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Feb. 28, 2022 - Louder with Crowder

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China is FUNDING Russia’s War Machine in Ukraine! | Louder with Crowder

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	🎵Nazi Fights by The Naked and Famous🎵 🎵Music🎵
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	🎵Music🎵 Nigger.
	Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
	President Trump and the demagogues around the world.
	But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
	We choose truth over facts.
	I want to be clear.
	I'm not going nuts.
	MINNESOTA!
	Did you ever hear that legend of that spooky dude?
	you Who?
	In cities across America, they whisper his name.
	Yeah, his name's something like, uh, like a candy.
	Rumor has it, if you say his name in a mirror five times, he appears.
	Yeah, you say his name five times in the mirror, he comes out and kills you.
	One, two, three, four, four.
	That's candy ass.
	I... Wait, hold on a second.
	Aren't you just that fat balding guy on CNN?
	Yes, it is I, heterosexual news anchor Brian Stelzer.
	Who can take an agenda, cover it in news, sprinkle it with lies and some misinformation too?
	The Candy Apps.
	The Candy Apps, damn.
	Oh god, no.
	I like girls.
	Some believed it was just a fairy tale.
	But they were wrong.
	Candy Apps.
	Ugh.
	What's so ooh about it?
	You're next, Twinkle Toes.
	No one is safe.
	Candy-ass.
	Ooh, this one's for you.
	Oh.
	I don't come for girls.
	Only women are safe.
	You don't have a brother, do you?
	Thank you.
	Candy ass, coming soon.
	Unless you're female Dot-com
	I I
	I I
	I Okay, I'm not out of breath
	I just had to run out and run back in.
	Really?
	Well, you know this.
	I was saying for you watching here right now, I had to run out and I ran back in.
	This is a big show.
	I was watching CNN, sorry.
	I was just engrossed.
	Wow, I'm amazed that you're still awake.
	We're going to be talking about seeing, I don't know, is Brian Stelter going to be fired?
	What?
	According to Brian Stelter.
	Ooh, fingers crossed.
	So, we have a lot to get to today.
	Look, Russia, Ukraine, I know it's one of those situations where you feel like there can be overload.
	Yeah, you can just leave it over there, Angela.
	Thank you, appreciate it.
	You feel like it's overload, but there is something going on right now that is concerning.
	A lot of people missing.
	We're going to be talking about it.
	Is driving Russia into the arms of China, who, by the way, are not natural allies.
	If you don't wipe someone out militarily, I'm not saying we should, but you just put on these economic sanctions, we kind of know what happens if you try to browbeat someone on the international stage economically.
	Yeah, especially somebody like Putin.
	Treaty of Versailles?
	Not well, come on.
	Journey of Versailles?
	They had to pay it back.
	They take it seriously.
	They take it seriously.
	But of course, this is Trump's fault, if you hear Mitt Romney tell her.
	Well, sure.
	Yep, Mitt Romney.
	Useless to the left and the right.
	So we'll be talking about that.
	Also be talking about the fact that, well, Brian Stelter's going to be fired.
	And I don't know if you know this, but they're developing a vaccine that can spread.
	A contagious vaccine.
	Yeah.
	So let me ask you this.
	Best thing you can do for the algorithm, if you're watching this archive, is comment below.
	So question of the day.
	We're going to have a few of them today.
	Do you think Russia will ever actually use nuclear weapons?
	Do you think there's any intent or do you think it's bluffing?
	This is something that people are discussing right now and they... Look, I think you know the answer, but apparently they don't on CNN.
	You have 15 different voices on this morning with 15 different opinions.
	Well, of course.
	I think maybe accidentally on themselves could be an answer, so...
	Right.
	They were like, oh, we launched at Ukraine, crap.
	Oh, we shouldn't have used Acme Nuke.
	It just come right back to us.
	I live long enough.
	Did not have warranty service plan.
	I live to ripe old age of 38, which in this area is very good.
	We live on vodka in Gdansk.
	Yes, it's for reincarnations for Russians.
	We got to Chernobyl, we're like, oh, can we go in?
	Is it really that bad?
	Does my thyroid look swollen?
	Just ask my twin, he's behind me, literally.
	Yes, yes, we are attached.
	I'll turn around.
	I've never seen back to- I've never seen stomach to spine twin.
	We have many in Russia.
	So best thing you can do, by the way, too, is if we're not allowed on YouTube anymore, especially as we talk about the vaccines today, that's one of those touchy subjects.
	Right.
	You can tune in on Rumble or Mug Club live Monday through Thursday at 10 a.m.
	Eastern.
	Nothing will make me happier than to see you go over there.
	We have another hour of show today.
	Also tomorrow, live fact-checking the State of the Union address.
	No idea how long that will be.
	Right, so we won't be there in the morning tomorrow, but we'll do the evening show.
	Right.
	We won't be doing it in the morning.
	Not doing double duty!
	Come on, guys!
	No, and I think there might be something going up Wednesday morning that's a pretty in-depth video about, uh... We'll see, yeah.
	Yeah, we don't necessarily know.
	What?
	Don't worry, it's about your background, Dave.
	Okay, I'll tease it for you.
	I have no idea how what was written by me under an alias as a clear parody was accepted as academic research, but it was, and we have it all filmed.
	That's better.
	And it's the silliest crap you could possibly imagine.
	Just in case you had any faith left in the institution of higher education.
	So I don't know if this is going up Wednesday, but it's an undercover thing.
	Whenever it goes up, period.
	Either way, we're getting sued by an angry, fat, lesbian whale.
	Which one?
	You mean the entire Schenectady College professor list?
	Take a number, ladies.
	Oh, before I go, Gerald, how are you?
	I'm well, how are you?
	I'm doing fine, I'm good, and Dave Landau is here, you know him, you love him.
	How are you, sir?
	Good, man, how about you?
	A little less sleep, but I'm good.
	All right.
	What happens?
	You don't ever sleep.
	Why do you sound like I don't sleep?
	I know, it's a problem.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It should be normal.
	You should just say, I slept, if it's something new.
	Yes, exactly.
	If it's atypical.
	Just update us.
	You could be like, oh, I slept eight hours.
	It was crazy.
	You'd be like, what?
	Or it's like, I slept three hours from the shakes and night terrors.
	We're like, we know.
	Yeah, normal.
	Oh, you know what?
	Unmuggable talk.
	I used to get really bad, like, actual night terrors.
	Did you really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yep.
	Really bad night terrors.
	I haven't had them in a while.
	I don't know.
	Did Credence play in your helicopters?
	Yes!
	No, I just had a night terror that I was perpetually at a Creed concert.
	Oh, no.
	With my mouth open, I'm like, stop!
	Was it like out-of-body crowd surfing?
	Right, yes.
	You couldn't wake up?
	My wife had to take the gun away at that point in time.
	That is hell on earth.
	Take the gun away because even in the night terror you can still hit the palm safe.
	You go to shoot, it's just another cord.
	Like this end of the scene in The Mist.
	Can you take me higher?
	Yeah, you hold the R longer.
	Yes.
	It's the worst gun ever.
	Almost as bad as our Nuke.
	Where is the Nuke?
	We need stricter manufacturing standards.
	Where's Creed Nuke?
	We've said no more Creed Kalashnikovs.
	What you want?
	Creed Nuke or Bush Nuke?
	Both sound the same.
	We also have Nickelback Moab.
	Yes.
	Don't want to do that.
	That's too much.
	No, no, no.
	Put audio sleeve revolver back.
	I don't like Ukraine.
	I don't hate.
	So speaking of higher education and this infiltration that we did, which I'm excited to release, right now let's show the results of public education here in the United States.
	Look, I don't want this to start as depressing off the bat, but look.
	It's called being an adult, and that means sometimes accepting realities that you don't like.
	And this is reality.
	Y'all saw a high school had a walkout today, and this Lillet girl had said this.
	I am so glad that years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, the first black man, ended slavery!
	Because if not, people would be whipped every day!
	Well, there you go.
	It's the thought that counts.
	They're trying, right?
	Can we play that again?
	Because what people may have missed is the black girl's reaction.
	Yeah.
	Everyone in the crowd was like, uh, we should send them back into school.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But then it'll just come out with more of this.
	Watch the black girl's reaction.
	You can see it in real time.
	Watch.
	Y'all saw a high school had a walkout today.
	And this Lillet girl had said this.
	I am so glad that years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, the first black man Here's the reaction.
	Here's the... Oh no.
	People are putting down cameras and signs.
	They're like, this isn't the right thing.
	You were only off by like 75, 85 years, something like that.
	You go to Martin Luther King Jr.
	High at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr.
	and Malcolm X Boulevard.
	Wrong century, lady.
	Oh, that is bad.
	Wow, I'm so glad my kid's in private school.
	If my son said that, I'd never hit a child, but I might.
	No, but then you hear John Oliver talk about, the real problem is charter schools because it's for profit.
	Oh my gosh, you mean they have educational standards that they have to uphold?
	Yeah, you mean maybe teachers get fired if one student thinks that Martin Luther King Jr.
	was the first human?
	Oh yeah, I love paying tons of money to send my kid to a private school because they're not doing the job at the other school.
	The one that I already pay taxes for.
	Right, yeah, this is thrilling.
	That was my idea, that you wanted to mask them on Zoom calls.
	double mask them and put up glass visors.
	I'd say yeah.
	Well, yes.
	Yeah.
	You're gonna stare at a screen all day.
	Don't worry.
	They're not gonna go to Minecraft or Mario Kart at any point during this.
	Right, yeah.
	They miss something.
	The Civil Rights Act.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Let me go to, let me go watch PewDiePie.
	That's how you know.
	It's not just that she said that.
	It's that she made it to the podium.
	Well, it's true.
	She was the best and brightest among them.
	Yeah.
	She's the Navy SEAL of, you know, public education byproducts.
	She thought it was Martin Luffa, the rest of them, and she's like, no guys, it's Martin Luther, I got this.
	Someone tackling her?
	That's not, that's what I, that's what I scrub my ass with!
	That's not a human!
	Martin Amistad.
	That's a Luffa!
	Yeah.
