Holy crap. Look at all the booze we got. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak
and Sunday July 24 2016. NFL award winning give our nation
media assassination episode 845.
This is no agenda
waiting through WikiLeaks email so you don't have to, because
it's fun. I'm broadcasting live in the capital drone Star state
here in Region six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Wow, inspiring John, right.
I nailed it. Yeah,
for sure. Nail I was
gonna do a thing on the WikiLeaks and then you get I'm
sorry. Well, again, it shows I got flat out here I am sitting
here flat flat footed, flat footed. And so I just went
through it, man.
Well, it's been another fun couple of days. Do you have
a fantastic do you have at lose during this this period?
Do you have an actual life?
I don't. I do watching TV.
Hey, baby, come on over. I'll cook and we'll watch TV.
C span
C span. Wow. Riveting stuff. Riveting stuff. Yeah. Well,
there's a lot going on in the world because just one after
another now.
Yes. And they're really stringing him to put them
together for us. And they certainly are, where we did
together for Trump.
Yeah, you're putting them together for somebody? Okay,
what you want to start with I can start with I can do a little
reminiscing if you don't think people want to hear me read? No,
no, but I have a good story to read now.
Okay. Well, we'll keep that will keep that read. But let me just
ask you. Just to start off, what did you think of the Trump
speech? That's what everyone wants to know.
That's one good thing to talk about. Well,
women you had it on your on your paper on the rundown to talk
about it. Oh, yes. Yes.
Yes. Very well, a couple of things. One, it was long. And I
and even though the oh, well, you know, it's a lot of
clapping. I mean, I think there was a great bit. It was almost
like it was staged. Oh, well, the only reason was long because
all the clapping, which you know, indicates that people were
clapping, which is a good thing. Yeah, it was long because Trump
knows how to milk it when he's on primetime on CBS, ABC and
NBC. Absolutely. So instead of doing like a 45 minute speech,
which would be typical, he did an hour and 15. So he went at
least 15 minutes over what they expect at the bus or bump and
stuff. And I just thought that was genius.
Whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
why did you think it was genius?
It was genius, because he knows how to get free publicity
any any moved into the, into the 10 o'clock hour. For news? Yeah,
yeah, that's good.
So that's what I was always, you know, the speech itself. I you
know, I thought it was a good speech. It seemed to get the job
done. I think everybody's in an analysis of it was completely
bull crap. They said, Well, yeah.
No way. Let me start us off. Before we got all the dark
stuff, and I have some of that too. Oh, it's
dark.
The first response I saw was, I'm sorry. No, let's do it this
way. Here. I have a three quickies I have. See I have the
CBS right after the speech, AMC. This is ABC and then NBC. Just
quick quick how it how they actually are
dealt with that. I would like to run to Amy Goodman at Yeah.
I am your voice.
It was a loud voice. Hopefully, more hyperbole than detail.
Okay. That was she was that that was CBS. Scott Pelley. Oh, Scott
Pelley. Here is ABC,
said Martha Renison Freecharge speech. Labeled Hillary Clinton
the candidate of death destruction terrorism, weakness,
dark mass lawless
dark. Yeah. If Americans are not scared for their safety before
tonight. Tonight, we're afraid for a
second he said that he labeled Hillary the candidate of death.
Yeah, let's
listen to it again. We
said Martha Redis pretty dark speech, labeled Hillary Clinton
the candidate of death, destruction, terrorism and mass
loss.
Lady Macbeth hear that in the speech.
Americans are not scared for their safety before tonight.
They are tonight.
And then NBC people in this hall,
same as a man on a white horse who will lead them to some kind
of a sanctuary and then pull the drawbridge up behind the others
looking in are going to see someone that will only think of
as a demagogue of some time.
Okay, I'm gonna hold on to my favorite one because we're gonna
play your AMY GOODMAN first, which is this.
But first I want to do want to make a couple of observations
before I forget. One of them is that I you know, people said
well, what No, no, no I'll do it after the you better play the
good stuff. Part Two. Okay.
Trump's speech rundown from Amy. We start okay. Why is it not
loading? Yeah, there we go.
violence to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.
Donald Trump's speech included multiple factual inaccuracies.
According to Washington Post this speech was quote, a
compendium of doomsday stats that fall apart upon close
scrutiny numbers are taken out of context, data is manipulated
and sometimes the facts are wrong. They wrote. Many
criticize Trump's speech, saying it had undertones of fear
mongering and demagoguery and a piece entitled Donald Trump the
candidate of the Apocalypse, The Washington Post editorial board,
said Trump's speech and body to wishful demagogic brand writing
quote, Mr. Trump took real challenges and recast them in
terms that were not only exaggerated, but also
apocalyptic cofounder of Black Lives Matter at least he a Garza
tweeted quote, I don't know what I'm watching right now, but I
imagine this is the kind of speech Hitler would make hashtag
freedom now.
This is what I imagined Hitler would do.
The Hitler thing was bad enough she throws that in a vise so who
why is this black lives matter woman used as a source. But
okay, let's Well,
I'll tell you why. Because the Black Lives Matter people are
apparently on the payroll
because they are according to this. So, so So I thought that
was taking it to the limit. But now let's throw let's just add a
little icing on the cake.
But Trump's speech did receive praise from former head of the
Ku Klux Klan, David tweeted quote, great Trump's speech
America first stop wars defeat the corrupt elites protect our
borders fair trade, Couldn't have said it better.
Okay, now, though, if you listen to what Duke wrote Yeah, how
would Amy disagree with any of that stop war you know shut down
the leads all this stuff that the left wing progressives are
supposed to be all for but because it came from David Duke,
she she derives it mockingly it just, well. This is the what is
the Democrat, the Democratic Party all of a sudden the war
party when did that happen?
So just like the this is a meme going around, probably saw it
every single news outlet. Use the word dark to describe
Trump's speech.
There's actually a poster somebody Yes.
And so this David Duke thing also popped up which of course
makes you immediately wonder if you know, Hey, someone said,
Hey, dude, man, would you do this right after the speech?
Could you just post this rule will hook you up? Rachel Maddow
had her comment on
it. One thing that's getting a lot of traction on social media,
a lot of traction response to Donald Trump's speech from David
Duke, the former Klan leader who is I listen to this running for
Congress again, or running for some elected office again. He
says great Trump's speech America first stop wars, defeat
the corrupt elites protect our borders fair trade, Couldn't
have said it better. Meaning couldn't have said it better
myself. And a lot of people who I think are critical of Donald
Trump generally look at praise like that from somebody like
Donald Duke and wonder if he is Did you hear it? Did you hear
it?
No, you didn't hear it? No, I'll tell you why didn't hear it.
Okay. Because I'm thinking as she's just she rattles this off.
That I'm just kind of in a loop about this. What is she the
grammar police all of a sudden
will listen to what if she's the grammar police, she makes a huge
boo boo. Listen,
look a phrase like that from somebody like Donald Duke. And
did you hear praise like that from somebody like Donald Donald
do?
David Duke but all of a sudden, this is good this in her head?
She's already connected. David Duke to Donald Trump. That's
like completely it's in their
phrase like that from somebody liked Donald Duke and wonder if
he is a screen.
Give you a tip of the day for that. No,
I'll take clips not even did you ran it by me? Not even over yet
something
beyond Donald Trump himself. That means a much greater
transformation of the Republican Party into something that is
going to be new to mainstream politics
with David Duke is a disgusting figure. He's a racist, a bigot.
He's a cancer on the body politic
and we don't need to hear the rest of this guy. I like what
you're saying it's a gateway drug to the kk k Trump speech a
gateway drug?
Oh, yeah. And so what Duke said, that's just instead of character
says let's assume we don't even know who this guy is. Okay,
gotcha. Now, once you if you didn't know who this guy was,
and let's just
for argument's sake, we'll just say, John, could you read that
tweet that Adam curry sent out about the speech?
Okay. And then I read exactly that. I don't have it in front
of me.
Good work. Right. I
mean, you to draw this I mean, I don't have that thing in front
of me. All right. He had his whole tweet okay. No, I'm just
saying that what he said was which was anti war war anti bad
bad bad all bad. Oh, how was that bad? I mean, this is coming
from Rachel Maddow. I thought you guys were supposed to be
anti war but no they apparently they're all pro war and
Hillary's a ward candidate. We know that watch. Everybody
had the had the Duke things. Everybody was on that.
Yeah, well, Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan.
But my favorite response right after was on CNN from Van Jones
was
just a relentlessly dark speech. He was describing some Mad Max
America, I work in this neighborhood, it's at some of
the toughest communities in this country. And I don't know what
he's talking about when he describes the country he's
talking about, and there was some schizophrenic psychopathic
attempt to pull apart the Obama coalition. I am I'm actually
I've never felt this way in my life. I have read in history,
being in moments with some big authoritarian movements that
some leader that's rising up and I felt that way tonight and it
was terrifying for me this divided the country you're
either inspired by this or you're terrified by terrified
terrified right that's
what he's terrified that's why I'm in terrifying and more
of this world, and you will surrender to them.
Right, he's a dictator. I'm afraid you're either inspired
What do you say inspired or terrified? Is what you're saying
is what he's saying. Van Jones and starting right off with the
dark mean. The dark Yeah, well, he's
he's good old pro. Yeah, so I ran into the one and analysis I
thought was good. Okay, good. And it was more objective I
think. And it involved a guy who's this you you've probably
seen him I haven't seen him for a while he used to be a regular
on bakwin Beck was on Fox. And the guy's name is Pat Condell.
And Pat Goodell was the campaign guy for he's one of these
campaign guys, a high level campaign guy who was who did the
Jimmy Carter campaign when he lost against Reagan. And then he
switched over to the kind of Republican strategist. You he's
noteworthy because he was one of the cheapest wigs anyone.
Oh, no, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, of course.
Yeah. You gotta gotta
get this cheap way. So he I saw he were actually the analyze
this thing absolutely perfectly. And I think that I've always
liked this guy. When even when he was with Becky. He was
outstanding. And by the way, the back people are so beside
themselves. Oh, and it could be for playing pack it out. Can we
just play Dana Dana, who is the good looking brunette, who's who
comes on but she's all in with back and hating on Trump.
certain individuals, particularly those that focus on
trade, and that's something that we will be recapping when we are
back with you on Monday. But the media for now is still focusing
on what Ted Cruz didn't say last night. But let's take a look at
what he did say though. He came out and he congratulated the
nominee. He urged everyone to go to the polls. He specifically
said Do not stay home this November. He said we have to
beat Hillary Clinton. And then he encouraged people to vote
your conscience. I don't know why anybody would do if someone
says if something in your conscious is imploring you to
boo when someone says vote what you're thinking but what's in
your heart and I'm wondering kind of what's in your head and
heart.
darkness, darkness John
dark. This is the most disingenuous thing for one
thing, this is Hillary Clinton's gag, I saw Hillary deliver it.
It was quite funny. When she did it and she achieved even even
Hillary knew this was bogus. People were not booing because
he said vote your conscience of what she implies. A liar. I have
to then before you go into Pat, I need to this was a really
outrageous lie that I just wanted to there were two things
really that but this was CBS Of course we know who CBS aside
what side they're on. Yes. And this was a this was about Ivanka
speech which I liked very much I'd done you come on and says
she thought it was outstanding. Yeah.
i Okay. Is this is CBS on Ivanka speech.
Equal pay for equal work. Ivanka Trump's speech the Clinton camp
noted sounded a lot like their candidate and get equal pay for
the work. They argued Trump does not share his daughter's concern
for working women.
This video, their CBS took a piece from Ivanka speech where
she said we have to have equal pay for women. And they said
wow, it's just like Hillary speech. It's exactly what
Hillary saying. But that is a big, big lie. And I just want to
play what she actually said. A
women represent 46% of the total US labor force, and 40% of
American households have female primary breadwinners. In 2014,
women made 83 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Single
women without children are 94 cents for each dollar earned by
a man whereas married mothers made only 77 cents. As
researchers have noted, gender is no longer the factor creating
the greatest wage discrepancy in this country. Motherhood is
that she she goes on to explain
absolutely great catch and that's it and that shows you the
again disingenuous CBS
does that disingenuous that that is lying that's lying.
It says taking stuff out of context and then associating it
with somebody else to use it to slam the person when in fact she
her real point which you play because it she did go on Oh, she
went on
and on about how and what Trump is going to do is create
affordable childcare so that women with children can get to
work like they want to do. That is that is his solution. Well,
that makes a lot of sense. Just on the Ivanka briefly we move
on, on the face bag, because of course this is this was I mean,
I had to get my hazmat suit on everything to go into this case
women women are posting Well, real job with their $820,000
Plastic surgery. I mean, that's seriously a comment $820,000
worth of plastic surgery. And then what well, she's horrible.
She was shilling her dress and the girls wearing $135 dress
from her own clothing line $135 dresses, and she looks dynamite.
And she's very inspirational with her clothing line and all
that oh no, no, she's horrible. She's trying to sell her dresses
during the convention, but the hate of how she looks is it
Sarah Palin all over again. Now, Ivanka didn't really say
anything dumb or come across stupid but doesn't matter.
You're pretty fuck you. Can't have that. Unbelievable. All
right
now ABC which as you went on to that topic. I have this clip
Ivanka follow up sales dress. ABC actually took that and ran
with it in almost a native advertising way and gave her
gave her props. I thought that ABC by the way, I believe is on
the Trump's campaign.
Tom Yamas joins us live today to Tom You and I were both in that
convention hall last night. A lot of high marks also for
Ivanka Trump. Her effort to reach out to women in
particular, but ever the business woman she had another
pitch after.
That's right, David this morning, Ivanka Trump sending
out a tweet selling a dress almost identical to the one she
wore last night at the Republican Convention. It's from
her own fashion line.
It cost $138. And apparently it's a big hit. We check
tonight. It's already sold out at Macy's,
selling her father and selling a few dresses at the same time.
Tom, thank you.
That's right. How are you? How very dare you
a very mellow, lighter, lighter tone touched and these other
guys who were freaked out now we can understand a little bit
about the freakout. If you listen to Pat Condell I think
she largely succeeded that
you face today as Jimmy Carter's pollster 1980. You face Ronald
Reagan. Did you tonight hear Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump
or Barry Goldwater?
You know what we keep trying to go back to elections that don't
fit. This is a new paradigm election. When I hear people
when Doug says and I heard the other commentators, the other
networks, talking about which is true that 67% of the country on
the wrong track, the same percentage don't think they're
not only on the wrong track, that the country is in decline.
What he did tonight was speak truth, the vast majority
Democrats, Republicans and independents believe about a
rigged system, about the idea that the country is going
backwards. The concern and anxiety, the larger questions at
the same time trying to satisfy his base and I thought he pulled
it off really well. And I think the other thing he did and if
you think of some of the arguments, he is the first
American politician I can think of to stand as a nominee and use
the word corruption, which is what a giant percentage of
Americans believe Washington, it's about. He talked about the
powerless. He talked about, he was reaching to themes that and
I'll tell you, you could see it. The other response to that was,
these people are panic. The people who do not understand
they have not understood this election or why he's standing on
that podium, or what is going on this year.
