Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and Jack,
Speaker 1: Katie and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: A senior White House official tells me that Maduro's quote
Speaker 2: overt arrogance, including his rejection of multiple offers to surrender
Speaker 2: and his public dancing, helped persuade some of the president's
Speaker 2: team that Maduro would not leave.
Speaker 1: On his own his public dancing. I got to mention
Speaker 1: that to my wife. Next time we're read of gathering
Speaker 1: where there's dancing, honey, probably better not look what happened
Speaker 1: to Maduro? All right?
Speaker 3: So Maduro put out a video of himself dancing at
Speaker 3: a party doing the Trump dance, like, oh yeah, you
Speaker 3: think I'm worried?
Speaker 1: Well, and Trump and Cump had offered him amnesty in
Speaker 1: a life of riches and just get the hell out
Speaker 1: of Venezuela. You gotta go. He said, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: And two weeks later he's on the helicopter whoops. One
Speaker 1: thing I don't get, and we'll I have to talk
Speaker 1: about it later because you got a different thing to do.
Speaker 1: But one thing I don't get is how how in
Speaker 1: the hell do all.
Speaker 3: Those helicopters and everything show up and the rangers break
Speaker 3: in and all that different sort of stuff, and they're
Speaker 3: still in their bedroom.
Speaker 1: I don't get that sound sleepers. God, I would say
Speaker 1: they got the good soundproofing in the walls. They got
Speaker 1: the paid extra for the windows with the you know,
Speaker 1: the sound pack.
Speaker 3: We were listening. We had listening devices in there. And
Speaker 3: so I saw the thing yesterday with Secretary of War
Speaker 3: what's his name, Hegzeth saying the wife said twice, I
Speaker 3: think I hear planes? Do you hear planes? Said twice
Speaker 3: in the last three minutes between the.
Speaker 1: Doctor's layne, that's fine, apparently, wow wow.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: And I saw one video online where you could see
Speaker 1: fire coming from a building toward the US forces, like
Speaker 1: it might have been machine gun or small arms of
Speaker 1: some sort, but it was tracer so you could see it.
Speaker 1: And the response was instantaneous with what sort of missiles
Speaker 1: of black Hawk fires and that building went kerk blewie.
Speaker 1: Here's a hint, US comes to town. Don't fire back.
Speaker 1: It's gonna end really bad for you. Just lay down
Speaker 1: your arms, put your hands in the air. Were nice folks,
Speaker 1: We're not going to kill you, all right, don't shoot
Speaker 1: back anyway. Having said that, yeah, for ALLBA, we're as
Speaker 1: bad as Putin or whatever crowd.
Speaker 3: If we were put the guy would be dead. We
Speaker 3: would have killed him a long time ago. You think
Speaker 3: we would have arrested him, read him his Miranda rights
Speaker 3: there in his bedroom, and put him on a plane
Speaker 3: and you know, taken him to the United States for
Speaker 3: a fair trial.
Speaker 1: Does that sound like Putin? Right? And as if Putin
Speaker 1: looks for an excuse to violate international norms, shut up.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, there are a number of Demcrats moderate
Speaker 1: saying Democrats who behind the scenes are saying, hey, why
Speaker 1: are you telling us all to be against taking Maduro out?
Speaker 1: He's a monster. They're bravely saying it behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: But at least you know there's some sanity still alive
Speaker 1: in that party. And to that end, you know, he
Speaker 1: was a kleptocrat and his regime is still in place largely.
Speaker 1: And I've got some really good stuff on why the
Speaker 1: CIA advised Trump, Look, don't decapitate the entire regime. The
Speaker 1: opposition does not have the mechanics, if you will, of
Speaker 1: governance in place. You've got to maintain order and have
Speaker 1: an orderly transition is gonna take a while. But if
Speaker 1: we throw it all up in the air, that's when
Speaker 1: you end up with a more Iraqish situation, even though
Speaker 1: there are real differences between the two places. But the
Speaker 1: mechanisms of governance are important. If it all goes to hell,
Speaker 1: then you have chaos. And so the CIA judge, No,
Speaker 1: you keep them a door loyalists in place, and we
Speaker 1: squeeze them, and we squeeze them and we squeeze them.
Speaker 1: That's the way to get this done. Yeah, Otherwise you
Speaker 1: end up with like well we had in Bagdad. We
Speaker 1: rolled in there, we kick everybody out, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody's just raiding banks and there's garbage everywhere,
Speaker 1: and just I mean it was complete anarchy. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: your favorite AI tool to look into. De bathification two
Speaker 1: a's de bathification wasn't a good IDEA nice job down
Speaker 1: Rumsfeldt anyway, So back to the nature of the madoration.