	I coral reef and shit!
	When Martin Luther King came over!
	Wait, now what?
	Oh my god, I want to go back to high school.
	I've said this before, I want to go back to school like Billy Madison and get the 4.0 I deserve.
	Out of 8 every test, if that is the standard.
	Not anymore, Dave.
	When Harriet Tubman helped the slaves escape on the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Malcolm X. Down that boulevard.
	Yep!
	They were Amtrak!
	I don't think any of that is correct.
	Are you sure?
	1492 Rosa Parks sailed the ocean blue.
	That's right!
	At the front of the ship.
	That's right.
	The roughest part, though.
	They were like, get off that.
	And that was Amistad.
	And then she killed all them Indians with COVID blankets.
	See?
	A-plus.
	A-plus.
	Don't you question me.
	I'm cultural.
	I got a dream catcher in my car and shit.
	Look at that, hanging from the mirror.
	And one tattooed on my thigh, like a lot of strippers.
	I can't figure that out.
	Doesn't look like you caught a dream at all.
	Looks like your dream is dead.
	Yeah, you know, but I don't know why I'm planning to fall asleep at the wheel.
	It's kind of a dick move.
	Yeah, that's what, yeah.
	You know, it always makes me feel great when I see a Dreamcatcher hanging from the mirror and an ambient bobblehead on the dashboard.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's like, clearly.
	I didn't know they made bobbleheads.
	That's weird.
	Well, they do, yeah.
	It's not good.
	Hey, what's that?
	Are those your, is that, what happened to your blinker button?
	Oh, I changed it to a Lunesta dispenser.
	Mmm, butterflies!
	I can go drive to Taco Bell and get high on benzodiazepines at 3 a.m.
	and not know I ate it.
	Hold on I gotta give a speech about civil rights.
	I'll be back.
	Well I guess you know what to be fair she might have taken notes from our former vice president.
	We got the first sort of mainstream frickin America who was articulate and bright and Clean, nice-looking guy.
	I mean, that's a storybook, man.
	Yeah.
	Well, he could have just ended it at first.
	Clean.
	I could have just not said anything.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty tough.
	Where it's like, if you want to say, like, articulate and it's like, all right, but then clean.
	Well, you know what?
	There's no way around that one.
	What?
	I always look for some way to defend what somebody meant.
	Yeah.
	Like the good.
	And I'm partway in.
	I'm like, there's just not even a pause.
	No, there's not.
	You have to be a beautiful mind to figure out what he meant.
	Yes.
	OK.
	He's like a shark.
	He can't move backwards.
	He can't back up his mistakes.
	He just keeps going further.
	He talks himself into a corner and then just keeps ramming into a corner like a bumper car.
	I can get out, I promise.
	Fucking black man that's articulate.
	That's good, Joe.
	Thanks for saying that.
	Thank you for that.
	Appreciate it.
	And by the way, that's the reason that Barack Obama made him vice president.
	Because he was like, if I pick the most racist man, and what I don't just mean as an implication, I mean unilaterally agreed upon as the most racist human being alive.
	Let's be clear.
	People think I'm tolerant.
	As a president, if you shoot me, that's what you're gonna get.
	You don't want that shit.
	I promise.
	That's why they call him Joe Fire Insurance.
	That was 90 chess and we just didn't even see it.
	Like, wow, you know what?
	He's better than the alternative.
	I remember when he said in his first speech, he said in his first speech, everyone knows you don't mess with Joe.
	So that's projecting, this is reverse psychology because that's all you do.
	Everything you do.
	He serves no purpose if not to be messed with.
	He knows the first black president and you're taking a risk.
	And he knew that was a bargaining chip.
	If you impeach me, you get Joe.
	And boy was he right.
	Now who's after in line for Joe?
	Hillary Clinton and then Robert Byrd.
	Oh, I think.
	Gigs up!
	Wait till you see who Joe asked you.
	It's crazy.
	Kamala.
	I don't even take her calls.
	Are you kidding me?
	He called TMZ and paparazzi when he was installing the wheelchair ramp for Joe.
	He was shitting his pants in 08.
	Dial in your scopes for about 300 meters of ramp.
	It has little elevator chairs.
	Now, now, now, now, dial in your scopes for about 300 years of ramp!
	It has a little, little, what is it called?
	Little elevator chairs?
	Oh, pudding dispenser?
	No!
	What are those chairs that are on the wheelchairs?
	Yeah, the stair chair, the stair climber.
	Yeah, it goes up.
	Oh, what do you call it?
	Yeah, it kills the old lady.
	Hover around.
	Yeah, it kills the old lady.
	Hover around.
	Well, I hope that doesn't happen.
	Yeah.
	Well, I guarantee you Joe would get stuck.
	Oh, yeah.
	He'd be right in the middle.
	Just halfway.
	There'd just be a trail of brown down the stairs.
	It's two buttons.
	Like, oh my gosh, why is he late for the State of the Union?
	He spent the last nine hours on the electric wheelchair ramp.
	Yeah, thank God he was buckled in.
	Tripped on a brick of Parmesan cheese walking into his house.
	Or guns hidden in the trash.
	All right, so here's something else, too, before we move on to Russian.
	Louis C.K.
	has canceled the February shows in Kiev.
	Why?
	Well, okay.
	Yeah, I mean, I would hope.
	I appreciate it.
	But thanks for the layup.
	They need humor.
	Because of bombs.
	Ah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Something about a Russian invasion, I have no idea.
	Wolverines forever, something like that.
	So tickets were actually being, they were sold at a 30% discount.
	Really?
	And he still just canceled them.
	Who's the idiot that was buying them at 30% discount?
	Yeah, Russia's about to invade, and he's like, hey, we should use comedy.
	It's good.
	Oh, they froze assets.
	This will be new currency.
	Shows to serial masturbator who's canceled America.
	It's a great idea.
	And actually, I think over the weekend, Louis C.K.
	was talking about this.
	I think they're re-airing it now.
	Oh, they're re-airing it now on CNN.
	Okay.
	Walt Blitzer.
	I got this one.
	Hello?
	Is this Louis CK?
	Yeah.
	Hi.
	We have reports that your show in Kiev is going ahead as scheduled in spite of the invasion.
	I am way not in the Ukraine.
	That is the exact opposite of where I am.
	I can't get a flight!
	You try to take off and they kill you.
	But it was reported on Twitter That the shows we're going ahead is scheduled.
	Oh, holy s**t. Some faggot went meh with his iPhone and you're like, I guess that's just a thing that's happening now.
	As of the other day, there were no changes on the venue's website.
	Because the guy whose job that is is dead now.
	He's erased from existence for eternity!
	We don't know that.
	He could be in a fallout shelter from the 50s, huddled around a bunch of dirty little kids and old ladies in shawls, going, oh wait, I have to tell everyone he's not coming.
	Like, oh darn, now I don't get to step over a pile of dead bodies to see a fat piece of s**t who everyone hates now.
	Well, where are you?
	Amsterdam.
	What is the mood on the ground there?
	No one gives a s**t!
	Everyone's just high and shooting pot sh** into syphilitic hookers.
	It doesn't matter!
	Well, I guess that's all I have to know.
	We can wrap this up.
	Are you seriously... This is just who I am as a person!
	I can't help it!
	Oh, no, that's okay.
	I just thought I was the only one doing it.
	This is CNN.
	The most trusted name in news.
	Do you have to be a sex offender to work at CNN?
	I think it's part of the question.
	What is funny is, yeah, one of those people are cancelled for actually being a sex offender.
	Yeah.
	One of those people are actually a sex offender.
	Yeah, one of them got a contract extension before it was up.
	Yeah.
	We gotta lock this guy down.
	Otherwise, we don't want MSNBC to have him.
	Look at the talent on that man.
	We'll give you points on the back end.
	One guy, brilliant comedian who got permission from someone.
	Other guy, actual man who masturbated during a phone call and we just pretend didn't Well, when he came back on Air Dave, in their defense, they had a woman interview him and ask him these questions.
	It was awkward at all.
	It was really awkward at the end of that interview when he tried to put a sticky note on the camera at CNN.
	Like, that doesn't work here.
	Like, Allison, I was looking at you the whole time.
	Right.
	Wouldn't you just close your computer?
	Wouldn't you just unplug everything?
	Wouldn't you have one for, I don't know, CNN and one for your hobby?
	Or something else.
	Maybe.
	Wouldn't you just have a shred of self-control?
	Well, that too.
	As a start, you know.
	We can't wait 30 minutes?
	It's not like this was a two-hour Zoom call.
	It wasn't like a crazy one.
	It was just like it was a catch-up meeting.
	Yeah, maybe it just took so long he's like, oh no, I lost track of time, where are my pants?
	That's the problem with the internet, because before that you didn't walk into a conference room and we're like, okay, we have coffee, water, and stop masturbating at the conference table.
	Sorry, I didn't realize you saw me.
	Of course we can see you.
	You're right there.
	We're in ballroom B at the Marriott, and you're in front of me.
	It's called Ballroom.
	Oh, is that not what it is anymore?
	We're just naming things nebulously?
	Sorry.
	Pardon me for putting them on a chair.
	Is that because of society?
	Yes, Toobin, it's because of society.
	Just stop.
	Who's the guy they wanted to hire outside of Tubin?
	Who was plan B?
	And they were like, no, let's just bring Tubin back.
	I don't know.
	But we'll talk about Stelter in a little bit.
	So before we move on, we also have the Biden Supreme Court nominee.
	Have you been following us?
	He nominated, I don't know how it's going to be, Kentaji Brown-Jackson.
	I've only read it.
	I've not heard it spoken because the story only makes me mad.
	That's close.
	to the Supreme Court, which brings us to this week's or days, there are probably quite a few
	of these this week with the State of the Union, Curious Coincidences.
	Is it Kitanji or Kitaji?
	I don't know if the idiom gets pronounced, but I think it should.
	Okay.
	I have no idea.
	I think so.
	Well, Brown Jackson, let's go with that.
	Mm-hmm.
	Miss Jackson.
	I am for real.
	That was the whitest version of that song ever.
	Yeah.
	Brown Jackson.
