I'm Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday January 14 2016.
In time once again for your gizmo nation media
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whatsoever. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Yo, yo.
Well, it was a it was an interesting week. Yeah,
certainly.
That something happened that I missed something.
There was a there was this president gave this huge speech.
Oh, God and on Twitter. Donald Trump heckled him? Yeah. I
thought that was funny.
There was there's a lot to talk about when it comes to the
propaganda arm of the United States government. And the first
thing I have
a key clip avikii played. It was you key clip. This is the one
this just says Obama. That's a good one. Is Dan printer is not
printing in black anymore. So it's almost impossible to read
this printout? Obama? Well, it's a good question. Where's this?
I don't know, John, I know is kind
of an anticlimactic way to be.
We could start all over if it makes you feel better. Well, the
White House they have a they have a new guy that he hired
from Google, of course, Megan Smith being a Googler. He also
worked at Twitter before that, and he is now the engagement
director. And the engagement director, they have a little
unit there in the in the White House. And they have been
sending celebrate ease, pre programmed tweets for them to
send out what? No catch? Yeah. And there's even there's even a
letter see if I can find this
in your tweet this plays. Yeah. There's
a letter with recommendations mainly about gun violence. And
let me see I can probably tie that into the NBC the the the
morning show there and what does it call the today show today?
Yeah, the Today Show. They were broadcasting live from the White
House before the State of the Union, which I found the
preamble to the State of the Union and from all the networks
and then finally the the analysis afterwards. I thought
that was the most fun. Yeah,
well, I have these days. Today's show. Today's show definitely
had the upper hand with that being on the White House grounds
in a basketball court. Over the other guys who are just kind of
wandering around, here's the clip. This is the clip to get us
off to the right start the top gaff ISO,
to starting off with an ISO always nice.
That's not leadership. That's a recipe for qualifier.
A recipe for what blog? Blog Meyer, isn't it quagmire?
Yes.
How do you want to do this? Again, I have a couple of State
of the Union clips. Here. Let me let me just get you the the NBC
thing. So
the way before we start anything let's just each of us. What did
you think? Well,
I watched the State of the Union. Then I went back and I
read the transcript. Then I watched it again. And I
concluded that if you really want to deconstruct what the
President was saying you almost have to play the entire thing
because everything was either wishy washy on true being made
up. Yeah, completely contradictory
to hack allies. It really
was. Here's the I just want to do this the Good morning. The
Good Morning Show thing with where is it? It's trouble
finding clip day today must be
Yeah, well it happens. Yeah. Today Show again, I'm sure.
Yeah. Oh, here it is. Here it is. Here's the today and this is
interesting when you listen to this guy. So this is a former
Googler Megan Megan Megan Smith is Megan Smith who's the White
House this the CTO or Chief Technology Officer of America,
Megan Smith. He also worked at Twitter so guys I'm sure he's
gotten Megan Smith is a girl.
I know but this he this guy was hired by Megan small Okay.
I get it. I'm sorry.
And so not only is he he thinks his poop don't stink. And he
talks down to the entire today's show crew, which I really
thought was great when you see their faces like they're all
standing in a row. Oh,
Jason Goldman is the Chief Digital Officer here at the
White House. Wow. Some news to share about a partnership with
Facebook tonight in connection with the State of the Union
TELUS? That's right. We
recently launched the President's Facebook page. And
tonight we're going to be doing our first experiment with
Facebook Live. So you'll be able to see the President live, talk
about what he's thinking about for the State of the Union. I
think fundamentally, the internet is a platform for human
conversation, people are looking to connect and authentic moments
that are great, authentic moments and behind the lens to
see the real people behind. I think you guys do this really
well with the Today Show. You've been doing this morning.
That wins. That is such a Silicon Valley aihole When he
says, You know, I think you guys are really doing well with this
little show and have on them on a little Star Trek do really
well, because compromiser
you guys do this really well. This morning, showing stuff
behind the scenes is really great. A good example of that. I
think it's the kind of things that people look
for now. And these are the guys that are sending out the memos
celebrating.
Presumptuous aihole. Amen.
Yeah, wow.
I know, Ken, but you see Matt Lauer, who is you know, I mean,
when you're making what does he make and 20 million a year
Mallow is he's gonna be making a lot of money. I think he makes
at least 15. And he thinks, you know, he thinks he's grades,
whatever. And then to be talked down to by this guy is you have
to see the video. It's in the show notes seven, nine or
zero.no. Agenda notes.com. One more piece here from the from
the today's show, Matt Lauer speaks with the President. And
let's see, here we go. Another funny
people said after eight years of George W. Bush in the White
House, the American people were hungry for your message of hope
and change. So after seven years of the Obama presidency, do you
feel you're responsible for a certain hunger out there for the
messes that Donald Trump is putting
out? I think this is besides him, says Donald Trump. It's
actually not a bad question.
It's an interesting question, but it's a little. It's a little
well,
it's a setup, of course, because
we know what it was. This is on today's show.
Today's show again, it continues.
The message is Donald Trump's putting out his Were you ever
hungry for hope? Just as a side to side note, did you ever have
you know, during the Bush years for hope you're hungry for hope,
like a hungry hippo Verhoef was never a hungry hippo for hope.
That's what Matt Lauer says, people were hungry for hope.
During the Bush, somebody was
said after eight years of George W. Bush in the White House, the
American people were hungry for your message of hope and change.
So after seven years of the Obama presidency, do you feel
you're responsible for a certain hunger out there for the message
that Donald Trump is putting out?
The message is Donald Trump's putting out his head adherence.
A lot of times during the course of our history,
what does it mean exactly? The message he's putting out which I
presume the president means of hate and xenophobia and racism
has had adherence several times throughout our history. What is
he referring to
civil war? Uh, yes. No idea.
Talk to me. If he wins, then we'll have a conversation about
it. But I'm pretty confident that the overwhelming majority
of Americans are looking for the kind of politics that does beat
our hopes and not our fears that does work together, and doesn't
try to divide us. That isn't looking for simplistic solutions
and scapegoating but looks for us buckling down and figuring
out how do we make
things work wait for you. So
when you stand and deliver that State of the Union address in no
part of your mind or brain? Can you imagine Donald Trump
standing up one day and delivering State of the Union
address?
Well, I can imagine it in Saturday Night
anything's possible
we shouldn't be complacent
man this Saturday night skit, okay. I think if anyone is
running for president even the crazy guy with a with a boot on
his head, who has dropped out of the race the Who was that guy
the remember that guy? The crazy guy with a boot with a long boot
on the top of his head? No, yeah, you do. He always run
every year every six every cycle
I'm disappointed the guy that did the rents too damn high a
guy died and he would have been running. Oh my guy,
vermin supreme. That's the guy with the Boo Got his head. But
it doesn't matter. I feel as pressured by
the way. And I have to I have to say I'm glad that he called
Trump out on it simplistic message as opposed to Pope and
change, which is
not simplistic, very complex.
Exactly. So overall, when I when I watched this, I was
disappointed, because I think the only thing the President
should have done would be to tee up more hope and change make
people feel positive. But it's so difficult when you have to
lie about the true unemployment numbers, the true state of the
economy. It just wasn't true. It just was not true. What he said
most of what he said
the same good, yes, most.
Now, before we get into that, I see you have some clips from the
State of the United States, something happened and they're
generally short, something happened right before or in the
hours before the President was ready to do the speech and this
was the quote unquote sailors who, quote unquote, drifted into
Iran.
You don't have to do that.
Okay. But the reason I think there was a reason for
that, by the way, if you will, yeah, I'd love that. Please.
Keep back rounder just the clip says Iran. Iranian bullcrap.
Yeah, and I think I know why it's bullcrap. Good evening, and
we begin tonight with the images of American sailors prominently
displayed across television in Iran. Nine men one woman held by
the Iranians today critics say Iran has humiliated the sailors
questions about why they were in Iranian waters in the first
place. The 10 American sailors on display their hands on their
heads as the cameras rule. The sailors are asked if their
vessels were in Iran's territorial waters, you will
hear one sailors answer and tonight CENTCOM now saying the
Iranian stage the video at that sailor was trying to defuse a
tense situation. ABCs chief foreign correspondent Terry
Moran is in Bahrain
Tuesday evening around 5pm in the Persian Gulf, the capture up
to American boats are surrounded and subdued as Iranian Navy
cameras record the scene. And then a few minutes later, the
surrender images of the 10 US sailors kneeling hands on their
heads the Iranians in control through the night Secretary of
State Kerry makes five calls to the Iranians demanding the
Americans be released explaining it was a mistake. And those
American sailors nine men and one woman spend a night in
captivity, their passports are examined a meal is served. And
then pointed interrogation
they served him a meal oh my god what torture Why would you
even do that?
I don't know the case. Okay, so
here's here's what I think happened. Bright or just maybe
an hour before this. And why are we calling them sailors? This is
very strange, I don't think Do they qualify really as just
sailors? When you say sailor, I think hey, I have a meaty white
hat. And yeah, let's go that that bib on the back and
everything these of course, were military guys. I checked with
our military sources. Then I will read to you verbatim
of sailors or military guy. Yeah. But
just to call them sailors was strange. It kind of belittled
somehow.
And I'm not buying that, but okay. Yeah. You know, managing
to insult our sailors.
Well, there's a couple things. First of all, from our insiders
in the military, these types of craft, these watercraft often
drift into Iranian waters. In fact, that happens every day.
Nothing special there. Nor wasn't special that they were
and I have to say in quotes caught. This was a distraction
from the Hillary Clinton email release. I'm almost positive.
Because it was Carrie who jumped in. Carrie who Oh, Diplo, I have
a couple of closing. Listen to him. But no, but this. They're
short, the short. But everybody was really starting to dis do as
much as we could do all the news was about the sailors. And then
miraculously, just in time for the State of the Union, because
it was all well, the President have to address this now because
then carry, quote, unquote, fixed it all. Fixed it all.
Here's carry.
I also want to thank the Iranian authorities for their
cooperation and quick response. I'm appreciative for the quick
and appropriate response of the Iranian authorities. All
indications suggest or tell us that our sailors were well taken
care of provided with blankets and food and water and
assistance. They're returned to the fleet earlier today. And I
think we can all imagine how a similar situation might have
played out three or four years ago. Oh, we just need cash. I
know a lot of people want to send blankets.
Just send your kid
now here's the report which I think Fox did the best job of
because they brought in the pixie girl, the, you know when
the pixie girl comes into serious business, what's her
name? And Catherine herridge I think is her
name herridge. The agency she's she's in total agent.
And this was the news just before the sailor crisis struck
developing tonight Hillary Clinton issuing a fierce and
outright denial to an exclusive Fox News report that the FBI has
launched another investigation into her time as Secretary of
State sources telling Fox News that agents are looking into
whether Mrs. Clinton used her position as the nation's top
diplomat to pay off well connected donors. Fox News
Senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano is here to
weigh in on this and a new twist in her email scandal. But we
begin with Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine
herridge. Who broke this story today, Catherine they can three
intelligence sources tell Fox News The FBI probe has expanded
with one track focused on classified information found on
Mrs. Clinton server. And the second track on whether the
commingling of Clinton Foundation work and State
Department business potentially violated public corruption laws.
Box is a tool that FBI agents are embedded.
Yeah, so it's the Clinton Foundation. It's under fire. The
overlap
of State Department and Clinton Foundation work and whether
donors benefited from their contacts inside the
administration. With the latest scores from an email released a
number of classified emails identified on Mrs. Clinton's
private account has risen to at least 13 140, including two at
the top secret level. Speaking to the Des Moines Register late
today, Clinton again insisted that nothing she sent her
receive was classified at the time and strongly demit
dismissed boxes reporting the FBI investigation is expanding.
Now listen to the demeanour of Hillary Clinton. Her energy is
almost dead. And it's like she doesn't even she can barely
speak.
Absolutely not. It's an unsourced. They're responsible
claim that has no basis and it is something that really is
without merit
and Clinton said the FBI hasn't contacted her either. But that
is simply not how the process works. experts including a
former senior FBI agent said there is no way for Clinton to
know the status because the bureau doesn't have to notify
the subject of an investigation unless an indictment is
imminent.
Now my evidence is circumstantial. But I believe
that this is what went down and they created this ruckus, which
is very easy because it's not like two boats, all of a sudden
both engines go out or GPS doesn't work. Come on, you can
get out of there with an iPhone with a GPS. So okay. The reason
why is the video of these sailors aren't kneeling on the
on the boat with their hands clasped behind their head is a
100% blatant violation of the Geneva Convention. And the New
York Times was the first to report that Russia were a holes
for doing it by parading Ukrainian soldiers through the
street. You are not allowed to embarrass or humiliate any
prisoner by the Geneva Convention. And we would be the
first to stand up and say this, you can't do this. It was a
humiliation.
Great point. That's true. You're right. I forgot all about
Debbie. That's true. You can't do that. And we would have
bitched about it.
How he especially the video was,
this wasn't it was staged. All right. It
was rigged. Oh, yeah.
It was literally staged with the with the with everybody taking
part in it? Yes. I want you guys to do. Yeah,
I think I have always have it.
But that shows you the incompetence of the State
Department to not
you know, they didn't tie it in to tie up the loose ends. Yeah,
it's a loose end. Yeah, it's a dumb thing to do. Because that's
probably what we do is we don't pay any attention to this stuff
anymore.
I have here a clip from the former Minister of Defence, a
former ministry of defence official from the UK, I think
pertains to this. What
have you what have you seen in this video that troubles you? Or
gives you cause for concern about what happened in
this? This is I think MSNBC. Oh, there's nothing alarming
Lawrence to me. And there's nothing alarming. They bring in
the limy guy, because whenever you bring in the British accent,
it always sounds like oh, well must be true. It's
Swedish.
