February 25, 2024 • 33 mins
New sanctions on Russia on the two-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine could lead to higher prices in the U.S. Also, some troubling news from CPAC and the presidential primaries.
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I'm Stephen Monteith, and I'm hereto talk about politics from the week of
February the eighteenth, twenty twenty fourto the twenty fourth. I haven't talked
much about Ukraine yet in this podcast, so let's start there. This last
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week marks the two year anniversary ofthe start of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Now, when the war started,I should say when it officially started this
time. There have been plenty ofconflicts between Russia and Ukraine, but when
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it started this time two years ago, I had some things to say about
it. I said even back thenthat it wasn't just important for us to
support Ukraine because of the suffering thereor because of its importance as a participant
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in multiple world markets, but alsobecause Ukraine is simply the first step.
Now, like I said, thiswasn't the first time that Russia under the
leadership of Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine, and Ukraine also isn't the only country
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that Russia has invaded. Putin isa conqueror, and if we don't stand
up to him, then he certainlywon't stop with Ukraine, and his success
there would in Bolden. Other wouldbe conquerors around the world like North Korea
or China. We don't need tobe indirect conflict with Russia to oppose its
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actions. All we have to dois help Ukraine win. Now, there
were many at the time who thoughtthat Ukraine wouldn't last two months, But
here we are two years later andthere's still standing firm, and we still
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need to stand firm with them,not abandoned them like certain people are suggesting
we do. Elon Musk just thislast week said that that there's no way
in hell Ukraine can win and thatthe United States should stop supporting him supporting
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it. Well, I say thatanybody who still supports Elon Musk after saying
something like that needs to stop supportingElon Musk. Now, it's not just
important to oppose Russia because they invadedUkraine without a good reason. It's not
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just the war crimes that they've committedin Ukraine. Russia is doing plenty of
terrible things within its own borders.You may not know the name Alexei Navanni,
but let me tell you a littlebit about him. Imagine a crusader
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fighting against corruption and human rights violations, someone who exposes the evil that's happening
around him and fights against it asa lawyer and a reporter. Someone who's
been the target of a literal assassinationattempt and survived it, only to go
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right back to the fight. Someonewho has the support of his own people
and the international community as well.Someone who was a political prisoner in the
truest sense of the word, whowas convicted in what Amnesty International deemed a
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show trial and then died in prison. That's Alexei Navali, Vladimir Putin's greatest
enemy. His death has sparked internationaloutrage. President Joe Biden has laid the
blame squarely at Putin's feet, andfor this and the many war crimes that
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Putin has overseen, Biden has imposeda brand new level of sanctions against Russia.
Now, sanctions were initially imposed againstRussia when the war in Ukraine started,
And just like that wasn't the firstconflict between Russia and Ukraine. This
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wasn't the first round of sanctions thatwere imposed on them. I was skeptical.
I'm usually skeptical of sanctions. Theynever seem to actually reach those who
are in power. It's always thelowest levels of society that get hit the
worst by them, it seems,and the initial rounds of sanctions imposed by
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the US, the European Union,and other nations haven't seemed to stop or
slow down Russia's invasion all that much. Well, hopefully these new ones will
well see if they have any impact. One place that sanctions have definitely had
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an impact is here in the UnitedStates. As I talked about in my
podcast at the time in the episodeabout the twenty twenty two mid terms,
the first round of sanctions against Russiaincluded cutting them off from the world oil
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markets. Russia is one of theone of the biggest producers of energy in
the world, and cutting them offdefinitely had a huge effect. It caused
a disruption that led to high gasprices around the world. Republicans here in
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the US were quick to use highgas prices as a campaign issue in the
twenty twenty two midterm elections, asI talked about in my podcast, and
it eventually netted them a very narrowmajority in the House of Representatives. But
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they conveniently forgot to mention at thetime that the reason prices on everything were
so high was because Russia's invasion ofUkraine led to the sanctions and that the
sanctions as well as the general disruptionthat's caused whenever there's a war on this
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scale are what led to high pricesnot just at the pump, but in
grocery stores as well. Both Russiaand Ukraine participate in a number of world
markets, and when they get throwninto chaos like this, inflation is just
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one of the symptoms. Like Isaid, it wasn't just here in the
US. These these effects were feltaround the world, and we actually dealt
with them better than most countries have. But basically, you can expect more
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disruptions in the future as our countryand other countries continue to impose even more
sanctions in the wake of these latestatrocities. Just remember when they do happen
that it is Russia's fault, primarilythe instability in the markets. That's what
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happens when you've got a war criminallike Putin placed in charge of one of
the largest countries in the world.If you're if you're against Vladimir Putin,
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and I hope you are, becausethis point, who could not be against
him? I mean, seriously,how could anybody at this point not be
against Vladimir Putin? Then I hopeyou'll consider, as bad as you may
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have it paying for groceries, thatat least you don't have to worry about
Russia bombing your supermarket while you're there. You don't have to worry about him
executing political prisoners here in the UnitedStates like he's doing in his own country.
