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March 8, 2023 - Jim Fetzer
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, joined today by Brian Davidson in Houston, Texas.
I had a couple of biopsies on my forehead, which explain the cap I'm wearing to spare you the sight.
Owen was unable to join us today at a last minute conflict.
We begin With the latest from Ukraine, the fall of Bakhmut.
Is this a prelude to the fall of Ukraine?
The answer is, I guarantee you, yes, it is.
This is the end of the line.
Limited shelf life, Russia's long grind to take the strategically vital city is nearing the end, cleanup and capture of abandoned Ukrainian units still inside the city priority task.
While Bakhmut is not as economically important as Mariupol, which fell to the Russians last May, it is geographically significant.
Ukraine has fought desperately to hang on to it.
Wagner Group announced that the Ukrainian troops had completely retreated from the eastern shore.
In addition, a withdrawal from the rest of the city along secondary roads where they've left open one way to gain exit from the city.
Pay close attention, Zelensky having soldiers sign a Ukrainian flag he's going to present to Nobody will give up Bakhmut.
We will fight as long as we can.
We consider Bakhmut our fortress.
We will fight as long as we can.
- Have no doubt it's all over.
Bakhmut marks the second time that the start of the special military operation in Ukraine would not have been able to hold a comrade-in-arms in a Russian attack or to mount a counter-offensive.
Just as the Chechens did in Mariupol, the Wagner Group was a spearhead of the Russian attack in Bakhmut.
We have more going on here, but I believe this really is the end of the line for Ukraine.
Brian, your thoughts?
Oh yeah, it's time for Ukraine to settle this out.
This is needless.
Death all over the place.
Russia's got a massive army that just won't quit.
They're fighting harder, they're fighting better, they've got better weapons.
They're smoking them.
They've got to end this for the people's sake.
All the poor mothers, all the poor families that have lost children over this ridiculous pissing match.
It's got to stop.
And to send Americans over, absolutely foolish.
Ukraine's losing their asses in this thing.
Everybody knows it.
All the forums are talking about it.
This is bad.
They've got to end this.
Brian, you're absolutely right.
And, you know, one of the signs that it's all over is the fact that it was old men and children who were on the front lines where their average life expectancy was four hours.
Meanwhile, Russia explains it suspended the New START Treaty because the U.S.
helped Ukraine attack strategic sites.
The START Treaty is the last nuclear arms treaty between the U.S.
and Russia, limiting the Department's deployment of warheads and launchers.
The situation was further escalated by U.S.
attempts to probe the security of Russian strategic facilities declared under the new START by helping the Kyiv regime to carry out armed attacks upon them.
In December, Ukrainian drones targeted the Ingolstadt airfield deep inside Russian territory, which houses Russian strategic bombers.
Ukraine won't be able to target Russian infrastructure without help from the United States.
We know those attacks would never be possible in the absence of a very deep and sophisticated assist from the U.S.
The Russian diplomat said even though Russia suspended its participation in START, it would keep its nuclear deployments within the limits of the treaty.
He warned that U.S.
support for Ukraine could lead to a direct clash between the nuclear powers, which we've all known and been very concerned.
Meanwhile, the German defense minister admits Germany is unable to defend itself.
We have no armed forces capable of defending Germany against an offensive, brutally waged, aggressive war, say, such as what Ukraine has experienced with Russia.
The Defense Minister asserted the German military has been ignored by the federal government, resulting in inadequate staffing and equipment.
To meet NATO standards, he suggested Germany must enhance its military investment.
The primary mission of NATO, of course, of which Germany is a key member, is to ensure the security of its member nations, accomplished through a variety of means, including a strong military presence in Europe, military exercise and training, and intelligence sharing and cooperation.
NATO also is intended, but I think this is Merely a doctrine and has no significance whatsoever to promote democratic values and institutions including the rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, NATO has played a significant role in promoting peace and stability since its founding in the wake of World War II.
NATO served as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
NATO, however, in recent years has faced a number of challenges, including tensions between member countries concerned over NATO's role in the Middle East, the rise of new threats like cyberattacks and hybrid warfare.
According to German officials, however, the country's military not only can't contribute much to NATO, but cannot even defend itself.
The commander and highest-ranking officer of the German Army, Lieutenant General Erich von Speer, stated last week the 100 million euros pledged by Chancellor Scholz would be insufficient to ensure the country's armed forces were prepared for battle.
The Army I have the duty to lead is more or less bare, he was quoted as saying.
He made the statement just hours after Colonel Andre Wuesner, chairman of the German Armed Forces Association, revealed that only 30% of the roughly 300 Leopard 2 tanks in Germany's inventory are actually operational.
Despite a concerning defense situation at home, Germany has been offering significant aid to war-torn Ukraine for over a year now.
According to the country's leading defense contractor, the German government has given two cutting-edge air defense systems to Ukraine originally designed to safeguard Berlin.
Very embarrassing, very bad.
Without Germany, NATO is a paper tiger.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, I'm going to say this, that Trump was right.
I don't see a need for NATO.
I don't see why NATO is important.
If it's really doing its job.
Now, they aren't.
Okay, there are atrocities happening all over this world, and NATO doesn't seem to be saying or doing anything about it.
Think about some of the human rights issues that have developed in China, in Africa, Think about what Bill Gates and the vaccines and the Gates Foundation have done in Africa.
And NATO has nothing to say about it.
They're sold out.
Donald Trump was right.
We need to get out of NATO.
We need to break loose from NATO.
And NATO's not doing anything to help Germany protect itself.
Germany's got its own struggles and its own problems.
I understand that.
That's the nature of the beast when you're like Germany in terms of how they run their government.
I think NATO's got to go.