Speaker 1: She had an uber driver over the Christmas that apparently
Speaker 1: believed in de bathification. If you know what I'm talking, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: unpleasant anyway, Where do I start? How about this? From
Speaker 1: Beloved to Listener Jason, do we start with this or
Speaker 1: end with this? Let's end with this, So no, let's
Speaker 1: start with it. When I moved to Venezuela in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, the inflation exploded and made it very difficult
Speaker 1: to buy foods, so we and several of the youth
Speaker 1: we were with, would forage for bananas and mangoes to
Speaker 1: add to our saltine porridge saltene porridge. Then President Caldera
Speaker 1: ignited constitutional rights. I think he means ignored, implemented price
Speaker 1: controls and oversaw. Annual inflation of seventy plus percent. Was
Speaker 1: under this free regime that the population was inspired to
Speaker 1: elect the communist Chevez. In other words, they elected a
Speaker 1: guy who turned out to be a kleptocrat himself as
Speaker 1: the winter storms of After the winter storms of ninety
Speaker 1: nine two thousand, Chevez confiscated the new build hotels along
Speaker 1: the Caribbean to how's the poor who'd lost to ranchitos
Speaker 1: on the hills. He also confiscated oil developments private land.
Speaker 1: In the media, these confiscations drove international investors out. When
Speaker 1: I spoke with the people living in the commandeered hotels,
Speaker 1: they thought Chevez was right to take claim over the
Speaker 1: investment properties. Since he was helping the people international money
Speaker 1: and investment dried up.
Speaker 3: That sounds like the sort of things that Momdani would
Speaker 3: like to do. Oh yeah, oh yeah, works over and
Speaker 3: over again. Fast forward to twenty twenty six. Chevez is
Speaker 3: gone now Maduro is also. But Machado is just a socialist.
Speaker 3: The people look to the government to protect and provide
Speaker 3: for them. She's not a freedom candidate.
Speaker 1: She's a socialist, just not the dictator type yet, although
Speaker 1: con she was like ran the police that are enforcement force,
Speaker 1: not law enforcement, but dictatorship enforcement. I think we're in
Speaker 1: for a long series of disappointments before we see a
Speaker 1: free Venezuela because they don't want it. They want softer socialism.
Speaker 1: Those that wanted real freedom left when Chavez ruled. Then
Speaker 1: another way, you've emigrated once Maduro punished them for speaking out.
Speaker 1: There's Venezuelan here in Idaho who has tried in his
Speaker 1: who was tried in essential as a trader to the
Speaker 1: homeland as a sentence over his head for life imprisonment
Speaker 1: because he spoke out for freedom. It's ugly. I've got
Speaker 1: a dozen personal stories that showed that this is far
Speaker 1: from zold kttptt OvR. There's an unfortunate word in here.
Speaker 1: Keep trying to polish the turd of Venezuelan reform. It's Jason.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jason.
Speaker 3: You know on the inflation, I was just reading in
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal. At its worst, inflation in Venezuela
Speaker 3: was one hundred and thirty thousand percent.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I comprehend by Hey, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine the math on that one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand percent inflation doing the math. So today
Speaker 1: a big mac is seven dollars. Next year it will
Speaker 1: be fifty thousand dollars or more. Yeah, here's another point
Speaker 1: of view. This is by Nelson Marino. He writes, I
Speaker 1: was an active participant through Venezuela's twenty twenty four presidential cycle,
Speaker 1: which was won by mis Machado's appointed successor, and then
Speaker 1: Maduro just stole the election. But he served as an
Speaker 1: electoral coordinator, he writes, in the twenty eighth July twenty
Speaker 1: eight elections and fighting to prevent Madua from illegally seizing power.
Speaker 1: On July thirtieth, after he claimed victory, I was detained
Speaker 1: and charged with four offenses resisting authority, obstruction of public roads,
Speaker 1: incitement to hatred and terrorism. Sounds like some of those
Speaker 1: charges that like Europe and Britain and Australia are leveling
Speaker 1: on people for tweeting the wrong thing. But anyway, my
Speaker 1: stay in the torture center known as Torracone or Tokorone
Speaker 1: in Aragua State lasted two months, eighteen days and fifteen hours.
Speaker 1: Inside I lived through the greatest horror I can imagine.
Speaker 1: We were tortured. We had no access to clean drinking
Speaker 1: water and no proper food. Medical care was deficient or delayed,
Speaker 1: and our rights as citizens were trampled by the regimes lackeys.
Speaker 1: In Tokarone, there were more than one thousand people of
Speaker 1: all cultures, nationalities and ages, including miners. There were people
Speaker 1: from age seventeen years to eighty detained. At no point
Speaker 1: was due process respected. We never brought were brought before
Speaker 1: a judge. We had no rights, only what they called
Speaker 1: privileges and then he talks into Every two weeks, family
Speaker 1: members were allowed to bring a five liter bottle of
Speaker 1: drinking water, some packs of crackers and one chocolate bar.