If you want I have the ISO of Trump about the corruption which
is kind of fun. I don't think a lot of people heard the whole
speech. You want to play that just about Yeah, plated life.
though, and when a Secretary of State illegally stores or emails
on a private server deletes 33,000 of them, so the
authorities can see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies
about it in every different form, and faces no consequence.
I know that corruption has reached a level like never ever
before in our country
that I thought was really well structured. That was well put
together
that was well done to east, I don't like the fact that he's
screaming at the top of his lungs,
I need to then I need to say something. Because when I
watched the speech, and I'm getting pretty good at it, now
I'm more than ever convinced. In quantum theory, there's
multiple, multiple dimensions, and there's probably half of
America isn't a different dimension. And they and they see
the same speech I saw and they receive it really differently.
But here's the main thing. And this is why it's interesting,
you brought it up. People who say they felt that Trump was
screaming, usually do not agree with what he said or are against
him. People who said he was passionate. Or even angry, but
the screaming thing is very specific. When people say I
don't like he was screaming, then you probably received it in
a different way than other people, which would mean you
that's
a possibility that he was screaming No. Now. Now, one of
the things I've noticed, and it did this came about of the
Hitler esque thing. And I have to say, and I'm wondering
whether this is a what kind of appeal this house because I do
know that Mussolini was extremely popular in Italy, very
people. So he did a rather good job of straightening out a lot
of the problems that Italians had, including, you know, the
besides making the trains run on time, it was when he got hooked
up with a Hitler. Yeah, that's when the when everything started
to decline right. Now, Trump, he made so many Mussolini moves. He
TPJ profiled himself, but he put himself in profile during the
speech, and he did it over and over again, mostly turning to
the left, and then putting himself in profile. And then And
then very slightly lifting his chin. Ah, that is a complete
Mussolini move in now. Yes, yes,
you're right. You know, yes. You're right. I saw that.
I saw it. Now. Mussolini way took his chin way up. Yeah. I
mean, he brought his head way up. So he's looking almost 45
degrees up. Trump did not do that. He did not go that far
now. But I'm waiting. I was waiting. He just never did you
know what, it was a Mussolini thing. And he did it a number of
times. And I don't know whether he was doing it on purpose. The
way he did it, I believe it was done on purpose to elicit some
sort of something. This guy is more of a manipulator than I
mean, I think that's what Scott Adams kind of claims to know
what I paid
attention to. And I've watched probably four times now, I spent
one time watching most of the speech just paying attention to
his right arm. And he has, it looks like three but it really
has two moves. The right hand goes up and he's has his finger
in the air and his and his thumb back almost like he would be
shooting a toy gun in the air. Yeah, and then But then he he
will change it and you'll put his forefinger to his thumb. And
then the other three fingers come up, and then he doesn't
okay sign, which sometimes when he takes his arm down completely
horizontally, it's like he's cooking his index finger back.
So it's really it's the okay sign except it's held
horizontally. And he uses this to accentuate things he wants
you to remember. And I don't I'm not a body language study
student you
know, I wish they'd bring that body language. O'Reilly had this
body language. Yes. She's always good. I
haven't. If you're Rishi, Dave guy, I
think Dave Dave nixed her because she's too
good because they're run by the Democrats. That's why
was anyway she's not on anymore, but he does that I know exactly
what you're talking about. And he does that finger thing. And
it's a big a major and I think it's almost like if you look at
him as a magician conductor,
I look more like a conductor.
Okay, I can dig that.
Ruby Man Can you dig that John?
It's it's it's like rocket to bow wow, I said that he I think
of him as a magician. So he's doing sleight of hand and he's
distracting you because you can I'm always looking at that hand.
Maybe it could be you know doing something well, you
know whether there's someone out in our in our intelligence net
Work who knows about this stuff? I'm sure we'll get back
to it. It's a huge contrast to Hillary. Hillary's main move is
to do some is to have her palm facing inwards and her hand to
horizontal. And she makes a chopping move. She makes a
shopping move with your hand, Hey, I
just I just realized something went you know how for a lot of
Bill Clinton does how I just thought about Bill Clinton, when
he's talking. And I think a lot of politicians do this. They
will hold their, their fist close with a thumb over the top
of their forefinger. And we'll be kind of going up and down
like Trump would do. But with the thumb pointing towards you
with a thumb on top of the on top of
Clinton, the Clintons main moves that thumb thing to a view and
then He'll bite his lip once and
right now, if you were to put your hand down, you put the
thumb over your finger, and then you switch to the Trump move,
which is the three fingers out and the one finger crossed over
held by the thumb. It is almost the antithesis of what the other
politicians are doing. It is a completely different signal.
You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. God, I
wish I wish I had gone to college.
Yeah, well, I'm glad you didn't. So let's go on with the kiddo.
This is the follow up. This is clip one. And this is actually
John buta Lea, who's a real Republican hack, who was sitting
there discussing this with with Condell. And and a
representative Democrat, strategist. And unlike and I
will give Fox credit for this. Unlike the other networks,
especially CNN, they do not beat up the Democrat. CNN beats up
any Republican nominee. They do and they would they would that
that prick Don Lemon did to Kelly Conway, or Kellyanne
Conway was unbelievable when I watched it.
Wait a minute. Well, I
don't think I saw that. Yeah, we we touched discuss it a couple
of shows back there. All right.
Pat, Cuddapah. All right here we got John
urine, old line Republican. What do you think?
You know, if you look back in the last 100 years, we've had
three presidents who were rich and therefore independent, Teddy
and Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. And each one of them
got on the side of the little guy. And when you're rich and
the little guy embraces you, you're you can't be beaten
because none of the normal stuff applies. You can't say he's
corrupt. You can't say he's going to be bought off. He's on
our side. Trump is getting on the side of 40 some odd percent
he needs more. Tonight was I think a good step to get more
he's like a blue collar billionaire. By the way. Romney
who was rich never got on the other side. He was seen as
prissy crap. Yeah. And he talked down to people empathy. What's
right, he talked down to him and that 47% thing killed him.
That was good. That is good.
I liked that. What was it? What network was this?
This was on Fox. Okay, gotcha. And it was a it was a special
team. I've never seen these guys before. But I think there's
gonna be six, there's gonna be a lot. There's gonna be a lot of
changes at Fox. So let's play the end of this. And this is,
this is Pat candels. Final kind of wrap up is a devastating
thing. What happened to her with the males in the FBI, it is
really hurting, but they have no more understanding of America.
And as I said before, Donald Trump threatens the political
order that is failing the country. That's how voters do
it. And that's why the speech was a success. And
he almost got he almost got where we've wanted him to pat
and close to this argument, which is the country the system
is corrupt. The government and the economy is he did say it's
rigged and corrupt is the key word. Do you want to put a
corrupt person in charge of a corrupt system? Or do you want
to send me an outsider to come clean it up and he almost used
those words tonight, the message was there. If he does say that
and sticks with it, he will win the election. And what
you will see from Secretary Clinton next week is a different
view of the world. But attacks on Donald Trump saying he is
unqualified, unprepared, generous with a view of the
world that is out of step target
with global tuition. That's
what you'll hear was
in the Podesta thing that Eric read or Heather when Trump is
temperamentally unsuited to be president all week, next week in
Philadelphia, all they're gonna try to say he's a whack job who
can't be trusted and
that's qualified and is a risk to our well being or stability.
They say it in a lot tougher terms than the Republicans who
are more closer to accurate about lock her up, lock her up
and glad we addressed that issue tonight.
Now, just one follow up clip. Yeah. I have I it follows up to
what they are predicting for the Democratic Convention, which I
agree with, because I've all I've heard from Hillary, is that
pretty much the same thing. And those are all outlined in the
WikiLeaks material.
Yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah, we'll
get to that next. But let's, let's listen to let's listen to
the idealistic off of the PBS NewsHour Mark Shields, who is
going to who's going to predict what's going to happen he's saw
the the Democrat or the Republican Convention is a bunch
of negative stuff all slamming Hillary and the Democrats, the
Democrats will never do anything like that. And I'm keeping this
clip because I'd like to see shields say the same thing in a
week. But this is Mark Shields talking about what the Democrats
will do this all going to be love and light.
Democrats, if they're smart, and they're not brain dead, are
doing two things. Right now. They're having self deprecating
humor written for them. So there was no humor in Cleveland. And
they're not making this Donald Trump. Pong fashion convention
convention martialed.
Yeah, that's
a good one to keep around evergreen.
I'm keeping that one. He's full of it.
I wanted to bring something up, which ties into stuff I've
learned from you. This was the post speech discussion on the
Today Show,
okay, keep broaden his appeal here a little bit. It was a
very, I don't know how many people I think there are some
people that wake up and say, Wow, the country is
deteriorating. But I think a lot of people didn't recognize that
country that he described either. So I think it's a very
polarizing.
Look on your point there. This wasn't the shining city on the
hill. This wasn't Morning in America. He sounded like a
wartime president last year, very dark,
dark, dark now the wartime president but really the this
was no Morning in America speech is continuously rolled out to
show that whatever Donald Trump wants, He can never be like
Ronald Reagan. But when I went to look at this, and I did put
the Morning in America speech, YouTube, you can watch it and
find it the show notes 845 dot no agenda notes.com. In The
Morning in America speech was his reelection speech. That was
his second time around, not his initial go vote for me. And, of
course, we had prosperity, the second for his second term. And
what I've learned from your cycle book, which I have a copy
of here is that we should have had the Ronald Reagan like
President in four years from now. But I think Donald Trump is
so enamored by Reagan that he thinks he's going to do the
same, the the really the same trajectory, which is because
when Reagan first came in, it was not great. We had problems
in the country.
It was the end of the cycle. And Jimmy Carter, who wasn't really
as bad as they liked everyone to believe it was just incompetent
during that era. He ended the 10 year downturn, which began in
1969. Guy actually got rolling in 70. And then was a decade and
Nixon was in there didn't nobody could fix anything, because you
can't really fix anything during the cycles downturn, you can't
do anything you can fool around. I mean, that's what Obama has
done. He's fooled around hasn't fixed anything. He does know,
unemployment is terrible. Just take a look at shadow stats. So
you so what can happen is that if you can get to the cusp of
greatness, and you will look at every president who was great,
or considered great, and you will find that they're all on
this 40 year. cusp, you got Ronald Reagan and 40 years
earlier, in 1940. It was Roosevelt and 40 years earlier,
I forgot it was I think the other I think it was Teddy
Roosevelt. Anyway, you got to find these guys. Those are the
guys who are all a great presidents. Usually the guys who
fall short of getting elected that year, like the year before,
like Jimmy Carter, they consider some of the worst presidents. So
whoever gets elected in this cycle, can because the down
round, you should get the down round. But this has happened and
this happened with Roosevelt.
Always an exception to the cycle. That's
actually not an exception. It's just the way the way the cycle
works. If you're lucky enough to be Roosevelt, when you could be
reelected for a third and a fourth term eventually. You can
you can jump over the barrier that would be 1939. And then as
you're now you're the president 1940. In that cycle, that means
you're automatically agree Right president because that's the 40
year cycle. So what Trump has to do, if he gets if he wins, if
Hillary wins, I don't think she has the wherewithal to get past
and she's gonna get because people want her to fail. They
hate her. Nobody likes a woman. So she gets elected, we're gonna
have a downturn, we're gonna have a collapse of some short,
it's always a, it could be really bad. It could be it's
gonna be bad.
And I would like to say I had dinner a birthday dinner at the
former New York Bankers House. And there's unanimous agreement,
certainly in the city of Austin, that it's going to be very bad
here. Do we have these condos up everywhere? completely sold out.
But these are all people who want to flip it. But these are
not people who want to live in it, their investors, and they're
gonna get screwed. We have we have and we have restaurants
going out of business now.
You can see if some parts of the country can already see it
beginning.
I mean, how does a Mexican restaurant go out of business in
Texas?
I don't know they must have lousy food. And so what can
happen with like, what would happen with Roosevelt, he got
over and he got elected for the for the upcycle. And so he is
now considered a great president, if he was not if he
did not win that last election or the third election where he
got into shows there in 1940. And somebody I don't know who
ran against him in a window where we'll get I'd have to
look. But somebody if that other guy would have beat him. He'd
become he'd be the superstar. And Roosevelt would have been
seen as a flop. And because he really didn't do anything during
the Depression, he created some sort of Civilian Conservation
Corps and things like that, which I think is still would be
a good idea. No one has done. So what Trump So what happens if
Hillary gets in, she will get us past it, because she just
doesn't. Nobody's rooting for her. And they'll just vote
somebody else in for 2020. But Trump is a business guy. And he
can and he's a good D does hyperbole. Well, and he's a D as
a demagogue, which means he appeals to the popular taste.
That's all that means. It's
not a bad thing. It's a weird thing. Were demagogues will just
fail at it. That's all.
And so you, so he, he might be able to push himself into a
reelection campaign that would get him reelected, then he would
be considered this great guy. Right, right. Well,
I think that he thinks that far ahead, and he sees the cycle,
and he must know the cycle or that some of these a lot
of people know this, this cycle is not, I invented not as
well. Come on, let's let's be easy.
I just promote it more than we ever
sell here. So yeah, I'd like to play I think I have three or
four short clips from Trump's speech, which I thought were
which just to me were highlights that I think speak to people and
who were in like him for this. And the first thing he did now,
of course, all these speeches come out, you know, caught like
a half hour before they're going to be delivered, and it's under
embargo. But right away all news media was we have a leaked copy.
More than a copy away. It wasn't leaked. Of course, it
wasn't leaked. That's what I'm saying. But Trump did put a
number of things into his speech, which he did not give in
his pre embargo, embargoed pre speech copy to things. And
he did wander off every so often of this. You could tell when he
did it, because his voice changed.
Well, this was in the prompter, because I went back and watched
it was not in the in the script and the original script that
everyone had. And that many news ads are still saying, here's the
full transcript. But I was I couldn't fit. I'm looking for a
particular word, I can't find say, This must not be the right
transcript. So this was not an ad lib. But it was something
that was put in. To me it was almost like a binary. You know,
when you have something you put something in people's head early
on, and then you're going to you're going to pay it off. And
it was also maybe a bit of a out of frustration. But he this was
completely unknown that and it wasn't really discussed in his
in the context of this inserted piece in the speech.
Recently, I have said that NATO was obsolete, because it did not
properly cover terror. And also, that many of the member
countries were not paying their fair share. As usual, the United
States has been picking up the cost. Shortly thereafter, it was
announced that NATO will be setting up a new program in
order to combat terrorism, a true step in the right
direction.
