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Feb. 14, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Mayorkas Impeached & Migrants Are The New Slaves!
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I'm surrounded by children today.
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People were arguing in the studio.
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I let Chad know that it's going to be spicy today.
Nothing up my sleeve.
By the way, bring up CNN so people can see that this is live.
Because I wash my hands of this entire situation.
I'll give you the rundown.
We have a lot to get to today.
I don't know if you know this, but migrants, Haitian migrants, turns out to make great slaves.
Oh boy.
We are going to... I'm just going to let that one ride and you'll see the clip and you will agree.
Of course, Secretary Mayorkas impeached.
There's not a lot new there, but it's also funny.
And then this has been making the rounds quite a bit.
RFK Jr.' 's viral clip where he's talked about BlackRock.
He's talked about the war in Ukraine, defense contractors.
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Now, there are some claims in there that are true.
There are some claims in there that are important for you to know.
And there are some claims that are not necessarily fully accurate.
So that's the problem now, where you just have these companies, of course, who are favored by our governments, who can just broadly say, Uh, misinformation.
And then that confuses you, where you don't know what's true and what is not true.
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Question of the day, what are your Valentine's Day plans so I cannot care about them?
Number two, Captain Morgan Hallmark said, pick me, pick me.
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I'm feeling fantastic.
Pulled a muscle in my neck drying my ample locks this morning.
But that just adds to my vim and my vigor.
Like a gay Rapunzel.
I'm looking at your head, where are the locks?
I know, I know, I rubbed a little too hard back and forth and something, something caught.
I don't know, but the bitch loved radishes.
Radishes!
That was her thing.
She's like, this is gonna be my calling card.
I'm gonna eat nothing but radishes so that the witch can very easily predict how to poison me.
I feel like when Adam and Eve was expelled from the Garden of Eden, God was like, and thou shall eat radishes.
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And still starve to death.
Still bad.
I can't catch a rabbit.
I think that these people don't exactly know how they came across.
Here's a Boston family.
They've taken in a couple of Haitian migrants, which sounds nice.
They've taken them in.
That's nice.
They're living out their promise.
They are.
Good job.
But, in a twist.
Turn of events, it looks an awful lot like slavery.
A migrant family from Haiti is sharing their experience.
They're searching for shelter in the Boston area, and then recently found a host home in Brookline.
It's a delight, and it's really fun having them.
What I realized is there's so much prejudice against refugees, mostly because people don't know them.
Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef, as Woldande loves cooking.
They're enjoying their time with Lisa, their new friend for life, and their daughter's new grandmother.
I feel great helping, and I get to understand the refugee crisis from the inside.
Yes, I get to understand it by observing them through the windowpane in the refugee closet.
I love it, especially when they're doing my gardening and taking out my trash for me.
In the servants' quarters, you'll get a cot.
Who knew Haitians knew how to shovel snow?
Just some broth from Southie.
Yeah, get under it!
Use the salt!
Come on!
And use gloves when you handle my food!
Use gloves!
You can't have jackets!
Cut your nails for God's sake!
Welcome to America.
People don't understand them.
They're actually very friendly.
Yeah.
As long as you don't feed them meat, then they're prone to rage.
But I still say they are a delight.
It's touching me.
Get it off me.
It's touching me.
Yep.
White on black crime, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh my gosh.
Boy.
Boy, come on.
It's a perfect encapsulation of the left.
They claim that they're progressive and they care about refugees, minorities, but really they see them as subservient.
And by they, I mean the left.
And by who they see as subservient, I mean blacks.
She was looking for help around the house, let's just be honest.
But they're island blacks.
She watched the help and said, how can I cut those costs?
And they don't care, they're coming from Haiti.
It's the poorest country in the world, Haiti.
So, to them, we put them in the Harry Potter closet underneath the diagonal stairway, they're happy.
Yes!
Happy as a clam.
Win!
Remember that leader of Haiti?
Duvalier?
No, Papadoc?
Yeah, Papadoc.
Papadoc, they called him Duvalier.
He convinced him that he was the voodoo in Papa Doc's, like the voodoo Grim Reaper.
By the way, he was an atheist.
He didn't believe in it.
He was a good performer.
And then he started doing his radio announcements, because most of the country was illiterate.
And he started doing the radio announcements where people were like, he's Papa Doc.
And he's like, I'm not Papa Doc.
