Europe tries to freeze Russian money, bankroll Ukraine, and call it “law,” while the battlefield reality collapses in real time. Today’s International Flavor dissects EU financial desperation, Ukraine’s shrinking manpower, Macron’s sudden urge for diplomacy, and the global farce of frozen assets. We pivot stateside to Missouri’s $24-billion COVID judgment against China, the political theater behind it, and the quiet truth about who actually profits. Add in green-card lotteries, DEI whiplash, COVID control culture, and airline authoritarianism — and you’ve got a Friday that pulls no punches.
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Hello, good morning, welcome.
I am Samuel Trapp.
This is International Flavor.
You are listening to Dem Radio.
We're here every freaking weekday morning from 7.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m.
Well, you know what?
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I'm going to strike reverse that.
Do you remember that?
It's one of my favorite parts of Willy Wonka.
When Gene Wilder played Willy, he would say, strike, reverse that, and then she'd reverse
it.
I always liked striking things.
Strike!
As a lawyer, you can just say, strike, and suddenly it didn't happen.
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Move to strike.
You would move the judge to strike something that someone said, some pleading that someone
had written, and you could say, your honor, I move to strike that document.
That's a nonsensical document that I don't support in any way, shape, or fashion.
What was that from Liar, Liar?
When Jim Carrey would go, because it's devastating to my case, your honor, right?
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So that's what we're here to talk about this morning, is things that are devastating to
the case of normalism in Europe.
Europe's a bunch of nuts, okay?
Okay, as example number, who knows what, there's so many of them, it's hard to say what all
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the examples are.
Now, I have tried to be a good citizen here in the radio, well, you know where I am?
I'm sorry, I didn't even tell you where I am.
I am live to you from the Lake Ozark Real Estate of the Art Studio, broadcasting some
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stuff to you.
And here I am, I'm trying to be a good citizen inside the Real Estate State of the Art Studio,
where I say you can call me at 573-746-8020, or you can send emails to liveatdamradio.com,
and sometimes I actually read them.
You can do that, and it's pretty rare though.
Or you can send emails to me at samuelt at internationalflavor.com, samuelt at civicoutlaws.com.
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We received our 501c3, what do you call it, 501c3 proof from the Internal Revenue Service.
Received that, so we are officially a charity that goes after government overreach.
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That is where we go.
We hunt down those who overreach.
We take examples of overreach, and we drive.
We go after them.
And it's always entertaining to watch the cockroaches scurry when we get some things.
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I'd love to do this in the EU, so we're going to share with you a little bit of news, because
the headlines this morning are all full.
I haven't even seen the Russian reaction yet, but we're waiting.
So the EU leaders, after almost four years of war, the International Monetary Fund, great
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little organization that requires you to do things their way or you don't get the money.
They estimate that Ukraine, as some people call it, I call it Ukraine, or Naukraine,
because people are on the edge over there, and it would actually be Naukraine, they are
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standing on the edge and they're about to fall off the cliff over there in Ukraine,
because they need 161 billion more dollars, or that's only 137 billion euros, sounds better
that way, doesn't it, to fund 2026 and 2027.
The government is on the verge of bankruptcy there in Kyiv, and they desperately need the
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money by spring.
They have to have the money or they can't live.
You know, they want to know, can we have the Russians' money, please?
Can we please have that 310 billion dollars?
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Orban is having a real conversation about this.
Although they have backed off of stealing Russia's money.
How do you like that?
These are, well, I think they realized what they were doing, these globalists and the
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globalism and what is left of the cabal, at least on the European side, and it'll be back.
I mean, Trump is three years left till they, you know, they're just counting down the time.
And Putin had an annual press conference last night that was entertaining, and we might
get a little bit of that to you.
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And but the big news is Ursula von der Leyen and giving away the Russian funds, which didn't
work.
And so what happened?
Oh, let's put it out there.
They say they're crushing, they are crushing Vladimir Putin's hope for victory.
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They're crushing it.
Of course, they're losing territory all over the place.
So Pokrovsk and Myrnogrod now are completely in the favor of Russia.
They're covered.
So Myrnogrod, Petrovsk, they are Zaporizhia, and there they are.
They are now fully under Russian control.
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And so, Sierski, watch this coming for the next couple of weeks.
By the end of the year, Sierski will be gone, is what I think.
I think that the 90 billion is going to give, you know, that's for this year.
And they didn't steal the Russia's money.
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They did.
They decided the debt is too horrible.
And Ursula, she was pushing for it.
Do you remember Ursula on the Disney show?
Who is the big lady?
She was Ursula, the great big octopus wearing a black dress.
For what was that show?
Little Mermaid.
So there they were in the Little Mermaid.
And Ursula was the big old octopus in a black robe.
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That's what I want you to think of every time you think of Ursula von der Leyen,
because it's the same characteristic.
You know, you got to take over the planet and you have no authority to do so.
The EU spokesperson, the EU voice of sanity, insanity.
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Is is has been backing this.
Let's see.
I wish that the maybe we should listen to the presser on this on this here.
Let's see.
Let's listen to a tiny bit of Ursula von der Leyen because they're talking about giving up some money.
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Let's see if I can figure out how to do this.
Hold the phone.
Energy supplies from Russia and important progress.
This is the president of the EU.
Our work will continue at pace.
We need to create the conditions to reach an agreement by the end of next year.
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This is key to ensure we have enough time to implement our decisions,
to adopt the legal acts, to prepare our administrations for the next budgetary cycle in 2028.
The budgetary cycle.
So I want to commend the excellent work carried out by the Danish presidency under your leadership,
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dear Metta.
Some remarkable steps have been taken during these last six months.
Where's Ursula?
Let's skip that guy.
Everybody likes to listen to Ursula.
Here she comes.
Ready?
Yes.
Good evening or good morning.
I should better say we all share one clear goal.
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She's saying good, good, good morning because they had to stay late and they have one clear goal.
A just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
That was the motto of the discussion today.
So we get.
Where's the just and lasting peace covered from your funding war?
Here it is.
With a clear objective to address Ukraine's pressing financing needs for the next two years.
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And I'm very pleased to say we made it.
We have secured an agreement that we can deliver on the financing needs for Ukraine for the next
two years.
As you know, the commission had proposed two solutions.
Both legally sound.
Both technically feasible.
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On one hand, we proposed EU borrowing on the market.
And on the other hand, we had developed the reparations loan.
Very important was in our discussion that last week already on Friday,
we had sent a very clear and strong political message by immobilizing
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the Russian assets in the European Union over the long term.
So that message was very clear.
And building on that, we today had then agreed to find a solution for the financing of Ukraine
in the next two years.
The member states have agreed to finance the Ukraine through EU borrowing on the capital
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markets for an amount of 90 billion euros for the next two years.
We will do this by way of enhanced cooperation.
That is backed by the EU budget headroom.
And Bay means the EU has so much money that they can just hand it off to Ukraine.
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Right by the headroom.
Max headroom is on an unanimous agreement to amend the MFF.
Similarly to the reparations loan.
Very important here.
Ukraine would only need to pay back the loan once it receives reparations.
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Until then, the immobilized Russian assets will remain immobilized.
And the union reserves its right to make use of the cash balances to finance the loan.
This is the solution we found together.
And as discussed in the last weeks, financing Ukraine beyond 2027 will then be part of the
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next MFF discussion.
The EU's next budget, so the next MFF was also on the agenda.
The Danish presidency has done a remarkable work.
Oh, yeah.
We got you.
We got you the money, Green Goblin.
So this is a big success for the old Green Goblin.
He gets to wander around and say, we get this money.
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But all is not well in the European Union.
There are troubles a-brewing.
Here's what happens.
The French president came after the old Macron, who's got his 15%, 10% approval rating in
his own country.
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He says that the EU should be open to re-engage with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as diplomacy
regarding the Ukraine conflict is gaining momentum.
Yes, diplomacy.
Yeah, diplomacy is gaining momentum.
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What he means is, we stole your money.
We have frozen your money.
And so now we think that you're going to be ready to talk to us.
Wrong answer, Ghost Rider.
They are not going to talk to you.
He was speaking to reporters in Brussels.
Macron said some countries have already established contact with Moscow.
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Wow.
Some people have established contact with Moscow.
That's diplomacy, isn't it?
Europeans and Ukrainians have an interest in finding the framework to re-engage in that
discussion properly.
I think it will become useful again to speak with Vladimir Putin.
Old Vladimir Vladimirovich is, you know, I'm sure he's waiting over there on the couch
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for you to show up.
That's what I think.
And Macron said, add that without a structured framework, we are discussing among ourselves
while negotiators go alone to talk with the Russians.
And that is not optimal.
Really?
Holy crap.
How long did it take him to figure that out?
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Jeez, takes two sides to bargain.
And if you, I'm sorry, if Europe wants this war so bad, which is what they want, they
should get ready to do it.
Macron's comments came after the EU leaders failed to agree on the plan to use 210 billion,
246, that's euro, 246 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets as part of a reparations loan.
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So instead, they give them a loan and then free, well, they've already frozen Russian
money, and then say it only has to be, so it's not a loan, is it?
It's only a loan if and, if and, they say, if and Russia ever agrees to pay reparations
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to Ukraine, right?
They should pay reparations.
If that's the case, why not say you can buy these areas?
You know, Russia, why don't you buy them?
Why don't you say, all right, we'll give you the funds, the 300 and some odd billion dollars,
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we'll give that to you.
And we get the property.
Where's old Trumpster with his transactional deal like that?
We get the money and there you have it.
Crazy stuff.
160 billion dollar shortfall for the old Ukrainians over the next two years.
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160 billion dollar shortfall means you probably shouldn't stay in business any longer.
And so the EU is going to take over, right?
The plan collapsed due to opposition from Belgium to steal the Russian money.
They hold the bulk of the assets and have warned of the potential legal and financial
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fallout that I've been warning about.
I don't know, maybe they listened to me.
Instead, the EU leaders agreed to raise funds on capital markets to provide Ukraine with
a hefty multi-year loan.
That underscores the rift within the EU as several member states opted out.
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Russia, of course, condemns the Western proposals to use its assets as theft and is already
engaged in retaliation on the legal sphere.
Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev welcomed the collapse of this plan, saying,
the whole world just watched you fail to bully others into breaking the law.
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I think that's a key, a key quote.
And we should, we should, that should be the new theme of the war in Ukraine.
It's not fought for democracy.
It's fought for corruption.
It's fought for funding the same old a-holes.
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That's what it's all about.
Um, we're doing the hokey pokey in Europe and we're turning ourselves around.
And that's what it's all about.
You do the hokey pokey and they're doing it and stealing, but, but not with stolen money.
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I'm wondering how they're going to pay it back.
Putin and Macron, they last spoke in July.
And they've only spoken twice since 2022.
And, uh, you know, a month ago, the French president advised other EU states to consider
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restoring a dialogue with Moscow.
So they're out there running around in their own little circle saying, um, you know, war's
going to continue.
They're pushing old, uh, Sierski into making foolish counterattacks.
So yesterday, Sierski pulled, um, a huge percentage, let's call it, from Sumy region,
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which is up on the North, South of Belgrade, where the Russians have pretty much just, uh,
eased everything.
And they're just defending.
So these a-holes don't run back up into Belgrade and in the Kursk area that we had a year ago
in the, in the August timeframe, when there was such a joke and they had this stupid attack
inside of Russia.
And then, uh, Russia had to push them back.
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And Russia hasn't gone any further in that area.
Sumy is not necessarily on the chopping block.
What, what they have said they're going to do, and what Putin has said he's going to
do for years, a couple, three years now, is that, uh, we're going to create a buffer zone,
buffernaia zona.
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And that buffer zone will be created, uh, to stop the Ukrainians from bombing places
like Belgrade.
And, uh, uh, so Sumy is just South of Belgrade.
And that area is where the genius of Sierski is all about to collapse, right?
Because that is where they put all their forces, uh, year and a half.
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That's almost, no, it's, I suppose it's only a year plus, a year and several months, um,
where they put all their stuff, uh, their, uh, troops and said, here's what we're going
to do.