I'd like to see them peacefully dissolved and let every country fend for themselves.
And I don't see a need for NATO.
I don't see a need for the big fees to be in it.
Trump tried to get us out.
And the fact of the matter is that the growing economic and commercial relation between Russia and Germany, we're going to Usher in a new era of peace and create an economic superpower in Europe using the natural resources of Russia combined with the industrial power of Germany.
But now that that has all been sabotaged by the sanctions and policies of the West, including the destruction of the Nord Stream, Russia is appropriately looking to the East And we'll now share its vast natural resources with China.
They've become the new super economic power and center of the world.
Brian, this has all backfired massively on NATO and the West, and we brought it upon ourselves.
Meanwhile, and this was a guy who spoke out against Trump in a way that appeared to be quite duplicitous, Alexander Vindman pitched a $12 million scheme to profit off of Ukraine war funds.
Why am I not surprised?
Retired Lt.
Col.
Vindman appeared to confirm a report saying he pitched a defense contract to the Ukrainian government for the tune of $12 million, likely to come from U.S.
taxpayers, to operate and report military equipment being used in the war.
Thanks for the advertisement.
I'm trying to get logistics in place to help Ukraine win the war and secure America.
Too late!
He claimed he was looking for a philanthropic contribution to get it going.
Reach out if you support the cause of democracy and U.S.
national security.
Hashtag faster project, he added.
Human Events Libby Eamons and Jack Russovic reported it had obtained documents showing that back in August, a 2022 Vinland, operating as CEO at Trident Support, gave a presentation to Ukraine on a Ukraine or Weapon Systems Sustainment Center To help address problems with repairing and maintaining equipment pouring into Ukraine from the West since a special military operation began on 24 February 2022.
He proposed an initial funding tab of 12 mil to act as a middleman between NATO weapons and Ukrainian forces.
Trainers would be highly experienced former soldiers or contractors from Iraq or Afghanistan.
Potential locations would be in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, if it proved impossible to set up in Ukraine.
Vindman's brother, Yevgeny, is a President of Trident International enlisted as a point of contact for the scheme.
Vindman, a Ukrainian immigrant to America, infamously worked with the U.S.
in television to launch an impeachment inquiry against then-President Donald Trump in 2019, claiming Trump had tried to use $400 million U.S.
military assistance for Ukraine as a quid pro quo to obtain dirt on Hunter Biden.
He was paid $80,000 a month to serve on the board of Burisma.
But after Burisma fell under investigation, then-Vice President Biden worked to get him fired and bragged about it at the Council on Foreign Relations.
After the aid had been put on hold, Trump, in a June 25, 2019, phone call, asked Zelensky to look into the matter.
There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that.
So whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great.
Vindman, listening in on the call, claimed that it was improper for Trump to make the request.
Shortly thereafter, an Intel official sought to file a complaint to the Intel Community Inspector General in Adam Schiff, took it public, falsely claiming he did not meet with the very official who had filed the complaint beforehand.
Trump was later acquitted by the Senate of any wrongdoing.
During the impeachment inquiry led by Schiff, Vindman testified he was offered by Ukraine to become its defense minister three times over.
He was mocked by military veterans after he demanded to be addressed as Lieutenant Colonel Vindman by then-Intel committee-ranking member Devin Nunes.
While Vindman appeared to confirm his proposal to the government of Ukraine, he also raised the prospect of suing for defamation over the article.
Breitbart unsuccessfully sought to reach Vindman for comment.
Meanwhile, Second Hunter Biden email from laptop with classified information has been uncovered that Hunter shared with Ukraine business colleagues.
More is coming.
The Biden crime family made millions in Ukraine, performing various criminal activities, including espionage.
The Gateway Pundit reported the Bidens were using classified information to benefit the Hunter Biden family business.
Brenda Devine provided one email that appeared to include classified material from the U.S.
government.
Columns up!
A curiously well-informed email about Ukraine, Russia, and the U.K.
on her Vine laptop is a thread that breaks the President's classified document scandal to the Delaware federal investigation into his son's foreign business dealings.
The Gateway Pundit determined information from the 22-point email came from the U.S.
Department of State and was classified.
This is not the first time Hunter had access to classified data.
Today we have another showing more Biden crime family events.
The second shows Hunter had access to classified information and used it to the Biden family's financial advantage.
We have more coming, but Brian, I mean, this is just all embarrassingly bad.
It's so blatant, and it was all buried by the mainstream prior to the 2020 election.
Well, these people feel entitled.
I mean, they've played their role.
Look at Vindman.
He called Trump a Putin puppet, and he claimed that he was a whistleblower about the phone call, and he played his role absolutely to the hilt.
It doesn't surprise me.
That now he's looking to cash in with some scheme to service to try to get a contract.
Remember, he was kicked out of the military.
Vindman is worthless.
And now he wants to try to leverage his left-hand leanings and all of his connections in the left-hand military world to try to get contracts to go care for military equipment?
Surprise, surprise.
Same story with Hunter Biden.
So what?
These people use their positions To gain influence and power and money.
They all want to be wealthy.
Again, it's all they're going to get.
That's all they're going to get out of this world is whatever they can get.
There's nothing to live for when you're this much of a cretin as these guys.
So they might as well cash out as much as possible.
Hunter Biden's exactly the same thing.
And nobody cares in Washington.
Look, look, we've had all this discussion about January 6th.
Okay, now Tucker Carlson comes out with his big thing.
Breaks the whole thing wide open.
We all knew it the whole time.
Do you think the media cares?
Does the rest of the media want to talk about Tucker Carlson's expose on January 6th?
They don't care.
People don't care.
Go look at Facebook.
It's only the conservatives that are outraged.
The lefties, they don't care.