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You don't have to worry about himinvading like he has in Ukraine and
other countries. We are engaged inthe fight against Vladimir Putin, not directly,
but through our support of the countriesthat he has targeted, both in
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the past and now, and it'sbeen going on for a very long time.
Hell Mitt Romney, when he ranfor president in twenty twelve, called
Russia our number one geopolitical foe.This is what he was talking about.
This is what he I mean.He may not have foreseen this exact circumstance,
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this exact future when he was talkingabout the dangers of an unchecked Russia,
but this is essentially what he wastalking about. Your part in the
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fight against him. Just be gladthat it's only high prices, because people
like Alexi Navalni are paying a muchhigher cost. Now, if you think
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that it's just propaganda, that Russiais behind Alexi Navalni's death. It's not
just President Biden who's blaming him forit. People across the political spectrum are
chiming in with their condemnations of him. Nikki Haley has condemned him. In
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fact, it seems that the onlymajor political figure in the United States who
hasn't directly condemned him for it isDonald Trump. Donald Trump has I hesitate
to say he has a cozy relationshipwith Vladimir Putin, but he's spent a
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lot of time over the years praisinghim. I talked about that in plenty
of posts, but mostly if youwant, you can listen to my podcast
where I talk about America's Secret Police, about how Trump acted when there were
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protests in the final year of hispresidency, and how that and how his
actions mirrored those of people like Putinaround the world. Now, the only
thing that Trump has had to sayabout the Alexi Navali situation is that he
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sees himself as Navalni. Now,that's it's disgusting for him to say something
like that, but it's completely consistentwith his behavior in the past. He
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would constantly make statements about how he'sbeen treated worse than any president in history,
even considering that there have been presidentswho have actually been assassinated. So
it's not surprising that he would comparehimself to somebody who's been assassinated. Now,
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and when he when he compares himselfto Navali, he's talking, of
course, about his legal troubles.N Navalni was put in a kangaroo court
and he was convicted as a politicalprisoner, and he died in prison.
And Trump thinks, or rather claims, that that's what's happening to him,
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that his ninety one separate felony chargesare all just a political ploy by President
Biden to keep him from running foroffice again. It's not the same thing
at all. Trump is not apolitical prisoner, and for him to compare
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himself to somebody who was assassinated againis just plain detestable. But he doesn't
stop there. He he also thinksthat he made the statement recently at the
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Black Conservative Federation conference that that hesorry, it's hard for me to get
this out. He says that thefact that he's been falsely accused, that
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he's been arrested and mistreated and whatnot, as he says he has not been
falsely arrested, and he's not beenmistreated, but he says that all of
that makes it easier for black peopleto like him. He's, yes,
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he's comparing himself to black people now, saying that black people like him because
he's been mistreated by the justice systemtoo. Look, I don't have to
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get in I don't have to getinto the years and decades worth of racist
statements and actions that Trump has made, or how this is simply the latest
one. There have been plenty ofpeople who have already highlighted his frankly outrageous
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past with trying to establish himself assome kind of ally of the black community.
But let's come at this from anotherangle. Let's look at this from
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another point of view. He's comparinghimself to a political prisoner under Putin,
and he's comparing himself to black peoplewho have been unfairly targeted by police and
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unjustly treated by the justice system.So, in a sense, you could
say that he is acknowledging that thereare injustices in the American judicial system and
that what happened to Novall was Putin'sfault. But if he is saying those
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things, what is he doing aboutthem. As they say, actions speak
louder than words, and as Isaid in my podcast on about America's secret
police, Trump's actions are certainly noton the side of the people who have
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been protesting these injustices. The proteststhat took place in Trump's final year as
president, they were about George Floydand about how he was killed while in
police custody. What was Trump's responseto those protests. He sent federal troops
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in where they had no jurisdiction andhad them arresting people off the streets with
out due process. One person talkedabout how he was thrown into the back
of a van and then thrown intoa room for over an hour, and
all they asked him that whole timewas does he agree to waive his rights?
