January 12, 2026 • 37 mins
The U.S. all but annexes Venezuela, Communists take control of New York City, and the Governor of Minnesota takes a powder for his re-election. The times they are a changing as you will hear with our "did they really just say that" cuts this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The US all but annexes Venezuela. Communists take control of
New York City, and the governor of Minnesota takes powder
for his reelection. The times they are changing, as you
will hear, whether did they really just say that cuts
this week? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is Newspye.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Late last night, at my direction, the United States Armed
Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivisiness.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Does I reflect on this moment with my family and
my team over the holidays. I came to the conclusion
that I can't give a political campaign.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My all governor to walls of Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
How can we miss you if you won't go well,
he is going to late and.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Taking a slide.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, not at the moment that was a you know,
someone has told him that he has no chance of
reelection given his state is now the poster child for
the biggest welfare fraud in the history of the whole country,
the whole country.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Congratulations number one. Yeah, that's a big They need a phone.
They get to give him a foam finger, but yeah,
pick the finger.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So someone dropped the number on him, and so he went,
you know what, I don't have. I need to focus
on this. I can't spend my time running for reelection
because the people of Minnesota need me cut ten A.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Twenty twenty six is an election year. Election years have
a way of ramping up the politics at a time
when we simply can't afford more of that Minnesota. In September,
I announced that I would seek a historic third term
as Minnesota's governor, and I have every confidence that if
I gave it my all, we would win the race.
But as I reflect on this moment with my family
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and my team over the holidays, I came to the
conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all.
Every minute that I spend defending my own political interest
would be a minute I can't spend defending the people
of Minnesota against the criminals who pray on our generosity
and the cynics who want to prey on our differences.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
So I've decided to step out of.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
This race, and I'll let others worry about the election
while I focus on the work that's in front of me.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
For the next year, nothing to do with the fact
that he would probably get smoked.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, and then he tried to blame others for the
fact that fraudsters run the table in his state. Basically
cut eight.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
A last several years, an organized group of criminals have
sought to take advantage of this state's generosity, and even
as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters,
we now see an organized group of political actors seeking
to take advantage of a crisis. I don't want to
mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington
and in sight, ain't Paul and online want to make
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our state a colder, meaner place. They want to poison
our people against each other by attacking our neighbors, and ultimately,
they want to take away much of what makes Minnesota
the best place in the country to raise a family.
They've already begun trying to withhold funds that were meant
to help families afford childcare, and they have no intention
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of stopping there.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Woe is me, It's Chump's fault. Yeah, that's basically I'd
like to see the evidence that Donald Trump defrauded the
government out of childcare fund money.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And there's no doubt. Take there's no doubt by the
way that it's a great place if you're a Somali
because there's there were no guard rails of place. And
then at the end of all that, he literally ran
from the podium without taking questions.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
That's eleven b Tomorrow, I'll be back with you.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I'll give you an update on America's best paid family
medical lead program that is now a week into it,
and at that time I'll take all your questions. Thank
you all.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you, and good night.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I like that. Wow running running from it. Now, here's
the rumor because the day before this happened, he had
a meeting with Senator Amy Klobershar, and it looks like
what's happened is the Kloburshar said wants to run for
governor and said you drop out, I run for governor.
I will appoint you to my Senate seat. So it's
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a way of him getting a little post gubernatorial you know,
because he's never won reelection or or an election at
this point. So the only way is going to get
to be a U S senator is of Clobshar appoints him.
So that's that's the rumor of what's happened. But you know,
he did come back the next day, and he got
a little pissy when people suggest did that, you know,
not running again was not sufficient for the mess that
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he had created, and was leaving that maybe he should, Oh,
I don't know, resign cut seven.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Here's the thing that I'm going to ask all of
you is Republicans want to tear this state down. Republicans
want to tell you it's too dangerous to walk down
the streets. Republicans want to tell you there's nothing good
comes out of Minneapolis Saint Paul. Republicans want to tell
you everybody with brown skin is stealing money or that
they're not welcome here. They want to do nothing to
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improve this state. Their idea of improving this state is
being a parrot for Donald Trump, agreeing to everything that
he agreed with. Well, here's what I'm going to tell you,
it ain't happening. I'm not going anywhere. And you can
make all your requests for me to resign over my
dead body, will that happen. I will fight this thing
till the very end to make the state better. And
the question that I think they need to decide is
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is when did the guy in the white House resign?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, the guy in their white house wasn't, you know,
part of the massive fraud that's in Minneapolis and Minnesota
in general. So he's not going anywhere. But that was
fascinating to me. You know, how dare you ask that
I resigned? Well, you were at the helm during literally
there is no case of fraud ever in this country
that's been as big as in Somali. And I don't
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know if anybody noticed when they were listening, but he
tried to make it seem as if investigating their fraud
was racist. He was saying, oh, this is against people
with brown skin. No, this is against people stealing from
the state.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Listen. I promise going forward that I will try. I
won't succeed, but I will try to clean up the
mess that I created. Yeah, but it's someone else's fault.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, someone else's fault. And you're racist if you call
me on it. And here's the fascinating thing. The mainstream
media has been coddling him and buying into this. It's
racism if you say there is fraud. And there was
a really interesting cross at CNN with commentator Scott Jennings
and the normal CNN panel including you know, Abby Phillips,
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because you know, Jennings is pointing out that Waltz was
trying to say that cleaning up the fraud or investigating
the fraud was racist, and had said and had called
it racist, and they denied that. They said no, no,
And you just heard a little bit of it in
that one comment. But where do you hear where do
you hear this? So this is Jennings and the CNN panel.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Cut twelve B.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Democrats who have put Somali diaspora in Minneapolis at the
center of their party and their states politics. It's a
small portion of population. There is a bunch of fraud
that goes on. And even Tim Walls has claimed that
any investigation of this fraud is akin to white supremacy.
(07:42):
He has said not said that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Really, Well, cut twelve A.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
Please, this is what happens when your own federal government
wages war against you. This is what happens when they
target communities for their own benefit. This is what happens
when they scapegoat and this is what say happens when
they no longer or hide the idea of white supremacy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I would like to make all the
Abby Phillips and friends there sit down, you know, maybe
from something like the Clockwork Orange where they had those
picks keeping their eyes open and play that play that video.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
In front of them.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
They never said that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He never said there he is saying that, and he
actually alluded to it in his I'm not gonna you know,
I'm not going to resign, you know statements. So it's
it's he tries to make you feel like you're racist
if you want to look into the fact that billions
with a B billions of taxpayer dollars have been fraudulently
dispersed in Minneapolis. But these are people that are that
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elected him. These are the people that elected Minnesota's attorney general,
both of whom owe their careers to the same people
who are Froster. So is in any wonder it hasn't
been cleaned.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I was saying, Look, there are plenty of people who
are racist, but in this in this case, listen, I
can't imagine there are too many people who don't want
whoever's hell, who ever's responsible for this fraud to be
held responsible, whether they're black, brown, green, white, purple or
from another planet. Most people, most reasonable human beings, don't
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care what color you are. If you're committing fraud or
murder or anything else, they just want you out and
and and just because they happen to be brown people.