Yeah, I mean, this I mean, the Photoshop, the footage that
you're seeing on screen is standard protocol. They'll be
put in those positions initially, just to make sure
that they are searched. They've got no weapons on them, and just
so they're in an orderly fashion so so that the people that have
apprehended the Iranians can can watch them now. During
resistance to interrogation we're doing it irrigation
procedure, those type of positions can be used more
towards stress positions and it can be put there for a long time
in order to break people down.
But and he goes on to say,
Oh crap, that's Lawrence O'Donnell. That is MSNBC, he
should have called the guy out immediately. But no, he
should have said he's it's not a violation is the part of the
race? Yes. All right. So then we this is my last one that I want
you to get into the clips you have. This was NBC and I
recorded different channels. I also gotten into the C span and
everything and CNN. By the way, Donna Brazil as a political
commentator, I didn't realise it, but she is the vice
chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Did you know
that? Yeah, I think so. My God, this is bringing in a shill. i
We always knew she was a show but I didn't know the
credentials behind it. So NBC did a nice little piece and
beyond as we expect, you know, who are the celebrators? who's
in the audience. Mark Zuckerberg is there of course had the big
Facebook deal going on between the White House and the
corporation Facebook, which is what does that it's not a kind
of a definition of you smack your lips. Yes. Isn't that kind
of a definition of fascism? partitioner. corporatism
fascism? Yeah.
Sitting there. And element.
This reminded me a lot of Europe. When I was back in
Europe between 19 End of 1999 and 2010
heard of this night is also about how the outside issues
find their way into the chamber through the guests that are
here. I've spotted a woman who made a lot of news earlier this
year that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is a guest tonight of an
Ohio lawmaker who's the head of the Freedom Caucus, which used
to be the Tea Party group in the house. She had been very
controversial earlier this year over gay marriage. Also tonight,
we see the headscarves of many Americans who are Muslim who
were invited by their lawmakers, mostly Democrats making that
gesture to try to counter some of the harsh rhetoric on the
campaign trail. And we've also seen members of the
Congressional Black Caucus take their seats along to wait for
this moment and the President arrives.
So the headscarf thing. I saw this happen in Europe, where
politicians they were all for the multicultural society and we
have to support it and they brought it this is how the the
Dutch would say this is my true experience. Although I think I
have other anecdotal experience from other European countries.
They would always bring in what they call the the head scarves
and then before you know it, you know things go wrong. This is
pandering to it's pandering and it's not it's not doesn't work a
duck it makes it worse, though headscarves. Oh, great is
headscarves not by the Koran. The definition of putting women
at a lower scale than men?
Well, it's not a Koran thing. It's actually a cultural thing
in parts of the Middle East.
I thought the Quran is very clear about women. And all it
says
is I'm not mistaken. You can correct me if you can find a
moment it says women must dress modestly. And by modestly has
been assumed,
but okay, but even that modestly, who? What society do
we live in? Where we think
that's okay, you get united states of what they wear bathing
suits. And you know, some women walk around with their midriff
showing
decency and modesty in interaction with between members
of the opposite sex. That is what's in the Koran.
Yeah, there's nothing about headscarves. It's just a symbol,
okay. It's like there's nothing in the Bible that says you
should wear a cross around your neck all the time. And so if
you're making a big scene, you want to make a big point of that
you're Christian, or you are your Bible. Maven, you've
anywhere this big giant cross all the time. And you know, and
it gets in the way of everything you do. This is you're doing it
to make a point you're not doing it because you're following any
real rules. And so this is just symbolism and this and that
anyone who panders to that is is really making a huge mistake, as
far as I know. Offensive. You want to go with that into that
direction. I'll go right to the end of this speech. And let's
listen to Nikki I guess Nikki Barbara, the one who the woman
who is the governor of South Carolina who gave the idiotic
Republican response who
also just like the President, and I don't know what's going
on. John is my fellow television producing partner. Who the hell
was responsible for makeup during this job? Ah, the
President was on my list. The President looked like a Cheeto.
He was orange.
Well, Nikki Barbara had yellow cheese. She was also orange
yellow Sheila when I first saw it, first of all, She's made up
and she looks exactly like at least in this showing. Weird Al
Yankovic
Dead Ringer just need to have
that blue dress was outrageous was borderline illegal blue for
television. They had it was just horrible look in that. And you
don't need to use that much tooth whitener
though that was also quite outrageous.
I mean, you're not dead dead. But
I gotta tell you the the woman who is the national spokes hole
for Trump. The you know, kind of a mousy looking woman I forget
her name right now, but she's good. And she's she knows how to
present on television. And she wants to have an inch of sprayed
on crap on her face. This is nice people they don't they
don't now they're really not starting to look off at real
like human beings. It looks like Borg. Like real dolls. I don't
know. It's bad.
It seems to me that they need to get people that are you know,
there's different kinds of makeup. I mean, their stage may
it is very different.
I want people who does no one have eyes?
No, I don't think it's even that they they're just not
professional. Do they do street makeup? Or they do make over
makeup?
This is spray on this is all spray on makeup. This doesn't
look right. Oh, in the colour was wrong. The President look
like a Cheeto, Don, you'd be like touching like the orange
would come off on your hands.
Well, let's start with Nikki and fixing the broken.
We need to be honest with each other and with ourselves. While
Democrats in Washington bear much responsibility for the
problems facing America today. They do not bear it alone. There
is more than enough blame to go around. In that truth, we need
to recognise our contributions to the erosion of the public
trust in America's leadership. We need to accept that we've
played a role in how and why our government is broken. And then
we need to fix it. Yeah, this
is supposed to be a response to the President's thing. This
wasn't anything. It was just a random speech and and self
deprecating it that which would seem right. Why would you do
that? By ABC and Nikki Haley's where this goes.
All Ryan applauded. From Trump a big yawn. With the speech still
underway. He tweeted speeches really boring, slow, lethargic,
very hard to watch what next, got his attention that South
Carolina's Governor Nikki Haley, the rising conservative star,
who famously called for the Confederate flag to come down
included an attack on Trump and the official Republican response
to the State of the Union.
During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren
call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation.
Blind caught conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh by
surprise,
first time in my life, I can remember the response to the
State of the Union not going after the president but rather
going after the front runner. In this case, her own party, big
night last night.
Day I caught up with Governor Haley in Gaston, South Carolina.
What is it that Donald Trump is saying that makes him one of
these angriest voices?
You know, I mean, the one that that got me I think was when he
started saying ban all Muslims. We've never in the history of
this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or
religion or
where she from?
What country is she living in? Is she absolutely clinically
insane to say that? I think so. It's been the history of the
country. It's what we're good at talking about putting the
Japanese in internment camps. I mean, what is she thinking why
she's saying this? She has got to go these Republican Party is
filled with idiots like this. Yeah. Yeah.
So clipping stuff from the, from the State of the Union was
complicated, because Oh, actually, I tried at one point
to just cut out all the pauses which shortened a clip
significantly.
He also by the way, couple of things to note. I was watching
his is pointing it out someone and it was like a smacking his
lips. And if you really start paying attention to it, that's
all he was doing. He was smacking his lips, which is why
I caught you doing it because I was all keyed up on it.
Constantly, every time he closed his mouth, you could pretty much
expect a blip smack when he opened his mouth. Yeah. Well, I
might clips roll short. So I didn't really have this these
difficulties. I just, I was looking for certain kinds of
anomalies. Yeah, why
don't you roll out your notes and
let's go over a couple most of them were non Stancy. It was one
of the worst
is your question before we get before we proceed? Yeah. Is this
now we've had fame Is parting speeches from presidents, but
they have not done it in the State of the Union State of the
Union address. Will the President still do like an
Eisenhower or a baby? A Kennedy type goodbye,
leave knowing him. Yeah, absolutely. It's gonna do that.
Okay. All right. And this State of the Union speech, it's, it's
gotten to the point where it's so casual, it's not really a
State of the Union speech. It's like, listen, look, listen, you
know, let yelling at everybody the this start with Obama. What
did he say? Okay.
Boosted graduates and feels like engineering. In the coming
years, we should build on that progress by providing pre k for
all?
Oh, yes. I know what he said.
Because I didn't know what did he say? Oh, you looked it up on
the transcript?
I read the transcript. Yes. I understood it when he said it
too, because I'm tuned into it. This is the the state takeover
of your children by providing K pre K, pre kindergarten for all?
Oh, pre K pre K? Yes.
You remember that? That? Sounds like you said play it again.
Because it sounds like it says free K now he's saying
pre K boosted graduates and feels like engineering. In the
coming years, we should build on that progress by providing pre k
for all.
And if Tina and I looked at each other, we're parents of our own
kids. And we're like, I don't want to I don't want to put my
kid in the state sponsored pre k for all programme? No,
of course not. It's ridiculous.
But it'll make us better coders, I think is what the President's
point was
just coding thing is I'm getting on my nerves. It reminds me of
this little here's an interesting little Nike, there's
a guy who's never worked at for living, essentially, the
President's never worked for let me play this Obama on
retraining.
Yeah. Say hard working American loses his job. We shouldn't just
make sure that he can get unemployment insurance, we
should make sure that programme encourages him to retrain for a
business that's ready to hire.
How naive can you be to say what he said right there.
But it's very easy, because it's very easy to retrain for Uber.
Or, or
what is the Instacart? For these great services, you can retrain?
Can you answer an email message that says go buy this from the
store and deliver it to someone's house?
All right, let's try another shorty. These are all decent,
this switchback idiot,
switchback
idiots, show them where the trends are going. And that's why
I'm gonna push to change the way we manage our oil and coal
resources, so that they better reflect the cost they impose on
taxpayers and our planet. And that way, we put money back into
those communities and put 10s of 1000s of Americans toward
building a 21st century transportation system.
That's what I know. Is this back to high speed rail, and what is
he talking about?
He's talking about the the energy infrastructure and blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. So we can build transportation. I
mean, it's the craziest thing I've heard. Let's do it again.
So
then where the trends are going, the trends, that's why I'm gonna
push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources,
okay, so that they better reflect the cost they impose on
taxpayers.
But what does he mean by that? Is he talking about the so
called tax breaks oil companies get?
I actually, that's another point. And within this little
sentence, what does that mean and our
planet? And that way we put money back into those
communities? I think
he's talking about getting rid of the subsidies, which is not
just for oil companies, I might add, Apple computer gets
no. Oil Company subsidies are mostly oil depletion allowances
is no, it's an old tradition. When you drill in well, it's
becomes worth less and less until the as a net asset is You
worthless, by the end of this of its useful time. So so as an
asset class, it's not doesn't have any value anymore. So you
have to be able to write off or write down the value that's just
not nothing new.
Okay. But he wants to take away the write offs potential,
and then turn it into RE high speed rail, let's take the oil
wells and turn them into rail cars. I have no idea or Well,
how do we came to this? This seems as though we missed this
sentence.
I believe that's a good point. That's
a good let me say was something that didn't show up in the
property. He just kept reading. Like his quagmire.
I wonder if they have can we find because I read as delivered
the State of the Union as delivered but I wonder if
there's a copy of the State of the Union as as written as
written
yet because there's a it could be a difference because it seems
that and if I'm doing this and you have enough staffers to do
this, and you're delivering a speech and then juice you add
liberty to something or you miss a whole secretary, you just drop
a whole piece that you don't want Want to talk about, you
would have somebody dogging the script? And then they say, Oh,
she's not talking about this, and then they would x that out.
And then when you hear it,
I have don't as written. Now we've got to accelerate the
transition away from dirty energy. Does he actually say
that?
He doesn't say dirty energy? Let's, let's, let's say that,
let me see where he picks it up here, show them where the trends
are going. Okay, let me see if I can find that. Show them where
the trends are going. Pa, this
is okay, the way it was written. Now we've got to x. Now we've
got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy rather
than subsidise the past, we should invest in the future,
especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels. That's why
I'm going to push the change, push to change the way we manage
our oil and coal, coal resources, so that they better
reflect the cost they impose on taxpayers and our planet. That
way, we put money back into those communities and put 10s of
1000s of Americans to work on building a 21st century
transportation system.
So that was in there. Yeah.
But even as written,
like a non sequitur, he's talking about one thing, and he
just right
then. So this was I think this was his transition, because he's
energy, energy, energy, clean energy, energy, energy. And then
right after this transit, 21st century transportation system,
none of this will happen overnight. Yes, there are plenty
of entrenched interests who want to protect the status quo. And
then he goes into climate change. There's just quote is
poorly written, it's just a core
area of poorly written poorly written, they had the speech
writer on the Today show. Oh, and he is talking that was very
rare to see. And the guy you know, as he says, They produced
this, maybe it was on ABC, but they produced this, it was a
package. When they produced it, they said that they're having a
48 hour binge writing session to get this thing finished for the
in time. And I'm thinking to myself, hold on a second. 48
hours, that means a lot of Adderall is a lot of sort of
drugs to stay away because you can not be sharp. Take my word
for it. You everyone should know this. You can not be sharp as a
tack. If you're staying up 48 hours doing mental mental work,
like writing a speech I
know and then you start to make mistakes, like putting a yellow
duckling in a newsletter. I mean, this is this is what
happens when you don't take Adderall
I need All right, let's go to we get to all the training. Here's
another thing. This is Obama in small businesses one little
longer clip, like, I don't know,
like a whole 45 seconds. Yeah,
he did this. I mean, when I listened to him talk about any
of this stuff. And I you just have to keep thinking to
yourself, This guy has never operated a business doesn't have
anybody in the White House with any business experience or small
business experience. And you just listened to him off the
cuff. It's like listening to a 12 year old, you know, who
knows? Now a 12 year old knows everything that doesn't know
anything. It's borderline pathetic
stamp recipients did not cause the financial crisis.