Here's a good plan.
We're going to go into Kursk, to hell with our own Eastern front, to hell with what the
war is all about, which is, uh, the Donbass region.
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And now Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and let's go put them up here in Sumy and run all through
into Kursk and we'll start bombing Belgrade, which has been going on pretty regularly since
the start of the war.
And so up on the North, that's what they've done.
Well, now Sierski, the genius, uh, so Zaluzhny, that, that genius, he had to go, uh, uh, yeah,
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he was kind of exiled over to England, right?
And so Sierski, the war genius, here he is, who has just lost territory steadily because
of the issues that are approaching him while he can't really do it.
You know, it's, I mean, he, he, he can't, he has no, uh, uh, I mean, he has no arm,
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no personnel left.
Who are you going to continue to throw there?
You can't do it.
And, and, and he's, it's going to continue.
So now he's pulled everybody out of Sumy, according to all the military analysts here,
he's pulled them out of there and he's thrown them East into where?
Seversk and then Southeast into the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd region.
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So the Russians yesterday made some pretty serious gains.
Where?
Sumy!
You pulled all your, it's like, don't you, I mean, we know the Russians know where your
army is, where your people are.
Their intelligence, their military intelligence is pretty damn good.
And so they've sucked all the people down from there and throw them into Petrovsk and
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Mirnograd area to, so that, so that they can have some short-term successes before the end
of the year.
They were hoping to do this over the last couple of days.
And there have been a couple of counterattacks, one in Seversk and one in Petrovsk and Mirnograd,
which is Southeast down there.
And so they have these couple of successful, meh, marginally successful counterattacks.
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And these counterattacks, you know, are short-lived, just like the Kursk where they
attacked into Kursk, cost them, according to any, any reasonable estimate, 70 to 100,000
men, 70,000 to 100,000 men to jump into Russia.
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Foolish, foolish, foolish.
And now, instead of having your defenses may maintain a steady line in the North, in the
Sumy region, they have yanked them all out because Sirsky's on his last legs.
And so he's sending them to die in Petrovsk.
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And this is foolish from a military point of view, because as soon as they left, the
Russians attacked.
And the Russians already crossed the river in the East that I told you about earlier
this week, and they are pushing.
And so the reason I tell you all of this, because, you know, if you don't know where
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the maps are and you don't have anything there, it's because bullying others into breaking
the law.
They're also bullying Sirsky and the old Z-Monster into coming up with something public
on, you know, that you can post on your X channel that Zelensky and his Instagram can
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claim a victory.
But this is the biggest, most foolish waste of money that there is.
And worse than that is the countless number of lives.
I read an estimate that 500,000 soldiers this year, 40,000, 40-something thousand plus every
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single month.
And it's going up.
The number's not going down.
They said 67,000, wasn't it, in October?
67,000 Ukrainian men.
Russia turned over 1,000 bodies yesterday.
And so how much is that per man?
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Because their families each get the equivalent of about between $200,000 and $300,000 that
the families get for the sacrifice.
So the globalists are paying the families of people to, you know, that are being sent
to slaughter.
That's what's happening.
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And all of this money and militarization, they're pushing for World War III.
Ukraine is on the front of it.
And what they got to do while they arm themselves in the EU, up to 5% of their budgets, because
the U.S., under the old Trumpster anyway, is backing off.
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So they got to wait.
There's a mix on this.
You got to wait three years till the Trumpster is gone and hopefully a new globalist.
You know, if they get Rubio in there, things will go back to normal for the globalists,
you know, if they get him in there.
And hopefully for them, not hopefully for me, I think this is BS, they can continue
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the war.
And all it's going to cost them is a loan, not of their money, of their future, because
if they don't figure out a way, don't think that the attempt to steal Russia's money isn't
going to continue, because it is.
And they're going to keep on trucking.
They're going to change the law.
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They're going to do something like that.
But one of those things, according to Macron, is, well, I guess it's time to talk.
Maybe we should talk to Russia now.
Don't you think we should get the opinion of Russia now, finally, he says.
I mean, twice.
I mean, he talked to him once this year, and I don't remember when the other one, but
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he spoke to him in July.
That'll resolve the conflict, won't it?
And Russia, you know, they say, well, you know, we're ready for that engagement.
Always have been.
We're ready to talk.
Let's talk.
But the only talk they want to do is it's like they don't want to talk to you.
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They want to talk at you.
They want to tell you what you've got to do.
Russia denounces the EU's militarization, but has said that, in principle, we're ready
to talk.
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, said that Europe's participation on the Ukraine conflict
wouldn't bode anything good.
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So that would bode nothing good.
Nothing good is going to come of that.
Isn't that crazy, friends and neighbors?
You know, we've got all kinds of crazy, crazy news in the world this morning.
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Let's talk about China for a second, okay?
Because I think this was the state of Missouri.
It came out in the news yesterday that China sued the United States, a state, you know,
Missouri, they've sued Missouri.
So Missouri won a $24 billion default judgment against China over mishandling the coronavirus
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pandemic.
$24 billion in Missouri won this war.
So we are, what did we do?
We sued the province of Wuhan over there here in Missouri.
China filed a suit in the court in Wuhan now against Missouri and several American officials
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and accused them of harming China's economic and reputational interests through litigation
linked to COVID-19, the pandemic.
According to the documents released by Missouri AG Catherine Hannaway, the lawsuit was filed
in a court in Wuhan by Chinese scientific and state institution.
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They named the defendants as Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, U.S. Senator Eric Schmidt, and
former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
The complaint argues that Missouri's legal action and public statements are vexatious
litigation and defamation and cause a significant economic loss.
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This is all propaganda.
This is our propaganda, our Missouri-based propaganda to have you believe that our fearless
leaders are doing something on your behalf.
They are not, okay?
Just so you know.
And Beijing is suing them.
So if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
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So we didn't participate in your lawsuit in the U.S. because it was bullshit.
Pardon my French.
Isn't what the Chinese are saying.
So if you're going to play those games and use some crazy propagandized ridiculousness
in a federal court in the United States, well, we're going to do the exact same thing.
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I think what I want to do is go out to the Missouri court system.
Where was this filed?
I forget.
And I pulled it up.
And you know what I think I'm going to do?
I think I'm going to download and do a legal analysis for you of this ridiculous story.
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I think it would be entertaining, if nothing else.
So as you can go back and where is it?
Where's the rest of it?
So Missouri is trying to enforce their default judgment issued earlier this year by a Missouri
federal court.
So default can be set aside.
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In fact, they might want to come over here and fight it.
But you can all usually set that aside.
Under Missouri law, it's like if you wait a year, then it's presumed to still be good.
So you got to do it within a year.
That's Missouri law.
Federal law, I don't remember.
But we'll have to go and find out how you set aside a default.
And I'll figure it out and give us a real report on that and the likelihood of ever
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getting this money from China.
Remember, money makes the world go around.
And it's the same in politics.
And if Missouri is going to do that, this will be my fact checking of the BS in there.
And I read this story like 2 o'clock this morning.
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And I forgot to go and download the pleadings.
But what I'm going to do is download the pleadings to this and see where we are.
And then I'll try to find the ones in a Chinese newspaper somewhere.
I'll see if I can come up with those and get the actual text of those.
I'm sure they published them in English somewhere.
But wouldn't it be fun to go through this nonsense?
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The 2020 Missouri filed a lawsuit and alleged that China concealed information about COVID-19.
But more importantly, this is the kicker.
They interfered with the global supply of personal protective equipment, masks, hello,
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during the early months of the pandemic.
So here's the Chinese entities did not appear in the proceedings because it's crap.
So they're saying because China interfered with people getting masks.
I can't wait to read this.
I meant to download it early this morning, but I never got there.
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Maybe I'll try to figure that out and get the actual pleadings to JR.
It'd be fun to go through this today.
It's good for Friday entertainment, Friday humor.
Missouri officials, these geniuses, have said they intend to pursue
the Chinese state-owned assets to collect a judgment.
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Because China has a lot of state-owned assets around in the United States, tons of them.
China is a very large landholder of farmland and stuff like that.
So it's actually a pretty sly and devious thing that Missouri is doing.
In keeping with how sly and devious politics are in Missouri,
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anyway, they're now going up against the big bad Chinese.
So the Chinese are going, well, all right, we'll do the same for you.
We'll sue you for $50 billion because $24 billion,
if you seize the property that we have here, well, we'll start taking U.S. property.
So all politics goes back to money, how you get the money.
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If the idiots in Missouri can all stand up and go,
yep, we got those big bad Chinese in here, it's about the money.
They can go and say that we've gotten money.
If you think that the state of Missouri pulling any of this judgment,
if they collect this $24 billion judgment, if you think it's going to help you any in Missouri,
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you better think again because it's not.
You won't see anything different in your life if Missouri gets this.
But I guarantee you those pushing for this sure as hell will.
Their families will be set for generations and they will make sure that they are,
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that they get their little chunk of the pie for their cronies and their family members.
That's how it works in politics, right?
So Missouri says they're going to pursue Chinese owned assets and collect on this judgment.
Beijing has rejected the ruling, says it is illegitimate and political,
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and has warned of retaliation if Chinese assets are seized.
China has denied allegations that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan
and that it deliberately concealed information of the outbreak.
They maintain that the country acted transparently and responsibly
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and have pointed to international scientific debates that remain
unresolved over the virus's origins.
Now, I don't really know. I don't care.
It was all a scam anyway, no matter how you slice it.
It was a way to get people more control of other people.
The debate over the origins of COVID-19 has been an international debacle
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since 2019 when it was first detected.
Some U.S. officials and lawmakers have said a lab incident cannot be ruled out.
Well, cannot be absolutely proved either.
A number of scientists and international bodies say the available evidence
has not conclusively determined whether the virus emerged naturally or through a lab-related event.
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Frankly, I lean toward the lab-related event,
sponsored and funded by the United States government, is what I say.
So, you know, the craziness of COVID, I never ever participated in,
except the time that I was forced to wear a mask on an American Airlines flight.
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And so I wrote F masks across my mask, put it on,
and boy, the looks I got from the flight attendants and stuff like that wearing that mask,
they didn't like it.
Oh, they didn't like it.
And it was, and I think I may have caused, you know,
it could have been some sort of international incident because I was coming up from,
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where was I?
Brownsville, Texas.
Brownsville to Dallas to Columbia was the flight.
So Brownsville, it's a cool little, you know, cool little airport, little tiny airport.
And that's where you go if you're going to go to the little island off of there,
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Padre Island, I think it is.
And so I went over there, checked on the way back.
Now on the way there, I didn't have to wear a mask.
There was nothing there.
And so I was bitching about that.
There I am wandering through.
And this is when signs were first posted.
And these signs were posted that said, put on your, put on your, you know, we've decided.
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It's a city ordinance.
City ordinance, okay, in Brownsville that said you have to wear a mask.
Okay.
And so you got to wear a mask because the city said, and when we walked in there,
there were a bunch of federal people, you know, that were standing, you know, that are there.
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All of these, you know, ICE agents are there.
They have the federal employees.
And I said, wait a minute.
This is federal property.
All airports are federal property.
Is this airport federal property?
Well, yeah.
Well, how in the world is a city ordinance?
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This is a voluntary thing here then, is it not?
And they said, well, the U.S. government is still working on, they haven't done masks,
but we're going to require you to get in to wear a mask.
But I didn't wear a mask.
I'm wandering around the, I said, well, you know, this is federal property.
You want to arrest me, you better have a, you know, somebody come and do it,
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but it better not be local, you know, Jim Bob, the state cop, or I'm sorry, the city policeman.
The city policeman can't arrest me in here.
And I said, well, we'll get a, we'll get a federal, you know, federal,
there are federal marshals here.
I said, well, bring them on.
I said, if federal marshals are going to enforce a county, a city ordinance,
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that'll be entertaining.
It's like, let's do that.
And I was kind of being a dick.
And because they were saying, you have to, sir, you have to put on your mask.
I was like, I am not putting on a mask.
And so I'm sitting in the airport.