As the Lovely Governor would say, Uh, who cares. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
One of the big, the big froster's going on here
is Tim Wallas. He's not a brown person. I like
him investigated. And does that make me a you know,
self loathing white person, because what the hell? I mean,
that's what he's saying. It's got to be racially motivated.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
So what I'd like to know then, if we can't
investigate or they shouldn't be investigating the the the brown people,
because that would be white supremacist, I'd like to know
does he have a list of people he'd like to
have investigating. I mean, we know he he wants Donald
Trump investigated, But is there a group of people that
he would like to see investigated for this fraud in Minnesota?
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I mean, maybe just some off group that we could
pin the blame on. Or I mean, if you can't
investigate the people who probably did it, who can you investigate?
You know who.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think, in a weird way, we have responsible for
exposing the fraud in Minnesota, Kamala Harris, because I don't
believe if Kamala Harris hadn't put a spotlight on Tim Walls,
we would have seen any of this, because Minneapolis, well,
Minnesota can fly under the radar unless you put a
spotlight on it, and in this case, we did. Wed
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she made him a household name. I'll be it a
foolish one. She made him a household name, and so
people started paying attention to his speeches, started being all
of a sudden, then they started noticing stuff going on
in his state. I don't think if he had been
picked for you know, if she'd gone with Joshapiro or
somebody from Pennsylvania, I don't think we would have seen
what was happening. So we owe Kamala Harris in a
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weird way, I think a gred of datitude, a debt
of gratitude, because she has helped in exposing this massive
fraud going on, and the fact that the higher ups,
the elected officials, the Democrat elected officials in Minnesota, don't
have any foothold in reality whatsoever.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
So if we're thanking Kamala Harris for this. Yeah, can
we make the humongous leap to call her a white supremacist.
You could try.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I love a problem with it. You could give it
a shot and see. But you know, there's no reality there.
I'm going to help the people like we believe he's
pissing on us and telling us draining and doesn't believe
we've noticed the difference. There's no foothold in reality there whatsoever.
And I think you see the same kind of obliviousness.
Is that a word, okay? And what's possible? What is impossible?
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And what's realistic? In New York too, where they just
basically swore in a communist as mayor this past week
with Zaron Mamdanni. He was sworn in. He was actually
sworn in by Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Waitly starts getting sworn at.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, true enough, and he basically threw down the gauntlet
right out of the box. Cut twenty B.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I welcome the change. For too long, those fluent in
the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask
agendas of cruelty. Many of these people have been betrayed
by the established order. But in our administration. Their needs
will be met, Their hopes and dreams and interests will
be reflected transparently in government. They will shape our future.
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And if for too long these communities have existed as
distinct from one another, we will draw this city closer together.
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people
of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government
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foster it. Because no matter what you eat, how you pray,
or where you come from, the words that most define
us are the two we all share New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The warmth of collectivism. I wish somebody would talk to
the people of Cuba, or the people that used to
you know, live in the USSR, or any other you know,
communist group about how warm collectivism.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
When he when he said that, When I heard him
say that, the first thing I thought of, And if
you know, you know, if you don't know, I'm not
going to explain it because I waste the time. But
I thought of the Borg from Star Trek. Oh, that's
so funny, the collective.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We are one.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah, So if you know, you know, and that's that's
New York everybody's just gonna be hooked, you know. We're all.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, the warmth of collectivism, you know, and individualism
is cold. Individualism is actually what warms people are. But anyway,
I think you're right if you can't explain to somebod
who doesn't understand. But he's given us fair warning, a
zarmum Donnie's and he basically said, I'm a Democrat socialist
and that's what you elected. Cut twenty one A.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any
billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy.
We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology
for what we believe. I was elected as a democratic socialist,
and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And there's one big problem with that. Well there's a couple,
but there's one that really glares out at me. And
Bernie Sanders basically gave everybody because I said before Bernie,
Senator Bernie Sanders Vermont was actually the guy who swore
him in because we weren't going for the religious thing there.
We were going for you know, secular. And he basically
at the inauguration said the billionaire class in New York City.
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You know before warned what's about to happen to you?
Cut twenty three A.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The billionaire class in this city and in this country
have got to understand that in America they cannot have
it all. That America, our great country, must belong to
all of us, not just a few. And that lesson
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begins today in New York City.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
They'll learn their lesson.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right, Well, I don't think that, And Bernie's not stupid.
I don't know about Mom Donnie, to be honest with you,
I don't know enough about him to know if he's
stupid or not. But I have to say that Bernie's
not stupid. And he has to understand that who pays
the tax base from which all the programs that Mam
Donnie wants to do, that would be the billionaire and
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millionaire class. And so what happens if you chase them away?
Which if I'm a billionaire and can live anywhere, and
I happen to be in New York and someone says
we're about to take your money, you know, your your
free ride ends today. I'm i there, I'm going to
where I want. Why would I stay there? And you
know who learned that lesson Connecticut because Connecticut instituted a
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millionaire tax. And what was the result. The millionaires left
and so did the tax base. So they went into
deep debt, couldn't afford anything, and they're still digging themselves
out of it. So this is what happens when you
I'm not saying that they don't pay taxes. Of course
they pay taxes, but you don't target them and make
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them responsible for everything and tell them we're going to
take away your money. Because all they got to do
is go walk away, and that is what they do.
So the free buses, the free healthcare, the free grocery stores,
all that stuff that mom Donnie has promised, who's going
to pay for it? Because the guy who's making you know,
fifteen dollars an hour can't afford just to do it.
You have to be able to depend upon the Wall
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Street guys. You have to be able to depend on
the millionaire and the billionaires who bring job in, who
bring businesses in, who bring money into your tax base.
So you just told them to fuck off. Excuse the language,
I know, and I'm sorry about that then, but I
mean that's what you just told them. So what do
you think is going to happen, that this is just
no real world acknowledgment.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Look at any of these places that have tried to
run by communism, you know, picking off the millionaire base,
the millionaire base. Look at Soviet Look at Cuba, look
at Czechoslovakia, look at any of the Iron Curtain countries.
What happened to them? They disappeared because it is unsustainable.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
I don't mean the nitpick, but you you you said,
who's going to pay for these free programs?
Speaker 11 (17:44):
They're free?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Nobody has to pay for them. Don't you understand? That's
that's the mantra. It's free, everything's free. They don't nobody understand,
all right, not nobody. A lot of these nimrods don't
understand or they understand, but they just ignore it. Three
is not free. Somebody pays for it. And by the way,
that's somebody is the taxpayers, which whether you're a billionaire
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taxpayer or a millionaire taxpayer or one hundred thousand air
taxpayer or just Joe Schmuck taxpayer, if you're a taxpayer,
you're paying for that free program, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And it's even worse than Bernie is alluding to. Here,
Bernie's just alluding to taxing the crap out of the
out of the billionaire class. But in this particular case,
the cabinet that Mom Donnie is picking is even worse.