	Jackson Brown.
	Same judge.
	Running on empty, running on.
	That's the blackest version ever of this.
	Why'd you pick this Supreme Court nominee?
	Running on empty, running on.
	Just love her music.
	What do you think about Brown-Jackson?
	She's a bitch girl!
	And that's enough.
	That's enough.
	Now we're down to just one biracial and I think it's Oates.
	Got an itch, girl!
	Now, that's because, by the way, don't use public toilets.
	Same judge who sentenced the Pizzagate shooter, in case you have forgotten about this.
	So another interesting, that's the greatest qualification for Brown-Jackson.
	That's our biggest case, huh?
	Yeah.
	Do you think this person was just selected on the name?
	Like, Jackson, that's a black sign name.
	What's the middle name?
	Brown.
	Done!
	This is perfect.
	Another interesting point, too, about this shooting, I don't know about Pizzagate, the shooter only shot at a closet with a computer inside.
	That's all he actually shot.
	And for all the hubbub about Pizzagate, you know, you would think it was this massive scale shooting, but he only shot at a closet with a computer inside.
	Which also, why would you need a closet with a computer inside it at a pizza parlor?
	And what was Stelter coming out of it?
	This has been Curious Coincidences.
	Hm.
	Oh.
	Brian Seltzer only leaves the closet for brunching.
	Yeah, he goes back in when he's done brunching.
	I leave for brunching!
	I saw my shadow!
	Six more weeks of mimosas!
	I'll be back for lunch.
	And then second lunch.
	Yes, and a linner.
	And third.
	And dinner.
	You said it was all you could eat.
	And a midnight snack.
	You know what?
	Let's just put a fridge in my closet.
	And then din dessert.
	Yes.
	Maybe like a hot plate.
	Be like college.
	Get a college dorm vibe going.
	Midnight snacksies?
	Not co-ed.
	Ooh, gross.
	Super straight!
	So, by the way, before we move on and talk about Brian Stelter, Dave and I are on tour.
	Yeah.
	You can go to loudmouthcider.com slash tour.
	We'll be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 14th, and then Colorado Springs, June 18th.
	So, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 14th, June 18th, Colorado Springs.
	And, yeah, just doing the good old stand-up, loudmouthcider.com slash tour.
	That one's still out, so get it now.
	Did you hear about... So, Brian Stelter, so there's some changes coming up at CNN.
	Now, here's what's interesting, is not only that Brian Stelter is afraid of being fired, but the reason he's afraid of being fired.
	So, not what you would think?
	Bad reporting?
	Not doing your job well?
	being unappealing in the face yeah you know what let's go see you can do you can zig so i can zag
	you just gave away you don't give away the the thing yeah the twist oh
	Oh, nobody saw that twist coming.
	Thanks.
	It's Gerald M. Night.
	Fired for being too handsome.
	Yeah, that's the twist.
	Brian Seltzer at the end of it, he finds out, I was a gay ghost all along!
	Oh no!
	You're too much of a man's man.
	We need somebody lighter for the ladies.
	You know, we've had too many comparisons.
	We've done our focus groups with Frank Luntz and they see you and they just see Charles Bronson.
	We don't know.
	You're much of a Clint Eastwood type.
	Yes, yes, that's what they say.
	We need more of a, I don't know, a Fruity Grimace.
	Yes, yes, exactly.
	We need more of a Dom DeLuise type.
	Do you know anyone, Mr. Stelter, who would be a dead ringer for a Dom DeLuise?
	But more suspect.
	Yes, yes.
	Leave it to the imagination.
	So, upcoming changes at CNN and this guy who's going to be the new head of CNN.
	Outgoing Jeff Zucker.
	It was leaked.
	Chris Licked is his name.
	Stop with the jokes.
	Okay.
	Actually, you know what?
	Comment below your best licked joke.
	But is it true that Chris might lick Stelter?
	Yeah, that's what he's like.
	Licked?
	What?
	You have my attention.
	Now you have my curiosity.
	Mr. Licked, I'm here for your licking.
	Mr. Licked!
	I have my own green room, but I'd be willing to share.
	So, it's a large green room.
	I want a double-wide trailer, really.
	I also have a trough.
	It's just the men's bathroom with a giant chair in it.
	And the trough is the urinal.
	We put ice in there.
	We can melt it.
	It's fun.
	It's hard to pee while sitting down, though.
	People think it's gross to eat as much as I do in the men's room, but I do what I do.
	Yeah.
	Actually, I don't know if this is more bacteria in the kitchen than the men's room.
	So really, I'm more sanitary than you.
	And by men's room, I mean my closet, which is also a men's room.
	It's a water closet.
	What, you've never been to Europe?
	Keep the handbag.
	So, Chris Licht is announced as the new head of CNN.
	Okay.
	Here's the thing.
	It was leaked.
	It clearly seems to be a deliberate leak because it's accurate.
	Yeah.
	And Brian Stelter didn't know about it.
	So they didn't let him know the name of his show is Reliable Sources.
	Here you go.
	And now we know who Zaslav is selected to run CNN once it happens.
	After it broke?
	It looks like it's going to cry.
	We now know!
	Yes, we've known.
	newly combined company, according to three sources who spoke with me on Saturday.
	Now the appointment has not been officially announced yet, but it will be made official
	in the coming days.
	Website Puck broke the news.
	We now know!
	Yes, we've known.
	Yes, thank you.
	I was spoken to on Saturday.
	Yep.
	No more brunch.
	My meal with my children.
	Here at Reliables, if you're not even breaking anything, what is it you would say you do here?
	I'm called Reliable Sources, unlike your show.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So to give you a couple of things here that are important.
	So Chris Licht is going to be the head of CNN.
	Okay.
	He also, you know, Discoveries purchased CNN, I believe.
	And he wants to bring CNN's credibility back.
	So that's his main concern.
	He wants to get rid of what seems to be partisan hackery.
	Which is interesting because he was actually one of the creators of Morning Joe.
	And then he is currently, I believe, a showrunner and one of the top producers for the late show with Stephen Colbert.
	So look, you know where he lines up.
	Okay, you know where this Chris Licht lines up.
	So what he's saying when he says we want to retrieve from the abyss the, you know, the credibility of CNN, what he really means is they want to go back to lying to you by omission.
	A lot of people are now saying, oh, CNN got really bad.
	No!
	No, they didn't get really bad.
	You just weren't aware of it.
	Sometimes you'll hear people like Joe Rogan say this, or you'll hear people who are sort of newly conservative write red pills, and they go, I used to really, you know, CNN used to be reliable.
	They were never reliable.
	You just weren't paying attention.
	They've always been this bad.
	Anderson Cooper has always been this bad, just to be clear.
	Don Lemon has been there for years and years.
	This is not a new development.
	So this guy, clearly, he wants to go back to the period of bias by omission.
	And CNN really has gotten to be more opinion journalism.
	So that's the important point to note on that front.
	Now, here's something else that's funny.
	Brian Stelter is now afraid of being fired.
	Now, it's not that that's hilarious, but It is.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's the subtext.
	This is reported by Red State, and I can't confirm the authenticity, but I'm pretty sure.
	So it says, Brian Stelter, who spent most of his last half decade trying to cost other several people their jobs, has told people that he thinks he's going to lose his job at CNN.
	So what does that tell you?
	Okay, you have a new incoming head of CNN, all right, who wants to at least keep up the appearance of objective journalism.
	That means there was a meeting.
	Look, there are going to be some changes here at CNN.
	We want to, you know, really get back to delivering real, accurate news.
	Oh my God!
	I'm fired!
	What?
	I'll lose everything!
	Oh my God!
	Morning Joe's coming back?
	What?
	What if I do a show called Afternoon Jab?
	Yes!
	No?
	Mid-evening poke?
	How about winter stab?
	Nighttime insertion?
	No?
	Perhaps some early morning prodding?
	No?
	Just grab my things?
	Just a pair of Crocs.
	Jazzy, badass Crocs.
	And a cape that he's been trying to make work.
	No, it doesn't.
	I'll take it with me then.
	That belongs to wardrobe.
	Oh, foiled again!
	Speaking of, they're putting him up right now.
	Oh my gosh.
	Don't put on the side profile.
	Let's see what Brian Filter is saying right now live.
	Let's see if it's not just complete partisan hackery.
	He got fatter.
	His profile looks like he should be wearing shower shoes before an execution.
	Doesn't he?
	the truth, the ground truth of what's going on. At the same time we are seeing some Russian
	websites being hacked. There are multiple reports of Russian media websites being hacked
	with anti-Putin messages posted on them in the past two hours.
	His profile looks like he should be wearing shower shoes before an execution. Doesn't
	he? He's just a creep.
	Those kinds of hacks also signs that Putin is losing this information war. On one level
	that's true, on another level, look at the headline of the LA Times that it was this
	month.
	I'm really nervous talking fast.
	Zelensky is winning the PR battle. Ukraine winning the PR battle.
	Breaking news.
	You know, here's the thing, I really hate the anti-Americanism that you see across the globe, especially having visited Europe, but every now and then you just see an American and you're like, okay, they've got a point.
	They're seeing him in the airport when they land?
	I'd be pissed too.
	Imagine the country that invented the guillotine looking at that.
	There's no way to make it fit.
	I don't know.
	I don't have a guillotine for whatever big, what you call it, McDonald's fat purple clown.
	There is nine weeks lead time for custom stocks.
	I don't know what it is.
	I don't care.
	I need a tin head basket, please.
	Yes.
	Why does the man witch from Dune have to be beheaded?
	You can't kill him!
	He just rises up with the fire.
	He's on the ceiling and you're like, AH!
	But it just shows, this is, look, how he views himself, Brian Stelter.
	And it's not even true that they're going to have objective journalism at CNN, but the moment Brian Stelter believed that they were going to attempt objective journalism, he was like, oh, I'll lose everything!
	He thought he was out.
	He's like, yes, I'll do the morning show, bring me on.
	And it's one thing to be, look, and I don't, I don't, you know, I mean, this guy has made his living trying to get people fired, but I don't, it's one thing for somebody to be fired.