Now, the overall mean, which is repeated everywhere and was like
it was actually it was kind of it was a little didn't feel good
about it. I was having dinner with Tina and one of her
daughters and you know, she's she's majoring in political
science that goes back and forth. But she had done a paper
and said, out of the blue, she says, Well, you know, Trump says
Warning, we're going to abandon NATO is a no, no, that's not
true. Yeah. And she, she got upset because she had done a
paper on this. And she had all these sources. And I'm sure her
professor corroborated it. But even if you go back to Trump's
original foreign policy speech, which of course didn't get the
same amount of attention is as he wanted. He speaks of the
obsolescence which now he that's the binary part. Ah, right after
I did my foreign policy speech, he said, you know, we should
really start to look at terror. So not only is this continually
being lied about because I cannot find anywhere where he
said we're going to pull out of NATO has been very consistent
bend and Obama went to the Balkans and said, Hey, you guys
need to pay up. He was there for days you remember the big stage
and hey, you need to pay up it'd be your 2% GDP because of course
we have guns say we have weapons sales to do. So I thought that
was very good that he put that in there. And then the other
part, which was most definitely not in the speech was an ad libs
definitely most definitely most completely. Definitely, for sure
not in the speech
as your president. I will do everything in my power to
protect our LG BT Q citizens from the violence and oppression
of a hateful foreign ideology.
When I looked at all the transcripts, and said LGBT, so
obviously, someone very smart, said, had the queue. And what I
liked so much about Trump is you can tell he's in his head, you
guys 70 I know. But I know people who are you know, in this
age bracket, and you know, they all find love and light but
yeah, I don't care too much. And this LGBT or as we see LGBTQ Qi
AP to do it, its borders on ridiculous, and you can see him
going, whatever this means LGBTQ Q, which in this case, means
questioning. Although you could that's up for debate, because
often LGBTQ is equated to queer. But I believe it's questioning,
and I like just seeing him go. I don't know what the fuck is up
with these people, but I'll protect you, whatever. Whatever
letter of the alphabet you want. I'll protect you. I'll take
care. Yeah,
I'll take care. Yeah,
I like that a lot. And that made me laugh that really did. And
that it was put in later someone probably one of his kids. He
did.
He also did this thing about I'm glad the event Jellicle is like
me, because then he does this thing puts his hand over.
Like I didn't I didn't I don't really deserve your support.
Yeah.
didn't deserve. He's very contrite. Yeah. And I thought
that was good. And I was convinced that that was ad
libbed.
I think it was it was not in the scripts that I saw. So I believe
that it is,
yeah. except a few things on there and keep the things
smooth. I have another one to keep. And he had to do this. I
was actually surprised this speech was as good as it was by
no, because you thought it was going to be boring. It wasn't
all that I thought was going to be a complete dud. It was going
to be like that other speech that he read from a prompter.
But no, no, no, he had the great he had a good mix this time.
He had he had the mix down and he, which I think he
knew he could do all along probably. Here. Here's another
100 years going to Yes. Here's another highlight which of
course stuff we talk about all the time on the show regarding
what you just mentioned, about 10 minutes ago, the real
unemployment numbers.
What about our economy? Again, I will tell you the plain facts
that have been edited out of your nightly news. And your
morning newspaper. Nearly four in 10 African American children
are living in poverty, while 58% of African American youth are
now not employed. 2 million more Latinos are in poverty today
than when President Obama took his oath of office less than
eight years ago. Another 14 million people have left the
workforce entirely. Household incomes are down more than
$4,000 Since the year 2000. That's 16 years ago,
if someone is poor, and they heard this part of the speech,
which is doubtful. Very down very doubtful,
I think was on primetime. Yeah, but yeah, they're nobodies.
Yeah, the
amount of people that I saw on the Facebook Whether they're
lying or not saying I'm not even gonna watch, but maybe some poor
people
said she wasn't gonna watch, which makes zero sense. But
okay,
so you that way this was now this, of course is I think this
is what scared people like Van Jones and this is where I
realized, yes, you could interpret this completely
differently and that is only based upon your programming
that's in your head and it doesn't make it invalid for
anybody who sees this as scary dictator talk in this
race for the White House. I am the law and order candidate.
Yeah, I've totally agree with that
I people, oh my God, he's gonna be horrible. He's gonna be
cleaning now. The last
the last little bit, which I think was good.
Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the
people all across this nation. That
was one of the few times he said this nation instead of our
nation or our country, it was pretty consistent. I thought he
said it quite a few times. This instead of our
now, it was consistently our but he did a couple of
men that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. I have
visited the laid off factory workers and the communities
crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are
the forgotten men and women of our country. And they are
forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten law.
Even though grammatically didn't come on, come off. Well, I don't
like the I don't like the way he's dropped. He dropped dropped
dramatically. But but people who feel forgotten, which are in the
so called flyover states, I live in one and they understand this
language. They really understand this language. Now, if you want
to his final, his final pitch kind of the wind up which is two
minutes, I chopped out a lot of the applause. You want to hear
that just so we can get the final pitch piece and word do
you feel we've done enough there?
I don't know. Have we done enough for you, you might have
to play and then we can kill it.
I have had a truly great life in business. But now my sole and
exclusive mission is to go to work for our country to go to
work for you. It's time to deliver a victory for the
American people. We don't win anymore, but we are going to
start winning again. But to do that, we must break free from
the petty politics of the past. America is a nation of
believers. Dreamers and strivers.
I love that. It's so long, so long since I heard someone say
that. And how was that dark? It's been a long time since I
heard
that is being led by a group of sensors, critics and cynics.
Also very good. Remember,
all of the people telling you, you can't have the country you
want are the same people that wouldn't stand I mean, they said
Trump doesn't have a chance of being here tonight. Not at
chance. The same people.
Always good to make a comparison to people who guessed it wrong.
Oh, we love defeating those people don't wait. Oh, we love
to. No longer can we rely on those same people in the media
and politics? Who will say anything to keep our rigged
system in place? Instead, we must choose to believe in
America. History is watching us now.
This was interesting. I had never really abused this a
common phrase history is watching us.
I mean, I've heard it I've heard
I've heard it before. Well,
what it's typically is you know we want to be on the right side
of history.
Oh, it's a variation of that. Yeah, but it's
a better one I think I think it's because the right side of
history is
worse I don't like the right side of history commentary it's
just from you know, I mean, maybe it's better for that but
it's okay. I thought he did a good job and
watching you don't have much time no time but history is
watching. It's waiting to see history is waiting to rise to
the occasion. Like history is
somebody waits for no man. Yes.
History is sitting there going dude you guys are aft
and if we will show the whole world that America is still free
and independent and strong. Wrong
another thing I haven't heard in ages because that dark
as well I didn't know
I am your voice
so that's it that's big that's really good there I am
your that was the word that's what all the critics hated when
he said that because it's I hate it anyone and I by the way I can
understand where they come from where they're coming from when
he said something like that, because again, I don't think
half these guys who are critical of the speech, noticed the
Mussolini thing that he did. Well, if they did, then they
never brought it up. Right? Yeah, Hitler. He's nothing like
Hitler. Yeah. It just did a crappy job.
More or you? Look, I'm kind of done with this. What I would
like to play though. Yours. Two more responses. One now. This
was that people were so happy. Hey, we're so happy. Jon Stewart
came on Stephen Colbert, because we if you look at the face bags
throughout the convention, there was a consistent cry for Oh, if
only we had Jon Stewart. We need Jon Stewart to make sense of it.
Where's John? Every Obama bought I know including the artist. Oh
boy. This is a time when we need Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart. Jon
Stewart.
I saw this by the way. I don't know if you've witnessed. Of
course I did. Oh, okay. Well, so we have a clip from it. That's
why this was a Thursday night after this was the second show
they did on Thursday. He Colbert does with Letterman used to do
which is do two shows on Thursday. And we're on the
second one on Friday. So you take the day off, you get a
three day weekend. And Letterman used to do this because he liked
to fly out to Montana, his ranch and it gave him an extra day. So
they did this show. And so when Stewart so they're yakking away
about it was a very lacks lackluster show, generally
speaking, but Stewart crops up from under the desk. And I'm
when I saw him I said this guy looks like a bum off the streets
and asked anybody take him serious now he's
doing wearing a t shirt. He's doing a Clooney. This is a
Clooney. He's got the beard. He's dressed down. He's all for
America and be up and he's superior. And he's here to save
the day like Clooney does. Clooney says everybody Oh except
for everything Clooney and a T shirt. Know what you've seen
Clooney when he started doing the beard Yeah, Clooney as T
shirts on all the time. It's a dress down Clooney. Look, I am a
follower of fashion. That what? So now as I watch this follower
of fashion, yes, me and Ray Davies. As I'm watching this,
pretty much the whole bit is about Sean Hannity who Jon
Stewart calls lumpy, which, you know, no one cares about Sean
Hannity. In fact, Sean Hannity care so little about Sean
Hannity, that Sean hannity.com directs the no agenda. show.com
So no one cares about Sure. Eight years, no one cares about
Sean Hannity. But he's all pissed off about the people he
has on and things he's saying is just not complete, but he was
really
upset. He's obsessive. Sean Hannity, you're right, who
cares?
And Ben to wrap it up. He, he revealed his true reason for
being there, which is actually quite honorable, but completely
the wrong message for this audience, for his audience who
just want to hear him say, Donald Trump is sucks and is not
going to win. And here's why. And that's all they wanted, but
he did not do a good job. It listen. Last minute,
say for real. Here's where we are. Now remember
the things Trump said about America? We're Dreamers We
aspire to things. We try to get things done we're free and
independent.
Either lumpy and his friends are lying about being bothered by
thin skinned authoritarian less than Christian readers of prompt
or being president
which he just read off the prompter was kind of
interesting, or they don't care.
As long as it's their thin skinned prompt or authoritarian
tyrant, narcissist. You just want that person to give you
your country back because you feel that you're this country's
rightful owners. There's only one problem with that this
country isn't yours you don't own it. It never was. There is
no real America.
There is no real America and people are cheering if you don't
own it I mean I know what he's insinuating race racism I
believe saying you white people I
you know I saw that baffled I never came to any conclusion
whatsoever. Never thought that clip it. I think he did a good
job there because I know I listened to it. Yeah, I should
have been clipped and but but listen, you know, I was just
blown. Oh, what's he talking about?
Well, he wraps it up when he was really
playing a team from scratch again. Scratch it is.
So let's just say for real. Here's where we are real for
real. For real champion his friends. are lying about being
bothered by thin skinned authoritarian less than
Christian readers of prompt or being president or they don't
care, as long as it's their centralized second
Stopstopstop. Lumpy is not bothered by him becoming
president. He wants him to become president
knows a little twist. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But the funny thing is
he first he does, he says, There's and then he does that.
And that's it. There's no real American you don't you know, no
one can own it. You don't. It's it. There's no real amount. It's
very disturbing, but just listen to his generators
are being president, or they don't care. As long as it's
their thin skinned prompt or authoritarian tyrant,
narcissist. You just want that person to give you your country
back. Because you feel that you're this country's rightful
owners. There's only one problem.
Is it not true, John? I've always felt ownership of
America, not like I own it. But I take ownership for my country
have always been proud of my country, even when we do dumb
shit, you know? But ownership, isn't that kind of the core of
any any citizen of any country. You You have ownership. I mean,
I've finance part of the country.
You find it? Yeah, we pay we pay into this. Big time.
There's only one problem with that this country isn't yours.
You don't own it. It never was. There is no real America. You
don't own patriotism. You don't own Christianity. You sure as
hell don't own respect your bravery and sacrifice of
military, police and firefighters. I saw a lot of
people, I saw a lot of people on the convention floor and
Cleveland with their blue lives matter rhetoric, who either
remained silent or actively fought against the 911 first
responders, Bill reauthorization, I see you.
That was his real message. And then he and after that he wound
up and Colbert came back and air horns and whatever. But he has
been lobbying for a couple of years now for the
reauthorization of the first responders act to continue to,
to pay medical costs, etc. For people who had become very ill
after 911. And I really appreciate that he's doing that.
But that's that was his only message. He came there to do
that. I think he missed the mark. By you know, by
criticizing Sean Hannity, if, Shawn, I mean, if he criticize
Trump, that's what I think he was there for. But he did this
whole Sean Hannity thing. And the payoff was, you don't care
about our police, like I do, which is what he's saying. And
he does care about them in our first responder. So I think he
completely missed the mark. I think he screwed up. I lost his
touch. And yeah, that's probably now on.
I think it was, you know, as a guy's the guy at the desk there,
instead of cold bear. I think he did a little cold bear just
still to me. I think he's got good material, but he just seems
like a phony. He's just this personality. He's
an identity. No, he's an identity crisis. He has a
professional identity crisis, because he doesn't want to be
the guy that he was. But he is. Exactly.
He's still that same. That same phony guy that he was on his
original show, kind of, you know, he's got that dumb smile.
And it's just, he's, the ill fitting suits are very, they
make him look like it's like Brooks Brothers. He looks like a
banker more than he does anything else he does. It's not
funny. If it was great for that other show where he could play
that character and he played it to the hilt, but he can't seem
to get out of that character. As far as I can tell. I watched the
show all the time. I still have my my personal ratings. I think
Campbell shows the best I think Fallon shows maybe the most
creative but I just get, I think just tedious because of all the
games. He likes to play games. Beer pong, and whatever it is.
It's kind of annoying gets old fast, but I think it attracts a
much younger audience. I think that Fallon is probably the best
produced show. Kimball's. I think the best show I agree. I
watch Kimmel more often. And Colbert just you know, falls
through the cracks. I think he's a good interviewer. Now he
picked up from the other show.
Colbert had Colbert had ELIZABETH WARREN on and she said
something, a couple of things. But she, this woman is odd. She
does odd things. And you know, she reminds me so much of the
robot artists. It's not funny that she even looks like her.
And she does. And a lot of people have the Rachel Maddow
cadence. But here she says something really interesting in
this bit on Colbert
Democrats. Hillary Clinton is gonna be fighting Donald Trump
for the presidency. Do you think the Democrats are under
estimating Donald Trump? Yes,
I think everyone is under estimating Donald Trump. He is
one dangerous man and we need to take him really serious Swing.
Take them out now.
Did you hear that?
Take him out now. Take them out now.
Take him with me.
Shoot him, I guess what does it What else could it mean? Take
him out now he's the Republican nominee. Take him out now.
How do you take him out? Now? The elections not till November.
Take them out now.
That's odd. Catch.
Yeah, it's not good. Here's your strategy.
I think the Secret Service should have a talk with her.
I agree. And isn't, you know, they've talked to other people
saying weird stuff. Here's your strategy.
You're nothing but a thin skinned bully. Are you a bully?
He's asked, based upon all the tweets that she's been. And I
thought Colbert was good in this interview, because he pushed
back. But whenever he made a little counterpoint, it was
drowned out by applause. But I appreciated what he was doing.
And so he said, Hey, you're sitting, you're tweeting all
this stuff to Trump, are you?
