Well, she's probably doing sleazy porn on the internet.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. There they aren't 16 2017 This
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And from Northern Silicon Valley, we'll we'll be
celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Oh, wait a minute. They did that
last week, even though it wasn't St. Patrick's Day. I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Raglan Buzzkill.
All right. threw you off with my my jiggling the handle didn't
know. Oh, okay. All right. Well, you're opening wasn't all that
great.
Well, it was St. Patrick's Day.
When was the St. Patrick's Day? Did I miss it?
I think they played it on Monday or doored. Last Sunday.
How does that work?
They had a parade.
Well, but isn't it on a Tuesday or something?
No, it's tomorrow.
You know, this is getting out of hand.
Try reading the newsletter some time.
You know, actually didn't read this newsletter. But thank you
for being a douche. I didn't read the draft either. Because I
was busy. Sorry.
What were you doing?
I was in spin class.
You're always in spin class.
I'm not always in spin class. You send it whenever I'm in spin
class.
No, I said at the same time all the time. Sometimes you get it
sometimes you don't.
Oh, okay. You send so you're telling you should do it. Well,
then why don't you guys send the draft your little. You say
you're telling me you send the draft the same time every time?
Pretty much. You get your little phone out and be and do some
messaging while you're pedaling and pedaling and pedaling. And
you can do it while you're pedaling. It's not like what do
you do with your hands? You
clearly have no idea what spin classes. It's really pedaling.
Yeah, no, it's more than that. It's okay. Let's and we don't
need to get into it.
I would love to get into it. All right.
Well come visit. No, I'll take you to the spin class. Hey, wait
a minute. I'm seeing you this Saturday.
Right? Saturday. Yeah, you're coming right? Yeah, well,
absolutely. Okay.
We got a big party. At the grand dukes house.
Yeah. Grand Duke folding an event?
Yes. And we're going that's a big deal.
Well, when the grand dukes do anything we're going now of
course,
Hey, do me a favor. When you meet Tina, don't don't be your
typical douchebag self just be nice.
Yo, you don't need to encourage her to get into a fight with
you.
No, not really. I've been setting her up and managing her
expectations.
What what, what is this management did consistent What
did you say?
I said, are you excited to me? Johnson? Yeah, be great. I said
don't be he's well, he I well know that he's vice. He's well
known for being a total douche upon first impressions.
Okay, I think that's a reasonable thing to tell someone
because that way you can't disappoint them.
You could surprise everybody by being super nice. That'd be
great. Yeah, that's great.
That's what you're saying? Yeah, that'd
be great. And give me some TPS reports as well. It'd be great.
I'll be super nice. Hey,
I spent all day yesterday in and last evening following the Dutch
elections.
Yes, once you give us an update, because you're probably closer
to because I stopped following around Buddha would be nine your
time because had to go to bed.
Yeah, there wasn't much there. 10. Yeah, there wasn't much left
to follow at that point. We had already lost. Well, this is
interesting. The way this is
became it's kind of a quasi is tied for a second. Well, this is
very interesting, the way the way it's, it's been portrayed,
even the Dutch, you know, because they had exit polls,
which I think they'd been doing for a number of years. The exit
polls didn't work out. Not the way that the PVV that he had
builders supporters wanted it to work out. But there were
definitely discrepancies in the end was a lot of confusion.
There was the the turnout was so high. Typically, they have the,
you know, the like the real preliminary results around
12:30am. And it took a lot longer. And, you know, this is a
parliamentary system. They have a lot of political parties. I
think there must have been 15 Or maybe there's 20 of them.
There's just a ton of including Ancilla who of course with the
Pirate Party did not get any any seat in government. She didn't
didn't make it in. But yeah, but what was Obama? Exactly. Thanks,
Obama. What was interesting is that people pretty much went
with the with the incumbent with the conservative, center center,
right. That's what they want. Yeah. Although what was really
fun? And so yes, the way it works is you have extra, I don't
know how many how many seats you have in Parliament, you have to
form a coalition and that coalition that has a majority.
So of course, now you have the number one party is VVD. They
were incumbent, the Labour Party got slaughtered completely blown
out of the water. They are they lost 25 30% of their, of their
seats. But you can see the Dutch very typical, when the Dutch
don't know what to do, they always vote for things like
green left, which got a huge bump, and green left had been
around for a long time. And it just, I don't even know what
they do. But it says kind of like one of these safe havens,
you know, and the same for D 66. They got a big bump,
D 66. Road, this was the
Democrats, a Democratic Party that formed in 1966, D 66. And
they're very low. And they're kind of they're just really
middle of the road. Again, it's one of those things you don't
want to vote on, just vote on those guys. But then they got a
lot of votes. So they may they may now be in the coalition. But
the way it was reported in our Dutch TV, they were talking
about the number one the incumbent scoring, they were
talking about the Labour Party losing so much, and they really
didn't need sometimes it wouldn't even mention the number
two, who came in with that was a builder's party came in with 20
seats. Interesting that the the incumbent won the election with
33 seats and government Gotta love those magic numbers. Oh, so
we'll see if they I do not expect them to be invited into
the into the ruling coalition. But the way it was reported
pretty much was oh, he lost? Well, really what it showed is
the Netherlands is very conservative. That's, you know,
from a socialist basically a socialist country. The Labour
Party was huge for decades and decades even the Socialist Party
and they just did not they completely lost out so I think a
lot of the wilderness voters felt that more center right
structured party would get them what they what they needed. I
don't know I I'm not a big fan of the incumbent. But it was
around the world. You Oh, stop. They stopped him. They stopped
the well actually, I have a I love this. This is Rachel
Maddow. Yeah, you got to do this. You got to do this.
Because here's something I have standing in. I know I know all
about the politics and all about the multicultural society and
the nails. I know the Netherlands I grew up there. So
now I have a valid reason to pull apart. Rachel Mattos
assertions here on what is happening, and who this
fielder's guy really is.
I have to say this is just turning out to be kind of a bad
day for Trump priorities all around. Tonight. We've also just
got news from the Netherlands.
Somehow it's related, I guess.
Well, hold on a second bad news for Trump pipe priorities. And
what's this got to do with crew good builders
somehow is related. Maybe it's because they call him the Dutch
Donald Trump's
about the electoral fate of the man who many people consider to
be Forgive me sort of an extra racist Dutch version of Donald
Trump.
Extra racist, no doubt. Okay.
His name is Garrett wielders. Here he is speaking at an event
held on the sidelines of the Republican national convention
this summer. Notice the pictures behind them.
Now this is an interesting bit she's doing here particularly
coming from her. This was at the at the convention and I think it
was Milo that had set up near like gays for Trump thing. And
it was the twinks for Trump. And twinks is for Trump. If people
don't know twinks is is a term for young, thin, white gay guys
boys really, but of age you would presume. So in this way,
wherever builders were speaking, there were photos of twinks on
the wall wearing Trump hats, but it's not like Rachel Maddow
doesn't know what twinks means. Son I think she does you know,
you'd think that she would understand that this is it's
also a bit tongue in cheek I think I wasn't there but to have
the older speak there at all was was interesting and here's how
she categorizes national
convention this summer. Notice the pictures behind them. It was
sort of a soft porn Aryan anti Islam fest.
Okay, yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like. No, know.
There's a bunch of gay guys sitting around. But okay, anti
Islamic semi what was it to say Nazi or what she said he said
something bad.
Islam fest.
anti Islam fest. The event
a soft porn porn,
Aryan, even softcore porn I think is what she means
anti Islam fest that they called twinks. For Trump. Get welders
is an anti Holy
crap. Are you telling me that she did that straight to twinks,
according to her, are anti Islamophobia Islamophobic? Yes,
yes. soft porn soft porn anti Islamic. That makes total sense
best that they called twinks for Trump gear wilderness is an anti
Muslim radical. He's a crusading anti immigrant far right
nativist of a sort that has not been seen in top tier Western
European politics in decades.
Stop. No, I mean, technically, yes, decades. But it would have
been interesting to refer to the man who started which has been
for 10 Gay himself professor, who was saying the exact same
things the multicultural society has failed. He said it before
everyone else jumped on board, like Cameron 2005 2006. And he
said it we need to stop the Islamization of the Netherlands.
That is the guy who started all this originally, at the same
time with LePen, by the way that her dad was, was on deck at the
time. So it's not exactly true what she's saying, but oh, let's
just make everyone afraid.
But character builders was expected tonight to win the
national elections. In the Netherlands. He was expected
tonight to become the new Dutch Prime Minister. He did not when
he will not be Prime Minister we're gonna have more on as
well. I can tell you their
stories. So they're actually a little more concise. No, no.
Reminds me of like, a radio guy. Anyone? You know, a lot of these
guys do talk show radio. They were have to work for three
hours a day. Yeah. And they tend to repeat themselves or they
slowly tell stories and they say it over and over again. I think
the best example of this is Jim Rome, who will say something
like he didn't win, right. He did not win he didn't win they
thought it was gonna win buddy didn't win. And guess what
winning was not happening. Yeah, well, you know, something funny
happened. She had on fixed my my cable here. She had just along
the lines of what you just heard she had on Congressman pestrol,
who she was talking to, and just listen to what he said nice
little flub here, who was partners
are, where his money came from, how he's going to spend that
money. And if you're not hiding anything, Mr. President, please
let us know what the story is. We have a right to know if
there's any conflicts of interest. And that goes for
everybody in the executive branch of government.
Congressman Bill Pascrell is a member of the House Ways and
Means Committee who's pushing as hard as anybody on this issue.
Congressman, thanks for being with us. Night. Keep us
apprised, sir. Thank you, sir. All right. It's actually quite
convenient, and really unexpected places.
Party. That's pretty good. That's almost as good as broth.
I think everyone say hey, thanks. Thank you, sir. Thank
you, Rachel. Thank you, sir.
You know, that's funny.
And now a lot of people are gonna slip that in.
I hope so. Oh, my God, you know, that Pescarolo guy. He's funny.
I got another clip from that same interview.
Joining us now is Congressman Bill Pascrell. He's a Democratic
member of that House Ways and Means Committee. Congressman
Pascal, it's nice to see you. Thank you for being here.
Rachel, thanks
for your courage to em. All right, boy. Nice.
Wow,
you just he's just all over us.
Thanks for your courage.
Oh, man, oh, man. Oh, man is great. So
I like you're on there. If you're gonna be in Holland, we
might as well do the bit that, you know, in last, and I think
this actually may have affected some of the vote. Maybe not?
Probably not. But the but Erawan, who was irked about you
brought up the clip on the last show, but they throwing out the
Turks.
Yeah. And he was saying that the Dutch are leftover. Leftover
Nazis.
Yeah. And they Zen they got thrown out of the church wanted
to give their speeches all over the place, because there's a big
thing going on in Turkey to get around one more power. But
here's an example. This is.
And I just want to reiterate something about that, because I
was thinking about it. And this is very typical of the
difference between the European Union and United States. And
it's very applicable to this very week within the span of
this 10 day period. In the European Union with no nations
no borders, in the Netherlands, you have these many Dutch born
Turks who are out there waving their Turkish flags for the
flags for Erawan for his for his party. And being on the face
bag, I read a lot of people saying well, what is this You
What are you doing? You're you didn't wave that flag. You can
wave that during the World Cup or the European Cup, but you
can't wave flags of a different nation in the Netherlands.
That's not done. And I was like, why that's interesting, because
in the United States, a true country of immigrants. We
encourage you to celebrate your heritage. We encourage the Irish
to have a day. We encourage everybody to have a day and you
can wave whatever the heck flag you want is an interesting
difference between the just the two philosophies and the two
cultures.
What happens if your way wave the EU flag?
In the Netherlands? Yeah, you you get you get lifted up high.
You are a hero if you do that. So the
Turks are about getting not being able to give their
speeches so that everyone decides to go off on on Holland.
Well, today everyone repeated his accusation that the
Netherlands was responsible for the Srebrenica massacre during
the Bosnian War back in 1995.
That was that was the last thing he said that really take the
Dutch off. That's a very sore spot. Let me explain. In several
Nietzsche, there was you had the Dutch bat, the Dutch battalion
of the UN blue helmets. And when was this John? This was in the
mid 90s. I want to say
during the Clinton administration, yeah. And
everything went wrong. And the Dutch battalion wound up I think
killing three or 5000 young Muslims, Muslim men in Serbia,
and each day was really messed up situation and it's something
that Dutch really haven't gotten over. It still bothers them. And
so So this really opened up some wounds when Erdogan said that
the Bosnian War back in 1995 Now, for the record, that
massacre was carried out by Serbian forces.
It was one of the darkest moments in recent European
history, the 1995 massacre of Slovenia during the Balkan War,
Serb forces killed 8000 Muslim boys and men in the East Bosnian
town. That's UN peacekeepers were on the ground, unable to
stop the bloodbath.
Yeah, that's what it was. They didn't stop it. That's what it
was a typical Dutch we wanted to stop them but we couldn't find
the bullet
8000 deaths. The Turkish President Recep to blame
something Netherlands. He repeated the accusation on
Wednesday at a campaign rally in Central Anatolia.
Medina, nothing to do with
the civilized world. Nothing to do with the modern world. They
are the ones who massacred more than 8000 Muslim Muslims in
Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina we know their
character,
boss now learn this Mr. Mana.
in Strasburg, the latest provocation from Turkey to get a
show of solidarity for the Netherlands from EU officials.
The Netherlands is Europe. And today I want to say that Europe
is the Netherlands. A place of freedom and democracy. And for
sure, Rotterdam, the city of Rasmus totally destroyed by the
Nazis, which today has a mayor born in Morocco. If anyone sees
fascism in Rotterdam, they are completely detached from
reality. This was
a big deal in the Netherlands that was the Tusk the Polish
president he's currently president of the was the six
month window and he was speaking fluent Dutch and the Dutch like
oh, okay, we didn't know that
well, the this caused quite a stir Yeah. And it also got the
anti Turkish coalition within the EU to chime in and say why
are we even considering these guys? This is bull crap anyway.
And this is part two of that clip.
Catalans common slit the EU Commission President to question
Turkey status as an EU membership candidate.
This is totally unacceptable under one who is doing this is
taking distance from your bank trying to enter the European
Union. The European Union is not joining Turkey Turkey is joining
the European Union.
Some EU countries have already called for an end to accession
talks with Turkey as a result of Ankara's comments
on there you go still trying to get him in?