Recklessness on Wall Street. When I
heard that sorry to interrupt your clip. No, it's fine. Where
are the arrests and recklessness? How about
unlawfulness? How about illegality? That would that to
me was that's a real slap in the face. It was. What was the exact
time stamp
recipients did not cause the financial crisis. Recklessness
on Wall Street did
recklessness. recklessness? Do you think that's correct.
Recklessness did this
well, illegal it apart? There's a lot of reasons for the
collapse and the one that we're in kind of the mini collapse
that we're watching right as we speak.
Recklessness doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's just not
reckless and how about criminal activity but now let's pretend
to piss on Wall Street but not really.
immigrants aren't the principal reason wages haven't gone up.
Those decisions are made in the boardrooms that all too often
put quarterly earnings over long term returns.
No. Explain.
Well, I mean, if you have a labour pool that is so
extensive, and you and wages go down work for nothing. Yeah,
wages go down. That's then wages go down. So you could easily say
more likely to say immigrants do cause this. But then he says no,
the German in the boardroom
the I've been on several boards and I don't think we've ever had
a conversation. The only compensation comp conversation
that takes place in the boardroom is for the executives,
how much they're gonna make.
Right? And they have in fact that compensation committee for
themselves.
Exactly. And you always put the guy on the board who's in charge
of the Comp Committee as it's called as your friend. You
always want your friend there. Yeah, I think I think this has
no clue No, doesn't know how it works.
He doesn't know how it works. It's pathetic. And after all
these years, you think you'd have somebody advise him now,
Valerie Jarrett, another? Well, you know, the true premises has
never worked a day or less, as far as I can tell, except for
the government, or for the government's a job. It's a hard
working job. It's a hard job. But it's not the same. As you
know, corporate Americans are different.
Let me tell you some of the doing the podcast is harder than
being the president. In this case.
It's sure not the average family watching tonight that avoids
paying taxes through offshore accounts. No,
it's the people applauding.
I believe that in this new economy, newer workers and
startups and small businesses need more of a voice not less
the room talking about
well they had a voice with Occupy and then occupy got
kicked out. They had a voice they were there was Wall Street
protests and they got rolled up and kicked out and hijacked.
Now they did he begins this thing with pretty early on with
his how great and big army is and all the rest of it. And they
had of course, he's the Joint Chiefs of Staff sitting there in
the front
who never were never in the front. They don't smile. And on
that. We had these interesting shots. We had the shot of this
Supreme Court justices we had the right and but we also had a
shot of two nuns. By I don't know who they were two nuns, and
then you'd have a shot of two beards. It was like, oh, let's
balance it out. Two nuns, two beards. He would to me as a as a
television production executive. It seemed pretty obvious.
They're trying to like, like, balance it out a little bit. Oh,
put some beards in there.
I don't know what the deal is with who they were shooting.
They were shooting at an oblique angle to hit the Joint Chiefs of
Staff as though they were sitting right in front of him.
They were not no. And they weren't chief justice to sit.
Yeah, the justices weren't but they don't want to shoot them
anymore. Since Bader Ginsburg fell asleep. Again. She fell
asleep again. Clap, clap. So they shoot these grumpy old
generals over in the shoulder kind of an oblique angle and it
looks like they were sitting right there. And they weren't
smiling. They would stand up once but so here he goes. He
goes off in a very contradictory little spiel where he says all
these ices ISOs do which he calls them and ISIL Yeah, ISIL
is dangerous but their loot. Excuse me they're losers but
this is this clip is we are power.
Oh, this sounds like a show title to me. We are power on
this one.
Let me tell you something. All right. Tell me something. Let me
tell you something, the United
States of America, which is a performative second, just
telling us something.
You got to drop this stuff. There's a number of times first
of all, is he telling any one anything new? He presents it as
though this is news? He does is like hey, you it is let me tell
you something. We're big. We gotta be good. We got a big big,
big, big army.
Oh, he should have played the jingle before he did that. I'll
try that.
I've got information man. New shit has come to light. Let me
tell you something. The United States of America is the most
powerful nation on earth period. America America it's not even
close. We spend more on our military than the next eight
nations combined. Our troops are the finest fighting force in the
history of the world
look at the girth of our army. Long gone army All right,
patriotism always good.
No nation attacks us directly or her allies because they know
that's the path to ruin. Kick Your Ass. Surveys show our
standing around the world is higher than when I was elected
to this office and when it shouldn't be
Steve Harvey survey shows,
you know? Yeah, he might attempt to tell you. Yeah, I if I had a
little more time on these clips you would have done that. I
wouldn't do That's exactly what I was thinking. I
thought the same thing when I heard survey shows Ding, ding,
ding,
ding ding. Surveys show our standing around the world is
higher than when I was elected to this office. And when it
comes to every important international issue, people in
the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead, they call us.
There's a need for rescue mission. When the world is
threatened. The world needs help calls on America. And that's the
story America.
Yeah, that was a repeat that was from his last State of the Union
that we
didn't get he should, you know, talk about the defence
department's budget and how it can't be audited and why it
should be.
Now, let's not do that.
All right, I got one left. This last one is small business, what
do we have here get together, I gotta bring out the magnifying
glass, we can read this damn thing. And people.
He really is getting out the magnifying glass.
The finale
makes me so hopeful about our future. I believe in change,
because I believe in you, the American people. And that's why
I stand here as confident as I've ever been. That the state
of our union is strong.
Now go back and eat your
kale. Now. What does it even mean to say the following? I
believe in change, as though as a religion, I'm not sure what
that means. I believe in change, because I believe in you. Now, I
want you to do I'm asking you, because I couldn't come up with
anything. I want you to explain it to me. What does it mean to
say I believe in change because I believe in you. He believes
that we
the people can change and change things. This is my clip. This
will bring us into our my clips here. The President was talking
about change that we have to make. And only the people of
America America can make the future
we want all of us one, opportunity and security for our
families, a rising standard of living.
This is the one where I chopped out all of the pauses. It gets a
little crazy from
the speech. Yeah, that's sustainable,
peaceful planet for our kids. All that is within our reach.
But it will only happen if we work together. It will only
happen if we can have rational constructive debates. It will
only happen if we fix our politics. A better politics
doesn't mean we have to agree on every as a big country,
different regions, different attitudes, different interests.
That's one of our strings to our founders distributed power
between states and branches of government. This part
I liked. And again, this is all the pauses are chopped out. And
it's much better. It's like rolls a little Okay, leaving a
pause once in a while this part was okay. What do you say
founders
distributed power between states and branches of government and
expected us to argue that's true. Finally, truth, just as
they did fiercely, over the size and shape of government over
commerce and foreign relations over the meaning of liberty, and
the imperatives of security. But democracy does require basic
bonds of trust between its citizens
now. So when he says democracy, does he mean our entire system,
which is a republic? Or does he mean just how democracy works
with majority vote wins? Because he's going to finish it up
talking about the overall system. So he wants to change
the we need certain things for democracy. It was unclear to me.
It doesn't. It doesn't work. If we think the people who disagree
with us are all motivated by malice. It doesn't work. If we
think that our political opponents are unpatriotic,
if this is just he's only saying this to Republicans, that
everything is shut up. Republicans are trying to
weaken America, Democracy grinds to a halt without a willingness
to compromise, or when even basic facts are contested, or
when we listen only to those who agree with us. A public life
winters, when only the most extreme voices get all the
attention. Donald Trump, most of all democracy breaks down when
the average person feels their voice doesn't matter.
I don't think democracy breaks down. Wow, this whole thing was
very confusing, but the
system is rigged in favour of the rich or the powerful or some
special interest. Too many Americans feel that way right
now. It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, but the
rancour and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse
instead
of better.
I have no doubt a president would
anyway. Yeah. That was the right well, the right wing talk show
guys picked that one up. Yeah, that
he said he regretted that he had not been a uniter.
Yes. Because he ran on the platform that he's going to be
united. I want everyone I Oh, yeah. Oh, I don't want to do a
just a little memory lane thing we barely can do. No, we don't
have any clips. We probably do. But hold
on a second. If you want to go down memory lane, we have to get
into our time machine. Where are you going to let me set the
controls?
I'm going to 2008
Hey, John, welcome to 2008.
So the show the Democrats have got the presidency. They have
the they have a majority in the House majority in the House and
a majority in the Senate. That is filibuster proof. They own
the place. Yeah.
You sound just like George Carlin said that you just had
this period we were we were already serious. This 2000 is a
few years ago, we were still very serious C span watchers
well began around there still are. And I remember clip after
clip of the Democrats in various committees, shutting off debate,
not letting the Republicans speak, turning off the lights
turning off turning off the camera systems even turning
off the cameras turning off the lights turning off the
microphones with the Republicans moaning and groaning that they
can't get a word in edgewise. They can't get a word in there
at all. And this was the way it was going along. And that's when
they you know, Obama figured he could do anything he wanted. He
did nothing, which is the irony of it. He didn't take advantage
of the situation. And then that was the end of it. Now we have
for the first time in American history, we pretty much have the
House of Representatives very rare, by the way for the House
of Representatives to be so dominated by the Republicans,
because I think people got a clue and saw that these guys.
This just President didn't come in to do any uniting. They were
they came in to run roughshod roughshod over the Republicans.
And we had clip after clip of this. Yep. And then of course,
the Republicans took over that. It all of a sudden every Oh,
well wait, well, what are we going to do now? Yeah, but it
was ridiculous.
Let's go back to the current time, time travel, nausea and
headaches. Yeah. Okay. Next clip I have
that means if we want a better politics. And I'm addressing the
American people now, if we want politics, it's not enough just
to change a congressman or change a Senator.
Yes, it is. Yeah. Why
would he say that? Because he's saying something, I don't think
was analysed properly by, by most about changing Of course,
he's talking about money in the system, but he wants to change
the system or change
a senator or even change a president. We have to change the
system to reflect our better selves.
I are better. So is he going for a revolution? I think he's
calling through the government is hosting of the Constitution.
What is he's trying to say? That's your right. Yes has not
been analysed properly.
To me, it means we need to change to maybe a socialist
system. That seems to be the push
parliamentary Yeah. Could be with a king.
I think we've got to end the practice of drawing our
congressional districts so that politicians can pick their
voters and not the other way around.
This is about redistricting. Gerrymandering is old.
What a bipartisan
lead a bipartisan what something do it I believe we've
got to reduce the influence of money in our politics.
Okay. This is where he I think it goes way off base. Well,
you'll hear
a handful of families are hidden in first pinbank.
Brother, yeah, this is obviously hinted towards. But as we've
pointed out continuously, the phenomenon known as Donald Trump
proves that you don't need rich families that you don't really
need another
thing is turned on its head is bullcrap.
It hasn't worked out that way. But he continues as the Koch
brothers are funding Donald Trump, Bernie
Sanders. Take it out of the rich guys hand and throw it at Bernie
Sanders. He's just going around and getting a small donation. He
doesn't have the Koch brothers or more citizens united behind
him pushing against Hillary, no,
thank you this.
This is nonsense. And he's
a real threat to the DEM the, the presumed Democratic nominee
by the way, they've done this whole thing on the Koch brothers
saying that, you know, well, the Koch brothers, you know, they
funded Hitler. Did you see this? Oh, my God.
Koch brothers didn't fund Hitler.
Well, so apparently in 1933, the original founder of the original
Koch had a had a con tracks to build parts of refinery refinery
for the Germans. They were done with a contract by 1935. But yet
somehow now, this has turned into the Koch brothers helped
Hitler, of course, no mention of IBM or general Bush, or Coca
Cola or prescott bush. None of that. And Hearst. Oh, yeah. Oh,
yeah. So it's nasty. And if
our existing campaign finance reform can pass muster in the
courts, we need to work together to find a real solution. Because
it's a problem. And most of you don't like raising money. I
know. I've done it.
Right. He loves raising money. Here. He does final
clip. We've got to make it easier to vote.
Now. This is interesting, I believe. And this is all I've
not seen any analysis of this. I believe he is pushing towards
online voting. Internet voting
worse thinking the worst thing
you can think of, we've got
to make it easier to vote not harder. We need to modernise it
for the way we live now.
modernise it, see? modernise it, he's not talking about voter ID
laws. He's talking about modernising for the way we live
now. Which I believe to mean a Internet voting or some kind of
online, that's
exactly what it means. You're not even a theory. That's
exactly what he's talking about. Not
analysed, as far as I could tell. Now, a couple things post
the State of the Union. Very interesting. This was I don't
know if this was a this is not I think a mainstream this might
have been the Media Research Centre, someone if they got a
hold of Kim Davis, who was you know, we heard one of the guests
Kim Davis is the crazy religious nut job who wouldn't sign the
gay marriage certificate back? Have you ever heard her speak?
No, but she was there with that Buffon hair to their fur was
like, Let's do your hair. So you look the part I. And so I've
never I've heard her speak. Yes. I haven't heard her give a
speech. So no,
but I would say in you really don't hear mud. You see, you see
B roll, you hear voice over the net, you never really hear her
speak. She's actually pretty calm and eloquent. And no doubt
as you're here in this clip, she truly, truly believes. And I'll
tell you, you'll, you'll see why
I was wondering how it felt being out here. The State of the
Union tonight
was very exciting. I consider it a great honour. And I'm just
thrilled to be here.
Good answer this crazy nut job.
So how does it feel representing those who believe that marriage
is between a man and a woman and standing for this belief the way
you have?
Well, I'm very honoured to stay and you know, for God's word.
It's always something that I want to base my life on. And I
want to encourage others and be an encouragement to others to do
the very same.