You're nothing but a thin skinned bully. Are you a bully?
are you bullying him here? are you stooping to his level? Are
you? Marco Rubio?
Little billionaire? Did I hurt his feelings?
Apparently, if you have money, then bullying doesn't matter.
I'm just pointing that out to you. If you're a billionaire,
then bullying is not an issue. Boohoo, then it's not an issue
by by talking about his policies that he doesn't have.
Clearly she's never looked at his website. That's just a lie.
Even though that's a great lie like that lie. You may not agree
with his policies, but he certainly they like to do that
all the time. Hillary pushes that the most. Hillary, I've
never heard her have a solution for anything.
I mean, come on, give me a break here. This is a guy who just
went on national television and said basically to all of
America, be afraid of each other. And you listen, be
afraid of each other. I heard united, United unify, we're
dreamers. We can do it
as each other. And you listen to a speech like that. I don't know
how there's anybody left in America who isn't afraid of
Donald Trump.
And this is the big thing. It's that dangerous
be afraid of him. Hill is also that's also in the WikiLeaks.
Yes. Oh, yeah.
Danger. Dangerous. Donald dangerous. Donald was never took
off. That was that was there trying to counter crooked
Hillary with dangerous Donald did pick off quick one here.
This was, oh, this is CNBC, Joe Kernan. And he was talking to
the Clinton cash author of the book, which as you saw
Breitbart, they Breitbart was actually interesting how this
worked. You had Breitbart. The no first you had anonymous
promoting this to 19 minute the crimes Clinton crimes, which was
a setup to the WikiLeaks release. Then we have the
WikiLeaks released Breitbart, incomplete concert releases for
a limited time for free only, which is always a beautiful way
to do it yet to register for it and all this stuff. You could
see the hour long Clinton cash documentary, which I have to say
in watching that and it was fun watching Tino wash it because
you forget so much when you think about Travelgate, of
course, whitewater everyone knows that and really Monica
Lewinsky is it was such a huge distraction from all these other
things. But here is a curtain and he's got this. He's kind of
slipping into mainstream CNBC not really mainstream and
marginalized the financial television channel, but he does
say something interesting.
So here's what happens. Laurie of education hires Bill Clinton
as the honorary Chancellor, he gets $16 million. The head of
laureate education a guy named Douglas Becker also runs a
nonprofit called the International Youth Foundation,
which is less than a mile away in terms of where the laureate
offices are. The State Department sends $55 million to
the International Youth Foundation, which then does
joint projects with laureate education. That to me is
something that warrants serious investigation.
Well, maybe there is something going on I did you see Laura
Ingram's speech at the convention, the end she pointed
up to the all the media booths at the very top and said, When?
When do you finally go and look at phonies and hypocrites and
when do you do your job? When will that happen? Where is the
Where's Woodward and Bernstein on any of this?
Is that a great question? It's a great well, it's a great
question. That's
not a great question.
I mean, you know, I have to say the investigators at the New
York Times Washington Post. I heard you ramping up for it, but
I had already set it up. ABC News have done very good work in
this area. The most shocking thing to me is all this stuff
has come out last year, a front page story in New York Times
Washington Post, in all the debates and all the interviews
that Hillary Clinton has done with the mainstream media, she
has not been asked one question by the media on these topics,
which to me is shocking. I think any other political figure in
America with a 4000 word front page investigative piece in The
New York Times alleging money from the Russian government, the
transfer of uranium would at least warrant one question from
the mainstream media in terms of the political debate, and it's
never happened. It's really shocking to me.
Yeah, I agree.
Oh, it's so shocking. It's never, it's never seen. I'm
shocked, shocked that
someone sent me a clip from I think, a month ago from Darrell,
Congressman Darrell Eisah. And this, of course, must have been
on Fox, but I hadn't heard this before. I might
point something out. That has nothing to do with today. But it
has everything to do with tomorrow. There's an ongoing
investigation of the Clinton Foundation and the cash that
flowed in from sources in Russia and around the world. That
ongoing investigation includes the president United States, and
how he would essentially recruit this money and Hillary Clinton
would do things that were beneficial to these companies,
these countries in some case, that is still ongoing. And so
that may be as troubling is why was he on the airplane when in
fact, he may have been guilty of wrongdoing himself in another
investigation going on that the FBI director has not been
willing to talk about.
There is definitely something going on. Still. The Clinton
Foundation isn't, you know, admittedly meant nothing may
come of it. But there's investigations going on for
sure. Maybe just, I think we should probably take a break and
then move on. I'd like to talk about the WikiLeaks, DNC and of
course, about the Tim Kaine and we should talk about that.
Yeah, Tim Kaine,
I'll just, I'll just end it with Chris Matthews, who, of course
did not at all like the Republican Convention everybody
was pretty tired. I was listening to a number of the
Sirius channels because they were all live the POTUS channel
and of course the which I just call the the gay channel is
crazy. This this progressive channel has no straight voices
on anymore. I'm feel alienated. But Matthews if you really
nailed it, this is really what they all care about. See you in
Philadelphia.
It really is gonna be fun. Yeah, I think it's gonna be a lot of
fun. A lot more celebrities. A lot more bold print less
intrigue
me less singer, celebrity,
Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection now. Oh, yes.
Don't forget it's the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly
Affection. Which means he added that Yeah.
Oh, brother. Yeah, listen,
let's it's a good one isn't the guy and it goes. Listen, it's
funny. Here we go. Lesson three gonna be less Sanger. I'm gonna
go back a little further. Here it is. See you in Philadelphia.
It really is gonna be fun. Yeah, I think it's gonna be a lot of
fun a lot more celebrities lot more Hollywood. A lot more bold
print. Lesson
three gonna be less singer. Singer.
There'll be no anger. It shows the City of Brotherly Love and
Sisterly Affection now Oh, forget oh,
what so it's a lesbian town now what are they
saying is gay and lesbian? That's exactly what I'm saying.
But you'll see the lesbians just like LGBTQ they will want to
have the L first it will be Sisterly Affection and brotherly
love you just watch you couldn't wait for it to happen. And with
that I'd like to thank you for your courage say in the morning
to you John. For the C stands for convention watcher Devorah
heck
well this morning to you Mr. Adam curry also in the morning
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That was the witch hunt episode. And we say in the morning to Jae
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we like most is how he had done the no agenda font in the in the
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available. But it was it was very it was it was not easy to
find. The art we wanted there was there was multiple good
pieces,
there was a lot of good pieces. And they we had a couple of
debates and and we always have this this thing people should
already should notice. That's why you shouldn't give up.
There's a number of pieces, I think at least two in that batch
that were the conversation goes like this. Well we can use this
because it's very specific to what we talked about. This is
kind of specific to what we talked about, but we're going to
talk about it again. It might be a good evergreen piece. And so
then we push it off. So some pieces that are so then we go
for what we consider the best art per se. Yeah. And it's just
good. We spend a good had 20 minutes on this
20 minutes sometimes
say well actually sometimes is drag on but then when we have to
go to the evergreens is oh my god, we just keep plowing
through them anyway but
the appreciation we have for the artists doing this is very, very
high. It's why we always talk about the artists, even before
we thank people who've donated funds, so we do appreciate it.
Yes, yes. It adds a dimensionality to the podcast
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Okay, what is your favorite Manning clip?
Now? I think I guess at that if you can find any mack daddy clip
Yeah, I probably can. Let's see if we can give this a shot this
is my favorite. No, no, no, no, no, no no no no no remix. Oh,
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And you've got karma. And
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Mercy buckets. Let's start. Sorry, Duke Nussbaum Yes.
Virginia and Virginia Beach in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Live
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North Carolina is not a Virginia. Beautiful town for a
city. Yeah, I do. Nussbaum here, working away at the Facebook
data center. Please. More three hours shows no jingles require
Yeah.
So he lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. But he's work he
actually sent me. He's working at the data center. Nuff said.
We will never mention that again. Because it's good for us.
Now.
What he's referring to is the news, the mailing I sent out on
Saturday, where because we had very little money coming in on
the Pay Pal account. I bitched about I think the you hate our
show, and it's too long. And I do complain it we do the show
supposed to be two hours and 45.
Let me say the number one thing we talk about after the show is
Was it too long? Yes, this is true. But we always talk about
it. And I'm most of the and I'm grousing more than he than Adam
does
well, and you're grousing, because you don't you? It's just
technically not possible for you don't really have control over
that. And I tried to have control but I am out of control.
So it's always my fault.
Yes, this is true, because you are the producer. The show goes
long. Yeah. It's because you let it go along. So
when I when I see your newsletter, of course, I feel
personally responsible. And I agree, I totally agree with you.
I mean, I have not I don't think I've worked as many hours in a
day for these shows the past the past month, and ever in the
entire history of the show.
We've gotten and we've gotten long, we've gotten 309 on one of
the shows and then this one, which I tried to put the kibosh
on by bitching about it during the show. We went 302 Or there's
still over three and I liked the if it was under three at least
it's okay. Well, it's this is under three because
less is more. I mean, this is just programming. This is how
you program you show. Yeah, we
don't they here's the Yeah, and what that's right, less is more.
And here's one of the things that we want to avoid, which is
running out of steam. Yeah. At the end of the show, and people
say well, yeah, okay. Instead of what you really want to do when
you do these shows is you want people to want more or less. I
mean, that's just an old way of doing things. And that's why
when I wish the show is longer,
exactly. So when you see donations support for the show
low, then we know we failed one way or the other. There was
clearly not it enough demand that at the end of the show for
more show, I get it. And I feel more responsible than you should
actually.
Well, you can feel responsible, but that's beside the point. It
just happens. Yeah. Now,
I've been doing this for a while we know how this works.
Now we have a bunch of people that donated because I sent this
thing and complaining and you know, it gets to people. Okay,
well, I'll donate. Finally, a lot of people first timers. But
they're all say now I like it long. There's not one person
says you're right, John. Yeah, I did. Yes, Debbie. said Adam. So
you know,
it has been quarter three almost every night that I get to bed
and 730 awake. It's It's insane. And we don't we see if we had if
we hired a producer, then it wouldn't work because we can't
afford to hire a producer. So we do it ourselves. Right? Which is
also a big benefit because you're doing it yourself. It's
you get to do exactly what you want to do. You don't have to
explain go back and say Oh, this is no good. But I'm just saying
physically tiring. That's all I'm just saying. physically
tiring right now.
Well, these are these conventions are rough. And
again, it chews up a little bit.
It's not just conventions, John, it's no screw that we had a coup
in Turkey. We had a shooting easy there was there was two
more people killed today in Germany with a guy with a with a
machete.
Another machete? Yes. Sure. It's not the same old machete.
No, this is in rolling in which is right near Stuttgart. Let me
see. Yeah, it's how many people oh man killed. One person woman
wounded to others. I mean, so yeah, I can't leave that alone
after show. I gotta go look into that. My phone has already been
blowing up. I get pictures, everything on the media. You
can't trust them. You can't rely on them. They don't have to have
anything for you. Because well, we have to. We have to vet it
first. Yeah, well, I don't need to vet the guy bleeding on the
street that comes from our intelligence network. I get it.
Kevin Rosenberg comes in with $337.23 He's in Albuquerque, New
Mexico 33723. And now all he says is notice Kevin Rosenberg
Albuquerque New Mexico.
Hello Kevin Rosenberg
thank you for your courage and maybe he's got some I didn't see
any email but maybe
I'll check while you're we move on. Okay.
And he we will get him some karma whatever the case.
I'll do it right now.
You've got karma? No, I got nothing.
Another another just has no no and I did look in the email to
find something Jason Lewis came in from Macon, Georgia 333 33
Macon, Georgia by the way I've been through I find this to be
one of the most fascinating towns in Georgia. It is soul
fashion old fashion is still alive. It's not like a dead
town. It's a very I liked edge. Macon, Georgia. It's I think it
was really great. I drive a drum hanging out. I think I spent the
night there and I is this is
this the I think I've been making do they have the trolleys
still driving to their seat mainly for tourists now but it's
trolleys and you have I don't remember you lined streets and
it's very
dead picturesque. But there was one thing I said this is a town
I think a lot of people could easily live in. It's very
comfortable that people are very nice. Until then I went to get
gas, and I was kind of nixed on the town as any sort of place
you want to live. Because gas station on every pillar there
was one of these electric bugs zappers and there was piles of
bugs that was at least three feet high. That's all you heard
was millions of bugs.
Yeah, but there's no Zika in Macon. Yeah, to be right. I was
thinking of Savannah. I'm mistake.
Dynamite. Yeah. Thankfully, Anna is one of the Savannah and
Charleston for people who want to travel the United States. Two
of the most picturesque towns in the world. Anyway, but anyway,
Megan's got a lot of bugs. DJ, the millennial came in,
during the millennium, to Reto
333 33 from Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'm so grateful
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multiple times, and have had several my friends and my boss
in the mouth over the last few years after reading the
newsletter, I realized that it's time to step up and start my
path to knighthood. Hopefully, fellow listeners will also step
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long. Okay. I would like to request a de douching. You've
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reality protect reality. protest. I hate
I hate reality. One of us just briefly thank you DJ the
millennial, the How about Ivanka saying I'm a millennial because
they put a different face on Millennials for me
yes she did say that I thought that was very interesting. I
liked it a lot of course it's to appeal to the Bernie voters I
get it but it was well done and also like yeah, if all
millennials will like her, what a wonderful world this would be.
If there's not too much to ask and if no one else has a title
I'd like to request the title surveillance be saved for my
eventual knighthood love and light. DJ the Millennium from
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John hight and Folsom California up here by the prison 250 bucks.
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we should have an intermission maybe but also just record the
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I have some of the clips and some of the stuff some of the
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just do an intermission and then come back and then. Anyway,
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John Heidi's doing 50 bucks from Folsom. Give them a Karma as we
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Thank you very much, sir.
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Kristoff was it Python? Python Python Python. It's p y th o UD
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donations are low. He says I thought this would be the
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think yes. He's seen us on the list.
You guys saved my life. Or at least my sanity. I'm moved to
the US and 2013 from Switzerland Gitmo nation cheese question,
Martin.
No, that would be Holland is get my nation cheese. That's
lowlands
as lowlands
banks as a result of marrying the love of my life.
Give my nation fondue. Oh,
I like it. Yeah, that's what it'll Yes, fine. Donation
fondue. Yes. Probably high cuisine. As I settled down,
wanting to be informed about what was going on in my new
country, I started exposing myself to the mainstream media
and put it mildly. It felt very wrong from the outset. Like it
would slowly but surely render me insane or stupid. Decision
along
this is the transition from one dimension to the other. Where
you hear the same information, you just process it differently.