	It's another thing to be Brian Stelter and be fired from broadcast television.
	Who else on God's green earth is going to put this man back on TV?
	And a lot of people don't know, he basically rose to fame because he was sort of like a Perez Hilton for a political blog website, a gossip website basically.
	So then he got a job at like the New York Times, and I believe it was New York Times, going by rote here, and it was because they were surprised that he was a college student writing this.
	But here's the thing, so he sort of Were they surprised by his appearance?
	Wow, you look 40.
	Yeah, they only figured out after he had a two-year contract and they were at year and a half.
	Like, what?
	They were like, you're 22?
	I thought you were about to die.
	The only reason we filed the extension.
	Check out an insurance policy on you.
	It was the soft expectations of him being young.
	And then he got on CNN and now they say, OK, but now you're a 36-year-old completely super straight broadcaster with the lowest ratings.
	You are entirely useless to us.
	He is proven to be a failed commodity.
	That's got to be a really scary thought for Brian Stelter.
	And frankly, I don't want him gone.
	No, no, I was just about to bring up that point.
	Like, he is perfectly positioned there, because if they're trying to go back and rehab their image, which sucks in the first place, Ryan Stelter being front and center...
	It's like Saddam Hussein!
	You don't want to create that power vacuum!
	I think his perfect position for him is all fours, but... Well, that's what he says.
	I think you're right.
	He got there, though, because he basically got everyone fired.
	Look at him.
	I mean, it's just karma.
	You can't just keep cutting through everything until you're to the top.
	They're eventually going to get rid of you.
	And then he even threw people under the bus who were fired at his network.
	Yes.
	Like Chris Cuomo who's angling for his spot.
	That day he was like, he's a rapist.
	Yeah, you heard it here first.
	Yes.
	He's a rapist and boy, I don't know who's going to fill that nine o'clock slot.
	Oh boy.
	They're like, no, it's not going to happen.
	Well, it was worth a shot.
	I'll take my cake.
	Yeah.
	Cuomo hadn't even packed his things when he's in there measuring for drapes.
	Yeah.
	Cuomo's seat leaves and he just hovers and boom.
	Yeah.
	Uncle Ant.
	Anyway, you guys let us know.
	I don't want Stelter to go away.
	Best thing you can do for the YouTube algorithm is comment.
	I actually want him to stick around.
	I really, really do.
	We should just hire him.
	Save Brian Stelter.
	Let's start a GoFundMe.
	Might be the funniest gag of all time, if we just pay him a lot of money
	to be in third chair.
	And we just.
	And you just don't let him speak.
	You just duct tape his mouth.
	Or we just, he has to say only extremist things.
	Yes.
	That are extraordinarily offensive, and we're like, Brian Stelter, that's.
	Wow, Brian.
	Why would you say that?
	I can't believe, I mean I knew.
	We have Jews who work here.
	I mean, come on.
	And then I'll be like, we don't.
	And he always has to hold his purse in the chair.
	Yeah, and he'll like shake it.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	Every now and then when you tell an off color joke, He has to go, Dave!
	And hit you with the purse.
	And then there's a laugh track.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Well, we would be, we wouldn't need a laugh track.
	We'd be here.
	No, he'll be, he'll be dressed like Maude.
	Yeah.
	Be sure to, be sure to.
	He'll be dressed like Estelle Getty.
	Golden Girls.
	We would, we need to get a, we need to get a. Oh, that's commercial.
	No, no.
	You'll need a love seat.
	Yes.
	That chair's not rated for me.
	I call it a me seat!
	Yes.
	I'm full of love.
	So here's another thing, too, that's been happening before we get to Russia.
	And Gerald really has been following Russia and China very closely.
	And it is interesting.
	And unfortunately, this was always my concern.
	And I know you and Elaine were arguing about Russia and what we should do.
	And a friendly debate.
	It was.
	I think everyone's heart out there breaks for the people of the Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	But two things can be true.
	You can feel that way and also believe that we shouldn't be sending Americans over there to die.
	And that being said, you can recognize those two things and also understand that the actions that are currently being taken economically on the world stage could be driving Russia into the arms of China.
	But before that, of course, conspiracy theorists have been heckled by the media quite a bit for suggesting that COVID vaccines – and this was, I don't know if it was last week, it wasn't too long ago, but it's been going on for a while – for suggesting that COVID vaccines could shed One influencer claiming that just being around someone who's been vaccinated causes those side effects.
	That not only can the COVID-19 vaccines hurt women's fertility by attacking the placenta, they cause a vaccinated person to shed the virus onto women and affect their periods or pregnancies.
	So, the first part.
	As I reported here on Fact Check Friday before, the WHO says it's not true.
	The vaccines we give cannot cause infertility.
	About those who've been vaccinated shedding virus particles and causing harm to others.
	I have found no scientific document or source that says it's even possible with the mRNA vaccines
	or the J&J vaccine. Okay, now it's not true yet and what they just said is accurate.
	There is no scientific document available with the, did he say Pfizer-NJNJ vaccine?
	Well, M-N-R-A, M-N-R-A-R-N-A, sorry.
	I'm throwing the N's in the wrong place again.
	The point is that is not inaccurate, but what they're trying to do is act like it's one person said, oh, no, this isn't just one person who believed that there's a potential for One person said this, and we haven't found any scientific literature on these specific vaccines.
	Understood.
	I'm not fact-checking that.
	I'm talking about the spirit of how they do this, and this is what they'll be doing at CNN.
	It's the lies by omission.
	It's take an extremist fringe person to make a point that in another context might be valid or worth investigation, to dismiss it, and then selectively present references that make your case for you.
	And by the way, that's why we present all references.
	They're available at lottoescretor.com.
	If you're watching on YouTube, it's in that pinned comment.
	And of course, if you're watching on Rumble or Mug Club, which I recommend you do, you can just go to the website
	and hit that tab.
	So here's the interesting part.
	Have you read about this?
	The researchers now in the US, the UK, and Australia are now researching the possibility of a quote self-spreading vaccine.
	I'm going to read this to you.
	The unvaccinated would quote catch the vaccine as it spreads rapidly Across the country in airborne droplets passed on via close contact with others, just as colds and flu already spread.
	And we actually have exclusive footage of the preliminary results with the self-shedding vaccine trials.
	Oh, that seems pretty cut and dry.
	It's worked before.
	We're gonna do it to ourselves, aren't we?
	Yeah.
	I mean, what?
	Go to the top of a shopping mall with guns?
	Yes!
	With Woody Harrelson.
	We'll just hang out!
	Oh, this is a scary thought.
	Well, it's funny.
	The yet that we threw on there was kind of a joke, but it's not a joke because every single time some claim like this gets made and they're like, Oh, it's absolutely not possible for this to happen.
	And then we're like, Oh, that was, man, that was only like six months.
	Getting a vaccine, I feel is knowing the side effects per person and talking to your doctor, you know, on a private basis, knowing how that would affect you individually.
	Not just catching it walking down the street the same as anything.
	Right.
	That seems extremely vicious.
	No, I think you're absolutely right.
	Not only that, there is not a... Now, of course, side effects and adverse reactions with vaccines are very rare in most cases.
	Yes.
	There are more side effects, you know, with mRNA injections and all of the... No, I'm pro-vax.
	I just don't think you should catch it.
	No, exactly.
	They're very rare, but I don't know of a single vaccine That doesn't affect certain individuals negatively with adverse effects, particularly things like neurological conditions.
	GBS is one of them.
	There are certain people who cannot even take a basic flu shot because of autoimmune issues.
	People thinking Jenny McCarthy's an author.
	Right, yes, exactly.
	I don't know how they read that.
	So people, this is a concern, people who absolutely from their doctor's recommendation, upon their doctor's recommendation, cannot take vaccines, don't have a choice in the matter.
	And this is what's happened to, think about this, we've done this with everything else, we're big pharma bad, right?
	People talk about big, they were, you know, villan du jour for a long time.
	Except in this instance.
	We've done the same thing with medicine, drugs.
	Opioids, bad.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Benzodiazepines, bad.
	Okay.
	Even people, you know, ibuprofen, bad.
	Everything, you know, drugs, bad.
	You should take these.
	And then, for some reason, though, when it relates to the vaccine, it's, no, this is good.
	Yeah.
	This is good for everybody.
	I don't know any other medical intervention that is considered good for everybody.
	As a matter of fact, I don't think you can find one.
	And when you're talking about something that would be spreading or shedding, That's now putting that power in the hands of government.
	And of course, it's not only an infringement of personal liberty.
	I'm just wondering where all the people who were skeptical of Big Pharma and all the people who were talking about My Body, My Choice went to.
	I don't think it could be more clear than this.
	It's not like abortion where, you know, you believe abortion up until nine months and including birth period.
	Now, I'm not creating a straw man.
	That's the actual policy of many leftist states, to be clear.
	I don't know where the folks have gone.
	No, I have no idea, too.
	And when we talk about the issues that we had early on with the vaccine, it wasn't that we were just making claims, right?
	Some French people were, like, saying, oh, I'd make my cousin's balls swell if everybody remembers that, right?
	Yeah.
	That wasn't necessarily—it was the— That was Cardi B. Yeah, I know.
	Or Megan Thee Stallion.
	Specifically, one of them.
	I mean, they kind of blend.
	I don't know.
	Who's the other one?
	Yeah.
	That was, uh... Was that Nicki Minaj?
	Nicki.
	Ah, Nicki Minaj.
	Admonish me.
	Admonish me in the comments section.
	No, we'll do it live on the show.
	How could I possibly confuse them?
	Admonish.
	No, the problem we had was that... Clearly a race thing and not a six-inch nail slash talent thing.
	Well, yes.
	Yeah.
	We just didn't have any long-term studies because it hadn't been around long enough to have any long-term studies.
	Yeah, generally that helps.
	Long-term studies require something being around long-term.
	Well look at it, we're at about, what, a year, year and a half right now, and we're going, huh, we didn't know!
	And it's like, really?
	This is all we were saying from the beginning, is like, hey, maybe just do some studies on this that go a little bit longer than, say, I don't know, a few months.
	Yeah.