Nobody, people were eyeballing me like crazy.
It was like, Brownsville was a little bit like Columbia in those days to be, you know, Columbia.
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They love Missouri.
I mean, they love people telling them what to do.
They love to tell you what you will do.
Columbia was one of the first to get their own little ordinance too,
to make it look like we're doing something.
And Missouri was one of the first to sue China because this is what, you know, China,
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look what they did to us.
They're causing us to wear masks, right?
And well, I didn't engage in that.
And then here's the shitty part, though.
Pardon my French.
When I got up to the counter there, you know, when they start checking you in,
for America, it wasn't, it wasn't a Federali.
It wasn't a city policeman.
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It wasn't a state cop.
It wasn't even a county dude.
When it was American Airlines and American Airlines loved, they just loved COVID.
Oh my God.
They're all, I can't, I still have miles that I won't use on American Airlines
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because of this nonsense.
These guys are, I couldn't, they were so happy to beat all of the flight attendants,
everywhere you go, any ticket counter.
I tell you what, these guys were just in heaven that they now had a method
to do what they liked to do anyway, to control and be rude to people.
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Have you ever, have you flown American Airlines recently in the last several years?
What a bunch of pricks.
They act like, I mean, you are scum on the bottom of their shoe.
You're a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe that they just got to scrape off.
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And it's always, you know, these people, they're like the government worker that is in control
of their little kingdom.
And by God, you can't mess with them on their own little kingdom.
Sir, sir, this is how they talk to you.
Sir, you need to take that mask off.
That's pretty rude.
That's like, well, you know, I don't want to wear a mask.
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You're the one forcing me to wear a mask.
I'm wearing a mask.
You know, I think it's you guys who are being rude.
I think it's you guys who, this is just nonsense.
If you believe that saving, you know, that a mask is gonna save you, then save yourself.
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But don't tell me that I have to wear a mask because you feel triggered because, you know,
there's some pandemic cruising around.
And if your mask saves you, what difference does it make if I don't believe the mask saves me
or you?
Who's gonna die?
Me.
You're protected.
You can't ingest.
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Doesn't a mask breathe both ways?
Or is it just to protect you from me?
So you need to, I don't think you, you know, I'm healthy.
You don't need to protect yourself from me.
But if you feel like everybody else, you see them wandering around today wearing masks.
They're not doing it because they are afraid of them, you know, of their germs getting out
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and cause, trust me on that one.
They aren't wearing a mask to protect you.
They absolutely are not.
They are wearing a mask to protect themselves.
So if you are wearing a mask, you should be protected.
What do you care if I choose to live dangerously and not be protected?
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I don't understand it.
Masks either worked in both directions or they didn't.
I don't know.
Maybe I've been meaning to bitch about that for a long time.
I don't know because that issue's been gone for a while.
But I, you know, it's just so stupid.
And, you know, I, that's the only time I wore mask.
The only time.
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And I wrote F masks on the front of it and I wore it.
And I was a confrontational a-hole the whole time.
But all of the flight attendants, all of the ticket counter agents, American Airlines is
the Gestapo of the skies, right?
And they, it's crazy.
It was nuts.
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I couldn't believe it.
And I tell you what, that one experience nixed me from American Airlines.
I'll fly American Airlines, Dallas to Doha because American Airlines doesn't fly that.
That's Qatar Airways.
And that is fantastic.
And you want to go somewhere globally, go to Dallas, get a flight, 12 hours, Doha, go
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Doha to anywhere in the world, you know.
Well, if you're here, Dallas is a good connection.
If you're trying to get, you know, to South America, all those other places, Dallas is
a great connection for that.
And Dallas is a great airport too.
Of course, American Airlines is housed there.
But, you know, that's neither here nor there.
You try not to fly with those a-holes.
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But if you go to Dallas and you get on an air, a flight to Doha, 95 times out of 100,
that's going to be run by Qatar Airways.
And Qatar Airways is fantastic.
And the Gestapo of the air stops at the Qatar Airways counter there.
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Those are, they're fantastic.
They take care of you.
You know, the, it's, it's a different world.
If you've flown and seen the Gestapo, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
And it wasn't only during masks, it still exists, you know, when you fly.
But if you fly an international that, you know, the international ones are fantastic.
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Aeroflot is 10 times better than American Airlines, Delta, any of them, name it, hands
down, they are great and they take care of you.
They treat you well.
It's, it's like flying 30, 40 years ago.
You know, when they, when, when, when they respected you, they don't anymore.
No, no, no.
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So this mask thing in Missouri is all about the propaganda that began way back then.
It doesn't matter these days, you know, who, you know, Wuhan made this move, right?
Missouri is going to enforce this 24 billion.
The state filed this lawsuit, blah, blah, blah.
Missouri officials said they intend to pursue the state-owned assets.
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China denies debate over the origins, blah, blah, blah.
All of it the same.
Crazy, crazy stuff.
Now we're going to go back to Russia just because I like to.
And Russia is handing over the remains of a thousand more soldiers that they have,
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I don't know, collected, I suppose.
They are repatriating the humanitarian, you know, the remains.
Moscow has transferred to Kiev a thousand and three more soldiers killed by, you know,
killed by Russian forces.
Vladimir Medinsky, who is Putin's aide said on Friday, repatriation of these remains
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was approved earlier this year.
Russia has received over time 26 bodies of slain troops in Ukraine.
Wow.
But a dozen similar operations were reported in 2025 with a huge number of Ukrainian remains,
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many of them unilateral, meaning Russia is the only one that turned over remains.
And Putin warned earlier this week that the pace of advancement is increasing
and he accumulated knowledge in his last visit of dealing with Ukrainian fortifications.
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So there's a city called Zaporizhzhia, a very big city.
And a couple of years ago, they put some serious entrenchments in
Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
And, you know, they'll never get past this line.
It's what we spent spent.
Remember, remember a couple three years ago when they were talking about having
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deep, deep.
Supplies of Western.
Equipment, Western hardware.
Well, around these big cities, especially after Zaporizhzhia, when when they they had a
Russian drive into Zaporizhzhia and the city of Zaporizhzhia is a big, big city.
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Now, I believe that Zaporizhzhia will be, you know,
the Russians will be on the door of that within six months or so.
That's what I believe.
And the.
Ukrainians, for their part, built this huge series of bunkers, of fortifications, of everything.
And now.
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But the Russians have learned how to deal with these things.
They put them on the edges of all their bigger cities.
Russians already overcame these in Pokrovsk, in Bakhmut.
Remember Bakhmut?
Artyomovsk, I think it was it was the Russian name.
And the Ukrainians changed it to Bakhmut.
And so Petrovsk, there were their Mirnagrad.
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This was here.
And now the Zaporizhzhia line.
And it's a big one.
It's a big series of fortifications where there's all kinds of fortifications.
They don't have any Patriot missiles anymore.
And when's the last time you heard about a Patriot missile taking down something?
You haven't.
And they're very quiet about that because, you know,
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they don't want to say that Russia has outclassed.
Getting, you know, their S-400 series has outclassed the Patriot defense system big time.
And the Patriot, you know, and they're destroying the Patriot systems with the use of these
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drones that they're using.
And it's, tell you what, it is continuing.
In Russia now, the news yesterday was that on either end of this fortification that stretches,
I don't know, quite a few kilometers around the city,
like the whole southern ring of the city, right?
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And it's a big deal that they dug and they entrenched and spent these
millions that were set for this or spent some of it developing this.
And now the Russians have surrounded it on both ends.
And they've gone around it.
And so you having these defense lines, that's what Russians keep talking about,
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which are pots like a cooker, like a pressure cooker.
You know, they're putting these pots and then they put the lid on the pot.
That's how they talk about it.
And so they surrounded Petrovsk.
They surrounded Myrnogrod.
A couple, three months ago, I told you about the 10,000 encircled soldiers
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in Myrnogrod and Petrovsk, two big cities right near each other.
Well, Russia went around them and they surrounded the cities.
They cut off their supply lines all the way.
It's a huge operation.
These are not small cities.
And they went around, blocked them off, said, you know,
you want the press to come and see how this goes?
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You know, let's bring in some Western press.
You don't believe we're winning here?
Bring it in.
Meanwhile, you got Green Goblin creating selfies, fake ones with the use of AI,
saying that he's in a city they did the same thing to up in Seversk.
And there, you know, this is this is continuing.
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And the Russians are getting better and better at it.
And the next one, pay attention to the city, is going to be for Zaporizhia.
The next one is they're going to be driving in from Sumy
and creating the buffer zone that Putin's been talking about because it's opportunity.
Opportunity is, Sersky pulled off quite a few brigades from the Sumy lines
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and is sending them down for a propaganda tour so that he can say,
no, no, no, we're still in Petrovsk.
So they're mounting a counteroffensive on Petrovsk,
which has been securely held by Russia for nearly a month.
And the Mirnagrad part.
Now, when you look at the map, there's maybe a couple of small pockets deep inside the
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Russian lines where these troops are still there, but they've all died.
Ten thousand.
Because nobody believed.
And the same things went on up in Seversk where Zelensky created his little fake video.
And now keep an eye on it.
Next city, Zaporizhia.
Next region, Sumy.
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And Russia has said, for how long now?
We will drive until we meet our goals.
You want to claim that a referendum didn't occur?
That's your right.
It's your prerogative.
But a lot of people have recognized these territories as ours,
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especially Crimea, that they have recognized.
And want a way to end the war?
Recognize those territories as Russian because they've been Russian for generations.
And I'm not saying that, you know, there aren't Ukrainians there.
But the Ukrainians want to pretend that they haven't been, you know,
a huge, huge, overwhelming majority Russian there.
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As is true everywhere in Ukraine, except the far west.
You know, arguably, Kyiv West is more Ukraine.
Now it is, after 30 years of we hate Russia from Ukraine.
Pumped with U.S. agency for international development money.
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Now it's true, you know, that most of the West,
most of the West of Ukraine speak Ukrainian.
And they're ultra nationalist.
You know, these are the guys who are the most
a jazzed up about going and trying to kill them, some Russians.
But they have failed.
And every time these elite nationalist units get sent over, they get destroyed.
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They get their asses handed to them, just like they did in Kursk.
And now Sierski is doing the exact same thing.
And he will be in the frying.
Well, he's in the frying pan.
Pretty soon he's going to be tossed out with the leftover grease in the bottom.
That's what I say.
That's coming, maybe even by the end of the year, especially since now
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the old Z monster has gotten his 90 billion from Ursula von der Leyen.
Let's see what happened to that story.
There was another story about Donald Trump was
canceled the green card lottery.
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Well, he suspended it.
So every year I read when I was practicing law years ago, I represented
several green card lottery guys.
I represented this Russian guy years and years ago.
That was a man.
When was that?
Had to be 2005, maybe 2006.
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And he was getting thrown out of the country.
And I forget what it was.
He was an overstay on a visa.
He was trying to figure out business stuff.
He had asked for asylum because he claimed to have been from from country.
He was Muslim or something like that.
And he was, you know, whatever it was, he was claiming asylum here for religious reasons.
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And I don't think he was going to win.
The law was on his side and we were getting ready for the final hearing.
Those hearings back then would go for years, seriously.
And they still do.
I haven't done one recently, but it's the same.
You come over, you say you're going to report for asylum and they give you a working permit.
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They give you a kind of a temporary green card, at least a withholding from removal.
And if they give you this withholding from removal, you're here then awaiting your case
and you're basically legal.
This is what this is what that meant.
Well, he and, you know, he was trying to figure out how he could stay.
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And so he had told them that this asylum was open.
So the case is open.
These cases dragged on for years.
And he was in the middle of it and in the middle of it.
You know, I always recommended this to everybody.
Anyway, you want to come to the US, sign up for the green card lottery,
because every year they would give away 100,000 green cards in this lottery.
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And it's I mean, everywhere else in the world.
It's a scam.
I'll tell you that about that in a minute, because I found much more out about it traveling
around in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
It was crazy.
So every year about I think it's October 1st is the deadline.
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Don't quote me on that.