Because here's this is going to be. You're gonna hear
Cia Weaver. She's Mom Donnie's tenant advocate appointee. Okay, this
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is who she is. And in Twitter, this is just
surface this past week from twenty eighteen is a Twitter
video where she advocates seizing private property and implies that
home ownership is an example of white suit promisey. I
don't know if she was talking to Tim Walls before
she did this or just the word the year yeah,
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twenty three A.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
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and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going
to have a different relationship to property than the one
that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So this white woman, by the way, she's a white woman,
says that home ownership is an example of white privilege
and white supremacy, and you should be able to take
their property. Now here's a funny thing that happened. So
Bernie was bad enough, Now you've got this woman coming
in saying she can take your apartment build if you're
a white guy, and give it to people. So she
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was walking down the street in New York and the
Daily Mail, which is a British paper, said can we
have a word with you for a second, And they
go up to her and say, so, it turns out
your mother, who is a white woman, owns in New
York this beautiful craftsman home that's worth a million and
a half two million dollars, So should we be able
to take her house? And Sia Weaver here just burst
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into tears. Burst into tears. How dare you say that?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Really?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Because I'm pretty sure that's what you just said in
twenty eighteen. This is what I'm talking about. These people
live in fantasy land. They live in because you were
I thought it was interesting that you brought up the
borg in future Star Trek. This is a star trek
notion that people don't own anything, that everybody is equal,
and that everybody has the same thing, starting out the
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same thing. Well, here's the problem with that. Not everybody
puts the same amount of effort into their careers or
their education. I think everybody should have equal opportunity. But
I think also diligence and hard work should be rewarded.
And that's where you get to home ownership. That's where
you get to businesses, small businesses striking out, or people
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being successful in careers because you know they have skills,
they put the energy in, they put the effort in.
And when in Seattle a few years ago, a company
tried to do the equality thing, so they were paying
the CEO the same amount they were paying the mailroom guy,
the mailroom guy was thrilled. The CEO left, Well, I
shouldn't the seeo because the CEO has different stresses, different responsibilities,
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and a different work level thans required for the mailroom guy,
and they should be paid commensurately. And this just did
not occur to these idiots in Seattle, and apparently it's
not occurring to the idiots in New York City either.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
By the way, I don't know how long it's going
to take when the house of cards will fall in
upon itself. More than likely it will. And here's the thing.
When it does, there will be a group of people.
Bernie Sanders, if you're still around, go what happened? I
don't understand Donald Trump? Well that too, But listen, these
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people are telling you. They are telling you right now,
they are broadcast I have a shovel and I'm going
to hit you in the head with it. And by
the way, and still, when you get hit in the
head with the shovel, don't be surprised. They are telling
you ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They're telling you to stand still so they can hit
so they can hit you with a shovel.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, the shovel.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I agree with you. By the way, the DOJ,
after witnessing that that video put out by the new
Tenant Advocate appointee, issued a issued a warning issue Literally,
the DOJ has issued a warning to New York City.
We will be watching you. Any hint of racism and
that's what's taking white people's property, is any hint of racism,
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and we are coming down on you with with God's
own thunder. Basically, bring the rasp so that's what they've said,
So they've already put in New York I notice we're watching,
and I think that's appropriate given given what was what's
going on. But the most fun story this week, I
have to tell you, Benjamin, was Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Just fun as a relative charm it is.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I was amused by it. Apparently we annexed Venezuela this week,
or so, says President Trump. Cut one.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Late last night and early today, at my direction, the
United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in
the capital of Venezuela. Overwhelming American military power, air land
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and sea was used to launch a spectacular assault. And
it was a assault like people have not seen since
World War Two. It was a force against a heavily
fortified military fortress in the heart of Caracas to bring
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outlaw dictator Nicholas from Maduro to justice.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And then he gave an account of Dictator Maduro running
for the Panic room as the Marines came tumbling down.
Cut nine.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
What was Maduro doing when the US forces entered what
I assume would be his home? And also was there
any point where the US was considering if Maduro pushed
back or resisted killing Moduro.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We could have happened. It could have happened. He was
trying to get into a safe place, you know, the
safe places all steel, and he wasn't able to make
it to the door because our guys were so fast.
They went through the opposition so fast, and there was
a lot of opposition. You know, people were wondering, did
we get it by surprise? Sort of surprise, but they
were waiting for something. It was a lot of opposition.
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There was a lot of gunfire. You saw some of
it today. But he was trying to get to a
safe place, which wasn't safe because we would have had
the door blown up. And about forty seven I think
forty seven seconds they say on average, regardless of how
thick this seal was.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
He it was a very thick door. He's a very
heavy door. But he was unable to get to that door.
He made it to the door, he was unable to
close it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay. Secretary State Marco Rubio says, there is a lesson
in all of this. Cut fifteen.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
The forty seventh President of United States is not a
game player. When he tells you that he's going to
do something, when God tells you he's going to address
a problem, he means it, he actions it. I can
tell you I've watched this process now for fourteen to
fifteen years, been around it. Everybody talks, I'm going to
do this, I'm gonna do that. When I get there,
We're going to do this. This is a president of action.
Like I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out.
And now if you don't know, now you know, because
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this is the way it's going to play out. And
I think people need to understand that this is not
a president that just talks and does letters and press conferences,
and if he says he's serious about something, he means it.
And this is something that was a direct threat to
the national interest of the United States, and the president
addressed it. There's a president of peace. By the way,
I told you what I just said earlier. This guy
had multiple opportunities to find his way somewhere else and
figure out another He could have been living somewhere else
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right now, very happy, but instead he wanted to play
big boy. And so now you know, he's got other
sets of problems on his hands. But I think the
message here should be for the world. But the president
doesn't go out looking for people to pick fights with.
He's not generally wants to get along with everybody. Well,
talk to meet with anybody, but don't play games. Don't
play games with this president's in office because it's not
going to turn out.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, yeah, and he's already. They're using Venezuela as a
warning to other Narco nations, and the president's telling them
to watch their ass.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Cut eighth.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
In response to the United States taking sanction oil from Venezuela,
Colombian President Rostovo Petro criticized the United States by saying, well,
the Southwest has stolen land and that it should be
returned to Latin America. I just wanted to know what
your response to that.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Well, he has to watch because you know he's got
drug factors. They make cocaine in Colombia and he's no
friend of the United States. He's very bad, very bad guy,
and he's got to watch his ass because he makes
cocaine and they send it into the United States America
from Colombia. We love the Colombian people. I love the
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Colombian people. They're great people, energetic, smart, great but their
new leader is a trouble banker and he better watch it.
You better close up those cocaine factories. They have at
least three major cocaine factories. We know where they are.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
He better close them up fast.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And by the way, Cuba's also a little nervous here
cut too well.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
One of the things that is happening. And I think
you see it. You see it all the time. How
you've seen it that Cuba is ready to fall. Yes,
Cuban looks like it's ready to fall.
Speaker 16 (27:38):
I don't know how they if they're going to hold out,
but Cuba now has no income.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the
Venezuelan oil.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
They're not getting any of it.
Speaker 15 (27:49):
Cuba literally is ready to fall. And you have a
lot of great Cuban Americans. They're going to be very
happy about this.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
They go to and you were just talking about Cuba
and what could come next there, or you could considering
us action in Cuba.
Speaker 16 (28:02):
We're not going I think it's just going to fall.
I don't think we did any action. It looks like
it's going down. It's going down for the count. Do
you ever watch a fight? I have to go down
for the count.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So Columbia and Cuba better watch it. Meanwhile, we're going
to rebuild our American oil companies, are going to rebuild
Venezuela's oil industry and put them back on the map.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And this is all.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know, This all happened within the period of twelve hours.
But then the big issue now coming down is a
lot of consternation over a non Narco country, and that
would be Greenland, which is basically a protectorate of Denmark,
and people are concerned because the President has said Greenland
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is very, very important to the United States.
