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Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.
Today we discuss:
• A big win for the gerontocracy as half-dead octogenarian Mitch McConnell returns to the US Senate.
• The Supreme Court refuses to let Trump’s U.S. Postal Service tighten the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections. Homeland Security may have broken state laws as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation’s voter rolls, according to a federal whistle-blower. The effort has relied on questionable data, and has likely improperly flagged U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.
• The now-closed state-run Alligator Alcatraz ICE gulag in the Florida Everglades failed to comply with a host of federal detention standards, creating cramped conditions and “calming” migrants in tiny metal cages. Immigrants seeking documents from the government to prove that they are in the country legally are being ignored or provided paperwork that is heavily redacted.
• Star Wars! The United States has installed weapons in Earth’s orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink admits.
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This is deep program with Ted Rall and Jamar Althomas. Thanks so much for joining us. We're here Monday through Friday at 9 AM to 10 AM, Eastern time. Starting next week, new hours. We're going to be computing the Q&A shows sort of back to back with the regular show. So starting next week, if it's Monday, Wednesday or Friday, we're here from 9 to 11 AM. The first hour is dedicated to the usual news and analysis. The second hour is your questions. If it's Tuesday and Thursday, just to keep things confusing, we will be here for one hour. And then TMI show comes up right after that. We're basically doing it's compressing things because TMI is going from Monday to Friday through Friday to just Tuesday and Thursday and we're just moving into that real estate. All right, so I hope you don't have tickets for the Kennedy Center because it looks like
it might close today. They are talking about it going bankrupt and it could shut down permanently today. Next to the wise stewardship of our beloved president, it's full transparency. I've never been to the Kennedy Center. Can't imagine there would ever be an event there that I would be interested in attending but and I don't live in Washington anyway. Just sort of events that they have at the Kennedy Center. Well, the one that would interest me is they have the Mark Twain Humor Award ceremony. But my understanding is that they have plays, musical performances. It's like basically for a bunch of stuff for old white people, right? It's like, you know, opera. Like plays and musical performances. Like those things. Well, it's not like, but I mean, it's not like any, you know, I mean, it's like, you know, classical music, that kind of stuff. I don't know. There must be people watching us right now who can elucidate us on this.
I could look for their schedule but I don't think there is one right now. I mean, I just thought it was funny. You know, we have a lot of real news to talk about. We have to talk about Mitch McConnell. You got to talk about. Yes, and appearance. The balance. He's been seen. The midterm, the midterm, the mail in ballot decision from the Supreme Court. We got to talk about alligator alcatraz and probably not least at all that there are, the US has now installed weapons in space. But, you know, getting to the thing that I think finds fascinating is like in the, I was taught in college that one of the tricks that the Nazis used was they created chaos on the streets of Berlin and other German cities with street fighting gangs that would after socialists and other people. And then their pitch to the German people was like, only we can fix it, which was, you know, in a sense true. And, and of course, when Hitler came to power, he called off the dogs and for a time,
anyway. It was like suddenly things got really calm and the German people were like, wow, things are really calm now. I mean, that's kind of like Trump is like literally came in there, put his name on the Kennedy Center, went crazy, took it over. And then, you know, basically all the performers ran away screaming, nobody's attending anything, all the liberal donors are like, bye bye. So they're running out of money and they're in deep shit. And then of course, like now, basically he broke the Kennedy Center and now he's arguing in court. Like, well, only if I, my name is on it, will money come in and then it'll be fixed. It's like, but you broke it. Just like, you know, the Nazis broke Germany. I don't quite get how he was able to take over the Kennedy Center. He just bought it. I don't understand how it is either, but it's something about the original charter of the Kennedy Center is that it's a, it's a quasi government thing. And he had the ability to have him basically join the board of trustees.
So what's interesting about this, of course, that is that a trustee has a fiduciary, it's not just an honorific, you have a fiduciary responsibility to the entity that you serve, whose board you serve on, you're actually supposed to donate money to it. You're supposed to raise money. You're certainly not supposed to what's the word fuck it up. And, you know, and so, I mean, he's been sued by a bunch of people who may or may not have standing here. But, you know, it's a fucking embarrassment. I mean, this morning I turned on my X-feed and there's Howard Letnik posting pictures supposedly from a security camera of shit falling out of the ceiling onto the floor and talking about how the Kennedy Center is unsafe. And this is security camera footage of shit falling where people would be walking. And I'm like, but you're, this is your thing. You guys took it over and also, by the way, the security camera footage looks like it's a handheld camera. So I'm like, it's like, that's a very like RCA-24 security camera.
You know, what's going on? I mean, but it's the logic that I just don't get at all. It's like, it's like the, it's like the reflecting pool. You made a big to do. Oh my God, I'm going to best reflecting pool. Look at our reflecting pool. And then it's like, oh, it's fucked up because of us. We broke it. We made it even worse than it was before. Oh, okay, well, let's not talk about that anymore. Like, why did you make a big deal out of it? Why not just, you know, try to fix the reflecting pool quietly. And if it takes, then great, you brag about it afterwards. And if it doesn't take, you just shut up. Well, for one, Trump is incomprehensibly incompetent. There's that to putting his name on it, it's not going to change anything. If anything, it's going to make it worse. I mean, you have all these people that, as you pointed out, fleed, fled is a better word for us, folks. The moment that Donald Trump had anything to do with it, he's toxic.