And then he would go on radio and go, this is your Prime Minister!
Like the Ultimate Warrior sound.
He's like, it's Papa Doc!
He's like, I told you I'm not Papa Doc!
I have to go sacrifice a rooster in my office.
I'm not Papa Doc!
So they thought he couldn't be taken out of power.
Turns out a few bullets does pop a duck in.
I think those guys can bring it up.
Actually, his son, Baby Doc, took power for a while.
Which is actually a true story.
Lil' Doc.
You ever see the coup that took place?
It's like five guys with pump shotguns.
They have a gang problem.
Yeah, they do.
And a food problem.
Yeah, they have a country problem.
It's called Haiti.
Alright, so, Mayorkas.
Tuesday evening, so we are Wednesday, if you're watching right now, we are Wednesday at 10.20 Eastern.
Tuesday evening, so last night, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas.
And we're not going to spend too much time on this because we talked about it, but there is a double standard here where hopefully people, like, hey, here's a question to you, conservatives.
Republicans, do you always want to lose?
Because you compare how the left gets in line for people like Mayorkas, or you compare how the left gets in line for people like Menendez.
Yeah.
And then, you know, these purity tests that Republicans put up.
And I'm not saying that you should put up someone who doesn't actually share your values, but let's start with Mayorkas impeached, because that's funny.
On this vote, the yeas are 214 and the nays are 213.
The resolution is adopted.
I like Johnson.
He's doing good.
I like him too.
He seems like a real guy.
Mayorkas is now the first cabinet official to be impeached since the 1870s.
So that's a big deal.
Historic, some would say.
Namely history.
And of course, upon hearing the news, his house staff, not to be confused with the Haitian migrant slaves.
his house staff, Mayorkas, had a bit of a meltdown.
Mayorkas was a bit of a crybaby.
He was a bit of a crybaby.
This guy is willful blindness, of course, too.
What's been going on at the southern border?
We've documented this at length, but here's just a refresher.
Big picture.
You have now been in your position for three years, and let's talk about what's happened during those three years.
More migrants have crossed the border illegally last year than ever before.
The asylum cases backlog has more than tripled since 2019.
You yourself have said that more than 85% of migrants caught crossing the border illegally ...are being released into the U.S.
as they await their court dates.
I want to be very clear.
Our borders are not open.
Agency is on track to process more than 300,000 migrants.
An all-time monthly high.
Our border is not open.
A record influx of migrant crossings is pushing border cities to the limit.
Federal agents and resources now reaching a breaking point.
Do you believe that right now there's a crisis at the border?
I think that the answer is no.
Okay, really quickly.
First off, we're going to bring up CNN right now because CNN right now, they're discussing Speaker Johnson downplays GOP laws in New York special.
And I've been watching CNN this morning.
Very little mention of Mayorkas.
They want to focus on Santos.
Oh, they just cut away from it.
Of course.
It's not a crisis.
The border's not open.
And this is what happens.
This is how they often trick you, right?
They're hoping that it seems so epic in scale that you just sort of lose sight of what's actually happening.
If you were like, hey, close my front door, the flies will get in.
No, no, it's not open.
But there are like 300,000 flies!
Yeah, it's a few.
His main defense is, it wasn't me.
He always looks like, I swear to God, when he asks a question, there's a moment where he always looks like somebody threw him into a cold plunge.
He's always like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no!
You have to expect him to just go, I'm doing better!
My core is cold.
You're correct.
He's a movie quote.
Always caught off guard.
By the way, when did Jeff Bezos start moonlighting?
That's the first question that I have.
Both look equally unhealthy.
They both keep it very very tight around the face and head.
They take a straight razor.
And so if if Mayorkas gets ousted, it seems they already have actually someone waiting in the wings to replace him
It's a cheap trick, but I pulled it He hasn't spoken a word yet and is already better.
More poised.
Yes.
More poised.
And seems more sure of himself.
Yes.
Seems more cabinetential.
More athletic, thicker neck, and looks like he'd give a puma a real problem.
He would.
He would.
That's a Doug Argentino reference.
Here's the thing, let me give you some, just because this will come up again and a lot of you will say, didn't we already cover this story?
The impeachment vote here, by the way, it doesn't remove him from office, just to be clear, goes to Senate for trial.
It's likely going to go nowhere because you have Baby Eater Schumer leading.
Sorry, baby blood drink.
I thought it was a snow owl tumor.