I think the Turks don't want to get in at this point. I think
they want to use it as leverage. I think everyone just wants to
be some sort of a dictator while he
he's threatening with releasing the migrants.
Yeah, well, he probably sick of them.
Yeah. and the EU is paying him for it. billion that's
Yeah, well, they can probably take the money and get rid of
him anyway. I mean, that's something like that's going to
happen that this guy is a bad actor.
So this this of course has stirred up you know, hope hope,
hope for Europe that they won't become a nationalist because of
course, we don't want any nations or borders. So we can't
have any
of anything. Did you see that clip I sent you just while you
didn't obviously look at your Twitter feed, but here's a clip
that just came out her her with Nigel Faraj No, no, this is a
clip of the of a bunch of Burke. French Muslims throwing tires
under the freeway, it's very funny, actually, to be honest
about
it here is man, they are jackhammering there, aren't
they? Yes, camera outside the window. Here's Marine LePen
she's on Faraj his radio show on LBC.
So let's be absolutely clear, you've decided that it's right
for France to leave the European Union.
Susan, I felt horrific, I cannot restore the full sovereignty.
And if I do restore them, I won't be the only one involved
in the negotiation. Because a great many countries just like
France are suffering, as was the case of the UK, there is Greece,
Italy, Spain, Portugal. And I'm convinced that France, which is
a great country could lead this negotiation, and other countries
will join in to support the claims. And if we do, you will
no longer be the EU, just like the USSR that would accept
private property, or multiple parties or freedom of the press
will no longer be the USSR. In that case, the EU will change
its nature, and it will become a Europe of nations and
cooperation. And in that case, it would give all the European
countries the freedom that they have been lacking, and to make
us slaves. Shut up slaves. That's it the scandal.
So she considers the EU to be a slave state. That's kind of
cool.
Well, she's right. Yeah. But it doesn't mean that they don't
want to be a slave state. I think that's the kind of the
problem. Yeah.
Yeah. It is kind of deeply rooted seems.
Yeah. Yeah. Peasants.
Okay, there's a number of directions we can go. I caught a
number of cool things on C span. Just to wrap this up, though. I
see you have a clip I don't have when I was going to talk a bit
about the new law in the European Union. I see you have a
clip about the headscarves.
Yeah, it's a very short clip. It was on PBS. JUDY WOODRUFF.
Yep. Let's play this for a second.
The European Union's highest court rule today that employers
may bar Muslim women from wearing headscarves on the job.
The ruling says that a ban is permitted so long as it is part
of a company policy and not a sign of prejudice. It's a
response to cases brought by two women, one Belgian and one
French both were fired for refusing to remove their
headscarves at work.
I found this to be a rather interesting report everyone
reported the same way headscarves Muslim headscarves
Muslim, the ruling if you read it, specifically states no
religious symbols if that is the policy you can have a policy
within an organization that says no headscarves you can and it
will be upheld you can have a policy that says no religious
symbols but of course you know it's just like travel ban Muslim
ban. Will religious symbol ban a headscarf ban?
Well the thing is that I don't quite understand unless they
really want the headscarf to be a religious symbol. Why they
can't argue that is that is not a religious symbol. It's a
symbol of modesty which could which could be applied to any of
the religions it just so happens to be very high on the on the
list for for the Muslim women. Absolutely. So I think it could
be fought it but they don't do it that way they fight it as as
a religious symbol which is it really shouldn't be a religious
is not technically a religious symbol. No.
But it just goes to show you know, we are the real
Islamophobes here. Don't look over there. Please. Whatever you
do,
don't look over here. Nothing to see. Look at that.
The European Union people they're the bigots they're the
Islamophobes Well, if that's the way you want to look at
it, you can look at it any way you want. That's the great thing
about it.
Yes, it is great and is great.
Okay, so there was there's a number of things there's a lot
of stuff going on as was outlined in the newsletter Yes.
Read Yeah, what are you still there you know you can go you
got an email and go look at it can take a minute just a short
newsletter just mentioned a couple of things. There's not
much to it.
All right. I'll go look and you drop the spunk
there. I don't know about that. But let's take a look at some we
have a I have a couple ISOs that I want to pre pre do Okay, so we
can maybe find a place to slip them in was one in particular.
Just ISO thanks, Nancy. I think he's got a lot of potential
uses. Thanks, Nancy.
We should do it more like this. Just right there. Right there.
You're
right. You're thanks, Nancy. Thanks, Obama.
You can do multiple combos. Yeah, I like it. That's pretty
good.
Okay, you want to go to the we get the Marines scandal, which I
think is pretty funny. But here's one. Here's a good one.
This is from C span, and this is from C span is feed of what they
think is good. Uh huh. So So Montenegro's in the news. Yeah.
Because the Russians have been toying around with with these
Montenegro. The other one starts with a name down there.
Montevideo? No, no. It's in South America. Macedonia,
Macedonia. Yeah. So they you know, so that so this is a
potential of another good potential for a war, probably
something similar to the Serbian war. You know, so we can go in
there. And because the Russians are trying to screw things up.
So McCain, of course, is the guy pushing this. Yeah. And so he
goes on the floor of the to promote some something that I
will somehow get these countries into NATO eventually. And is a
sort of a treaty. So we have to know we have to go to war with
Russia with with McCain. Yeah, of course. So McCain is on the
floor and and he's got this thing he wants to do one of
those where your spear there with? No, there's no buddy in
the places that have you and two other people.
In fact, I saw this. And there were literally two other people
in there.
Yeah, and one of them. And one of them was Rand Paul, who is
against this thing, and he's just staying there to object
that and but but McCain is such a douchebag. He starts it off by
saying if anyone objects is only one guy there, yeah. And
I see you the Rand Paul.
He says, If anyone adjusted their carrying water for Putin,
there are a bunch of Russian, they're horrible people. And
they're, they're just promoting Putin and the Russians, and he
goes on and on. And so then nothing happens. So then he
gives you just one of these things where I like lay on the
table, I do this on me, pretty much tries to ram something
through with a bunch of you know, we do this, we do that
you've heard these before they go on and on for a long time.
And the idea is that no one objects, the guy puts the gavel
down, it goes into law, right, more or less. And so he goes
through this long thing that you have to do to get this to work
the way you want it to. And then Rand Paul says, I object
switches which kills it and ran despite all this work that
McCain went through. And then Rand Paul walks, he leaves.
Yeah, which just pisses off McCain. This is a very funny
clip.
Mr. President, if there's objection, and I note the
senator from Kentucky on the floor, I will say before I read
this, if there's objection, you are achieving the objectives of
Vladimir Putin. you're achieving the objectives of trying to
dismember this small country that has already been the
subject of attempted coup. I have no idea why anyone would
object to this, except that I will say, if they object, they
are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin.
And I do not say that lightly. So Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that at a time will be determined by the
majority leader in consultation with a Democratic leader the
Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar
Number one, Montenegro treaty document 11 114 Dash 12 that the
treaty be considered as having advanced through the various
parliamentary steps up stages up to and including the
presentation of the resolution of ratification that any
committee declarations be agreed to as applicable, that there'll
be no amendments in order to the treaty or the resolution of
ratification that there'll be two hours for debate equally
divided in the usual form. Upon the use of yielding back of
time, the Senate proceed to vote on the resolution that any
statements be printed in the record, as if read that if the
resolution of ratification is agreed to the motion to
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
I can't believe you left all this and I clipped it out of my
version of this clip.
I like it, because it just shows you all the effort he goes into
because you have to read all these things. Okay. And that's
why he was putting the pre disclaimer in at the beginning.
So you got to put all this in, and I just thought it was
hilarious. He went through all this trouble.
Maybe it's because I already saw it once. I don't think it's
hilarious anymore. But yeah, first timers will likely
be immediately notified of the Senate's action, that if the
resolution is not agreed to the treaty will be returned to the
calendar, and that there'll be no motions or point of order in
order and a motion to reconsider. And then the Senate
then we zoom legislative session. Is there. senator from
Kentucky? I object. objection is heard. Mr. President, I note
this the senator from Kentucky leaving the floor without
justification, or rather or any rationale for the action that he
has just taken. That is really remarkable that a senator
blocking a treaty that is supported by the The
overwhelming number, perhaps 98, at least of his colleagues would
come to the floor and object and walk away and walk away. The
only conclusion you can draw, when he walks away is he has no
argument to be made. It has no justification for his objection
to having a small nation be part of NATO. That is under assault
from the Russians. So I repeat again, the senator from
Kentucky, is now working for Vladimir Putin.
News Why don't you get your food?
That's right. Rand Paul now official Putin member, Putin
member?
I'm sorry, what is his 1099? Enterprises? I mean, give me a
break. And McCain was you could just tell everyone to play the
whole thing like this. Yeah, he was steamed. Oh, yeah.
It was very mad.
Although he wasn't completely surprised. No, there was a there
was a reason Rand Paul was stay in there. It just didn't make
that one objection and then to walk out, yeah. Which are good
even more than he walked.
There was something else that happened. I don't know if that
was Friday or Saturday regarding Russia and some of our our
favorite critters, they're up on the hill. And this was a private
briefing, not just in his office. But in a skiff, which is
the secure tent that you sit in if you really want to talk about
some stuff that nobody can know about. And it was Comey, who one
by one had the Intel it I think the Intelligence Committee
members come by, he explained he explained to them what if any
involvement there was or collusion or hacking or
anything, anything the Russians did with respect to the election
with respect to wiretapping of the Russians collusion by the
Trump, everything, everything was all going to be tilde. And
so this was highly confidential. No one could talk about it. But
the cameras are waiting on do you see any of this because it
was fascinating. You really should see the video just to see
this sour faces of these people. So they did not get good news.
In my mind. I have three quick clips from the main actors who
one by one came out of colonies office. The first one is Dianne
fine, slow
down. What was this regarding?
What I just said, Call me who was briefing them. The
Intelligence Committee on everything about Russia,
hacking, wiretapping,
collusion, mostly though,
all of it, all of it.
That's what that least that's what I understood from listening
to all these douchebags come out and talk about it or actually,
okay, my understanding was it was mostly about the Trump tap.
Well, I don't know what your they really wouldn't say what it
was about at all. But
no, they were there. We're dead silent about it after after the
thing was over. There must have been some something in there.
There's no collusion. No, I
think there was something in there that indicated dive. I'm
sure that what I think no collusion was part of it. But
they came out saying it was Totten pretty much saying this
Feinstein's thing is top secret? Well, let's
listen to the three actors I have here. Because I think
there's some telling points of information we can get from
their non statements.
I'll just make a very brief statement on behalf of the
chairman and myself. The chairman, and I had written a
letter asking for a briefing briefing on certain topics,
which I'm not going to go into, because of the strength of the
chairman's and tough language, we were able to have a briefing,
this briefing was on sensitive matters, and highly classified
and it's really not anything that we can answer any questions
about
the did Mr. Comey three, confirm that there's investigation
ongoing, right. I'm
not going to answer any questions on it. I don't want to
be rude to you. Notice, Chairman, you've been standing
here for a long time. I know how I would feel my feet would hurt.
And I'm sorry, but it's the way life is here.
It's the way she's saying something in that light. That's
why I left it in when she says that's the way life is here. I
think she muffled right now or somewhere she's
had you know, you gotta remember she is she's gotten weird
because of that torture report, she wrote and they're fine. They
were spying on her. They were spying on her. They started they
started by spying on you. Because they CIA is they? Yeah,
the CIA was spying on her we had a brief people in this again,
because it's very important. Yeah, she was ahead of the group
putting together the report on the CIA torture program. As huge
reporting they're gonna bring the whole thing out and they
weren't gonna bring anything out. So they're gonna bring out
a little bit of and then they brought out a little And then
she pushed bringing out some of it. And she they released a
report and then they buried that report. Yeah. And she and the
process was triggered by her being spied on by the CIA. They
were there were they actor, and she got bent out of shape. She
went before the committee, and she made a big fuss about this
rightly so I feel Yes, of course. And because she's
supposed to be oversight. And so they so they then they came out
this report, and then the thing that I thought was the most
insulting was when the Senate was turned over to the
Republicans in 2014. I think, yeah. The guy who took over the
that committee that oversight the Senate oversight
Intelligence Committee, he said that he wouldn't even read the
report is that Bill made a big stink about
this that heard Bill heard. Yeah, yeah, taxes are a total
douchebag.
He's a total douche. And he said, I don't know. I'm not
going to look at it. I don't think I should look at it. I
don't know why he said this. I would if you took over.
Why? Because that guy's ex CIA. That's why hurt his ex CIA
undercover.
Well, it may be one of these things. And it's something I
wanted to bring up on a previous show, which was the when when
the WikiLeaks came out with all the CIA stuff, and then they
tried to analyze it. And in fact, we go back like two years
when our economic hitman was dating the person that we
believe to be in the State Department's secret
organization, their little agency. She's told him that she
can't look at anything, any of the WikiLeaks stuff, she can't
she can't leave. The public can look at it. You can look at it,
I can look at it, but she can't look at it. I always thought
that was very weird. This will not stand. And I still think
it's weird. I think it's still in play. And I think when we see
the analysis of all the WikiLeaks stuff that came out
recently about the CIA, I think a lot of the people working for
the in the media, that work for the CIA are gonna get really
worried. They can't they can't look at this stuff. Right?
They have so people who aren't talking about it are in Yes,
that's good. I like
they literally can't look at it by the by rule. Yeah, they can't
look at it because they'd be fired. And it's good money
there. And I just think that this is an abomination. This
whole thing is completely out of control this intelligence.
The next piece, the next piece is newness. newness, is the head
of the Intelligence Committee. And he, in his answers is
talking about not talking about it, he really gives away a lot
of information about what the conversation was, in the way I
see it is the question here, or one of the investigations,
perhaps ongoing is, how did we wind up tapping Mike Flynn? And
if we did, how did we wind up tapping Donald Trump or other
members of the then campaign or now? Administration? And Nunez
really Yeah.
And let me I want to put a layer on top of that, according to at
least some of these guys doing this analysis. They say that you
can catch people by accident, because he's talking to a
Russian ambassador. But they have to be there, the individual
is an American citizen, which is what Mike Flynn was, their name
has to be redacted.