What do you think is is President Obama's legacy as he's
about to give this last State of the Union tonight,
now listen to this, because this told me that the woman is
deserves a little more props for her beliefs. I'm not in
agreement with her beliefs. You don't have to agree she can't
break the law. There's nothing wrong with that. But she's not a
crazy religious fucked up nut job because of this.
Think he has chipped away at American Christian values piece
by piece. And I hope and I pray that he Garner's some, some some
light at the end of this dark tunnel that we've made in
I love that she's I pray for him. She didn't say he's an
asshole. horrible man. I pray for him. I pray for him that he
shoots the light in the darkness.
She follows her rules. So she got convictions. Yes.
So I don't think I can't remember hearing her speak. He
always comes he or she must have half a brain and then he
drills was
then we had the post. Now if a hagiography hagiography, which
is what is the definition again, John of his
biography written for the sole purposes of boosting the target
of the biography, so then someone who complimentary
someone
who writes a hagiography is a geographer.
Well, nobody likes to be called that. Well,
she had on two people. A heat Charlie Rose had on two people,
which is just fantastic. The first one is, it was it was like
a caamfest like Boo ka K. Obama, Boo ka K. Kathleen Parker from
the Washington Post, who is a journalist, I believe, or is
this another is Kathleen Parker, just another op ed person? I
don't know.
But she's from the Washington that she mentioned it. I mean, I
had to look her up
from the Washington Post. Speaking about Obama, of course,
he's
an intellectual, but I think he also had love. He's an
intellectual. He has a great deal of a high value of
emotional Intel. On gents emotional
intelligence
high that hold on a second, write this with high value high
value emotional until it's
off the charts, man. What does that even mean? Emotional
Intelligence is off the chart and value. Very valuable for
season intellectual, but I think he also has a great deal of a
high value of emotional intelligence. You know, he, he's
extremely perceptive. And he's, you know, he's very, he's
watchful. He's interested in the psychology of human motivations,
and the psychology. He's interested in the psychology of
human motivations. Okay, this is I'm playing this just so we can
hear the idiocy of the cheerleading squad who are in
the mainstream media.
I know this from conversations with him, but also, you can sort
of see it in his in his deliberations that whether you
agree with his policies or not he he's he's been a very
consequential president. And he must feel good about his record
if he if he doesn't feel great about having brought the peace,
love and flowers, peace, love and flowers to the to Capitol
Hill.
Let me interrupt do now because I admit, I think that's too glib
to write. Because I think, what's your name again,
Kathleen Parker. You know, I've heard of her.
She looked pretty official. She looks like she looks
back to Charlie. He's
loving flower. And
we're up to now because I admit, I think that's too glib to
write. Because I think there's something wrong with our
politics really wrong.
And here, He's tying right in peace, of love. And
we'll do it. And because of the number of people that I talked
to, you know, who I interview, who say, you know, our national
security is threatened our economic life is threatened by
this inability to deal with these fundamental issues about
our future, about entitlements, about so many issues.
Okay, so I think the message is Republicans are making us
unsafe, I think the message now he brings in Jon Meacham
every day, well, that was confusing.
Yes, it is. There's no heads or tails to any of this. It's just
all Obama's great. This is the cheerleading squad. Jon Meacham,
who has written a book, which includes an interview he did
with the President. So I'm just going to call this guy a semi
he's geographer
and came and was a terrific defence lawyer. And to some
extent, you know, and great outdoors. I think what a great,
great presidents are ones who are in conversation with the
culture of their times. Exactly.
Exactly. Exactly. In conversation with their time.
And Bill Clinton was, forgive me, Thomas Jefferson was, you
know, Franklin Roosevelt was I mean, I want to raise two
big issues about him that is there any Republicans ever? No,
of course not. To me. And John, all of you. How smart is he? Got
you ready
for the he has to be no drama Obama, super intelligent, high
intellectual capital, intelligence values and culture.
Conversation with a culture. Yeah. And so is he one of our
brightest presidents.
Do you know where this is going?
Yeah, I think so. Yes,
absolutely. I think so. And I think, and it has, it has pluses
and minuses. Exactly.
Masking from a real standpoint, key.
It's a key in analytical intelligence. He's a great
admirer of 41. And
we skip the other ones. In fact, I
interviewed him for the book. And he gave me this. You know,
he speaks in these wonderful paragraphs anyway. And it was it
was rushing isn't it was to really get a whole page done. So
refreshing. It's so refreshing, refreshing, refreshing. He
speaks in a whole paragraph. It
was it was rushing, isn't it was to really get a whole page done.
I think he, I think I think there's very little he doesn't
understand. He understands just about a lot more than certainly
than I do.
Oh, yeah. No kidding. Doesn't seem to know and understand how
unemployment works and how retraining works and how small
businesses work and how board rooms work. He doesn't have any
understanding of what was important. What are they talking
about global warming?
Yeah, they're just talking about how great he is. This was just
to show the cheerleading squad.
Well, you showed it. Yeah. Well, yeah, borderline Clip of the
Day. Oh, seriously? Yeah.
Oh, thank you very much. And with that, I'd like to thank you
for your courage and passion and keep pushing and say in the
morning to you, John. See what does he stand for? See you next
Tuesday. Devorah
Well, I'm pushing as hard as I can and I want to say in the
morning to you Mr. Adam curry also in the morning old boots,
the ground boots on the ground boots, the ground in the air,
somebody boots in the ground boots on the ground boots in the
air. So I was in the water and all the dames knights out there
in the morning
to look rad, who was the Artiste for Episode Seven, Eight Niner
think this is a new, a new artist on the scene. And of
course, 79 with the title of that was kidults. And he brought
us the image. That was the now we should talk about this for a
second. This is the land of lakes butter. And everyone who's
listening if you can if you have an opportunity to go to 789 dot
no agenda notes.com. John's going to explain the gag behind
this this image not as used for our show. But for future
overall the kids school joke that there's only really shows
up in the Midwest, because the West Coast is early. They only
recently had Lando lakes and nobody knows his gag. And the
gag goes as follows. You need either two cartons or two of
those images, because you're going to cut one into pieces.
Now first of all, you take the and this is a thing that
everyone who has landed lakes butter in if they're raised in
the Midwest, they've all done this gag and they think it's
hilarious. And it actually the first time somebody shows it to
you, it's quite funny. So what you do is you take that little
butter box at the girl's holding in her hands, she's got a copy
of the box right there and you cut it, you cut to the top of
the box in the sides and you so there's a hinge, it's like
a like a christmas calendar. So you can pop it down and see when
you can
pull it down and then you pull it you can pull it down and
that's where the gag is, you then cut out from another image
not the same one, the two knees that just the tips of the
woman's knees, you just cut that little square out and and you
paste it behind the box that you cut out where you would it has a
little hinge on it. Because those two knees if you look at
them carefully look like two breasts. And so when you move
the knees behind the little butter box and didn't you show
some say hey look at this and then you flip the little box on
the hinge down you looks like you're she's showing her
breasts. Now this is the classic Midwestern legend lakes. Butter
box gag in a nutshell. Hilarious is great. By the way, I still do
that gag
in there was somehow still do that. Doesn't say Hey, kids.
Although it was interesting that neither of us caught the blatant
spelling error in the artwork. Oh, what was it?
Let's see if you can find it. No, well,
I don't have it in front of me. So I'll look later. Oh, I just
don't want to say we have a very poor turnout for this show. 790
and our we have one one person came in with $200 and that is
she will become the executive producer, the executive producer
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he's on the list. Thanks from his wife. And since we get time
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view and why don't I give her a dose of karma with let's see,
maybe I have something new I can play here.
Yeah, I got some play here.
They say deal deal. Deal
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well, now their wishes we get to go Obama stuff out of the way we
should go to the funnier side of the of the elections of the
election and talk a little bit about Trump. Okay, so I poached
on your territory.
That's okay. You went to CNN or you go to the View? No, no, no.
See, you went to CNN. Okay. Yeah, that's all right. Got
Erin. Burnett, interviewing Trump.
Do you need to set up?
I don't know if we need to set up but Trump is funny because he
will. He'll turn on the she's pretty friendly with her and
bandwidth. But he only puts up with so much he doesn't really
suffer fools as the old word for it because it's like it played
this clip and is a good example of him just not putting up with
nonsense. This is the clip of where he says the word disavow.
So Is Trump disavow clip bringing? Hold on? And the wrong
one?
Good. And one question before we go Mr. Trump, there's a white
nationalist super PAC as they say they've started a robo call
campaign in Iowa that urges voters to vote for you because
of your proposed temporary ban on Muslims. And I wanted to play
for you a brief clip from the robo call. Here it is.
Hello, white people.
We don't need Muslims. We need smart well educated white people
who will assimilate to our culture. Vote
Trump.
That didn't sound like a phone call at all. That sounded like a
that was not recorded through a telephone doesn't sound like it.
I don't know where they got it from. But that's not what
Mr. Trump when you hear that? Does that shock you? Do you
denounce that?
Nothing in this country shocks me? I would disavow it but
nothing in this country shocks me. People are angry. They're
angry. It's what that what's going on. They're angry at the
border. They're angry at the crime. They're angry at people
coming in and shooting Kate in the back in California and San
Francisco. They're angry when Jamil Shah is shot in the face
by an illegal immigrant. They're angry when the woman the veteran
65 years old is raped sodomised and killed by an illegal
immigrant. And they're very angry about it. And by the way,
and 1000s of other cases like that. They're very angry about
it. So I would disavow that. But peep I will tell you people are
extremely angry.
People are extremely angry. But to be clear, when when he says
we need smart, well educated white people to assimilate to
our culture. Vote Trump, you're saying you disavow that you do?
denounce that?
What you just heard me I said it how many times you want me to
say
that third would be good.
I said, I disavow.
They just kept on going.
It's like, you know, what is the what is she? What was the point
of her doing that? What she said somebody make him say it again?
Probably what is going on with these these networks? They're
trying? He says it he says it? And then she says can you say
it? I said it. I said it? Okay, I'll say it again. I mean, I'm
frankly I actually stunned that he gave it to her, but she had
to we had no choice. Now the interesting thing about this is
the guy who was the voice was Vote Trump that guy. Yeah,
that's Jared Taylor, who I happen to know who's who is.
Jared Taylor is a very interesting character. If you
got a minute I gave you his background. Of course, I got it.
I got Taylor used to be the no stop, John, we have to hit the
commercial spreadsheet guy from PC Magazine. He was this
spreadsheet reviewer. During the era where there were very
spreadsheets that had to be reviewed. It wasn't all just
one, you know, there's the 80s and 90s and 80s, mostly when you
could actually have stuff that you know, it wasn't all one
product like today. And so Jared was the very the he's the most
intellectual. If anybody that worked at the magazine, and he
did it, he wrote a book in 1983 that I would recommend everybody
get a hold of if you want to understand Japanese culture. He
was raised in Japan, I think he went to Princeton, called
Shadows of the rising sun, a critical view of Japanese
miracle. And this is written during that era. Where if you
remember in the mid 80s Everybody was saying oh, the
Japanese are killing us. We should all of our business
should be run like Japanese business. Oh, I
remember that. In fact that we had we had shadow management in
firms. Yes.
So all this crap going on then then the Japanese stock market
collapsed, like, to an extreme never recovered sense, by the
way, and then everyone's Don't, don't don't talk about this
anymore. Jarrods book was more of a critique of the Japanese
culture as a whole and thought that whole idea of the Japanese
miracle was bogus. And this book was really good. And this guy,
and then he did another kind of a follow up book, but this guy
would have should have been like one of the great socio
sociologists in in the university system me the really
this reading this book is dynamite. So
the question, of course, is, you know him, do you know him as a
white supremacist?
Well, only recently. So I'll give you the rest of the story.
So he goes, he continues on his career, and he decides to write
if it isn't 92 or 91, when he started this, because I read it.
At the time, he's still I was still in contact with him, he
decided to this book called The road to hell is paved with good
intentions, which was the title was changed, which irked him to
paved with good intentions, oh, the failure of race relations in
contemporary America. And this book was a was a very, I mean, I
think it took him like two or three years of being in the
library at Stanford, just documenting everything he could
about, mostly about how about black dysfunction. And it was
like, the book, the book came out if he had, I talked to him
about this book. I said this the way you're doing this book, I
don't think it's right. I think you're gonna get in trouble.
Because it's just too much. I mean, you're just you're not
tempering anything. You're just going crazy, right? And so he
wishes what it did. And it was it just slammed the black
community in the black culture for being a bunch of screw ups.
For all practical purposes. That's what it came out to read,
like when you read it, and all his facts were there, but it
was, it was presented, I thought, poorly. And he of
course, if he heard me say this, he'd say, probably think I was a
hole for saying it. But he got so much backlash, tonnes of it
from whites and blacks and everybody in between for this
book, that he turned him, literally, I believe, turned him
into a white supremacist.
Correct us white nationalist, not
supremacist, right. He's not a white supremacist. He's a white
nationalist White Nationalism
is an ideology that advocates a racial definition of national
identity. These individuals identified just from Wikipedia,
identify and are attached to the perceived White nation that
ranges from a preference for one's ethnic group to feelings
of superiority in forms of white supremacism, including calls for
National Citizen ship to be reserved for white people as in
Rhodesia.
This is where it all led. And so he went to the next book was the
real American dilemma. And then he went a race against time
racial heresies, and you got worse and worse. And in this he
kept painting himself into a corner white identity became one
of his here's how we believe that it was the result of his I
think he was actually sincere, and an honest, straightforward
researcher that was driven, literally driven into this
corner.