Yeah, he does.
They tap the vein of the living baby, so the baby's actually not harmed.
And it'll likely be dismissed, right, the charges, just with a basic majority vote, okay?
Likely before even the sides argue the case.
Seems like it's all for show.
Right.
You know?
Yes.
I want him to do something.
Yeah.
It's like, you know that this isn't going to go anywhere.
Kick him in the nuts.
So really, like, what are you going to do?
Make him feel some sting.
Some sting?
Is it childish?
Sure.
I don't care at this point.
It's probably a crime.
Like, that's beneath you.
Uh-uh.
No.
No.
So, here's the thing.
Right now, the Democrats just gained a seat in Congress when you had Tom Swayze, right?
He won George Santos' old seat, and so that's what they've been covering non-stop.
We have Tom Swayze, now in the seat of George Santos.
You're too stupid to have a good term!
Sorry, wrong clip, but a good one.
Here's the right one.
We can now project Tom Swayze as the winner- Pause!
Before we move on, and we'll get back to the serious nature of this program, the reporter on the right looks like a kid's make-a-wish in a donated wig in front of a green screen because his last wish was to fake report.
That is not a real person.
That's so outrageously accurate.
Looks like he's about to die and he's like, why is this my wish?
I should have asked to meet John Cena or go to Disneyland.
Or he's actually shitting his pants.
He's like, I'm on air and I can't move.
That's not a real person.
The quaaludes just kicked in.
Continue.
...is projecting that Tom Swasey has won, or will win, New York's third congressional district.
Let's go back to Steve Kornacki at the big board.
Yeah, Lawrence, I mean, we were saying it without saying it, I think, a few minutes ago when we were talking, but basically what we were talking about is what just happened.
That guy has a job, Stephen!
I said Mike Johnson was a real guy, and that guy made me look good!
And by the way, I just said Swayze just because I wanted to set up the clip.
And he made me look good!
So, here's the thing.
The GOP helped get a Republican, a very gay one, removed from Congress.
But here's the thing.
And I get it.
Santos?
Yeah.
Not the best among us, okay?
That being said, look at how Democrats, how they step in line for, we're talking about Mayorkas, how they held the line on Senator Bob Menendez, right?
And keep in mind, this is all despite a grand jury, you know, indicting Menendez for bribes, for taking bribes.
You'd think that'd be a disqualification.
Yeah.
At some point.
Mayorkas, you're talking about a national security, well as far as at the border threat that we have not seen in our lifetime.
He's very likely not going to be convicted in the Senate because it's always a guarantee that pretty much all of the Democrats will step in.
It's very very rare that you see Democrats reach across the aisle.
When they say bipartisan, what they mean is we want to pressure Republicans and then lay the blame with them.
Remember we called that, we said that's what they're gonna do with the border bill?
They basically just reintroduced the bill without money for the border and now it's the Ukraine bill.
That's the National Security Act.
It's the National Security Act.
You gotta name these things correctly.
Because when I think national security, I think the Donbass region.
At least your pronunciation is spot on.
I think it's close enough.
Better than Schwayze.
Donbass.
Good farming.
So right now you have the Democrats that flip the GOP House seat.
They're standing by corrupt politicians like Senator Menendez and Mayorkas.
Hey, look, I get it that we have a difference.
It's a lot harder to hold yourself to a standard when you have any whatsoever.
But at a certain point, Republicans need to just start playing hardball.
No, we're not going to get rid of him.
Well, no, they got to play hardball and they also got to put up candidates that are good.
Of course this seat's going to flip.
But the left's not putting up candidates that are good.
No, no, no.
Well, I'm not saying Bob Menendez.
I'm just saying maybe Menendez was doing this on the down low beforehand.
We nominated Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz.
That's because he ran on the platform of Demon Baby.
Demon Baby.
Demon Baby.
I'm going to do away with every house.
There will be, in every house, there will be a Demon Baby.
Sorry, there'll be a Demon Baby Hunter.
Hunter.
So we'll hunt all the Demon Babies, have no more, and then congratulations to you.
I got rid of your Demon Baby.
I vote!
The man is out of his tree!
Yes he is.
And we put him up, it's like, put good candidates up!
And then also, don't always play by the same rules as we want to wish upon ourselves.
Put the best candidates up, and then when they are up, don't oust them.
Yes.
That's it.
Have their back by saying nothing about it.