He's radioactive. Nobody is going to want to work with him on this. I mean, for God's sake, the guy got like a 80% or like a 30% improve rate. It's the fact that he's on the ballot is a drag on Republicans. He's an albatross across the throats. I mean, not to mention Republicans kind of went all while with him. I'm trying to make the point that this translates from politics to economics. Meaning it doesn't just stay in the political space, anything that you're trying to do in an economic sense, there's also a headwind associated with it. He ruined the Kennedy Center. That's what it is. And the idea that you, like a dog peeing on everything, yeah, I want to change the name from Kennedy Center to the Trump Center, which immediately just might as well demolish it. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure the not over. I'm sure at least 80% of the normal attendees of the Kennedy Center are old Democrats. Well, do you also think it's just a matter of him just knowing who the audience is? I mean, it seems like a few days ago for your regular Republican type. Well, I think he did it because he knew who the audience was.
Yeah, I think he wanted me to stop it. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound. Limit four roasts with membership were applicable. And medium-ripe, hassovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.9 to 8 ounces are 1.99 each when you buy three. Limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit vonsoralbertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, Lebrichizema, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled
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That's what happens. Option two with Kennedy. No, why would we say it? Name Kennedy was on it. He probably thought to himself, hey, I'm the greatest president since Jesus, not thinking, you know, not knowing otherwise. And so I wanna put my name on the Kennedy Center. I think it's that, I think he's just peeing on stuff. Yeah. Tell me. The Vaney is a really good example. I mean, but I think the Vaney thing was weird. A beer company not knowing who their audience is, it's just bizarre. It is bizarre. I mean, I give them a very attractive woman with large, you know. And they have so much, I mean, these companies spend millions of dollars on marketing and marketing studies. I mean, they have detailed analysis of who their average customer is. They know their customers. They end up with a trans person as a mascot. Yeah. Why do they think that their public was gonna accept that? Like that's an article that someone needs to write. Like, you know, like a 4,000 word. Like, how Dylan Mulvaney got chosen, right? Like, what was the series of events that led to that?
I suspect I can guess, but yeah. Well, the autopsy was written. So Bush, they brought in a new CEO. She's a lady I don't remember what her name was. She was a real woman. And she just came out of the, the, the woke atmosphere and said, we need to have some diversity. That Bush has this reputation for being for hard drinking, hard working, mostly white and black blue colored guys. And we open this up to be blue collar. Blue collar. Yeah, for sure. And so it's just like, so how are we going to do this by bringing the ones by bringing a symbol that's completely antithetical to the entire demographic that buys the beer? And then just show him. And putting her on the and putting her on the can. Too, not even so. Literally literally drinking from the can with her image on it. Correct. Yeah. And this was a great idea. It's sort of, well, that's your ideology conflicts with reality. It's much more of a boner than new Coke.
I can much easily see how new Coke happened. Like, hey, we've been doing it the same way now for a hundred years. Let's switch it up. Well, that I get. It's stupid, but you know, I get it. Yeah. It's like your audience is your audience. It is what it is. Yeah. Yeah. It is what it is. If you want to. It look men who consider themselves men. It's going to have a very difficult time accepting this as a sex item. Which is what it is. I mean, when if I go to a convenience store and it would be like, Coke 45, what's going to be under Coke 45? A woman in a bra. People right. Right. It's their product, right? By Coke, Lyca woman, or by, you know, this cold 45. Here's a very attractive woman. It's what it is. It's like Playboy. And it's Playboy. Is it Playboy? Yeah. Playboy in its sort of post Hugh Hefner iteration. I think it was like reduced to like a quarterly print edition. I don't even know if it's still in print.
But at one point they put a trans woman on the cover. And I was like, dude, who's it's Playboy? I mean, it's like it's for it's for straight guys. And to whack off. And like, you're just like, it just doesn't make sense. It's not even like, I mean, it's just from a capitalism point of view. I'm like, what are you thinking? Yeah. What are you doing? You're F and your base. Yeah. Why would your base feel okay with this? Like, they're not you ideologically claiming that this is a woman. Despite the fact that they have an X, Y chromosome, you're claiming that this is a woman. I get you are claiming that. That's not your audience. Like you can like, meaning you as an individual can say, I want to whack off the trans woman. That's not your issue. That's not your audience. It's just weird. Yeah, it's very weird, especially with a long standing brand like that. Yeah. You know what I think it is? I think it's just contempt. It's kind of how our politicians are in DC.
They look at the people that they rule over. And they just have complete contempt for the American citizen writ large. And that arrogance is being over into the corporate space. I think that's what this is. It's like we are going to drag you into the 21st century. You are going to accept these norms. And we're going to make it and you're not going to have a choice. You Joe, Joe, you Joe six pack are going to learn to love a dude, cosplay as a woman. And you're going to put your sweet lips on the skin. I don't think it's a contempt thing. I think it's a it's it's high cluelessness. You know, I mean, it's just like you've become disconnected. And I think I think it's like excessive belief in the power of promotion too. Like, oh, we can sell any guys. You know, like we, you know, we'll just we'll just have the ad agencies go crazy. And it'll be great, you know, and we'll do it's the dudes. And it's kind of like, yeah, I mean, you know, it's true that, you know, promotion will go a long way.
I mean, let's face it, if we had a big ad budget here, you know, the show could like quadruple in size overnight. But, you know, but it's like we're not we're not changing the brand. It's like, it's suddenly like, you know, Jamar and I both, I don't know. Let's see the shows this pivot's radically to celebrity gossip. We're going to lose everyone who's currently watching, you know, so I mean, it's not that celebrity gossip is a bad thing. It's just that it's a different brand. It's not your base. It's not your audience. Yeah. I mean, you can move to a different audience, like meeting if Colt or Bush kept doing it. They're going to lose a huge, I mean, but they're going to take a massive hit, though, I mean, that's just, I guess Trump's case. I think it is content. Oh, in Trump's case, it's 100% content. He was pissed off. He felt slighted. I forget why because he always feel slighted about something. But he felt slighted somehow by the Kennedy Center. Maybe he was right. He's been slighted a bunch of times. And, you know, you know, he just felt like they don't Hamilton, by the way. Was that the Kennedy Center?