It's wrong, it's a little different than that. It's just a
tad different. So of course, you can wiretap just using that
term, foreign operative, so the wiretapping the ambassador, not
a problem. And then of course, you can receive a phone, you can
intercept a phone call, or record a phone call between the
foreign operative, the Russian ambassador and an American. Now,
what is not supposed to happen is what they call the unmasking
of the identity of the other person. This this so the way it
works is you you can literally since everything, every phone
call is recorded, everything is just sitting there to be
retrieved. So all you have to do is go up to the terminal and a
low level people can do this and type in Donald J. Trump and they
get plumbed. Here's all the things that you can unmask as a
part of that conversation. That part is not necessarily legal,
certainly not to leak that information out now. Just listen
to Nunez for a second as he starts to give away a lot of the
problems that we're going in, I think in this mean, going on
this meeting with Comey any reason to believe that
the President himself or anyone working for him in the White
House would be one of these names that may have been swept
up in something that could then have ultimately been like, what
happened with Michael Flynn?
Well, I think it's very possible. But like I said, we
shouldn't know that by by Friday. Do you think the
President himself might be one of those people that was struck
that it's possible possible. You know, look,
I mean, notice the term swept up, you know, this isn't just
intention. I was just cleaning around with my broom, and I just
swept up Trump. I don't know.
You know, look, I mean, we know we, I think we think we
understand how General Flynn was picked up incidental collection.
And perhaps there's no additional incidental collection
or incidental collection. Are they other intelligence products
where there was unmasking that occurred? Look, this is all the
this is why we're we're sending a letter. Let's get it all out
in the open so that we understand we don't we don't
like I've said many times, I'm concerned about unmasking of
Americans names. But I think as they relate to, as you'll see in
the letter as they relate to either, Trump
now what's interesting here is he said, You'll see it in the
letter. This is a letter, I guess that Feinstein wouldn't
talk about. Unless there's a different letter. I think this
is the letter he's he's referring to. So if that will be
made public the way he's talking about, you'll see it in the
letter, you'll see it in the letter. But I haven't seen it
to either the Trump campaign or in his folks or the or Hillary
Clinton's campaign, and her and her folks. We'd like to know if
any names were unmasked. And I think that would help answer
these questions.
Now, this is very interesting. He gives he lets a little things
slip there by saying, We don't know if there's any contact with
the Trump campaign or with Hillary Clinton's people. Oh,
wouldn't that be unhandy as corroborated by Russian
Ambassador spokes hole sometimes Kremlin spokes hall here Russian
President Vladimir Putin spokesman said in an interview
Sunday that the Russian ambassador who met with Trump
campaign officials also met with quote people working in think
tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for
Hillary, the spokesman said it is the job of Russian Ambassador
Sergey Kislyak to meet with officials on both sides to talk
about, quote, bilateral relations. He also defended
those meetings saying there were no attempts to interfere in the
2016 election. But he did however, concede that Putin
preferred Trump over Clinton suggesting that the Russian
president found Clinton hostile toward Russia, while Trump was
open to following us Russian relations, but contact was made
by the Clinton campaign. Sure, so that could be of course of
course this is all such a tempest in a teapot. Now the
final clip I had was more
than a tempest in a teapot because there's something going
on.
Yes, I think there is something going on. But here's what I
found very interesting. So we have the Ground Zero guy of this
is Adam Schiff. He's the guy that's been out there. He's been
saying, Ah, this is all you know, Russia collusion, Russia,
collusion stole the election, Putin, Putin, Putin, etc. And we
had to do worse that guy. Now we had clapper Director of National
Intelligence say, No, I have no evidence there was any
collusion. Then we have Nunez, the head of the Intelligence
Committee, when asked the question saying no, no, there's
no evidence of any collusion? What to do if you're Adam
Schiff,
do you have any evidence that there were contacts? In Russia?
I don't have any evidence of that. And we're not going to get
into I mean, this is this gets to the whole issue of incidental
collection. You know who else was talking to the Russian
ambassador, this is a slippery slope. So I think you just need
to let the appropriate agencies get us the information in a
timely manner, which I agree with the ranking member on, the
more that they stole, the more they make it more complicated
for us, the slower the investigation goes, and then and
the more time it takes to answer your questions. I do want to say
on that question, because Director Clapper was asked a
similar question. I cannot answer the question in the same
way. Not certainly with the same categorical nature response. So
I don't share that summary conclusion, and that's about all
I can say on that. So
I'm gonna use that. I don't share that summary conclusion.
That's a good one. Whatever you said, I'm not sharing that
summary conclusion. So yeah, there is something going on and
they don't like it. There's something that is nasty for
them. I'm not sure what but that's the feeling I got back to
Rand Paul was do the list. Circle around. Everyone's got it
wrong. He says,
I think the first thing to realize is that I think
everybody's been getting the story wrong. I doubt that Trump
was a target directly of any kind of eavesdropping, but I'm
not saying it didn't happen. I think there's a very good chance
it does. I don't I don't have any special information. But the
way it works is the FISA court through section 702 wiretaps
foreigners, and then listens to Americans. It's a backdoor
search of Americans. And because they have so much data, they can
tap type Donald Trump into their vast resources of people.
They're tapping overseas, and they get all of his phone calls.
And so they did this to President Obama. They 1227 times
eavesdrops on President Obama's phone calls, then they mask him.
But here's the point problem in General Hayden said this the
other day, he said even low level employees can unmask the
caller. That's probably what happened to Flynn. They're not
targeting Americans. They're targeting foreigners, but
they're doing it purposely to get to Americans. Okay, so
your point is the President would have been caught in a net
or excuse me, Candidate Trump caught in a net, but not
targeted direct
or his associates, but it's very dangerous because revealing that
now getting a public.
And then the final bit of info I have is get a whole different
take on how this took place from our favorite lawmaker, Judge
Andrew Napolitano.
Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President
Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn't use the NSA.
He didn't use the CIA didn't use the FBI. And he didn't use the
Department of Justice. He is GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ?
That's the initials for the British spying agency. They have
24/7 access to the NSA database. So by simply having two people
go to them saying President Obama needs transcripts of
conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations
involving President elect Trump, he's able to get it and there's
no American fingerprints on this.
That sounds pretty plausible to me.
Yeah, the problem is that's not getting the traction. It's not
getting as much traction as as you'd hope well.
The truth is always traction was
the way I see the GCHQ the I have that too. That came after
harridge was on trying to explain stuff. Oh, Pixie girl.
Yeah, she came on Fox with with this clip, which is Fox on
wiretaps. One. Okay,
we'd like Catherine herridge. Breaking tonight,
just moments ago, the Justice Department responding to demands
for the DOJ to come forward with any and all information on
President Trump's allegation that then President Obama was
spying or wiretapping him during the 2016 campaign. Chief
intelligence correspondent, Catherine herridge. Live in
Washington on what the DOJ is saying about this on this
evening of this deadline. Hi, Katherine. Well, thank
you, Martha. Within the last hour Justice Department
spokesman confirming to Fox News that they have asked the
committee for more time to review the request and determine
if documents exist. Meantime, the White House spokesman
telling reporters today the President's tweet March 4, was
not meant literally.
The President was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know,
wiretapping, that that spans a whole host of surveillance types
of options. The House and the Senate intelligence committees
will now look into that and provide a report back
that you missed the part where he says the president tweeted
that in quotes, which is to me is on the same level of depends
on what the word is means. Oh,
it was bet whether this Yeah, that's
bullshit. That's total bull total. Total bull provided
a report back
has intelligence committee deadline comes just one week
before the first public hearing on the Russia investigation,
where current and former administration officials
including FBI Director James Comey are invited witnesses. The
committee's ranking Democrat believes the FBI director may be
eager to testify.
The press reports are accurate that he asked the Department of
Justice to knock this down and they refused for whatever
reason, he may welcome the opportunity but he'll certainly
have that on March 20.
And moments ago, we received this statement from a spokesman
for the Committee's Republican chairman who wants relevant
documents before the public hearing a week today. It reads
in part quote if the committee does not receive a response by
then the committee will ask for this information during the
march 20 Hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our
questions to keep continue to go on answered. And we're told
tonight that specifically means issuing subpoena for any records
Martha
you know, this whole thing stems from one lone tweet.
Isn't that great?
heard around the world. Meanwhile, our
wedding Rogers wait before you go on. Did you see Trump on
Tucker Carlson last night? Uh, no, I didn't watch totally lame.
Told him nothing. He was just, I'm only I didn't clip it just
mentioning it because it was anticipated. I'm like, Oh, this
is great. Tina even sent me know, hey, Trump on Tucker
tonight. Okay. So I'm like, let's watch this. So they're not
in his studio. He doesn't have his his box where he can make
his faces. He has none of his infrastructure. And he sucked.
He just asked questions that of course, because this is a one
maybe a two camera shoot. It looked to me like they did not
he's afterwards. So it's just a one camera shoot. So you don't
have any of those response things, you know, the
interruptions the way he does it? And he quite frankly, I
don't think he has the balls to interrupt or call the President
out. It was lame.
And I think I would agree with that theory boring. He's good
when he can bully somebody
when he has his bully his bully kid with his bow Only boxes
bully box. Oh, nice. I'm gonna write that one down. Good one is
bully box. That's exactly what's on TV. Yeah, that's bully box.
Nice.
So he's. So Roger Stone shows up on CBS to answer questions about
collusion with the Russians election because CBS is going to
stay on this because their course is representing the CIA.
Now, you unfortunately, this is one of the few times that would
be nice and even had a picture get put in the newsletter. Roger
Stone comes on to this interview, and he is wearing
just a normal kind of a gray pinstripe suit. Oh, that's
different for him. pinstripe suit with a tie? Yeah. And a
dark black bowler hat. Now,
and what was this? CBS this morning was the morning show.
Oh, no, this is the main news is CBS News. So this is the big
show. So he's wearing his bowler hat. And you look at him you go.
I see wearing this boy because he's got a nice headache.
It's gonna tell you a story about this. Sure. So I once had
a similar situation where there was a lot of media hype around
me and a tax issue. It was a it was a real problem. I, my
partner who I'd been in business with, he fled the country. Turns
out he had a different name was wanted for Grand Theft Auto, a
big manufacturing MDMA, all kinds of horrible things. And
then, you know, in securing all these businesses we had
together, I transferred money from the helicopter company good
times. And then that was in the Oh, curries trying to hide money
is horrible. So then there was huge onslaught of press against
us. So I say, and I said, Oh, man, and so you know, there was
the big newspaper want to do an interview. And what I did is I
dressed up in a prison uniform with a ball and chain it for the
pictures. It's very effective when you do these things. It's
funny, it's very effective. There's still pictures of me and
my ball and chain prison outfit. I'm going to jail. It's also
horrible. Anyway, so he's got the bowler on it like that,
that it has. Yeah, he's always got this bowler on the whole
time. And you know, he has a good set. He's got nice hair,
nice gray hairs pretty. And so there's no reason to wear a hat.
He's not like a bald guy. So he's wearing the bowler
obviously, for effect. You just have to listen to this interview
imagining some guy with a bowler hat on, you know, using this as
a goof. And it's quite funny, but the guy who was hosting the
show, Pelle was off, had mentioned that at the end,
the FBI is investigating whether the Trump campaign had improper
contacts with Russians who wanted to meddle in the
presidential election. Earlier this month. Roger Stone, a
friend and former adviser to Mr. Trump told our Jessica gays he
had no contacts with Russian hackers, including the
mysterious Gusa for 2.0. But stone story has changed. There
is
no collusion here. And despite that claim with Roger Stone now
admits that he was in contact with Guccifer 2.0 At least 16
times during the 2016 campaign. That twitter handle released
hacked election information believed to be stolen from
Democratic Party servers targeted Hillary Clinton in
Democratic candidates in at least six states
at the time I had my one and only communications when you
had more than just one contact with this person you had one to
at least three between August 12th And September 9, right?
It's I would refer to it as an exchange.
That exchange appears to have started after goose rivers first
account was suspended and then reactivated in mid August.
I want the thing that wasn't brought up and I'm gonna point
it out. They're counting exchanges as tweets. Oh, that's
an exchange. I'm telling you. This is the most lame report
I've ever seen, which is bridging I think justifies the
bowler Yes. The three exchanges were him tweeting him saying
how're you doing? God? You got your account back next dog hug.
What do you think of it? Exchange number two was Do you
have anything else for me? Oh, am I exchanged number three was
another tweet. It's unbelievable.
That is crazy. That's lame. This is lame.
Yeah. You never met the guy that's talking to him on the
phone.
He was tweeting just tweeting back and forth and that's now
exchanges. Yes. 16
times. Oh man.
hurted after goose rivers first account was suspended and then
reactivated in mid August. Delighted you are reinstated
stone wrote goes over responded. Do you find anything interesting
in the docs I posted? A day later, according to these texts
confirmed by stone. He asked Lucifer to retweet an article
Stone had written please retweet how the election can be read.
against Donald Trump. Goose ever replied, done and later on the
same day, please tell me if I can help you anyhow. Earlier
this year, US intelligence concluded that Guccifer sites
were a front for Russian military intelligence in a way
firm. You're encouraging them to release more information. Yeah,
that's called
networking. Remember, I have no idea this gentleman is allegedly
a Russian.
On Sunday, Arizona senator John McCain called for stone to
testify and upcoming hearings, Anthony stone to finally told us
that his response to that is Game On.
Jeff, thanks the bowler was an interesting statement.
Now he says the guy besides botching this whole story is a
non-stories Pretty much fake news. At the very end, he says
Anthony stone.
Oh, I didn't even hear that. He said Anthony stone. Yeah, that's
odd. Who was Anthony stone?
There is no Anthony stone. He met Roger Stone. He didn't even
know the guy's name.
Yeah, idiot. Typical. Well, idiocy. Idiocy on the television
is this. Yeah, it's not exclusive to the to the
reporters. Kellyanne Conway laid a big egg.
Do you know whether Trump Tower was wiretapped?
What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now,
unfortunately, there was an article
this is Bernstein ethic, Bernstein interviewed her.
Bernstein is completely sold out.
Well, especially if you listen to now this is the guy, the
investigative reporter, and he's sitting there with Kellyanne
Conway, and he's got his notepads because reporter tools,
he's writing stuff with a pen and, you know, that's he's, he
asked a question looks down. He's not doing this for TV at
all. He's interviewing her for a written piece and it's on it's
being videotaped. And Bernstein's from the from the
from water game, and this is a an investigative reporter yet
listen,
you know whether Trump Tower was wiretapped.