According to the Wikipedia, and Jared has mentioned here. The
first heading under the descriptor views, white
nationalists argue that every nationality feels a natural
affection for its own kind. The Advocate racial self
preservation and claim that culture is a product of race,
according to white nationalist Samuel T. Francis, it is a
movement that rejects equality as an ideal and insists on an
enduring core of human nature transmitted by heredity, Jared
Taylor, a white nationalist claims that similar racial views
were held by mainstream American leaders before the 1950s.
Could be, wouldn't surprise the optics
of this or not. The optics of this are not good from this, the
optics
are terrible, and he has not never had an appreciation for
that as he went off, and now he's, uh, I mean, of course, he
wouldn't give me a review copy of a couple of his books, but
that ends that and that was very annoying. That gave me a book a
free book. All right, but he said, I haven't heard from him
for I haven't heard from him for 20 years.
But I want to cover a few things about the Clintons. Bill Clinton
was supposed to jump in, then start campaigning and kicking
ass and boy, have they been quiet, both of them? Very, very
quiet. And this is, I think, because Donald Trump called out
and said, you know, if you're going to play the woman card,
you're going to call me a misogynist, and you're going to
have your husband on the campaign trail. I'm gonna call
him out for all of his creepy behaviour. So let's have a
little rundown of some of the mainstream media's addressing
that very point, we start off with Nancy Pelosi with a good
way to start off, let's hear how the excuses are made
Bill Clinton's past. And we saw a notice,
obviously Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC change
in Clinton world, I was out on the campaign and the pulling
back, you know, by both Hillary and Bill Clinton, the new
caution out there because obviously Donald Trump is a
volatile adversary. How fraught is this with with risk for the
Democratic Party and for Hillary Clinton's candidacy? Well, I
believe that Hillary Clinton wants to talk about the issues
that affect people in their everyday on this issue of
sexism. And the issue of Bill Clinton's past is the is that
fair game, and it would be if he were running for president, but
he isn't. Hillary Clinton is running for president, but he's
a chief surrogate for her. So is,
what do you do now that Trump has opened this up?
Well, I think that you stick with what is important to the
American people, and what is important to American people is
their financial stability. What happened to security. And that
is what elections are about. And that's why I say it's a race
between trickle down economics, tax breaks or special interest
in the very wealthy. And hopefully it trickles down and
creates jobs, or recognising we're a consumer economy and the
success of the middle class. And its consumer confidence is what
is going to grow our economy. It's essential to the growth of
our economy. And that's what this election should be about,
not about what Bill Clinton did two decades ago.
Oh as when it's two decades ago.
He said what he did, but didn't say what he is alleged to
have done. That's true. Here's NBC addressing it with Hillary
Clinton herself. You
called Bill Clinton, your not so secret weapon, but Donald Trump
recently went on the attack saying because you accused him
of sexism, you opened the door to allegations about President
Clinton's past misbehaviour. Was that a tactical mistake on your
end? Did you open the door to those attacks?
No answer to that. Obviously, Donna Brazil, the CNN, ex
political commentator, who is an insider, a highly ranked
official in the Democratic National Committee. Donna, let
me read this to you from Michelle Goldberg, a feminist
writer writing in the liberal website, Slate she says,
feminists have repeatedly and convincingly made the case that
when women say they've been sexually assaulted, we should
assume they're telling the truth. Particularly when it
comes to the story of Juanita Broderick, it's not easy to
square the arguments against believing her with the dominant
progressive consensus on trusting victims. What do you
think?
Well, first of all, in the context of Donald Trump, who has
built his campaign on mocking women, attacking immigrants, of
course and smear him, Muslims
smear and Muslims want to beg him once a Muslim smear on that,
and that's what she's charging. She's smearing Muslims smear and
first of all, attacking women really attacking attacking the
dominant progressive consensus on trusting victims. What do you
think? Let's review?
Well, first of all in the context of Donald Trump, who has
built his campaign on mocking women
I think he built his campaign on the slogan Make America great
again but okay mocking women attacking immigrants of
attacking immigrants with with a black jack maybe I don't know
he's just attacking us and
smear and Muslim smearing Muslims.
I think it should be smearing Muslims.
I'm not surprised that Donald Trump has decided to go into
what I call the sleaze basket to try to bring up anything that
leaves him from having a real conversation about issues that
matters to the American people. When it when it when it comes to
sexual assault, violence against women. I think Democrats and
liberals and progressives have a good history on ensuring that
women are able to tell their truth and to ensure that there
are laws properly on the books to allow victims of these crimes
and abuses to have their day. So I don't think there's any
contradiction there. Now, if Donald Trump believes that this
is one way to silence Hillary Clinton, when she brings up the
his misogyny and his attacks on women, I don't think that's
going to work either. And yeah, we'll see.
We shall see davidstow have worked already.
I agree. And I'm, I have to say Allison Camerata from CNN. Did a
very not that Hillary Clinton reply before
he before he mentioned, I want to just point out something
that's a generality that I found very interesting, okay, that
when Trump first presented this idea, everybody in the media,
all the Democrats in the media almost to a man and woman said,
yeah, he's fair game. Yeah, he's fair game. Yeah, just like Trump
said he's fair game. They all took that they I don't know if
they did it because it's going to be entertaining, but But it
seems as if and I think you're going to show that another
example of this, that the media is all in with Trump and
blasting Clinton. No, but I'm getting the sense that they've,
they're sick of Bill Clinton listened to
Allison Camerata, I
agree with you on talking about an issue that Donald Trump wants
to make an issue in this campaign. And that is our
allegations from your husband's past. He's going further
actually than that. He's making it about you. He's saying that
you are an enabler of bad behaviour and of sexual assault
right now. My analysis would be yes, yes. And it was most
definitely Hillary Clinton, who anyone who said that Bill
Clinton had sex with them or whatever and claimed that she
would shut up, don't give them the benefit of the doubt, don't
get the benefit of the doubt Shut
up. It's your response to Donald Trump, I have no response. I'm
going to let him do whatever he wants to say he can run his
campaign however he wishes. I'm going to keep talking about what
the next President will have to do. Starting January 20 2017. I
have deep disagreements with what he's proposing his tax
plans would cut trillions of dollars of taxes from the
wealthy and corporations. He doesn't believe in equal pay. He
thinks that American workers are already making too much. So I'm
going to draw the contrast with him that say that American
people are interested in seeing but when someone accuses you of
being an enabler, sexual assault, particularly since this
is an issue that you wanted to talk about, on the campaign
trail campus sexual assault, you say that, that survivors need to
be believed and they need to be heard. So when he's accusing you
of doing something that is the antithesis of what you want to
talk about, don't you need to address it? I'm gonna let the
voters decide what's relevant and what's not relevant decision
as to who they're going to support.
So she's not going but I'm I thought that was good. I thought
that was good. I thought very good. Allison camera. Did that
tonight a little segment which is things the media will not
discuss. And this is a jingle we should have one. We do not have
a jingle. Things the media will not discuss
things the media
will not discuss Tuesday, Mark six years since the 7.0
magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti killing an estimated
300,000 People 10s of 1000s of Haitians are still living in
tents. Here in New York City. A group of Haitians gathered in
front of the Clinton Foundation to protest former President Bill
Clinton's role as head of the Interim Haiti Recovery
Commission, activist who'd Andre was among them.
Today is the 12th of January 2016, six years after the
earthquake, and for us, it was important to be in front of the
Clinton Foundation. Because Bill Clinton as head of the i HRC,
Interim Haiti Recovery Commission was responsible for
the $6 billion that came into his hands. He had unlimited
control of this money six years after the earthquake, not much
has changed. And as a matter of fact, Haiti is in worse
condition than than it was in 2010. Only Bill Clinton can tell
the world what happened with this money.
We just need cash. I know a lot
of people want to send blankets or water
or cash. So nice that democracy now at least covered the
protests, but things that will not be discussed in the media
number two, excellent one. Yeah. And thank you, sir.
We talk about it all the time. Yeah, sir. Atomic Ron Adams
caught that one for me. Good. Then. This was morning, Joe. And
this is so I mean, it's just so obvious that everybody knows
what's going on. Everybody's heard about it. But we're not
going to talk about it and the Joe guy what's his uh,
Scarborough kind of goes in he's he's cut he's really couching
and really saying to doesn't want to get in trouble himself.
But he's saying that the media will not talk about Jeffrey
Epstein. And Jeffrey Epstein is the guy who had a private island
where he had his friends. Yeah. including Bill Clinton calm and
have sex with underage girls. minors. minors, yes, minors. If
so Morning Joe tries to explain what it is but without really
explaining it and then saying people won't talk about it. The
same
thing has happened in the lead up to this campaign everybody's
talking about I don't know this Jeffrey Epstein, guys that is
right now
oh, gee, I don't know who's this Jeffrey Epstein guy do you have
I have no idea who he is because I don't have access to
Wikipedia. That's
pretty up to date. People in the know Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey
Epstein. I don't even know who that dude is. But I know that
they're in the know that are in in this media area that don't do
what I do, which is go to work and then go home and hang out
with their kids. They talk about Jeffrey Epstein and this is
going to be a big problem because Bill Clinton and that
and there There's always this world. And it's not by right
wingers, it's by the most powerful people in media and
they're always going like, these would be really bad, bad issues
for Hillary and Bill, if anybody had the guts to bring it up.
Nobody does. That's what makes Donald Trump more dangerous than
any person out there. He will bring up stuff that nobody else
will bring up. And anybody thinking in the Clinton
campaign, that they're gonna get a break, because it's Donald
Trump doing this instead of Jeb Bush, you are in lala land,
because there are no rules when it comes to Donald Trump for any
of us for anybody, anywhere.
And I believe, Truly, this is the reason why the Clinton shut
up and shut down. That because Trump will do it. I'm sure he'll
do it. First. We'll do How about that minor
guy should have been doing it. If you remember last, the 2012
campaign, the right wing talk show guys and largely some of
the left wing talk show guys. We're always talking about how
come they nobody went for the jugular at all. Why don't they
bring this up? Why don't they bring that I want to talk about
this one they talked about that. They never talked about anything
was a genteel thing. Romney was like, you know, he was to above
it all. Yeah, it wasn't gonna bring me wasn't to go. And
I'm not going there. But it's why you
know, I'm a nice person, a loser, the loser? Well, it's
what it amounts to is a loser. But the thing is that I'm sure
that they've got skeletons in their closets, too. Sure. That
is a, this is the most interesting thing that we've
seen, because Trump will bring all this stuff out.
I'm convinced of it. Then we have a new tactic. But so
just for a second. Trump, by the way, was on The Tonight Show
again. On Monday, you got to cut a clip? No, because there was
nothing to clip but I watched the whole thing. And it was a
complete this with Jimmy Fallon who always likes to do skits and
gags he does a kind of a minor little gag when I'm doing a job
interview with.
I saw this dumb. It's dumb, dumb, but to me finally,
what's interesting to me is that the first time he had him on
they did a very demeaning routine with him. And Trump took
it, you know, he's got a sense of humour, he didn't care. And
but it's this was so different in tone, and so close to the
last time they were, he was on this show. I have this suspicion
now as a three by three analyst that NBC has changed his
position on Trump Hold on
a second. Now it's done Bo and free three day run meant by JC
comparing story from ABC. Three by three,
I'm assuming because the Comcast Comcast, kind of well known as
Republicans, they were, as we noticed, watching the whole
thing. They were running ABC, I mean, sorry, they were running,
kind of, kind of they weren't running for anybody. They were
doing a pretty good job of staying kind of neutral, kind of
slamming everybody. But I think that they've, I think that they
had a little thing going for Jeb lay ABC did. Only they weren't
going to commit. I think they've committed to Trump. I think NBC
I'm gonna watch NBC carefully. Okay, Trump bias.
Yeah, you need to continue to the three by three for them.
Very important times of peril. So here's what parents do when
they're in trouble. You're in trouble. You know, this, like
your wife's running for president? You know, she's got
all these emails that implicate her in really knowing what was
happening in Benghazi this, you know, Sidney Blumenthal and her
going back and forth, recommending that we get the
Palestinians to protest, which is, you know, completely gone
unreported or severely under reported. And then we've got
your husband's, you know, philandering misogyny and
possible illegal sexual activity with minors. What do you do? You
tell your kid to get out on the stage. That's what I do, of
course, have have Chelsea come out and say something in this
case, she's going to distract away from all of that by talking
about Bernie Sanders. A couple of things are interesting here.
The most interesting is her lack of ability to enunciate. I'm
surprised that someone who grows up in the Clinton family just
can't speak well. Senator Sanders wants to disdain an
Senator since she she's missed his entire continent seen in
CNN, Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare. Dismantle,
dismantle, dismantle, dismantle, to keep saying dismantle. She
says dismantle, dismantle, dismantle Senator
Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the chip
programme and dismantle Medicare, dismantled private
insurance. Now the Republicans in Congress have voted against
the Affordable Care Act 55 times. So I worry that if we
give Republicans democratic permission to do that, we'll go
back to an era before we had the Affordable Care Act.
That's not an era darling. There wasn't an era before the
Affordable Care Act. It was a couple of years ago. We'll go
back to an era of mediaeval times with bloodletting. I don't
know but no before
permission to do that.
Back to an era you should be taken for intro, we had the
Affordable Care Act that will strip millions
and millions and millions, that's 3 million, maybe more if
people
have their health insurance. Okay, so
that became a big deal. big distraction. Beautiful, but my
favourite. We're just going to Bernie Sanders now briefly, is
his response to the head of CBS had a big question and answer
forum thing, and this question came
up, is it off brand for a Democratic socialist who live in
a mansion like the White House?
Well, I wouldn't consider it more like public housing. Very
funny answer, but
one Yeah, but
it's true. He should. He should pronounce that he said this open
to the people. I'll sleep in the trailer.
Well, that's actually kind of what Jerry Brown used to do.