Speaker 16 (28:48):
Cut for b I will say this about Greenland.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic.
Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships
all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint
of national security, and Denmark is not going to be
able to do it.
Speaker 16 (29:09):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 15 (29:12):
You know what Denmark did recently to push up security
in Greenland. They added one more dogs. Man, It's true.
They thought that was a great move.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
What would justification be, Oh, I don't want.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
To talk about Greenland down.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
I just say this, we need Greenland from the standpoint
of national security, and the European Union needs.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Us to have it, and that part of the is
so true, and people shake their heads that Donald Trump's
a life. We do need Greenland for national security. Now,
you can make the argument about.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Greenland wants to leave Denmark. They don't want to be
around Denmark, so if we don't do something with them.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
You know, and here's the thing, and I don't want
to get into the history or and I'm not exactly
like an expert on it anyway, but you want to
know just how important Greenland is to national security and
in North America's security, which of course involves more than
just the United States. North America is a big, big place.
It's a continent. So is during World War Two, United
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States troops occupied Greenland. Why to keep Nazi Germany from
basically having a hop, skip and a jump over to
North America. And that's how important it is for not
only national but world security. Now, the argument of whether
it should be annextra taken over or whatever is is,
you know, something different is something different, but something's got
to be worked out, whether whether Greenland just says hey,
(30:35):
come on over and hang out or whatever, it's got
to be done because otherwise you mentioned Russia and China,
who are the big Yeah, you know, advocate our adversaries now,
but yeah, I mean it's only a generation or two
ago where Greenland could have been the stepping stone for
Nazi Germany to continue its attempt to take over the world.
So it's important. And when people say, oh, Trump's blown
(30:58):
out out of proportion, that part, he's not.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So the question becomes do we do it militarily or
do we do it financially? Nobody wants militarily. And Stephen Miller,
who's the special who's the special adjunct to the President,
was on CNN and he was asked this question by
Jake Tapper cut four D by what.
Speaker 17 (31:18):
Right does Denmark is certain control over Greenland? What is
the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis
of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark? The United States?
Is the power of NATO for the United States to
secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO and
NATO interest. Obviously Greenland should be part of the United States.
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And so that's a conversation that we're going to have
as a country, that's a process we're going to have
as a as a you community of nations.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
So then Jake Tapper on CNN tried to turn this
into so you're going to invade Greenland, which, as we
just said, there are other options, one of which is
buying Greenland, one of which is having a referendum. There's
many options besides military, but that didn't really fit the
mainstream media or progressive left. They want to make it
seem as if we're getting ready to have marines drop
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on to Greenland.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Cut for e.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Get off the table that the US would use military
force to seize Greenland.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
You get Jake I unders said, you're trying very hard
to which which again is your job.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I respect.
Speaker 17 (32:20):
It is great to get exactly the headline right that
catchy headlines trying to get an answer. It says that
says Miller refuses to rule out the the United States
should have Greenland as part of the United States. There's
no need to even think or talk about this in
the context that you're asking of a military operation. Nobody's
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going to fight the United States militarily over the future
of Greenland.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, I think that's correct. I also think that the
president has more of an idea like how we bought
Alaska or how we bought you know, the Louisiana purchase
or Texas or a lot of these things. They weren't annexing.
We bought them. People wanted to be on board. How
to be a referendum in Greenland, they have to want
to be part of the United States, and then you
work out a financial deal that to me, with this
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president who is you know, who's synonymous with the art
of the deal, is most likely what's going to happen.
It has nothing to do with military, but they want
you to think it does.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
After you know, Venezuela, everybody who screams and yells about
I'm not going to be another state or you know
they talking about Venezuela is going to be the fifty
first state or some other crack like.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That should be the fifty first state.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Well, here's the thing, though, they don't have to be
a state.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
No, it could be like Guam it's a protectorate, or
like Puerto Rico, or.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
There's a lot of places around the world that and
a lot of countries have a lot of their Yeah,
there are a lot of places, and France has a
few and there.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right now, Greenland is a territory of Denmark, but it
doesn't want to be it's said Mala doesn't want to be.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Be a territory of the United States.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, they could, So there's a lot of other options
besides annexing it and making it the fifty first state.
Although I'm not averse to the fifty first.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, the only problem I have is, uh, I don't
want the fifty first state. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I like the number fifty n you mess up, get
Puerto Rico in there too, so you can have even.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Well, if you remember back a few several years ago,
a President Obama referred to fifty seven states. So maybe
that should be our goal.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Our goal bringing the US Virgin Islands.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Maybe there's yeah, if we got to look, we got
we got Venezuela. You know, Columbia keeps there. Crap up
will take them. Yeah, we'll have fifty seven the year.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I think we could do it.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But I think Greeland would make a nice fifty first state.
So we end every work every week with a truth
or troll, and this week is no different. And you know,
we've we haven't really used President Trump as a truth
or troll recently, so it's only fitting that we kind
of begin the new year with President Trump. Here he
is speaking on Air Force one. He responding to a
(34:48):
claim that he kidnapped Maduro cut five, and he kind
of peacekeeping.
Speaker 13 (34:52):
I think American it depends on what happens.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It depends a little bit on the new administration, if
you want to call it.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
So you see that pushback from Rodriguez, and ultimately I
think he.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
Was or book.
Speaker 15 (35:04):
I think that she, you know, you hear a different person.
Speaker 13 (35:09):
Than I really we talked to him, Oh you did
speak because she called it kidnapping.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
It's not a bad term, not a bad term. So
do you think that he really has no problem calling
it kidnapping or is he just poking the press right
there because you know.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Obviously there you know there's military involved that we've we've
we've captured leaders before in America's history.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I don't think we're ranting him off though. I think
it's kind of like, you know, well, we we made
him to the Purp Walk and at the in New York,
at the DEA headquarters where he said Happy New Year
at everybody is. They walked him in handcuffs.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
But I think he likes the like like the limelight.
I like the idea. But here, here's the thing. You
took someone against their will. He was kidnapped, but again
it's deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I don't think he was trolling. I think he's saying,
I don't care you can call it kidnapping. Absolutely, he
was a narco terrorist. We could nap him.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Okay, Yeah, I think he's being straight up.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
I mean, because look, it's semantics. Anyway, we have him,
We took him for reasons. Uh, and if you want
to call it ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
We're not going to call it that much Like now, Mom,
Donnie and and Sanders are warning they're rich in New York.
We warned him we're gonna come and get you if
you don't move, just like we're gonna hit you with
that shovel.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But you know, an he did, an he did.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Remember that time we kidnapped Osama bin Laden and then
we killed him.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Have it?
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Remember that time we kidnapped Saddam Hussein and he killed him?
Remember that time? So, so I would look at it
this way. If you're mcduro, and I know that too.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I was trying to get to the panic room.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I know the two I just mentioned are different than Maduro,
but not much. But here's the If you're mcduro. Who
cares that you a kidnap? You're still alive, Yeah, and
you're in.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
A nice safe place. Nobody's going to get you where
you are. So we upload a new episode every single Monday,
so please check back next Monday and see what new
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Speaker 6 (37:04):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is news Bye.