You've been listening to David Icke,
no, I have not been you know how I'll talk about it later, I was
working on one of our other projects, which we'll talk about
eventually, you know, the programming and programming of,
you know, like, you have your broadcast programming top of the
hour, the news, then we got to like, easy programming, top 40
radio. First of all, it really starts at 246 Pass the hour,
because that's when you come out of commercials, you want to be
first out of commercials with a huge hit, then you're going to
play to more top 40s Didn't get top of the hour, then you get a
recurrent thing, you get a golden Oh, dang, go to the top
10 hit. That's programming. But programming, of course, is also
and it's two sides of the same coin. It's like code, you know,
you can have code that runs a computer, you can have code that
runs your brain and makes you feel good about certain things,
the order of songs. So that's why I came up with it. It's,
I'm sorry, I
asked. You'll be even more sorry later then.
Oh, fortunately, I'm a longtime fan of John since the golden
days when PC Magazine was a five pound paper. It was. Yeah, it
was. And even that was what the good old days
and even the ads were interesting. Yes, yes. Yes,
that's true.
And I would always read John's column first. So I decided to
check out no agenda show John kept mentioning boy do I regret
not doing that sooner. The first podcast I listened to open my
eyes on what was really going on in Ukraine. in late 2013, and
shattered my worldview, I also became an instant fan of the
smart and authentic Adam McCurry. Since since then I've
been hooked hooked I tell you, and convert all my subscriptions
to dishonest publications like Newsweek or converted against he
canceled the Washington Post economist wired etc into
donations to oh it converted to donations to the show. I wish
every free rolling douchebag out there would do the same so that
you guys could go on for a very long time.
Very nice. Yeah, so he will be knighted as Sir Christoph that
cantankerous a name suggested by his beloved Gitmo nations fondue
lady Christine.
And opposing,
supposedly that reflects his personality no jingle request to
compensate for the long note just somehow homebuilding and
startup karma.
Happy karma off John.
I forgot to clip it. Did you notice Ivanka? How she would
have this? This slight little giggle when she was in between
sentences. No. Oh, crap. I'm now mad. I didn't clip it. She had
this the cutest thing to you like call me. How's that? That
kind of guttural
mumbles she has.
It was I'll dig it up for Thursday. Very cute. Anyway
onward. Yeah, she's
everybody's a sweetheart.
$120,000 worth of plastic surgery. Can you do it?
I don't know. I saw when she was a little kid. I didn't. What's
plastic surgery that you get?
But what was interesting about that post, if someone edits
their posts, you can see what the previous edit was. And I
swear to God, so the post was Yeah, is it really easy with
$820,000 worth of plastic surgery? The previous post was
$520,000 worth of plastic surgery I guess you didn't think
was enough and added another 300 grand on top of it. People are
dominant sane and sick. Now they're sick they will no no no
sick they just gather insane if different programming. Okay,
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Says the show has been phenomenal. Thank you. Could I
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Yeah, that there's the Chicago meetups all the
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Finally, last but not least is Steve March he marshy In March
he in San Jose California. $200 ITM gents. Thank you for your
courage. The shows have been fantastic, as usual. And I'm
sorry that donations have been down. I'm kicking a little extra
over my subscription to show my trio of douche bags. And here
they are. Pete douchebag Jack, douche bag and Rob bag. That is
time to donate more. Okay, Brian was
for that. Yeah, definitely.
You've got karma.
That kind of that does conclude our Executive Associate
Executive Producer group of well wishers and we want to thank
them profusely. We only had one when I sent that newsletter, I'd
have to say we had one in and it was an Associate Executive
Producer ship. I'm not sure don't remember which one of this
group. And then we got all the rest of them who came in within
the six seven hour period that followed the newsletter, which I
was very I'm glad everyone responded positively. I know now
that we didn't screw up the last show,
not too badly. But we still need to keep the time in check. I
think we do need to be careful. Yeah, we don't want to run out
of steam. That's exactly it. Well, thank you, executive
producers and Associate Executive producers. Thank you,
thank you, thank you, I feel a lot better about the work that's
gone into it. Because the value for value add works on all
sides. Obviously, that's how it does come together. These are
real credits, use them wherever credits are accepted and valid,
because they are just as valid as any other movie or Hollywood
credit. Just don't get the hookers. And of course, we'll be
thanking everybody at the $50 level or above later on in the
program. And please, please, please remember we have another
show coming up on thursday.org/n. A, you may think
we are guardians of reality, they think all kinds of but you
definitely need to propagate is
this. We go out. We had people in the mouth shut up.
When we get into heavy clips or anything I think we should I
want to say that I also read I've now read both platforms.
Now of course, the the party platform, Republican or Democrat
doesn't necessarily mean that that's what their nominee is
going to fight for. But it should be the the the thing that
I heard most often about the Republican platform was pretty
much went as following most LGBT unfriendly history.
Well, then you want to play my clip of Peter Thiel.
And here we go Peter Thiel.
I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of
all, I am proud to be an American.
I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's
platform. But think culture wars only distract us from our
economic decline. And nobody in this race is being honest about
it, except Donald Trump.
Now that thing I didn't get this clip for a whole bunch of
reasons. But most response from the media who wanted to really
rip him to shreds in this he was a pretty short speech and most
of course, this is the asshole the billionaire who's trying to
kill free speech by suing Gawker out of existence. I want to
point out that the reason why Peter Thiel is angry is because
they are voted him and I believe this is actually his, his real
coming out. I don't think he has ever said anywhere. I'm gay. Did
he actually come out anywhere even after Docker did though
there
is a place to come out? That's convention
and I thought that was genius. No one picked up on that or they
didn't want standing ovation for that. And I'm talking media. I
don't care about the people that are media media media.
Everyone's just you know, pounding. Sorry, bad, bad word.
But yeah, I think he came out at the Republican National
Convention that needs to be commended.
I you know, these guys, I thought most of the speakers I
like to religious omit the preacher was great. I mean,
there's a lot of these people that gave speeches. I thought it
was a good group of people I was
blown out. Now what we need to talk about as we move into the
WikiLeaks DNC hashtag is two things. One, well, we have
Twitter, it's hard to see, but I could say arguably, they are
definitely down playing trending of, of these WikiLeaks. But
Facebook really did something quite extraordinary. Oh, yeah.
And even if you wanted to post a link in a post that that
contained a link to, I don't know if it just wikileaks.org or
if it's the full URL to the to the DNC hacked emails, but you
get a warning that says sorry, this, this could possibly
contain malicious code, this is not safe. You know, you can't
post this. That is now this is This is so crazy.
That's one thing you should note, this is why I want to just
make this point. They put the link there in the warning. Yes.
So they said you you cannot post this link, and then they put the
link. So if somebody wanted to cut and paste it to see what the
hell they're talking No,
no. Yeah, true. But no, no, no, I'm sorry. First, it was when
you tried to click on the link from a post, they would say
warning. But then when you want it to post on to Facebook, he
would not allow you to post if it had those links, you see the
difference?
I do see the difference. But the one I saw was the one that
definitely
I understand. But you don't you know, you're not on Facebook. So
you if you go onto Facebook, which you're not, and you want
to make a post Hi, friends, look at this great link and you post
a wink to the link to the WikiLeaks, DNC, you get a
warning saying we can't post this because it has dangerous
content.
But that's the warning when it I retweeted that somebody posted
on Twitter, and it does have the link and oh my god, you're not
under not to leave. They don't have a link, they have the the
John,
I understand what you're saying. But it is true. Okay. So people
had posted this link, then Facebook said, Hey, this link is
dangerous, and it has the link, you can copy and paste it. But
after that, if you wanted to make a post about the WikiLeaks,
it would not let you make the post. So there was two levels of
escalation. Okay. Now, what Facebook and Twitter are doing
is not only dumb, is incredibly dangerous. And let me just
explain to briefly. And this of course, is from my mind
influenced by the great work of Professor Theodore. So we talked
earlier about programming, you're the media term, it's also
the action of putting instructions into something. So
these really come together, particularly in TV for as long
as that television and we don't bring it up enough anymore. I
think on the show. TV programming is solely meant to
sell you advertising. I don't care what anyone else says. It
used to be different with news. Used to be different with news,
right. There was a loss leader, Al
Knightley with ethic with pure news. Yes, it used
to be that way. Yeah, but now news is also a profit center. So
the whole
drug companies own it. Yes. And okay,
so drug companies, then we'll say, all program programming on
television ultimately is meant for you to see ads and
byproducts. And enough of you to come in so that they can tell
the advertisers, your increase in products is because of our
advertising. But what this does, is it creates a cycle. It's a
fear cycle. And we've talked about this too, you don't buy
this car, you'll never get laid, you don't have this beer, you're
certainly never gonna get laid. You know, if you don't take this
medication, your family is going to fall apart. You're going to
wind up in a depression hole and you'll have anal leakage all of
this stuff. So we have this cycle. And of course the you're
now you're in the cycle, I have to buy this you can't afford it.
You get into debt and the frustration happens. And I think
the frustration was really growing to a pretty big
proportion. And then we got social media. And what was what
I think now I'm really understanding it's social media
was so great because the unknown heard people, not everyone has
the vote, everyone wants to be heard. And this is what comments
are about, etc. He just wants to know I believe in this and
someone comes in you argue, and it's quite safe to do this back
and forth. You can call each other names, you can do whatever
you want. But it's a way it's a way to vent your frustrations.
And of course, some of it's an echo chamber, but really is what
you want is I've seen I can show you example, after example, post
something someone from the counterpoint comes in 15 pages
of argument ensues, but people are getting some of their
aggression out. If you remove that, if you remove the
opposition, there will be no one left to argue with and to be
angry about. And this is going to make it spill onto the
streets. It is the most dangerous thing for them to do.
I think that we would have had riots and problems certainly in
the United States years ago, if it were not for social media. It
of course it started with blogs, and then comments. And from
comments, we went to the shorter form and the end the Facebook
form, which is really an interactive, it's not so much
that you can't even paste, inline links and stuff. And
Facebook is meant to keep you there. But it's all about the
discourse. You take that away. The trouble is going to come.
And it's because there's no more outlet. And then by the way, all
you need is one guy to say this. I am your voice. And that's all
you need. It's genius, but I think it's very, very dangerous.
What's happening and Facebook. They need and and Twitter, they
need to be aware of it. There. Okay,
couple things. I like this theory, and I think you're
correct. And in fact, it says I'm the cycle guy. We have
missed somehow a cycle of black riots besides the one in
Ferguson, right? Where the town's burned to the ground. Oh,
Ferguson, pretty much was it but you didn't see any that much
more than that? Like you did in the 60s, right? And where they
won with Detroit was burnt to the ground in Los Angeles.
There'd be Watts riots. Watts was a major, major things right.
And there wasn't the kind of triggering mechanism is it was
just frustration. here's the here's the only thing I would
take issue with. These guys are true believers, Zuckerberg and
Dorsey, they are Democrats. Like every other billionaire, which
these guys are both every other billionaire in the country.
They're Democrats, people have to go and we talk about this a
lot. The rich are Democrats or not Republicans. The Republicans
typically are upper middle class maybe in some some upper class
but not as much as the Democrats. Buffett's a Democrat.
The Gates is a Democrat. Ballmer is a Democrat. All these guys
are Democrats. And the Peter Thiel zone, one of the few
Republicans that in the group. And it was, you know, revival
Milo, Milo, and then so what you have is these guys think they're
doing the party a favor? They don't give a hoot No, about what
you just said, No, I
know, they don't of course, they don't give a hoot about it. And
in fact, I expect there's another throwback. I expect
Facebook soon to be using a new version of the Bozo filter. I
think that's where they're gonna go,
ah, the Bozo filter is a fabulous idea.
I'm sad that the Bozo filter went away, perhaps you should
just code explain the Bozo filter for our younger, younger,
younger listeners,
we actually used to use the Bozo filter on the early PC Magazine,
online forums. And what it is, and I call for it every once in
a while, what a bozo filter is, is that it creates a piece of
code that you are identified as Bozo. Eric B. And that's and
you're making trouble in the forums, you're just making a
fuss and you're nobody likes you. So you
Excuse me, excuse me, by the way, avoid zero mountain vortex
listen up. Thank you.
So So you are a jerk in the forums and you got to be
controlled but you can't be just bounced all the time where you
ended up like you know, there's a, you know, the certain
podcasts that have the keep bouncing people and they get
ridiculed for it. And the guys come in with different names,
they do all these different things. They they become some
aversive the Bozo filter, just as like a flag on your name. So
you keep posting there is no evidence that you're going to be
bounced there. You look like you're still there. And you're
so you're posting but no buddy sees it.
But you do. So you look at this. And you see your posting, right,
but no one's responding.
You see the rest of the form, everything looks normal, except
your posts are actually not going on to form the big forum.
It just goes on a kind of a fake version of the form that you're
seeing. So you see your own Oh, I posted Well, I don't
understand why nobody's saying anything to me. And you go on
and Pretty soon you realize you're you're a bozo.
In fact, I would recommend certainly to Twitter. If you
want to block somebody instead of the block function. The way
it works now is when you block you don't see anything that
person doesn't know you're blocked. They know they're
blocked because they continue to see you. But you never see no
one who is mentioned in the tweets will no one except you
will see your response to it. So you just keep thinking that
you're a part of
it. They did add the mute filter, right? But it's the mute
filters kind of like a bozo because you're not you don't
appear to be blocked even though you're, you're blocked.
But it's funnier if you're then muted your your bows out for the
whole network, not just for one person is funnier if you're just
posting and posting and eventually, oh, man, this thing
sucks. Go away.
No, that is true. It's better if you finally show the buzzer for
that. So we should
have that in the chat room. No more banning or kicking. Just
someone put them in the Bozo filter. So they think they're
making all these funny comments, but no one sees it. But then why
does this not exist in our chat room already? It's called Shun.
Actually Thank you mountain vortex. Yeah, put that in, man.
That's cool. I
like that. Well, bozos funnier than Shun? Well, that's just
what it's
called in IRC land, but we'll call it Bozo. All right, well, I
guess we destined it well, okay, where were you?
Okay, so now back to the I think we should talk about oh,
actually, about the, the platforms, I read both
platforms, okay. And this, this idea that the most LGBT, or
actually, the quote is most anti LGBT platform in history. And
when you remember, I told you about the conversion therapy. I
said, this is y'all know about that? Yeah. But it's not in the
platform. The word LGBT, the word, the acronym LGBT is not
even in the platform. Now, they do talk about interesting, very
tricky language. But children are best suited by two parents,
they don't necessarily say to the same parents, which I
thought was interesting. They don't say, you know, opposite
sex parents. And there is known the conversion therapy has come
from a portion about medical care, where and of course, it
could be used for this, no doubt, where the platform says
parents should have the right to determine what kind of therapy
their children get. That's it. That's it.
That's what's everyone's interpreting as conversion
therapy, big promotion, I was under the impression not having
read this knowing you would, I was under the impression that is
in there. You can do conversion therapy on these crazy gays.
It's not it's just not in there. I mean, they're the acronym is
not even in there.
So LGBT, whatever is not in there at all. No.