When he was first Governor of California. I think he's still
doing it. He refused to live in the state house, and preferred
living in an apartment nearby. Ha. He thought it was a waste of
the taxpayers money. Yeah, so it's not unusual.
I caught something that I believe to be very important.
And this goes back to the beginning of the show about the
new global engagement. Officer.
Oh, sorry, before he says you were talking about GE, I want to
just before you get off the Sanders and Hillary thing, I do
want to mention one thing. Some of the polls that have come out
recently have shown that women, the women, the Democrat, women
voters, that are the ones that go when a woman president, now
our way there 55% And in favour of Bernie, you know, we want
Bernie Yeah, they want Bernie
Dave Weiner, who co creator of podcasting posted that he's
voting for Hillary. And his re he said, I will not vote for
Bernie because he's too Jewish. And I did not know this term.
But he has a pretty interesting blog post about it. It's
scripting.com. And he says Jewish people understand this.
He's too Jewish, which means he's a hard nosed, he doesn't
want to agree with anybody. And apparently Jews don't like gold
Coots who are too Jewish. Then of course, I can't say that I'm
not Jewish. I can't you know, you don't. You don't, you're not
given that permission. But I thought it was interesting. And
this seems to be a thing,
rather have a criminal,
apparently. So I received this. Well, I didn't receive it.
Through one of these many. I subscribed to a lot of the
federal technology news blogs, which is fascinating. If you
look at the amount of money that is being sent spent on
technology, for instance, we have a tender out there for $50
billion, which will go to a single provider of technology
services. So this big, big business and it's all coming
ahead now. But we've created the State Department, who are no
strangers to this have now gone official, and they released
January 8. The news about a new Centre for Global Engagement.
And this will be called it's a state department department, the
Centre for Global Engagement and I'd like to share the press
release with us. The State Department is revamping its
counter violent extremist communications efforts through a
new global engagement centre. This centre will more
effectively coordinate integrate and synchronise messaging to
foreign audiences. That undermines the disinformation
espoused by violent extremist groups including ISIL and al
Qaeda and that offers and that offers positive alternatives.
The central focus more on empowering and enabling partners
governmental and non governmental, who are able to
speak out against these groups and provide an alternative to
ISIS Nila stick vision. To that end, the centre will offer
services ranging from planning thematics social media campaigns
to providing factual information that counters disinformation to
building capacity for third parties to effectively utilise
social media to research and evaluation. The State Department
is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael de
Lumpkin to lead this new effort as the director The new Global
Engagement centre Mr. Lumpkin currently serves as Assistant
Secretary of Defence for Special Operations slash low intensity
conflict, a Senate confirmed position he has held since late
2013. In this role, Mr. Lumpkin oversees all special operations
including counterterrorism, Counter Narcotics and
humanitarian disaster relief efforts.
Then the social media expert,
technical experts, baby under Mr. Lumpkins leadership, the
Global Engagement centre will employ a strategy defined by
where you go, drawing upon data and metrics to develop, test and
evaluate themes, messages and messengers. Gotta love this.
Building narratives around thematic campaigns on the
misdeeds of our enemy, eg poor governance, abuse of women
narratives of defectors, not the daily news cycle, focusing on
driving third party content in addition to our own and
nurturing and empowering a global network of positive
messengers. The centre will implement its strategy by
seeking out and engaging the best talent within the
technology sector government and beyond engaging across our
government to coordinate integrate and synchronise
Counterterrorism Communications directed towards foreign
audiences, identify and enabling international partners with
credibility and expertise, establishing and implementing a
campaign focused culture, scaling up data science and
analytics and using both throughout the design
implementation and evaluation phases of these campaigns,
providing seed funding and other support to nongovernmental
organisations and media startups focused on countering violent
extreme messaging. By identifying gaps in US
government messaging and counter messaging capabilities directed
toward foreign audiences and recommended steps to resolve
them and sharing information and best practices with US
government agencies focused on the challenge of homegrown
violent extremism. This is propaganda. Yeah.
So institutionalised? Yeah.
When that what's the budget? You said?
No, we don't know. We don't know the budget. But just for
technology alone. There's a $50 billion budget this is going to
be within the State Department is
gonna be a lot of money. It started a couple of websites.
It's probably yes.
This is my point. They're going to fund startups. Yeah, let's
just handle aliens. Yeah,
we needed some jazzy name. We get good artists that can help
us design the thing
that we can get some dough. We could be able to get a lot of
dough and some dough. Yeah. And we don't even need a website. We
just need tweeters. They're going to support tweeters with
relation. Yeah, a room of tweeters. You can do
that the Russians do it. They have like they currently we had
a clip that we did 50 people they have 50 people in a room
tweeting all day. They all subscribe to each other's feeds.
And then one of the things are very they lack they they're not
very good at getting their numbers up. In terms of
followers. Yeah, but if
they can be solved if they have enough of them.
They just don't have the you know, if you look at these
phoney, these phoney Baloney, the Twitter pupilage Stooges,
they really very rarely have over 50 followers it's it's not
right you gotta buy right by followers padded up nobody ever,
but it's very simple to do because you get someone else to
tweet. And then you have the POTUS account retweeted done.
It's that simple. It's that simple.
You all you'd have to do, but you can't overdo that. It would
have to be dealt with every one of the 50 people a say over a a
year period, you could promote every one of the 50 people
through the POTUS website. And now would they would jerk up
their followers by the hundreds immediately. Maybe 1000s.
The technofix very doable, we
could do this. This is something we you and I, as media experts
could do just a drop of a hat especially if we have donations
like this.
Well that's my point. This is a real this is a viable plan B
John it's a viable plan. But just wanna you should consider
it as a viable plan B
very viable and
all this comes that would be fun anyway, it would be totally fun.
And all this comes amidst very sad news slumping
oil prices are one reason the oil producing nation of guitar
is shutting down the cable news channel algae America algae
zeros Arabic language channel has a reputation for being anti
American.
This may be a bit of a stretch to say that because oil I wonder
what
happened where Hillary says everyone should have won
challenges zero. Remember that one? Oh, yeah. Well, this
shutting down thing I got us a different perspective.
undiscernible local sports network, NBC, CBS, whatever it
is, I think NBC Sports net. And the what happened is Al Jazeera
or even though this didn't get a lot of publicity, but they got
enough publicity in the sport lovers community, they slammed
Peyton Manning and some other athletes and accused them
without ever using their names but accused them and it was
pretty obviously they're talking about partaking HGH and maybe
steroids, right, right. And so the bunch these guys decided to
turn around with a good case, from everybody's perspective,
and Sue Al Jazeera America. Oh, this lawyer that was on he says,
he's pretty sure that the way this because they were losing
their ass anyway, and they were there was kind of on, you know,
they were not making money with this network and there was
nobody watched it. I did. But nobody watched in general, they
decided to cut their losses and bail and get out of town go back
that cutter. And so if you're gonna sue us for slander was to
slander sued or something along those lines, you're gonna have
to get the money out of us over here, because they don't know
what is going to do that they're not going to track him down. And
that was the one of the main reasons that they they buttoned
up. Ha. Okay, don't do that. A major No, that yeah, that's 10s
of millions of dollars. Wow. That's good. Yeah, that makes
sense, though. The American System wins again.
Okay. And there is there's a lot going on. Little entrematic Just
to kind of get an eye again, something I've discovered based
upon a news article or a news piece. I think we're one of the
few people who like to report on vape and vaping. as accurately
as possible. Yes.
In fact, you went to the bait vaping conference, the vape
Summit, as you know, probably know, as much as anyone
broadcasting in the world today. Thank
you. I do. And I've that law. A bill passed the House had
already passed the Senate and it's going to be signed by the
President. Which is always interesting. When people report
on the bill and you have no one reported on the bill number or
none of the printed I had to really search for about 20
minutes just to find this bill that passed. Here's the story US
House of Representatives passed a bill today which would require
childproof packaging, e cigarettes and the liquid that
goes with them. More than 3000 people reported e cigarette and
liquid nicotine poisonings in 2015. That's up more than
tenfold from only five years ago. According to the American
Association of Poison Control centres. More than half of the
reported calls in 2014 were for children under the age of 13.
And this, I agree with nicotine is a very dangerous thing to
have laying around the house, you can get nicotine poisoning
very, very quickly. But this is a red herring. For one when one
goes into read the actual bill. And God forbid the media do
that. This is the Senate version, the House passed at
142. Known as this Act may be cited as the child nicotine
poisoning prevention act of 2015. They go through a whole
rigmarole on how you have to package these dangerous liquids.
But that's not what it's really about the last the last
paragraph here, the includes an exclusion, and this is going
this tells us where the vaping industry is going. So first of
all, to get the approval on your packaging, it's tamper proof
forget about it, no small guys are going to be able to do that
no one make an e liquids in their bathtub. But I think E
Liquids are going to go away entirely through legislation.
Because of this exclusion. The term liquid nicotine container
does not include a sealed prefilled and disposable
container of nicotine in the solution or other form in which
such container is inserted directly into an electronic
cigarette electronic nicotine delivery system or other similar
product. If the nicotine in the container is inaccessible
through customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use
including reasonable foreseeable ingestion, or other contact by
children, this is where it's going to go. And that will be
impossible for anyone who's in the business of vape devices
which will also have to be approved and vape liquids,
you're going to be out of the market.
That's it? Yeah. Okay. Well, let me can I counter a little maybe?
Yeah, sure. So what you're saying and I don't think you
explained it very. You could have explained it better. I
think you could have what your I could be wrong with
interpretation. But what I'm hearing you is that the entire
process the vape device itself will be some sort of a contained
system that will use like cartridges Yes, special kinds of
cartridges that have like They're like a Nintendo
cartridge, they have some sort of, yes, licence or patent, and
you put the thing in there, and then you pull something. And the
next thing you know, you're vaping. And it's all part of a
closed system. Yep. That is only liable by the manufacturer of
the product. Yes, the vaping device. And
that's why we do the show together. So now, so thank you
for explaining my position.
I think that we will Good. I'm glad. That's what you were
saying. Because I thought it was an interesting idea. Because
that is the logical way these things Yeah, is the way the
business works. And then somebody gets, you know,
monopoly, and you can't you. Now the question is, will it be
allowable or with the government, depending on whether
or not we have the kind of regulatory that will allow this
that you can clone make a compatible a plug compatible as
it were? Little cartridge that has the goo in it, that you can
use in the XYZ? Patented? Yeah, I think what I the way I'm
guessing Yes, yeah,
what I'm seeing is the regulatory regulatory language
around creating the devices and the cartridges will be this is
no one has done this. Everybody's making juice in
their bathtub, or someone bigger scale. And they don't have the
manufacturing, the tooling, any of that none of it. No, they
will not be able to do it.
I am in total disagreement with that, Parker. And here's what
I'm thinking because what happens generally speaking, when
you have a market, that's this monstrous. You have jobbers that
show up entire companies whose job it is is like a
semiconductor company to see moss plant, you can go in there
with your plans, you can go into a place it's like a foundry, you
can go into a place with your juice, you got to you know, a
tanker full of it. And you say I need to buy make 100,000 of the
cartridges, using your you have the licence for the cartridge
and you can make them and then you MIT, they make them for you.
And yet you pay the fee to have this.
Okay, that would be just like white labelling white labelling
a product? Yes. Okay. Sure. Sure.
So the little guy in the bathtub will still be able to stay in
business, but he's gonna have to up his game. This is and by the
time this happens, yeah. You don't have the money to do that.
Yeah, I don't think this is going to change much of
anything. Okay.
Well, we'll see. Well, we'll see. Speaking of products. Quick
story, when I was in Dallas, for the meetup, the on Sunday, but
my building decided Sunday is the day you can drag your
Christmas tree down to the loading dock, and they'll take
it away, which is a handy service. Yes, of course. I
wasn't there. So the Tina graciously offered to do that
with one of her daughters. And so as they're dragging the tree,
I love the dragging the tree. My neighbour Seth walks out of his
apartment. Now you remember Seth is an emergency room, Doctor. ER
doctor. And so they're chatting on the way waiting for the
elevator. And so I'd say at least his birthday today. And he
says, Whatever you do, do not ask for one of those hoverboards
as a present. He says it's the number one injury in the
emergency room. Does it really every Oh, no. reported number
one injury. He says massive head trauma broken bones faces beaten
to crap. You know, that's not reported. No, it's only the
blowing up as reported.
Yeah. Well, we talked about the fire. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've
seen reports showing a guy slipping off the thing falling
on his ass. Oh, yeah. But he says the only thing that is the
number one.
Currently currently number number one er,
local media. They're in Austin. And by the way, I don't know. So
So you they're gonna change the name of David. No,
no, you got this all wrong. But go ahead, give give your
disinformation I'll
leave. I believe that I have always suspected this from the
early days of your meeting with various Obama. But here's
the genesis of the story. So I give that first. Yeah, you might
as well I tweeted a link to an article that says very
specifically but I noticed almost nobody read the article,
just a headline I did. In the that bow as we say, buoy Street
here in Austin, we say buoy. It has been changed to David Bowie
Street by fans. And the city is of course it's vandalism. But
the city said we'll let you we can keep it up until the 19th
when it's coming down. But most people took this to be some kind
of how Austin is great. And we're in we're on honouring
David Bowie, but we're not it was just some fans. And I think
you misread it and you said because your first response was,
Well, do they have an Elvis Presley Boulevard? Do they have
a
That's what I said. When he died they mind that this is going to
be made permanent by the City of Austin. Because Austin is free.
filled with Satanists. Now I will just give you as they get
that one of the great churches of Satan is in Austin and
there's another one church of the redeemer in Austin which has
a very slick website. But for the most part positive proof
that this is going on in Austin is is that is a Satan centre of
Satanism is the Satan's cheerleaders. You can look him
up there in Austin, I have all of your 966 you don't have that
you don't have this one. Look up Satan's cheerleaders squad 666
and find out where they are. They're in Austin. I'm telling
you it's a dangerous place.