The US all but annexes Venezuela. Communists take control of
New York City, and the governor of Minnesota takes powder
for his reelection. The times they are changing, as you
will hear, whether did they really just say that cuts
this week? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is Newspye.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Late last night, at my direction, the United States Armed
Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivisiness.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Does I reflect on this moment with my family and
my team over the holidays. I came to the conclusion
that I can't give a political campaign.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My all governor to walls of Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
How can we miss you if you won't go well,
he is going to late and.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Taking a slide.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, not at the moment that was a you know,
someone has told him that he has no chance of
reelection given his state is now the poster child for
the biggest welfare fraud in the history of the whole country,
the whole country.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Congratulations number one. Yeah, that's a big They need a phone.
They get to give him a foam finger, but yeah,
pick the finger.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So someone dropped the number on him, and so he went,
you know what, I don't have. I need to focus
on this. I can't spend my time running for reelection
because the people of Minnesota need me cut ten A.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Twenty twenty six is an election year. Election years have
a way of ramping up the politics at a time
when we simply can't afford more of that Minnesota. In September,
I announced that I would seek a historic third term
as Minnesota's governor, and I have every confidence that if
I gave it my all, we would win the race.
But as I reflect on this moment with my family
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and my team over the holidays, I came to the
conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all.
Every minute that I spend defending my own political interest
would be a minute I can't spend defending the people
of Minnesota against the criminals who pray on our generosity
and the cynics who want to prey on our differences.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
So I've decided to step out of.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
This race, and I'll let others worry about the election
while I focus on the work that's in front of me.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
For the next year, nothing to do with the fact
that he would probably get smoked.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, and then he tried to blame others for the
fact that fraudsters run the table in his state. Basically
cut eight.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
A last several years, an organized group of criminals have
sought to take advantage of this state's generosity, and even
as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters,
we now see an organized group of political actors seeking
to take advantage of a crisis. I don't want to
mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington
and in sight, ain't Paul and online want to make
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our state a colder, meaner place. They want to poison
our people against each other by attacking our neighbors, and ultimately,
they want to take away much of what makes Minnesota
the best place in the country to raise a family.
They've already begun trying to withhold funds that were meant
to help families afford childcare, and they have no intention
(03:23):
of stopping there.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Woe is me, It's Chump's fault. Yeah, that's basically I'd
like to see the evidence that Donald Trump defrauded the
government out of childcare fund money.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And there's no doubt. Take there's no doubt by the
way that it's a great place if you're a Somali
because there's there were no guard rails of place. And
then at the end of all that, he literally ran
from the podium without taking questions.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
That's eleven b Tomorrow, I'll be back with you.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I'll give you an update on America's best paid family
medical lead program that is now a week into it,
and at that time I'll take all your questions. Thank
you all.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you, and good night.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I like that. Wow running running from it. Now, here's
the rumor because the day before this happened, he had
a meeting with Senator Amy Klobershar, and it looks like
what's happened is the Kloburshar said wants to run for
governor and said you drop out, I run for governor.
I will appoint you to my Senate seat. So it's
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a way of him getting a little post gubernatorial you know,
because he's never won reelection or or an election at
this point. So the only way is going to get
to be a U S senator is of Clobshar appoints him.
So that's that's the rumor of what's happened. But you know,
he did come back the next day, and he got
a little pissy when people suggest did that, you know,
not running again was not sufficient for the mess that
(05:05):
he had created, and was leaving that maybe he should, Oh,
I don't know, resign cut seven.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Here's the thing that I'm going to ask all of
you is Republicans want to tear this state down. Republicans
want to tell you it's too dangerous to walk down
the streets. Republicans want to tell you there's nothing good
comes out of Minneapolis Saint Paul. Republicans want to tell
you everybody with brown skin is stealing money or that
they're not welcome here. They want to do nothing to
(05:32):
improve this state. Their idea of improving this state is
being a parrot for Donald Trump, agreeing to everything that
he agreed with. Well, here's what I'm going to tell you,
it ain't happening. I'm not going anywhere. And you can
make all your requests for me to resign over my
dead body, will that happen. I will fight this thing
till the very end to make the state better. And
the question that I think they need to decide is
(05:55):
is when did the guy in the white House resign?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, the guy in their white house wasn't, you know,
part of the massive fraud that's in Minneapolis and Minnesota
in general. So he's not going anywhere. But that was
fascinating to me. You know, how dare you ask that
I resigned? Well, you were at the helm during literally
there is no case of fraud ever in this country
that's been as big as in Somali. And I don't
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know if anybody noticed when they were listening, but he
tried to make it seem as if investigating their fraud
was racist. He was saying, oh, this is against people
with brown skin. No, this is against people stealing from
the state.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Listen. I promise going forward that I will try. I
won't succeed, but I will try to clean up the
mess that I created. Yeah, but it's someone else's fault.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, someone else's fault. And you're racist if you call
me on it. And here's the fascinating thing. The mainstream
media has been coddling him and buying into this. It's
racism if you say there is fraud. And there was
a really interesting cross at CNN with commentator Scott Jennings
and the normal CNN panel including you know, Abby Phillips,
(07:02):
because you know, Jennings is pointing out that Waltz was
trying to say that cleaning up the fraud or investigating
the fraud was racist, and had said and had called
it racist, and they denied that. They said no, no,
And you just heard a little bit of it in
that one comment. But where do you hear where do
you hear this? So this is Jennings and the CNN panel.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Cut twelve B.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Democrats who have put Somali diaspora in Minneapolis at the
center of their party and their states politics. It's a
small portion of population. There is a bunch of fraud
that goes on. And even Tim Walls has claimed that
any investigation of this fraud is akin to white supremacy.
(07:42):
He has said not said that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Really, Well, cut twelve A.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
Please, this is what happens when your own federal government
wages war against you. This is what happens when they
target communities for their own benefit. This is what happens
when they scapegoat and this is what say happens when
they no longer or hide the idea of white supremacy.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I would like to make all the
Abby Phillips and friends there sit down, you know, maybe
from something like the Clockwork Orange where they had those
picks keeping their eyes open and play that play that video.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
In front of them.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
They never said that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He never said there he is saying that, and he
actually alluded to it in his I'm not gonna you know,
I'm not going to resign, you know statements. So it's
it's he tries to make you feel like you're racist
if you want to look into the fact that billions
with a B billions of taxpayer dollars have been fraudulently
dispersed in Minneapolis. But these are people that are that
(08:41):
elected him. These are the people that elected Minnesota's attorney general,
both of whom owe their careers to the same people
who are Froster. So is in any wonder it hasn't
been cleaned.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I was saying, Look, there are plenty of people who
are racist, but in this in this case, listen, I
can't imagine there are too many people who don't want
whoever's hell, who ever's responsible for this fraud to be
held responsible, whether they're black, brown, green, white, purple or
from another planet. Most people, most reasonable human beings, don't
(09:15):
care what color you are. If you're committing fraud or
murder or anything else, they just want you out and
and and just because they happen to be brown people.
As the Lovely Governor would say, Uh, who cares. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
One of the big, the big froster's going on here
is Tim Wallas. He's not a brown person. I like
him investigated. And does that make me a you know,
self loathing white person, because what the hell? I mean,
that's what he's saying. It's got to be racially motivated.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
So what I'd like to know then, if we can't
investigate or they shouldn't be investigating the the the brown people,
because that would be white supremacist, I'd like to know
does he have a list of people he'd like to
have investigating. I mean, we know he he wants Donald
Trump investigated, But is there a group of people that
he would like to see investigated for this fraud in Minnesota?