Speaker 1: That's all. We were a humiliated forced to beg for
Speaker 1: a bite of food or sip of water. Six people
Speaker 1: lived in a single cell, no hygiene, no recreations, rotten, green,
Speaker 1: foul smelling, full of fly worms. Food.
Speaker 3: Uh now, to mention starvation and denial of water is
Speaker 3: underappreciated on its own as a torture mechanism.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. The guards that took our own in
Speaker 1: the regime they worked for are malevolent because they enjoyed
Speaker 1: every act of torture they inflicted. This was a place
Speaker 1: where abuse exceeded all logical limits of human cruelty. We
Speaker 1: were beaten with batons, stripped naked, forced into scorching pavement, electrocuted,
Speaker 1: deprived of food and sleep, denied urgent medical care. They
Speaker 1: woke us up by throwing buckets of cold water or
Speaker 1: urine on us. Oh my god, and you're starving. At
Speaker 1: times they banged on the cell bars in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night to startle us awake. Every day they
Speaker 1: told us we were guilty, that we were terrorist, murders
Speaker 1: and anti patriotic simply for opposing Nicholas Maduro's dictatorship. And
Speaker 1: it goes on and on. God, it's wild. You could.
Speaker 3: That's exactly the same thing that has happened in so
Speaker 3: many different socialist communist regimes throughout history, exactly the same thing.
Speaker 3: A couple of punchlines for you here, great story in
Speaker 3: the New York Post and Michael get sixty three and
Speaker 3: sixty four ready for me. Cops forced to separate pro
Speaker 3: Maduro protesters from joyous Venezuelans in a wild New York
Speaker 3: City scene. The NYPD was forced yesterday to separate clueless
Speaker 3: lefty US protesters who wanted Nicholas Maduro freed from Venezuelans
Speaker 3: and Cubans who were cheering the socialist dictator's capture as
Speaker 3: both sides clashed outside court. Several hundred demonstrators were waiving
Speaker 3: pre printed signs almost immediately after the abduction, reading free
Speaker 3: President Maduro in no word for Venezuelan oil. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 3: Venezuelans and Cubans were chanting and crying with joy that
Speaker 3: he'd finally been removed.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah bah. Progressive groups that had once
Speaker 1: denounced Meduros in human tactics were now saying he had
Speaker 1: to be freed. And here's a Cuban shouting, You're an
Speaker 1: a hole. You don't even know where Venezuela is at
Speaker 1: One of the lefty protesters, Marius Sue immigrated from Caracas
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Rage, they're not Venezuelan's, they're paid protesters.
Speaker 1: They don't speak Spanish. There's another fellow who said, you're
Speaker 1: not for my country, Go to Cuba. Eighty percent of
Speaker 1: you people don't even understand what I'm saying. You don't
Speaker 1: speak Spanish. Mfors.
Speaker 3: I wonder how many of those were printed by Russia
Speaker 3: or China, those signs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Well, actually one of the groups protesting,
Speaker 1: one of the big DSA type groups protesting are directly
Speaker 1: financially supported by the communist Chinese. Well that's that's one
Speaker 1: of our biggest weaknesses. So China or Russia, can you know,
Speaker 1: get the signs in the hands of literally useful idiots
Speaker 1: and get him out there, and then it's so such
Speaker 1: a division in our country because then you got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people, you know, watching Fox News who
Speaker 1: see that stuff and think liberals are look at the liberals,
Speaker 1: you know, it represents a tiny number of people who
Speaker 1: are dancing to the tune of the Russians. Might even
Speaker 1: be being paid by the Russians, right right, or the Chinese. Sure,
Speaker 1: no war for venezuela oil is a perfectly legitimate concern.
Speaker 1: If you think we're gonna have boots on the ground
Speaker 1: and it's all about oil. The up with Maduro stuff
Speaker 1: is insanity. Yeah, you are a jackass. You are a
Speaker 1: fool beyond description. All right, finally here's your dessert. You
Speaker 1: put up with all the torture talk and polishing. You
Speaker 1: know what's and the rest of it here is, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Chuck Schumer just yesterday, and then Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, back to back.
Speaker 5: The American people did not sign up for this kind
Speaker 5: of military adventurism. They wanted a president focused on America first,
Speaker 5: focused on lowering the cost of living. The president brags
Speaker 5: about his venezuela policy, Give us a break. He hasn't
Speaker 5: brought an end to the Maduro regime. The Meduro regime
Speaker 5: is more powerful today.
Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty six, Trump sucks because he got
Speaker 1: rid of Maduro. In twenty twenty, Trump sucks because he
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten rid of Maduro. Signed Chuck hilarious hypocrite Schumer.
Speaker 1: It's just the way the game is played, which is
Speaker 1: very makes us all very very cynical. It's a stupid
Speaker 1: game out at all.
Speaker 3: It is a stupid game, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: play it either. More on the way, stay here.
Speaker 6: Popular weight loss drug with Goobe is now available as
Speaker 6: a daily pill. Drug maker Novo Nordisk says the starter
Speaker 6: dose costs one hundred and forty nine bucks a month
Speaker 6: for people paying cash and buying straight from the manufacturer.
Speaker 6: That is two hundred dollars cheaper than the injectable version,
Speaker 6: making the pill more affordable option for people whose insurance.
Speaker 1: Plans don't cover the drug.
Speaker 6: Stronger doses will soon be available in pill form as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so one hundred and fifty a month, which you know,
Speaker 1: if you're super overweight, you might want to, you know,
Speaker 1: cancel Netflix or whatever else and scrounge up the one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty a month. And I spend that on
Speaker 1: ho hos every month. And if you have, yeah, think
Speaker 1: about that. And if you have insurance, it's like twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars for most people. So it has now become
Speaker 1: everyone can get it now. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: doctor lets you get a prescription.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the rules are in that do
Speaker 3: you have to still have to be like a certain
Speaker 3: amount of overweight before they leading let you get a prescription?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, do you Yeah, I don't know the status
Speaker 1: of that. Do you have to be diabetic, pre diabetic?
Speaker 1: Just have any I mean, for instance, my doctor could argue, yeah,
Speaker 1: when his weight goes up, his blood pressure goes up,
Speaker 1: and that's a serious condition, sleep apnea, which has all
Speaker 1: kinds of horrible things that it does to you. A great,
Speaker 1: great point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think a lot, a lot, a lot
Speaker 3: of people are.
Speaker 1: Going to be on these drugs. So and I've been
Speaker 1: saying that since they were invented. Well, and if I
Speaker 1: was an insurance executive, seriously, I'd say, anybody who freaking
Speaker 1: wants it, give it to them. Yeah, it's going to
Speaker 1: eliminate all sorts of expensive things we have to pay for. Hell,
Speaker 1: come to their houses and deliver it.
Speaker 3: As you person who has gained and lost a lot
Speaker 3: of weight, Katie, you have an opinion on this, Well,
Speaker 3: I was just there was an ad just released by
Speaker 3: with GOVI that they're using it for sleep apne.
Speaker 1: Okay, well then got that. Then it's going to be
Speaker 1: lots and lots of people.
Speaker 3: So will it have any effect on the thousand pounds Sisters.
Speaker 3: I wasn't watching this show, but it's on TLC and
Speaker 3: apparently it had a just a bang up season last
Speaker 3: year that everybody loved.
Speaker 1: Season two debuts tonight. Here's the promo fifteen Have you
Speaker 1: Names stopped fighting?
Speaker 7: Yet?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Okay, you gotta stop it for their saying I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Name of the show needs to be mush Mouth Sisters
Speaker 1: and their mush mouth friends. So we'll start this over again.
Speaker 1: But one of the problems seems to be I've been
Speaker 1: led to believe that this show is in English.
Speaker 3: Are they too fat to talk? Or what is going
Speaker 3: on here? Okay, let's let's try it again.
Speaker 1: Have you Names stop?
Speaker 5: It feels like we're drifting apart.
Speaker 1: Kes to be my best friend. We just assumed that
Speaker 1: Cammy being made of bond Tammy called Amy a dead
Speaker 1: beat mom. I can't handle her toxic ass no more.
Speaker 1: We really need to kind of get it smoothed over.
Speaker 1: Families are supposed to pull together. I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and have you feed me this blogey when I
Speaker 1: don't like belongee.
Speaker 3: So that's so, that is what TLC is really good at.
Speaker 3: Their hook is their dwarves. They're overweight, they're you know,
Speaker 3: they're child pageant stars, but they're really all a holes.
Speaker 3: So it could be dwarves who are a holes. Fat
Speaker 3: people are a holes, pageant people who are a holes
Speaker 3: in short, a holes. Wow, that sounds like horrifyingly entertaining.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's any good for your character to
Speaker 3: watch that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is either. I want to watch it,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that it makes me a worse person
Speaker 1: to tune in. And by the way, that's misleaning to
Speaker 1: a thousand pounds sisters suggests they're both a thousand pounds.
Speaker 1: If it's a thousand pounds of sisters, that would be
Speaker 1: more you know, honest TLC. Who can you trust if
Speaker 1: you can't trust hilarious Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: There's been some that have been agitating in the Parliament
Speaker 7: to nullify the laws to.