I think, well, I mean, originally it was on Broadway. So I don't know if it ever had an interview. I don't know if the road version ever came to the Kennedy Center or not. We got Mike Pence on the once under Trump's first term in the black Hamilton. As he got ordered. Pence, but I don't know where that took place. That was in New York City. Oh, okay. There was also, I think it was Netanyahu also came to the, and it was like a, basically the new, the audience at the time. Half of them, this was, I believe pre-October 7th, but half the audience was like cheering wildly and half the audience was booing and hissing for Oceans Lake. Really super, super divisive. All right. We got some comments and we'll get straight, we'll do those and then we'll get straight to the, to the, to the news. Jackson, one after the comments. Sorry. Okay. Jackson, can you put me in contact with your friend who knows Conn believes a race tag as I want to be an MP? I don't know how you became, that would do that for you, but no, I'm not doing
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Matina, you're a horrible wingman for Ted. Yeah, that's true. Or maybe you're like, who the horrible wingman did? Robbie. Yeah, related to the son. I am a very bad wingman for the record. Sonali is married. Okay. So yeah. So anyway, and people who don't speak plainly are not ever people I would ever be interested in any capacity. I think she did that, by the way, because I kept thinking to myself, does she think she's in hospital territory? Because she became a self-fulfillant prophecy if she. True. Yeah, I did. I've been thinking about that too. I mean, I don't know her. So, but I mean, it looks like that. She really had the sense of prouch the entire interview. And it wasn't like, I mean, maybe she just took the question as maybe she was doing interviews on right wing channels. She's been doing lots of interviews and it's all been very friendly media. I saw that on her page and it seems like it's been all softball, softball, softball.
We weren't hard on her. No, we weren't. No. No, I mean, look, we're asking her questions. She should have been able to answer these. We should be able to wake her up at three in the morning from a sound sleep. And she should be able to answer these questions. Really? Yes. I mean, you know, what does exist? Yeah, I mean, the people who give me my borders, I mean, these things, I picked dishes and blah, blah, blah. It's like, don't just answer the question. Right. We weren't going to, I think she was kind of like, sensing a trap. There was no trap. We just had to talk to her. Well, it's having about borders. It's about jurisdictions. So if you, so governments have these things called jurisdictions, right? So you have laws, you have to pay taxes to those governments, everything else. And if you have multiple jurisdictions that, I think the word would be border each other, then by definition, you got to have borders to know what militaries you're going to serve in. Will you go and put your taxes to which laws you have to obey? Well, I mean, that's the human conditions. It's like, well, borders aren't real. Well, also like literally, okay.
That's the government. The nation states are real. Like literally the number one thing that defines a nation state is you draw a border and you say, okay, we get to decide who gets to come in and who gets to stay. And that's what, and literally that's more basic than like whether you meant money or have an army or have stamps. I mean, you know, that's the basic thing. A group of people who say, this place is ours and only ours. And we get to invite people or not. Now you can say we shouldn't have that system, but that is the system that currently exists. Well, yeah. I mean, these were complicated questions. These were just, what do you believe in questions? Right. Right. Because it's like, because we wanted to know where, where are you coming from? Right. I mean, it's like if you're fighting ice because as part of an open borders ideology, that's a different place than fighting ice from like a, you know, incipient fascism point of view or from a competence point of view, or from a, you're, you're doing deportations, which I'm for, but not the way I don't like the way you're doing them.
These are all different points of view. Yeah. Just where do you stand? That's all we want to know. KCHM, Black people like classical music, Ted, that's no overprivileged. Yeah, but not in big numbers. Okay. I mean, if you could, if it went to the classical section of tower records, it's like it was all old white people, you know, there's nobody in the classical section of tower record. Well, no one there. Okay. Well, not now, but I mean, you know, not going to day there were there really in New York, it had a huge classical record section on fourth and left. I had, but all right. I personally enjoy going out to concerts, even if it's classical music, even if it's not something I typically like that classical concert here. Um, they were doing it. Uh, what does it call it was a co-play something, but they were doing with classical music to the thing. It was great. Get up all sit there and listen to co-play. Oh, on the, no, I'm not saying that Black people don't like classical music.
I'm just saying like in the aggregate numbers, it's a very white thing. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Okay. All right. Demographically, all right. FUSO, Kennedy Center needs to do a remake of springtime for Hitler in Germany, the producers. FUSO, I'll be your representative doing VR gaming. Dungeons and war games are fun in VR. What games are funny there? Well, I mean, that's the whole thing because I don't know what virtual reality games would be out there that you're going to be able to do that with. I guess the closest thing you could do would be do a live stream, have people come up on a telegram and then just kind of just live DM a game which I'd be down for. I don't know how fun I'd be to watch them. Yeah, I don't know how you do that. Springtime in Hitler. That's not a real movie. Is it springtime? No, no, it's a, it's a, it's a, I guess it's a song, right? Or was it? No, no, no, that's what it was. Springtime for it. So in the producers, the play within the producers is springtime for Hitler.