(10:06):
I mean, maybe just some off group that we could
pin the blame on. Or I mean, if you can't
investigate the people who probably did it, who can you investigate?
You know who.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I think, in a weird way, we have responsible for
exposing the fraud in Minnesota, Kamala Harris, because I don't
believe if Kamala Harris hadn't put a spotlight on Tim Walls,
we would have seen any of this, because Minneapolis, well,
Minnesota can fly under the radar unless you put a
spotlight on it, and in this case, we did. Wed
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she made him a household name. I'll be it a
foolish one. She made him a household name, and so
people started paying attention to his speeches, started being all
of a sudden, then they started noticing stuff going on
in his state. I don't think if he had been
picked for you know, if she'd gone with Joshapiro or
somebody from Pennsylvania, I don't think we would have seen
what was happening. So we owe Kamala Harris in a
(10:58):
weird way, I think a gred of datitude, a debt
of gratitude, because she has helped in exposing this massive
fraud going on, and the fact that the higher ups,
the elected officials, the Democrat elected officials in Minnesota, don't
have any foothold in reality whatsoever.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
So if we're thanking Kamala Harris for this. Yeah, can
we make the humongous leap to call her a white supremacist.
You could try.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I love a problem with it. You could give it
a shot and see. But you know, there's no reality there.
I'm going to help the people like we believe he's
pissing on us and telling us draining and doesn't believe
we've noticed the difference. There's no foothold in reality there whatsoever.
And I think you see the same kind of obliviousness.
Is that a word, okay? And what's possible? What is impossible?
(11:51):
And what's realistic? In New York too, where they just
basically swore in a communist as mayor this past week
with Zaron Mamdanni. He was sworn in. He was actually
sworn in by Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Waitly starts getting sworn at.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, true enough, and he basically threw down the gauntlet
right out of the box. Cut twenty B.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I welcome the change. For too long, those fluent in
the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask
agendas of cruelty. Many of these people have been betrayed
by the established order. But in our administration. Their needs
will be met, Their hopes and dreams and interests will
be reflected transparently in government. They will shape our future.
(12:39):
And if for too long these communities have existed as
distinct from one another, we will draw this city closer together.
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people
of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government
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foster it. Because no matter what you eat, how you pray,
or where you come from, the words that most define
us are the two we all share New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The warmth of collectivism. I wish somebody would talk to
the people of Cuba, or the people that used to
you know, live in the USSR, or any other you know,
communist group about how warm collectivism.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
When he when he said that, When I heard him
say that, the first thing I thought of, And if
you know, you know, if you don't know, I'm not
going to explain it because I waste the time. But
I thought of the Borg from Star Trek. Oh, that's
so funny, the collective.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We are one.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah, So if you know, you know, and that's that's
New York everybody's just gonna be hooked, you know. We're all.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, the warmth of collectivism, you know, and individualism
is cold. Individualism is actually what warms people are. But anyway,
I think you're right if you can't explain to somebod
who doesn't understand. But he's given us fair warning, a
zarmum Donnie's and he basically said, I'm a Democrat socialist
and that's what you elected. Cut twenty one A.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any
billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy.
We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology
for what we believe. I was elected as a democratic socialist,
and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And there's one big problem with that. Well there's a couple,
but there's one that really glares out at me. And
Bernie Sanders basically gave everybody because I said before Bernie,
Senator Bernie Sanders Vermont was actually the guy who swore
him in because we weren't going for the religious thing there.
We were going for you know, secular. And he basically
at the inauguration said the billionaire class in New York City.
(14:54):
You know before warned what's about to happen to you?
Cut twenty three A.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The billionaire class in this city and in this country
have got to understand that in America they cannot have
it all. That America, our great country, must belong to
all of us, not just a few. And that lesson
(15:25):
begins today in New York City.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
They'll learn their lesson.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right, Well, I don't think that, And Bernie's not stupid.
I don't know about Mom Donnie, to be honest with you,
I don't know enough about him to know if he's
stupid or not. But I have to say that Bernie's
not stupid. And he has to understand that who pays
the tax base from which all the programs that Mam
Donnie wants to do, that would be the billionaire and
(15:52):
millionaire class. And so what happens if you chase them away?
Which if I'm a billionaire and can live anywhere, and
I happen to be in New York and someone says
we're about to take your money, you know, your your
free ride ends today. I'm i there, I'm going to
where I want. Why would I stay there? And you
know who learned that lesson Connecticut because Connecticut instituted a
(16:13):
millionaire tax. And what was the result. The millionaires left
and so did the tax base. So they went into
deep debt, couldn't afford anything, and they're still digging themselves
out of it. So this is what happens when you
I'm not saying that they don't pay taxes. Of course
they pay taxes, but you don't target them and make
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them responsible for everything and tell them we're going to
take away your money. Because all they got to do
is go walk away, and that is what they do.
So the free buses, the free healthcare, the free grocery stores,
all that stuff that mom Donnie has promised, who's going
to pay for it? Because the guy who's making you know,
fifteen dollars an hour can't afford just to do it.
You have to be able to depend upon the Wall
(16:55):
Street guys. You have to be able to depend on
the millionaire and the billionaires who bring job in, who
bring businesses in, who bring money into your tax base.
So you just told them to fuck off. Excuse the language,
I know, and I'm sorry about that then, but I
mean that's what you just told them. So what do
you think is going to happen, that this is just
no real world acknowledgment.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Look at any of these places that have tried to
run by communism, you know, picking off the millionaire base,
the millionaire base. Look at Soviet Look at Cuba, look
at Czechoslovakia, look at any of the Iron Curtain countries.
What happened to them? They disappeared because it is unsustainable.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
I don't mean the nitpick, but you you you said,
who's going to pay for these free programs?
Speaker 11 (17:44):
They're free?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Nobody has to pay for them. Don't you understand? That's
that's the mantra. It's free, everything's free. They don't nobody understand,
all right, not nobody. A lot of these nimrods don't
understand or they understand, but they just ignore it. Three
is not free. Somebody pays for it. And by the way,
that's somebody is the taxpayers, which whether you're a billionaire
(18:08):
taxpayer or a millionaire taxpayer or one hundred thousand air
taxpayer or just Joe Schmuck taxpayer, if you're a taxpayer,
you're paying for that free program, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And it's even worse than Bernie is alluding to. Here,
Bernie's just alluding to taxing the crap out of the
out of the billionaire class. But in this particular case,
the cabinet that Mom Donnie is picking is even worse.