No, the platform talks about all people universally, which I
think is why Trump didn't have any other mentioned really, of,
you know, racism, etc. Because their idea is, and I don't know
if that's playing yet, but their idea is we don't care. And I
think Trump kind has tried to say that, but I don't give a
shit what acronym you have to protect you gonna fly without
it? I know, I know. But there is nothing in here. Now you can
construe it that way. And maybe we'll maybe it was put in with
that language to do that. And even so I have to agree. I don't
agree with the practice. But if you want to put your kid in some
kind of therapy for whatever reason, versus necessarily
drugging them up, which is the preferred method, you should
have that right. So I'm not quite sure if that's in there as
a as code, but there is nothing nothing in here. The only reason
why can be called the most anti LGBT platform in history is
because it doesn't specifically say what they're going to do for
LGBT. And if you look at the Democrat party platform, they
have a very different approach. They say even if you just read
the table of contents you can almost look at this and say
okay, I don't let me see raise incomes and restore economic
security for the middle class. That's not me. I don't care,
create good paying jobs, I might read that fight for economic
fairness, you know, okay, bring Americans together and remove
barriers to opportunity. So ending systemic racism, closing
the racial wealth gap, reforming our criminal justice system,
guaranteeing civil rights guaranteeing women's rights
guaranteeing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights
guaranteeing rights for people with disabilities guarantee the
so what you do is what are they going to do for me let me go to
a women's rights let me go to civil rights. They break it down
specifically by every individual group, which I think might be a
mistake. Just because that's all Yeah, I don't know. I just have
these plans. Doesn't doesn't really matter that much. But I
did want to say that okay, well, absolutely. cuz I didn't know.
Absolutely. And yeah, well, I read these things. You know, I
like that. Now the the WikiLeaks, this has been a lot
of fun. I think we both picked up some some stuff. I think the
most egregious ones were paying people, the Democratic National
Committee paying people to protest.
Yeah. And if you can't get enough people since them the
end interns that said, in fact, I don't want to go out there now
that another one that I thought was we already kind of knew some
of this. But the fundraiser by the Washington Post for Hillary
Clinton, are you kidding me? The Washington Post hosted a
fundraiser?
It's an it's unbuilt, I said this, if you remember, a number
of weeks ago, I said the Washington Post cannot be
trusted. And I only came to that conclusion based on the way they
were acting. I didn't know any of these details. But that's
outrageous, but not a surprise.
No, not a surprise. So what is great about this is just there's
tons of stuff. I'm sure that if you hacked into the RNC server,
you're gonna get the same stuff and the other direction, as
note, no doubt about it. But they have, you know, they frame
the talking points, the dangerous Donald mean. You see,
the journalist from the New York Times offering to spin covered
coverage for the DNC and exchange for a Hillary quote to
me this is paying for access a quid pro quo, which you're not
supposed to do they if you're a journalist, you might want to
consider not doing it.
I mean, that's what they criticize the National Enquirer
for doing all the time. And that to me sounds like just a version
of the same thing.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of course, now, she is not going to
be speaking at the convention, which is a big deal. I mean, you
might as well just be fired I guess. They can't deal with
that. They tried to do whatever they can for the fallout she's
going to come out and at least gavel the thing I don't like
don't
but she may she may gavel but she won't apparently speak and
this of course, was going to be a very important speak speech
for her. So
she is so corrupt, which is the perfect word she did. Most of
these leaked memos or emails are about how to screw over Bernie.
Yeah, yeah. And that is now and so we had the hashtag Bernie
must What is it denounced devolve? What is the hashtag
started started last night. There's someone sold to what
they all want is Bernie to run as an independent, which of
course as which, of course is the funniest thing because I
believe the numbers will show that if anyone particularly
Bernie Sanders tries to run for as an independent that that
would split the vote and I think Trump would win. Oh, yeah,
easily so he can. He's damned if he does damned if he doesn't,
which is just an amazing place to be. Particularly when it's so
obvious how screwed how he got screwed. Yeah, let's
call him a Jew. Let's call him an atheist. Well, in Kentucky,
one of the members goes all West Virginia and Kentucky there'll
be susceptible for Jew him out the whole.
I have a clip about Debbie Wasserman.
I think the buzz in Washington is that this is not the way
Democrats wanted to get started. No ship party continues to make
concessions to the Bernie Sanders camp hoping to keep the
peace. The rules committee we know agreed on what sounds like
a task force or whatever to try to reduce the number of
convention super delegates, that something Sanders has been
pushing for sources and the party leadership widely
acknowledging though how awkward the situation is right now.
Thanks to WikiLeaks, the decision not to have Debbie
Wasserman Schultz speak is more than just the chair of the party
sacrificing yourself for the good of the process. DNC chair
was criticized by the Bernie Sanders campaign is showing
favoritism toward Hillary Clinton. And though she and
other top Democrats denied at the leaked emails or evidence of
the bad blood that was boiling behind the scenes. So you have
that email. From May Debbie Wasserman Schultz appearing to
be very upset with public statements by Sanders campaign
manager Jeff Weaver criticizing the Nevada Democratic Party
after protests he writes, damn liar, particularly scummy that
he barely acknowledges the violent and threatening behavior
that occurred. And then you have that email quoting Weaver as
saying I think we should go to the convention with Wasserman
Schultz saying he's an ass so. I mean, it's very tough English
and very frank language, the kind of language you hear in
politics all the time. These are Democrats talking about each
other. And it just sort of plays into the narrative that the
Bernie Sanders people have been pushing for some time. Christie,
okay.
That's the thing to know. What is that the Republicans and the
Democrats even though the Republican has the Republicans
had a bunch of protesters, they were all obviously bought and
sold by the DNC, which was going on during the Trump campaign to
the Democrats have real protesters, yes. Because the
youth of the Democrat party can wish tends to be, you know, a
little more liberal than the mainstream of the party. They're
progressive, if not communists, they are they can be incredibly
violent. And this this this is not a rigged thing. Everything
that Republicans are buying people to to go to protest, this
could be a get out of hand kind of a mess.
I agree. I agree. I think it will be and we know that the
summer of chaos was also tart targeting the DNC, not just the
the RNC. Bad but we have the new term from Code Pink, it was so
fun to see what's her name? Medina. Is that the the lady
from Code Pink, who was a who was the protester during Trump's
speech,
the lone protest Yeah, so that's Code
Pink and this Medina you can you tell it by the hairdo and
immediately so they are calling it the are they going to raising
a ruckus? Is their their slogan, we're gonna raise a ruckus but
they're gonna raise quite a ruckus at the DNC as well. They
have a list of protests that they're scheduling about 15
different venues where they're going to show up and protest so
there's gonna be a lot of protests and I think also man,
what happened to the summer of chaos what happened to all the
death and destruction with the crazy Republicans and the kk k
and the white supremacist and the cops and everybody killing
each other? No. Do you know who actually did a lot of the
blocking and calming down of the crowd? You're not going to
believe this. Vermin supreme.
You know, the guy with the boot on his head?
Yeah, what about him, so
verb, vermin supreme. Now, if you've never seen him, and this
is I vote independent, so that we can keep this not being able
to keep our country from being a two party system, so you can run
as an Independent? Yeah, you can be a kook with a boot on your
head. And he's the guy that says every American when I'm
President, everyone gets a pony, which I think is a great
campaign slogan. So he was out there and he and the minute
there was like a couple people and start to get angry he'd
start walking in front of them in between them and the cops
with his megaphone. Just saying crazy shit but funny. And people
started to laugh the cop started to laugh It's I can't play clip
because there's too much noise going on is just not audible
enough. But even black lives matter you know people think
hey, you know these these people are crazy narcissistic a holes
you know they're drunk they're they're nuts and vermin supreme
comes
in you see one clip of this Yeah, right
and vermin supreme comes as Hey, these are my this is my base.
This is my voters. The crazy drunk people come on over here
it was it was beautiful to see. And also they just weren't
enough people and I said before I believe that the the fire ran
out when a lot of people started getting killed cops getting
killed. I think people just said screw that noise. I'm not going
and probably a lot of the Bernie people are not voting or doing
anything staying home gone. They don't care. They switched off.
Pokemon Go. Yeah. Which I'm sure you saw this, but I'll just play
it this is the State Department John Kirby interrupts his his
reading of a tab Working
Group renewed its commitment to launching innovative
international campaigns and expanding regional and global
networks and accelerating global efforts to confront them in the
information space. As the Secretary said earlier today,
though, and I think it's important reminder, you're
playing the pokimane thing right there. Don't just get to porn
reminder, we noticed
the guy is playing poker. Monder is part of the report of the
State Department, press pool. And he says Well, I'm just
checking out the room seeing if there's anything here and then
be easy.
We recognize it's a challenge and we're clear eyed about the
work we still have to do. This is why we convene this important
ministerial and we'll continue to work with our coalition
partners to defeat dash did you get one? No. I'm sorry.
Did you get one he says no the signals not strong enough here.
That's your that's your press corps right there. Let's poke
him on poke him.
That's That's pathetic. So play this. We should talk a little
bit about Tim Kaine had got a couple of clips I want you to
listen to okay, but just start with the cane Sanders in the DNC
WikiLeaks clip
Latinos. McCain also proving he has what it takes to be the
attack dog.
Do you want to trash talking president or a bridge building
President
Trump lashing out on Twitter? The Bernie Sanders supporters
are furious with the choice of Tim Kaine, who represents the
opposite of what Bernie stands for. That dig a reference to
some Democrats who argue Kane isn't a true progressive.
Tim also has a backbone of steel just ask the NRA
so Here's how Hillary and I are gonna continue that work with a
strong, progressive agenda.
But today another potential hurdle. a trove of emails hacked
from the Democratic National Committee and posted on
WikiLeaks last night has created fresh scrutiny about whether the
DNC was pushing for Clinton, including this one, dated May 5,
in which one party official seems to raise questions about
Sanders face running to the DNC communications director. Does he
believe in a God? I think I read he is an atheist Sanders
supporters speaking out tonight.
I'm outraged as a Democrat, I am outraged because the DNC is
supposed to be a neutral arbiter. Yeah.
Now, it was just kind of a it's establishing clip. But the
beginning of that clip is interesting, because this was a
classic mainstream media report where they use the wisdom words
they use. She says, Guy Trump Just Did some, you know, tweet,
it was like, wow, this is not what Bernie would want. That's
pretty much what he said. But, but she preface it with Trump
lashing out lashing out I didn't catch that. Yeah. And then she
says, then she uses the word dig. As is in she knew he
slammed a pounding. I
slammed my pounding. Yeah, but lashes out. So I got only one. I
think Cain just a dud. A lot of people have identified that he's
probably had a vasectomy, he's got that look.
Oh, I hadn't even considered that he does have that kind of
shiny look, doesn't he?
Did you get that? Look, I also I wouldn't know this a good
example what we can do on this show, but you can't do anyplace
else. He seems gay to me. And I would like one of our gay
producers to do a gaydar thing because I never saw the guy in
person, but he just seems gay to me. But he did this. He was he
gave this speech. This is his opening speech. And he
he went
he did did a lot of Spanish. But in the middle of this little
chat here, he throws in what sounds like Latin. I think as
either talking in tongues, or he already I would like somebody in
the chat room is my opportunity to ask the chatroom first of
all, hold on. We have we have some. We have some feedback. Sam
Hyde says I'm a fag. He is a fag. Okay, so that's a good
start. We have
confirmation
of their race or economic status, regardless of their
religion or their gender, regardless of their sexual
orientation or where they're from. We've got this beautiful
country, that should be a country of welcome. That should
be a country of inclusion. And I know that that is a fundamental
value that Hillary Clinton shares
so he can totally come so I can totally go I'm a Catholic, and
Hillary is a Methodist. But I tell you, her creed is the same
as mine. Do all the good you can.
I didn't really hear the was hard to hear from me.
I have the ISO. Oh, okay. Is
this There we go.
So I got totally calm so I can totally go I'm a Catholic.
So I could totally go like a toilet come? Yeah.
Totally gone. So I can totally go I'm a Catholic.
Is that Latin?
I don't know. It sounds like Latin.
So he could totally come now the soy would be the Spanish
that doesn't sound Spanish because when he speaks Spanish,
he speaks very fluent.
He saw you know, he says so he told me he goes so he could
totally go I am Catholic. So I got totally, totally Catholic,
so he could totally go Okay. Thank you Roman Catholic
Catholic wishes. Okay, fine.
Hey, you know what, I think they should the slogan for for this
campaign. I you know, I like alliteration. I like that a lot.
So even if it's not actually the same letters, but so the Clinton
and Cain I like that. How about this? How about this cankles and
Cain? Cain and unable Oh,
now you're talking That's right.
Thank you hours of work on New Canaan unable catch on I like
it's really unfriendly that I would never say it out of this
one show but cankles and Kane just tickles me. I
don't know why. It's funny. It's not as it's not as deep now as
cane and unable that is dynamite.
Just this just in the the knifing in or machete or knifing
in near Stuttgart. A German citizen stopped this guy who was
a Syrian refugee apparently who did this by running over him in
his BMW. Oh, there you go. Good work. I think that's great. Who
needs guns? You can nice people and we'll and we'll take care of
you. We'll protect you with I recovered I BMWs. Fantastic. We
can make a little transition here, which has already helped.
We were helped very much by the mainstream. We would like to go
from, you know, talk a little bit about the terrorism and
what's been going on here is Richard angle, the documented
liar filled with kudos and awards from the journalistic
industry. But we have uncovered his reporting is really, really
false. And less than what he does, it's also
Brexit is just gonna say, Richard, I
mean, this is about the Munich attack, to draw a straight
line. I mean, do you draw a straight line from from
basically the Syrian refugee crisis to Brexit to what we're
seeing in Germany, France,
I think you can draw a straight line, a lot of the Brexit anger
was actually about internal European migration. The the
people in the UK were famously angry at the polls, because they
were taking so many of the blue collar jobs. So there was that
anger that things had already changed that British society had
already changed because of immigration. And then there was
the fear, somewhat unrealistic, but there was this fear that now
all the Syrians and all the Middle Easterners are coming.
We've had the polls first. And now we have to what, what more
is on its way, it's it's fundamentally on British, we're
losing our identity. And then these people went for, you know,
went for that option. But I do think it's having a major
impact. And then there's, there's, there's talk of, of
other countries, following suit and fences are going up.
Okay, so it's because of Brexit, and because of the hate of the
polls. Well, that's very simplistic what you're saying
there, sir. But MSNBC, the same organization, they took it to
where it needs to go,
you know, I think, Brian, one of the things that people need to
keep in mind about this as we listen again and again, and we
talk again, and again, this
guy sounds like Henry McCracken. You know, I think that sometimes
you get a
crack. And I know I
keep in mind about this, as we listen again and again. And we
talk again and again, about terrorism, about mass killings,
about all these horrible things that are happening is how few
people actually are involved in carrying them out. Because what
we're looking at now in Europe, and to some extent, at the
Republican Convention, and in the discourse in the United
States, there's a lot of talk about war, as if we're talking
about a massive operation, huge fifth columns, enormous numbers
of people, even when we're talking about countries that
have had a number of people go to Syria and train with ISIS can
perhaps come back, we're talking about a few 100 Here and there.