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And when he wisely didn't agree towaive his rights, they released him.
Trump was acting exactly the way Putinwas acting. Because Trump admires Putin,
He's not going to do anything tostand in Putin's way if he becomes
president again. He certainly didn't doanything to stand in Putin's way when he
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was president, and when Putin startedthe war in Ukraine, all Trump did
was praise him for coming up witha good pretext for starting it. He
talks about how, if he werepresident again, he could end the war
in a day. He never givesa single plan, by the way,
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for doing so. He never givesany sort of hint about how he would
end it, just that he canend it. And he also never gives
any plans for how he intends tohelp the black community. He says that
black people have been mistreated by thejustice system. What's his reform plan for
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the justice system? What are hisproposals for police reform, for prison reform?
His actions definitely speak louder than hiswords, which is saying something because
his words speak pretty loudly. Trumpis a racist, and for him to
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compare his legal battles to what blackpeople go through and what Alexi Navalni went
through, disgusting is just not astrong enough word for it. And then
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there was his speech at Seapack thislast week, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
It's a yearly event for conservatives.First, let me tell you a
little bit about Seapack in general.About a decade ago, aka the pre
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Trump era, you could say thatSeapack was hard right and still have headliners
like people like John McCain, whowas in two thousand and eight the Republican
nominee for president. You had peoplelike Mitt Romney speaking there, talking about
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conservative principles and how he would continueto fight for them whether he was president
or not. These are people whowouldn't even be called conservative now now.
Just this last week, on theother hand, sea Pack featured a man
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named Jack Pasobic, who is awhite supremacist who would probably be shocked to
learn that Trump sympathizes with the plightof black people in America. Jack Pasobic
at sea Pack called for finishing thejob of January sixth, twenty twenty one.
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He literally, in his words,called for the end of democracy.
And instead of being kicked off thisstage, people there simply said, Amen,
that's where Seapack is right now,that's the kind of conference that it
is. Now. Getting back towhat Trump said while he was there,
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A key moment from Trump's speech justyesterday was when he called this coming election
day judgment day for the people whotook over the US government. He said,
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November fifth, election Day will beour new liberation Day, but for
the liars and cheaters and fraudsters andcensors and impostors who have commandeered our government.
It will be their judgment day.And everyone cheered him on four years
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years ago while he was president,or even eight years ago when he ran
for president the first time, thiswould have simply been considered just more Trump
rhetoric. But after January sixth,twenty twenty one, after the insurrection,
after Congress was broken into by thousandsof people who were hunting down congressmen and
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senators who disrupted the peaceful transfer ofpower, which again a speaker at Seapack
literally promised to finish that job,any talk of judgment Day by Donald Trump
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should be taken with extreme concern byeveryone, especially after what exit polls in
the primaries have shown. Let's talka little bit about recent primaries and why
those why the exit polls from thoseprimaries are so troubling. First of all,
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New Hampshire, it had its Republicanprimary a month ago in January twenty
third, and Donald Trump won byabout fifty four percent. Nikki Haley came
in second with about forty three percent. Now she's his only real opponent left
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in the in the Republican primaries tobecome the Republican nominee for president. Now,
Nikki Haley is a former governor ofSouth Carolina, and South Carolina had
their primary just yesterday. Now,there's something about the exit polls, which
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are interviews conducted with people who votedin those primaries, is something that was
consistent between New Hampshire and South Carolina. These are two very different states.
They have different demographics, they havedifferent politics, but something that remained the
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same when voters were asked questions aboutthe votes they made and why. One
question is that was asked of themwas do you support or do you believe
rather that Joe Biden was legitimately electedpresident in twenty twenty and who did you
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vote for in the primary. Andpeople who believed that Joe Biden was legitimately
elected in both New Hampshire and SouthCarolina overwhelmingly voted for Nicki Haley. People
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who believe that Joe Biden won throughfraudulent means, who believe that he stole
the election, People like the oneswho stormed the Capitol on January sixth,
twenty twenty one. They overwhelmingly votedfor Donald Trump in both states. People
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who believed in the integrity of thetwenty twenty election voted for Nikki Haley,
and people who believe what Donald Trumphas been saying about the twenty twenty election
being stolen voted for Trump. Hissupporters are almost entirely made up of people
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who believe what he said about thetwenty twenty election being stolen. It wasn't,
but there are enough people who believeit was. That he won in
Nikki Haley's own state. These arepeople who cheer him on when he says
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things like it's going to be judgmentday for the people who stole the election.