If you cannot say anything good, just be silent and not let them get kicked out of Congress.
Just speak in platitudes.
Say like, ah, I don't know, that's how the cookie crumbles.
It is what it is.
What?
Let bygones be bygones.
Huh?
That's just what you do.
And then they move on.
Then they move on.
Yeah, something will happen.
So what do you think the most, and you can comment below, what do you think the most important action is for Republicans to take on this, at this point, as we're dealing with Mayorkas?
And what do you think will come of it?
I'm not a micro-political guy, but look, we have a pretty good idea as to where this is going to go, so I don't want to give it that much time, even though I know everyone is talking about it, they've asked us to cover it.
Okay?
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I cry about it.
Happy Valentine's Day!
VD.
Just say VD.
Yeah.
Well, that's often what, I mean, the numbers go up.
Don't be such a drip, Gerald.
They go up on the 15th, actually.
That's good stuff.
That's good humor.
That just came out.
I'm a professional.
You're incorrigible.
You are.
Thanks.
I am obligated to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day, even though I don't care.
So let's highlight some of our favorite couples here at Louder with Crowder.
I feel like we should have a stinger for this.
I don't know.
Do you have a love song on the soundboard?
I'll find something.
Just hum the Rocky.
I have like a childhood crushes one, but that's not gonna work.
Let's go through our favorite couples here, because it's Valentine's Day.
VD is Joe.
There you go.
My personal favorite, Ilhan Omar and her brother.
And then, of course, another wonderful couple.
They stay together through thick and thin.
Fannie Willis and Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Another one because, hey, love knows... I mean, age is just a number.
It is.
And, you know, genes don't matter.
Joe and Ashley Biden.
That's a good one.
She wrote about it.
To be fair, I don't know if that was love so much as just a physically... Just a shower?
Just a shower.
Just a few showers.
Ah, let me just wash that off.
They're saving water, apparently.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah, you gotta rub it real hard to get the... Big conservation.
I don't buy it because he lets the water run when he brushes his teeth.
That's right.
Just rub the stand out there.
I've been eating blueberries.
Hurt plus.
There's no tears.
That's not why I'm crying!
And of course, Nikki Haley and Xi Jinping.
Sorry, right clip.
We're going to move on here to the RFK Jr.
clip where we'll be doing the fact-checking the fact-checkers.
I now officially work for you. There is nothing that you could need that we won't make sure that we deliver.
Sorry, right clip.
We're going to move on here to the RFK Jr. clip where we'll be doing the fact-checking the fact-checkers.
But actually before that, has anyone seen Billy?
Uh, you didn't hear?
Hear what?
Oh boy.
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The government is frickin' funding.
I mean, don't go full Willie Nelson and pay nothing.
No, no, no, no.
You gotta like pay your- Yeah, you gotta pay what's- Yeah.
You gotta- Legally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you can pay less.
Right.
You wanna pay less?
Less is good.
You know what?
Or just you can become an undocumented worker.
But then you end up as a Haitian slave in Bali.
I know, exactly.
That's the point.
It's, look, it's pick your poison.
Wesley Snipes or Tax Network.
Yes, exactly.
You can't high kick your way out of this one.
So let's go to the RFK Jr., the viral clip.
Have you, question for you, have you seen this clip?
It's been making the rounds and a lot of people have shared it and some people have been asking us to fact check it because it's been labeled as misinformation.
So you can comment, you can hit the like button because that helps with the algorithm if that means anything anymore.
So, I believe this happened over the weekend, and this is – we'll just kind of show you, I guess, the bulk of it right now, and then go through it point by point.
RFK Jr.
discussing the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and sort of the beneficiaries, I guess.
This whole clip went viral and then started a firestorm.
It's tough to discern truth from fiction.
This is a war that should have never happened.
The big military contractors want to add new countries to NATO all the time.
We committed $113 billion.
But the big, big expenses are going to come after the war, when we have to rebuild all the things that we destroyed.
It's a money laundering scheme.
And who do you think owns every one of those companies?
BlackRock of its government-owned assets up for sale to multinational corporations.
President Biden gave out the contract to rebuild Ukraine.
And who do you think got that contract? BlackRock.
All right. So how much of this do you know or believe to be true versus maybe a distortion?
Of course, Right Away Social Media has consistently fact-checked this and a lot of his views on the Ukraine-Russia war.
We provide all the references, link in the description.