They have no character.
They have no character.
And this is just the perfect example of what happens when you're a part of the swamp machine.
Alexander Vindman trying to raise $12 million to get a contract.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
I guess he's entitled to it because of his outstanding work submarining Donald Trump.
That's right.
That's right.
He believes he's entitled for trashing Trump, which is all the Democrats can do.
They fear him, as they have feared no other politician in American history.
They are lying!
Tucker Carlson reveals new details from the exclusive January 6 video footage.
Very significant.
Fox News host said his show will air in January 6 footage this week.
It began last night.
Claiming it'll show federal and congressional officials are lying.
The defenders of democracy are defending democracy again, the Fox host said.
They're telling you it's really, really dangerous.
That anyone would get to see the thousands of hours of surveillance footage, which had been hidden from the public for two years, as a tiny group gets to make up stories about what happened that day and change the country on the basis of those stories.
How does that work exactly, he asked?
Well, it's not democracy, of course.
It's building a bulwark against your lies being revealed.
And they are lying.
And we know that because we've been looking at the tape.
In a March 3rd follow-up post, Tucker wrote that the results of our investigation will air Monday and Tuesday night on FOX.
He would not provide further details about what's been hidden from the public.
It was confirmed by Speaker McCarthy That he provided the Foxhose with more than 41,000 hours of January 6th security footage, granting Tucker exclusive access.
He said, thereafter, the footage will be released to the public.
The move to only give Fox the footage drew criticism from Democrat lawmakers as well as some conservatives.
A handful of corporate media sent letters and demanded access to the footage.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Sunday told CNN on the show State of the Union, there's no indication U.S.
Capitol Police have vetted that footage, said DeCarosa.
It's my hope and expectation that will absolutely occur.
Last month, CEO Mike Lindell announced on CNN that he would file a lawsuit against McCarthy to acquire the footage, claiming only providing it to Fox injures his new network, Lindell TV, and that McCarthy is violating his, Mike Lindell's, constitutional rights.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer, of course, criticized McCarthy for what he said was needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9-11 and giving the footage to Tucker.
Responding to the criticism, McCarthy told the New York Times he released the footage that had been promised to Republicans.
I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public.
I think Sunshine lets everyone make their own judgment.
The House Speaker has also said the American public has a right to see what happened on January 9th, and that Democrats engaged in a partisan and improper witch hunt targeting Trump and former administration officials deserve exposure.
In the meantime, some House Republicans have signaled that Tucker and his team don't have unfettered access to the footage.
Representative Barry Loudermilk, for example, the head of the House Admin Subcommittee, told news outlets the committee is working with the Capitol Police and the House Sergeant-at-Arms to make sure no footage released poses a national security risk.
It's basically controlled access to be able to view tapes.
Can't record, can't take anything with you.
Then they will request any particular clips they may need, and we'll make sure there's nothing sensitive, nothing classified to escape.
Meanwhile, Loudermilk said Fox News staff may request any particular clips they need.
In the future, news outlets will gain access to the tapes, hopefully sooner rather than later.
I think we're talking about weeks rather than months.
Here's an early report.
These are the pictures you've seen of January 6th.
They're familiar because they've been playing on a loop on every media outlet in America for the last two years.
There's a reason for that.
But it turns out there's quite a bit of video you haven't seen.
And that video tells a very different story about what happened on January 6th.
More than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from in and around the Capitol have been withheld from the public.
And once you see the video, you'll understand why.
Taken as a whole, the video record does not support the claim that January 6th was an insurrection.
In fact, it demolishes that claim.
And that's exactly why the Democratic Party and its allies in the media prevented you from seeing it.
By controlling the images you were allowed to view from January 6th, they controlled how the public understood that day.
They could lie about what happened, and you would never know the difference.
Those lies had a purpose.
They created a pretext for a federal crackdown on opponents of the Uniparty in Washington.
Our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe, that we could charge as many people as possible.
The first thing you notice from viewing the full video record of January 6th is just how many people entered the Capitol building that day.
Hundreds and hundreds of people, possibly thousands over the course of about two hours.
The crowd was enormous.
A small percentage of them were hooligans.
They committed vandalism.
You've seen their pictures again and again.
But the overwhelming majority weren't.
They were peaceful.
They were orderly and meek.
These were not insurrectionists.
They were sightseers.
Footage from inside the Capitol overturns the story you've heard about January 6th.
Protesters queue up in neat little lines.
They give each other tours outside the Speaker's office.
They take cheerful selfies and they smile.
They're not destroying the Capitol.
They obviously revere the Capitol.
They're there because they believe the election was stolen from them.
They believe in the system.
Here's the man you've heard referred to as the QAnon shaman outside the Senate chamber.
These are not rioters.
These are people who wandered over from a political rally.
We will not let them silence your voices.
After the rally, they walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, where organizers had secured a federal permit to hold a legal rally on the grounds of the Capitol.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Once at the Capitol building, things began to get chaotic.
Capitol police officers fired tear gas into the crowd.
A few at the front of the herd broke windows.
Someone opened the doors, and many hundreds of others just walked in.
They're gonna make that the story!
Of course, they did make it the story.
And at the center of it, the single most famous person arrested that day was a Navy veteran from Arizona called Jacob Chansley, often referred to as the QAnon Shaman.
The so-called QAnon Shaman.
QAnon Shaman.
Someone named Q Shaman.
Jacob Chansley became the face of January 6th, a dangerous conspiracy theorist dressed in outlandish costume who led the violent insurrection to overthrow American democracy.
For these crimes, Chansley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, far more time than many violent criminals now receive.
What did Jacob Chansley do to receive this punishment?
To this day, there is dispute over how Chansley got into the Capitol building.