These are people who say amen whensomebody talks about finishing the job of
January sixth. These people are inmassive numbers, numbers too big to ignore.
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We cannot simply allow this kind oflie, ye, this kind of
false claim about the election being stolento continue spreading across America, because the
more people who believe that the twentytwenty election was stolen, the worse it's
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going to get. After after thetwenty twenty election, like a couple of
weeks after, Donald Trump still refusedto to concede. Obviously, and I
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didn't know how bad it was goingto get, but I could already tell
just a couple of weeks after theelection that it was going to get really
bad. I posted on Twitter,which I'm not on anymore. At the
time, I posted that I believedan explosion was coming, literal and figurative.
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I believe in other explosions coming.I have that same feeling now that
I did back then. Donald Trumpis winning in every single primary and caucus
so far. And he's winning becausethere are enough people who believe the twenty
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twenty election was stolen from him tokeep voting for him. Even though he
has been impeached twice, even thoughhe was an objectively terrible president, even
though he is currently under indictment infour separate jurisdictions for ninety one separate felony
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counts, there are still enough peoplewho support him for him to possibly become
the Republican nominee again for president.Now they're about there was another There was
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another statistic. I think something likethirty percent of people who voted in South
Carolina said that if Trump was convictedon a felony that they wouldn't vote for
him as president, he would beunfit to serve as president. But as
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you can probably guess, all ofthose people voted for Nicki Haley and she's
not going to be the nominee.Now, there may be enough of them
they may hold true in November andnot vote for Trump. But him not
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being president is only one major disasterthat I'm hoping to avoid. Him being
Joe Biden being re elected is onlyone. Is only one goal that this
country should have. Preventing another Januarysixth definitely should be another goal that The
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response from people at sea pack tohis speech, the response that people have
to the lies that he continues totell years later about the election being stolen
from him, It should concern allof us. Other things happened this week,
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But I think that's a good placeto stop. I'm getting I'm getting,
you know. Anyway, Thank youfor listening. I'll talk to you more later
I'm Stephen Monteith, and I'm hereto talk about politics from the week of
February the eighteenth, twenty twenty fourto the twenty fourth. I haven't talked
much about Ukraine yet in this podcast, so let's start there. This last
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week marks the two year anniversary ofthe start of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Now, when the war started,I should say when it officially started this
time. There have been plenty ofconflicts between Russia and Ukraine, but when
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it started this time two years ago, I had some things to say about
it. I said even back thenthat it wasn't just important for us to
support Ukraine because of the suffering thereor because of its importance as a participant
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in multiple world markets, but alsobecause Ukraine is simply the first step.
Now, like I said, thiswasn't the first time that Russia under the
leadership of Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine, and Ukraine also isn't the only country
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that Russia has invaded. Putin isa conqueror, and if we don't stand
up to him, then he certainlywon't stop with Ukraine, and his success
there would in Bolden. Other wouldbe conquerors around the world like North Korea
or China. We don't need tobe indirect conflict with Russia to oppose its
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actions. All we have to dois help Ukraine win. Now, there
were many at the time who thoughtthat Ukraine wouldn't last two months, But
here we are two years later andthere's still standing firm, and we still
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need to stand firm with them,not abandoned them like certain people are suggesting
we do. Elon Musk just thislast week said that that there's no way
in hell Ukraine can win and thatthe United States should stop supporting him supporting
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it. Well, I say thatanybody who still supports Elon Musk after saying
something like that needs to stop supportingElon Musk. Now, it's not just
important to oppose Russia because they invadedUkraine without a good reason. It's not
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just the war crimes that they've committedin Ukraine. Russia is doing plenty of
terrible things within its own borders.You may not know the name Alexei Navanni,
but let me tell you a littlebit about him. Imagine a crusader
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fighting against corruption and human rights violations, someone who exposes the evil that's happening
around him and fights against it asa lawyer and a reporter. Someone who's
been the target of a literal assassinationattempt and survived it, only to go
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right back to the fight. Someonewho has the support of his own people
and the international community as well.Someone who was a political prisoner in the
truest sense of the word, whowas convicted in what Amnesty International deemed a
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show trial and then died in prison. That's Alexei Navali, Vladimir Putin's greatest
enemy. His death has sparked internationaloutrage. President Joe Biden has laid the
blame squarely at Putin's feet, andfor this and the many war crimes that
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Putin has overseen, Biden has imposeda brand new level of sanctions against Russia.