And it's like, basically, it's like self-sabotage. Let's make something no one will ever come to and it becomes really popular. Yeah, but it blew up. Yeah, which I guess can happen. My ex-terrany onto this thing where it was basically Hitler ended up into the future. Did you have, you see this? Oh, I know what you're talking about. He's back. Yeah, he's back. It's so good. It's so good. There's a book and there's a TV show. Yeah, a movie. Yeah. A movie. Yeah, the, yeah, that's, that's, I mean, so yeah, that's, like, that's a thing, right? Like Nick Lowe did, he was trying to get out of a contract and he did Bay City Rollers, we love you as like a joke song. Like, this is going to be such a shitty song that the record company is going to cut me and I'll be free to move on. And we can't be huge yet. And it's like, yeah, that can happen. Yeah. Kill the poor by the dead Kennedys became a huge hit in, I believe it was Portugal under
the military dictatorship. They, they, they thought it was like, serious, so they promoted it on state radio. Um, yeah. So let's see. If you said, don't forget dudes with who has hashtag bonus hole. Oh, God. Okay, it's early in the morning and I already ate breakfast. Okay. All right, let's, let's move into it. All right. What do you want to do? You want to do? You want to do it? No, the space thing. The space thing. Let's do it. That's it. So, you know, several things have happened at once. In one case, all right, let's start with the beginning of it. The US acknowledges that they have weapons in space and that they will use those weapons to defend the interests of America, whatever that means. You know, this is like Israel saying, you know, there's a nuclear weapon in a trash can and we got to murder 20 people to get to it. All right, China comes out and China says, hey, the US really needs to calm down with this idea of having a war in space. This is not something that we're on board for.
We need the US needs to chill. China puts it in their typical language of millimalf, not really saying anything. And then the other story came out that a Chinese satellite disintegrated in orbit, meaning in space, like meaning that satellite out of the blue just broken to like 40 something pieces. Now, the media is reporting it as China's base junk. It's an happening space. And to be honest, we'll wait a minute. So, the US accused China of providing spy satellites for Iran to hit the US bases. US bases by which many people in America were killed. Obviously, depending on his lying about the number of Americans that have been killed, whatever. That's the accusation. And then just so happen in reconnaissance satellite for China goes up in smoke and then you get the United States coming out saying, yes, we have weapons in space and we would defend our interests.
Are these things related? Now, by the way, I made the same announcement. I made the same connection you did. I mean, I was like, well, that's an interesting, a very, very interesting, you know, coincidence. You know, I mean, I think look, the US had to admit it because they knew the truth was going to come out. You know, there's been, there was, there was an effort a few years ago. I believe under the Biden administration, globally, to introduce a, a international anti-weapons and space convention, kind of analogous to the minds convention. And basically, the US, as usual, was the primary party saying we don't want to do this. China, Russia, most of the more responsible countries in the world had all said, oh, we're willing to sign off of that. We don't think weapons and space are a good idea. So to be clear on what these are, right?
This is not SDI, Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative, Ala Rildregan, where the plan was to put lasers in space on platforms that could vaporize cities within a second. That was, that was the plan. What could go wrong? The, the plan here, I mean, well, what they've done here, these are anti-satellite weapons. So they're probably lasers also, right? Or they might be missiles. But anyway, the point is, it's, yeah, it's, who knows, right? The space war is different than what, like, meaning anything that people open space is going to be flying around at Earth at ridiculous speeds. And so you have this kind of fight in space, where satellite debris is going all over the place, then count your missions into space, count your, you know, star links, all that stuff is toast. Yeah, there's already, I mean, the thing is, it's, they used to not care about this stuff, right? Because space was, they were like, well, space is so big. So who cares? Whether the odds of things bumping into each other.
But now there's so much crap in Earth orbit. Old and new and, you know, quote-unquote space drawn. Some of it reenters the atmosphere, and most of it burns up. But some of it, thank God, most of it falls into the ocean, because most of the world is ocean. I mean, human beings only live in a small percentage of the Earth, right? I mean, things fall into the Alaskan wilderness. Nobody cares. Everybody knows. But, you know, that's not always going to be the case. One of these days, something's going to fall into a city somewhere, and that's going to be a problem. I mean, probably we need some sort of air traffic control for space. For the space. Come on. I mean, they keep track of it. I mean, in fact, it was the US, it was like, there are 44 pieces of it. I think it was 44 of the debris of the satellite as it broke up. Yeah, you're right. I mean, that's going to be broke up by itself with no help whatsoever. Out the blue? It's just disintegrate. It's like a repo man, like, cause of death, spontaneous combustion.
Right. It's just a club. Right. Right. You're not implying that our government would lie to us, are you? They will lie. They would never listen. Listen, our government would never lie to us. They would never lie to us. They respect the American people too much, especially our president. Like, he is as honest as today as long. He would never lie to us. So true. He, his name deserves to be on the Kennedy Center. And the fact that people are not supporting it, just shows how unfavorable we are. Kennedy's original name was Donald Trump. So this is just restoring the name to its proper true name. By the way, this does mean a weapons arm race in space. That's assuming that the Russians and the Chinese don't already have weapons in space. Yeah. No, I mean, at this point, if you don't have them, you need them, right? And like, yeah, just like the same principle. Honestly, it's terrifying and all seriousness. I cannot think of a bigger, dumber, more bone-headed, more retarded thing we could possibly do as a species
than this. What they think they can get in advantage. And so this is what they want. I mean, keep in mind, the United States is one in supremacy in space. I mean, the Sauer's project was a really good example of it. For a very long time, this idea of air, sea, what is it? Land, air, sea, space, supremacy. Okay, well, again, keep in mind, it was like a year or two ago that the US was complaining, like, bitching remorselously about Russia's new space capability of taking out all of the US satellites. That they were going to fire a new kid's space, create an ENP pulse, destroy the US's capability, and space from standpoint of the satellites. And US was complaining remorselously about it. Like, it's like calm down, buddy. Calm down. Like, meaning all of these countries that are having any particular thing if they need to have some kind of they are going to start putting weapons in space, another satellite in space that can aid to fit their own satellites or if it doesn't matter attack other satellites. I mean, like, this is not a good eventuality. Just out of self-preservation of loans, we should have been like, no weapons at space.