	Look, either you have to be blindly trusting of authority across the board, or you have to be skeptical across the board.
	Doesn't mean you have to agree with someone else who's a skeptic across the board.
	But I don't understand how people go from being a skeptic, particularly as it relates to big pharma, particularly as it relates to drug companies, and then it's completely gone.
	It's about consistency.
	I'm not required to suspend my consistency to say, uh, hold on a second.
	Is this a good idea, though?
	Is it a good idea for every single individual?
	It's entirely consistent.
	It is inconsistent for someone to say, Big Pharma, we have problems with these lobby—it's one of the most powerful lobbying groups in all of Washington, D.C., is Big Pharma.
	I don't disagree with you there.
	I also believe that Western medicine is great.
	If you have cancer and you're chewing on castanga root, you're shit out of luck.
	But I'm still skeptical of every drug, and I believe that every person should have the right to choose.
	I believe that we should have more drugs available to people, and I believe that the FDA approval process, there's too much red tape.
	Obviously, it's a problem that if someone understands the risks, they should be allowed to take that drug.
	That is entirely consistent with that person should also be allowed to not take that drug.
	When you see the policy of the left, right, these are the same people who said, all, every single Democrat and every single member of Joe Biden's cabinet said either, the vaccine could not possibly happen on Donald Trump's timeline, or that they would not trust the vaccine, or they wouldn't take the vaccine.
	Almost all of them said all three, and they said it publicly on the record.
	You can go back and just search on YouTube, search on Mug Club, because you won't find it on YouTube.
	You can see that this is something that Joe Biden himself said, Kamala Harris, well it's unrealistic for it to happen at this time, I wouldn't trust the vaccine because it happened under Trump, and I wouldn't take the vaccine.
	All of that is gone now.
	All of it?
	Just asking that we be consistent, especially as it relates to people's private medical decisions and what you put in your own body.
	Okay.
	Now we can move on to former Vice President Joe Biden, the Ukraine, what's been going on here with Russia and the Ukraine.
	No one's paying closer attention, by the way, should be noted, than former Vice President Joe Biden.
	Is he really?
	Yeah, he's just a hawk.
	Yeah, really.
	Well, he always has been.
	Yeah.
	Well, when he sleeps, it's when he focuses best.
	Right.
	He's on it faster than a duck on a Junebug.
	They poke him with a stick every few minutes and let him know the what's what.
	Right.
	Why is there a mirror hanging above his mouth?
	I don't know.
	Same reason there's a mirror hanging above Brian Stelter's closet bed!
	No, I don't think that's the same.
	Just walk in, you're like, is that one of those funhouse mirrors?
	No, it's just me!
	I said the whole ceiling with mirrors!
	I look like someone hit expand on my body and never hit the shift key!
	Oh, this?
	This is my mirror slash crying room.
	Mirror, mirror on the wall.
	Shut up.
	Okay.
	You're still fat, Brian.
	You're the weakest of them all.
	Well, I guess I understand.
	How do you still have a job?
	He's not healed yet.
	So here's the thing, though.
	Why would former Vice President Joe Biden be so interested in the Ukraine?
	Why is he paying such close attention?
	Could it be?
	They were walking out to the press conference.
	I said, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
	They said, you have no authority.
	You're not the president.
	The president said, I said, call him.
	I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
	I said, you're not getting a billion.
	I'm going to be leaving here.
	I think it was what, six hours.
	I look, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
	If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
	Oh, son of a bitch.
	Got fired.
	Oh, he was talking about the other guy.
	Oh, that's weird.
	Also, that's not a crime.
	It's highly illegal.
	Just to be clear.
	I was being sarcastic.
	That's a crime.
	Oh, you mean irregular?
	No, I don't.
	No, I don't.
	Frowned upon?
	Illegal.
	Felony.
	Jail time.
	Agree to disagree?
	We don't.
	Nope.
	McGruff would be upset.
	Only you can take a bite out of former Vice President Biden.
	And also, just to be, one thing that a lot of people don't know is Hunter, you know, obviously had his issues with Ukraine.
	After he got out of trouble with Ukraine, and I believe we have an exclusive, he had an emergency visit to a doctor for a Parmesan cheese nose.
	My nose is so stuffed.
	It's just gotta be COVID.
	Well, your test came back negative for COVID, but your nasal cavities are clogged with Parmesan cheese.
	I swear.
	I thought it was cocaine.
	Good for you.
	Let's try clear, Hunter.
	It's clear?
	Yes.
	It's made by Clear Ink, which is recognized as the leading manufacturer of xylitol-based products in North America.
	And, uh, this nasal spray is, uh, all-natural.
	All-natural?
	What does that mean?
	Uh, well, that it's drug-free.
	Drug-free?
	That sucks.
	Parmesan is also drug-free.
	Just try the spray.
	Wow!
	I can breathe!
	Right!
	Breathing is important for a person.
	Unless that person has dirt on you, right?
	Wow.
	Uh, let's just be glad that it worked.
	I sure did.
	Thanks for showing me the clear way, Doc.
	It's my pleasure.
	Can you do one more favor for me?
	Sure.
	Hold on to this laptop for me?
	Uh, no.
	No.
	Deal.
	Alright.
	How about a quick prescription of 200 Percocet?
	Get out of my office.
	Alright.
	Got some Gouda at home.
	I told you to quit smoking Gouda!
	No!
	And speaking of consistency, wonderful sponsors, and they became a sponsor to the show because they heard me talking about them.
	Yeah.
	It's a product that I've used.
	You can actually go, it's clear.com and clear with an X. And the reason is because it uses something called xylitol in there.
	Now, I encourage you to do your own research, go to the website, you can go to PubMed and read the actual approved data, clinical trials, clinical studies that have shown that this actually cleans out your nasal cavity, like reduces the adhesion factor for things like COVID viruses in your nasal cavity by like 99%.
	You know, you think about it, you brush your teeth, you take a shower.
	Think of all the crap you're breathing in.
	What are you doing to clean this?
	Especially around Dave.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if it works for Hunter, it'll work for you.
	This is doctor recommended.
	What I mean by that is some doctors.
	I would never say all doctors like a self-shedding vaccine.
	No.
	So I wouldn't be so bold even though it's drug-free and works for far more people.
	Doctors in Taiwan, I think.
	Even though I feel it works, it doesn't mean that I'm going to run up to you and force it in your nose.
	Right, yeah, exactly.
	You have a dirty nose!
	Yeah.
	Although, xylitol waterboarding wouldn't be a bad idea.
	It wouldn't be.
	Like, wow, this is very effective.
	You know what, just as a thank you, I think I'll give you the information you need.
	So go to xclear.com for more info.
	Really, I recommend you read the literature, the scientific data.
	Okay, so last week, this is something we really wanted to... Russia, the Ukraine, but more specifically what's happening with Russia and China.
	I was watching former Vice President Biden's very short speech for the largest military action taken since World War II on one country against another.
	I was like, really?
	That was it?
	That was his speech?
	It was very, very brief.
	But when I watched it and I heard what he was saying, and I want to get to it, then it forced me to do some digging.
	I immediately was concerned that, ah, This seems like the kind of play that could force Russia into a corner to create some kind of an alliance or partnership with China.
	And see if you can understand why I might have thought that last week.
	Mr. President, you didn't mention SWIFT in your sanctions that you announced.
	Is there a reason why the U.S.
	isn't doing that?
	Is there a disagreement among allies regarding SWIFT and whether Russia should be allowed to be a part of it?
	The sanctions that we've proposed on all their banks have an equal consequence, maybe more consequence than SWIFT, number one.
	Number two, It is always an option, but right now that's not the position that the rest of Europe wishes to take.
	Okay, so you've been talking about the economic sanctions, which by the way is not nearly as severe as the swift.
	Still buying oil?
	Yes, we're still doing that.
	Okay, just making sure.
	Yeah.
	825,000 barrels a day roughly?
	50-something?
	Okay, yeah, just making sure.
	You should give them six hours to fire poop.
	Here's the thing, and I want to talk about this before we finish this segment, because a lot of people say, what should we do?
	And they always look to what we can do internationally.
	You can't control what other countries do.
	There's a lot that we can do here at home.
	And so for all of his faults, Donald Trump took actions here at home to make sure that we would be less affected by this bullshit.
	Okay, just to be clear.
	There are still actions that we can take right now.
	that would not only hurt Russia but would help Americans, help mitigate the damage done to
	everyday Americans, but that's really not of concern to this president. So there are practical
	solutions that we should all be on board with. Of course we can't because there really isn't a
	middle. When people try to say I'm a centrist, no, there's a radical left and there's a big
	old right-wing tent. That's what you've got right now.
	Think about, and I mean that for a second, Before I move on with the segment, people always say, like, oh, well, you know, it's actually the extremists on the right.
	CPAC just happened.
	If you look at the list of speakers, you look at the list of people, you have people like a Donald Trump, and then you have libertarians, let's say, but you have people who believe that black tar heroin should be legal and should be a state issue, and then you have people who are basically Mennonites.
	This is the right wing.
	On the left, you're excoriated if you're simply liberal.
	You can't be liberal and pro-life.
	You can't be allowed on the liberal platform and pro-gun.
	Bernie Sanders, when he was in a primary, had to justify why he was the only person on that stage to not get an F from the NRA.
	He only achieved a D-.
	And he had to apologize.
	How's that for rigid?
	So, concerned that obviously this can start driving Russia into the arms of China.
	Why?
	Because when you put these economic sanctions on them, they need to have some kind of business alliances, some kind of financial interests.
	That's a dangerous place to be, and I get that it's a sticky situation.
	Here's the thing.
	It continued.
	Well, actually, I think this actually happened, then Biden said, put my name on there, like with the Nord Stream pipeline.
	Leave me a place to sign.
	But European Commission President Ursula von Derlain.
	Ursula von Derlain.
	Do it in Swedish, Jeff, it's better.
	Ursula von Derlain!
	There you go, see?
	Perfect.
	Then announced that they would expel Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
	I will now propose to EU leaders the following measures.
	First, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of Russian banks are removed from SWIFT.
	This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.
	SWIFT is the world's dominant global interbank payment system.