Speaker 1: Remember Yah, stop that place. I'm sorry, we don't want
Speaker 1: to come back with that. We wanted to set that
Speaker 1: up and there we go, uh no where, everybody. What's
Speaker 1: important is not solving the problem. It's as signing blame.
Speaker 1: Who's the blame? So that the voice you just heard
Speaker 1: an exciting preview of was and totally intentionally was Chris Minz,
Speaker 1: who is the premier something like the governor of New
Speaker 1: South Wales, which is one of the states within Australia.
Speaker 1: Australia not only part of the English speaking world with
Speaker 1: which we're pretty close, but an important, important ally in
Speaker 1: the Five Eyes, the shared intelligence and a bulwark against
Speaker 1: the Chinese and the Pacific. The Australians matter to us
Speaker 1: as a guy who knows a guy who's very, very
Speaker 1: involved with the Navy and has been for decades. Our
Speaker 1: relationship with the Australian Navy is very important. Having said that, Australia,
Speaker 1: like Britain, has gone nuts with the prosecuting, persecuting perfectly
Speaker 1: reasonable free speech if they find that it could offend someone,
Speaker 1: mostly because they're afraid of their immigrant population. Here is
Speaker 1: Chris Min's the Premiere of New South Wales.
Speaker 7: There's been some that have been agitating in the Parliament
Speaker 7: to nullify the laws, to remove them off the statute books.
Speaker 7: Think about what kind of toxic message that would send
Speaker 7: to the New South Wales community, and I think the
Speaker 7: advocates for those changes need to explain what do they
Speaker 7: want people to have the right to say what kind
Speaker 7: of racist do they want to see or be able
Speaker 7: to lawfully see on the streets of Sydney. I recognize,
Speaker 7: and I'm fully sit from the beginning that we don't
Speaker 7: have the same freedom of speech laws that they have
Speaker 7: in the United States. And the reason for that is
Speaker 7: that we want to hold to get up a multicultural
Speaker 7: community and have people leave in pace free from the
Speaker 7: kind of vilification and hatred that we do see around
Speaker 7: the world.
Speaker 1: I have several answers to that, the most simple being
Speaker 1: it won't work. It will not work telling people they
Speaker 1: cannot express their pain dissatisfaction on happiness, even if it's nasty, illegitimate, stupid, unhappiness.
Speaker 1: Telling people you can't express what you think is wrong
Speaker 1: is exactly the wrong way to do it. Well, I
Speaker 1: read your goal.
Speaker 3: I retweeted that clip at the beginning of vacation, and
Speaker 3: I was happy to see the response by a lot
Speaker 3: of our followers on Twitter, just as horrified as me
Speaker 3: that anybody could have that attitude. It's just, you know,
Speaker 3: up in the United States, and you take this whole
Speaker 3: free speech thing for granted that apparently we shouldn't because
Speaker 3: there's plenty.
Speaker 1: Of people there.
Speaker 3: I agree with that, dude, And as always with anything,
Speaker 3: free speech, okay, Well, as soon as you go down
Speaker 3: that road.
Speaker 1: Who's deciding what is okay and what isn't? Who's making
Speaker 1: that decision?
Speaker 3: And why are they always right as to what is
Speaker 3: the sort of thing that shouldn't be said as opposed
Speaker 3: to this sort of thing that.
Speaker 1: Can be said. That was the second thing I would
Speaker 1: bring up to the honorable mister mens. I don't trust you,
Speaker 1: in fact, I don't trust anybody to have the god
Speaker 1: like king solomonesque judgment to decide what is an honest
Speaker 1: and protected expression of dissatisfy, dissatisfaction or unhappiness and what
Speaker 1: is not. I don't trust you to draw that line.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't trust anybody to draw that line.
Speaker 1: Why because we've tried it roughly a million times as humanity,
Speaker 1: and it always goes wrong.
Speaker 3: Well, and then even if you got lucky and the
Speaker 3: first person or or panel that you choose to make
Speaker 3: those decisions you agree with, the next crowd is not
Speaker 3: going to be somebody you'll like.
Speaker 1: Well in the moment, someone could gain a significant advantage electoral, financial, whatever,
Speaker 1: But you know, keeping the thumb on that scale. It's
Speaker 1: just not hate speech exactly, but that could get the
Speaker 1: other guy elected. Chris, Dude, they're going to do that
Speaker 1: the first second they get a chance. How can you
Speaker 1: be such a naive, fool or afraid of your immigrant
Speaker 1: population that you believe that. How could you be that naive.
Speaker 1: I'm just astounded by that. He could just be afraid.
Speaker 1: But I think I don't know. I think he believes that.