But according to our review of the internal surveillance video, it is very clear what happened once he got inside.
Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape.
The tapes show that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley.
They helped him.
They acted as his tour guides.
Here's video of Chansley in the Senate chamber.
Capitol Police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him.
We counted at least nine officers who are within touching distance of unarmed Jacob Chansley.
Not one of them even tried to slow him down.
Chansley understood that Capitol Police were his allies.
Video shows him giving thanks for them in a prayer on the floor of the Senate.
Watch.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for Any inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us in this building?
Contrast the reality of what Jacob Chansley did in the Capitol building on January 6th, the indisputable facts recorded on video, some of which has never before been seen, with the depiction of Jacob Chansley that you've seen in the media for more than two years.
He's a terrorist, they said.
He should be killed.
Shoot him!
Shoot him!
Like, if it, you burst into the United States Senate, if he was dressed like Bin Laden, would you have shot him?
Shoot him!
Shoot him!
It makes you wonder, who are the violent extremists here?
Not Jacob Chansley.
And the video proves that.
But you would never have known from the media coverage.
The people sitting in the chairs need to be sitting in a jail cell.
Chansley is in a jail cell.
He's been there for months.
If he was, in fact, committing such a grave crime, why didn't the officers who were standing right next to him place him under arrest?
Until now, no one could even prove that even happened.
But it did.
And I gotta say, Brian, I've been looking to see how the mainstream's gonna respond.
Here we can tell.
NBC.
Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts January 6th riot as a peaceful gathering.
Stunning.
Stunning stuff.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, it's Mitch McConnell that I've got a problem with here.
Look, we know what the Democrats are.
But now we're beginning to understand what the Uniparty is and what the RINOs are.
37 minutes ago, The Hill released an article that Mitch McConnell says Fox News made a mistake by depicting January 6th as a largely peaceful, if chaotic, protest.
A revision of history.
So Mitch McConnell was in on it.
Now, Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky.
And my understanding is that Donald Trump has called for him to be primaried on truth social.
And I think that there is a retired Air Force guy that's going to be going up against him in Kentucky.
And nothing would make me happier than to see this old establishment, traitorous dog, Mitch McConnell, go down for the count.
He's no better than Nancy Pelosi or Harry Schumer.
As a matter of fact, I think he is a member of the Black Eye Club.
I can't remember if he is or isn't.
But Mitch McConnell has got to go.
There isn't a bigger problem in America right now, in my opinion, than Mitch McConnell.
This guy is causing all sorts of problems, very quietly, but very powerfully, in D.C.
And I blame Mitch McConnell.
This fake stuff, all these people that fell for it, all these nutty leftists that fell for it, listened to their MSNBC, they fell for it, they were looking down their nose at me like I was some sort of weird, useless conspiracy theorist.
The whole thing was fake.
And I believe the Ashley Babbitt thing was fake as well.
The whole thing staged right from the beginning.
Look at this, he got Capitol Police escorting this guy around.
He's supposed to be some sort of terrorist.
Tucker Carlson comes out and lays it out.
Boy, I wonder how they're going to respond to him.
Look what they did to Project Veritas after they busted open with Pfizer.
Now this guy's busted open on January 6th.
But again, you have to look at it like this.
It's still the media.
It's Tucker Carlson.
It's still propaganda.
So I guess the question is, what shiny object are they going to flash at us right now to get us off of what's really going on?
And what is really going on?
Chemical spills all over the place.
Crashes, burning buildings, food supply disruptions, transportation problems all over the place.
Inflation.
The economy's going to hell.
Oh, and now the U.S.
Special Ops wants to weaponize deepfakes, according to The Intercept.
The Pentagon's Secret Operations Branch is seeking capabilities to deploy next-generation deepfakes and information warfare to hack the Internet of Things.
Think of what these people are going to be doing to us.
We have to stop Mitch McConnell.
We have to stop the RINOs.
He has to be primary, and we need new leadership to fight this machine.
Brian, you're 100% correct.
I couldn't agree more, and it's indispensable to that effort to get rid of electronic voting machines once and for all.
We must return to paper ballots and hand counts, or they can continue to steal one election after another.
Meanwhile, Trump is promising a quantum leap forward for a new America.
Former President Trump has revealed his dream for a new America, promising to bring back the country's boldness in a very big way, heralding a quantum leap in living standards.
Past generations of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects that once seemed absolutely impossible.
They pushed across the unsettled continent, they built new cities on the wild frontier, transforming American life with the interstate highway system, launching a vast network of satellites into orbit.
But today, our country has lost its boldness.
Under my leadership, we'll get it back in a very big way.
If you look just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable.
How good it was, how great it was for our country.
Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living.
That's what will happen.
Pointing out a third of the American landmass is owned by the federal government.
He noted a very small portion of that land, amounting to one half of one percent, could be used to hold a contest to charter up to 10 new cities and award them to the best proposals for development.
In other words, We'll actually build new cities in our country again.
These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, give hundreds of thousands of young people, hardworking families a new shot at home ownership, and the American Dream.
The big opportunity Trump cites is in the transportation sector.
In the U.S.
and China, numerous companies are racing to develop vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
In the last century, it was the U.S.
that led the automotive revolution.
I want to ensure that America, not China, leads the revolution in air mobility.
These breakthroughs can transform commerce, bring a great infusion of wealth into rural America, and connect families in our country in new ways.
An American company engaged in vertical takeoff vehicle development at California-based UIST announced it had secured $450 million in funding from Boeing.
Meanwhile, San Jose-based Archer Aviation received $10 million from United for 100 electric aircraft and landing air taxis.