What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now,
unfortunately, there was an article this week that talked
about how you can surveil someone through their phones
through their certainly through their television sets, any
number of different ways and microwaves it turned into
cameras, etc. So we know that that is just a fact of of modern
life.
Does your investigative reporter Yeah, microwave? He goes? Sure.
Yeah, sure. Sure. Sure. Absolutely.
The way she said the word she says microwaves that turn into
cameras. Yeah. And he was just like, what? And he goes, Sure,
that wouldn't stop anybody your eyes.
Listen again, listen, again,
any number of different ways and microwaves that turned into
cameras, etc. So we know that that is just a fact of modern
truth.
Sure, sure. We all know that Sure. Sure. My microwave turns
into a camera all the time.
So I will say just, here's what I here's what I think happens
with Kellyanne Conway. I honestly believe there's some
truth to this. She puts you to sleep. And I think by the time
she got to that stupid statement that microwaves that turn into
cameras, which is the tama microwave stores issue or store,
I'm sorry stoves, she talks about microwave antennas that
are we get one of these NSA
article she read it in she said it was an article I want to know
what article that was. That's what I would have asked what
I would ask a million things, but I think by the time they got
to that point, and I'm sure there was stuff earlier that
wasn't put out. Yeah, the guy is dead. He's like his his glossy.
Yeah, my microwave, okay. That's the only thing I can think of
because you're writing. Why didn't he perk up?
Curious I'd say very curious, very curious. But with that, I'd
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There was another thing I bumped into on C span, which fascinated
me. And I had no idea was going to be on. And it was the House
Armed Services Committee. And this is another one of those
typical hearings, where you bring in the shills, you bring
in the people that you know that you have on you know, your
witnesses, so they say things that you want them to say, you
prompt them, they're already all set up. They know the questions,
they know what's common, they know what answers to give. And
of course, these are these sessions are usually done for
reasons of budgeting. We need more money. And where do we need
more money the most? Well, where are we losing the fight with
Russia?
Any thought early in Montenegro?
Yeah, that's one of them. That's one of them. We're losing. We're
losing the fight when it comes to propaganda. We've heard this
time and time again.
We don't know what we're doing the whole country built on
propaganda. The whole country that invented the best
propaganda would bear name starting with Baron neighs and
the rest and bear is would start Bernays is
Bernays Bernays
is the sauce. Anyway so Bernays and but the Russians apparently
know more about it than we they've never been good at it.
Even when they were at their height in their heyday in the
50s and 60s, it was all corn ball stuff, you know, the, the
red poster with somebody sticking their fist in the air
and all that sort of thing. It's like come on. So the first but
okay, okay, I'm sorry. Oh, no,
no, no, that's it's right on right on. And I just I saved
these guys names. I'd hold on. Let me just check for a second
because I knew that I would. We will be talking about these
witnesses because very interesting when you find out
who they are. So the first one is Michael Lumpkin.
And Joe's right,
do you know him? No. Okay, Michael Lumpkin. Michael de
Lumpkin. I'll tell you about his background aim itself is former
naval officer and businessman who served at the Special Envoy
coordinator of the Global Engagement Center at the US
Department of State until 2017. So he's, where spook spook Yes,
considered an experienced Craig and spirits crisis manager and
turnaround expert to really check it out. Prior to his
current role overhauling US government efforts to disrupt
extremist propaganda. He led the Department of Defense response
to the Ebola crisis. This guy is a propagandist of the top order.
If that guy was running the Ebola crisis from a
communication standpoint, he did a good
job, but depends on what a good job is.
We were all frightened and a lot of money was was made available.
They got stuck in Congress, but still, he I think he did his
job. He had his military career after graduating from college,
he joined the US Navy College. I'd have to give him all I can
go to the actual page is I'm using my university. I'm using
my abbreviated version. Doesn't say interestingly, Oh, yeah.
University of California, San Diego. Master Oh, La Jolla,
Master's degree in national security affairs.
Oh, really? You can get a master's degree from University
of California La Jolla. In that's interesting. You didn't
know that.
I don't know. Oh, no, he got no not so subsequently earned his
master's degree in nursing from the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey,
Monterey. Okay. Okay,
so here he is. And remember, this is about getting more money
for propaganda against anything, really. But of course, you know,
we have to bring the Russians into this, because they are the
masters. But let's talk about how incredibly good the
messaging and marketing is when it comes to ISIS
as I look at is is I thought it
was interesting he says is is? I don't know if he says ISIS right
after it. But
nobody says I asis, but okay, I know
why would he is it something that we need to be on top of his
clothes, just caught off guard
look at is, is if I look at ISIS, and I see how they recruit
and who they recruit. When the recruiting from abroad, they're
generally going after vulnerable populations. The way I kind of
do the math, there's, there's about seven, seven and a half
billion people on the planet. Okay, at the height of ISIS was
about 30,000 of them. 30,000 people, we know how many people
have been killed, how many people have been wounded, and
how many people have defected from the battlefield plus or
minus, which leads us to a number of between nine and
19,000 that join this organization per year. So when I
when I simplify it like that, and I look at so we have seven
and a half billion people are being held hostage by nine to
19,000 recruits every year, that in order to find those people we
have to use scalpel like messages that resonate with
those individuals. Now this
is great because this is stuff we actually know know about. We
know how to message we use especially, you know how to
communicate. We've you made studies of, of making people be
effective based upon things that are written we understand this.
Yes, good.
Instead of just going after one broad of it. There's a salaam at
messages because people join ISIS for different reasons. The
best study I've seen was done by a group called Quantum out of
Lebanon, which basically binned those people who joined ISIS
into nine different bins, everything from death seekers,
to thrill seekers, some are hardcore fundamentalists. Some
are looking for redemption. But each one of those groups when
you understand the recruit and you understand the audience, you
have to target why they join If you have to come up with
messaging strategies against each and every one of those
groups, I will tell you in 2015, we the United US government did
a single kinetic strike against a high value target that cost
the US taxpayers when you look at the intelligence gathering
before and after the strike was about $250 million that had
about two weeks of difference over impact on the battlefield
to take out one high value target. That same year in
messaging, we spent about $5.6 million and base funding. So we
have a despairs, discrepancy, and what are where we want to
put our money.
That's right, more money for me. More money for me to
propagandize, we need scalpel like precision. I can't wait to
see next, next personnel
just to interrupt. It's not just a message is getting the message
to the person. That's the real problem. No,
it's not we just dropped dropped pamphlets like we did in
Vietnam.
Yeah, that'll do it that stopped the war in Vietnam dead.
Just tweet with just tweet is not the hope. It's not what he's
saying.
He's pretty much saying we should just tweet better. But
that's not doesn't work. I mean, I could go on and on about the
effectiveness of Twitter, Twitter being very minimal,
especially as the service gets older and older. I mean, you
whenever you were first started out, I could, you could track
your tweets to like you say, you say we look at this, and you
give a link, and then you can get the numbers back. And how
many people actually clicked on that link back. And then you can
still do that. You can do that. Yeah, you can. And the numbers
are larger, ludicrous. It's like you used to be able to get, I
don't know, 10 or 20% of your people that are following you to
click, now it's still you get one or 2% It's a miracle. It
then getting the message to these kids that are in these
different nine bins is is not even possible.
It's seeing if we have enough money, we'll be able to do it.
I don't know in a way even that bomb strike $250 million. What
have you, you get a message to the guy saying we'll give you a
million dollars to save 249 million, right if you just get
off the battlefield right now.
Here's your money. Goodbye. The next witness is Matthew
Armstrong. And he from August 2013 through December 2016 was a
governor on the broadcast Board of Governors. Oh, your buddies.
Yeah, this is the big propaganda arm of the United States of
Gitmo nation. This is where the Voice of America comes from the
isn't a voice of Russia. There's all all these propaganda
outlets. The guys who thanks for the repeal of Smith month now
can propagandize Americans as well. But it's not about that.
No. Now of course, this is about our tea. Because our tea is so
good. And there's not just one RT, John there's many Artis Yes,
there are many, many are teas.
There are other RTS
operating in the US. Can you describe them? List them? Sure.
Thank you. So
you have RT you have Sputnik? You have hopefully? And then I
think you have them feeding other entities. Hello, Infowars
comes to mind. Chambers.
Of course the broadcast Board of Governor guy. We throw that out
there. He's probably jealous like crap, man, I wish we had an
outfit like Infowars to do our bidding for us. Hello, I'm
raising my hand. No agenda shows ready for your money. We'll take
your $5 million.
Yeah, that'd be nice feeding other entities. Info Wars comes
to mind whether those are we call ourselves in yet agenda or
echo chambers are those those modalities?
It's a good one,
I would suspect that you have a variety of other groups. There
was a project I was looking at with some colleagues. We were
looking at VK V contactee, the social media sites, the Russian
social media site where American white supremacist were flocking
to Vk because social media sites in the US like Facebook or
kicking them off. And what we found was it appeared that
American social rights a prominent white supremacist,
were happily involved in discussions there and they were
very Russian not cloaked. But Russian actors in those spaces
as well. So not cloaks, not
cloaked. No, I
think this is another insidious way of spinning or getting into
the conversation. So I think besides these, these larger
organizations, there is a lot of stuff that they're doing on the
margins. are Chinese
efforts in any way comparable to this?
I think the Chinese are more sophisticated. RT
poli stop stopped. So we start with the premise that these
Russians are the world's greatest propagandize propaganda
This. And even though we know that's not true, because we are
we are Yes. And now somehow out of the blue, the Chinese are
more sophisticated than the Russians. Wait a minute, the
Chinese want to develop a brand name for any of their products.
I'm
gonna stop you there. Wait for the whole clip because he means
that something a little different, your argument is
still good, but just hold on for what he was trying to say.
I think the Chinese are more sophisticated. RT is willing to
play on the margins and play at the extremes and China is a much
more sophisticated actor. They are. I think if you want to
compare which one lies more, which one distorts the truth
more, I think RT slogan of question more fits them because
they don't want you to find an answer. They just want you to be
confused. And CCTV is a much more intellectual and they're
trying to they're trying to push the Chinese view. But I think
they're, they do tend to be a more professional operation. And
so I wouldn't equate them per se on the same level. I don't think
that there either of them are particularly good for the
American market.
Spoken like a true pro television professional. Their
programming sucks isn't really not appropriate. That's right,
the creative art Consulting Group is available for you all
the RTS who want to learn how to do it will show you now the
final clip and this is by the
way, I should mention that he is a this expert is still calling
it CCTV when it's really see GNT now it's like you know, it's
like KGB FSB when they call themselves right.
Well, you don't actually think this guy was there for any other
reason than to help them? No, of course not. I'm
just more money. Yeah. Okay.
Okay, onward.
Now, the last clip, this guy is slow. And I considered chopping
out a lot more than I already did. But I didn't. So it's a
little longer than the other two. This is Timothy Thomas. He
now he's the professor. This is the guy who actually have his
bio.
So he's thoughtful, so he has to be slow.
Oh my god, that guy is like watching paint dry. On one
second. What? Tim Thomas Yeah, Timothy Thomas. He is from the
senior analyst. At the foreign military Studies Office of
Levin, Fort Leavenworth conducts extensive research and
publishing the areas of peacekeeping information war,
that's this was by the way, the title was information war,
psychological operations, low intensity conflict and political
military affairs, low intensity conflict. I like that a lot.
Don't make me Don't make me do some low intensity conflict. But
see, he is an adjunct professor, US Army's Eurasian Institute,
adjunct lecturer US Air Force Special Operations school guys
been around, but he's the he's the prof he's the professor. And
he is going to explain to explain to us exactly what's
going on propaganda
is usually associated with emotional content. It varies
from what you might call the disinformation aspect, which is
designed to focus more on the logic of decision making. So
what you have as a combination of these,
I heard you ring the bell, I like that too. I like just like
hearing him lay it out. So simply. And he takes it a step
further,
what you will have as a combination of these two. The
emotional aspect is aimed, I believe more at the population
of the country. Whereas the disinformation aspect, is aimed
more at decision makers within the EU or NATO. The final i The
final goal would be clearly to disrupt or destroy the
relationships among NATO and and members of the EU. Back in 1946.
George Kennan noted that Russians do not believe in
objective truth. If you fast forward ahead to about 2014. And
you listen to some of their commentators like Dmitry
Kiselyov kissel, you have noted that objectivity is a myth being
imposed upon us. So what you have within the Russian
information domain, if you want to call it that, I really
wouldn't want to. There's no real truth. You just have the
ability to create an alternate reality which doesn't coincide
at all with the Western understanding of information and
a free press. Perhaps the best example of that was As the
downing of the Malaysia airliner. Immediately we had our
own understanding of what had happened.
By the way, the guy is completely off base on this
analysis of MH 17. We know a lot more about it than he does. If
you're listening what
had happened. We had the intercepts. We had the images
that
we had, we didn't have intercept, we had an intercept
that was supposedly a couple of guys drinking beer being drunk,
like, yeah, did you shoot it all? I don't know.
The air defense platform leaving the area. Oh, yeah, that
was the belling cat picture above a street corner where this
thing was driving by. And now all of a sudden, that's we have
photographic evidence here of the the installation, leaving
the scene of the crime had the
imagery. I think you're being harsh, because I'm pretty sure
he's going to now discuss the information that was found in
the black box, which they have. That will carefully describe
what happened, because that seems to be that will clear
things up. Right?
Right.
No steps.
We had the images of the air defense platform leaving the
area. Yet for the next three or four years, we listened
incessantly to Russian alternate views of what had happened. With
the last one coming the day before the Netherlands released
their report, they attempted to create an alternate reality.
This seems to be the focus of of the propaganda effort there, as
they study us, and they study audience behavior
came from the alternate universe.
So I'm seeing a trend here, which I think we will we'll come
back to later. That the the rift the split in the alternate
universe that we have that we have identified very early, we
identified this very early on the show this had happened and I
have some thoughts about what is that how that works. Now it's
the Russians fault, you see, because the ultimate that's
true, the ultimate reality is created by Russians who have no
denote objective sense of reality. They don't understand
the truth. And of course, Donald Trump, you know, is up a Putin
is but and therefore he is creating an alternate reality.
And it's everywhere.
Welcome to you all. And Chris Jansing. A question that I mean
to ask seriously, is it as striking to you in the briefing
room as it is to television viewers that an alternative
universe is being proposed alternative definitions are
being trotted out in real time?