Speaker 1: It's the situation in Europe. Yeah, they're just afraid. I
Speaker 1: just they are praying. If everybody keeps their mouths shut
Speaker 1: at the dinner table, there will be no arguments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, metaphorically speaking, we don't have the same freedom
Speaker 1: of speech laws they have in the US, and the
Speaker 1: reason for that is that we want to hold together
Speaker 1: a multicultural community. Wow, So everybody first response is it
Speaker 1: will not work. Everybody being forced by the governments to
Speaker 1: keep their mouths shut is going to help. Yeah, great,
Speaker 1: great example, and there are so many of them. We could,
Speaker 1: you know, jabber on till our. You know, vocal courts
Speaker 1: were fried in Germany. Yeah. Yeah, you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: say anything anti immigrant because that might upset the immigrants
Speaker 1: and lead to the opposite of what mister Mims was saying.
Speaker 1: They're trying to accomplish their mister Mens, will have strife
Speaker 1: within our multicultural community. So don't raise any objection to
Speaker 1: rampant immigration from places that abhor our principles and ways
Speaker 1: of life. Okay, who's willing to go ahead and say
Speaker 1: those things? Your ultra right wing parties like the AfD,
Speaker 1: who are nuts, by the way, they are legitimately perfectly
Speaker 1: you know, appropriately speaking out against that sort of rampant immigration.
Speaker 1: They're also harshly anti us. They're also harshly pro Russian.
Speaker 1: You don't want the AfD. But if they are the
Speaker 1: only people because they're outlaws who are willing to express
Speaker 1: those uncomfortable truths that Chris Mins doesn't want spoken, that's
Speaker 1: where the people will go, You naive fool. Yes, So
Speaker 1: whose actual quote is you can have free speech or
Speaker 1: you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both. I got
Speaker 1: my choice already. Do you want a minute to think
Speaker 1: of No, I'm good, I'm ready. You know what folks? Uh, Well,
Speaker 1: my little half humorous knee jerk reaction there may have
Speaker 1: amused us. All. Let's let's take the humor of this
Speaker 1: and just take him at his word. Take that at
Speaker 1: face value. Can you read that again? You can have
Speaker 1: free speech or you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both.
Speaker 1: Holy h I know that's an asse. That's not chairman she,
Speaker 1: I know that's an asse.
Speaker 3: I didn't think i'd see this in my lifetime, where
Speaker 3: we had to re argue the whole free speech thing
Speaker 3: in Western civilization.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, in the English speaking world, the Magna
Speaker 1: carta people, the common law people, the rights of Englishman people.
Speaker 1: The king may not enter your cottage without a warrant.
Speaker 1: People are now saying we can either have free speech
Speaker 1: or multiculturalism, but not both. Seriously, Chris, and I wish
Speaker 1: you could hear these words. You won't, but I wish
Speaker 1: you could. You have betrayed virtually everything that has built
Speaker 1: the post Enlightenment Western world out of cowardice or desperation.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you're a nice fella. In fact, I'll
Speaker 1: bet you are, but you have wandered so far away
Speaker 1: from the sacred principles that we hold. Dear, you have
Speaker 1: become a monster, kind of a soft, accommodating, apologetic monster,
Speaker 1: which is kind of an interesting thing to contemplate. Isn't
Speaker 1: it somebody who is so soft they have become a monster.
Speaker 1: I was trying to find that quote I brought us
Speaker 1: yesterday from the leader of Italy, what she said about
Speaker 1: if you're bothered by our Nativity scenes, you need to
Speaker 1: get out. Yeah, this is not the country here. It
Speaker 1: is Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, who I like to
Speaker 1: Third world migrants. If you feel offended by a crucifix
Speaker 1: or a Nativity scene, then this is not the place
Speaker 1: where you should live. We will defend God, the homeland
Speaker 1: in the family. That would absolutely not pass that guy
Speaker 1: in Australia's oh no rule, No Hey, and Chris Chris Mens.
Speaker 1: If you think she's wrong, how about you use your
Speaker 1: free speech and tell us why and convince us, and
Speaker 1: then your idea will win the day and we will
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Speaker 3: It's good to be right one of the Well, there's
Speaker 3: so many amazing things at the World War Two Museum
Speaker 3: in New Orleans that I attended.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm so hot to try to go to it.
Speaker 1: But the whole wing on the Holocaust and the rise
Speaker 1: of anti Semitism bit by bit and everything like that.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell the story about inappropriately running
Speaker 1: through and Frank's bedroom, which was an unfortunate situation that
Speaker 1: I ended up being with a bunch.
Speaker 3: Of people, you know, practically in tears standing around the
Speaker 3: recreation of the room.