So let's break down the truth versus maybe some misstatements in our latest installment of Fact-Checking the Fact Checkers.
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Now this is not like some of the other ones where we've had, you know, Washington Post or PolitiFact or Snopes give it several Pinocchios.
They've just broadly said, this is false.
This is misinformation.
Okay, so let's go through the claims as to what it is that he said versus the, well, the reality of it.
Here's his first claim that you see from RFK Jr.
The Russians tried to settle on beneficial terms.
It's a war that should have never happened. It's a war the Russians tried repeatedly to settle on
terms that were very, very beneficial to Ukraine and us.
The major thing they wanted was for us to keep NATO out of the Ukraine. Okay, so here's
the truth.
Um...
It depends on who you're asking.
Now, I do think that it's important to bring this up because a lot of people, if you don't understand the motivation, we had so many arguments here today before going into this show, if you don't understand the motivation, then you're not going to at all understand the solution.
And that also will determine the type of treaties that you offer.
Look, you may disagree with him, you may think that Putin is a totalitarian bastard, and rightfully so.
But, to act as though there's no legitimate grievance would be to ignore a huge portion of the Russian people, and by the way, some of the Ukrainian people who identify as ethnic Russians.
It doesn't mean that they are justified, but you need to understand what their justification is and what kind of diplomacy or attempts have taken place.
So.
Let's go through this.
In late February 2022, Russia demanded of the Ukraine that they enshrine neutrality in their constitution.
What does that mean?
That means not join NATO, which they're not supposed to do anyway.
That was the agreement.
Now you can say the agreement should change, but you also would have to acknowledge why Russia might be concerned about the agreement changing.
They also demanded that Ukraine accept the loss of Crimea and the breakaway regions of Donbass.
Then in late March 2022, Ukraine will not join NATO and they will stay non-nuclear.
Ukraine demanded that they receive security guarantees from countries like China, Russia, and France, that they would have a 15-year consultation period on Crimea, and that Ukraine reserves the right to reconquer Donbass.
Okay, well nothing else really matters, because they're going, alright, we want Donbass.
Okay, well then, do we still need to write the rest?
But at some point we can fight over this and figure out, you know, if this is going to come back.
I mean, you know, Vladimir Putin has a policy of going into these countries where there's ethnic Russian bases that used to be a part of the USSR that are not a part of them now, and basically saying, well hey, it's because there's an ethnic group in here, I gotta come in there.
Georgia being an example, killing 25,000 of his own citizens.
He didn't, sorry.
Russia did.
In Chechnya, that country has a history of being a bad actor to the people that used to be a part of that country, right?
Or a part of that USSR, right?
A part of that.
So I understand why they're pissed off that he came in and just said, hey, I like Crimea, taking it back.
I get that there were other things that led to this, but you can't just go in and take stuff from other people.
Correct.
Especially when it's land.
Yeah, I mean, they've done it.
I think it's nine different times since the 90s.
You could talk about a guy who's been in power for 25 years.
So, you do have to take into account, the world has to do something when, for the ninth time, maybe the eighth time, he's come into a sovereign country and just rolled into the tanks.
Well, I wouldn't say the world.
I would say Europe.
Yeah, but the only thing about Putin is he's stated this, that the goal ultimately is to bring back the old Soviet Union.
That would be the glory of Russia.
Sort of the greatest disaster for him and the Russian people was the dissolution of the Soviet Union, I think, in 1991.
So, that is something that he's stated, you know.
Sure, but I also think that he also, and this is a legitimate grievance, where he said, well, in retrospect, it was a disaster.
It was the right decision at the time that we thought, because we thought we would have a seat at the table after the Cold War.
This is, Jeff, these are not the communists.
This is, you're talking about the era of Yeltsin going on.
What was the name?
I just forgot the name of the guy who drafted the report.
Ah, we had it just a second ago.
We just had it, yes, where he said, hold on, wait a second, wait a second, you're isolating Russia again.
My life's work is going to be worth nothing.
So, looking back, he's saying, well, why did we dissolve it?
George Keenan.
Kenan.
So the Russians said, well why don't we dissolve it?
Because we're not allowed to be a player at the table anyway.
And this is what happens historically.
You ostracize, you isolate people.
Guess what?
It's really easy to galvanize their people and take over more stuff.
So anyways, this was Ukraine's counter-offer.
Putin said of the draft, not bad result.