They have this green card lottery and the lottery you have to sign up every year.
And as part of any lawyer's repertoire, if you're going to be
protecting someone or helping them, you're going to say, look, you know,
whatever happens if you're here for asylum, ultimately, you may not get approved.
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Ultimately, you might get sent back home.
In the meantime, you know, live it up because you could be temporary, you know,
and maybe try to find a different way to stay or whatever.
But always any lawyer would be an idiot if he didn't tell you to sign up for the green card
lottery.
So every year, millions of people from around the world sign up for the green card lottery.
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In Uzbekistan, they're charging you the equivalent of about 450 dollars to come in,
get on a free website for immigration control and fill out your documents.
And they have these offices everywhere in downtown cities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
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Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek had a couple in Kyrgyzstan.
And you go and everywhere you go, you'd see they'd be open all night long.
And people would be wandering in.
One day I went into one and I said, what are you doing?
And they said, well, you know, we're helping people get their green card, you know,
get through the green card lottery.
I said, what are you charging them?
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I said, how much did it cost me to apply for this?
You know, the guy told me the amount.
I was like, holy, I said, you realize it's free?
Well, of course they realize it's free.
They get in and they've created whole streams of business over there.
And I'm walking in and chatting with them and going, you know, this is quite the scam.
Maybe I should move to Uzbekistan, hang up a little sign that says,
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American will help you sign up for the green card lottery.
Because that's all they were doing.
And so these people every year, they go and apply for the green card lottery.
But 400 bucks to them is a month's pay, for God's sake.
And so, you know, it'd be the equivalent of over here.
I'm your lawyer.
Pay me 2,500 bucks and I'll help you do that.
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You know, you want to hire a lawyer.
Well, these guys have already been lawyers.
They're just young kids that speak English and speak Russian or Uzbek.
And they take their money.
I mean, it's quite the plan.
You know, it's more power to them.
You know, you want to create a business and help people get it done right.
But damn, that was a lot of money.
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You know, so they're charging people a month's pay.
You know, and you can file it for free on the website.
Anyway, the old Trumpster.
So 100,000 people, a million people, a couple million people a year
fighting for this 100,000.
And your chances aren't all that great of getting picked up.
And now that it's a popular program, it's there.
Well, Trumpster just suspended the green card lottery
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after the Brown University stuff, right?
And he was linked to this program, I guess.
U.S. President Trump suspended the green card lottery
after officials said the suspect in the shootings at Brown University
and MIT had entered the country through that system.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem said on Thursday
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that at Trump's direction, USCIS would immediately halt
the diversity immigrant visa program,
which allows lottery winners to become permanent U.S. citizens.
Just like happened with my guy way back in 05,
right before the hearing with the judge.
This worked out perfect for him.
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And luck of the draw, he won the diversity visa program
and the judge adjusted his status on the spot
when we went there, when he won the letter,
because when he received his letter,
because we were literally a week or two from the thing.
And he showed me the letter.
I said, wow, he's a lucky B word.
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Bastard, I suppose I can say bastard.
You lucky bastard.
I said, I don't think you're going to win.
So, you know, but here you go.
And I presented it to the judge at the hearing.
The judge adjusted his status on the spot
and he got his green card and his whole family,
you know, everybody was there.
But this announcement by Noem followed a five day manhunt
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for 48 year old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,
who authorities suspect killed two students
and wounded nine others
in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday
and shooting the MIT professor Nuno Leiro
two days later in Brookline, Mass.
Officials said the suspect took his own life
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and was found dead in New Hampshire
with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This heinous individual.
How is an individual heinous?
Remember when that word was all popular back in the 80s?
Heinous, always reminds me of Bill and Ted.
Excellent.
Totally.
Or that's Jif Spicoli.
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Awesome.
Totally awesome.
Anyway, I'm having fun this morning.
I don't know why.
But this heinous individual
should never have been allowed in our country.
Noem wrote on X, referring, of course, to Valente.
According to the court affidavit cited by authorities,
Valente initially came to the U.S. on a student visa in 2000
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and won the green card lottery
because his lawyer had him figure that out
through the diversity visa lottery program in 2017.
Oh, look, here's the numbers.
They changed it.
Or I was wrong.
Maybe I was.
But it says the diversity program makes up to 50,000.
I think that number used to be 100.
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But what do I know?
50,000 immigrant visas available each year
by lottery to people from countries
with low immigration rates.
So every year, the Citizenship and Immigration Services
tells you what countries are eligible for this program, right?
And so they don't do it from places like Mexico.
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You're not eligible from Mexico
because we have plenty of people that come from Mexico.
But people with lower immigration rates
is where they set this up.
I always thought it was a weird program anyway.
But people from countries with low immigration rates
can come to the US with their winners of spouses
they can undergo vetting and interviews
before being admitted.
Nome said the halt is intended to ensure
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no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
It's not the program that's disastrous.
It's your policing facilities.
I'm not saying I agree with the program or disagree.
You know, if you want to spend your money on that,
go right ahead.
If you want to encourage Uzbeki young people
to scam out their family,
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any people that walk in down the street
of huge amounts of money to enter a free program,
well, you know, go right ahead.
But that's what's happening, friends and neighbors.
But it's not the program that's disastrous.
You know, it's this vetting procedure.
The whole immigration system needs to be overhauled.
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But this move follows broader immigration restrictions
by the old Trumpster in recent weeks,
including Titan review of other illegal
or legal immigration pathways,
because there was another shooting incident
in Washington, D.C. involving a suspect
who came to the US by way of a different immigration program.
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I hate to say it, you know,
and you might not agree with this,
but why don't we accuse the guns then of murder?
You know, if the program is needs to be,
you know, charged and put away,
let's put away this program.
And I'm not against it.
I don't care one way or the other program.
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No program doesn't affect me.
I don't care.
My liberty interests don't go there.
But, you know, remember my philosophy on liberty
is the same as I read in Machiavelli.
You know, you want to wander around swinging your arms.
That's your freedom.
Somebody else wants to wander around
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swinging their arms.
That also is freedom.
And the only time that government is necessary
is to regulate when my swinging arms
hit your swinging arms.
That's it.
And so this doesn't affect me.
So I don't need the government in this respect, right?
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So I don't know what area of freedom
they are necessarily engaging in.
But if people wish to come here,
you know, I don't have any qualms with that.
You know, people want to come to America.
If I want to move to wherever this guy was from,
where did he say he was from?
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Portuguese.
He was from Portugal.
Yeah.
Portugal is a pretty cool country.
You know, I've been there.
It's very pretty.
And I was only there for two days.
But what I saw, I liked.
I like it a lot.
And that's where I was.
Anyway, I'm completely babbling.
No one has saved me with a phone call or anything today.
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But that's okay.
The green card lottery is officially suspended.
This is important to me.
So years ago, I had an idea for writing a book.
I always decided years and years ago,
boy, this was in the 90s.
I can't believe I just thought about this.
And it was when, because I was in the army, right?
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And so points were a big thing for getting promoted.
And I always max my points out.
So I knew as soon as the point system dropped,
I had 900, I had 1000 points.
And the points were 998 all the time anyway.
So those two percenters, I was a two percenter
as far as having the points.
I maxed out every point in every category for promotion points.
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So I knew as soon as somebody put me up to be promoted,
I would be promoted, right?
But there was also a pretty strong push to encourage
or for commanders to approve people of color
to get promoted beforehand.
Universities, it was a big deal.
You know, you had your diversity,
sorts of, I don't know, selection process
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to get into university and stuff like that.
They were trying to diversify.
And I'm not against that either.
I don't, you know, I don't care.
But I would always make facetious jokes to say,
you know, basically all I am is the,
I'm the average white guy.
You know, I'm five foot nine.
You know, I'm of average weight.
I weighed 185.
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You know, I don't weigh that anymore.
I'm about 10 pounds up.
But, you know, I'm no longer average.
I'm in the upper pile of fatness.
And I'm not fat, but I'm not at the average weight.
I was of the average age.
I had two and a half, I had three children.
So two and a half was the average way back then.
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And so I decided that I was the average white man.
And I thought the average white man should speak more
because we were the ones being discriminated against.
And as soon as I hit the age 50,
it's like, well, now, you know, I was of the average age,
you know, back then, 37, 38.
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And now I'm no longer of the average age
and I can't be the average white man.
But I used to make jokes that it's the white people,
white men especially,
who are being discriminated against.
And I used to say facetious things.
So the U.S. agency, the DEI programs, here we go.
Our civil rights genius, Andrea Lucas,
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who's the chair of the EEOC.
Let's see, I'm gonna read the whole story to you
because it's short and it's pretty damn funny.
The head, it's not funny, it's, you know, foolish.
But the head of the U.S. federal body
responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights,
the EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
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urges white men to come forward
if they believe they have been discriminated against.
It's come full circle, people.
Including under diversity, equity,
and inclusion, DEI initiatives.
In a video message published on Wednesday,
Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. EEOC,
called on white male employees and job applicants
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who feel they were targeted because of their race or sex
to submit a formal complaint.
She's out, you know, seeking complainants.
She emphasized that strict deadlines apply
for filing claims with the agency.
It's 270 days, or thereabouts,
if you're gonna file with, you know, the EEOC.
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The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking,
and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination.
She directed potential complaints
to the EEOC's official guidance,
which notes that federal anti-retaliation protections
extend to workers who resist mandatory DEI training.
So, if I don't want DEI training,
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you can't force me to take it, basically,
is what the EEOC is now saying.
Supporters of DEI policies argue
that the programs help address systemic disadvantages
faced by a marginalized group.
And now that I'm over 50,
I am white man over 50.
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I am the most marginalized group in the country.
Isn't that right?
I don't, what do I get?
Where's my privilege?
Where's my white privilege?
Somebody argued with me about that once in New York City.
New York City, get a rope.
Maintaining that unequal outcomes
reflect structural barriers to progress
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rather than merit alone.
Under DEI initiatives,
employees from privileged groups
are often told to learn about their own advantage.
I have a white person, a white male advantage.
Critics say that the policies, I'm a critic,
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amount to ideologically driven discrimination
and do little to meaningly reduce inequality or prejudice.
And I have felt that every single day.
You know, I don't care if you're gay,
but don't tell me that you're better than me
because you're gay.
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I don't care if you're a woman.
Don't say you're better than me
or you should get a percentage increase
in your consideration for a job
because you're a woman.
Nonsense.
But anyway, that's our world today.
But President Trump named Lucas
as acting head of the EEOC in January
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and she was confirmed in early November.
A lawyer by training and an outspoken critic of DEI,
she's served as a commission member
since Trump's first term.
Her reconfirmation by Congress in July
drew opposition from Democratic lawmakers
who accused her of politicizing the agency.
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Oh, and it wasn't politicized before.
Friends and neighbors, nonsensical nonsense.
All the way around.
What else do we have to talk about today?
We only have a few minutes because it's Friday.
So on Fridays, I am going to end a little bit early
to give the next host the opportunity
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to prep a little bit.
And so I'm going to tell you about the schedule
on damn radio.
Today, we have me from 7.30 to really only 8.45,
a couple more minutes.
And then we have 9 a.m., Nadine at nine.
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We have a really big shoe.
I created a nice logo for JR and his really big shoe.
I think you should use it.
Make a big sign of it and put it on his car.
And then we have search for solutions after that.
And I of the Beholder.
And then I shall be gone until Monday morning,
bright and early.
You know, over the weekend, we have all kinds
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of fantastic music.
And you can listen to damnradio.com forward slash live
and get all the fantastic music.
It's a very, very good mix.
And now, what would it be in the Christmas season?
We have folded in, or JR, I haven't done a damn thing,
have folded in this wonderful Christmas music.
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And he has some very good, I don't know, content.
So I encourage you to listen to it on damnradio.com and join us.
I only have a half a minute because I'm leaving early.
I like having you.
I'm very glad you have chosen to spend your morning with me.
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or you can go out to damnradio.com forward slash podcasts
and listen to the reruns in the privacy of your home sitting room.
It is fun and only slightly legal.
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Bye.
