, more recently Colombia 249 00:12:40,977 --> 00:12:43,257 Speaker 1: and Chile. Colombia and Chile, we we're kind of writy 250 00:12:43,297 --> 00:12:47,777 Speaker 1: conservative nations. Columbia was was run for many years by 251 00:12:47,897 --> 00:12:49,777 Speaker 1: you know what we would call Republicans if you had 252 00:12:49,817 --> 00:12:52,137 Speaker 1: to break it down to that dichotomy that we understand. 253 00:12:52,457 --> 00:12:55,137 Speaker 1: And now you have Petro who was a Marxist Naco 254 00:12:55,377 --> 00:12:58,617 Speaker 1: narco trafficante, a gorilla in the forests. Uh so he's 255 00:12:58,657 --> 00:13:01,617 Speaker 1: an He's a full on communist. Uh uh Borich in 256 00:13:01,737 --> 00:13:04,817 Speaker 1: Chile was the head of the Marxist Students League, student activist, 257 00:13:05,137 --> 00:13:09,017 Speaker 1: you know, not too different than Brandon uh Brandon Marshall 258 00:13:09,057 --> 00:13:11,497 Speaker 1: and uh Branda with brit To Johnson in Chicago the 259 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:14,497 Speaker 1: teachers Union. Hack. I mean, somebody's never run anything, but 260 00:13:14,537 --> 00:13:16,857 Speaker 1: all of a sudden ends up as president of a 261 00:13:16,937 --> 00:13:21,297 Speaker 1: nation that again was relatively conservative economically, was very classically liberal. 262 00:13:21,337 --> 00:13:24,897 Speaker 1: You had the Chicago Boys deregulating economy in Chile's great success, 263 00:13:25,537 --> 00:13:28,057 Speaker 1: Argentina's been run by the Parentists, the you know Juan 264 00:13:28,177 --> 00:13:31,017 Speaker 1: prone a Vita, don't cry for me, Argentina, that lady 265 00:13:31,377 --> 00:13:34,617 Speaker 1: played by Madonna in nineteen nineties. They have been run 266 00:13:34,657 --> 00:13:39,177 Speaker 1: by the paranist regime and its predecessors also incubated by 267 00:13:39,177 --> 00:13:43,497 Speaker 1: the Forum. So Palo Christina Kirschner, her husband Nester Kirchner, 268 00:13:44,057 --> 00:13:49,097 Speaker 1: Fernandez and now Argentinians finally said, you know, after this 269 00:13:49,257 --> 00:13:52,737 Speaker 1: crippling hyperinflation over the last ten ten years, I mean 270 00:13:52,817 --> 00:13:56,297 Speaker 1: really thought the highest level of inflation in the country. 271 00:13:56,777 --> 00:13:59,537 Speaker 1: Every day price is doubling sort of thing. The stuff 272 00:13:59,537 --> 00:14:01,857 Speaker 1: that you read about in Zimbabwe, the ymar Republic, and 273 00:14:01,857 --> 00:14:03,937 Speaker 1: this was a country that one hundred years ago was 274 00:14:03,977 --> 00:14:06,297 Speaker 1: third wealthiest in the world after the US and the UK. 275 00:14:07,097 --> 00:14:10,777 Speaker 1: So Malay got an overwhelming mandate. The Marxist got sent packing. 276 00:14:10,977 --> 00:14:13,497 Speaker 1: The reason Argentina was able to do it was quite simple. 277 00:14:13,817 --> 00:14:17,817 Speaker 1: They maintained paper ballots. Paper ballots are an integral part 278 00:14:17,817 --> 00:14:20,537 Speaker 1: of the electoral process. In Brazil they got rid of 279 00:14:20,537 --> 00:14:23,537 Speaker 1: paper ballots. There was no audible ballot scheme was all digital, 280 00:14:23,577 --> 00:14:25,977 Speaker 1: and so they cheat in Brazil. 281 00:14:26,057 --> 00:14:27,377 Speaker 2: Did the Communist cheat in Brazil? 282 00:14:27,577 --> 00:14:28,857 Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, and you know, you know, and I talked 283 00:14:28,897 --> 00:14:30,657 Speaker 1: about it. I covered it in depth a year and 284 00:14:30,697 --> 00:14:33,937 Speaker 1: a half ago. It was brazen what they did. Now 285 00:14:33,977 --> 00:14:36,177 Speaker 1: they stripped Balls and Hour of his right to run again. 