Yet, we're we're often talking as if we're gonna go to war with
a billion Muslims. And I think we need to be very, very careful
about that you are very careful in DC is very careful about
that. But the broader discourse is really kind of hysterical,
because the reaction that we all feel is that we want a simple
solution. We want to be safe again, we don't want this to
happen anymore.
And so of course, it is all about Brexit, which equals
Republicans equals Trump and you just don't want all this
bullshit in your country. Don't vote for Trump, whatever you do,
no,
I find the biggest irony to this whole thing in terms of the
Trump Trump popularity is that he all he's doing is playing on
the memes and the imagery and the fear mongering and the fear
porn of the media. Yeah. Who sides with Hillary? Yes. And
it's there's just a maybe, you know, the, oh, things aren't
that bad. Well, you're the one that just told us that was?
Yeah, oh, the whole country is racist. And all these things are
going on. Oh, where'd that come from? Okay, I mean, they've
created this is reminding me that this whole election cycle
is reminding me of the movie Forbidden Planet.
What was that again?
That guy was this he was there with his pretty daughter, the
Ivanka, Ivanka, same looking woman. And so there's this, this
scientist is stuck on this planet, and he kept him. He
says, You guys can go away, we can live fine without your help.
And he had discovered there was some sort of a civilization
there before that had magnified his brain ability to such an
extent that they could literally create a monster that would get
just by thinking about it. And so everybody amplified their
brains with this huge machine that was buried in the ground,
and everyone had dreamed up these monsters and they killed
each other there wasn't anybody left. Sounds like the media has
been doing sounds like a feel good movie. And so the guy this
one last guy went down and said, What the hell is good what the
hell's with this thing puts it on his head. Now he has the
power. Now there's a monster roaming around and when the
Interlopers come in, and one of them falls in love with the
daughter. The monster shows up and the monster trying to kill
them on a dead end. Eventually, they had to sacrifice himself to
kill the monster because it was really his brain creating this.
Again, this is what the media has done. The media itself has
created a monster called Donald Trump. Yep. Yep. They have
nobody to blame but themselves. In fact, let's listen to a
little more of this hate by this Andrea Mitchell.
Got a kick, Andrea Mitchell, the elites extraordinaire, MSNBC,
MSNBC. This was NBC. And she is of course married to Alan
Greenspan, former elitist Chair of the Federal Reserve
dog and also validator of Hillary Clinton, that he spoke
so much about her that she's spoken so much about him. And it
was so different than the rollout of the Mike Pence vice
presidential ticket just a week ago with Donald Trump walking
off stage and not talking about Mike Pence but talking about
himself. They think that this was really a home run.
This is a lie. It was just a lie. Because the when he
actually was with pence, which was recently he standing on the
stage the whole time, he doesn't have a problem talking about
himself and walking off the stage. That what they're talking
about is when he was at the convention, there's Pence was
giving a speech, what is Trump supposed to be?
Like stand up, but he knows how dumb AI looks. See chris
Christie? He knows not to do that? Of course. Yeah.
That's not the way Andrea Mitchell sees it. I want to say
mention one thing here that you talking about risks on Twitter
and Facebook because of their attitude. There's a rising
there's a huge risk. And I must know that whether Trump holds a
grudge or not. But if I was Comcast, and I had this bowl
crapped at MSNBC, and NBC keeps rolling out, just pounding tub
thumping from Hillary, and not even trying to be objective, or
like it just shown with this Andrea Mitchell clip. They're
not even trying if you listen to em, NBC, the nightly news, it is
just one sided. I don't see how a corporation that is under
fifth pretty much federal rules like that, like Comcast.
Are they though? Are they under federal broadcast rules? There's
some FTC rules FCC some some Yes. And Abel kind of doesn't
have its rules that way. I don't think, well, there
are FTC issues. There's monopoly issues, there's all sorts of
things that you if you wanted to harass the company make their
lives miserable. I think it's very doable. And I don't know
why they're inviting it, they are inviting it and I would
mention anybody's a shareholder in Comcast to maybe bring this
up as a as a topic of conversation that of
shareholders meeting. I just think is a bad idea. And what's
the difference? Why don't you just be objective? That you know
what?
Again, these people believe their objective. They truly know
that done they truly believe it. Just like people who say,
everyone, everyone receives and processes information based upon
their own programming and filters and how they were
raised. And, and really what you've been indoctrinated with.
It's a virus of the mind that but it does, I can't invalidate
how someone else feels about something they see who am I? So
I understand. I'm more interested in what is it exactly
that makes you feel that way? And I think it's very simple for
superficial things. It's imagery. You know, like the
Mussolini struck the chin strike. It's the perception of
shouting. There's a lot of different things that that
really, and once that's triggered, I don't think you can
even change it. I think you go. And, and so I don't, I don't
think these people are stupid. I don't think on both sides. It's
just how it's just how it is. And but today, we can share that
quicker, so it's easier to see it. But I don't think the media
is necessarily lying there in Emilio of completing a you walk
down the hallway. Hey, there's Rachel Maddow. Boy, Trump's a
dick. And what are you gonna say? That's your programming.
That's how it goes. That's how it works. Okay, I'm sorry. Which
is why people always talk about feeling so helpful, healthy,
when they listen to our show, because they get different.
But they get analysis paralysis. Yes, that makes sense. But I
still think Comcast is making a mistake. So let's talk a little
bit about the Munich thing because I just have one little
thing I want to do. I'm going to play a clip from one of the
mainstream media things did has a little kicker on it that I
want to read. I want to read this story about a terror attack
in San Francisco. Okay. And what is it what is this a clip would
be ABC Munich, Americans should shell they're in place
in the meantime to the other breaking headlines at this hour
the terrifying moments overseas. There had been an urgent manhunt
for the gunman. And now word coming in at this hour of the
suspect found dead. Authorities say he killed himself an 18 year
old Iranian. It comes amid that warning for Americans in Munich
to shelter in place and to contact loved ones. Several dead
than the number growing all afternoon in these shootings.
Okay. Now,
I think it's about time we called out to media for this.
Our government, and then you're talking about Trump and his
gloom and doom and whatever it is a dark when you have reports
like this, so I'm in Munich, which has got millions of people
and some part of town some maniac pulls out of Jersey, it'd
be a Glock 17 extended was that find out what the gun was?
Because I heard 16 shots isn't wrapped guns,
I guess. Interesting. You say that? I was like 1234567 like
that. Wow, that was 16 shots. And that must be an extended
mag. It must be no or there's multiple shooters
like 17 Hold 17 shots. Yeah. And he was on the roof and took a
shot. I think that was bullet number one. And he really went
through the clip.
Yeah, it's it's a magazine job.
Yeah, magazine clip, please,
please. Anyway, so let's all shelter in place and sit around
like scared little animals in Munich shelter in place and call
your call your relatives
and and please don't post anything on social media. You're
only helping the perpetrators plural. All right.
So here we go. Here's the headline. This is from 100 years
ago, 100 years ago. And this is what publication. This is in the
San Francisco Chronicle. And they reprint it or they read
they revisited the story. The deadliest terror attack in San
Francisco happened 100 years ago today. As members of the Grand
Army the Republic assembled at the Ferry Building, awaiting and
started the San Francisco lavish lavish preparedness Day Parade.
Getting ready for World War 111 Elderly veteran I'm sorry,
saying
I'm sorry. We used to have parades before going to war.
Yeah. Bad man. We need to bring that back.
Just as elderly veterans fainted just as an ambulance reached the
fallen man and explosion shook Market Street when the dust
settled a bloody scene painted the street the sidewalks Rhett
ran red and all around bodies of men and women almost almost
stripped of their clothes by the way when you have the these
these explosions, which was just another bomb at that enrich
people's clothes off his something we haven't seen
compression. Yeah, it's a void. So Shockwave. They lay in the
horrible, grotesque heaps wrote the Chronicle. It remains the
only terrorist attack in San Francisco history. The day began
as a great celebration but was not without controversy. The
praise the biggest in his parade was the biggest in city history
at over 51,000 marchers. This meant to celebrate the city's
preparedness for World War One the city was already at war with
itself however, labor unions were locked in an all out fight
with business owners, anarchists and anti war demonstrators
joined the voices against World War One and the nationalistic
prop preparedness Day Parade. Days before the parade hundreds
of businesses and individuals received a strange postcard in
the mail it was written in pencil with many of the words
underlined boldly and it goes on and but it's the letters of
saying you guys are going to be you we're gonna be we're gonna
bomb the place right? Despite the shocking blast the PERT now
this is the thing that compare this to who could cover and
should should hold yourself at the corner like a little rabbit.
Despite the shocking blast, the parade went on as scheduled. Oh
man bodies were still on the street when the parade continued
on over the over the broken bloody ground. Wow. Among the
rubble police found the bomb and Stewart and Mark had a suitcase
packed is another interesting thing, a suitcase packed with
bullets and shrapnel and set off a timed explosion set off by a
timed explosion. Without a scrap of evidence. They knew who's to
blame and then they frame some poor bastard for the thing. And
it turned out that when investigations were done by the
what precursor to the FBI turned out that it was the guy was
framed, and they had to be pardoned like 25 years later.
And it's just a crazy story.
How many people died in this 10
With 40 injured right. I think that
was interesting. It was packed with bullets. That's something
we
know I like that everyone's had screwed parade onward with the
parade knows Yeah. And the Howard pledge,
guys, yeah. Marching over the dead guys after the explosion.
Taking the whole thing. Well, there you go. The anarchists
were doing this stuff all the time. They never did find out
the real bomber by the way, and they just marched over to get
married and we just get to the parade gun and you know, hell
with it, no. Okay, get those bodies out of here.
Right? Well, part of that, of course, is because we've been
promised eternal life almost. And I was watching some George
Carlin for inspiration. And your euphemisms and how we've soften
everything we went from shell shocked in the First World War
to battle fatigue. Right, I remember this, too, eventually,
what we have today, which is post traumatic stress disorder,
which removes the human element and actually the violence from
it just ruins everything. So we've become desensitized and
think that, that we also just can live forever. It's it's part
of the promise, you know, we can send your kids to school, retire
with dignity. That's the American dream, according to
President Obama, just getting by who did say something funny
after the, the coup in Turkey.
And obviously, we can't discount. How scary and shaken
not just the Turkish Government is, but Turkish societies.
Imagine if you had some rough group of military officials here
in the United States who started flying off with ethics teams or
other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings,
and people were killed and injured. People be scared. And
rightfully so.
I don't know, we might be on the side of the military. I'm not so
sure about that. But it's an odd thing to say.
Yeah, it was very strange. He was also interviewed by John
Dickerson, who I've kind of admired as a CBS guy for working
for the Central Intelligence Agency broadcasts. Yes, yes. And
because Dickerson's goes, I think he goes a little bit off
script. Or he's or he's got some other agenda other than the
normal agenda of CBS. Because he actually there's a good clip of
him. He's talking, this is actually taking place on today,
on the Face the Nation, but this is an excerpt from it. And he
actually follows up Oh, no, when when somebody says something
stupid, and in this case, he's talking to Obama, who I really
doubt will talk to him again in the future.
Mr. President, when Donald Trump spoke to his convention, he
talked about the security threats I talked to they painted
a very dark picture. Now. There's been an
attack in June, you still have respect for him when he just did
the whole dark thing.
There has been a terrorist CBS
Yeah, true attack
in Germany. Doesn't that suggest he's right about the darkness?
No, it doesn't. Terrorism is a real threat. And nobody knows
that better than me. And one of the best ways of preventing it
is making sure that we don't divide our own country, that we
don't succumb to fear that we don't sacrifice
one of the best ways to prevent terrorism, is to make sure we
don't divide our own country. What? Yeah, what does that got
to do with anything?
All right. Well, you know, because he, I guess he considers
terrorism only if it's lone wolf domestic white guys, I don't I
don't know what he's one of these thinking. One of
the best ways of preventing it is making sure that we don't
divide our own country, that we don't succumb to fear that we
don't sacrifice our values. And that we send a very strong
signal to the world and to every American citizen, that we're in
this together,
explain how we would sacrifice our values specifically by being
divided.
Well, look, if we start engaging in the kinds of proposals that
we've heard from Mr. Trump, or some of the surrogates like Mr.
Gingrich, where we start suggesting that we would apply
religious tests to who could come in here that we are
screening Muslim Americans differently than we would
others. Then we are betraying that very thing that makes
America exceptional. I have two words for you. Predator drones
Yeah, of course. Jimmy Carter did that when they are Iranians
took hostages they prevented Muslims rioting and exactly
this. Of course, that's okay. But just don't bother with a
history. Jones just ad libbing. I think the guys on his design
is
unconscious at school. He is
coasting, he's coasting his way out. He's given up. Just a
couple of
things on Munich. Now I read German and we have people in
Germany are getting a lot of good information and a lot of
conflicting reports. The one thing is interesting is not a
peep anywhere about guns here in in the United States about these
about a guy Shooting Not a peep Not a peep about guns which you
can buy.
Oh, hold on. There was there was one peep that clip. No I don't
it was but it's a peep that in Germany where they have these
very strict rules you know that are just onerous. They said they
should make a restrictor.
Wow, yes, it's not easy to get you can get weapons in Germany,
but of course, the Glock that he had had the serial number filed
down according to report. So some reports ever says it make
at this point. So some reports say was his teenager who was
being pestered and bullied by Turks sub say he was inspired by
the far right terrorist, Anders Breivik, who, of course, five
years ago to the date, went off and killed all those children
who would be the next generation of socialists. And I just want
them in hand by
the way, the next generation of socialists is obviously hanging
out at McDonald's. The mall must be Brevik.
And, and the media is all about Brevik had a manifesto. No, he
had a compendium, which is something very different than I
read the whole thing. And we didn't even discuss it. We
talked about his Compendium, which is a collection not it's
not a manifesto at all. The only thing I felt odd is, or that was
odd if this guy was a Muslim, which I guess now he is, but
we're not still not really sure. The one thing I found of note is
that he's left handed. And depending on what kind of muslim
you are and where you were raised in your parents, you may
not be encouraged to use your left hand for a lot of things
because we we've discussed this, there's issues with left and
right hands particularly in in Muslim nations. So this guy was
lefty, the shooter, at least it was shooting with left. I'll
also say he was a bad shot, man, the people at McDonald's, he
just missed half of them. Evaluate not all of them. But he
was a lefty and I just pointed throwing that out there.
Well, it's one of those little obscure tidbits where you get on
the no agenda show and nowhere else.
I'm gonna show us move by donate to no agenda. Imagine all the
people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
I'm going to ruin it by saying what you just heard is two
professionals who know how to cue each other.