That's not the way we think. Yeah, no, we always think, you know, we'll get the let we'll get the head start. We always trigger an arms race and then we're always surprised and confused when other countries join in and challenge us. Or find an ace map. Every time we're dealing with what you've done. Drones. Yeah, when when enemy drones start, you know, patrolling the skies over American cities, where Americans are going to be all surprising confused. How did that happen? What we started that? I mean, we could have had the head start in drones or in this case, weapons in space and then announced to the world, hey, listen, we have the technological lead here, but we don't really want to deploy them. We'd like to sit down with the international community and not do this. But we let that's not our MO because that's not going to that's not going to boost Lockheed stock. I have a question. Seriously, and this is the question I've been thinking about and I cannot think of a better pair of people to ask than the two of you. So the electronics that trunk that trunk needs for this stuff requires river earth minerals. The United States does not mind river earth.
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And once since it's you keep your, I don't want to stop you from using crack because I need you as a buyer. But I may lower the amount that I give you. I'm not breaking off this as an investment because there are also the things that are being used for earths, citternet, necessary military capability things. But the same token, I do want to be able to maintain that level of control by halting the amount that you get when I need to pull your leash. If I cut you off entirely, I don't want to cut you off entirely because I want you as a vendor. But more to the point, I can titrate the amount that you're able to get and the amount that you're able to use for these other things. I think they just want to keep a buyer. This is kind of like they said the old saying the rich, you can buy it the rope that you would use to hang the rich from the rich. I think it's something very similar in this. Oh, I think that's exactly right. Look, it's like look at what the US did. That's our approach,
right? Cut people off. Look at what we, the way we did with Russia. And it's like, well, what happens, right? I mean, Russia, it's not like they just wither away and die. They look further, they look for alternatives and they turn to other suppliers. And now as a result, Russia is stronger economically and politically than it was before. So I think I 100% agree with you. By the way, look at what we did with China with chips. The same thing. But if you're the right model, with algorithmative machines, we're going to cut them off from the access to chips and they built their own industry for it. But if you're all right, though, in the United States, is it global? Pariah, how likely are these other countries going to be a to continue supporting a war monitoring empire when they actually have a chance at that point to break free and become independent from that empire? Plus, we're $40 trillion in debt. We don't have no manufacturing base. What could we possibly do? We're running out of moral oil for God's sake. Well, we still have the world's reserve currency. We still have no territory. We have a coalition of military.
Listen, they could cancel that tomorrow and as far as the military goes. I'm pretty sure last week we're talking about the Abraham Lincoln running out of food. So just because you have the largest, just because you have the largest military, it doesn't mean it's competent. But what you're seeing are the signs of a declining empire, but it hasn't, it isn't dead. You know, it still has a lot of, it's a, it's like, you know, it's like, it's like I was reading about some kind of poisonous snake that, oh, no, no, that's not what it was. It was, yeah, it was a poisonous snake that was being processed at a restaurant for food, like an exotic food. And then like, I don't know, like hours later, the snake's head bit the chef and killed him. I mean, that's what the US empire is like, right? I mean, what? What? We see it. Oh, that's horrible. They can still do that. Yeah. So yeah, be careful if you, if you be out, cut them heads off snakes, like, it doesn't mean like, oh, it's, you know, I mean, like, it's on the way out, sure, and like, but I would not, I'd be careful, you know.
I mean, I'm not mad at the snake for that. I mean, you know, they kill it. And plus it's a reflex, you know? Yeah. So, well, I mean, even if it wasn't, I mean, he was fight for his life. Yeah, well, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's in his right. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not faulting the snake. I don't want to come off as like a herpofobish here. But all right. So, okay, so we got, we got a bunch to talk about. So, we think we agree weapons in space. Yeah. Yeah. That's horrible. Yeah. All right. Okay. So, should we do, we want to do Mitch, we want to do ballots or we want to do, I should, I didn't get the, well, let's do ballots. Ballots is one point. I mean, it's interesting that Mitch is, oh, we need to just break the Mitch real quick. Yeah, let's do Mitch fast. Interesting. That somehow they have put robotics on Mitch to make it look like he was still alive. I find that to be curious. Obviously, I'm joking. How long has Mitch
McConnell been collecting a paycheck as he lays into hospice? I guess six months or something. I don't know. It's a fucking embarrassment and even Republicans are starting to admit it now. I mean, the thing is, I mean, I know their whole thinking is, well, he's, you know, he's, he ends his term. I guess December 31st. So, why not just let him skate? Well, I mean, because, I mean, the people of Kentucky deserve better, right? I mean, they deserve two US senators who conserve their constituents and he's not it. I mean, I mean, the thing is, I think that, you know, there's so many layers to this. I mean, part of it is just sort of like people who just refuse to let go of power. It's contempt for the people. I think as Robbie would say, contempt for the constituents. And it's also just this, this sense that like, you know, I mean, it's also just like, we have too many old people in too many positions of power. I mean, it's getting really kind of insane.