Okay, Satan's cheerleaders.com John hail from Austin, Texas.
Wow. Hello, yeah. Hello, Satan. That way have you seen this
website? Oh, yeah. These girls look good.
All right, well, well let me as you're going through media
having these crazy meetings and every once in a while I've said
this to you before. I keep thinking that you're inviting
you for threesomes.
Oh my god, it just keeps getting better the Satanism
is not for dinner so much. Is that just to kind of hint around
about maybe doing a little swapping? Well, so I'd be I'd be
just John
O'Leary, you brought up the robots that can be only one
reason why this is happening. Austin, Texas is of course
extremely liberal, an island of blue amidst a sea of red and the
robots all congeal here and congregate. And it is because
it's a word but okay. I like congeal it is because of the
subliminal programming that has been bestowed upon them for for
almost seven years now seven years and I'm going to prove it
by playing this backwards. This is the President's famous Yes We
Can speech
Senator Levin three now my dear plans to visit some Shital
Manziel South groups that was the end of the day here comes.
Yeah,
I love it I
think is proof positive. I don't know why people don't pay more
attention to the sub subliminal since you brought Okay.
Since you brought it up. We're doing our part we
are. Did you brought up David Bowie. I need to tell you
something. Kind of interesting about Patricia. First Wife
Number one, first wife at first ex wife number one. There we go.
Who is if anything, John, what is she?
She is a promoter of the to be admired by anyone involved with
publicity.
And I always hold the belief. I think I've mentioned on the show
that when you use the media for your own benefit, when you use
the PR for your own benefit by whatever it is to get your PR
your message into the media, when you least expect it. The
comes back like a boomerang in 10 times force then knocks you
down. And this is exactly what happened to her. But what
happened, but David Bowie dies, as with every country, every
television station, they had a talk show and they brought in a
whole bunch of people to talk about David Bowie. And they had
five or six people there's always like, you know, the DJ
with the orange hair. They always got the guy who was
writing for like the Dutch version of Rolling Stone
magazine, who has like a car to get in a pipe. The abunch of
douchebags who have never met David Bowie never met David
Bowie. The only person who's met David Bowie is Patricia. And I
think I've told the Bowie story, her Bowie story. I
haven't I know I have not heard now up Patricia Bowie story.
So when she was 20, and Bowie was 25 than I was minus two,
that I did not even exist barely in existence. She did the song
contest and she did one in Malta and David Jones, David Robert
Jones at the time was performing before he changed his name to
David Bowie. This is how long ago it is. And so she's asked
about this story. She wrote it in her book and she tells a
story that, you know, they hooked up and they smoke some
weed and they you know, had some sex and they were brought in
they were running around the beach of Malta and that he had
some kind of law mean cloth outfit on and look really funky
really strange had the shitty teeth. And the and her punchline
is he kept playing the song on his guitar for walk on the beach
and like, Oh, can you stop with this annoying song already? And
it was Space Oddity. So I think that's a funny story. The Dutch
and I'm talking biggest newspapers, the even the left
wing intellectual newspapers. Everybody said Patricia is a
whore. She's a whore for telling the story. She's a horrible
person. She's trying to pick off publicity from a dead guy. But
literally John calling her a whore in the car. And then even
during the David Bowie's I think it's the second or third track
on a new Blackstar album. She was a whore. Oh, Patricia would
know this is her song. And I was flabbergasted
because the turn
it well I think it's severe dissatisfaction with with people
in general, but it was an opportunity. She messed it up.
She never should have done that. She should have known better
because David Bowie's everybody you know, then oh, well,
I had sex with him listen to put down story by her. No.
And you know, if a guy had said, Oh, I had sex with her open
fine. You have no one would have said anything. But because it's
a woman saying she had sex with a man defending she said she had
sex. Yes. And they just came in, but it was columnists. It's just
what I texted her. I said, Diane, what's going on? She
said, Yeah, what her response to me was people are so unhappy
here particularly with with the migrants and there's fighting
and looting and crap and everyone's confused. So I was
the easy target, which I think is probably true. And you know,
David Bowie, everyone feels that he belongs to them and but for
but the way this whole country, the media, but also the
commenters on on, the
articles are out of control. You know, it's like,
I can't believe this is misogyny. This is misogyny. And
we have our own version of it here in America right now. And I
want to call people out on a modest
announcement in the Times classified ads. Mr. Rupert
Murdoch and Miss Jerry Hall are delighted to announce their
engagement. Mobile Murdoch 84 set to wed the former supermodel
25 years his junior before
I continue with the report, but obviously what happened is
everybody the first thing they say is whore. Without gold
digger whore. You don't know Jerry Hall. But for people that
and this is a Facebook thing. Facebook, the most liberal echo
chamber in the universe have the audacity to call a 61 year old
woman a whore and a gold digger
is an old lady.
It's a fourth marriage for him
and listen to this news report at the
end a second for her. Though halls former husband Mick Jagger
says the two were never legally hitched. The announcement
confirms speculation sparked by their appearance together last
year at the Rugby World Cup. No word from Hall on what drew her
to the ageing billionaire. There's a prenup involved. By
Murdoch, six children are likely to be watching with interest.
Murdock aides say the relationship has given him a
renewed vigour. And as only the times he presumably got a
discount on the announcements.
Even in this report, no one knows what drew her to him. But
people check yourself. You can't be calling out Donald Trump as a
misogynist when you're calling Jerry Hall. A gold digging
whore. Yeah, that is I wish I had an old bought dinner so I
could, you know, it'd be great to call him out on that. Yeah,
you're totally correct. I
just got me a little worked up.
And I like to affect guys 85 versus 25. And they make a big
deal out of 61. She's 60 years old. 50 United. 6061 thinks he's
61. And they and they make a point out of that she's the
younger woman. Yeah. Oh, he ran off with a younger woman. She
she's 60. He's 85 When it's gonna be almost impossible not
to find a younger woman. Yeah, but if she was 20 Yeah, I can
see maybe there'd be some complaint. It's the hypocrisy
that just gets to me. I know. I agree. But it's amusing.
It's definitely amusing.
I'm gonna show my school but donate to no agenda. Imagine all
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Agenda. 2030 news, John. There's a new tactic new tactic, which I
had to look into I'd never heard of this before. This is a
protest that was held under a procedure I was not aware of
when five oil train protesters had to trial today those
defendants noticed that delta five received a blessing at
Seattle's Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, the five
were arrested back in September of 2014. For blocking the tracks
had BNSF really hard and Everett, members of the Delta
five will be allowed to argue in court that their actions were
necessary because of the threat of climate change.
This is a nationally significant trial, even globally
significant, because it's the first time the necessity Defence
has been has been allowed and will be argued in an American
court for climate civil disobedience during their trial
to die. So
we have two terms here. linemates disobedience,
yes, it's climate disobedience. We have the necessity, defence.
And this is something from us criminal law. At US criminal
law, necessity may be either a possible justification or an
exculpation. For breaking law. Defendants seeking to rely on
this defence argue that they should not be held liable for
their actions as a crime, because their conduct was
necessary to prevent some greater harm. And when that
conduct is an when that conduct is not excused under some more
specific provision of laws, such as does self defence.
So what you're saying is that because they stopped a train,
climate change is over.
No, oh, I'm not saying anything where they're saying is because
trains with oil are killing the earth. They have the right to be
disobedient, for necessity and duress to save the planet. And I
agree with a guy if a court says oh, yeah, all good. Where does
it end? It starts with the climate disobedience centre,
that's for sure. This is a nice little place, I find climate
disobedience.com A great little place where they help you out to
be disobedient and not get convicted.
So if they're behind it, and so all these laws are being broken
because of these guys, wouldn't that be the same thing that the
Southern Poverty Law Centre used as leverage against a bunch of,
I guess, supremacist groups and fascists and because they were
behind law breaking? You remember this grew in Southern
Poverty got to be so famous? No, no, no, they couldn't bust these
guys these protesting doing all these different things, but they
they fought it is almost like borderline on a racketeering
charge. Because they were because they were the trace back
from a crime scene like a crime that happened and trace back to
these, these groups. Big groups could be held liable. So if
there's people breaking the laws, like standing in front of
trains, just for whatever reason, it traces back to this
this little operation. I think they could be liable and be run
out of town. I don't know it could be wrong. Well,
I I'm following this case. Now, it was very interesting this
day. If a judge says yes Okay You didn't you broke the law but
it was under necessity and duress therefore no conviction
almost everything
is related to climate change so you could do anything you want
rob the store
yeah
I think you need to have a little more solid case John been
robbing a story I will probably couldn't get him up if
you rob the store of of things that are bad bad for the
climate. Like go steal some Volkswagens they're very bad for
the climate they lied we know those guys are all bad. Go ahead
and steal some of the or disable them mail slashed the tires.
Yeah, that may that may be possible it may be
depends on this case goes. I've been looking at a little
international news and I got some some interesting stuff
going on Catalonia for one is borderline clip with me. They're
really getting more serious than these other groups of Spain to
split off. Yeah. Here's a clip.
And Catalonia is new, fiercely secessionist President Carla's
pushed him on has taken office with a clear mandate to lead the
wealthy Spanish region towards independence from Madrid. Now he
can be avoided swearing loyalty to Spain as he was inaugurated.
Although he did swear allegiance to the Catalan people. He was
elected at the weekend, after months of infighting amongst the
members of the pro independence parliament.
And then the other interesting thing that people need to be
aware of is what's going on in Poland. Yeah. Now Poland is
getting a little there's a back and forth going on between
Poland and the EU because the EU the Polish put in charge a bunch
of right not right wingers. I mean, they're the right wingers,
probably no more so than the Ukrainians, which are right
wingers, but they but this is not going to fitting in with the
with the EU's things,
the EU's. We're all one nation. Yeah,
we're all one nation. So you can't really have a democracy
within the EU apparently, to the poll locks are being
reprimanded. You just say poll locks? Yeah, the poll locks. I'm
Polish I can say that.
Oh, since I know you can I call you a pole lock.
You can if you want. Okay, cool. And
Poland is a he's the European Commission of attempting to
pressure what it's called. It's democratically elected right
wing government. Europe has escalated warnings after the
government's legal manoeuvres to gain control over the country's
top court and public broadcasters. The Commission
will debate the state of the rule of law in Poland later
today, which could lead to punitive measures.
Seems about time Angular Merkel invaded them.
This just sounds wrong. Of
course, that's falling apart, John it is falling apart.
I'm gonna look into the Polish thing a little more, because it
seems as if we had I they're not the only ones doing this, I
think all these Eastern European countries which have a clue. I
mean, they joined us and this whole thing is it is falling
apart. I don't know when it's going to completely fall apart.
But this isn't just from
it's falling apart very, very quickly. The ends because the
people just don't want to, they will not take it anymore. And
it's interesting that we reported on. I think we reported
correctly on the New Year's Eve, harassment and groping and
potential rape. That was John provocateurs riling some drunk
immigrants to do stuff but they do have the right game there's a
lot of a lot of evidence and you know, I can grief people like I
can't believe you believe the stories you have that didn't
happen. Now, listen, look. I have friends in these countries
and they give me the same report. It particularly the
fighting at these at the migrate the immigration centres, the
migrant centres for a second
there throwing in there. How can there not be fighting? Yeah, you
have hundreds of 1000s of many men bumping into each other and
a miserable trip, a miserable walk. How can there not be
fighting?
It's so bad that Canada who are all come on in Syrian refugees,
they don't accept single men coming in. If you can't come
into Canada as a refugee, and get you're going to be turned
away single guys. Sorry. No. Families or women with children.
Yes. Because it's a fact. And I've seen it Yeah, Christina,
come arrives tomorrow. Oh, good for you. Yeah, I'm gonna have to
chain her. Can't go back girl. Sorry.
She's going back. Sorry. Sorry. Do you like it or not? Now Now
another thing going on. We had a bomb bombing and some action in
Turkey Turkey. So I'm digging around looking for it because we
know that Turkeys big supporters of ISIS and there have an
infrastructure within Turkey that allow As the transport of
the refuge fighters and munitions, everyone assumes,
well, this is actually discussed because it seems as if the
Turks, this most recent event that took place which was a
bombing which killed
mainly German tourists, yes, killed shores,
I haven't found a good analysis until this analysis, I think
this analysis is the best. That just takes us right to the core
of the matter, and tells us what the hell's going on. This is it
right here
Middle East programme at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for
scholars in Washington, Henry Barclay.
This is not the first attempt by the Islamic State. In Turkey,
they did three attacks between June and October, mostly
targeting Kurds. First in the burqa, then another town called
Summer July and Ankara, that killed 135 people, almost as
many people that died in Paris attacks. This one is different
in that it attacked kind of the soft underbelly of Turkey I its
tourism sector. And by attacking Germans, they essentially attack
both the West and also Turkey. And I suspect that this is
probably a way for ISIS to tell the jokes not to go after them.
Here's a conflict turkey, turkey. There's a very, very
large ISIS infrastructure in Turkey that has developed over
the last three to four years. This infrastructure helps ISIS
foreign fighters into Syria, it helps get arms it gets money.
There's a whole support infrastructure in the border
towns of Turkey helping ISIS so the Turkish Government lately
recently has decided to go after this infrastructure and start to
take it down. And it may just be that ISIS is sending a message
saying don't continue with this because if you do we can really
hurt you. Were in your really verse importance sector which is
tourism. Ah.