Coming from Brian Williams, that's a phenomenal statement.
You mean, the ultimate reality of you being shot down in a
helicopter? And I love the this is a serious question.
Welcome to you all. And Chris Jansing. A question that I mean
to ask seriously is
seriously, is there an alternative universe?
Yeah, he's part of it. Wow, that's a great one. That's
borderline something.
I'll turn it off. I'll turn up. Well, I have one last one, which
was pointed out to me because I don't listen, Rush Limbaugh
catching on our wave of the alternate reality. He has a
different take on it. Well, I'm
gonna throw out the distinct possibility that they didn't
know what they had. They live in an alternate universe that where
reality does not intrude. They believe that Trump is not as
rich as he's bragged. They have no evidence, they just believe
it. Why? Because Trump is scum. They believe Trump worked with
the Russians. Why? No evidence why? Because it's the only way
Hillary could have lost they believe that Trump actually
doesn't have nearly as much money as he's bragged about and
the tax returns are gonna prove it. And therefore
do you left this in? Do he sounds like he's gonna throw up?
Isn't it listen to this,
and the tax returns are gonna prove it. And therefore, he
bounced Crumpsall scumbag and he's lying and he's this and we
know
that was not good quality belch themselves.
So they get this tax return and it literally rocks them.
Remember their prejudice and their own bigotry will trump
reality every day that's why they engage in it reality is
something they can't face. That's why they they create all
these fake aspects of their wonderful lives as liberals to
mask that's why they never campaign for example, promising
What they're really gonna do, they'd never get elected. So
it's quite possibly look at 100 50 million he only paid 38.
This guy is not paying his fair share, they might think a fair
rate and Trump should be paying 75 million.
So when you think about the alternate universe, alternate
realities, I think, but first of all, we know physicists have
told many, many scientists 98%, this consensus that these things
exist, but how does it work, and I think that this has been
accelerated in facilitation, by social media, for every person
is a node, you're a node, you've got your own universe, you're
the center of your own universe. And then when you see or when
you connect, and it's not a big leap from the electronic wires
through, you know, what comes through your retina. I mean,
it's all information flowing back and forth, you're
connecting, you're connecting with other nodes. And with
enough nodes, you create a reality it some call it an echo
chamber, but then it becomes real. And that was, there's no
better example in my mind than this bogus tax return that
Rachel Maddow came up with. That, to me proves the alternate
universe theory.
I like this idea that you're incorporating networking theory
with the with the social media, which is a personal network, but
it also coincides with the electronic networks that when
you put enough of them together, you get a certain kind of
internet. Yeah, the internet is a good example. Yes, the
internet. But and I think that it associates with the echo
chamber, which is exactly what creates his alternate universe
where it's people getting to the point where they cannot even
listen to our show. There's so you know, they're stuck in that
you get stuck. I think you get stuck.
So here's what I'm seeing with this. And I'm sure a lot of
people heard about it. Rachel Maddow, big PR, tweeting
everyone, everyone in a tizzy. About a we have Donald Trump's
tax returns, watch tonight, watch night watch tonight. And
she has had phenomenal ratings since the election. So it's been
so she's a little bit full of herself. Now, what happened is a
little bit what happened is they have a tax return two pages,
very simple. And it says he took some write offs, he made $150
million, paid $38 million in taxes, which is a lot of money.
You know, I've been it's a pretty straightforward, but
that's how now we straddle. But I said when I straddle I see
they didn't they weren't played. They believe this is damning.
This is this no, this is what I'm trying to get across.
And this is very funny that what you're saying people you have
to understand. The MSNBC completely believes that what
they have is damning evidence and great material. It because
they continue to talk about it. So if you think, oh, man, Trump
really played them. You're only in one universe. I agree clearly
see it differently. So let's I just have three clips here.
First, just to show you the big dog just it was insane. So the
handover between
it Well, I'll tell you what, before you play that let's play
the intro from CBS describing what happened and then I think
that'll strengthen your argument. Oh, beautiful. What
which clip is it? Tax Returns reported by CBS. All right,
perfect. I love how this comes together.
We finally got to look today and one of the Trump tax returns the
President refuses to release someone leaked it. Major Garrett
traveled with Mr. Trump to Nashville,
and it's certainly not an embarrassing tax return at all.
President Trump today denounced the leak of part of his 2005
federal tax return. The two page summary shows he and wife
Melania earned $153 million that year and paid $36.6 million in
income tax and apparent tax rate of 24%. That's incorrect
because he had prepaid 36 and he had to pay an additional 2
million. So if their reporting is wrong, this is wrong. I mean,
it's right there. I know how to read the tax 4%
I have no idea where they got it. But it's illegal. And you're
not supposed to have it and it's not supposed to be leaked.
So White House confirmed the numbers just before they were
reported on MSNBC by David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize
winning journalist and Trump biographer Johnston said the
documents arrive in his mailbox, anonymously. By
the way, let me point out it's entirely possible that Donald
sent this to me.
In a statement the White House said Mr. Trump had a
responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to
pay no more tax than legally required.
I believe that most of us here have paid a lot more federal
income taxes than Donald Trump has paid
during the presidential campaign. Democrat Hillary
Clinton accused Mr. Trump of not paying any federal income taxes.
The president's son Donald Jr. wrote the new disclosure proved
how successful Donald Trump is and that he paid $40 million in
taxes. But the document does not explain how the president earned
his income or if you paid taxes at similar rates in other years,
did they really expect this to be on the tax return? Like all
the sources of it, you don't have to report that
the idiots have 1099 or something.
In January, then President elect Trump balked at calls to release
his tax returns. Something all presidents have done since the
1970s. Well, I'm
not really saying tax returns because as you know, they're
under audit. You know, the only one that cares about my tax
returns are the reporters. Okay? They're the only ones.
According to a late February, CBS News poll reporters are not
the only ones 56% of Americans said it was necessary for the
President to release his tax returns. And Anthony nothing in
federal law prohibits anyone under audit from voluntarily
releasing his or her tax returns.
So this is CBS you know?
A little doorman. It is blood. 199 year old it wasn't it was
it? It was Pennsylvania who will send it to your 1099 model or
the one
you send it to the Trump Tower.
Okay. So the CVS besides the numbers were off 3636 40 it what
is what is happening, which I will demonstrate in this little
collage
Well, I also want to mention this from 2005. This is 11 years
ago that's
not even being discussed how old it is. That's that's the crazy
stunned by that either in either universe. Now, there's
two things that we're doing. We're not discussing one it says
this. There's a stamp on there says client print copy carbon
copy. Yes. And then the dentist's thing is from 2005.
Who cares? And then there's this debate about whether you already
made the money this and that. It's just this is the stupidest
thing I've ever seen. This is worse than just a publicity
stunt. It just beyond me how anyone makes doesn't dry.
Straddle, baby, come on struggle with me. All right, I'm all ears
go straddling. So even before I mean, oh, my goodness. MSNBC was
a little collage here of MSNBC. So happy throughout the whole
day.
And this morning, we're also learning more about Donald
Trump's taxes. The President refused to release them
throughout the campaign and throughout his administration.
But last night, Rachel Maddow revealed two pages of His 1040
form from 2005.
Your reaction to the disclosure of just two pages last night
from 2005 that showed Donald Trump made a lot of money that
year and in fact paid a lot of taxes. What's your reaction to
closure?
There are two major stories that have Washington abuzz this
morning. One is on Donald Trump's taxes and exclusive
report from MSNBC has revealed two pages from his 2005 return
breaking news overnight.
Donald Trump's taxes in case you forgot about them MSNBC first to
reveal a portion of the President's 2005 return.
Covering another story that's bubbling this morning, of course
that leaked Trump's tax return
summary breaking overnight on the Rachel Maddow show the first
two pages of Donald Trump's 2005 personal tax return revealed
what we learned and what we
still don't know
tax time after the leak of part of the President's 2005 tax
return. Trump goes on offense. But will the public ever say
more than these two pages.
So this is after this whole fiasco, in in the right
universe, not even as incorrect but in the right hand side. And
it just keep going because they are straddling straddling there
firmly in the left universe and they think it's great and have
all kinds of little nuggets they've dug up to to make Trump
look bad with even these two pages. But first, let's start
with the excitement, the anticipation, the handover from
lesbian haze to lesbian. Maddow
went a little bit of a hullabaloo around here this
evening. I apologize for being a little flustered. People
literally were tweeting at me Shut up. You can't speak for
nine o'clock. I'm not sitting here until 859 58. I'm gonna
watch. Thank you, Chris. Appreciate it. And thanks to at
home for joining us for the next hour. You may have heard we've
got some significant breaking news tonight. Donald Trump's tax
returns this is
pretty much where she's saying
have surfaced at least a portion of Donald Trump's past tax
returns. What we have tonight has been turned over to a
reporter these are returns for one year. It's a federal return.
This was the first time we believe federal any federal tax
returns for Donald Trump have been obtained by anyone
certainly by Any news organization since he became a
presidential candidate level unprecedent. I want to tell you
that the way we got this document the way we got this
Trump tax return is through David Cay Johnston
they which is a big cover your ass this guy's this guy's going
to be toast. We'll get to him in a moment. But
Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative
journalist. He's a specialist on tax issues and on financial
reporting, David Cay Johnston and his reporting shop, DC
report.org. That's who obtained this return. And tonight, we
have this exclusive first look at their reporting at what they
have obtained.
Right after this break. She teased this whole thing for an
hour and was well done, because you kept saying, Okay, let's go.
And there's another tease.
That's why presidents released their tax returns. That's why
there will continue to be unrelenting pressure to find
Donald Trump's tax returns to expose Donald Trump's tax
returns. And that pressure will remain every single day that he
remains as president fighting words. Unless and until he
releases them. The pressure will never let up.
Never let up we know we should we should spin her down with
that that what a threat spinner down presidents.
That's why there will continue to be unrelenting pressure to
find Donald Trump's tax returns
to accept doesn't work as well, I thought it would anyway. And
of course, she takes that right up to the break once again.
has decided to leave it portion of his 2005 tax return. Which is
how and why we got it tonight. And I am sure it is only the
start. But it's a start. And our little piece of it. We just got
it. We'll go through it next next.
That's right, another commercial break times
as you're going to teach this thing he or she gets to it. Why
don't we have the whole show? Basically, you're telling me
that this particular shot and see it right, this particular
show was just this one item?
Oh, yeah. The whole show? Yes. Oh, yeah. Maya. Now here, she
does something.
What, how how? starved for entertainment are her viewers.
She's also a bigoted bitch. Well, she's an anti Semite.
Listen.
And in terms of what's on here, let me give you the basics.
Aside from the numbers being large, these pages are
straightforward. He paid $38 million looks like $38 million
in taxes, took a big write down of $103 million. More on that
later. If you add up the lines for income, he made more than
$150 million in that year. Mazel tov.
All right. Rachel Maddow is Catholic. Donald Trump is not a
Jew. So when you say you made a lot of money, Mazel Tov, your
fucking anti Semite Rachel rat out Miranda bitch. Can't even
say your name. That's that's, that's outrageous. That's
outrageous.
To you. I don't think so. I'm in that universe now. I mean, I'm
struggling.
Okay. Well, I think you say Mazel Tov, like,
I took a big write down of $103 million. More on that later. If
you add up the lines for income, he made more than $150 million
in that year. Mazel tov.
Oh, God, I hate it. I do like that. I came up with matrial
Rhabdo. That's a new one.
Michael Savage has been using it for weeks
kidding me? Oh, that's no good. Okay, now let's
anyway out of the way. He went out of the way not to say Mad
Cow. Right. Another one people use.
Now let's let's talk about this guy, David Cay Johnston,
Pulitzer Prize winning Judge David Jake. Yeah, he has a
website DC report. Just see if it's DC report.org. Where is it?
And David Cay Johnston at he received in 2001, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting. Now, is that still a
Pulitzer Prize? That's still valid, that's still a good a
good award, John.
It's a beat reporting. I didn't even know they gave those beat
reporting. In other words, he had a beat and he did such a
good job like police or city hall or whatever is beat was he
did such a good job cumulatively that they gave him a Pulitzer.
What what publication was that four and B, the Big Four,
I don't know. He did write for New York Times for a while. It's
probably the New York Times. So DC report.org is his website.
And he his whole idea here is to raise money. This is now a
nonprofit. As he says here, David for now was working pro
bono, no salary until we raised enough money to do the kind of
job needed to take to make Washington truly accountable to
the people
we treated. Do an intercept completely.
We will also speak seek support from foundations and other major
funders. Of course, if Hello Pierre Omidyar drive my car, can
you please give me some money? Because you're interested in
supporting tough, fair and fearless journalism that focuses
on what the administration and Congress do, rather than what
they say please email David. And so the generous tax deductible
donation, I checked, the DC report is registered, but only
recently because there's no other documents available
online. David K. John, This guy's a dick. They're not
because of what he did. But he's just it's horrible man. And he
made the rounds everywhere after a Maddow. Here he is on Good
Morning America.
big question now is he just got two pages from 2005. What
doesn't this show?
Well, it doesn't tell us who Trump is beholden to. I mean, we
know for example, that he owes money to Deutsche Bank, which
was deeply involved in money laundering for the Russians. He
owes money to the communist bank in China, the Bank of China,
which was also the largest tenant and Trump Tower. A US
President. This is who
this is the guy who gave the report to matto saying that it
just
talking Yes, this is the guy. You know, he sounds just like
Carl Bernstein.
He's probably the same age, same age range and but he's, he's an
on the way using
the communists bank. In May a break.
He says a lot of crazy stuff. This guy, you really got to
question what his motives are, clearly to get a to get an
intercept going, he wants money. And that's why He gave Rachel
the exclusive and then went on every show he could to, to show
off his his prowess as a, and you'll see what a Pulitzer Prize
winning guide is in China,
the Bank of China, which is also the largest tenant and Trump
Tower, a US president was in hock to a Bank of China. We
don't know who he's getting his revenue from. We don't know who
his partners are, or who he's done business with in foreign
countries. Do
we know that from Michael Bloomberg, any of these people
now,
and that could have major national security implications.
We do now know that this audit excuse that the President's that
has no real reason not to release his tax returns, so
good. And now we've seen 1995 and 2005, these 2005 returns is
certainly not scandalous in any way from what we know, of what
was released. So what is he trying to hide? In your view,
you've covered him for a long time.