I mean, I'm not saying that you become useless when you're in your 80s, but I mean, honestly, I think, you know, a vibrant country would have, you know, out of 100 senators, you could have one or two in their 80s. But I mean, it's so much more than that. It's, it's, it's a bad look. It seems like it's a reflection of a country that is itself long in the tooth and without a lot of big, you know, figure or imagination. They have a bunch of daughtering old men that should have died a long time ago that are still in office. And the reality of it is, I don't want somebody in their 80s in office. I mean, have you met people in their 80s? Well, I mean, it's poorly, but they shouldn't be making grand decisions about what happens to a nation when they were in their prime 60 years prior. So, so, when you be in favor of like forced, forced retirement date for politicians? I don't want to say that because I don't want to take the public. I don't want to take
the choice away from the public. You know, actually, actually competent. Oh, okay, Rob. What's the way from the public? I mean, the personality test. I was like mandatory retirement age for America. Listen, you know, what's the mandatory retirement age? Shatcher retirement military. I know there's a mandatory age. I didn't even know there was a mandatory age in the military retirement. Yeah, another is. And I mean, I think that would be, I think that would be good. Let me, let me, let me, let me just be clear though, the military is an organization that turns people into basically slaves, the lack of a better term, when ditched, thirvans at best. That's not government. I mean, you government's more dangerous than militaries. Yeah, but the reality of it is in government, people choose. That's not the case in the military, meaning you choose a person who you want in office. You pick this that or that person, even if you think this person is incompetent, the government or the public can choose somebody who's incompetent that will damage the country materially because it's their choice. So, I'm from a little disagree with the military. It's different. So that's a
fundamental agreement that we have. I have the answer to this question about the military. The mission to officers below Brigadier General 62, often officers and flag officers 64 and 68 for certain health professionals, chaplains or permanent professors at service academies. That they have to retire by 68. Yeah, you're done. So if you're like, if you're a, you know, a noblesse in your professor 68, but that doesn't really, I mean, but if you're one of our war fighters, and you have to retire because your mind is starting to fade with age, then you have no, the fact we have Diane Feinstein, and then we have a, now we have this hurdle he's back, old Mitch comes in there and they haven't a actually picking their hand up and then pushing the button for them. Yeah, that can never happen. It literally reminds me of these outlander stories. There was a guy who in Hell's Kitchen, New York, not a lot ago, maybe five years ago, he died.
And his two buddies were like, he had gotten some Social Security checks. So they took him down to the check caching place, his dead body in a shopping cart. And they were like, there's our buddy. We're help, he's not dead. He's cool. Like we went to cash his checks and the check Cambianos check ace was kind of like, sure, and we're not calling 911 right now. So insane. But they were, they rolled the guy like two miles through the streets of New York City. I don't know why they had to do that. They could just watch this signature. They had to see like the person who purportedly it was. Oh, they have to check the ID, right? Like that's his ID. Wow. The only thing I'm saying is while I agree with you in principle that at a certain age, people need to call a quits. That's not the way government works. And the fact of the matter is
people choose. I don't want to take choice away from people even if that choice is wrong. It's wrong. Yeah. I know it's. Yeah. I think it's right that we can't choose. If Sanders, for example, was like, I'm 83. I want to run for office. God bless. Well, I think the system, I think the system is the problem here. Right? I mean, like if we lived in a country with a with a better, smarter electorate and more vibrant democracy, it would be possible for some one in Kentucky to challenge Mitch in the Republican primary and who is younger than Mitch and to have them win and be able to be and primary him out. And for the people of Kentucky to just sort of say like, yeah, Mitch is too old. I mean, of course he is leaving now with his own accord, but that should have happened at least one term ago. Yeah. And I mean, he was obviously out of it. Look like you this image. Look, I mean, it's the least of it. Look at what I mean, come on, we're still dealing,
we haven't really processed with what happened with Biden. I mean, Biden was seen out during the 2020 presidential campaign. And they forced him off on us, you know, with all sorts of tricks. And then, you know, I mean, they kept him, they basically weakened it, burning him for four years. And then the balls, the hoots, but they tried to run him for reelection. I mean, it's unbelievable. And then they like, oh, it'll be fine. Well, you know, pop him full of amphetamines and he'll be fine at the debate. Like what? That's also this question of like, how do you not have anybody else? Right. Like Lindsey Graham was nice enough to drop dead before the mental faculties really kicked in. I mean, you can make a argument that he was already functionally sociopath. But that's true. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like this idea that the only people we have to run are 80 years. Like, what the hell is this? I mean, they had Obama. Okay, fair enough. I think Obama was in his forties. He ends up looking very old
at the end of his term, but that's most presidents. But why is it's like, is do they just not have a bench? Is that what it is? Because I got to be honest, I don't know who the lead Democrat is. I know they would say how came Jeffries, but obviously, I don't think much of how came Jeffries. And I don't think many people do either. No, most other people do either. Probably sure. They don't have anybody. And maybe this is true for both sides. Yeah. I mean, I think it's like, I think the institutional barriers. I mean, I think they know that historically, people just vote for the same old, same old. Like, it's kind of like, um, this is a, we've always been at war with East Asia. Therefore, we will always be at war with East Asia. They, it's momentum. I mean, there was an ungodly percentage of people who voted for George W. Bush in 2000 thought he was George H. W. Bush his father because they had the same name. What? Yeah, you can look that serious. I swear to God. They're like, and it's kind of like, oh, I know him. I know him. It's shit like that that makes me like, it's shit like that that makes me feel more