Hello, good morning, welcome.
I am Samuel Trapp.
This is International Flavor.
You are listening to Dem Radio.
We're here every freaking weekday morning from 7.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m.
Well, you know what?
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I'm going to strike reverse that.
Do you remember that?
It's one of my favorite parts of Willy Wonka.
When Gene Wilder played Willy, he would say, strike, reverse that, and then she'd reverse
it.
I always liked striking things.
Strike!
As a lawyer, you can just say, strike, and suddenly it didn't happen.
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Move to strike.
You would move the judge to strike something that someone said, some pleading that someone
had written, and you could say, your honor, I move to strike that document.
That's a nonsensical document that I don't support in any way, shape, or fashion.
What was that from Liar, Liar?
When Jim Carrey would go, because it's devastating to my case, your honor, right?
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So that's what we're here to talk about this morning, is things that are devastating to
the case of normalism in Europe.
Europe's a bunch of nuts, okay?
Okay, as example number, who knows what, there's so many of them, it's hard to say what all
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the examples are.
Now, I have tried to be a good citizen here in the radio, well, you know where I am?
I'm sorry, I didn't even tell you where I am.
I am live to you from the Lake Ozark Real Estate of the Art Studio, broadcasting some
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stuff to you.
And here I am, I'm trying to be a good citizen inside the Real Estate State of the Art Studio,
where I say you can call me at 573-746-8020, or you can send emails to liveatdamradio.com,
and sometimes I actually read them.
You can do that, and it's pretty rare though.
Or you can send emails to me at samuelt at internationalflavor.com, samuelt at civicoutlaws.com.
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We received our 501c3, what do you call it, 501c3 proof from the Internal Revenue Service.
Received that, so we are officially a charity that goes after government overreach.
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That is where we go.
We hunt down those who overreach.
We take examples of overreach, and we drive.
We go after them.
And it's always entertaining to watch the cockroaches scurry when we get some things.
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I'd love to do this in the EU, so we're going to share with you a little bit of news, because
the headlines this morning are all full.
I haven't even seen the Russian reaction yet, but we're waiting.
So the EU leaders, after almost four years of war, the International Monetary Fund, great
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little organization that requires you to do things their way or you don't get the money.
They estimate that Ukraine, as some people call it, I call it Ukraine, or Naukraine,
because people are on the edge over there, and it would actually be Naukraine, they are
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standing on the edge and they're about to fall off the cliff over there in Ukraine,
because they need 161 billion more dollars, or that's only 137 billion euros, sounds better
that way, doesn't it, to fund 2026 and 2027.
The government is on the verge of bankruptcy there in Kyiv, and they desperately need the
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money by spring.
They have to have the money or they can't live.
You know, they want to know, can we have the Russians' money, please?
Can we please have that 310 billion dollars?
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Orban is having a real conversation about this.
Although they have backed off of stealing Russia's money.
How do you like that?
These are, well, I think they realized what they were doing, these globalists and the
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globalism and what is left of the cabal, at least on the European side, and it'll be back.
I mean, Trump is three years left till they, you know, they're just counting down the time.
And Putin had an annual press conference last night that was entertaining, and we might
get a little bit of that to you.
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And but the big news is Ursula von der Leyen and giving away the Russian funds, which didn't
work.
And so what happened?
Oh, let's put it out there.
They say they're crushing, they are crushing Vladimir Putin's hope for victory.
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They're crushing it.
Of course, they're losing territory all over the place.
So Pokrovsk and Myrnogrod now are completely in the favor of Russia.
They're covered.
So Myrnogrod, Petrovsk, they are Zaporizhia, and there they are.
They are now fully under Russian control.
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And so, Sierski, watch this coming for the next couple of weeks.
By the end of the year, Sierski will be gone, is what I think.
I think that the 90 billion is going to give, you know, that's for this year.
And they didn't steal the Russia's money.
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They did.
They decided the debt is too horrible.
And Ursula, she was pushing for it.
Do you remember Ursula on the Disney show?
Who is the big lady?
She was Ursula, the great big octopus wearing a black dress.
For what was that show?
Little Mermaid.
So there they were in the Little Mermaid.
And Ursula was the big old octopus in a black robe.
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That's what I want you to think of every time you think of Ursula von der Leyen,
because it's the same characteristic.
You know, you got to take over the planet and you have no authority to do so.
The EU spokesperson, the EU voice of sanity, insanity.
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Is is has been backing this.
Let's see.
I wish that the maybe we should listen to the presser on this on this here.
Let's see.
Let's listen to a tiny bit of Ursula von der Leyen because they're talking about giving up some money.
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Let's see if I can figure out how to do this.
Hold the phone.
Energy supplies from Russia and important progress.
This is the president of the EU.
Our work will continue at pace.
We need to create the conditions to reach an agreement by the end of next year.
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This is key to ensure we have enough time to implement our decisions,
to adopt the legal acts, to prepare our administrations for the next budgetary cycle in 2028.
The budgetary cycle.
So I want to commend the excellent work carried out by the Danish presidency under your leadership,
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dear Metta.
Some remarkable steps have been taken during these last six months.
Where's Ursula?
Let's skip that guy.
Everybody likes to listen to Ursula.
Here she comes.
Ready?
Yes.
Good evening or good morning.
I should better say we all share one clear goal.
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She's saying good, good, good morning because they had to stay late and they have one clear goal.
A just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
That was the motto of the discussion today.
So we get.
Where's the just and lasting peace covered from your funding war?
Here it is.
With a clear objective to address Ukraine's pressing financing needs for the next two years.
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And I'm very pleased to say we made it.
We have secured an agreement that we can deliver on the financing needs for Ukraine for the next
two years.
As you know, the commission had proposed two solutions.
Both legally sound.
Both technically feasible.
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On one hand, we proposed EU borrowing on the market.
And on the other hand, we had developed the reparations loan.
Very important was in our discussion that last week already on Friday,
we had sent a very clear and strong political message by immobilizing
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the Russian assets in the European Union over the long term.
So that message was very clear.
And building on that, we today had then agreed to find a solution for the financing of Ukraine
in the next two years.
The member states have agreed to finance the Ukraine through EU borrowing on the capital
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markets for an amount of 90 billion euros for the next two years.
We will do this by way of enhanced cooperation.
That is backed by the EU budget headroom.
And Bay means the EU has so much money that they can just hand it off to Ukraine.
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Right by the headroom.
Max headroom is on an unanimous agreement to amend the MFF.
Similarly to the reparations loan.
Very important here.
Ukraine would only need to pay back the loan once it receives reparations.
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Until then, the immobilized Russian assets will remain immobilized.
And the union reserves its right to make use of the cash balances to finance the loan.
This is the solution we found together.
And as discussed in the last weeks, financing Ukraine beyond 2027 will then be part of the
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next MFF discussion.
The EU's next budget, so the next MFF was also on the agenda.
The Danish presidency has done a remarkable work.
Oh, yeah.
We got you.
We got you the money, Green Goblin.
So this is a big success for the old Green Goblin.
He gets to wander around and say, we get this money.
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But all is not well in the European Union.
There are troubles a-brewing.
Here's what happens.
The French president came after the old Macron, who's got his 15%, 10% approval rating in
his own country.
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He says that the EU should be open to re-engage with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as diplomacy
regarding the Ukraine conflict is gaining momentum.
Yes, diplomacy.
Yeah, diplomacy is gaining momentum.
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What he means is, we stole your money.
We have frozen your money.
And so now we think that you're going to be ready to talk to us.
Wrong answer, Ghost Rider.
They are not going to talk to you.
He was speaking to reporters in Brussels.
Macron said some countries have already established contact with Moscow.
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Wow.
Some people have established contact with Moscow.
That's diplomacy, isn't it?
Europeans and Ukrainians have an interest in finding the framework to re-engage in that
discussion properly.
I think it will become useful again to speak with Vladimir Putin.
Old Vladimir Vladimirovich is, you know, I'm sure he's waiting over there on the couch
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for you to show up.
That's what I think.
And Macron said, add that without a structured framework, we are discussing among ourselves
while negotiators go alone to talk with the Russians.
And that is not optimal.
Really?
Holy crap.
How long did it take him to figure that out?
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Jeez, takes two sides to bargain.
And if you, I'm sorry, if Europe wants this war so bad, which is what they want, they
should get ready to do it.
Macron's comments came after the EU leaders failed to agree on the plan to use 210 billion,
246, that's euro, 246 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets as part of a reparations loan.
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So instead, they give them a loan and then free, well, they've already frozen Russian
money, and then say it only has to be, so it's not a loan, is it?
It's only a loan if and, if and, they say, if and Russia ever agrees to pay reparations
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to Ukraine, right?
They should pay reparations.
If that's the case, why not say you can buy these areas?
You know, Russia, why don't you buy them?
Why don't you say, all right, we'll give you the funds, the 300 and some odd billion dollars,
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we'll give that to you.
And we get the property.
Where's old Trumpster with his transactional deal like that?
We get the money and there you have it.
Crazy stuff.
160 billion dollar shortfall for the old Ukrainians over the next two years.
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160 billion dollar shortfall means you probably shouldn't stay in business any longer.
And so the EU is going to take over, right?
The plan collapsed due to opposition from Belgium to steal the Russian money.
They hold the bulk of the assets and have warned of the potential legal and financial
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fallout that I've been warning about.
I don't know, maybe they listened to me.
Instead, the EU leaders agreed to raise funds on capital markets to provide Ukraine with
a hefty multi-year loan.
That underscores the rift within the EU as several member states opted out.
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Russia, of course, condemns the Western proposals to use its assets as theft and is already
engaged in retaliation on the legal sphere.
Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev welcomed the collapse of this plan, saying,
the whole world just watched you fail to bully others into breaking the law.
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I think that's a key, a key quote.
And we should, we should, that should be the new theme of the war in Ukraine.
It's not fought for democracy.
It's fought for corruption.
It's fought for funding the same old a-holes.
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That's what it's all about.
Um, we're doing the hokey pokey in Europe and we're turning ourselves around.
And that's what it's all about.
You do the hokey pokey and they're doing it and stealing, but, but not with stolen money.
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I'm wondering how they're going to pay it back.
Putin and Macron, they last spoke in July.
And they've only spoken twice since 2022.
And, uh, you know, a month ago, the French president advised other EU states to consider
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restoring a dialogue with Moscow.
So they're out there running around in their own little circle saying, um, you know, war's
going to continue.
They're pushing old, uh, Sierski into making foolish counterattacks.
So yesterday, Sierski pulled, um, a huge percentage, let's call it, from Sumy region,
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which is up on the North, South of Belgrade, where the Russians have pretty much just, uh,
eased everything.
And they're just defending.
So these a-holes don't run back up into Belgrade and in the Kursk area that we had a year ago
in the, in the August timeframe, when there was such a joke and they had this stupid attack
inside of Russia.
And then, uh, Russia had to push them back.
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And Russia hasn't gone any further in that area.
Sumy is not necessarily on the chopping block.
What, what they have said they're going to do, and what Putin has said he's going to
do for years, a couple, three years now, is that, uh, we're going to create a buffer zone,
buffernaia zona.
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And that buffer zone will be created, uh, to stop the Ukrainians from bombing places
like Belgrade.
And, uh, uh, so Sumy is just South of Belgrade.
And that area is where the genius of Sierski is all about to collapse, right?
Because that is where they put all their forces, uh, year and a half.
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That's almost, no, it's, I suppose it's only a year plus, a year and several months, um,
where they put all their stuff, uh, their, uh, troops and said, here's what we're going
to do.
Here's a good plan.
We're going to go into Kursk, to hell with our own Eastern front, to hell with what the
war is all about, which is, uh, the Donbass region.
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And now Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and let's go put them up here in Sumy and run all through
into Kursk and we'll start bombing Belgrade, which has been going on pretty regularly since
the start of the war.
And so up on the North, that's what they've done.
Well, now Sierski, the genius, uh, so Zaluzhny, that, that genius, he had to go, uh, uh, yeah,
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he was kind of exiled over to England, right?