I thought that nailed it. All right. Explain. Well, it did sit
apparently the basis for years ago, as you said, had set up
shop. The Turks are fine with it because air to one is like a
radical Islamist for all practical purposes. So they set
up shop, and then they put the system in there. And this the
other guy, the Prime Minister, who's getting they're getting a
little annoyed by this because everyone's pointing the finger
at Turkey as being part of the problem being all in with the
ISIS and they're not really helping anything. So these guys
so they do a little gratuitous the well, let me let's try to
take down this system or that system, the ISIS because hey,
hey, we've been here. What are you doing? Yeah, I guess now we
gotta move. We got to cut shut this down. We got to shut that
down. So they blow up a bunch of tourists and say you want to
keep doing this or what?
Yeah, so where do you think Erawan goes with this now?
Well, I haven't heard anyone at all about this. It was it's been
everything about this most recent event has been discussed
by the real power of Turkey, the Prime Minister, everyone is the
you know, the figurehead that's managing to accumulate power
kind of like Hitler did to say that and so he hasn't said
anything. I don't know what he's gonna do. I know what they're
gonna do. They're gonna have to just back off and let the ISIS
guys take over the place. That's the only thing I think don't
work. Otherwise, you're gonna see a lot of more bombings
Yeah. That I think is what we have in store. And half the
bombings will be not even by ISIS themselves, just people who
want to change agendas. We're going to see that here in the
United States. We'll see it all over the EU I think we predicted
clearly you know, if it's if it's not climate change, you can
blame everything on ISIS everything. Because they're here
you can't see them but they're here they're, you know, they're
secretive and they're around is blame everything on ISIS. This
is this is our future. This is our future. Now I heard you and
Horowitz I have to apologise but I was listening to it late last
night as I got into bed and I fell asleep but you were talking
about something that you've been keeping your eye on the Baltic
Dry Index. Yeah, and I have now multiple stories of showing that
there really aren't a lot of ships crossing the Atlantic
Ocean right now. Like very very few
the Atlantic or the Pacific
that's a good I thought it won't let me check. I'm pretty sure it
was the Atlantic you want to just fill us in in general while
I look at this
they'll they're the Baltic Dry Index is an old measurement as
doesn't really is not taken as seriously as it once used to
live. brought it up on the show a few years ago and it was poo
pooed is something you shouldn't really be too concerned about
any more, because the way shipping has changed. And most
of the action being from China to the west coast and then China
and around through the Panama Canal and China from here to
there, and China, on trains, headed to headed west to
the New Silk Road,
but apparently is still important enough in some funny
way, that it's a bad thing that has gone down fallen down to the
point where it's really cheap to ship stuff. It's the indexes
really seems to me to be more about price than anything else.
And when there's a lot of empty boats sitting around looking for
cargo, they do make these deals, and you can have you ship a
container, I think now for about a fourth the price or less than
you used to be able to from anywhere. And is that
because of demand being down? Yeah.
Yeah, everything slowed down is the biggest slowdown that we're
witnessing. did it all happen at once it's parked in the Chinese
numbers. This is actually we talked about this in the show if
you want to.
That's why yes, go ahead. Six
months ago, we started noticing that the numbers coming out of
China were hinky and and Horowitz is preoccupied with
this, which is that these numbers that Chinese are
producing numbers that don't make sense. They're liars. I
tell you, they're liars. That's the summarise they're liars. And
they've and they could they've always figured something out.
The Chinese are also somewhat optimistic, I believe. I think
they lie with it in mind that this door it'll work itself out.
You know, just, you know, this is like the joke. This reminds
me of the I think it kind of epitomises the Chinese this joke
of witches, they haven't. They're optimistic. A guy goes
into the doctor and he's in his in his pecker is green. And the
doctor looks at it and goes, Oh, my God, that this just decides
to be chopped off immediately. So that doesn't sound good. goes
through a setting, I gotta get a second opinion goes to a second.
Maybe a third
goes to a bunch of doctors up. No, no, no, no, no, this is this
has got to be right to go. It's got to go. So he says I'm going
to a Chinese doctor. So he goes to a Chinese doctor. And a
Chinese doctor says, Oh, what did they tell you? Oh, yeah,
yeah, Western doctors, all they want to do is cut, cut, cut,
just let it sit for a couple of weeks, it'll fall. This has kind
of disappeared in my says to me, that kind of awkward, positive
attitude that the Chinese have about things that works. They
worked themselves out. So they lie about these,
because they think it'll work out.
They figured it out? Well, you know, they were doing and they
also think their government can fix everything by by EDIC. This
is the this is the one. They're a capitalist system that has
been a hybrid. It's a hybrid system is different than ours
hybrid
or hybrid, you say hybrid, Hybrid Hybrid, okay.
You know, it's a combination of communism and capitalism, it is
free, it works very well. Except it doesn't work all the time.
Well, and when it doesn't work, they don't know they can't let
it just do its own thing like capitalist systems have to do.
They have to metal and when you metal, you mess it up, you make
it worse, you ruin the mechanism. And that's what
they're doing. And this is, this is huge. It's a big disaster
waiting to happen. And
people don't want to give us a timeframe.
Well, they're pretty good. I think they can I think this is
recoverable, at least, where they can make some adjustments
and they can fake it. You can fake left and fake right, they
can do a lot of fast, you know, they can try to pitch like this,
like the Dutch dam. You know, you can get a bunch of holes in
the you got to put your finger. Your finger in the dike. Yeah,
put your finger in the dike. And they can do that for a while. I
mean, again, it's just right into my cycle. So 2017 It'll the
whole thing's gonna fall apart for a while.
Yeah, this. This just in Turkish ground forces pounded Islamic
States jihadist in Iraq and Syria after suicide attacked,
blamed attack blamed on extremists. The intense shelling
of some 500 Islamic State positions on the Syrian border
with Turkey and Northern Rock is in just a 48 hour period
following that attack. So there's something going on.
We'll come to that attacks. Well, that'll be in the next
show. Oh, yeah.
Got some, just kind of last bit for here the interesting
analysis on the executive action that the President took
regarding guns, but as we know this is about anybody able to
certain entities, but pretty much anybody able to report you
as a nut job. And Judge Andrew Napolitano who used to have his
own show on Fox and got kicked off Are
you libertarian? Yeah. And he's lost
so much weight he looks so yeah, he doesn't look good. Here is he
that he did an analysis of, of the executive action and two
clips one extremely surprising. Here's the first one that really
explains what can happen with the crazy factor.
There is no other way to read this, but that the President
plans to use federal agents to do something about the presence
of a gun in the house of someone who is unwell. Even if the
person who lawfully owns that gun is not the person who is
unwell.
I will tell you judge, do you remember we were at Fox together
at the same time when when Obamacare happened? And I said
you watch
this is Glenn Beck actually sorry, because I
don't remember what it was now. But there's a there's something
in Obamacare that we zeroed in on. And we said this is the door
that is opening to have the doctors tell the the government
about your guns, if there's any anybody unwell in the house, and
people mocked us. The President mocked us Yes, I remember
exactly what it was, what was I remember exactly what it was it
was the federal distribution of 40,000. Laptops to internists to
general practitioners, who were required to put into digital
form, the records that they have with their patient, and to give
access to the laptops to the Department of Health and Human
Services. And we were mocked about it. Well, guess what? Here
it is, commonly the chickens are coming home to roost, and it
will happen in the next year.
That sounds cool. Yeah, that's nice little overlap. Although I
believe the judge misspoke. I don't think it was 40,000
laptops, I think was $40,000 or something. But the idea is the
same that there was a setup for the crazy meme. And that got
implemented with the executive action. Now something about
executive action that I didn't know. But I thought executive
action really didn't mean all that much. It was just like,
Yeah, I'm doing something. Here's what I'm doing. And the
President published his executive action, but there was
a legal difference and important legal difference between
executive action and executive order. Did you know any of this,
John about
the real I know there's a difference because you talked
about it
before? And I always say, hey, an executive order is not the
same thing.
Well, you said that, but anyway. Well, here's
Judge Napolitano explains the
president keeps referring to this as executive action rather
than an executive order. executive action is when he
tells someone in the executive branch to do something, and
either doesn't tell them in writing or he keeps the writing
secret. That will make it even more difficult and cumbersome to
challenge. When he did the immigration shenanigans. He put
everything in executive orders. We all saw it. We all analyse
it, then Attorney General now Governor Greg Abbott saw it his
team of lawyers analyse the challenge that and they won,
they had our writing to challenge without a document in
writing. We haven't seen one yet. This came out seven days
ago, it is more difficult to challenge because they'll start
this before there's anything in writing for us to look at.
That's interesting. Oh, I did not know that. That's how
executive actions work. Until they're like, they're like an
executive order. Except you don't really publish everything.
Today, I'm gonna take some action in this area, then you
tell the people what to do. But you tell them verbally, you tell
your stooges what to do your students what to do. You tell
them verbally, where you keep the document secret, which you
don't have to release unless as a FOIA but okay, good luck with
that. Yeah, five years from now you'll see it. Yeah.
So this is very concerning.
Well, this is, yeah, that's what he's is protesting where you are
not trying to take guns away. I think still the logic of well,
if you want to take guns off the street, you want to lessen the
amount of guns out there. Where are you going? What are you
going to do? They're going to just disappear? Do you have to
take them away? Take them away from people.
That's the outcomes razor, if you're going to have less guns,
they have to go somewhere? And I think the first clip the judge,
where he said, Oh, you know, even if you are a completely
healthy person and a gun owner if there's someone in your home
like your kid was on Adderall or Vyvanse viewed on your guns will
be every kid in the country unfortunately. godless that
shit. Yeah, it's a pretty interesting little trick. I'm
not gonna get away with it.
Oh, good news from the tech news. We don't have to do a tech
news segment. But some good news for you and I John is old school
guys. Yeah, yeah. From DARPA. No less. Remember those guys?
DARPA. Yeah. DARPA who created the internet?
DARPA. DARPA is bringing back the vacuum tube
before you go on. So I was I'm up in Port Angeles floating
around and all the banks out there and I think this is true.
Most of the country around here I don't see it. But in most of
the country, they have vacuum tubes at the drive thru banking.
Well, that's a different kind of vacuum tube. I'm talking about
two different things. I'm talking about, like the
transistor, progenitor?
No like the cathode, anode.
transistor, progenitor progenitor? Yes, the for the
predecessor transistor was about, oh, it's not the vacuum
tube. I was hoping they would like thinking about this
apparently New York City, for example, has vacuum to Tower of
Babel underneath the city that's just like millions of them and
they're still active.
Do you know what you should do? If you roll up to a bank and our
Chase Bank still has a vacuum tubes at the drive thru? I think
that's pretty much every bank has that put a put a gerbil in
that thing.
Yeah, see what happened. I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I feel
like an idiot.
And I want to thank Bobby a winsky. For his inner circle
music production podcast. This is where we pick this up.
DARPA is bringing back the vacuum tube. And there's a
couple of really good reasons for it. The first is can you
guess?
I would assume EMP probably affect Yes,
sir. Yes, sir.
The vacuum tube can actually do things that solid state
electronics cannot, especially when it comes to high frequency
high powered electronics. And this is mostly the realm that
we're talking about the 75 gigahertz range way, way, way,
way above hearing. But anytime you need high power at that
particular frequency or frequency range, what ends up
happening is any kind of solid state electronics just fries. So
the best thing is to bring the vacuum tube out of semi
retirement, the vacuum tube has actually been around and if you
own a microwave, there's a vacuum tube in it. And also, if
you fly in a plane, most of the aviation radar still uses vacuum
tubes. And we still see it in some radio transmitters as well.
So the vacuum tube isn't gone completely. There's another
interesting side effect from using vacuum tubes. And that's
the fact that they're not affected by EMP. EMP is
electromagnetic pulse. an EMP is this pulse that's generated when
a nuclear device is set off. And what it does is it Fry's solid
state electronics. Guess what vacuum tubes are immune to that.
No, I'm
I'm in the market now for a Collins set.
All right, well, Collins from the 50s Yeah. Oh, they're still
great. 40s
Oh, the Collins. They're beautiful. It's hard to find a
good one cheap.
That's because people don't sell them. Yeah.
I'll even take a heat kid if you got one.
Well, you know, up at the Leo's place. Yeah. Somebody gave him
like a whole rig. And he has a huge vacuum tube transmitter.
What a waste. Yeah, no, it just sits there. But they did turn it
on. For me once the thing is got these big giant tubes, and they
glow and they look like when it kicks in. But it's beautiful.
But I think you could probably pick up a rig from an old radio
station.
eBay, eBay, it's
got stuff. You know, I'm just logged in. But I'm definitely
I'm definitely in the market. Definitely in the market for
one.
Yeah, you might as well be just that freaky. When you say Johnny
Boy. Sure we are in a cage. So way to go. Three winded up.
Yeah, I think so. I think we're done.
I think I think we we've done well. We've certainly delivered
more value than received for today, but that's okay.
Yeah, we do. That all happens from time generally speaking.
That's, that's our Mo.
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Sunday show. We'll be back. We'll do more that tonight.
There's another Republican debate, I guess or something.
Yes. But we'll look at that.
Why are they doing this is a stupid, they don't talk about
anything that ratings are gonna go down because nobody cares.
No. Same questions, the same answers
and we'll watch it again. Because that is what we do. So
you don't have to fortunately, we will watch it. Thank you to
gx two for the end of Schoeps. Did he they'll be playing here
and he was taking your North Korea lady and turned it into a
little techno ditty for you, John. Nice. Nicely nummy
drawer. I
bet indeed. And with that, I thank you for your courage and
passion and keep pushing. And coming to you from FEMA Region
six in the crackpot condo in downtown Austin FEMA Region six
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
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