authoritarian. Well, yeah. Now, I mean, like the, you know, Tocqueville is right, right? Like, democracy will not function, will never function without a highly educated, well-informed electorate. And that we do not have. So, yeah, I mean, I think that people, I think it's just like, oh, I get, you know, um, it's like you receive the invention of lying, Ricky's your face. Um, well, it's a good movie. It's just a dystopian future where basically lying had never existed. So everybody's painfully, oh, it's, yeah, remember, remember the ads for, um, and they have ads. It's like, and they're like, drink Coke. It's not very good, but it's famous and you know it. And that is basically it. Right. I mean, it's like, you know what it is. It's like, why do people eat McDonald's? It's not very good, but it's very consistent and reliable. You know exactly what you're getting, you know? Yeah, but the failure of imagination is an issue. Right? Or the,
or the, or the unwillingness to take risks. Yeah. Like, let's say let's try something new. I mean, that's like always a problem. Obviously, it doesn't work. And I think because there are some people say, well, it can obviously get worse. Yeah, it can obviously get better too. Right? Like it was workplace. This idea that I'm holding my chips is like, I'm squeezing my life and everything, um, necessary in order to hold on and maintain life. Yeah, you're doing that means you're not living. I'm saying this is like the extra medical space. It's like, there, there's, I don't know if it's a failure of energy. I don't know if it's, it just takes more pain in order to get people to be in a situation where, um, the fear of change is, um, is, in, uh, is, is it inhibited by the pain? Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have X-M-I. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let X-M-I take over when you can talk to your doctor about Ebglus. Lebrichizmab, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine
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Limit 3 offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Did they are experiencing the moment? I don't know what it is, but yeah, you're right. Stuff like that makes me sad. You're like, how on earth can you not know that this is? Like, God, man, it's a presidential election. And I did that somebody wouldn't know the difference. And I feel this way about Ansarullah, right? If you say, who's Ansarullah? I'll be like, who? Who's that? I don't have no idea who that is. But God, dammit, I can't stand paying these high gas prices. How is detached from the old wider world? Yeah. It's just amazing to be like that's God, man, the level of apathy is terrifying. It is terrifying and ignorance. All right, so let's do some more comments and we'll switch topics here. Jackson, do you think Hamza bin Laden is still alive? Still dead? Hamza? I don't know who Hamza bin Laden is. So, these are the people who are fled out or
were led out of the country by flight after 9-11? I don't know. There's so many bin Laden's, right? I mean, it's a massive family. All right, let's try. Okay, one more here. F us O, a $6 million Mitch, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. Hugh Mitch running in Furmo. All right, so ice stories. So, the alligator alcatraz ice gulag in Florida was shut down, not because it's an ice gulag with horrible conditions, but because- What is an ice gulag? I'm calling it an ice gulag. We'll just privately run ice detention center, right? Oh, I see. So basically, this was the alligator alcatraz was shut down, not for violating human rights, because they didn't do an environmental impact report on the effect on the Everglades, right? So they shut it down. But now there's reports coming out that-
and there's photos from Inspector General's report that shows that the migrants were held in what they called calming cages. So, basically small pens where they were seen by everybody else. So it's not the whole like in a prison, but you know, you're more like exposed, doesn't sound good. And at the same time, so there's all sorts of- there's reports from immigration lawyers that what used to be really routine is now no longer routine in defending their clients. So one of the things that like- when you're trying to prove like that someone has a right to stay in the country, let's just say, like they used to have a passport, but it expired, but they lost it. It's like, well, under the Freedom of Information Act, you can ask- you know, you can ask the government like, hey, can you send me a copy of my old passport? And that used to be like a routine like sure here it is. Now, the Trump administration is playing cute and not turning that stuff over, or they're turning it over
redacted to the point of uselessness. On purpose to try to deny people their ability in many, in some cases, to prove that they're US citizens so that they can still be deported nevertheless. So those are the two big immigration-related stories for the day. So disgusting. Like, it's one thing if you say, and honestly, anti-American. I mean, it's- because again, this is a hatred of Americans. It's my argument. If the Freedom of Information Act shows that you had a passport, then by definition you're an American citizen. How are you stopping that process? I mean, either you are or you're not. If they don't have it, the passport didn't exist. If they do have it, the passport exists. If the passport exists, I'm the happiest to supply that. It's just weird. I mean, like, it's so extreme. We're almost like, we don't care. We don't give a shit about American citizens. What we need to do is make our numbers look good. And make our numbers look good. We just need to deport and deport and deport.
Yeah, that was part of the story too, is that they had a quota for deportations. There it is. There it is. That's what I mean, right? Because it sounds like a quota system. What, I guess, in my mind, it sounded like a system where they were like, we don't give a shit. We just need to make our numbers. Yeah. That's exactly what it is. It's like hard to get into the month writing speeding tickets. Yeah. But the problem is, these are American citizens who ideally have rights. This is why I go to the whole thing in America. It's not a business. Like, it's not supposed to be around like a business. There are other protocols that you have to pay attention to as opposed to maximization of profit. Or in this case, maximization of the number of people you get off the kick out the country. Those people should be people who are not Americans. Like, you should, like, this too cute by half is the way Malik would say. Yeah. But that kind of thing, I hate that shit. They were apparently they've been playing, they've been playing all these games. Like, for example, if someone their last name is like hyphenated, but they put in the
request without the hyphen. So then they've rejected it because it's like, oh, that's not, we don't know that that's the same person. Yeah. It's like it's the same social security number asshole, you know, yeah, like it's disgusting. But again, like, this goes to what are the consequences for it? And if they're no consequences, they're going to keep doing it. Yeah. Well, that, I mean, that's the thing, right? Like, yeah, no, I mean, you encounter that when you are in a lawsuit where, you know, everybody's, there's so many tricks. Like, for, I mean, I'll just give you one one silly example that I learned. So if you sue a corporation, let's say that's based in your county, what you will find is it's very hard to retain a lawyer from any major firm because every corporation will retain one attorney on retainer from every major firm in the town. So if they do, you can't as a plaintiff, you can't, that firm can't represent you because it's a conflict of interest. So what they do is they lock it up so that, you know, you just can't get a lawyer.