Now, sanctions were initially imposed againstRussia when the war in Ukraine started,
And just like that wasn't the firstconflict between Russia and Ukraine. This
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wasn't the first round of sanctions thatwere imposed on them. I was skeptical.
I'm usually skeptical of sanctions. Theynever seem to actually reach those who
are in power. It's always thelowest levels of society that get hit the
worst by them, it seems,and the initial rounds of sanctions imposed by
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the US, the European Union,and other nations haven't seemed to stop or
slow down Russia's invasion all that much. Well, hopefully these new ones will
well see if they have any impact. One place that sanctions have definitely had
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an impact is here in the UnitedStates. As I talked about in my
podcast at the time in the episodeabout the twenty twenty two mid terms,
the first round of sanctions against Russiaincluded cutting them off from the world oil
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markets. Russia is one of theone of the biggest producers of energy in
the world, and cutting them offdefinitely had a huge effect. It caused
a disruption that led to high gasprices around the world. Republicans here in
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the US were quick to use highgas prices as a campaign issue in the
twenty twenty two midterm elections, asI talked about in my podcast, and
it eventually netted them a very narrowmajority in the House of Representatives. But
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they conveniently forgot to mention at thetime that the reason prices on everything were
so high was because Russia's invasion ofUkraine led to the sanctions and that the
sanctions as well as the general disruptionthat's caused whenever there's a war on this
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scale are what led to high pricesnot just at the pump, but in
grocery stores as well. Both Russiaand Ukraine participate in a number of world
markets, and when they get throwninto chaos like this, inflation is just
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one of the symptoms. Like Isaid, it wasn't just here in the
US. These these effects were feltaround the world, and we actually dealt
with them better than most countries have. But basically, you can expect more
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disruptions in the future as our countryand other countries continue to impose even more
sanctions in the wake of these latestatrocities. Just remember when they do happen
that it is Russia's fault, primarilythe instability in the markets. That's what
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happens when you've got a war criminallike Putin placed in charge of one of
the largest countries in the world.If you're if you're against Vladimir Putin,
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and I hope you are, becausethis point, who could not be against
him? I mean, seriously,how could anybody at this point not be
against Vladimir Putin? Then I hopeyou'll consider, as bad as you may
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have it paying for groceries, thatat least you don't have to worry about
Russia bombing your supermarket while you're there. You don't have to worry about him
executing political prisoners here in the UnitedStates like he's doing in his own country.
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You don't have to worry about himinvading like he has in Ukraine and
other countries. We are engaged inthe fight against Vladimir Putin, not directly,
but through our support of the countriesthat he has targeted, both in
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the past and now, and it'sbeen going on for a very long time.
Hell Mitt Romney, when he ranfor president in twenty twelve, called
Russia our number one geopolitical foe.This is what he was talking about.
This is what he I mean.He may not have foreseen this exact circumstance,
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this exact future when he was talkingabout the dangers of an unchecked Russia,
but this is essentially what he wastalking about. Your part in the
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fight against him. Just be gladthat it's only high prices, because people
like Alexi Navalni are paying a muchhigher cost. Now, if you think
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that it's just propaganda, that Russiais behind Alexi Navalni's death. It's not
just President Biden who's blaming him forit. People across the political spectrum are
chiming in with their condemnations of him. Nikki Haley has condemned him. In
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fact, it seems that the onlymajor political figure in the United States who
hasn't directly condemned him for it isDonald Trump. Donald Trump has I hesitate
to say he has a cozy relationshipwith Vladimir Putin, but he's spent a
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lot of time over the years praisinghim. I talked about that in plenty
of posts, but mostly if youwant, you can listen to my podcast
where I talk about America's Secret Police, about how Trump acted when there were
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protests in the final year of hispresidency, and how that and how his
actions mirrored those of people like Putinaround the world. Now, the only
thing that Trump has had to sayabout the Alexi Navali situation is that he
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sees himself as Navalni. Now,that's it's disgusting for him to say something
like that, but it's completely consistentwith his behavior in the past. He
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would constantly make statements about how he'sbeen treated worse than any president in history,
even considering that there have been presidentswho have actually been assassinated. So
it's not surprising that he would comparehimself to somebody who's been assassinated. Now,
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and when he when he compares himselfto Navali, he's talking, of
course, about his legal troubles.N Navalni was put in a kangaroo court
and he was convicted as a politicalprisoner, and he died in prison.