Trump also proposed a strategic national manufacturing initiative to ensure forgotten communities are turned into hives of industry, that they will produce goods the U.S.
will no longer have to import from China.
The American manufacturing sector is currently struggling through challenges like inflation, talent scarcity, supply chain problem, and economic uncertainty.
But most of all, NAFTA brought to us compliments of Bill Clinton.
Russ Perot warned us that giant sucking sound was all those jobs going south.
Manufacturers continue to grapple with talent challenges that may limit the industry's growth momentum.
Moreover, supply chain issues, including sourcing bottlenecks, global logistic backlogs, cost pressure, and cyberattacks, will likely remain critical challenges in 2023.
Trump also promised to introduce a major initiative to lower the cost of living, especially reducing the cost of a new car and of building single-family homes.
Annual inflation has remained about 6% every single month since October of 2021.
New vehicle inflation above 5% every month since June of 2021.
The median sale price of homes in the U.S.
hit $467,000 in the first quarter, up 10.4% from the same period a year back, where the U.S.
is estimated to be facing a shortage of 3.8 to 5 million homes.
Trump also intends to ask Congress to support baby bonuses.
He promised to carry out a great modernization and beautification campaign to get rid of ugly buildings, refurbish public spaces and parks, ensure a pristine environment, make cities and towns more livable, and build towering monuments to our true American heroes.
Very importantly, I will also make sure all these new places are safe.
We love and cherish our police.
They will do the job the way they have to.
It's time to start talking about greatness for our country again.
I will dramatically increase living standards and build a future that brings our country together through excitement, opportunity, and success.
Brian.
Well, if anybody can do it, I would put my money on Trump being capable of bringing it around.
The fundamental problem, though, is that we've got to have an education system that supports building actual talent into actual Young people that are going to grow up and become the new generation of the workforce.
So something has to change and I believe it starts in the schools.
The public education system has to be completely routed and gutted and rebuilt from the ground up to teach people important things.
Columbia University just said that they weren't going to do standardized tests anymore for graduates.
So apparently they're seeing the need to lean towards the trade At the talent in the workforce, I can tell you that this is something that was tried by another leader at one point in time.
His name was Muammar Gaddafi.
He tried it.
Free electricity, homes for everybody.
He tried it.
He did everything he possibly could.
The world's largest irrigation project, also known as the Great Man-Made River.
He did some great, great things.
They took him out.
Cheap gas.
Government controlled banking.
Rising level of education.
All of those things are very, very important.
But I don't believe that we have a workforce that's capable of supporting that type of work and that type of vision.
It's got to start in the education system.
It has to be changed or you're not going to have the talent to be able to hold those endeavors together.
Brian, those are very telling observations.
I agree with you completely.
Meanwhile, the New York Police Department want businesses to require customers to remove masks so they can identify criminals when they commit the crimes that are running rampant in Manhattan.
The New York PD is advising businesses to ask patrons to take out their masks before entry in light of the high number of thefts and robberies across the city.
Removing face masks should be made a condition of entry, said NYPD Chief Jeffrey Mandry, noting criminals have been taking advantage of masks to avoid detention on surveillance cameras.
People are coming up to our businesses sometimes with masks, sometimes hoods, latex gloves.
They are being buzzed in.
They're being allowed to enter the store and then we have a robbery or property being stolen.
We're asking businesses to make this a condition of entry.
That people, when they come in, they show their face.
They should identify themselves.
And if they feel like they want to put their masks on after they identify themselves for their own safety, by all means, they should do so.
Prior to the pandemic, most businesses would block customers from entering wearing masks.
But taking in masked customers is now a way of life.
Since the pandemic.
This is a way of life for us, where people wear masks regularly, but we're seeing it being used too much as a ruse to enter into businesses and victimize them.
We need our businesses to be proactive and do due diligence.
We need to make sure people are identifying themselves.
The advice comes as Mayor Eric Adams admitted, a shoplifting epidemic is forcing Chain stores that close down, costing retail workers their jobs.
People who say that we're criminalizing the poor, they're wrong.
You made the case for billions in additional state funding for a city.
Poor and low-income New Yorkers are being unemployed because we're losing those businesses in our cities.
We're losing chain stores that are closing down.
People who are being employed are losing their jobs.
They're adding to our unemployment.
The surge in shoplifting has prompted some owners to take action on their own.
The 34th Street Partnership, a trade group of small businesses in midtown Manhattan around Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, has hired canine units to snip out shoplifters.
According to an analysis of data by the New York Post, there were 63,699 reports of shoplifting Along with retail-related larcenies and robberies in 2021.
43,675 in 2022.
Meanwhile, Columbia becomes the first Ivy League school to permanently drop standardized exam requirements.
I did my third year of graduate work at Columbia in the Department of Philosophy.
This is very distressing to me.
Columbia became the first Ivy League school to permanently drop standardized test requirements for undergraduates.
The post-secondary institution announced a policy change for Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor, Students are still optionally permitted to submit their standardized test scores, but let me just observe.
It was never the case students were defined by a single factor, ever.
Our review is purposeful and nuanced, respecting varied backgrounds, voices, and experience to best determine an applicant's suitability for admission.
We have designed our application to afford the greatest possible opportunity and flexibility for students to represent themselves fully and showcase their academic talents, interests, and goals, which I would add was always the case in the past.
Ivy University first implemented test-optional admission policies for certain incoming classes in the wake of government lockdown mandates.
Which made it difficult for some students to take entrance exams like the SAT and the ACT.
Several schools have nevertheless continued to accept application without standardized exam scores.
Penn, for example, has extended test-optional admissions through the 2023-2024 application cycle.
Cornell, To 2024, 2025, Harvard, and Princeton.
To 2025 and 2026.