I don't think he wants us to know all the people he's done
business with both those he's beholden to, and those he
receives income from. But there actually is something in here
that I think is very important. But one of the key elements of
Donald Trump's tax plan is getting rid of the alternative
minimum tax you and I and everybody else who's prosperous
in America is on the alternative minimum tax. If that tax hadn't
existed, Donald Trump would have paid a tax rate on his 150 $3
million. Here we go lower than the average paid by the poorest
half of Americans. Here's
the guy trying to make his turd burger into something useful.
Oh, you see, he's trying to get the alternative minimum tax
taken away. So that's going to benefit him and his buddies. So
you're saying and me based on this
2005 tax return the Donald Trump tax proposal now would give a
big benefit to
Donald Trump and enormous benefit to him. And if you put
that across a lot of people, it would have also caused serious
problems for us in doing all the things government needs to do. I
think this
was praying more leaks.
I hope so I
also spring more leaks. Okay, now, he says something that I
think you'll be able to comment on. Here he is on CNN,
it did have their game together and uncharacteristic fashion
here. When they found out that this was coming out, they put
out a response that nailed exactly how to play this. And
they don't always do that. Actually, they
behave pretty unethically for people in the White House Press
Office because I sent them the document. And they proceeded
them to give out the information and two competing news
organizations, professional PR people don't do things like
that. I've never had a White House and my experience goes
back 50 years, do something like that.
So what I understand what what was interesting about what I
understand is he's pissed off that he said, Hey, I'm going on
Rachel Maddow, here's the document I'll be discussing. And
then the White House apparently sent out that document with a
statement to other news organizations which this guy
calls unethical and unprofessional, because of
course, it ruined his scoop. That's how that's my take from
what he's saying. Okay,
you want my comment on this? I bet yeah. Unless it was pre
agreed to unless he said here, I'm going to give you something
it's under embargo or it's it's under nondisclosure. If he had
something to sign it. They usually don't do that in the
media. Although I've seen it or you say something that this is
off the record. You have to make that clear when you go either
way with us going one way or the other and And when when it's
made clear, you either accept it or you don't accept it, and you
do it in advance. So he's somebody a big treasure trove of
stuff and, and just expect them to keep it to themselves. Are
you kidding me?
Yeah, he's all bent out of shape about it. Oh, there's so
unethical. unethical. You see,
I think he was, wonder if he was just doing that for just a
Showboat?
Well, this next and final clip of one of his appearances in the
morning on NBC with Rachel Maddow there with a yellow
highlighter going through the document as he's talking. And
he's, and he says something under his breath at the end of
the clip, you have to listen for it. And Rachel actually calls
him out on it, but it shows you what kind of quality this guy
is.
And the one of the straightforward lines here,
that's that's kind of interesting is number seven,
where he talks about, he gets he has wages and salary income,
which is unusual for someone in his case, it's about a million
dollars. And you know, wanting
to be hers.
Well, she's on here, but she was never at that league of that
business. But that could be television income.
Did you hear it at the end when he says
he said television income could be something? Yeah.
So it said no, it's income. And if done guy, the Donald says,
Well, maybe that's Melania da no couldn't be because she wasn't
in that league of a million dollars. And then the guy says,
well, she's probably doing sleazy porn on the internet.
Listen again.
She's on here, but she was never at that week of that business.
But that could be television and
kind of hard to hear. Hey, hey, hey, that's Rachel who said
that? The
dude that K guy K Johnson guy so though she's probably do sleazy
porn on the internet if she couldn't be a high fat high top
model. I will tell you something about the guy.
Douche like yeah, I just couldn't tell who the originator
because it was their third person there.
No, it was just a Donald. That guy. And then Rachel was going
Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't say that.
Play it again. She said just because it could have been
O'Donnell.
No, it wasn't. I'll play it again. Alma
gladly played again.
And the one which is unusual for someone in his case, it's about
a million dollars. And you know, wanting
to be hers.
Well, she's on here but she was never at that league of that
business. But that could be
television income.
muddled Yeah, it's muddled but when you see it, then you can
see his lips moving as he says it for what that's worth.
Anyway, this whole
is pretty below it lowbrow. That's tip of this. This
is what this kind of guy and this guy is. Meanwhile, Schiff
again ground zero of all things impeach Trump for collusion with
the Russians. Schiff.
I think our reserves shift so much. I think it's Schiff has a
PR woman that's booking him. He's getting booked way too
much. Well,
he didn't do a good job on this seems like he's backpedaling.
Well,
I was surprised to see the Director of State that so
categorically, and I think, you know, here's where we are in the
investigation, Georgia, and obviously, I can't talk about
particular evidence. But it's not unlike that 911
investigation where you had a Joint Inquiry in that case and
an independent commission. They were looking at who was
responsible, and obviously it was kind of responsible, but
they were also looking at whether the Saudi government in
you know, to use parallel terms colluded or had some kind of
coordination or involvement in the attack on any
conveniently forgets to mention that they hid that from the
public for 16 years
911. And now, at the end of their investigation, they found
some circumstantial evidence that indicated that may be true,
but they couldn't corroborate it. I would want to reach a
conclusion. And
so they couldn't corroborate. So they hit it the 28 pages. Yeah,
that's exactly what you want to do. Sure, they
couldn't corroborate it. I would want to reach a conclusion at
the outset of our investigation as to whether we're going to be
able to demonstrate collusion, maybe we will, and maybe we
won't, maybe it existed, maybe a different it didn't. But I do
think it's our obligation to do everything possible, in as
nonpartisan a basis as possible to answer those very important
questions. And I wouldn't start out by concluding one way or the
other. Yeah. And I think if the evidence develops that one of
the Russian tactics and this was suggested, of course in the
dossier is to financially entangled people as a way of
exerting influence. If the evidence leads in that
direction, then his tax returns will be pertinent to our
investigation. But again, I think we try to develop the
evidence we follow that evidence where it leads, and not leave to
any conclusions on the front end.
What happened to follow the fact that Comey killed all that stuff
died big time, I mean, Bigley. Yes, exactly. And then finally,
as was alluded to in your clip, this, of course, is illegal to
do this type of thing by publishing someone's tax
return and the disclosure of tax return information or the tax
return itself. This is a chief counsel who work with IRS from,
for instance, an IRS source is a violation of not only the
Criminal Code 7213, but also is a direct violation of the
Internal Revenue manual. I was a lawyer with the Office of Chief
Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS was our client.
And we were instructed to head assign documents that you cannot
disclose taxpayer information. So the release of taxpayer
information here Donald Trump's tax payer information, if it
came from the IRS, or somebody that was formerly with the IRS,
that is, like I guess it could have come from a bank, but
wouldn't that be illegal to have somebody's releasing somebody's
taxes? So sure, if they've got it from a source and then
released it, knowing that that would be a violation as well?
And what are you violating NBC? Or would it be a violation of
the person that leaked it? So I looked at that, John, because of
what NBC would assert. And Rachel Maddow did assert this,
that this was protected by the First Amendment, but it depends
upon the way in which if it was solicited, for instance, by the
reporter, that is not protected speech. Ah,
that wasn't that we know of I think, by the way, I My opinion
is Trump slipped it in there is make fools of these people. I
think Trump should knew that guy. That is
certainly what one universe is saying that actually, both
universes agree on this, now that I think about it.
I've noticed this too, that the both universes are at least part
of that those universes agree on it, which is as Trump is an old
tax return is dumb. It's so old. And it's got no attachments. You
don't have anything on there, just the two pages, which is
useless as far as I'm concerned. If you've tried to get to the
bottom of it, yeah. And so it's just as thinly toss it in there
and give it you know, the guy's address or somebody does is send
it slip to him, slip it in the box. And that then go nuts. And
they did they went nuts. Like this was some big deal. I just
don't get it. It's just like, Okay, some guys tax return. And
then I think you'd have this threat of legal action, which is
just does gonna go nowhere.
No, there is another theory as to why why Trump would have
leaked this, he would have leaked this particular year. And
this is where this first started, but it's a copy and
paste on the face back. Because in 2005, Trump married a non
citizen. And why that matters is that as her sponsor and joint
filer, their joint returns were required to be made available to
the federal government in order for her to remain here on a
green card. And again, to get her citizenship, you have to
show that you have no problems with the IRS to become
naturalized. Now, having gone through this process two times I
can clearly bullshit total crap.
Yeah, sounds like a total
crap. You have to show that you have income. And you show that
with your, I think, two or three years of tax returns, but
they're not going there and to say, Oh, let me see if he's
gotten money from the Russians. Now. There how it had squeaky
clean had to be squeaky clean. No, also not true. You can be
poor, still have an income but be poor, and you can still
petition to have someone? Certainly if you've married
someone to to get their green cards. It's just as bull crap.
Yeah, well, these things come up. We're done with this. Yeah,
thanks for the applause because I want to before we take our
next break, I actually, Obama before we take the next break. I
have two pertinent clips to play back to back all right, which I
think will be ideal, all right. And one of them is interesting,
because it's like why is this being what's going on here with
this Monsanto negative report.
For years the chemical company Monsanto has fought back against
lawsuits claiming the weed killer roundup can cause cancer,
but documents made public by a federal judge could change
everything. Here's Maria VLDL.
Yolanda Mendoza makes the most of time spent with her children
after battling stage four non Hodgkins lymphoma for more than
a year.
I'd have nerve damage. I don't feel that my tips and my fingers
my jaw. It's still I still can't feel it.
Mendoza blames glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in the
weed killer Roundup, which she used on her lawn. Every weekend.
I had a backpack that held two gallons of water, I would strap
it on and walk around sprain.
Mendoza is one of hundreds of people around the country suing
Monsanto roundups parent company. Their lawyers cite this
2015 World Health Organization study that says glyphosate is
probably Probably carcinogenic and damages DNA in human cells.
The data that they look at they cherry pick it. It's last summer
we spoke with Dr. Donna farmer, a Monsanto scientist, there is
no data indicating that we should change any
recommendations on how this product should be used.
Glyphosate, the data is clear doesn't cause cancer.
But now the data is in question. Some newly released court
documents in a federal lawsuit suggests Monsanto planned to
ghost write a positive report on glyphosate and get experts to
back it up. As scientists wrote in an email, we would be keeping
the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit
and sign their names. Court documents also revealed
conversations between Monsanto executives and an EPA director
about a federal glyphosate review. I doubt EPA and just can
kill this, the Monsanto executive wrote, but it's good
to know that they are going to actually make the effort. In a
statement Monsanto says these allegations are false. Monsanto
scientists did not ghost write the paper reiterating, no
regulatory body in the world considers glyphosate to be a
carcinogen. But Anthony here in California, this label could
soon change and include a warning about cancer after
another federal court ruling.
Though there's a merger going on with Monsanto and Bayer Yeah,
that's a big one to a monster. And I'm thinking, Well, you
know, somebody must have dropped the ball on advertising. Oh, and
so CBS does this to them for that reason, sorry. And I kind
of like the idea of being aggressive about this, but I
don't think it was pointed out so aggressively as it was on
Conan. Yeah. This is Conan discussing. He got into a
conversation with an audience member. And I just thought this
was the one of the most he's gonna get in trouble for this.
One of the most honest things you could probably do if you're
a comedian and think you're not gonna get in trouble.
So you've been to Carl's Jr. and you didn't have a good
experience? Is that what you're saying? You didn't care for it.
Okay. I love that. I'm just gonna go with this. You've been
across when you're more than once or just one time. Just once
and the burger was so bad. You never went back. Couldn't get
you couldn't eat the whole burger. This is fascinating. I
don't think we're gonna have time for Adam Sandler night
because I got it. I'm sorry.
Priority. Adam Sandler
is finding out about how this woman couldn't get through one
Carl's Jr. Burger. Sounds like a bad burger to me.
Unless they advertised
Well, should we hit it?
I'm going to show my school but Jonah did no agenda. Imagine all
the people who could do that? Oh, yeah, that'd be fun
the segways I tell you how we
do not advertise or we don't accept advertising because we
have to you have to be honest, you know, as
someone was telling someone sent me a note the other day like the
MSM is taken down all the YouTubers who are you know, off,
off message. MSM has taken him down look at PewDiePie and like,
No, dude, it's not about the MSM taking the Google. You cannot
rely on someone's advertising infrastructure. If you want to
rely on advertising, okay, but then rely on the big Google's
advertising infrastructure on their hosting infrastructure.
Come on. Get a clue Millennials learn how to set up a server
learn get a Raspberry Pi tinker around a bit. Maybe grab a
career on the way out? Yeah.
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Yes, it's good for the show. Yes, I want to look below you
and hear a long clip that's kind of interesting bad news in which
maybe we want to do now or at the end of the show.
I don't like bad news at the end of the show.
No I agree. I don't like it either. But sometimes it's all
it's left.
I got I got a few things left. So if you want to do bad news
and bummis all
this kind of a bad it's not totally bad news. It's just
interesting. Bad news is David Stockman on Fox going oh, it's
David Stockman is a perpetual bear. But he's going over
he's a finance guy. Yeah, he
used to be the budget director for I think bush
or Reagan when you say bear people don't understand what
you're talking about.
Bear Yeah, well, they should bear means that you're gonna do
you think everything's gonna be bad.
We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die, especially the stock
market.
Yes, this is David Stockman
mainstream Republicans are worried about the health care
law all the way up to the Treasury Secretary, the United
States about how much wiggle room is in the budget. To your
point not much and they all poo pooed you? What do you think of
that?
Well, I think they're dead wrong. Their countdown to crisis
actually begins next Wednesday. The Fed is going to raise
interest rates, it's not going to stop three or four times this
year. It has no choice as dithered for 99 months at the
zero bound. It has to allow the market to normalize. Second, the
debt ceiling freezes in 20 trillion, and they're burning
through cash at the Treasury like drunken sailors. I can't
emphasize this enough. And I think the SNL guy, the savings
and loan guy at the Treasury has no idea what's happening in his
own joint. In the first 46 days of the Trump administration,
they burned through $294 billion of cash. They started with 382
billion, it's down to 88 billion is dropping by the day. At the
rate they lost cash last year, between March and early June.