Speaker 1: They all hit, and I ended up with the burden
Speaker 1: of Damascus. I needed to go to the bathroom. I
Speaker 1: mean I needed to.
Speaker 3: Go now, oh no. And I knew this was not
Speaker 3: the right wing of the museum to be in when
Speaker 3: this happened, but I ended up like, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 3: I got to get through here with a.
Speaker 1: Bunch of people who were in the reproduction of that
Speaker 1: room that they hid in in Amsterdam for the Frank
Speaker 1: family and all the pictures and then you know the
Speaker 1: how she died and they family died, and pictures of
Speaker 1: people who are skeletons and stuff like that, and it's
Speaker 1: very solemn. But I'm like, excuse me, I've got to
Speaker 1: get through. Reminded me running coomfortably of when I was
Speaker 1: a third of the way through the Holocaust Museum in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And I realized, I'm going to miss my
Speaker 1: flight if I do this whole museum. So I rushed
Speaker 1: through it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I my situation was, I was telling this
Speaker 3: to my nieces ones. That is very Larry David. You
Speaker 3: can almost hear the music, the bump, bump, bump, but bump.
Speaker 3: But people in there looking at me like, what are
Speaker 3: you doing? This is and Frank's bedroom right tragic, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I get.
Speaker 1: You, guy, but I have got to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'm sorry to hear that it happens anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: what was my point with that?
Speaker 3: The lead up to anti Semitisms? And I said, oh, anyway, Uh,
Speaker 3: watching how that grew and grew and grew, you know
Speaker 3: it fits in with this whole free speech thing by
Speaker 3: little by little, just to try to avoid the uncomfortableness
Speaker 3: of addressing it. I guess it just it gets worse
Speaker 3: and worse.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, keep it underground. Yeah, let that build underground
Speaker 1: without being able to confront it. That's our strategy. Oh
Speaker 1: my lord.
Speaker 3: Well, and the worst ideas with the most violent people
Speaker 3: are the ones that.
Speaker 1: Will be expressed because they don't care, like you were
Speaker 1: saying earlier, right right, And people turn to them because
Speaker 1: they're the only people who are expressing what they feel. Right,
Speaker 1: my god, it's a terrible, terrible thing. Speaking of underground,
Speaker 1: you know who's underground. The Cuban regime. They're like thinking,
Speaker 1: this bunker ain't deep enough. Can we build a deeper one.
Speaker 1: They saw what happened to old Maduro, and and what
Speaker 1: a great indication of how illegitimate the Maduro regime was.
Speaker 1: But Douro was being protected by Cuban intelligence agents because
Speaker 1: he didn't trust his own people. Well, the Cubans know
Speaker 1: their next. In fact, little Marco is openly saying you're next.
Speaker 1: So how that unfolds will be interesting to watch.
Speaker 3: Also, America is finally tipping its cap to one of
Speaker 3: the greatest inventions in human history, the guy who came
Speaker 3: up with the little arrow next to the fuel pump
Speaker 3: in your car, gauge of which side is the tank on?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, whoever you are, thank you, Sarah. I read
Speaker 1: a long piece about that. It's really kind of funny.
Speaker 1: Among other things. On the way stay with us, how
Speaker 1: y'all doing.
Speaker 3: I was getting back to regular life happening for you,
Speaker 3: assuming you got a little break. I remember when I
Speaker 3: was younger, I didn't really get any breaks during any holidays.
Speaker 3: So I would be angered by listening to some DJ
Speaker 3: say this, but angered if your kids were out of
Speaker 3: school and you had a little time off, you know,
Speaker 3: getting back in the swing of things. I'm happy to
Speaker 3: the older I get, the more I like my routines, definitely,
Speaker 3: and I wonder why that is.
Speaker 1: Their brain works that way. That's pretty common.
Speaker 3: I think I wanted comforting when I was younger, traveling man,
Speaker 3: I hated to come home. I wanted to stay out
Speaker 3: there doing the stuff. Now I want my own bed,
Speaker 3: my own routine, my own everything, my own bathroom. So
Speaker 3: Trump's still speaking. He's addressing the house GOP member retreat,
Speaker 3: whatever that is He's standing at a podium and with
Speaker 3: a bunch of American flags behind him, and he's been
Speaker 3: talking for like an hour or so when UH executive
Speaker 3: producer Hansen says, this ninety seconds or so is pretty entertaining.
Speaker 4: My wife, by the way, my wife hates when I
Speaker 4: do this, she said, you know, she's a very classy person, right,
Speaker 4: She said, it's so unpresidential.
Speaker 1: The dancing, I said, but I did become president somebody.
Speaker 1: She hates what I did.
Speaker 4: I said, everybody wants me to dance girling. It's not presidential.