You do this all the time, I can't help it. I need to
relaxing on your laurels.
I need to deconstruct
nail it. you nail it. And then you have to. You have to stand
there with your Mussolini. Look.
How good was that? I just want to point out to people how it
works and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I
should be sorry because they can understand how it works when
they haven't happened. They go.
It's too soft. too subtle.
She is not too subtle. Okay, well let's thank a few people
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Wow, is that well,
I don't remember just being his name. That's not his name. No,
but he's got the healthy surprise of I got a box with
with some stuff in it. And he's got the healthy surprised logos
written on unhealthy surprise. I thought it
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Maybe J OHJOHG.
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Okay, well, he sold to this guy then. Yeah. Now the guy is
making edibles.
That's what Joe is doing. Well, the there's probably
I don't know what's going on. I do have a note on healthy
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Did you get edibles from them?
I got some stuff
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Thank you.
I listened to a recent show and you discussed CBD and THC and he
sort of talks about the what we discussed on the show about the
benefits of medical marijuana. Right? He says he and he goes on
what's more interesting stuff, which I you know, send you a
copy. Now he wants us to call out some people. Okay. Okay,
just one guy he wants to call. Jeff. I guess it's Jeff Marcy as
instructional. Anyway, I think he's part of the scene that's
going on, there's a lot of stuff happening. I'm like, I'm what
I'm gonna, I'm gonna go to Washington and like next couple
days, or next week, I guess. And I'm gonna go start visiting some
of these places that sell all this stuff. Because when they
first opened, I will say this little story. They Seattle had
merit Washington, it took longer to put their law into effect.
And Colorado did. And when they did, there was a bunch of these
shops as one of the CLI remember, I took pictures of it
with a line a mile long. And all those little shops in Port
Angeles, which are only open for like a couple hours a day, we're
all gotten the huge lines that go forever. And I think it was
just panic, there was just oh, God, this is not gonna last. Now
that everyone's relaxed into it, and nobody's really
propagandizing the way they were. I mean, they're still
doing it, but it's not as bad. Mimi says the shops are you just
walk in. There's a few old ladies in there and there was
looking around and she says everything's overpriced, but
it's like there's no line. You just go in, right. So things are
changing. This is a major deal. I
agree. I totally agree.
Okay, onward.
Oh, just one thing, just one thing you mentioned about the
said porn. I just needed to bring it up so you can pay
attention to it. The Republican platform says, online
pornography is a public health crisis. And this is being
universally laughed at not scorned, not disproved, laughed
at by the media laughed at. And I tend to agree. Oh, I totally
agree. This is a this is a this is a public health crisis.
That's for another show. I just wanted to throw that in so
people can pick up clips of this meme going on. Because Democrats
are all for really it's an I'm just telling you from women I
know who so at a later stage in life, have divorced, separated
and they date younger people, more millennials. And to the
tee. Every single one says When did sex gets so rough? It's a
little rougher than it used to be. It's a little more
aggressive. Yeah, but the change is real. And it's not
necessarily good.
Okay, I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't argue with you
different different different types of porn is amusing. No, it
does not saying that at all. But you know, but yeah, I
agree. If we didn't have it, it wouldn't be missed as far as I'm
concerned. You know, it's, it shouldn't be so easily
obtainable.
Turn Yeah. Let's do it a different time. Let's do it.
Again. I want to be done in under three hours.
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That's right, everybody. It's time for the tech horny to move
out of the way as we bring you the true tech news. John, I
think you have something I do.
In fact, I was. I thought, hey, you got a brand name. Your
name's Ed Snowden. Everybody knows who you are. Well, the
rock white do a product.
And then it's a whistleblower Edward Snowden has helped design
a mobile phone case, he says will alert a user when their
phone is potentially being surveilled. Speaking via video
link to an event at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Snowden and his co designer Andrew Bani Kwang
showed how the external device could automatically shut a phone
down if electronic Eavesdropping is detected. Snowden also said
while most people assume it's impossible for phones to be
listened to while in airplane mode, governments possess the
technology to eavesdrop even when people think they're safe.
You know, when Obama was in town, we're talking about this
on the show. My son was in the vicinity of the hotel he was
staying at Viper and well actually it wasn't there was
something beyond by this fight burns, not Viper,
Ito or something. Right thing right? Killer orca killer whale
Stingray, we got it.
And he says that the all the phones were surveilled and they
were drained. There was no battery life. Lana
right. Here. Here's my question.
How can you bet MIT work with a felon or a suspected felon or a
human wants to fill in an alleged felon would be led by
someone who was on there? Is this I mean, you you're not
allowed to even send Pay Pal and put the word Allahu Akbar in the
description. How can you be involved in selling phone cases
with a guy who is arguably one of the most wanted guys to
return the United States for prosecution? Is that legal? Can
you do it? Is it ethical to
think well, as far as I'm concerned, it's fine. But
whether it's legal probably there's probably some thing he's
been on a lot of video links with a lot of different people
over the years so I don't see that then he was being
prosecuted. And ethical. Yeah, they want to sell a product I
don't know. And how is it unethical? What do you agree
with the guy you know he's a patriot, not a tree. are
claiming we have everyone's Well, we have lots of people in
government saying he's a traitor. Yeah. And people who
want him prosecuted? Yes. Should they then not say, hey MIT not
while he's not been prosecuted or not, or they just let it go,
because it's cool, and it's a limited hangout and whatever we
talk about it, but it's just bullshit.
Well, it's I think everything you said is part of
the laws of laws of evil. But yeah, the The Washington Post
cares. The Washington Post actually did this whole article
about brands Snowden, which we have talked about since the
minute we
might as a coincidence, they did that article, then this thing
comes out.
No, this no, this article was about this thing coming out. Oh,
I didn't
know that. Because I never read the art. Edward Snowden. The
Washington Post, I've said it before. Now, he's hard to
but you know, this this, like, wow, who gives a crap? It's
like, it's a phone case. That, you know, when it detects RF,
it'll light up. Okay.
Well, that's it. I don't know. It has to do checked a certain
kind of RF, I guess has to be within our frequency range. If
that's that's Rf is we're being into we're being bombarded by
Rf.
Yeah, I agree. It would have it. Yes. True. It would have to be
very, very close proximity, low power. And maybe they can filter
in some frequency ranges. Yeah, you could do a low but you could
do a bandpass filter and just pick out specific signals. That
shouldn't be a problem. Oh, my God, why don't even know this
crap? Because I studied that's why because you're a ham ham.
That's right. You're gonna
save the world one day gonna save the world, my friend.
Vaughn, my phone.
And the only thing I have Oh, thank You that was protecting us
for today. There's nothing else you need to know. I have really
two quick packages. I wouldn't mind getting one out of the way.
I'll let you choose Black Lives Matter or killing Syrians,
Americans killing Syrians.
Oh, Americans killing Syrian Americans
killing Syrians. I'm glad you chose that. Because this is a
report packaged up. And I've put little pieces together here of
the RT. RT hottie Her name is Chaya, I believe Tria?
Yeah. Jaya Jaya.
And she is the Nemesis, the arch nemesis of John Kirby, who
cannot handle this woman. And it shows and this is it's very
unprofessional, what he's doing. And I think it makes him and the
State Department look bad and makes you look suspicious and
like a douche. We now have the report, which this started back
in, I think, January, that the US targeted certain targets in
Syria. And they had to make a calculus about the possibility
of civilians also being killed. And it turns out that this
strike they did killed about 50 civilians. And so, Shi'a brought
this up with Kirby
us strike that reportedly killed around 20 civilians in the ISIL.
Health city of Manbij. In Syria, was it a mistake on Monday?
That's another great accusatory question you've asked here. No
other military works as hard as ours. None. No other military in
the world to prevent civilian casualties. And when they happen
again, I'll say it again, because apparently, it didn't
sink in the first time. But when it happens, we investigators
fully and completely and then we're transparent about it. And
then we take the lessons learned and we try to prevent it from
happening again. Oh, okay, mom, she's pushing it
away. By the way, this guy must. I don't know who this guy's wife
is it but and again, this is a typical Navy type guy who would
say something like, Well, I guess it didn't sink in the
first time. Yeah, this guy has got to be the worst husband in
the world. I want the women out there. Listen to this guy. And
you know, men like this. Oh, I guess it didn't sink in the
first time you idiot key.
He totally mansplain her? Totally mansplaining it was
rude. Hi
is horrible. Douchebag Why is he representing our country?
Here's part two, just to be clear.
One is one to many. And we take each and every single instance
seriously. So it's not. It's not about the number. And don't for
a minute think that we take any particular number more seriously
than any other.
Now I'm gonna go back in time with you for a moment. Man, I
should have had my little harp sound that always makes it so
much more authentic. We're going back in time to January of 2016.
To Barbara Starr of CNN departing on reporting on this
calculus risk. One official telling CNN, the US was willing
to risk up to 50 civilian casualties in this area. had to
get the building to destroy the
building. That was the report. And that's significant, not just
for the fact of what it is like, Yeah, we did a calculation. We
want this particular piece here. We may kill 50 civilians. It
turns out the according to Chaya was 20. Yeah, we can do that
sounds like a good plan. And of course she is not relenting but
she gets shut down
the policy is not zero tolerance for civilian casualties says
this is true. The policy is not he she is telling the truth. The
policy is we make a calculus, how many civilians? Which what
do we call them collateral damage? Or actually, we
categorize them as hostile people something there's all
kinds of little names. She's right. The policy is we'll
calculate how many of them will kill she is right to policy
is not zero tolerance for civilian casualties. Is it? At
this point?
I've already explained to you our policy and our approach to
civilian casualties. I don't think I need to explain it any
further. Today, sir, go
ahead, please. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Go
ahead, please. Hold on a second.
Douchebag. What a tech guys the worst.
Unbelievable.
I don't know why he even got that job. He was an Admiral in
the Navy. This is this job is so beneath him.
Well, he was the spokes hole for DOD for the Pentagon. So this is
what he was doing. Except he was doing it for defense. And he got
kicked out. You remember, when the as far as the current
state to take him? That's for sure. Well, when as no good.
You're You're right. But the women back in this job.
Hi, anything you want to wind up with, sir?
Yes, I do. I want to get this out of the way once and for all.
We've talked about this the way the post office was treated, and
the fact that they've been screwed over and everyone thinks
they're a bunch of lazy a holes when in fact, and they can't and
they're going broke when in fact none of this is true. As we've
discussed. Puerto Rico, we've talked about this a little bit.
Yeah, but I want to get this out of the way. Puerto Rico is a
target of the of the
Bank, IMF, the bank's know the
hitmen the economic hitmen? Yes. And I think it's a test to see
if we can do this to other states to screw them to screw
the states, or in this case, a territory with a with a onerous
banking. Tricks tried to start with the payday loan co payday
loans,
Secchi Batty, director of the refund America Project and a
fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He's co author of the
new report Puerto Rico's payday loans, Carlos kaisa, and Saqib
Bhatti, we welcome you both to Democracy Now.
So he would like to start with you and your report, if you
could lay out for us some of the main findings of your study.
Well, one, as you mentioned earlier, what we found was that,
you know, basically, a very large portion of Puerto Rico's
debt is actually not debt at all, it's actually interest on a
payday loan on a series of payday loans. In fact, where
Wow, are we paying four point, the island borrowed $4.3 billion
to pay back 33 and a half billion dollars in interest.
That's an effective interest rate of seven and 85%. And what
we're finding is that this is actually just the tip of the
iceberg. There's actually a lot of the debt that Puerto Rico has
entered into, that is either legally or morally illegitimate.
And so my organization, the refight America project, we're
actually going to be releasing a series of reports over the next
coming over the next couple of months, that will look at the
different ways in which Wall Street banks really targeted
Puerto Rico with predatory deals, and really calling on the
permissive control board to be put in the interests of the
poor, the people of Puerto Rico first to cancel below the
legitimate debt, so that we can properly fund services and
keep name names, what are the banks and what's actually, how
are they responsible for this debt?
So basically, I mean, there were a series of banks, including
Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Nylander Bank of America,
Goldman Sachs, UBS, Banco Santander, they were the lead
underwriters on these deals, they really targeted Puerto Rico
for these immense interest rates. So the way so these these
payday loans are called capital appreciation bonds. And the way
these bonds work is very much like a payday loan. Where
because you're not allowed to pay back the principal or the
interest for many years. And over time, the interest keeps,
keeps compounding you end up with these astronomical interest
rates. So what happened over there was because you had the
situation where, partly because of colonial economy and not in
charge of its own finance at the end of the day, there's so much
pressures coming from the outside, because those issues
couldn't be resolved in the same way that a cash strapped family
trying to put food on the table might go to a payday lender
because they have to to make ends meet. You had you know,
Porter He could try to put food on the table, run Bay provide
basic services, needing to find ways to make ends meet and banks
swooped in banks like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and said, Hey,
here's the deal even though they knew that these deals would be
really bad and Puerto Rico would never be able to pay them in the
long run.
Well, that's Wow,
I'm gonna give you borderline for that one. I had no idea.
This is great. Good stuff. And
then part two of Canada wrap it up and it's one of the end you
look at this and you realize that this is was I think a test
run for what they're going to try to do with Lauren's All Star
she Yeah, exactly. Holy moly.
That's the point that they had to know the underwriters had to
know that there was no way that winter HICO would be able to pay
these loans back I want to put it if we counted on the screen
for the for for the television viewers, the
radio listeners by the way, you can go to Democracy Now.
Oh, Jesus, that's why throw that in there. You do. That's dumb.
That's dumb. Anyway, sorry.
I'd like to put on these are some of the names of the
companies that you see there. Goldman Sachs ag Edwards, Bear
Stearns, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley UBS investment, Lehman
Brothers, Santander securities, popular securities. But I want
to show also the chart of the of one of the bonds that were
issued. This is a 2007 sales tax bonds, where it shows for
instance, that in Puerto Rico borrowed several tranches of
bonds, but one was for $98 million. That was supposed to be
paid back. I'm sorry, $97 million, that was supposed to be
paid back in 2054. Means for 47 years, the bank's agreed you
don't pay us any principal, and you don't pay us any interest
for 47 years, and at the end of the 47 $97 million becomes $1
billion dollars, that Puerto Rico has to pay back 1000 times
what the original loan was at the so the banks had to know
that there was no way that Puerto Rico could pay this back
but yet they continue to issue these bonds fan
tastic
capital appreciation loans it's got to be the My favorite quote.
Some unbelievable loan sharking has now become capital
appreciation loans. And this
is the banks that we're gonna end up having to deal with more
and more with the bankers that are trying, you know, taking all
their efforts to push in Hillary, and if they don't get
Hillary and they get Trump that bank is going to pull the plug
on the economy they're going to try to sync this guy this these
bankers are out of control
world actually they're in control. That's the problem.
Yes, it
true as what am I thinking? These bankers are in control?
They own you? Yeah.
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