	Cutting banks off will stop them from conducting most of their financial transactions worldwide and effectively block Russian exports and imports.
	And she went on to sing Evita Sing G'night.
	Oh, did she?
	Does Mr. Belding know that Zach did this speech?
	Mr. Bolling, cut them off from those Swift bikes!
	So, White House, Canada, UK did the same thing.
	And then what happened immediately after this, Gerald?
	You're a learned man.
	Well, Putin, of course, backed down and left Ukraine hat in hand.
	No, no, no.
	He took it one step further and he actually put his nuclear forces on alert.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	This is based on the presumption that Russia won't...
	Oh no, you're going to remove our ability to bank legitimately internationally?
	It's almost like you're following protocol of drug war, but following on international diplomacy.
	Where will I make my revenue?
	Oh no!
	My nuke runs on quarters.
	Yes, what will I do?
	It used to run on dimes, but inflation is a bitch for all of us.
	Oil is very expensive.
	It also accepts 50 million rubles.
	My tanks take premium.
	But it's hard to fit in slot.
	Oh my gosh.
	Well, I feel like, look, you do have to step up sanctions, right?
	You don't just go all the way to the very end first, and cutting them off on Swift, that's a big deal.
	When in Russia they were facing some really high inflation.
	I think it was somewhere around 9 or 10 percent.
	Barely above the United States.
	I've heard numbers from 9 all the way up to 20.
	Well now it's 20.
	For people who don't know, SWIFT, it's an international, it was an international, like a rapid banking system.
	It allows rapid payments.
	So each loaf of bread will be 9 percent less as big?
	No, that's not quite how it works.
	That sounds nightmarish.
	So inflation goes up, right?
	So what is the Fed thinking about doing here in the United States?
	Well, they're thinking about raising interest rates.
	Well, the problem with that is that there's only so many things you can do.
	And just this morning, the Russian National, or the Russian Central Bank, sorry, I was going to say National Bank, was actually cut off.
	So now they don't have the tools.
	Basically, they freeze all the assets that are held here in the United States.
	United States citizens and businesses cannot do business there anymore.
	Right.
	And so now Russia's backed into even a further corner.
	Right.
	And so a man like Putin goes, all right, I'm backed into a corner.
	You didn't think I was going to come over the top of your raise.
	I'm saying nuclear missiles.
	Right.
	High alert right now.
	Your move.
	Yeah, Biden said, these sanctions are just as severe as war.
	Someone asked him, I think, a question, would you say these are severe as the dead Ukrainians?
	More!
	It's worse!
	What?
	You know, you can't buy happiness, but you know, you can't bring a dead kid back.
	It's like the money, you know, it's the South.
	It'll work.
	What are you saying?
	I want to kill my kids.
	Well, this has created a problem.
	This has created a problem where now goods are more expensive and also the value of the ruble has dropped like 30 percent.
	About 30 percent.
	And so he met at a really long table.
	If you watch any news channel, you'll see him at this table.
	They should stop producing really long tables and maybe focus on the economy or producing jobs.
	He's got like a 70-foot table and two people on the other end to talk about the economy.
	Mr. Putin, we have that financial report.
	Stop!
	We're at a lengthening table!
	We need more people!
	Stop!
	I can't focus!
	You keep this, I can't focus on how long I will make table!
	Go get, make yourself useful, get tape measurer and a solid block of oak.
	Send them to Goulard.
	It's like the dinner with Kim Basinger and Michael Keaton in Batman.
	I'll just come down there, alright?
	Bring my gruel.
	You know, I don't think I've ever been in this room.
	So basically, they didn't let their stock market open.
	They didn't want the ruble to continue to fall.
	But as it devalues in world currency, right, they're less able to manage this crisis.
	And so that's what we're talking about, creating an issue like the Treaty of Versailles, which you said.
	It pushed two people who had been at war with each other, Russia and Germany, during World War I, into being allies.
	Very, very quickly after that.
	And so in World War II, that's why they started out on the same team until Hitler attacked Russia.
	He would have been on the same team with the guy for a little longer.
	That's the same thing that can happen with China, right?
	So you're now pushing people who naturally can be a little bit of... That's a really, really good point because a lot of people say, well, a lot of people have said actually, Well, it's not really a concern because, you know, Putin is really anti-communist, which, I don't know.
	I mean, I think he says it, but okay.
	I don't necessarily know that I trust him.
	I do believe that he is concerned more with Russia's national interests.
	I do believe that.
	Now, I believe he's concerned with Russia's national interests at the cost of certain Russians, not only other members of, well, of Eastern Europe.
	But this is also important to note where you're talking about you can push people who would be natural enemies into becoming friends.
	Putin, right?
	Russia, they've stockpiled, just to be clear, $630 billion of international foreign currency.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And 14% of that is held in China.
	Right.
	And so it may not be convenient most of the time for these guys to be friends, but if you're backed into a corner and you have no way out, You tend to go to somebody who can help, and they're close, right?
	So Russia is the largest producer of wheat in the world.
	I didn't really know this.
	I knew they were pretty high up there.
	Well, technically it's true.
	We are the largest producer, but... No, there's the table I was talking about.
	Look at that!
	Wait, was that Donald Trump there?
	No.
	I couldn't see who was at the end of the table.
	Like, hey!
	Is that?
	No?
	We build the tables, then we build the room around it.
	Yes.
	It's like, come on, guys!
	Hey, President Trump!
	Fuck you!
	No, fuck you!
	Send it down to him.
	Come over here and say to my face, I don't have the time.
	Table is filled with wheat.
	Why so big?
	Yes, it's also act as great insulator.
	It's vacuum sealed with wheat.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What a stupid table.
	That's how they measure dicks in Russia, is these giant stupid tables.
	And how far you can put people you need to be able to pass papers between down the table.
	He just walks over to a, he's just walking over to the White House and he's like, Okay.
	Can you pass the pepper?
	Do you think I have the time?
	15 feet, that's not 45 feet.
	I am not unemployed, I am a busy man.
	Hold on.
	Let me ask Slave on Stilts.
	Hey, bring... Slave on Stilts.
	Yes.
	Bring me choo-choo to solve past shorts.
	Yes.
	I asked for long table.
	Long!
	This is the smallest table I've ever sat at.
	What is this?
	This is not... You call this dining room table?
	This is like coffee table.
	What is this?
	This is like... This in Russia is nightstand.
	Oh my gosh.
	I put my feet on it to watch television.
	Yes.
	It's a meeting room.
	Who's gonna be intimidated by this?
	Okay, well look, let me get back to Russia.
	It takes me nine weeks to poison guests.
	It's tough.
	Alright, so wheat, tribals, and... Hold on!
	If I drink your milkshake... Can you catch the can?
	He's got a screen down there, he's like, can you set up camera and put on TV next to me?
	I can't see them.
	I need to be head of table, but I can't hear him.
	I cannot hear him.
	Are you rolling your eyes?
	Are you?
	Hey, talk, Mr. Glenn Close lookalike, talk into speaker.
	Yes.
	You have to heat talk!
	I can't hear you!
	Tell that grand home lady who threatened me to come closer.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	I will wait for her by setting calendar.
	All right, go ahead there.
	But obviously they're also known for natural gas.
	This table is longer than our winters!
	That's how you know it's good stuff.
	That's how you know it's good.
	It's hilarious.
	I mean, it's just worth talking.
	It really is the funniest table I've ever seen.
	So the company behind, Gazprom, right?
	So the biggest oil company there, natural gas producer, which was stolen by the state, by the way, from a private company.
	I'm not going to get into that.
	They're the company behind the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
	They signed in February a 30-year deal with Russia to pump in gas, right?
	So China and Russia now have a deal, a 30-year deal.
	And Russia is already China's second largest oil supplier.
	Right.
	So China is getting tons of resources from these guys.
	And I just told you about the wheat just a second ago.
	They just opened up a deal that they had signed, I think, about a month or two ago.
	They just fast tracked it so they could get more wheat into China.
	Right.
	So there's, you know, in 2021, the trade between these two countries was a record $150 billion.
	In the next two or three years, they want to be at $200 billion.
	That's not going to blunt this, but it is going to help.
	But to be clear, Again, they're not necessarily, people would say they're not natural allies.
	But it's not like there's this embargo.
	It's not like it's an entirely cold, it's not like it's an entirely frigid relationship.
	They are trading partners.
	They're strengthening ties.
	And they are strengthening ties right now.
	And this is what happens when you, if you just, if you just try and cripple someone economically, those without any kind of military action, it's a half in measure.
	And these people have to find some kind of, they have to.
	Exactly.
	They have to find an alliance.
	And right now, China, of course, is the one who wants to greet them with open arms.
	Right.
	And that's to Lane's point the other day.
	He's right that if you do this to Russia, they will get closer to China.
	And that's a big problem because every single issue that we face geopolitically, whether it's the climate change accords or whatever we're trying to do, China is always the wild card.
	I am warming up to China, but I keep them at tables length.
	It's actually safer for the people at the table because they can't kill you and miss you.
	11,000 seats.
	I need Nord Stream Pipeline to bring guests through table.
	That's how they bring that gift to Putin is a longer table.
	Yes, longer table.
	How many tables is your pipeline?
	We would like to present this gift to Vladimir Putin.
	It's just they have like Dr. Seuss Who characters.
	We get a Statue of Liberty from France, they get a long table from China.
	We need four more Liberty ships to bring things.
	I like when my dinner is presented in silver tray that is opened with smaller person in tray and then smaller person for two miles.
	Then it's reached me and I go, oh, that's our food.
	I would shoot you from this table, but from this distance, the bullet would stray.
	Who am I, an Olympian?
	So, here's also something important.
	China is supporting, right now, Russia diplomatically.
	They've made it pretty damn clear.
	The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, discussed Western sanctions saying, this is, there's some quotes, China always opposes any illegal unilateral sanctions.
	The U.S.
	has imposed more than 100 sanctions on Russia since 2011, which not only failed to solve the issue, but also harmed the legitimate rights and interests Of others.
	This is not just the foreign ministry.
	People always hold me to the standard of saying the names properly.