You, that's just like one thing, you know, rich guys do this when they're divorcing their wives. You know, it's like basically they'll retain an attorney at every major firm. So their wife is reduced to, you know, getting an attorney who's not affiliated with the giant firm. Or there's the document dump. We see that in Aaron Brakovic where it's like, oh, you, you, you want to documents related to this pesticide thing. Oh, here, let us literally a truck pulls up with like, you know, 500 bankers boxes full of documents based on, you know, that basically you all worthless, they don't have anything to do with the shit because they know you have to read them and sort through. So it's just like, and so if you're like, you know, one lawyer with an assistant, how are you going to do that? It's just like it's tricks. And there's a lot of that shit in our system. And I wish there was a, it should be against the law to play to play cute really. I mean, it should be against
the law for the government to do stuff like this. The objective should be Donald Trump for one thing is disturbing a few counts. The way that other, let's say, either media or for that matter, university so that these kind of businesses immediately bend over, spreadsheets, the moment that the White House starts asserting itself, meaning I don't want to hear anybody from this point on tell me government doesn't have power, right? Or that the president doesn't have the capability of using the power in a particular direction. All of these agencies have just immediately turned on a dime to function in the way that Trump wants them to function. And so even to something like this, yeah, the lesson now is if there's a separate Democrat again, we're going to be able to be like, Oh, don't tell us what you can't do. Do not tell us that. I mean, because look at what he's doing. I mean, this is this, this shouldn't be a process. This should be a blind process. Does this person have a passport, your name? Yes, they do. All right. Well, you're an American citizen. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back.
I'm not an American citizen, but I guess my point is it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be a blind process. It shouldn't be, we just need to hit our numbers. So we need to do whatever we can. We can't hit our numbers, even clueing if that goes out of Americans. If nothing, your government doesn't give a shit about you. And if this doesn't prove it, I don't know what does. Mail in ballots, the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump. The the US Postal Service cannot be used to throttle the use of mail in ballots. Also, the Department of Homeland Security, apparently according to its whistleblower, may have broken state laws when they were trying to purge alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls. And again, in many cases, appear to have purged legitimate citizens from the voting rolls so that they can't have some feature in that book. Right. That's like, as we heard from Brent Palace last week. Yeah. And Palace is right. That's a feature in that book. Yeah. So I mean, so one of the things that I thought and I've heard other
people say, and I mean, what do you think? It looks like Trump's MO here has been not necessarily to win in the courts because he knows he can't in many cases, because the laws are just not on his side. And even Republican Supreme Court just says can't go along. Like Brett Kavanaugh voted against him. Right. But it's like, it's about sewing confusion. Like, for example, the save act, which he can't get his own Republican conference to pass. But when he loses the House and maybe the Senate, he's going to say there was widespread cheating. I'm not honoring the and I tried to get this and that and the mailing ballots to blocked, but it didn't get blocked. I did all that. And now look at the results. Obviously, I, you know, it was a cheat. The Democrats cheated as usual. That's what this is about. It's about laying the rhetorical ground, not the legal groundwork to invalidate the results of the midterms. Chaos is a ladder. Basically. Yes, there's a ladder. He's going to get impeached
doing that. If he doesn't like me, I think he's going to get impeached. Maybe. I mean, Democrats a week. I came Jeffers is very weak, but it's he's not going to be able to, did not be able to convict them in a Senate. But Donald Trump is running with this idea that, well, I mean, this was a cheat. I'm not going to follow the election results. Okay. I don't know how you don't follow the election results. I mean, it's not like a presidential election. You're talking about elections all across the United States. What all of them were cheated. To clear a state of emergency, really, this one necessary to take Republicans out of Congress. To clear a state of emergency, you use your ice goons in cities to close down the streets, shut down media outlets. At least we'll be honest. Yeah, that's true. Look, this level of apathy is, I don't know, the level of apathy is just intense. And this level of apathy has bought us to the point where you now have a president that may do some shit like this and has been waging waters across the globe. Again, I keep bringing a Hitler reference. And people don't like it because they look
at Hitler as a historian, this historical demigod of sorts. And they don't look at it as this was a government that was functioning just like our government would government or processes in play as it went about and did all of the things that it was effectively doing with a population that effectively was also apathetic. I don't know. I mean, we'll see. I don't believe he's going to go that far, but I could be wrong. Well, I'm trump is waging war against his own people. And here's I mean, he doesn't have an army out there yet shooting Americans yet. I think there's a solid chance that will happen. I mean, he's waging war on civil liberties. He's waging war on what it on the rule of law. Listen, I support mass deportation. That's so secret. But you'll put people in cages to do it. People are not livestock. You don't just treat them like animals. The Hempfer reference is notwithstanding. You put them on a plane and you send them home. I mean,
this isn't hard. And by the way, about quoted either. I think you disagree. It's not 100%. The entire fact that any government, whether it's a local municipality or a national government has quotas that is people have to meet as a term of employment is sickening. Your objective should be to enforce the law, not impose yet another tax on the American people at the point of a bayonet, where you have to force someone to defend themselves with money they may or may not even have. It's the entire system is corrupt. It needs to be replaced. Our entire system needs to be burned down and regrouped. Oh, I forgot another trick, legal trick. Like, oh, there's the file multiple motions for the same thing. And then schedule them like weeks apart. So if you're from out of state, you have to travel back and forth at your own dime over and over and over. Always bullshit like that. It's just just what they do. And then the fact that the government will steal your property.
For example, if you are accused under a red flag law, the government will take your guns. There's no due process. And then you have to pay a storage fee to the state. Right. That you then, and if you don't pay that fee, then you can't get your guns back. And there's no guarantee that the guns even are going to be in a good and good shape when you get them returned. So it's like civil asset forfeiture, right? Where they take your shoes away. And then you have to suit and get it back and off of the cost of the suing would be more than the value of the stuff that they stole from you. They actually worked in my favor once. Believe it or not. When I was leaving DC, I think this is the clock. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Well, I had to get rid of the cops found it in the car and they took it and I was like, oh, great. It's like the time I had a console TV on the six floor walk up. They shared with my two roommates. It broke. It was way too heavy to carry down the stairs. Thank God, a burglar broken and stole it. Right. Right. Right. Right. Oh, much. All right, guys, we will be back tomorrow,
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