Soon to apply to Columbia and to decline to submit application with standardized tests will not be disadvantaged.
We will continue to evaluate all submitted information within an individualized application review process that considers a unique combination of circumstances shaping each applicant's journey.
The phenomenon extends beyond undergraduate admissions.
The American Bar Association endorsed dropping the LSAT last year as an admission requirement for law schools.
I gotta add an act of colossal stupidity.
Even as admissions at prominent universities are dropping these requirements, the College Board, which administers the SAT, Now, students who take the exam will now have more time for each question.
As a test, it replies to be easier and shorter.
Scores for the ACT have reached their lowest average in three decades, a phenomenon that corresponds with dismal learning outcomes during school lockdowns.
Reports of cheating and declined standards have meanwhile emerged from the nation's universities as institutions end remote learning arrangements and return to conventional instruction.
Universities often eliminate standardized testing requirements to advance purported racial equity.
The permanent end of required standardized exams at Columbia occurs as a Supreme Court may rule against affirmative action, whereby universities promote individuals of various minority groups and admission processes.
Numerous studies have highlighted the disadvantages faced by Asian and white applicants as universities seek to reserve places for Black and Hispanics.
One study from 2009 concluded Asians required a SAT score about 140 points higher than white applicants, 270 points higher than Hispanic, 450 points higher than blacks, according to a report from the Asian American Coalition for Education.
Brian.
Well, the first story was about masks.
So we'll talk about masks at education.
Um, they used to punish slaves by putting masks on them when they were disobedient.
That was how they punished them.
Um, I am a staunch opponent of masks for General use.
I think it shows, it's our way of showing society that we are submissive sheep and I don't want society to ever believe that about me.
I am, I know exactly who I am and exactly what I am and I don't and wouldn't under any circumstances put a mask on my face.
Maybe in a medical situation where other people in the room expect it.
But I remember being chastised after walking out of the hospital after a heart attack, lucky to have my life, and some doctor stopped me in the hall and told me to put on a mask.
I'll tell you how I felt about him.
I was thankful that I had my life, but I wasn't going to put a mask on for him.
I walked right out of that hospital and I didn't bother with the mask.
Nobody gave me a hard time about it.
This is Texas.
People, nobody wears masks anymore except the obviously brainwashed.
There's still two or three percent in the community that will do it, but not around here.
Just nobody.
It's better for communication.
When I have to communicate with the person at the clerk at the store, it's better for everything not to have a mask.
And I can't imagine a parent who would put a mask on a child.
To me, it's just indicative of the type of mentality that would Support a January 6th narrative as, you know, terrorism.
The second story about education.
Hey, look, it's no longer about what we are.
It's about our identity.
And I hate to say that, but the color of your skin means a lot more than your education level.
Um, and I believe that an education is something that one must get on their own.
I believe you can get more education down at the library with a 10 cent book card than you can sitting through all the classes in college at all.
I remember after coming out of college, I thought, I don't know anything.
I don't know anything.
So I started spending my days and evenings in Barnes and Noble when I was unemployed, trying to read books and get work.
I had to make myself smart in order to get a job and work.
So I think that a man is as educated as he wants to be, just as he is as happy as he wants to be.
And I think that we need to be free and we need to be confident.
And I think we need to take off them stupid masks and be done with that forever.
That's slavery.
Oberon, I agree completely, and having had 35 years in higher education, getting rid of standardized tests is simply absurd.
Meanwhile—and this is an extremely distressing story—why do 30% of girls want to die?
When I was a young woman, modern feminism was on the ascendancy.
We were strong.
We were invincible.
We could look forward to careers competing with men in the workplace, above all.
And this was critically important.
We insisted on being regarded for our brains, not our bodies.
Gone were the days when women were viewed as irrational, emotional creatures, unable to withstand the stress of the workplace.
We have transcended our lady parts and emerged as purely intellectual creatures.
Or, so the theory went.
In practice, of course, things didn't go quite that smoothly.
Those women who truly were career-minded settled into their vocations, clawed their way to the top.
Those less competent and presumably unable to compete became radical feminists raging against the unfairness of the patriarchy.
Crucially, these radical feminists found a one place they could dominate education.
What's the old line?
Those who can do, those who can't teach?
Whether in K-12 or at the university level, these ladies found themselves in the enviable position of indoctrinating the next generation of children and young adults into their unorthodox theories.
Having been in charge of education for the last several decades, the fruit of their radical teaching is now becoming apparent.
According to CDC data from 2021, almost 6 out of 10 girls felt persistently sad or hopeless.
The highest numbers ever recorded.
And it gets worse.
Consider this tragic column by Auguste Merat.
Trained to hate their sex and selves, one in three teen girls now consider suicide.
These statistics reflect an increase of 60% from just a decade ago.
What's especially troubling about this report is how it runs counter to today's conventional wisdom, notes my rat.
After all, our society allegedly celebrates women more than ever and offers abundant opportunities to girls.
Furthermore, women are doing much better than men in some crucial areas, outnumbering them at colleges and in the workplace.
Moreover, strong female protagonists abound in popular movies and television shows.
Women have more representation in politics and sports.
Schools continually push girls to achieve and break glass ceilings.
No longer do girls live in a world where they're expected to find a husband, have children, and submit to lifelong domestic drudgery.
They can do anything.
In all events, however, the underlying message, young girls, is clear.
No matter what, they're not good enough.
They're not pretty enough, smart enough, popular enough, witty enough.
Yes, being a girl is no longer enough.
Maybe they chop off their lady parts and replace them with man parts.
That will all change.
Forget brains!
They must be disregarded at worst and rebolted into the opposite gender at best.
Gone is the quaint old-fashioned feminism that merely discouraged girls from being homemakers.