286 00:14:36,417 --> 00:14:38,537 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court, this is the Supreme Court that detained 287 00:14:38,577 --> 00:14:41,537 Speaker 1: myself and the traveling party that included Jason Miller when 288 00:14:41,537 --> 00:14:44,057 Speaker 1: we met with Ballsonaro like three years ago. They detained 289 00:14:44,057 --> 00:14:45,697 Speaker 1: this at the airport and wanted to know everyone we 290 00:14:45,737 --> 00:14:48,137 Speaker 1: met with. So it was like full Stazi tactics. And 291 00:14:48,177 --> 00:14:51,177 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has their own law enforcement wing, and 292 00:14:51,217 --> 00:14:53,497 Speaker 1: they let Lula out of prison. They overturned all his 293 00:14:54,777 --> 00:14:57,857 Speaker 1: multiplicity of convictions and the guy should have been in 294 00:14:57,937 --> 00:14:59,457 Speaker 1: jail for the rest of his life. And then some 295 00:14:59,537 --> 00:15:01,897 Speaker 1: I mean they let out people in Lula's party that 296 00:15:01,897 --> 00:15:05,537 Speaker 1: were sentenced to four hundred years for criminal corruption. So 297 00:15:06,257 --> 00:15:09,257 Speaker 1: it's gross what's going on there. Brazil is probably lost 298 00:15:09,297 --> 00:15:12,097 Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future, much like I view Pennsylvania was 299 00:15:12,137 --> 00:15:15,337 Speaker 1: constant in Michigan, but Argentina all of a sudden is 300 00:15:15,377 --> 00:15:18,737 Speaker 1: like this bulwark now and the shining light. Malay's going 301 00:15:18,777 --> 00:15:21,017 Speaker 1: to do a lot of big things. He's got the mandate. 302 00:15:21,337 --> 00:15:23,377 Speaker 2: Let me bring it home to because you mentioned that 303 00:15:23,377 --> 00:15:27,137 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you go a little deeper into it, Pennsylvania, 304 00:15:27,177 --> 00:15:31,097 Speaker 2: unless you were totally kidding Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. Okay, let's 305 00:15:31,097 --> 00:15:32,937 Speaker 2: talk about that. Let's talk about why you think there's 306 00:15:32,977 --> 00:15:35,297 Speaker 2: real challenges there. First up, there's not a day that 307 00:15:35,337 --> 00:15:38,417 Speaker 2: goes by without someone speculating about how artificial intelligence is 308 00:15:38,417 --> 00:15:40,737 Speaker 2: going to change the world. We'll hear something. It could 309 00:15:40,777 --> 00:15:44,897 Speaker 2: really change your portfolio. 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The same top 317 00:16:04,577 --> 00:16:06,817 Speaker 2: software company is up over two hundred percent since then, 318 00:16:07,017 --> 00:16:08,777 Speaker 2: and anyone who listened to Colin had a chance to 319 00:16:08,817 --> 00:16:11,457 Speaker 2: more than double their money in less than year. Now 320 00:16:11,497 --> 00:16:13,857 Speaker 2: he's recommending a new AI company he says could do 321 00:16:13,977 --> 00:16:16,137 Speaker 2: even better. He's found a way for you to profit 322 00:16:16,177 --> 00:16:20,057 Speaker 2: from this as well. Go to newaiproject dot com. To 323 00:16:20,137 --> 00:16:25,497 Speaker 2: learn more. That's new aiproject dot com, NEWAI project dot 324 00:16:25,537 --> 00:16:32,017 Speaker 2: com paid for by Brownstone Research. Okay, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, 325 00:16:32,137 --> 00:16:35,457 Speaker 2: you say we got big problems there. I have friends 326 00:16:35,457 --> 00:16:39,897 Speaker 2: who are tied into politics in Pennsylvania very intimately, and 327 00:16:40,617 --> 00:16:43,057 Speaker 2: they tell me similar things, and it has to do 328 00:16:43,137 --> 00:16:48,977 Speaker 2: with just the party infrastructure, voter registration advantage, early voting campaigns, 329 00:16:48,977 --> 00:16:51,857 Speaker 2: et cetera. Is that part of your concern there? And 330 00:16:51,857 --> 00:16:53,337 Speaker 2: tell me about the other states. 331 00:16:53,777 --> 00:16:56,297 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think in those three states in particular, 332 00:16:57,017 --> 00:16:59,257 Speaker 1: these were you know, the purple swing states, and then 333 00:16:59,297 --> 00:17:02,017 Speaker 1: twenty twenty happened and they were very very successful in 334 00:17:02,097 --> 00:17:07,137 Speaker 1: taking control and Democrat like Wisconsin. The last bastion was 335 00:17:07,137 --> 00:17:10,657 Speaker 1: the state Supreme Court that went Democrat with Janet Gaevich. 