Because here's this is going to be. You're gonna hear
Cia Weaver. She's Mom Donnie's tenant advocate appointee. Okay, this
(18:44):
is who she is. And in Twitter, this is just
surface this past week from twenty eighteen is a Twitter
video where she advocates seizing private property and implies that
home ownership is an example of white suit promisey. I
don't know if she was talking to Tim Walls before
she did this or just the word the year yeah,
(19:05):
twenty three A.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
(19:27):
and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going
to have a different relationship to property than the one
that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So this white woman, by the way, she's a white woman,
says that home ownership is an example of white privilege
and white supremacy, and you should be able to take
their property. Now here's a funny thing that happened. So
Bernie was bad enough, Now you've got this woman coming
in saying she can take your apartment build if you're
a white guy, and give it to people. So she
(20:03):
was walking down the street in New York and the
Daily Mail, which is a British paper, said can we
have a word with you for a second, And they
go up to her and say, so, it turns out
your mother, who is a white woman, owns in New
York this beautiful craftsman home that's worth a million and
a half two million dollars, So should we be able
to take her house? And Sia Weaver here just burst
(20:24):
into tears. Burst into tears. How dare you say that?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Really?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Because I'm pretty sure that's what you just said in
twenty eighteen. This is what I'm talking about. These people
live in fantasy land. They live in because you were
I thought it was interesting that you brought up the
borg in future Star Trek. This is a star trek
notion that people don't own anything, that everybody is equal,
and that everybody has the same thing, starting out the
(20:50):
same thing. Well, here's the problem with that. Not everybody
puts the same amount of effort into their careers or
their education. I think everybody should have equal opportunity. But
I think also diligence and hard work should be rewarded.
And that's where you get to home ownership. That's where
you get to businesses, small businesses striking out, or people
(21:10):
being successful in careers because you know they have skills,
they put the energy in, they put the effort in.
And when in Seattle a few years ago, a company
tried to do the equality thing, so they were paying
the CEO the same amount they were paying the mailroom guy,
the mailroom guy was thrilled. The CEO left, Well, I
shouldn't the seeo because the CEO has different stresses, different responsibilities,
(21:30):
and a different work level thans required for the mailroom guy,
and they should be paid commensurately. And this just did
not occur to these idiots in Seattle, and apparently it's
not occurring to the idiots in New York City either.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
By the way, I don't know how long it's going
to take when the house of cards will fall in
upon itself. More than likely it will. And here's the thing.
When it does, there will be a group of people.
Bernie Sanders, if you're still around, go what happened? I
don't understand Donald Trump? Well that too, But listen, these
(22:02):
people are telling you. They are telling you right now,
they are broadcast I have a shovel and I'm going
to hit you in the head with it. And by
the way, and still, when you get hit in the
head with the shovel, don't be surprised. They are telling
you ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They're telling you to stand still so they can hit
so they can hit you with a shovel.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, the shovel.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I agree with you. By the way, the DOJ,
after witnessing that that video put out by the new
Tenant Advocate appointee, issued a issued a warning issue Literally,
the DOJ has issued a warning to New York City.
We will be watching you. Any hint of racism and
that's what's taking white people's property, is any hint of racism,
(22:44):
and we are coming down on you with with God's
own thunder. Basically, bring the rasp so that's what they've said,
So they've already put in New York I notice we're watching,
and I think that's appropriate given given what was what's
going on. But the most fun story this week, I
have to tell you, Benjamin, was Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Just fun as a relative charm it is.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I was amused by it. Apparently we annexed Venezuela this week,
or so, says President Trump. Cut one.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Late last night and early today, at my direction, the
United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in
the capital of Venezuela. Overwhelming American military power, air land
(23:37):
and sea was used to launch a spectacular assault. And
it was a assault like people have not seen since
World War Two. It was a force against a heavily
fortified military fortress in the heart of Caracas to bring
(23:58):
outlaw dictator Nicholas from Maduro to justice.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And then he gave an account of Dictator Maduro running
for the Panic room as the Marines came tumbling down.
Cut nine.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
What was Maduro doing when the US forces entered what
I assume would be his home? And also was there
any point where the US was considering if Maduro pushed
back or resisted killing Moduro.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We could have happened. It could have happened. He was
trying to get into a safe place, you know, the
safe places all steel, and he wasn't able to make
it to the door because our guys were so fast.
They went through the opposition so fast, and there was
a lot of opposition. You know, people were wondering, did
we get it by surprise? Sort of surprise, but they
were waiting for something. It was a lot of opposition.
(24:46):
There was a lot of gunfire. You saw some of
it today. But he was trying to get to a
safe place, which wasn't safe because we would have had
the door blown up. And about forty seven I think
forty seven seconds they say on average, regardless of how
thick this seal was.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
He it was a very thick door. He's a very
heavy door. But he was unable to get to that door.
He made it to the door, he was unable to
close it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay. Secretary State Marco Rubio says, there is a lesson
in all of this. Cut fifteen.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
The forty seventh President of United States is not a
game player. When he tells you that he's going to
do something, when God tells you he's going to address
a problem, he means it, he actions it. I can
tell you I've watched this process now for fourteen to
fifteen years, been around it. Everybody talks, I'm going to
do this, I'm gonna do that. When I get there,
We're going to do this. This is a president of action.
Like I don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out.
And now if you don't know, now you know, because
(25:39):
this is the way it's going to play out. And
I think people need to understand that this is not
a president that just talks and does letters and press conferences,
and if he says he's serious about something, he means it.
And this is something that was a direct threat to
the national interest of the United States, and the president
addressed it. There's a president of peace. By the way,
I told you what I just said earlier. This guy
had multiple opportunities to find his way somewhere else and
figure out another He could have been living somewhere else
(26:00):
right now, very happy, but instead he wanted to play
big boy. And so now you know, he's got other
sets of problems on his hands. But I think the
message here should be for the world. But the president
doesn't go out looking for people to pick fights with.
He's not generally wants to get along with everybody. Well,
talk to meet with anybody, but don't play games. Don't
play games with this president's in office because it's not
going to turn out.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, yeah, and he's already. They're using Venezuela as a
warning to other Narco nations, and the president's telling them
to watch their ass.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Cut eighth.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
In response to the United States taking sanction oil from Venezuela,
Colombian President Rostovo Petro criticized the United States by saying, well,
the Southwest has stolen land and that it should be
returned to Latin America. I just wanted to know what
your response to that.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Well, he has to watch because you know he's got
drug factors. They make cocaine in Colombia and he's no
friend of the United States. He's very bad, very bad guy,
and he's got to watch his ass because he makes
cocaine and they send it into the United States America
from Colombia. We love the Colombian people. I love the
(27:05):
Colombian people. They're great people, energetic, smart, great but their
new leader is a trouble banker and he better watch it.
You better close up those cocaine factories. They have at
least three major cocaine factories. We know where they are.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
He better close them up fast.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And by the way, Cuba's also a little nervous here
cut too well.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
One of the things that is happening. And I think
you see it. You see it all the time. How
you've seen it that Cuba is ready to fall. Yes,
Cuban looks like it's ready to fall.
Speaker 16 (27:38):
I don't know how they if they're going to hold out,
but Cuba now has no income.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the
Venezuelan oil.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
They're not getting any of it.
Speaker 15 (27:49):
Cuba literally is ready to fall. And you have a
lot of great Cuban Americans. They're going to be very
happy about this.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
They go to and you were just talking about Cuba
and what could come next there, or you could considering
us action in Cuba.
Speaker 16 (28:02):
We're not going I think it's just going to fall.
I don't think we did any action. It looks like
it's going down. It's going down for the count. Do
you ever watch a fight? I have to go down
for the count.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So Columbia and Cuba better watch it. Meanwhile, we're going
to rebuild our American oil companies, are going to rebuild
Venezuela's oil industry and put them back on the map.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And this is all.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know, This all happened within the period of twelve hours.
But then the big issue now coming down is a
lot of consternation over a non Narco country, and that
would be Greenland, which is basically a protectorate of Denmark,
and people are concerned because the President has said Greenland
(28:43):
is very, very important to the United States.