Gone are the days when girls were told they had to deny any biological urge toward motherhood and compete in the workplace as purely intellectual creatures matching men with their brains.
Now, the Radical Leftists are encouraging girls to complete in the workplace by becoming men.
And people wonder why teen girls are suicidal.
It's too much for vulnerable adolescents to handle.
I'm not going down the whole transgender rabbit hole, too big for one column.
Rather, I'm asking, why is it so bad to be a girl?
What are these girls learning in school that makes them hate themselves so much they want to die?
When did leftists become so anti-girl?
When did it become a bad thing for a girl to be happy she's a girl?
Why must her young mind be warped by lies that she's not good enough to reach her full potential unless she denies her biology or amputates her healthy lady parts?
What happened to the classic feminist mantra, that women must be regarded only for their brains, not their bodies?
This is the new generation of leftists, those who hate themselves, and want to spread that hate to the next generation.
Does this sound like a healthy attitude?
Of course not!
But these are the fruits of radical leftism in general, and toxic feminism in particular.
Self-hate and suicide.
And of course, if you argue with a cause, you're branded with the usual accusations.
Bigot.
Racist.
Whatever.
Whatever your views on these enormous issues, you must admit that fallout is tragic.
One-third of our girls should not be considering suicide.
Two-thirds should not be feeling persistently sad or hopeless.
Although, if the Left's goal is to reduce the human population on the planet, then having one-third of teen girls remove themselves from the gene pool is certainly consistent with their goal.
If these statistics are accurate, it means something has gone very, very much amiss in our society.
We need to reverse course and affirm that girls are just fine the way they are.
And all this doesn't even touch on what the Left is doing to the mental health of boys.
I sincerely hope the statistics from the CDC are wrong, and that's a gross exaggeration one-third of girls want to kill themselves because they've learned to hate what they are.
If those statistics are correct, now listen very carefully, then radical feminism, liberal wokeness, and every other toxic leftist agenda may take the blame for every life taken.
If this is true, Why did two-thirds of our girls want to kill themselves?
Why did two-thirds feel persistently sad or hopeless?
My rep doesn't pin the blame solely on toxic feminism.
She also attacks social media and the transgender movement.
Social media, she says, is dangerous for teen girls because of its addictiveness and promotion of unattainable ideals.
The transgenderism movement, too, argues that sex is fluid and that changing one's sex will make someone happier.
Ironically, according to a column by Alex Newman in the New America, the federal government suggests that government schools could and should be the solution to the crisis they have caused.
In reality, The escalating godlessness, immorality, humanism, and ever more extreme comprehensive sex education being forced on children in indoctrination-centered masquerading as public schools, almost certainly the primary source of the problem.
Any more of the same is tantamount to throwing gasoline on a deadly dumpster fire.
Brian.
Well, I'm not a woman.
It's difficult for me to understand what happens.
I have a 16-year-old daughter in the house who is quickly becoming a woman.
Matter of fact, she got her driver's license today.
She's a cheerleader.
If there is a fundamental problem that's causing this, I'm not certain that it's originating in the schools.
I think it's originating in the phones.
And I think that kids have access to far too many images of demeaning acts with their telephones, and I think it's damaging their psyches.
Secondarily, there is a very important role of the family that plays.
Remember the show Leave it to Beaver?
And watching June Cleaver at home raising the children and Ward coming home at night.
I mean, those were positive role models of how you raise a child.
And the child was always outside running around with his friends, not sitting in his bedroom on his phone listening to music or watching whatever Netflix series happens to be more entertaining today or tomorrow.
I think the toxic nature of the subtle pornography that we're allowing our children to view through their phones is what's really at the heart of the poison.
And unfortunately, it just becomes symptomatic by the time they get into schools.
That toxic nature of those images is beginning to develop and rise up.
Young people need to face their problems, they need to face their concerns, but most importantly, they need to be reassured by their parents, the men in their lives, and the women in their lives, that they can be complete, that they are flawed people, just like the rest of us, that they have made mistakes, and they will continue to make mistakes, and life is about learning and working your way through it.
And don't worry, just worry about the things you can change, and don't worry about the things you can't.
I think kids ought to be getting the guidance they need from home.
And in order to have a home life, moms need to be home.
So fundamentally, it's my position that I think women need to focus a lot less on the big educations and a lot more on the family.
Because the family is the most important thing.
When you start to get our age or get older, we look back, we don't matter anymore.
But our children really do matter.
Ryan, very well said.
I have no doubt that family is the core of a vibrant, healthy society.
Meanwhile, if you want further proof of things having gone amok, Commercial for Always Women's Paths Confuses Viewers features a person who appears to be a man.
You can see him, the second from the right.
What the hell is he doing in this ad?
A recent commercial for Always Women's Pads features someone who appears to be a man, leaving viewers confused about the advertisement for menstruation products.
A 15-second promotion for Always Infinity Pads with Plex Foam features either a man or a transgender man in a commercial in support of all bodies.
No two bodies are the same.
Some pads never got that message.
The commercial begins before promoting a product that fits all bodies.
But audiences are unable to pinpoint whether the actor in question is indeed a man or a biological woman posing as a man.
Reddit thread titled, Always Flex Phone, Do Men Use These?
asks, Why would a man ever be part of this demographic?
This isn't an inclusivity thing.
This is a, you're a biological man and have no need for this product thing.
Are you referring to the person in the purple shirt?
Is that just a tall, gangly female?
A commenter asks.
It's very clear that a biological woman who identifies as a man was cast in this commercial for the sake of inclusion, said Natasha Blaseos, a reporter and writer on women's issues.
Interestingly, this casting choice admits that only women can get their period.