Speaker 4: She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said
Speaker 4: that to me, and I said, there's a long history
Speaker 4: that perhaps she doesn't know, because he was an elegant fellow,
Speaker 4: even as a Democrat, right, he was the attack by Japan.
Speaker 4: You know, he was quite elegant. But he wouldn't be
Speaker 4: doing this, but nor would too many others. But she said, Darling, please,
Speaker 4: the weightlifting is terrible. And I have to say this.
Speaker 4: The dancing they really like, she said, they don't like it.
Speaker 4: They're just being nice to you. I said, that's not right.
Speaker 4: The place goes crazy. They're screaming. Dance please, said, but
Speaker 4: the weightlifting, but no, the.
Speaker 1: Girl gets up. Now he's mocking transs.
Speaker 4: And you see, I want to be more but I
Speaker 4: have somebody watch it.
Speaker 1: I want to be more effusive.
Speaker 4: I want to really yeah.
Speaker 1: Like he gets wow. That is the improv in La Wow.
Speaker 3: First of all, it is kind of funny. What do
Speaker 3: you mean it's not presidential. I've been elected president twice.
Speaker 3: I kind of by definition makes it presidential. And then
Speaker 3: he's doing the arms thing, showing the dance. But and
Speaker 3: then if you've ever seen him do the trans weightlifter thing,
Speaker 3: and he pretends he's trying to lift a bar up.
Speaker 3: But it's what Joe tweet texted me one time during
Speaker 3: the vacation. I don't remember what was going on, and
Speaker 3: it could have been anything. What an interesting dude.
Speaker 1: I mean he is.
Speaker 3: The strengths and weaknesses of that guy and the talents
Speaker 3: that he has or doesn't have, just one of the
Speaker 3: most amazing combinations in the history of the planet.
Speaker 1: It may have been his announcement of the Maduro thing,
Speaker 1: but it was by turns brilliant and embarrassing. But you know,
Speaker 1: he is what he is speaking of our transgender friends,
Speaker 1: a mini trans gender bending madness update next hour.
Speaker 3: I when you were talking about the multicultural thing, or
Speaker 3: we're having that conversation versus free speech, I was thinking this.
Speaker 3: I had this experience while I was on vacation. As
Speaker 3: I mentioned yesterday, I took about nine thousand uber rides
Speaker 3: or lift rides between San Francisco and New Orleans, and
Speaker 3: then even in Wichita, and the completely different experience of
Speaker 3: having somebody who speaks English or not, or who's from.
Speaker 1: There or not.
Speaker 3: I mean, you are going out of your way to
Speaker 3: be multicultural if you tell me that it's better to
Speaker 3: have somebody who's not from there and doesn't speak English.
Speaker 1: As you get in the car and you try.
Speaker 3: To say something to them, and they kind of smile
Speaker 3: and make it clear that they don't understand a single
Speaker 3: word of English. As my son says, how have you
Speaker 3: lived here for years and you haven't picked up a couple?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, hello, goodbye, good nothing. But I land
Speaker 3: in New Orleans, for instance, one of those towns that
Speaker 3: every single uber lyft driver I got was from there
Speaker 3: and spoke English, and we'd have great conversations about where
Speaker 3: to eat or this or that, or what it's going
Speaker 3: to be like tonight or why it's so colden, what
Speaker 3: the weather's light.
Speaker 1: And everything like that. It was so nice.
Speaker 3: It was a combination of friendly, helpful, for safe feeling,
Speaker 3: all these different things.
Speaker 1: And if you do sound like a bigot to me, right, if.
Speaker 3: You tell me you don't think that's better, then when
Speaker 3: you get in the car and it's somebody from a
Speaker 3: different country who doesn't speak a word of English, you're
Speaker 3: just lying for some sort of.
Speaker 1: Weird political purpose. Oh yeah, Well, if there's xenophiles, the
Speaker 1: idea that all that is foreign is wonderful just and
Speaker 1: shouldn't be questioned. It's xenophilia. I love saying to people. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if you were in that guy appears to be
Speaker 1: from Pakistan. If a Pakistani gets in an uber car
Speaker 1: and that the driver doesn't speak any of their language
Speaker 1: and they can't communicate with them at all, you think
Speaker 1: that's good. That's beautiful. What if the driver can only
Speaker 1: speak English? Is that good?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Because of a settler colonialism, that's when
Speaker 1: you just shop. I'm right upside the head. No, don't
Speaker 1: slap anybody.
Speaker 3: I admire somebody coming from this country working hard. I
Speaker 3: don't want to like ban people whatever. But if you'll
Speaker 3: pretend that it's not a better experience to have somebody
Speaker 3: who's from there and speaks English, you're just a liar,
Speaker 3: right right, Shit, we got a lot more on the way,
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