And so Sierski, the war genius, here he is, who has just lost territory steadily because
of the issues that are approaching him while he can't really do it.
You know, it's, I mean, he, he, he can't, he has no, uh, uh, I mean, he has no arm,
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no personnel left.
Who are you going to continue to throw there?
You can't do it.
And, and, and he's, it's going to continue.
So now he's pulled everybody out of Sumy, according to all the military analysts here,
he's pulled them out of there and he's thrown them East into where?
Seversk and then Southeast into the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd region.
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So the Russians yesterday made some pretty serious gains.
Where?
Sumy!
You pulled all your, it's like, don't you, I mean, we know the Russians know where your
army is, where your people are.
Their intelligence, their military intelligence is pretty damn good.
And so they've sucked all the people down from there and throw them into Petrovsk and
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Mirnograd area to, so that, so that they can have some short-term successes before the end
of the year.
They were hoping to do this over the last couple of days.
And there have been a couple of counterattacks, one in Seversk and one in Petrovsk and Mirnograd,
which is Southeast down there.
And so they have these couple of successful, meh, marginally successful counterattacks.
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And these counterattacks, you know, are short-lived, just like the Kursk where they
attacked into Kursk, cost them, according to any, any reasonable estimate, 70 to 100,000
men, 70,000 to 100,000 men to jump into Russia.
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Foolish, foolish, foolish.
And now, instead of having your defenses may maintain a steady line in the North, in the
Sumy region, they have yanked them all out because Sirsky's on his last legs.
And so he's sending them to die in Petrovsk.
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And this is foolish from a military point of view, because as soon as they left, the
Russians attacked.
And the Russians already crossed the river in the East that I told you about earlier
this week, and they are pushing.
And so the reason I tell you all of this, because, you know, if you don't know where
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the maps are and you don't have anything there, it's because bullying others into breaking
the law.
They're also bullying Sirsky and the old Z-Monster into coming up with something public
on, you know, that you can post on your X channel that Zelensky and his Instagram can
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claim a victory.
But this is the biggest, most foolish waste of money that there is.
And worse than that is the countless number of lives.
I read an estimate that 500,000 soldiers this year, 40,000, 40-something thousand plus every
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single month.
And it's going up.
The number's not going down.
They said 67,000, wasn't it, in October?
67,000 Ukrainian men.
Russia turned over 1,000 bodies yesterday.
And so how much is that per man?
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Because their families each get the equivalent of about between $200,000 and $300,000 that
the families get for the sacrifice.
So the globalists are paying the families of people to, you know, that are being sent
to slaughter.
That's what's happening.
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And all of this money and militarization, they're pushing for World War III.
Ukraine is on the front of it.
And what they got to do while they arm themselves in the EU, up to 5% of their budgets, because
the U.S., under the old Trumpster anyway, is backing off.
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So they got to wait.
There's a mix on this.
You got to wait three years till the Trumpster is gone and hopefully a new globalist.
You know, if they get Rubio in there, things will go back to normal for the globalists,
you know, if they get him in there.
And hopefully for them, not hopefully for me, I think this is BS, they can continue
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the war.
And all it's going to cost them is a loan, not of their money, of their future, because
if they don't figure out a way, don't think that the attempt to steal Russia's money isn't
going to continue, because it is.
And they're going to keep on trucking.
They're going to change the law.
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They're going to do something like that.
But one of those things, according to Macron, is, well, I guess it's time to talk.
Maybe we should talk to Russia now.
Don't you think we should get the opinion of Russia now, finally, he says.
I mean, twice.
I mean, he talked to him once this year, and I don't remember when the other one, but
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he spoke to him in July.
That'll resolve the conflict, won't it?
And Russia, you know, they say, well, you know, we're ready for that engagement.
Always have been.
We're ready to talk.
Let's talk.
But the only talk they want to do is it's like they don't want to talk to you.
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They want to talk at you.
They want to tell you what you've got to do.
Russia denounces the EU's militarization, but has said that, in principle, we're ready
to talk.
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, said that Europe's participation on the Ukraine conflict
wouldn't bode anything good.
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So that would bode nothing good.
Nothing good is going to come of that.
Isn't that crazy, friends and neighbors?
You know, we've got all kinds of crazy, crazy news in the world this morning.
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Let's talk about China for a second, okay?
Because I think this was the state of Missouri.
It came out in the news yesterday that China sued the United States, a state, you know,
Missouri, they've sued Missouri.
So Missouri won a $24 billion default judgment against China over mishandling the coronavirus
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pandemic.
$24 billion in Missouri won this war.
So we are, what did we do?
We sued the province of Wuhan over there here in Missouri.
China filed a suit in the court in Wuhan now against Missouri and several American officials
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and accused them of harming China's economic and reputational interests through litigation
linked to COVID-19, the pandemic.
According to the documents released by Missouri AG Catherine Hannaway, the lawsuit was filed
in a court in Wuhan by Chinese scientific and state institution.
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They named the defendants as Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, U.S. Senator Eric Schmidt, and
former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
The complaint argues that Missouri's legal action and public statements are vexatious
litigation and defamation and cause a significant economic loss.
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This is all propaganda.
This is our propaganda, our Missouri-based propaganda to have you believe that our fearless
leaders are doing something on your behalf.
They are not, okay?
Just so you know.
And Beijing is suing them.
So if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
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So we didn't participate in your lawsuit in the U.S. because it was bullshit.
Pardon my French.
Isn't what the Chinese are saying.
So if you're going to play those games and use some crazy propagandized ridiculousness
in a federal court in the United States, well, we're going to do the exact same thing.
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I think what I want to do is go out to the Missouri court system.
Where was this filed?
I forget.
And I pulled it up.
And you know what I think I'm going to do?
I think I'm going to download and do a legal analysis for you of this ridiculous story.
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I think it would be entertaining, if nothing else.
So as you can go back and where is it?
Where's the rest of it?
So Missouri is trying to enforce their default judgment issued earlier this year by a Missouri
federal court.
So default can be set aside.
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In fact, they might want to come over here and fight it.
But you can all usually set that aside.
Under Missouri law, it's like if you wait a year, then it's presumed to still be good.
So you got to do it within a year.
That's Missouri law.
Federal law, I don't remember.
But we'll have to go and find out how you set aside a default.
And I'll figure it out and give us a real report on that and the likelihood of ever
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getting this money from China.
Remember, money makes the world go around.
And it's the same in politics.
And if Missouri is going to do that, this will be my fact checking of the BS in there.
And I read this story like 2 o'clock this morning.
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And I forgot to go and download the pleadings.
But what I'm going to do is download the pleadings to this and see where we are.
And then I'll try to find the ones in a Chinese newspaper somewhere.
I'll see if I can come up with those and get the actual text of those.
I'm sure they published them in English somewhere.
But wouldn't it be fun to go through this nonsense?
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The 2020 Missouri filed a lawsuit and alleged that China concealed information about COVID-19.
But more importantly, this is the kicker.
They interfered with the global supply of personal protective equipment, masks, hello,
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during the early months of the pandemic.
So here's the Chinese entities did not appear in the proceedings because it's crap.
So they're saying because China interfered with people getting masks.
I can't wait to read this.
I meant to download it early this morning, but I never got there.
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Maybe I'll try to figure that out and get the actual pleadings to JR.
It'd be fun to go through this today.
It's good for Friday entertainment, Friday humor.
Missouri officials, these geniuses, have said they intend to pursue
the Chinese state-owned assets to collect a judgment.
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Because China has a lot of state-owned assets around in the United States, tons of them.
China is a very large landholder of farmland and stuff like that.
So it's actually a pretty sly and devious thing that Missouri is doing.
In keeping with how sly and devious politics are in Missouri,
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anyway, they're now going up against the big bad Chinese.
So the Chinese are going, well, all right, we'll do the same for you.
We'll sue you for $50 billion because $24 billion,
if you seize the property that we have here, well, we'll start taking U.S. property.
So all politics goes back to money, how you get the money.
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If the idiots in Missouri can all stand up and go,
yep, we got those big bad Chinese in here, it's about the money.
They can go and say that we've gotten money.
If you think that the state of Missouri pulling any of this judgment,
if they collect this $24 billion judgment, if you think it's going to help you any in Missouri,
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you better think again because it's not.
You won't see anything different in your life if Missouri gets this.
But I guarantee you those pushing for this sure as hell will.
Their families will be set for generations and they will make sure that they are,
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that they get their little chunk of the pie for their cronies and their family members.
That's how it works in politics, right?
So Missouri says they're going to pursue Chinese owned assets and collect on this judgment.
Beijing has rejected the ruling, says it is illegitimate and political,
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and has warned of retaliation if Chinese assets are seized.
China has denied allegations that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan
and that it deliberately concealed information of the outbreak.
They maintain that the country acted transparently and responsibly
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and have pointed to international scientific debates that remain
unresolved over the virus's origins.
Now, I don't really know. I don't care.
It was all a scam anyway, no matter how you slice it.
It was a way to get people more control of other people.
The debate over the origins of COVID-19 has been an international debacle
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since 2019 when it was first detected.
Some U.S. officials and lawmakers have said a lab incident cannot be ruled out.
Well, cannot be absolutely proved either.
A number of scientists and international bodies say the available evidence
has not conclusively determined whether the virus emerged naturally or through a lab-related event.
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Frankly, I lean toward the lab-related event,
sponsored and funded by the United States government, is what I say.
So, you know, the craziness of COVID, I never ever participated in,
except the time that I was forced to wear a mask on an American Airlines flight.
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And so I wrote F masks across my mask, put it on,
and boy, the looks I got from the flight attendants and stuff like that wearing that mask,
they didn't like it.
Oh, they didn't like it.
And it was, and I think I may have caused, you know,
it could have been some sort of international incident because I was coming up from,
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where was I?
Brownsville, Texas.
Brownsville to Dallas to Columbia was the flight.
So Brownsville, it's a cool little, you know, cool little airport, little tiny airport.
And that's where you go if you're going to go to the little island off of there,
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Padre Island, I think it is.
And so I went over there, checked on the way back.
Now on the way there, I didn't have to wear a mask.
There was nothing there.
And so I was bitching about that.
There I am wandering through.
And this is when signs were first posted.
And these signs were posted that said, put on your, put on your, you know, we've decided.
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It's a city ordinance.
City ordinance, okay, in Brownsville that said you have to wear a mask.
Okay.
And so you got to wear a mask because the city said, and when we walked in there,
there were a bunch of federal people, you know, that were standing, you know, that are there.
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All of these, you know, ICE agents are there.
They have the federal employees.
And I said, wait a minute.
This is federal property.
All airports are federal property.
Is this airport federal property?
Well, yeah.
Well, how in the world is a city ordinance?
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This is a voluntary thing here then, is it not?
And they said, well, the U.S. government is still working on, they haven't done masks,
but we're going to require you to get in to wear a mask.
But I didn't wear a mask.
I'm wandering around the, I said, well, you know, this is federal property.
You want to arrest me, you better have a, you know, somebody come and do it,
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but it better not be local, you know, Jim Bob, the state cop, or I'm sorry, the city policeman.
The city policeman can't arrest me in here.
And I said, well, we'll get a, we'll get a federal, you know, federal,
there are federal marshals here.
I said, well, bring them on.
I said, if federal marshals are going to enforce a county, a city ordinance,
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that'll be entertaining.
It's like, let's do that.
And I was kind of being a dick.
And because they were saying, you have to, sir, you have to put on your mask.
I was like, I am not putting on a mask.
And so I'm sitting in the airport.
Nobody, people were eyeballing me like crazy.
It was like, Brownsville was a little bit like Columbia in those days to be, you know, Columbia.
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They love Missouri.
I mean, they love people telling them what to do.
They love to tell you what you will do.
Columbia was one of the first to get their own little ordinance too,
to make it look like we're doing something.
And Missouri was one of the first to sue China because this is what, you know, China,
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look what they did to us.
They're causing us to wear masks, right?
And well, I didn't engage in that.
And then here's the shitty part, though.
Pardon my French.