They will be out of cash by Memorial Day. There is no reason
to believe that we'll be any different. We always just raise
the dead zone. Well, they there is no pathway to a majority in
the Congress that soon. They have declared war on the
Democrats and I guess they deserve it. But after all of the
immigration ban the walls at the border the deportations the
attack on Obama and frankly, you know, I think Trump was right,
he was bugged. But the point is there are zero Democrat votes
for a debt ceiling increase right now. And in the bloodbath
it's happening on Obamacare light, which is a disaster, in
my view, we're not encouraged by what they're not encouraged. But
what I'm saying to you is that by May, the Republican Party is
going to be in tatters, there will be no majority to raise the
debt ceiling, and then the rubber will meet the road.
They'll have to start all these gimmicks. disinvesting for the
truck.
This guy, he every time he's on anything, it's just nonstop
gloom and doom. It's actually quite funny. Yeah. And
the thing that things interesting is the Fed raise the
rates, then everyone went like, Okay, I even heard Andrew
Horowitz going up Ides of March, we're all gonna die. It's gonna
be the, there's rumors, it's gonna be horrible. And then
nothing
went up. Yeah, exactly. Who went up now, which doesn't, which
actually, you know, what goes up, we'll come down. Now he
doesn't discuss this little thing. Right. Now he begins
talking about these gimmicks, which may or may not take place.
But I thought this was the only really fascinating part about
it. Because when you start when you run out of money, you come
up with all these schemes to stretch, you know, stretch your
income and says plenty Interesting. Yeah, mix
disinvesting for the trust fund, and so forth. But I've been in
Washington a long time. And I know when that starts, it starts
that disinvesting in the gimmicks, it's a sign to
everybody that the crisis is near everything you can
grow out of it. You can't get a tax cut related boom, that can
grow out,
no, you can't get a tax cut boom in two weeks or five weeks or 10
weeks. But
the Direction is Down if it creates enough activity that it
starts going down. No.
I mean, there's no chance it's going down the first quarter GDP
is coming in at 1%. I mean, this whole little flurry of, you
know, bullish enthusiasm we've had in the stock market is
meaningless. Once it's clear that the tax cuts aren't going
to happen. And this debt ceiling crisis is going to take down the
whole system. Now. Why did they allow 294 billion of cash to be
burned up because I want to tell you something really important.
Only 237 billion of that was to cover the inherited deficit that
you can't blame Trump for. But he used 57 billion in cash to
lower the deadly
I should have I should have put the cardinal in
here. Because your women explained that last part that he
just said, what did he What was he?
I don't know what I can't I don't know what he's talking
about. I think I've now come to the conclusion. I've listened to
this 123 times now it's my third time because I had to record it
and I had to edit it and then I had to listen to it again. Yeah,
I'm now content. I've heard this guy a million times. I'm now
concluding. He's crazy. He's actually a madman. So disregard
the entire clip.
I'm gonna call it right now. dow 23,000 by Trump's reelection
bid.
Okay, well, that's a good sign if you want to, if you're a
short seller,
well, short America Can we do that is there is a short
weakness.
Xabi, an ETF that represents American interests.
Let's just short America short America, everybody. Come on i
Derya. Come on shoulders. Come on in
it. So that's my bad news. Well, sorry.
I have some bad news. Always looking for signs of depression.
Always. We have the food mac and cheese. We have adult coloring
books. What else do we have on the list? Depression signs?
Yeah. The small houses thing that you and I were actually
talking about? Oh, I think it was after the show. We were
talking about maybe was on the show. The big, big bubble that
is popping now is retail. I think we did talk about on the
show. And malls. malls are a real problem. Because the stores
just the malls are for loitering. They're no longer for
going to buy stuff. It's worth the food court. And in
loitering, Dan, I think was talking to former New York
banker that's it. And he told me that one of the big pushes now
for malls is grocery stores. So Whole Foods and stuff like
That's unusual for malls, but that's because they have to fill
it up the retail space is a problem. The problem
here, there's different kinds of malls we're talking about, I
believe the enclosed Yes.
Not a strip mall, not a strip
that have two or three of these anchor client tenants may see
Sears JCPenney Sears and JC Penney's are having trouble
using what is it ducks? Is it ducks Duck Duck, duck world
ducks the sporting goods store
that is to bash shops and then there's that other one starts
with a see. The chatroom. Oh no, I don't we don't have a Ducks
Unlimited or whatever it's called in the West Coast. And
but there's the big ones are Macy's is
Dick's is Dick's Oh, Dick's Sporting Goods. Dick's Sporting
Goods. Yes. It's noticed ever
been in the store? I'm not
sure that's that. I see that. And they're all over Texas.
malls all over Texas malls. Okay. Yeah, the indoor malls.
Yes, the normals. Okay, so but it's going to be food court for
sure. Movie theaters. Of course, they already started with that.
And that's been going for a long time. So the food's going to
expand and grocery shopping and now in the oldest enclosed mall
in America. Because they just don't actually the biggest
problem is they have a lot of open common space, so not
necessarily sellable or rentable retail space. And that's why you
have those carts. I mean, the developers of malls are trying
to get every single penny out of it. So they have a new idea. And
it fits right in with the depression. This is the oldest
indoor
shopping mall in the country. That being that wasn't the first
but it was it's the oldest one that still exists. And so built
in 1828. People talk about saving historic buildings, but
often the only way to save them is to make them economically
viable. How can you make this building economically viable
when you have 50%? Common area? You know, and the answer to that
is you've got to get the most per square foot rent that you
can get from the space that you are able to rent. I thought that
by dividing the spaces, you know, developers thinking per
square foot costs, and people who live in space thinking,
what's the monthly cost? So 225 square feet on a per square foot
basis, it might be expensive, but this is a $750 apartment.
It's cheap,
is my humble abode. So you can see it's pretty small, but it's
really all you need for one person. It's an efficiency
kitchen, which doesn't have a stove. So I bought my own
toaster oven which works well. So there are just a few
cabinets. You need to make dishes here. So what are you
eating that if you don't have lots of canned soups, Lean
Cuisines?
Just in this 225 square foot apartment which has its doesn't
even have a real kitchen. She bought a toaster oven and she's
eating canned soup and Lean Cuisine. Yes.
So 1010 feet by 2120. That's about it. So that's about the
size of this office I'm in and cleaning the bathroom. And then
your kitchen consists of a toaster oven and you gotta bet
it's a studio apartment is what it amounts to but even studios
usually have a sink kitchen
while she has a sink but not a not a stove or anything I think
the cook on and she's eating chemicals. Nice salt and
chemicals. This the future
yeah, there's a big trend. I mean they show tiny homes. Yes,
that comes to mind which is a good house and garden are one of
those channels obscure channels that have a big audience
surprisingly, they used to do better and MSNBC and the tiny
homes thing is interesting because you basically trail
We're living without the mobility correct. And I and it's
very depressing to watch these people
try and make it sound great when it's when you just look at it go
Oh man, that sucks.
Yes, exactly. In fact that's what they do they try to make it
sound great and the two of them are trying to convince each
other I don't know why they're doing this in the first place.
Well, money because people are broke. Well, I
mean, that would have to be it but it's they try to make it
sound as though they're doing it voluntarily which is very hard
to buy. You know, I'm doing it because we were trying to
declutter, I don't want to have so much stuff I want to do
there's a lot of articles and stuff written about minimalize
you know, you want to minimize you want to simplify your life.
You want to do all these things.
I was four by the way.
I am too but somebody invited me. I am I'm Borat. Think I'm
lyin
No, I know you're for it. There's never been
somebody about this today going on about how they want to
simplify and get into a smaller place. The archive is funny. I'm
thinking well, if I want to simplify go, I'd like to go into
a bigger place that has more room for stuff. So I can
simplify one room and move it into the just pile it somewhere
else.
See, I think you would do perfect with an air stream just
for your archive.
Then you can lean and realize
that's very that their stream wouldn't be able to be archived.
I've got a book collection that is 1000s of volumes which fill
the air stream up. Wow. Not possible. Okay. I don't know. I
think it is a some sort of assignment. It's like something
has always baffled me. For example, the little town of
Albany and San Carlos, there's a bunch of these towns in the Bay
Area that are old towns, Burlingame. And they have entire
neighborhoods that were built during the 20s and 30s. Pre
depression. Yeah. But the houses were all they was designed for
housing, you were cottages, your one bedroom and two bedroom
houses and three bedroom houses. And of course, the the way real
estate went up in price normally before recent, was pretty
steady. So you'd buy a one bedroom place you move into with
your wife, and then you'd have maybe a kid and you'd you'd have
enough equity that you can move to the two bedroom place in the
same basic city. And then you could go you know, eventually,
as things went up or down and real estate prices, you can just
you can leverage and ratchet. And then you can get into bigger
places which is waiting but at the starter house. They don't
make the starter houses anymore.
Well, yeah, they do. They do. This is their million dollars.
And they're an awesome it's ludicrous. I got a note from
recently graduated millennial who gave me boots on the ground
report which I'm going to tie into another piece from NPR. As
from Zach. Hey, Adam and Jonathan listened the podcast
for a little over six months. I've only managed to donate once
after I paid off my student loans. Good job sack. But I plan
on doing more once I get my financial situation in order on
Thursday's Podcast, episode 910. John mentioned how the
millennials aren't the problem the education system is I 110%
agree with his assessment. Right there you can see the problem
with the education system you can't do 110% I have been a
product of the education system I was raised in I may be a
special cases I attended a Christian private school K
through 12. This education wasn't where too much
brainwashing took place. Surprisingly, the heaviest
brainwashing came from my business classes from my
Christian University where I graduated with a Bachelor of
Science and an MBA in business administration. My final year in
my case studies in business were assigned to case studies to read
and discuss in class. Every single one of these cases had
something to do with climate change and global warming. This
surprised me as I figured most Christian universities were
primarily conservative leaning. When the professor asked for
feedback on the class. At the end of the year, I raised my
hand, I suggested there'd be less climate change focus case
studies, I said, we get the planet is dying. Everyone turned
and looked as I was generally quiet in class and some even
gasp. Aside from this scenario, each of my classes had heavy
emphasis on globalism, and it was seen by almost every class
and it was seen by almost every classmate as agreed to with one
of my professors asked whether we thought globalism was good or
bad for the economy. The only ones to raise our hands for bad
was me and a 50 year old preacher in the back of the
class. The professor was respectful to our opinions. But
many classmates looked around confused that anyone could
possibly believe there are other options besides globalism to
benefit the economy. Sorry for the long note, just to give you
a taste of what's happening in business curriculums. Thank you,
Zach. Well, Zach, thank you.
And yeah, I would like to thanks for the good news.
I'd like to play a clip from NPR is on point with Tom Ashbrook.
And a millennial calls in and and what she says is so as Such
a perfect example of what is wrong with Zach with your age
group. And I think you're in some real trouble if this is
what's on your mind. Sarah in
Brooklyn, New York. Sarah, thank you for calling. You're on the
air.
Thank you, Tom. I'm calling because I just wanted to mention
something that I don't hear anyone else talking about. And
that is that it feels like the President has no plans for my
generation, which is like the millennials. And it's everything
that he's trying to appeal to is like, Sure, it's great that
like, our parents can have coal mining jobs again. I mean, we
don't love the act, you know, but it what is going to happen
with the things that we want to do. I feel like we don't have a
seat at the table. What do you what do you want to hear him
talking
about that? You don't think he is
I want the technology in New York and a tech company. And we
have Republicans to hear that come from other states. We
concessions, just because we're Millennials were the same
generation. We want to talk about the environment, we are
going to have to deal with the consequences of all of these
policies. What are the real consequences barriers, and we
just we just don't have a seat at the table. Baby Boomers are
like, it's just you know, taking they still have like a grip on
everything. And I just feel like we need to start like a
supercycle or something to get all the baby boomers out.
But the President says he wants his gleaming future all new
infrastructure, you know, gleaming American future. That
would be for millennials I guess Sarah?
No, no, not the way that the kind of stuff that he's talking
about. Technical logically advanced he's talking about
tunnels and bridges and cool down on driving. Sir, I
really appreciate your call millennial power there the flag
raised from Brooklyn,
millennial power they're so what she wants is just a bunch of
free stuff. She didn't say that. But she'd clearly don't want
anything this is not for us. This is no good we don't need
roads.
We don't want Red Bridges to drive we want to stay home who
gives
a crap Buck parents have coal jobs, who cares? We want jobs
but not coal jobs we want to have some kind of
I would say is definitely elements of being a kind of a
spotty view of the world that's not complete. Like it's very
very sketchy very
incomplete Yeah.
Oh, it's horrible. Man this something happened I don't have
the official report. It actually falls a little bit under here
we go all the board trains planes
This is fan this is really an odd thing that happened just
wanted to mention it. There was a challenger 604 flight level
350 So 35,000 feet going from the mile I think that's my
Maldives. Yeah, the Maldives to Abu Dhabi and they pass an
Airbus 380 going in the opposite direction at flight level 360 So
only 1000 feet above 336,000 feet but they were exactly on
the same path so they crossed and the separation is fine 1000
feet oh it's not typical that you have that kind of encounter
at that level but certainly when their head on so one is coming
I'll just I don't know if it was north or south but let's say one
comes from the north you're going south and you fly over
each other than the challenger is not a small aircraft it's a
nice price not hardly nice private jet. So this thing for
so the the Airbus 380 flies over them and two seconds later the
wake turbulence rotates the Challenger three to five times
Ben's, the airframe everything is in the plane is a total loss.
People are seriously injured inside their live but they're
seriously injured. They do land it but man can you imagine being
in your jet and then all of a sudden you're rotating and they
had no control they lost they lost 10,000 feet of altitude
before they could
have been reported much this is a great story
i It's a fabulous story. Now again, I don't have the official
FAA report yet but this is a pretty complete report I put in
the show notes and aircraft received damaged beyond repair
due to G forces written off entirely.
I was in a in a big plane and we were relatively big compared to
the Challenger which is big, but it's 730 sevens bigger. And we
got flying from Ontario we got according to the someone they
can't remember the exact details. A B two or B with the B
one does not to be one bomber that this stealthy thing. Yeah,
this guy had in the wake of that thing. And it just it was
unbelievable. I've never been in turbulence like that it was, you
know, it didn't open. I was told by a guy who flew a lot more
than I did that in less the doors of the cargo than the
overhead bins and those things all pop open. Throwing luggage
on people in a turbulent situation. It's not bad
turbulence according. I would agree with that. Yeah, but it
was bad.