336 00:17:11,297 --> 00:17:15,857 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania DEM governor, dam Legislature, DEM State Supreme Court. Uh, 337 00:17:15,897 --> 00:17:18,097 Speaker 1: you know the same way that they approved. Whether you 338 00:17:18,137 --> 00:17:21,057 Speaker 1: believe that there was ballot stuffing or is more derivative 339 00:17:21,057 --> 00:17:24,977 Speaker 1: effect of voter fraud, whether it's the media obfuscation uh 340 00:17:25,137 --> 00:17:27,657 Speaker 1: or the you know, ballots during COVID going to every 341 00:17:27,697 --> 00:17:32,577 Speaker 1: household uh. And the the late the late tabulation thereof 342 00:17:32,617 --> 00:17:35,617 Speaker 1: that was allowable because the state legislature said, Okay, we're 343 00:17:35,617 --> 00:17:37,417 Speaker 1: just gonna do it. The Supreme courts and the states 344 00:17:37,457 --> 00:17:39,617 Speaker 1: said we're just going to allow it, and they they 345 00:17:39,697 --> 00:17:42,577 Speaker 1: violated the separation of powers. Well, you know, the Dems 346 00:17:42,577 --> 00:17:46,297 Speaker 1: now control those three states in all of their facets politically, 347 00:17:46,377 --> 00:17:48,777 Speaker 1: and even if the people want to move to the 348 00:17:48,817 --> 00:17:52,537 Speaker 1: populace and conservative right, good luck, good luck. And I 349 00:17:52,577 --> 00:17:55,737 Speaker 1: think you know, Arizona and Georgia, which were hard red states, 350 00:17:55,737 --> 00:17:58,177 Speaker 1: are now purple. And part of it was, you know, 351 00:17:58,257 --> 00:18:00,697 Speaker 1: the bankruptcy of the rn C and the candidates that 352 00:18:00,737 --> 00:18:03,297 Speaker 1: Trump endorsed and brought forward. I mean, these were candidates 353 00:18:03,337 --> 00:18:09,097 Speaker 1: that would never ever win. Mastriano ahs Herschel Walker, Carrie Lake. 354 00:18:09,537 --> 00:18:11,937 Speaker 1: You need to pick up independence if you're gonna win 355 00:18:11,977 --> 00:18:15,977 Speaker 1: these purple swing states. And because these states in the 356 00:18:15,977 --> 00:18:21,177 Speaker 1: northern Rust Belt, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan have incredible Union 357 00:18:21,737 --> 00:18:24,177 Speaker 1: union faithful union rank and file. It makes up such 358 00:18:24,177 --> 00:18:28,017 Speaker 1: a percentage they're well organized. The Union states organized their 359 00:18:28,137 --> 00:18:31,137 Speaker 1: union rank and file real well for elections, Michigan being 360 00:18:31,177 --> 00:18:33,297 Speaker 1: the greatest example, with Big Auto there. For one hundred 361 00:18:33,377 --> 00:18:36,697 Speaker 1: years now, there has been a peel off of the 362 00:18:36,857 --> 00:18:39,377 Speaker 1: Union support because of right to work in other states, 363 00:18:39,417 --> 00:18:43,257 Speaker 1: because Trump and Bannon with economic nationalism did drive a 364 00:18:43,257 --> 00:18:46,337 Speaker 1: lot of FDR Union Dems to the right in the 365 00:18:46,337 --> 00:18:50,017 Speaker 1: pro Trump camp. They're not the party of Elizabeth Warren 366 00:18:50,137 --> 00:18:54,457 Speaker 1: and Gavin Newsom and wokeism. But that being said again, 367 00:18:54,697 --> 00:18:56,977 Speaker 1: if the people there, if you have the margin is 368 00:18:57,257 --> 00:18:59,297 Speaker 1: five or ten percent, that swings it to the right. 369 00:18:59,617 --> 00:19:02,977 Speaker 1: The Union organizing the democratic policy making that will go 370 00:19:03,057 --> 00:19:05,137 Speaker 1: on in those states will make them untouchable for the 371 00:19:05,137 --> 00:19:07,337 Speaker 1: next generation. We will not be one of those states. 372 00:19:07,377 --> 00:19:10,337 Speaker 1: And now I'm fearful that Arizona and Georgia are getting 373 00:19:10,497 --> 00:19:13,417 Speaker 1: more like those three swing states than Ohio and Florida, 374 00:19:13,497 --> 00:19:14,657 Speaker 1: which have been made more red. 375 00:19:15,257 --> 00:19:18,977 Speaker 2: Matt, Where can people go to follow your work? Twitter? 376 00:19:19,537 --> 00:19:23,377 Speaker 1: Instagram, social media? It's very ad hoc. Buck sextay was 377 00:19:23,497 --> 00:19:28,657 Speaker 1: the Buck Brief, Yeah, brief your apartment when you're hosting Yeah, 378 00:19:28,697 --> 00:19:30,577 Speaker 1: so that's right anywhere. 379 00:19:30,977 --> 00:19:33,617 Speaker 2: It sounds like I'm doing an underwear line, but actually 380 00:19:33,617 --> 00:19:39,497 Speaker 2: it's a hard hitting interviews. Actually I agree. Check out 381 00:19:39,497 --> 00:19:43,057 Speaker 2: my friend Matt Tyrman. Always insightful, sir, good to see you, 382 00:19:43,057 --> 00:19:43,857 Speaker 2: thanks for being here. 383 00:19:44,377 --> 00:19:44,977 Speaker 1: See as sobu