And Trump thinks, or rather claims, that that's what's happening to him,
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that his ninety one separate felony chargesare all just a political ploy by President
Biden to keep him from running foroffice again. It's not the same thing
at all. Trump is not apolitical prisoner, and for him to compare
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himself to somebody who was assassinated againis just plain detestable. But he doesn't
stop there. He he also thinksthat he made the statement recently at the
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Black Conservative Federation conference that that hesorry, it's hard for me to get
this out. He says that thefact that he's been falsely accused, that
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he's been arrested and mistreated and whatnot, as he says he has not been
falsely arrested, and he's not beenmistreated, but he says that all of
that makes it easier for black peopleto like him. He's, yes,
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he's comparing himself to black people now, saying that black people like him because
he's been mistreated by the justice systemtoo. Look, I don't have to
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get in I don't have to getinto the years and decades worth of racist
statements and actions that Trump has made, or how this is simply the latest
one. There have been plenty ofpeople who have already highlighted his frankly outrageous
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past with trying to establish himself assome kind of ally of the black community.
But let's come at this from anotherangle. Let's look at this from
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another point of view. He's comparinghimself to a political prisoner under Putin,
and he's comparing himself to black peoplewho have been unfairly targeted by police and
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unjustly treated by the justice system.So, in a sense, you could
say that he is acknowledging that thereare injustices in the American judicial system and
that what happened to Novall was Putin'sfault. But if he is saying those
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things, what is he doing aboutthem. As they say, actions speak
louder than words, and as Isaid in my podcast on about America's secret
police, Trump's actions are certainly noton the side of the people who have
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been protesting these injustices. The proteststhat took place in Trump's final year as
president, they were about George Floydand about how he was killed while in
police custody. What was Trump's responseto those protests. He sent federal troops
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in where they had no jurisdiction andhad them arresting people off the streets with
out due process. One person talkedabout how he was thrown into the back
of a van and then thrown intoa room for over an hour, and
all they asked him that whole timewas does he agree to waive his rights?
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And when he wisely didn't agree towaive his rights, they released him.
Trump was acting exactly the way Putinwas acting. Because Trump admires Putin,
He's not going to do anything tostand in Putin's way if he becomes
president again. He certainly didn't doanything to stand in Putin's way when he
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was president, and when Putin startedthe war in Ukraine, all Trump did
was praise him for coming up witha good pretext for starting it. He
talks about how, if he werepresident again, he could end the war
in a day. He never givesa single plan, by the way,
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for doing so. He never givesany sort of hint about how he would
end it, just that he canend it. And he also never gives
any plans for how he intends tohelp the black community. He says that
black people have been mistreated by thejustice system. What's his reform plan for
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the justice system? What are hisproposals for police reform, for prison reform?
His actions definitely speak louder than hiswords, which is saying something because
his words speak pretty loudly. Trumpis a racist, and for him to
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compare his legal battles to what blackpeople go through and what Alexi Navalni went
through, disgusting is just not astrong enough word for it. And then
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there was his speech at Seapack thislast week, the Conservative Political Action Conference.
It's a yearly event for conservatives.First, let me tell you a
little bit about Seapack in general.About a decade ago, aka the pre
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Trump era, you could say thatSeapack was hard right and still have headliners
like people like John McCain, whowas in two thousand and eight the Republican
nominee for president. You had peoplelike Mitt Romney speaking there, talking about
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conservative principles and how he would continueto fight for them whether he was president
or not. These are people whowouldn't even be called conservative now now.
Just this last week, on theother hand, sea Pack featured a man
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named Jack Pasobic, who is awhite supremacist who would probably be shocked to
learn that Trump sympathizes with the plightof black people in America. Jack Pasobic
at sea Pack called for finishing thejob of January sixth, twenty twenty one.
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He literally, in his words,called for the end of democracy.
And instead of being kicked off thisstage, people there simply said, Amen,
that's where Seapack is right now,that's the kind of conference that it
is. Now. Getting back towhat Trump said while he was there,
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A key moment from Trump's speech justyesterday was when he called this coming election
day judgment day for the people whotook over the US government. He said,
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November fifth, election Day will beour new liberation Day, but for
the liars and cheaters and fraudsters andcensors and impostors who have commandeered our government.