	You can't do it right.
	I don't care.
	I'm American.
	I almost said Chun-Li.
	I will when he can pronounce Steven Crowder.
	That's two R's.
	You have any idea how impossible that is?
	So, the top diplomat in China also made these statements, or expressed these statements, I guess I have to say, to be careful, with the German foreign minister.
	China disapproves of the use of sanctions to solve problems, still less unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law.
	And there's plenty of evidence, too, beyond this, beyond just what they've said, official Chinese spokespersons, and beyond what we see in the hundreds of billions of dollars in trade, and beyond what we see in these growing stronger ties, there's more to it than that.
	Yeah, they've actually refused to call this an invasion.
	I think they're calling it, they just went for a walk in another country with weapons.
	Yeah, he walking his dog around the table.
	Yeah, what's he doing?
	And then Hoyway actually is training, I think, 50,000 Russians in cyber defense because right now the cyber attacks are probably pretty high on Russia.
	Obviously, they were dealing with some of that.
	And I just talked about the wheat restrictions a minute ago.
	Like, that's a big deal.
	I just kind of threw it in there.
	They just dropped them.
	They just dropped them.
	But do you know what also is one of the biggest kind of products of Ukraine?
	Wheat.
	They were known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, so to speak.
	And so there's a lot of ties to this.
	So China is doing everything that they can.
	Everything about that whole place sounds terrible.
	Well, wheat doesn't sound bad.
	Well, technically we have biggest supply of wheat in the world, but 20 to 98% is used for vodka.
	Well, but have you seen the wheat around Chernobyl?
	Massive.
	Really large stalks.
	Yes, but unfortunately you can grow fifth nipple.
	Wait, you mean third?
	Fifth.
	Now you become super.
	It wins you a prize at a fair.
	Or very dead.
	Does my goiter look swollen?
	All right.
	Well, you know.
	The point is, this is getting pretty, this is getting significant.
	It's really bad.
	Yeah.
	The idea of a China-Russia alliance, especially as we've talked about Taiwan, that is World War III.
	That is World War III, if that kind of a superpower is created.
	Not saying we're there yet, but the signs are here.
	Diplomatically, economically, there have been major changes, and now you have a country that is really hell-bent on wanting to be a world superpower, right?
	There's a lot of saber-rattling, and they also want to be independent and not beholden to these international committees, which I can understand the sentiment of that.
	Being forced to prove that they're a superpower.
	Yeah.
	If someone starts saying, like, screaming that they're a superpower, what you want to do is like, yeah, yeah, you're a superpower, we get it.
	And you move on.
	You don't want to say, no, you're not.
	Right.
	I'll show you!
	Now wait till I get to that other side of the table!
	Well, when you have a billion people just in one country.
	Several madmen.
	And it's a totally different thing that if you bring China into this equation, everything changes immediately.
	Immediately.
	For the entire world.
	Like the rest of the world against China and Russia would be a hard fight.
	Like the end of the world, potentially?
	Depending on how bad this could get.
	He has a Napoleonic complex and we're like, hey, we're going to sanction your banks and he's like, here's the content, you want me to push?
	And Xi Jinping is shorter than actual Napoleon.
	Well, yes.
	Yeah, when you have a royal flush, make sure you fold immediately.
	So here's the thing, even the Chinese internet is cheering Putin on.
	The most exciting day of 2022 is today.
	Because today Russia attacked Ukraine.
	That's a weird filter.
	I'm so happy today.
	My worries are gone.
	Exciting.
	It's like seeing China's restoration.
	Feels like we are going to conquer Taiwan shortly.
	Her husband's head is blown over the walls for a few days.
	That's weird, a smoking Chinese man.
	Hahaha.
	I'm not sure what he's saying.
	Only national and democratic interests are above all else.
	chip.
	I'm going to go to bed.
	That smoking Chinese man, next thing you know you're gonna tell me he's putting nine crates of chickens on a Honda Cub.
	Weird.
	Can't happen.
	Here's the thing, now I also understand what some of you are thinking.
	OK, before you comment, although it does help the algorithm, so comment below on whatever it is.
	But before you say it, yes, that probably is Chinese propaganda.
	But that makes it worse.
	That makes it worse.
	Because TikTok, just so you know, we've talked about this, they favor Chinese propaganda posts.
	Any nationalist posts for China, things that come down from the CCP and some of these influencers are paid.
	Here, you're paid to promote yoga pants or tea or whatever the hell it is.
	And it's probably bogus tea that doesn't work to help you lose weight.
	Over there, you're paid to promote the government.
	And then TikTok favors you.
	So it's worse, if that is Chinese propaganda.
	I'm not saying that I didn't watch it and go, this seems like it might be scripted, all so I could see the reflection in the window of the guy holding a gun to his head.
	I thought it would be a creative choice.
	Well, Chinese women, rarely I feel like she was speaking from the heart.
	Yes.
	I feel like that was something that she was forced to say.
	Yeah.
	Well, exactly.
	They're not free to speak, period, in China.
	Right, but for some reason now she has an opinion on war strategy and her idol's food.
	Such a handsome, that's when you know she's scared.
	Putin, he's very handsome.
	Oh, he's so big and he's so handsome.
	He's so big!
	He's handsome, have very big tick table.
	Please let me keep one of my...
	Just one of my babies, please.
	So by the way, also a translation of one of Putin's speeches.
	I had to reread this.
	Was this a misprint?
	1.1 billion views on Weibo in 24 hours.
	Wow.
	That's insane.
	That's a lot of views.
	1.1 billion views.
	You can get 1.1 billion views on almost anything.
	Ever.
	And Putin's speech is going to get that?
	Just a translation.
	That's like a seventh of the world or something.
	And here's something else.
	We're talking about the missteps that have been taken.
	Don't forget that former Vice President Biden had the bright idea of sharing US intel on Russian troops with who?
	China!
	You can read this from the New York Times.
	This isn't some bastion of right-wing conservatism.
	What an asshole.
	Let me draw it on the ground.
	We're here.
	They're there.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me draw you a map.
	A map and a list of my schedule and hobbies.
	I told China I didn't think they were going to use it against us.
	And how many artillery pieces did you say?
	Yeah.
	It's like, all right, we're having a sit-down.
	Geraldo, former Vice President Biden, thank you for being here.
	You have a problem with oversharing.
	Yeah.
	Well, I was caring.
	That's why I told him I had six hours.
	Okay, stop admitting to crimes.
	I didn't.
	I said I was the big guy.
	You said I. I am the big guy, son of a bitch.
	Oh, here we go.
	Please stop.
	Just shut up.
	It's okay, you'll never be charged.
	This is from the New York Times.
	Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia's troop buildup around Ukraine.
	Another quote, U.S.
	officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information Immediately.
	With Moscow.
	Telling the Russians that the United States was trying to sow discord.
	It's like we're our own worst enemy.
	It's a game of international telephone with nukes.
	Ah, yes.
	It's like America knows they're just being babysat by their grandpa or like the country, the world just is like, oh, this This dude has dementia or babysitter. He just do whatever
	he want?
	Here's the thing. I also, I've said this before, I can see arguments on almost all, I try to on
	all sides of the issue. For example, I'm pro-life, but I understand the people who may not understand
	the science behind fertilization, DNA. They don't believe that. I can understand why someone holds
	that position. I can understand why some, I don't agree with it. I can understand why someone holds
	a position of abortion for rape and outside of, you know, rape and incest, or sorry, abortion
	for rape and incest is the exception. I don't necessarily agree with it.
	I understand it.
	I can understand why some people who are uneducated on the idea of net transfers from federal income tax maybe think that people need to pay their fair share.
	I can understand that.
	I don't agree with it, but I can understand why someone might maintain these positions.
	There are some scenarios that I can't, and maybe you can comment and let me know.
	I've always said this.
	Or school choice?
	The idea of school choice.
	I've never heard an argument that is logical or convincing, meaning one that I even believe someone who's arguing that position, namely being anti-school choice, one that they believe.
	I don't understand here the argument that former vice president had.
	How would he present the case for why sharing with China intel on the Russian troop buildup was a good idea?
	You got me.
	Any purpose?
	Not.
	I don't think.
	Seriously, I'm not being facetious.
	Can anyone think of why?
	No.
	Literally no.
	I really do think he's naive.
	I think he thinks we have a standing with the global community right now that we don't have.
	And he's going to China thinking, all right, we're going to keep China on our side by doing this.
	And China's just laughing at him.
	They've been laughing at him since before he was elected.
	Yeah, he's not afraid.
	I don't know if he's not afraid of them.
	He's just not aware of anything and they know it.
	And he thinks he's more powerful than he is.
	That's the sad part.
	If they become an alliance, we're losing our power.
	That's the reality.
	For me, China would do some of the same kind of stupid stuff.
	Or at least fighting over the power.
	Maybe some guy just spoke really good English and said he was Hunter.
	Just keeps calling them for information.
	Hello, Dad!
	How you doing?
	Oh, Hunter, it's you again.
	You sound different.
	Have a cold.
	It's because I've been taking care of the banks here.
	Thanks for the job, big guy.
	The problem with this is that all of this is a joke, but this is how these scenarios spin out of control because you have people who misread the situation and don't understand power and don't understand people that have power and actually exercising it.
	I'm sorry, Joe Biden, you are not powerful.
	Somebody like Vladimir Putin or somebody like Xi Jinping who is an autocrat or a dictator, former KGB guy, they may not be powerful in ways that we like, but they wield power.
	Because they will kill people that disagree with them.
	They understand its power.
	It's terrible.
	Right.
	They understand it and they are only threatened by somebody who gets that.
	And here's the thing.
	Inherently someone, as opposed to being naive, inherently someone who is willing to commit acts of evil, which you would have to admit, KGB.
	That is someone who has to understand human nature.
	To understand the idea of power, you have to understand human nature.
	You can look at Xi Jinping, you can look at the genocide that's being committed.
	And just to be clear, this is me actually being fair.
	Former Vice President Joe Biden has done nothing to that degree.
	Not knowingly committing an act of evil to this degree.
	He called him a killer.
	He knows Putin's that guy.