Twitter users took a different perspective, criticizing the ad because the company hasn't gotten the effing message that not everyone who menstruates is a woman.
Maybe take the You-Go-Girl S-H-I-T off your pads and then get back to me.
The next day, another viewer claimed the actor was indeed a man.
So, oh, my God!
I just saw a TV ad for oil-flex foam pads that had a man in it.
Well, let's say a male, because I wouldn't call him a man.
Several ad campaigns for Always appear to be inactive, with error pages and missing videos, including the brand's Empowering Girls Through Education campaign, our epic Battle Like a Girl campaign, as well as its Hashtag End Period Poverty campaign.
A different company called Elle, which specializes in organic tampons, is currently running an ad campaign featuring a male content creator named Jeffrey Marsh.
Here we have a hashtag from Natasha Blase.
You gotta wonder if brands run campaigns like this knowing how stupid they are in an effort to go viral, because literally no woman is gonna buy tampons that are being promoted by a man.
I do agree with that.
I think the campaign is absurd.
Ryan, your thoughts?
Go woke, go broke.
You want to play that game with women?
Have at it.
Watch what happens to your brand.
Watch what happens.
You might get a little uptick just because of bad press is better than no press at all.
But in the long run, that is going to just offend The women that are the real consumer of tampons.
This is ridiculous.
The only thing a man would have a tampon for is a gunshot wound.
That's the only thing I can think of that a man would need to have a tampon around.
I've got a couple of them in my car just in case of gunshot wounds.
That's the only time I'm gonna bleed.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
And it's so offensive.
You know, women are very beautiful creatures.
Made that way for a purpose.
Incredibly attractive.
Curvy, wonderful creatures.
But, one woman, one man is the right way to go.
All the drama that comes with messing with this is a mess.
And I gotta admit, when I was young, I guess I was a bit of a bully.
I mean, I would never...
Beat up the girls at P.E.
or anything like that, because obviously girls deserved a lot of respect, and you just didn't touch them under any circumstances, I was afraid to, but when the boys came along and started acting like that, and they'd get out there on the football field, or out there on the baseball field, or whatever, I took no mercy on these people.
These girly boys.
I guess I have to admit I was a bully, because I absolutely taught them to be tough.
They had to be tough.
Well, Brian, I think that was part of their education and upbringing as men, so I cannot fault you for that.
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This is blockbuster stuff, friends.
Zero hudge.
They lied to us all.
Tucker exposed a January 6th fraud and kangaroo court cover.
On Monday night, Fox News Tucker Carlson dropped unseen footage from the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest, which revealed that the entire Democrat-Rhino-MSM narrative underpinning the event was a complete lie.
For starters, the surveillance footage showed Capitol Police calmly escorting the so-called QAnon shaman, Jacob Chansley, throughout the Capitol complex, even helped him find open doors.
The tapes show the Capitol.
Please never stop Jacob Chansley, said Carlson.
They helped him.
They acted as his tour guides.
Final thoughts.
Brian.
Well, I have a couple final thoughts here.
This one is a Reddit poster who just wrote from the heart here, and I want to read this post here because I found this very interesting.
Refuse the vaccine while pregnant.
My peers didn't and I'm seeing horrifying outcomes.
So she's saying that she refused to take the jab while she was pregnant.
She says, yes, it's anecdotal.
It is until it isn't.
I gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby who's now a toddler and meeting all the age appropriate milestones.
I was advised by multiple doctors in the midst of the vaccine hysteria to get jabs.
Get it for my safety, my child's safety.
I refused.
It was all bullshit.
I caught COVID twice after she was born.
She caught it once and we both suffered mild flu symptoms at its worst.
I have close friends who were coerced into double vaccination while pregnant.
Two have children with a delayed development, and the worst had her baby, who was barely six months old, as had been diagnosed with a rare cancer only ever seen in adolescents and up.
She's riddled with tumors, six months old.
They literally don't know how to treat it.
As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain.
It makes me sick to my stomach and breaks my heart.
I dread the next five to ten years when the effects of these debilitating drugs become blindingly obvious.
I'd rather be wrong.
I hope I'm wrong.
Edit.
I appreciate everyone's responses, and I understand this is a really emotionally fueled topic.
A lot of people have varying experiences when it comes to the vaccine, but I wrote this post after hearing about my friend's six-month baby.
I wasn't seeking an echo chamber, but there is comfort in shared experiences.
So, the horror and devastation, and the last final thought I have So the conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven, and he decides that he's finally going to get his answer.
So the conspiracy theorist marches up to God.
Okay, God, let me have it.
Who shot JFK?
God simply replies, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
The conspiracy theorist walks away and mumbles under his breath, wow, this goes way higher than I thought.
That's right, Brian.
Way higher than I thought.
Wonderful commentary today.
I think that this January 16th is going to be a revelation for most of the country who bought into the mainstream media narrative.
They're going to see the profundity of the collusion between the Democrat Party, which has disavowed, eschewed any commitment to democracy And what we're being told by the leaders of their party.
It is disgusting.
It's a revelation.
And I believe when it's over, the Democrat Party is going to have no credibility whatsoever.
But just as in the case of the election of 2020 and the midterm election of 2022, unless we can get rid of the electronic voting machines, The motto for which is changing the way you vote, it's not going to make a bit of difference whatsoever.
They're going to continue to keep stealing election and depriving us of our precious birthright, the right to vote, and to have an effect on the course of this nation's future.
Take it to heart.
We're undergoing a revelation now that's going to be so extraordinary, because most Americans who have allowed themselves to be played are going to realize now they have been duped, that they were the suckers, they were the saps, and it was the Democratic Party and its shenanigans that have worked here once again.
Spend as much time as you can with your family, friends, people you love.
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