It was I'm sure it wasn't fun. I'm sure of
that. But being in a little plane get hit by that something
like that. I can't imagine what it would do. Well,
when I used to fly the Cessna, they had from Amsterdam or
Rotterdam, the other end of this okay, line up behind the 737.
Like no, no, do you not see what I am? But you want to wait two
full minutes before taking off and a small craft after after a
big plane goes because you could totally get lost and you can
just get swirled right down to the ground. Very frightening
wake turbulence is what's Malaysia? Do we like Malaysia?
Are they okay? They're Malaysia.
Yeah. It's a Muslim country run by Chinese
if you're not a bunch of homophobes.
A Well, I can't say for sure that they're not homophobes.
That could be
it's one of Disney's most classic fairy tales, and now
it's due to be released as a live action remake. But the
latest Beauty and the Beast is proving controversial in some
countries. There was talk of banning the movie in Russia, and
now cinemas in Malaysia have delayed its release. It's all
due to what's described as a gay moment in the film. The delay
happens even though Malaysian censors are cleared the film
after the scene was cut from the movie. Authorities now say it's
been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances,
and your homophobes. I still don't know what the actual
offense.
I don't know what it is either. But somebody tweeted something
quite funny, which I think is one of our producers, too. Of
course, she said that he was she said I can admit she says I
guess people all bent out of shape about the one gay scene
but they don't seem to mind a woman falling in love with an
animal.
Beasts reality I'm against it. I do not like Yeah.
Okay. BCL is okay, but that gay thing down on us gotta go. It's
gotta be
the candle the candelabra who's gay? That's gotta be it. I mean
that the candelabra is a gay thing. It's kind of
anybody ever watched a movie? The producers? Of course.
They'll Brooks? Yes, of course. And
they didn't ban that thing. That's some of the most some of
the funniest anti gay stuff you can ever imagine. But okay.
Onward. I got some North Korea stuff. There's some cool stuff.
Okay, we could actually take a little break from the regular
stuff and go over some of these new words that have come in. Ah,
yes.
Why don't we do that? Because I'd like to set some parameters
around this because we're basically getting two kinds of
submissions. One is words, old words, like kerfuffle. I'll just
just throw it out there. I personally don't like doing
that. I'd like to do this the sayings like cat for to make
kitten britches, you know, stuff like that.
But there's a couple of just words that I think are fine if
they you can see him into a It's not that the additional doesn't
by the words don't bother me. They bother you. Here's what
bothers me. A phrase that is still in play. Yeah, that's not
that's no good. It's like no, no, no, this is not some old
phrase you're trying to bring back it's already been brought
back. And we get tons of these things. I want to also mention,
if you're gonna send these things to me, please use the
subject line words, not old phrases or all these crazy other
subject lines because I like to just look them up and then go
through them. And then the worst thing most people are tweeting
this stuff Yeah, but I'm just gonna read I'm gonna read I'm
just gonna read straight up from here's Kevin Curley too big for
your britches. peckerwood he's got Moxie that I think qualifies
a little bit don't know as ask him a hole in the ground. That's
not new. I mean, I mean that's new. It's I mean, it's not new,
but it's still used. Now this one is I've never heard hanging
it this would be some of you might like hanging in there like
a hair and a biscuit.
I've never heard that when I like I never
heard it either. But I believe it probably is a real phrase
from the south. Keep a stiff upper lip the cream will rise to
the top this is again yeah, that's all news. Now one phrase
which actually came up in a family conversation is Bender
going on a bender. The guy went on a bender and I had some
that's predestined. That's still being used. I don't know how
much is being used. But I had to say I had two millennials in the
house and we're talking about the game up as a phrase. And I
asked him about what does it mean,
they didn't know.
They didn't know and what it means for anyone who doesn't No,
it means you're bending your elbow a lot drinking. Oh, I
didn't know you didn't know either. No, I didn't. Yes
bending you bend to your on a better your bend you did. That's
what a bender means, okay, broadside of a barn. I don't
think that's new. This is interesting. Somebody mentioned
that term. And this came to my I came up with a couple of other
ones that came with the term Mickey Mouse. So that's Mickey
Mouse. I used to use that a lot. And in broadcasting, it's used a
lot Mickey Mouse as loudly you know, like Mickey Mouse, you
would you would use this Mickey Mouse rig.
How about what's on the rail for the lizard?
I saw that one and I don't even get it.
It's a Southern way of saying what's on the agenda for today.
I don't know where it's from. And it by the way, if you send
these things in, please let us know if you what they mean or
where they come from. That's the whole point kind of
rinky dank is another one, but I think still kind of in play.
Now. One that one or two that, you know, people say oh, wow,
and things like that still. But one I remember from Manos
grammar school or whatever was Boss,
boss. Sure, sure. Oh, that's bought I think that's still
used.
I doubt it. Yeah.
Yes, it is. It is.
Bichon still used?
I say it.
Very. Okay. Now this was a good one. This is somebody came up
with these on what's his name's list? Kevin's what in the Sam
Hill is going on Pat?
Good one who was Sam Hill?
There's actually a reference to Sam Hill and one of the
explanations
How about when shit hits the fan? Although still used where
does that
go? That's that's common.
But where does that come from?
Where does it come from? Well, I mean, the visual is dynamite.
Yes. But where's it come from? I don't know. We should look that
when somebody asks and find that one first. It might be
available. red letter day, Riff Raff forever in a day propaganda
and the negative. That's something else. Till kingdom
comes.
Now are you going to write these down and publish these because
this? Yes,
yes. In fact that reading this off a sheet, which is one of the
sheets I've got the collection on, meaner than a wet cat. Oh,
that's a good one. Yes, a very good one. Criminy. Now this guy
says gee, geez, oh, Pete. is better than Criminy. I don't
know what that even means. keister? Sure. We Yes. But I
think people still say that. Here's another guy. Chris Engler
Rodin these old friends your mom and yell at your work. You know
what? You didn't close the door? Were you born in a barn? Yeah.
I wonder if that's still us. That still holds a doubtful
when you waste something do you think that stuff grows on trees
which your money grows on trees as my dad used to pitch about
that? Here's another guy wrote in this expresses from Montana.
These are from Montana grew up in Spokane. Oh, who do you think
I am? Daddy Warbucks six of one half dozen? Yeah, it looks like
you got the short end of the stick. Yeah, they nickel and
dime you to death is still used? I think it will cost you an arm
and a leg. What time is it to freckles pass to hair? What time
is it half past kissing time time to kiss again? Never heard
that. We've never heard that one either. Now this one I heard my
mom say you look like a ragamuffin.
That is even better if you call you so you look like a blato
Raggamuffin
blato you really liked that. You
know why? You know why? Because that was the one. I did one real
acting gig in my life. Swamp Thing. Look it up.
I was nice already. I've watched this fine movie. It's not
a movie. It was a one hour episode. And in there as a rock
and roll guy in the 80s. The line is, I don't know, man. I
was really Blotto. And I said to the writer I said that's.
Nobody says this. You idiot. You
know what they said? Yeah, you will. It's the stupidest line
ever. I could not and I'd never heard of it. At the time we had
somebody get us a clip or run it on the show. When someone who
was angry they had a bee in their bonnet. You ever heard
that?
I of course. I've heard the bee in the bonnet.
On this one. Somebody with a head honcho a boss was called
The Big Mo Gundy. Never heard this
never big man on campus. I know that
was also the yeah, there's a bunch of phrases for the boss.
When two people are up to no good those two are thick as
thieves because the or that's I think that's still around. Yeah,
cool. wool over your eyes is still around. The Real McCoy is
still around wears the pants in the family is still around to
this prom with this list.
Well let's not let's from now on let's only do things that are
applicable instead of the ones that we think are not applicable
here's one here's one that's kind of I think may have been
lost you eyes or two are bigger than your stomach. Yeah, that's
saying that it would say that I've never heard it for decades.
Yes,
Tina and I used it just the other day but of course we're
decades old so there you go.
Okay, we've skipped that is all from David V.
You know we should we need a seriously programming note. We
need to tighten this up. We need a jingle
now we do need a jingle so what is it called? You know, I had a
graphic for it that was trying to I was trying to do this on
the old blog and had a graphic I'll dig it up because I gave it
a name. Here's one maybe
we call it you know like words from we have to have something
come on this is
free phrases bridge or bring back the old phrases I have no I
don't have a title on my top of my top my idioms known as
idioms. idioms are these idioms. I guess it kind of idioms. But
one last one, which I'd never heard. Couldn't pour piss out of
a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Wow. That's interesting. Because the one I was bringing to the
table today, only one with the explanation of where it comes
from is piss poor. they've ever heard of someone being piss
poor?
Oh, yeah. piss poor, and it's a but I've never heard of someone
being piss poor. I heard it like this. That was a piss poor
performance.
Yes. Well, it stems from the good old days when urine was
used to tan animal skins. So families used to poor families
would all pee in a pot. And the once a day, the urine was taken
and sold to the tannery. That is this. That and that, I think, is
the definition of his poor.
Well, that's the topper so we're done with it. We need an intro
and outro for this segment. We'll keep it shorter. Yeah. And
you always had you you're now you're the topper man.
Okay. Thanks, Nancy.
All right, we'll take care of it. No problem. See if there's
your ISO. All right, we can do one each and then we're done.
And by the way, we have an ISO for that Conan bit you might
want to play we do. See I think this is useful for a lot of
stuff.
I don't see it. You know, we've sent me a Conan nice.
It's the ISO advertise.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize
unless they advertise. Okay,
I'll put that in the end of show. That's kind of funny. Very
good. Actually. I'll just do my last bit here. I'm very excited
March I think 26 There's a big, big thing that I My community is
is going to be doing a march some kind of big event in Canada
Navia
it's called the cheer community lawston No, my
community have a listen.
Well, he may not say it himself. Keen savant has become an
advocate for other children and youth living with Tourette
syndrome.
I know a lot of people think if you have Tourette's here, you're
swearing all over the place which is which isn't true. Trust
can be really anything and it really depends on like the
severity that you have it.
Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental or brain
based condition that causes
whoa whoa neuro development during the brain condition. I'm
screwed. I
like the severity. There you have it.
Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental or brain
based condition that causes people who have it to make
involuntary sounds and movements. When Zavod was in
just grade five, he organized a presentation for his class about
Tourette syndrome to help them understand what he lives with
every day.
I do a lot of tics, which can be like physical or verbal and,
like some of the tics. I know one of the worst ones I used to
jump up and down. And I remember sitting in class that used to be
really hard.
Now 14 years old, he continues to challenge the misconceptions
people have and takes any judgment he encounters in
stride.
They don't really know everything about it, and they're
kind of jumping to conclusion. And I think maybe it'd be better
if they met someone with Tourette's, because I think it
might change their mind.
That's why it's really important that we bring awareness to
Tourette so that when people understand it, there's not that
stigma attached to it. And people are more open and
accepting
Lowen is coordinating March 26 track for Tourette's, it's a
national event This will mark five years the Winnipeg chapter
has held a Walk Run
the trek for Tourette's John, I got to be in that. That's
awesome. Good. And you know everyone
I thought what I took away from that was a very interesting
idea. There are probably every classroom probably has one kid
at least it has a mild form of Tourette's or maybe the one that
wants to jump up and down I don't know any of those but I
think it's a great idea for one of these kids to go up and
explain to the other kids because Tourette's there as
there has been some specials on it is actually quite
fascinating.
No kid living with it is even more fascinating. Well, I
don't know about if that's any fun, but it's a fascinating
thing to elite and you should you should know about it because
I felt I knew enough about Tourette's when that guy got
thrown off the plane that I've talked about on the show before
that I really felt bad about this situation for this poor
guy. But honestly, he's cussing at everybody coming in and that
is kind of the cool Tourette's.
Yeah, the cussing I don't have anything cool like that. But I
do like the there's Yes, there are signs I tick for Tourette's.
Nice. I gotta. I gotta get me a sticker of a badge. I'm a
podcaster with Tourette's, the Tourette's cast. Now if your kid
has Tourette's shoot me a note I'll tell you how to deal with
it's very simple. Because the main thing is find out what your
superpower is. Remember you get a superpower when you get
Tourette's
usually is organizing. That's why you mock me. Oh,
OCD is directly related to Tourette's directly related.
Yeah, so don't drag the kid is the point. Yes.
Thank you. Don't drag the kid March trek for Tourette's trek
instead. Ik trek for Tourette's. Okay, what? Three ducks people
in the audience got that one. You got to find a clip to get us
out of here Johnson happy some fun something you really been
looking forward to shares what it is it could be the day maybe
you got to clip it the day.
I wish I had a clip of the day but this Pope priests and
marriage clip is a good one.
Pope priests and marriage it
says Now signaled that he would consider letting some married
men become priests. But with strict limits. He told the
German newspaper the men would have to be older with proven
character and they'd serve only where there's a shortage of
clergy. There you go.
Oh my goodness. That coming up, and then this, and then you must
let's get this out of the way this China 2025 I thought was
ludicrous, China 2024.
We're back
with the world today. And China has to step up efforts to help
the country transform its industrial sector. That's the
message from Minister of Industry and Information
Technology Miao Wei, who made the comments on the sidelines of
Beijing's ongoing political sessions, along with Vice
Minister Singh globing. And Ministry Spokesman John Fong
reality elaborated on pushing forward with and implementing
the Made in China 2025 strategy designed to transform China into
a world manufacturing powerhouse. What when I said
what
were they going to manufacture for the whole universe now it's
not enough though.
They already were the manufacturing power hours.
Those Chinese man never happy. ever happy. Anyway, yes. Good.
We'll be back on Sunday. I'm traveling tonight we leave. So
it's another one of those. I have my checklist though, for
the studio. I'm not gonna mess that up. I may have underwear or
socks, but I'll have the studio
or you need to check this for that too. You need checklists.
I'm working on my checklists. John, thank you for your
courage.
And thank you for your courage.
And thank everybody who was listening to the program.
Remember, we have another one coming up on Sunday. Part of it
I'm location and we'd like you to remember us at the
vorak.org/and A to help us out and of course, email tweets,
anything you got for the show. And until then, coming to you
from the crackpot condo in the skyscraper here in downtown
Austin, Texas. Douchebag Central and South by Southwest. Lots of
man runs FEMA Region six on the map in the morning, everybody.
Hi, I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley, where now I know where
all the man buns went. And John C. Dvorak.
We will be back Sunday, right here on no agenda. Until then
adios mofos.
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