Speaker 16 (28:48):
Cut for b I will say this about Greenland.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic.
Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships
all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint
of national security, and Denmark is not going to be
able to do it.
Speaker 16 (29:09):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 15 (29:12):
You know what Denmark did recently to push up security
in Greenland. They added one more dogs. Man, It's true.
They thought that was a great move.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
What would justification be, Oh, I don't want.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
To talk about Greenland down.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
I just say this, we need Greenland from the standpoint
of national security, and the European Union needs.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Us to have it, and that part of the is
so true, and people shake their heads that Donald Trump's
a life. We do need Greenland for national security. Now,
you can make the argument about.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Greenland wants to leave Denmark. They don't want to be
around Denmark, so if we don't do something with them.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
You know, and here's the thing, and I don't want
to get into the history or and I'm not exactly
like an expert on it anyway, but you want to
know just how important Greenland is to national security and
in North America's security, which of course involves more than
just the United States. North America is a big, big place.
It's a continent. So is during World War Two, United
(30:13):
States troops occupied Greenland. Why to keep Nazi Germany from
basically having a hop, skip and a jump over to
North America. And that's how important it is for not
only national but world security. Now, the argument of whether
it should be annextra taken over or whatever is is,
you know, something different is something different, but something's got
to be worked out, whether whether Greenland just says hey,
(30:35):
come on over and hang out or whatever, it's got
to be done because otherwise you mentioned Russia and China,
who are the big Yeah, you know, advocate our adversaries now,
but yeah, I mean it's only a generation or two
ago where Greenland could have been the stepping stone for
Nazi Germany to continue its attempt to take over the world.
So it's important. And when people say, oh, Trump's blown
(30:58):
out out of proportion, that part, he's not.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
So the question becomes do we do it militarily or
do we do it financially? Nobody wants militarily. And Stephen Miller,
who's the special who's the special adjunct to the President,
was on CNN and he was asked this question by
Jake Tapper cut four D by what.
Speaker 17 (31:18):
Right does Denmark is certain control over Greenland? What is
the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis
of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark? The United States?
Is the power of NATO for the United States to
secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO and
NATO interest. Obviously Greenland should be part of the United States.
(31:39):
And so that's a conversation that we're going to have
as a country, that's a process we're going to have
as a as a you community of nations.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
So then Jake Tapper on CNN tried to turn this
into so you're going to invade Greenland, which, as we
just said, there are other options, one of which is
buying Greenland, one of which is having a referendum. There's
many options besides military, but that didn't really fit the
mainstream media or progressive left. They want to make it
seem as if we're getting ready to have marines drop
(32:07):
on to Greenland.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Cut for e.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Get off the table that the US would use military
force to seize Greenland.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
You get Jake I unders said, you're trying very hard
to which which again is your job.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I respect.
Speaker 17 (32:20):
It is great to get exactly the headline right that
catchy headlines trying to get an answer. It says that
says Miller refuses to rule out the the United States
should have Greenland as part of the United States. There's
no need to even think or talk about this in
the context that you're asking of a military operation. Nobody's
(32:41):
going to fight the United States militarily over the future
of Greenland.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, I think that's correct. I also think that the
president has more of an idea like how we bought
Alaska or how we bought you know, the Louisiana purchase
or Texas or a lot of these things. They weren't annexing.
We bought them. People wanted to be on board. How
to be a referendum in Greenland, they have to want
to be part of the United States, and then you
work out a financial deal that to me, with this
(33:08):
president who is you know, who's synonymous with the art
of the deal, is most likely what's going to happen.
It has nothing to do with military, but they want
you to think it does.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
After you know, Venezuela, everybody who screams and yells about
I'm not going to be another state or you know
they talking about Venezuela is going to be the fifty
first state or some other crack like.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That should be the fifty first state.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Well, here's the thing, though, they don't have to be
a state.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
No, it could be like Guam it's a protectorate, or
like Puerto Rico, or.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
There's a lot of places around the world that and
a lot of countries have a lot of their Yeah,
there are a lot of places, and France has a
few and there.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right now, Greenland is a territory of Denmark, but it
doesn't want to be it's said Mala doesn't want to be.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Be a territory of the United States.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, they could, So there's a lot of other options
besides annexing it and making it the fifty first state.
Although I'm not averse to the fifty first.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, the only problem I have is, uh, I don't
want the fifty first state. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I like the number fifty n you mess up, get
Puerto Rico in there too, so you can have even.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Well, if you remember back a few several years ago,
a President Obama referred to fifty seven states. So maybe
that should be our goal.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Our goal bringing the US Virgin Islands.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Maybe there's yeah, if we got to look, we got
we got Venezuela. You know, Columbia keeps there. Crap up
will take them. Yeah, we'll have fifty seven the year.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I think we could do it.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But I think Greeland would make a nice fifty first state.
So we end every work every week with a truth
or troll, and this week is no different. And you know,
we've we haven't really used President Trump as a truth
or troll recently, so it's only fitting that we kind
of begin the new year with President Trump. Here he
is speaking on Air Force one. He responding to a
(34:48):
claim that he kidnapped Maduro cut five, and he kind
of peacekeeping.
Speaker 13 (34:52):
I think American it depends on what happens.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It depends a little bit on the new administration, if
you want to call it.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
So you see that pushback from Rodriguez, and ultimately I
think he.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
Was or book.
Speaker 15 (35:04):
I think that she, you know, you hear a different person.
Speaker 13 (35:09):
Than I really we talked to him, Oh you did
speak because she called it kidnapping.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
It's not a bad term, not a bad term. So
do you think that he really has no problem calling
it kidnapping or is he just poking the press right
there because you know.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Obviously there you know there's military involved that we've we've
we've captured leaders before in America's history.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I don't think we're ranting him off though. I think
it's kind of like, you know, well, we we made
him to the Purp Walk and at the in New York,
at the DEA headquarters where he said Happy New Year
at everybody is. They walked him in handcuffs.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
But I think he likes the like like the limelight.
I like the idea. But here, here's the thing. You
took someone against their will. He was kidnapped, but again
it's deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I don't think he was trolling. I think he's saying,
I don't care you can call it kidnapping. Absolutely, he
was a narco terrorist. We could nap him.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Okay, Yeah, I think he's being straight up.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
I mean, because look, it's semantics. Anyway, we have him,
We took him for reasons. Uh, and if you want
to call it ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
We're not going to call it that much Like now, Mom,
Donnie and and Sanders are warning they're rich in New York.
We warned him we're gonna come and get you if
you don't move, just like we're gonna hit you with
that shovel.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
But you know, an he did, an he did.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Remember that time we kidnapped Osama bin Laden and then
we killed him.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Have it?
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Remember that time we kidnapped Saddam Hussein and he killed him?
Remember that time? So, so I would look at it
this way. If you're mcduro, and I know that too.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I was trying to get to the panic room.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I know the two I just mentioned are different than Maduro,
but not much. But here's the If you're mcduro. Who
cares that you a kidnap? You're still alive, Yeah, and
you're in.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
A nice safe place. Nobody's going to get you where
you are. So we upload a new episode every single Monday,
so please check back next Monday and see what new
offerings we have for you. You can also contact Ben and
I on X on news by at news by three,
or on Facebook at news Bye. Have a great week.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is news Bye.
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