When I got up to the counter there, you know, when they start checking you in,
for America, it wasn't, it wasn't a Federali.
It wasn't a city policeman.
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It wasn't a state cop.
It wasn't even a county dude.
When it was American Airlines and American Airlines loved, they just loved COVID.
Oh my God.
They're all, I can't, I still have miles that I won't use on American Airlines
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because of this nonsense.
These guys are, I couldn't, they were so happy to beat all of the flight attendants,
everywhere you go, any ticket counter.
I tell you what, these guys were just in heaven that they now had a method
to do what they liked to do anyway, to control and be rude to people.
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Have you ever, have you flown American Airlines recently in the last several years?
What a bunch of pricks.
They act like, I mean, you are scum on the bottom of their shoe.
You're a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe that they just got to scrape off.
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And it's always, you know, these people, they're like the government worker that is in control
of their little kingdom.
And by God, you can't mess with them on their own little kingdom.
Sir, sir, this is how they talk to you.
Sir, you need to take that mask off.
That's pretty rude.
That's like, well, you know, I don't want to wear a mask.
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You're the one forcing me to wear a mask.
I'm wearing a mask.
You know, I think it's you guys who are being rude.
I think it's you guys who, this is just nonsense.
If you believe that saving, you know, that a mask is gonna save you, then save yourself.
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But don't tell me that I have to wear a mask because you feel triggered because, you know,
there's some pandemic cruising around.
And if your mask saves you, what difference does it make if I don't believe the mask saves me
or you?
Who's gonna die?
Me.
You're protected.
You can't ingest.
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Doesn't a mask breathe both ways?
Or is it just to protect you from me?
So you need to, I don't think you, you know, I'm healthy.
You don't need to protect yourself from me.
But if you feel like everybody else, you see them wandering around today wearing masks.
They're not doing it because they are afraid of them, you know, of their germs getting out
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and cause, trust me on that one.
They aren't wearing a mask to protect you.
They absolutely are not.
They are wearing a mask to protect themselves.
So if you are wearing a mask, you should be protected.
What do you care if I choose to live dangerously and not be protected?
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I don't understand it.
Masks either worked in both directions or they didn't.
I don't know.
Maybe I've been meaning to bitch about that for a long time.
I don't know because that issue's been gone for a while.
But I, you know, it's just so stupid.
And, you know, I, that's the only time I wore mask.
The only time.
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And I wrote F masks on the front of it and I wore it.
And I was a confrontational a-hole the whole time.
But all of the flight attendants, all of the ticket counter agents, American Airlines is
the Gestapo of the skies, right?
And they, it's crazy.
It was nuts.
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I couldn't believe it.
And I tell you what, that one experience nixed me from American Airlines.
I'll fly American Airlines, Dallas to Doha because American Airlines doesn't fly that.
That's Qatar Airways.
And that is fantastic.
And you want to go somewhere globally, go to Dallas, get a flight, 12 hours, Doha, go
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Doha to anywhere in the world, you know.
Well, if you're here, Dallas is a good connection.
If you're trying to get, you know, to South America, all those other places, Dallas is
a great connection for that.
And Dallas is a great airport too.
Of course, American Airlines is housed there.
But, you know, that's neither here nor there.
You try not to fly with those a-holes.
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But if you go to Dallas and you get on an air, a flight to Doha, 95 times out of 100,
that's going to be run by Qatar Airways.
And Qatar Airways is fantastic.
And the Gestapo of the air stops at the Qatar Airways counter there.
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Those are, they're fantastic.
They take care of you.
You know, the, it's, it's a different world.
If you've flown and seen the Gestapo, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
And it wasn't only during masks, it still exists, you know, when you fly.
But if you fly an international that, you know, the international ones are fantastic.
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Aeroflot is 10 times better than American Airlines, Delta, any of them, name it, hands
down, they are great and they take care of you.
They treat you well.
It's, it's like flying 30, 40 years ago.
You know, when they, when, when, when they respected you, they don't anymore.
No, no, no.
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So this mask thing in Missouri is all about the propaganda that began way back then.
It doesn't matter these days, you know, who, you know, Wuhan made this move, right?
Missouri is going to enforce this 24 billion.
The state filed this lawsuit, blah, blah, blah.
Missouri officials said they intend to pursue the state-owned assets.
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China denies debate over the origins, blah, blah, blah.
All of it the same.
Crazy, crazy stuff.
Now we're going to go back to Russia just because I like to.
And Russia is handing over the remains of a thousand more soldiers that they have,
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I don't know, collected, I suppose.
They are repatriating the humanitarian, you know, the remains.
Moscow has transferred to Kiev a thousand and three more soldiers killed by, you know,
killed by Russian forces.
Vladimir Medinsky, who is Putin's aide said on Friday, repatriation of these remains
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was approved earlier this year.
Russia has received over time 26 bodies of slain troops in Ukraine.
Wow.
But a dozen similar operations were reported in 2025 with a huge number of Ukrainian remains,
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many of them unilateral, meaning Russia is the only one that turned over remains.
And Putin warned earlier this week that the pace of advancement is increasing
and he accumulated knowledge in his last visit of dealing with Ukrainian fortifications.
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So there's a city called Zaporizhzhia, a very big city.
And a couple of years ago, they put some serious entrenchments in
Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
And, you know, they'll never get past this line.
It's what we spent spent.
Remember, remember a couple three years ago when they were talking about having
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deep, deep.
Supplies of Western.
Equipment, Western hardware.
Well, around these big cities, especially after Zaporizhzhia, when when they they had a
Russian drive into Zaporizhzhia and the city of Zaporizhzhia is a big, big city.
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Now, I believe that Zaporizhzhia will be, you know,
the Russians will be on the door of that within six months or so.
That's what I believe.
And the.
Ukrainians, for their part, built this huge series of bunkers, of fortifications, of everything.
And now.
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But the Russians have learned how to deal with these things.
They put them on the edges of all their bigger cities.
Russians already overcame these in Pokrovsk, in Bakhmut.
Remember Bakhmut?
Artyomovsk, I think it was it was the Russian name.
And the Ukrainians changed it to Bakhmut.
And so Petrovsk, there were their Mirnagrad.
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This was here.
And now the Zaporizhzhia line.
And it's a big one.
It's a big series of fortifications where there's all kinds of fortifications.
They don't have any Patriot missiles anymore.
And when's the last time you heard about a Patriot missile taking down something?
You haven't.
And they're very quiet about that because, you know,
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they don't want to say that Russia has outclassed.
Getting, you know, their S-400 series has outclassed the Patriot defense system big time.
And the Patriot, you know, and they're destroying the Patriot systems with the use of these
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drones that they're using.
And it's, tell you what, it is continuing.
In Russia now, the news yesterday was that on either end of this fortification that stretches,
I don't know, quite a few kilometers around the city,
like the whole southern ring of the city, right?
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And it's a big deal that they dug and they entrenched and spent these
millions that were set for this or spent some of it developing this.
And now the Russians have surrounded it on both ends.
And they've gone around it.
And so you having these defense lines, that's what Russians keep talking about,
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which are pots like a cooker, like a pressure cooker.
You know, they're putting these pots and then they put the lid on the pot.
That's how they talk about it.
And so they surrounded Petrovsk.
They surrounded Myrnogrod.
A couple, three months ago, I told you about the 10,000 encircled soldiers
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in Myrnogrod and Petrovsk, two big cities right near each other.
Well, Russia went around them and they surrounded the cities.
They cut off their supply lines all the way.
It's a huge operation.
These are not small cities.
And they went around, blocked them off, said, you know,
you want the press to come and see how this goes?
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You know, let's bring in some Western press.
You don't believe we're winning here?
Bring it in.
Meanwhile, you got Green Goblin creating selfies, fake ones with the use of AI,
saying that he's in a city they did the same thing to up in Seversk.
And there, you know, this is this is continuing.
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And the Russians are getting better and better at it.
And the next one, pay attention to the city, is going to be for Zaporizhia.
The next one is they're going to be driving in from Sumy
and creating the buffer zone that Putin's been talking about because it's opportunity.
Opportunity is, Sersky pulled off quite a few brigades from the Sumy lines
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and is sending them down for a propaganda tour so that he can say,
no, no, no, we're still in Petrovsk.
So they're mounting a counteroffensive on Petrovsk,
which has been securely held by Russia for nearly a month.
And the Mirnagrad part.
Now, when you look at the map, there's maybe a couple of small pockets deep inside the
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Russian lines where these troops are still there, but they've all died.
Ten thousand.
Because nobody believed.
And the same things went on up in Seversk where Zelensky created his little fake video.
And now keep an eye on it.
Next city, Zaporizhia.
Next region, Sumy.
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And Russia has said, for how long now?
We will drive until we meet our goals.
You want to claim that a referendum didn't occur?
That's your right.
It's your prerogative.
But a lot of people have recognized these territories as ours,
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especially Crimea, that they have recognized.
And want a way to end the war?
Recognize those territories as Russian because they've been Russian for generations.
And I'm not saying that, you know, there aren't Ukrainians there.
But the Ukrainians want to pretend that they haven't been, you know,
a huge, huge, overwhelming majority Russian there.
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As is true everywhere in Ukraine, except the far west.
You know, arguably, Kyiv West is more Ukraine.
Now it is, after 30 years of we hate Russia from Ukraine.
Pumped with U.S. agency for international development money.
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Now it's true, you know, that most of the West,
most of the West of Ukraine speak Ukrainian.
And they're ultra nationalist.
You know, these are the guys who are the most
a jazzed up about going and trying to kill them, some Russians.
But they have failed.
And every time these elite nationalist units get sent over, they get destroyed.
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They get their asses handed to them, just like they did in Kursk.
And now Sierski is doing the exact same thing.
And he will be in the frying.
Well, he's in the frying pan.
Pretty soon he's going to be tossed out with the leftover grease in the bottom.
That's what I say.
That's coming, maybe even by the end of the year, especially since now
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the old Z monster has gotten his 90 billion from Ursula von der Leyen.
Let's see what happened to that story.
There was another story about Donald Trump was
canceled the green card lottery.
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Well, he suspended it.
So every year I read when I was practicing law years ago, I represented
several green card lottery guys.
I represented this Russian guy years and years ago.
That was a man.
When was that?
Had to be 2005, maybe 2006.
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And he was getting thrown out of the country.
And I forget what it was.
He was an overstay on a visa.
He was trying to figure out business stuff.
He had asked for asylum because he claimed to have been from from country.
He was Muslim or something like that.
And he was, you know, whatever it was, he was claiming asylum here for religious reasons.
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And I don't think he was going to win.
The law was on his side and we were getting ready for the final hearing.
Those hearings back then would go for years, seriously.
And they still do.
I haven't done one recently, but it's the same.
You come over, you say you're going to report for asylum and they give you a working permit.
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They give you a kind of a temporary green card, at least a withholding from removal.
And if they give you this withholding from removal, you're here then awaiting your case
and you're basically legal.
This is what this is what that meant.
Well, he and, you know, he was trying to figure out how he could stay.
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And so he had told them that this asylum was open.
So the case is open.
These cases dragged on for years.
And he was in the middle of it and in the middle of it.
You know, I always recommended this to everybody.
Anyway, you want to come to the US, sign up for the green card lottery,
because every year they would give away 100,000 green cards in this lottery.
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And it's I mean, everywhere else in the world.
It's a scam.
I'll tell you that about that in a minute, because I found much more out about it traveling
around in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
It was crazy.
So every year about I think it's October 1st is the deadline.
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Don't quote me on that.
They have this green card lottery and the lottery you have to sign up every year.
And as part of any lawyer's repertoire, if you're going to be
protecting someone or helping them, you're going to say, look, you know,
whatever happens if you're here for asylum, ultimately, you may not get approved.
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Ultimately, you might get sent back home.
In the meantime, you know, live it up because you could be temporary, you know,
and maybe try to find a different way to stay or whatever.
But always any lawyer would be an idiot if he didn't tell you to sign up for the green card
lottery.
So every year, millions of people from around the world sign up for the green card lottery.