	He knows Putin is that guy in this scenario.
	But the issue is people who understand and value power have to understand human nature.
	What does that mean?
	They understand that human beings are inherently bad, are inherently selfish, if not corrupt.
	That's where faith comes in.
	That's the idea of, you know, original sin, the idea of a fallen man, right?
	This is some people who base their life, and this is one thing with, you know, a lot of people think that the left is inherently more compassionate.
	It's predicated on the idea that people are inherently good.
	That people will inherently be altruistic.
	That, oh, wait a second, yeah, if you give more money to the government, of course people are inherently good.
	Good will be done with that money.
	We know that's not true.
	Wait, people are inherently good?
	Let's share intel on Russian troop buildups with China.
	Whereas they're laughing because these are people who willingly commit genocide.
	These are people who willingly arrest punk rock bands and murder people.
	And get the Olympics in both cases.
	Russia and China.
	And both were doping!
	It's not even close.
	No, no.
	The Russians were doping.
	I don't give a rat's ass if someone... What is Russia going to do?
	They're going to, what, jump across that table at me?
	They not only were doping, if you guys watch this documentary, Icarus, it's fascinating.
	Oh, it's hilarious, too.
	They weren't even... People thought the Russians beat the... This is how evil the Russians are.
	There was the Russian Anti-Doping Commission, I believe was the term, which means the Russian Doping Commission.
	Yeah, take anti out.
	Yes, by the way, what we call it, Russian Anti-Doping Commission, but I think you can read between the lines.
	Maybe that I scratched out with line, anti.
	Am I clear?
	Okay, I go back to my side of the table.
	So, not only were they... See you Tuesday.
	Yes, see you Tuesday.
	He just starts going across the team from Lawrence and Raymond's place.
	Still walking.
	They not only were doping, people think like, oh, they would cycle off steroids to beat the test.
	No.
	The Russians were so hell-bent on doping that they actually found a way, they had trap doors where they would freeze people's, they would freeze, yeah, people's plural, yeah, I'm using it right, they would freeze folks, I'll use that, clean urine from like months or years ago so that they could immediately, up until competition, still be using obscene amounts of performance-enhancing drugs because that's not the urine that they were using.
	Well... So it's not the same as beating a test in a letter commissioned to the United States where you cycle on, you cycle off, you have to be subtle.
	There are kind of ways to find things that maybe aren't like, you know, crazy steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, but maybe things that might be such a small amount, you microdose.
	No, they were just going, go absolutely crazy and we will then freeze your piss from two years ago.
	Well...
	That seems like fine stuff to do, and they also found a way to get the little canisters open.
	They had locks on them that were supposed to be impenetrable, and they're like, ah yes, we figured out how to open them and then replace the pieces.
	That would have honestly been my plan in high school.
	I don't know, man, you want to freeze your piss when it's clean?
	Let's get some frozen piss and then we can just put it in the jar.
	No, they'll watch you pee.
	Oh, man.
	I guess we're in trouble.
	Well, the thing is, that's not how it worked in Russia.
	They're just like, here's your free pee.
	They're like, ah, no, this is great.
	You have good ideas.
	Now, of course, you will compete clean.
	You will go in there and provide urine sample while opening trap door to take urine sample.
	Enjoy.
	Am I clear?
	Do you understand?
	Do I need to spell it out for you?
	Keep taking all the drugs!
	Never stop!
	And really quickly, I know Russia, China, bad, right?
	And a lot of people have said we've been kind of elevating Ukraine to a level that maybe we shouldn't.
	There's a lot of negative stuff there, there's a lot of corruption, but the way that they are fighting... You can also argue that it was kind of a puppet installment of the Obama administration.
	Yeah, but the way that they are fighting right now, the citizens of Ukraine, like, I know there's a lot of fake information going around on, you know, Twitter, social media, everywhere, even, you know, news organizations like CNN, but I'm impressed by Zelensky and I'm impressed by the fight that they are putting up.
	Yeah.
	So I want to make sure, like, I don't know if anybody, I don't know, I know they have Starlink now from Elon Musk, I know that he just put internet there, and it's like, hey, this is a fantastic development.
	I don't know if anybody watches from there, but, like, I think the rest of the world, except for the assholes in China, are on your side.
	Like, you are the underdog in this fight, and you guys are doing an amazing job from what we see.
	The human beings, the citizens.
	Just like you separate the Chinese citizens from the Communist Chinese Party, right?
	Correct.
	The Chinese government, because I have empathy for the Chinese citizens.
	I'm not a huge fan of the way the Ukraine government was installed.
	I'm not a huge fan of what their alignments are, because I also don't think that's what benefits the Ukrainian people, just to be clear.
	But the people who are standing there and fighting, it is.
	Your heart has to go out to these people.
	You have to be inspired by their bravery.
	And you also have to be terrified.
	I think it's pretty obvious.
	Now they're trying to blame Donald Trump.
	You saw Mitt Romney for Russia.
	I think it's pretty clear with Russia, we talk about Georgia, we talk about Crimea, now we talk about Ukraine.
	You're basically talking about kids who were fooling around in class until the tough teacher...
	Yeah.
	Donald Trump walked by for three years, and they go right back to acting up.
	I think we've all seen that happen.
	Now, if you want to argue there's a delayed reaction, and this is what I think.
	I want to leave you with this, two things.
	What we can do here at home in a silver lining.
	Okay, silver lining here.
	They always try to argue, right?
	Anytime something would happen that was good or that was bad with Obama, they would blame it on George Bush.
	And then anytime something would happen that was good or positive with Donald Trump, they would try and give credit to Obama.
	The silver lining is we had eight years of Barack Obama.
	We saw how Russian acted.
	We had three years of Donald Trump, and now you're back to four years of former Vice President Biden.
	It's pretty tough to make that argument twice.
	In other words, it's pretty tough to go and say, oh, the good that happened under Trump was because of Obama, and now say, yeah, but actually, really, the Russia thing is Trump's fault.
	But you just said the good that happened under Trump was Barack Obama because there were eight years?
	Three.
	And I say three years because the presidency was completely kneecapped by the left because of COVID.
	And now we're back, and immediately we're back to how it was for eight years.
	This contrast is really valuable.
	And there are people who are waking up right now, not just in the United States, but Ukraine, Russia allows you to wake people up across the world.
	It doesn't take a genius to figure out eight years, three, and then within the first year, year and a half, we're right back to old habits.
	That is a good thing.
	We've never in our lifetime had the ability to have the contrast of Eight years, a stark departure with Donald Trump, not even basically Republican until he ran.
	And then right back to the same person who was former vice president, same exact administration, especially when you see the exact same kinds of results economically, internationally.
	Look, we had George W. Bush, okay?
	Lots of wars.
	Barack Obama, more drone strikes than any president.
	Continued the wars.
	Only president in modern American history to not start new wars.
	Now we're right back at it.
	I guarantee we're going to be in some kind of a war here before his first term is up, assuming that he makes it that long.
	He kind of went the Barack Obama route with the fire insurance and bringing in Kamala Harris.
	Hey, who can I pick as VP?
	We've selected the person who pulled a dead last in every Democratic primary.
	Bingo!
	What else?
	What can we do here?
	A lot of people think about, and I would love to hear, you know, again, best thing for the algorithm is comment.
	Because this is genuine.
	It's always easy to just criticize and bitch and not offer any constructive solutions.
	Now, I'm not in charge of domestic policy.
	However, what I am saying is people who are in charge of domestic policy, I know that you're watching the show.
	There are a lot of people out there, legislators, representatives who watch this show.
	We don't have to be dependent on Russia at all for energy.
	That affects Americans to a dramatic degree when we're talking about inflation, when we're talking about gas prices, and not just gas prices.
	You're talking about, in general, just globally, petroleum products.
	You're talking about, in general, energy costs, not just gas.
	We do not have to be dependent on a lot of these international relationships for hard goods and services.
	We can do a lot of this here in the United States if we open it up.
	Now, it's hard to get, you can get into, okay, textiles and steel and lumber, right?
	A lot of people don't realize this, 80%, do you know this?
	80% of a lot of American, or beef, in American grocery stores is not from the United States of America.
	Brazil?
	I don't know where it comes, I mean, I just know that it's not from the United States of America, which, I mean, we're in Texas!
	Have you been to one?
	It's nothing but cattle!
	You seen Yellowstone?
	There's cattle everywhere.
	How does this happen?
	Nebraska's got some cows.
	I've seen it.
	Yeah?
	I've seen it with my own eyes.
	I've heard about it!
	Not to mention, why are we buying corn from anywhere?
	It's on the Welcome to Indiana State sign!
	Don't stop till well after Des Moines.
	I've seen it with these eyes.
	And then it says, Indiana, we're more than corn.
	That's what it says with a picture of corn.
	More corn.
	We need to make sure that we have so much corn here in Indiana, we need to let people know that we're more than corn.
	What should we do?
	Show them the corn!
	Nebraska's like, we're Cornhuskers!
	We're gonna go overseas.
	There's no need to be dependent on foreign nations.
	This is the idea of America First, because guess what?
	You need to put on your own oxygen mask before you help somebody else.
	America First is also what's best for not only the American citizens, but what is best for these other countries.
	It's a failed experiment.
	The idea of no international borders.
	The idea of all cultures are alike and we can hold hands and sing We Are The World.
	Because guess what?
	It just requires one evil prick, as we now see, and we got two evil pricks right now.
	We just need one to ruin it for everybody else.
	And oh my gosh, it's not like there's been a precedent set.
	For that, all throughout human history.
	So there are things that we can do and there are things that our representatives can do.
	And look, what can you do?
	You can get active.
	And you know what?
	Make sure you remember this when you vote.
	Make sure you file this in your brain, that little chip, whenever you go forward, that mean tweets don't really mean that much.
	Is that fair?
	Alright, you guys can comment.
	We're gonna take your chats, of course, on MugClub and play... Oh, we're playing Razor Robot.
	Oh, there's no way we can do this on YouTube.
	So, YouTube, you know what?
	Go ahead and fact check the vaccine stuff.
	We don't give a rat's ass.

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