It will be their judgment day.And everyone cheered him on four years
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years ago while he was president,or even eight years ago when he ran
for president the first time, thiswould have simply been considered just more Trump
rhetoric. But after January sixth,twenty twenty one, after the insurrection,
after Congress was broken into by thousandsof people who were hunting down congressmen and
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senators who disrupted the peaceful transfer ofpower, which again a speaker at Seapack
literally promised to finish that job,any talk of judgment Day by Donald Trump
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should be taken with extreme concern byeveryone, especially after what exit polls in
the primaries have shown. Let's talka little bit about recent primaries and why
those why the exit polls from thoseprimaries are so troubling. First of all,
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New Hampshire, it had its Republicanprimary a month ago in January twenty
third, and Donald Trump won byabout fifty four percent. Nikki Haley came
in second with about forty three percent. Now she's his only real opponent left
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in the in the Republican primaries tobecome the Republican nominee for president. Now,
Nikki Haley is a former governor ofSouth Carolina, and South Carolina had
their primary just yesterday. Now,there's something about the exit polls, which
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are interviews conducted with people who votedin those primaries, is something that was
consistent between New Hampshire and South Carolina. These are two very different states.
They have different demographics, they havedifferent politics, but something that remained the
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same when voters were asked questions aboutthe votes they made and why. One
question is that was asked of themwas do you support or do you believe
rather that Joe Biden was legitimately electedpresident in twenty twenty and who did you
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vote for in the primary. Andpeople who believed that Joe Biden was legitimately
elected in both New Hampshire and SouthCarolina overwhelmingly voted for Nicki Haley. People
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who believe that Joe Biden won throughfraudulent means, who believe that he stole
the election, People like the oneswho stormed the Capitol on January sixth,
twenty twenty one. They overwhelmingly votedfor Donald Trump in both states. People
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who believed in the integrity of thetwenty twenty election voted for Nikki Haley,
and people who believe what Donald Trumphas been saying about the twenty twenty election
being stolen voted for Trump. Hissupporters are almost entirely made up of people
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who believe what he said about thetwenty twenty election being stolen. It wasn't,
but there are enough people who believeit was. That he won in
Nikki Haley's own state. These arepeople who cheer him on when he says
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things like it's going to be judgmentday for the people who stole the election.
These are people who say amen whensomebody talks about finishing the job of
January sixth. These people are inmassive numbers, numbers too big to ignore.
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We cannot simply allow this kind oflie, ye, this kind of
false claim about the election being stolento continue spreading across America, because the
more people who believe that the twentytwenty election was stolen, the worse it's
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going to get. After after thetwenty twenty election, like a couple of
weeks after, Donald Trump still refusedto to concede. Obviously, and I
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didn't know how bad it was goingto get, but I could already tell
just a couple of weeks after theelection that it was going to get really
bad. I posted on Twitter,which I'm not on anymore. At the
time, I posted that I believedan explosion was coming, literal and figurative.
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I believe in other explosions coming.I have that same feeling now that
I did back then. Donald Trumpis winning in every single primary and caucus
so far. And he's winning becausethere are enough people who believe the twenty
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twenty election was stolen from him tokeep voting for him. Even though he
has been impeached twice, even thoughhe was an objectively terrible president, even
though he is currently under indictment infour separate jurisdictions for ninety one separate felony
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counts, there are still enough peoplewho support him for him to possibly become
the Republican nominee again for president.Now they're about there was another There was
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another statistic. I think something likethirty percent of people who voted in South
Carolina said that if Trump was convictedon a felony that they wouldn't vote for
him as president, he would beunfit to serve as president. But as
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you can probably guess, all ofthose people voted for Nicki Haley and she's
not going to be the nominee.Now, there may be enough of them
they may hold true in November andnot vote for Trump. But him not
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being president is only one major disasterthat I'm hoping to avoid. Him being
Joe Biden being re elected is onlyone. Is only one goal that this
country should have. Preventing another Januarysixth definitely should be another goal that The
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response from people at sea pack tohis speech, the response that people have
to the lies that he continues totell years later about the election being stolen
from him, It should concern allof us. Other things happened this week,
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But I think that's a good placeto stop. I'm getting I'm getting,
you know. Anyway, Thank youfor listening. I'll talk to you more later
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