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In Uzbekistan, they're charging you the equivalent of about 450 dollars to come in,
get on a free website for immigration control and fill out your documents.
And they have these offices everywhere in downtown cities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
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Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek had a couple in Kyrgyzstan.
And you go and everywhere you go, you'd see they'd be open all night long.
And people would be wandering in.
One day I went into one and I said, what are you doing?
And they said, well, you know, we're helping people get their green card, you know,
get through the green card lottery.
I said, what are you charging them?
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I said, how much did it cost me to apply for this?
You know, the guy told me the amount.
I was like, holy, I said, you realize it's free?
Well, of course they realize it's free.
They get in and they've created whole streams of business over there.
And I'm walking in and chatting with them and going, you know, this is quite the scam.
Maybe I should move to Uzbekistan, hang up a little sign that says,
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American will help you sign up for the green card lottery.
Because that's all they were doing.
And so these people every year, they go and apply for the green card lottery.
But 400 bucks to them is a month's pay, for God's sake.
And so, you know, it'd be the equivalent of over here.
I'm your lawyer.
Pay me 2,500 bucks and I'll help you do that.
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You know, you want to hire a lawyer.
Well, these guys have already been lawyers.
They're just young kids that speak English and speak Russian or Uzbek.
And they take their money.
I mean, it's quite the plan.
You know, it's more power to them.
You know, you want to create a business and help people get it done right.
But damn, that was a lot of money.
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You know, so they're charging people a month's pay.
You know, and you can file it for free on the website.
Anyway, the old Trumpster.
So 100,000 people, a million people, a couple million people a year
fighting for this 100,000.
And your chances aren't all that great of getting picked up.
And now that it's a popular program, it's there.
Well, Trumpster just suspended the green card lottery
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after the Brown University stuff, right?
And he was linked to this program, I guess.
U.S. President Trump suspended the green card lottery
after officials said the suspect in the shootings at Brown University
and MIT had entered the country through that system.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem said on Thursday
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that at Trump's direction, USCIS would immediately halt
the diversity immigrant visa program,
which allows lottery winners to become permanent U.S. citizens.
Just like happened with my guy way back in 05,
right before the hearing with the judge.
This worked out perfect for him.
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And luck of the draw, he won the diversity visa program
and the judge adjusted his status on the spot
when we went there, when he won the letter,
because when he received his letter,
because we were literally a week or two from the thing.
And he showed me the letter.
I said, wow, he's a lucky B word.
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Bastard, I suppose I can say bastard.
You lucky bastard.
I said, I don't think you're going to win.
So, you know, but here you go.
And I presented it to the judge at the hearing.
The judge adjusted his status on the spot
and he got his green card and his whole family,
you know, everybody was there.
But this announcement by Noem followed a five day manhunt
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for 48 year old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,
who authorities suspect killed two students
and wounded nine others
in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday
and shooting the MIT professor Nuno Leiro
two days later in Brookline, Mass.
Officials said the suspect took his own life
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and was found dead in New Hampshire
with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This heinous individual.
How is an individual heinous?
Remember when that word was all popular back in the 80s?
Heinous, always reminds me of Bill and Ted.
Excellent.
Totally.
Or that's Jif Spicoli.
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Awesome.
Totally awesome.
Anyway, I'm having fun this morning.
I don't know why.
But this heinous individual
should never have been allowed in our country.
Noem wrote on X, referring, of course, to Valente.
According to the court affidavit cited by authorities,
Valente initially came to the U.S. on a student visa in 2000
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and won the green card lottery
because his lawyer had him figure that out
through the diversity visa lottery program in 2017.
Oh, look, here's the numbers.
They changed it.
Or I was wrong.
Maybe I was.
But it says the diversity program makes up to 50,000.
I think that number used to be 100.
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But what do I know?
50,000 immigrant visas available each year
by lottery to people from countries
with low immigration rates.
So every year, the Citizenship and Immigration Services
tells you what countries are eligible for this program, right?
And so they don't do it from places like Mexico.
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You're not eligible from Mexico
because we have plenty of people that come from Mexico.
But people with lower immigration rates
is where they set this up.
I always thought it was a weird program anyway.
But people from countries with low immigration rates
can come to the US with their winners of spouses
they can undergo vetting and interviews
before being admitted.
Nome said the halt is intended to ensure
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no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
It's not the program that's disastrous.
It's your policing facilities.
I'm not saying I agree with the program or disagree.
You know, if you want to spend your money on that,
go right ahead.
If you want to encourage Uzbeki young people
to scam out their family,
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any people that walk in down the street
of huge amounts of money to enter a free program,
well, you know, go right ahead.
But that's what's happening, friends and neighbors.
But it's not the program that's disastrous.
You know, it's this vetting procedure.
The whole immigration system needs to be overhauled.
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But this move follows broader immigration restrictions
by the old Trumpster in recent weeks,
including Titan review of other illegal
or legal immigration pathways,
because there was another shooting incident
in Washington, D.C. involving a suspect
who came to the US by way of a different immigration program.
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I hate to say it, you know,
and you might not agree with this,
but why don't we accuse the guns then of murder?
You know, if the program is needs to be,
you know, charged and put away,
let's put away this program.
And I'm not against it.
I don't care one way or the other program.
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No program doesn't affect me.
I don't care.
My liberty interests don't go there.
But, you know, remember my philosophy on liberty
is the same as I read in Machiavelli.
You know, you want to wander around swinging your arms.
That's your freedom.
Somebody else wants to wander around
(01:05:30):
swinging their arms.
That also is freedom.
And the only time that government is necessary
is to regulate when my swinging arms
hit your swinging arms.
That's it.
And so this doesn't affect me.
So I don't need the government in this respect, right?
(01:05:51):
So I don't know what area of freedom
they are necessarily engaging in.
But if people wish to come here,
you know, I don't have any qualms with that.
You know, people want to come to America.
If I want to move to wherever this guy was from,
where did he say he was from?
(01:06:11):
Portuguese.
He was from Portugal.
Yeah.
Portugal is a pretty cool country.
You know, I've been there.
It's very pretty.
And I was only there for two days.
But what I saw, I liked.
I like it a lot.
And that's where I was.
Anyway, I'm completely babbling.
No one has saved me with a phone call or anything today.
(01:06:35):
But that's okay.
The green card lottery is officially suspended.
This is important to me.
So years ago, I had an idea for writing a book.
I always decided years and years ago,
boy, this was in the 90s.
I can't believe I just thought about this.
And it was when, because I was in the army, right?
(01:06:58):
And so points were a big thing for getting promoted.
And I always max my points out.
So I knew as soon as the point system dropped,
I had 900, I had 1000 points.
And the points were 998 all the time anyway.
So those two percenters, I was a two percenter
as far as having the points.
I maxed out every point in every category for promotion points.
(01:07:19):
So I knew as soon as somebody put me up to be promoted,
I would be promoted, right?
But there was also a pretty strong push to encourage
or for commanders to approve people of color
to get promoted beforehand.
Universities, it was a big deal.
You know, you had your diversity,
sorts of, I don't know, selection process
(01:07:44):
to get into university and stuff like that.
They were trying to diversify.
And I'm not against that either.
I don't, you know, I don't care.
But I would always make facetious jokes to say,
you know, basically all I am is the,
I'm the average white guy.
You know, I'm five foot nine.
You know, I'm of average weight.
I weighed 185.
(01:08:05):
You know, I don't weigh that anymore.
I'm about 10 pounds up.
But, you know, I'm no longer average.
I'm in the upper pile of fatness.
And I'm not fat, but I'm not at the average weight.
I was of the average age.
I had two and a half, I had three children.
So two and a half was the average way back then.
(01:08:27):
And so I decided that I was the average white man.
And I thought the average white man should speak more
because we were the ones being discriminated against.
And as soon as I hit the age 50,
it's like, well, now, you know, I was of the average age,
you know, back then, 37, 38.
(01:08:48):
And now I'm no longer of the average age
and I can't be the average white man.
But I used to make jokes that it's the white people,
white men especially,
who are being discriminated against.
And I used to say facetious things.
So the U.S. agency, the DEI programs, here we go.
Our civil rights genius, Andrea Lucas,
(01:09:10):
who's the chair of the EEOC.
Let's see, I'm gonna read the whole story to you
because it's short and it's pretty damn funny.
The head, it's not funny, it's, you know, foolish.
But the head of the U.S. federal body
responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights,
the EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
(01:09:33):
urges white men to come forward
if they believe they have been discriminated against.
It's come full circle, people.
Including under diversity, equity,
and inclusion, DEI initiatives.
In a video message published on Wednesday,
Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. EEOC,
called on white male employees and job applicants
(01:09:54):
who feel they were targeted because of their race or sex
to submit a formal complaint.
She's out, you know, seeking complainants.
She emphasized that strict deadlines apply
for filing claims with the agency.
It's 270 days, or thereabouts,
if you're gonna file with, you know, the EEOC.
(01:10:16):
The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking,
and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination.
She directed potential complaints
to the EEOC's official guidance,
which notes that federal anti-retaliation protections
extend to workers who resist mandatory DEI training.
So, if I don't want DEI training,
(01:10:40):
you can't force me to take it, basically,
is what the EEOC is now saying.
Supporters of DEI policies argue
that the programs help address systemic disadvantages
faced by a marginalized group.
And now that I'm over 50,
I am white man over 50.
(01:11:01):
I am the most marginalized group in the country.
Isn't that right?
I don't, what do I get?
Where's my privilege?
Where's my white privilege?
Somebody argued with me about that once in New York City.
New York City, get a rope.
Maintaining that unequal outcomes
reflect structural barriers to progress
(01:11:24):
rather than merit alone.
Under DEI initiatives,
employees from privileged groups
are often told to learn about their own advantage.
I have a white person, a white male advantage.
Critics say that the policies, I'm a critic,
(01:11:44):
amount to ideologically driven discrimination
and do little to meaningly reduce inequality or prejudice.
And I have felt that every single day.
You know, I don't care if you're gay,
but don't tell me that you're better than me
because you're gay.
(01:12:04):
I don't care if you're a woman.
Don't say you're better than me
or you should get a percentage increase
in your consideration for a job
because you're a woman.
Nonsense.
But anyway, that's our world today.
But President Trump named Lucas
as acting head of the EEOC in January
(01:12:25):
and she was confirmed in early November.
A lawyer by training and an outspoken critic of DEI,
she's served as a commission member
since Trump's first term.
Her reconfirmation by Congress in July
drew opposition from Democratic lawmakers
who accused her of politicizing the agency.
(01:12:47):
Oh, and it wasn't politicized before.
Friends and neighbors, nonsensical nonsense.
All the way around.
What else do we have to talk about today?
We only have a few minutes because it's Friday.
So on Fridays, I am going to end a little bit early
to give the next host the opportunity
(01:13:12):
to prep a little bit.
And so I'm going to tell you about the schedule
on damn radio.
Today, we have me from 7.30 to really only 8.45,
a couple more minutes.
And then we have 9 a.m., Nadine at nine.
(01:13:33):
We have a really big shoe.
I created a nice logo for JR and his really big shoe.
I think you should use it.
Make a big sign of it and put it on his car.
And then we have search for solutions after that.
And I of the Beholder.
And then I shall be gone until Monday morning,
bright and early.
You know, over the weekend, we have all kinds
(01:13:54):
of fantastic music.
And you can listen to damnradio.com forward slash live
and get all the fantastic music.
It's a very, very good mix.
And now, what would it be in the Christmas season?
We have folded in, or JR, I haven't done a damn thing,
have folded in this wonderful Christmas music.
(01:14:14):
And he has some very good, I don't know, content.
So I encourage you to listen to it on damnradio.com and join us.
I only have a half a minute because I'm leaving early.
I like having you.
I'm very glad you have chosen to spend your morning with me.
(01:14:36):
You can always listen to my shows at internationalflavor.com
or you can go out to damnradio.com forward slash podcasts
and listen to the reruns in the privacy of your home sitting room.
It is fun and only slightly legal.
I ask you to join me next week.
(01:14:57):
Bye.
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