That actually is interesting.
Considering he is the guy that I have just said, I think.
In my opinion, he is this guy.
He's going to go do these things.
But even with that, he goes, well yeah, if you want to try to reconquer it later on, we can have that fight.
Like he said, it's not a bad result.
It's like, alright, so there is some possibility for peace.
Right.
There's some possibility.
Maybe nobody's gonna like it, but that's sometimes how negotiations go.
That's what a compromise is.
Everyone's miserable.
Now the deal, let me just break this out really quick.
The deal fell apart after a sequence of events Russians failed to take.
Kiev.
I've heard Kiev.
Kiev.
I don't care.
I say Kiev.
You say Kiev?
Yeah, unless I'm undercover and then I say Kiev.
Yeah, I know.
You're always undercover though.
That's true.
So Russians fail to take Kiev, Ukrainians obviously then claim to have discovered war crimes, and then Boris Johnson, this is true, Putin was not lying about this, pressured Ukraine to not negotiate with Putin.
Why?
And that's why it goes into some of the other claims that RFK has made.
And look, he's not accurate on all the specifics, but I do think we need to Allow some room here for chicken or the egg.
We have been in a state of perpetual war.
And if you wanted to orchestrate a conflict internationally, right now with Russia, to continue a state of perpetual war, this is how you would do it.
Yeah, you poke them in the chest.
You would say, we're not going to put boots on the ground, but we're going to pledge up to $150 billion.
And we're going to, I don't know, maybe NATO, maybe not.
This is how you would do it.
It's going to continue.
This is not a conflict where someone has a very clear cut end in sight.
We had this same kind of a conflict in Iraq.
We had it with Afghanistan with no withdrawal plan.
And then you ask, okay, who are the constant beneficiaries of these never ending wars?
That's not a difficult line to draw.
And then sometimes you fill in the gaps with specifics that aren't fully accurate, but
it is true if you look at defense contracts.
But it's also not unreasonable to make those kinds of leaps because they're not one, they're
because they're not one they're not big leaps and two their inferences
not big leaps and two, they're inferences.
Well, yeah, and two it doesn't seem to make any sense.
Well, yeah.
And two, it doesn't seem to make any sense otherwise.
Otherwise, right like yeah, maybe maybe you're wrong fine But you've done a poor job of defining
Right.
Like, yeah, maybe, maybe you're wrong.
Fine.
But you've done a poor job of defining what reality really is.
What reality really is then you've been meddling in these countries for so long
Then you've been meddling in these countries for so long, basically just flicking the jab
Basically just flicking the jab at Putin this entire time with Ukraine and NATO expansion never saying no saying well,
at Putin this entire time with Ukraine and NATO expansion, never saying no, saying, well,
we'll revisit it We'll reevaluate when obviously the answer should have been
we'll revisit it.
We'll reevaluate when obviously the answer should have been But it's also not unreasonable to make those kinds of leaps
no based on what we said NATO was supposed to be so look But don't you guys think it's significant that when he had
that Tucker interview?
The first thing he said is essentially went back to the 9th century and said this Ukraine is actually our land
I mean that that's the old-school thing. It's it's our land.
It really belongs to Russia That's the first thing second of all we had to get in there
because we had to denazify that was a little crack There's these things where you just go, dude, I can't get on board with that.
Now, I understand if you said, if Mexico joined, you know, had Russian tanks in it, we'd be like, you can't have your Russian tanks there.
You can make the argument for militarizing.
If Ukraine's flirting with NATO membership, that is a red line for Russia, I understand.
But there's a reason Russia is a one-crop economy.
They have energy.
When was the last time you went to a, I don't know, let's go through it, a Russian restaurant, a Russian laundromat?
If you're an entrepreneur in that country, you can just have your company taken.
So he said we weren't allowed to join the Western economy.
There were so many Western people, and I know people who actually tried to start businesses in Russia because there was so much money, and what would happen is you start a business and thugs would come in and just take your business.
Yeah, you got a nice business.
Yeah, it just made it impossible for any kind of... no one I know in Europe or in the United States would ever invest in Russia, because it was basically impossible.
Well, not only that, though, but you have to also understand sanctions, you have to also understand the policy of isolationism of Russia.
Which they've earned to an extent, but you're also talking about the Cold War.
Yeah, but after the Cold War would have been a time to say, like, alright, okay, let's open this up a little bit, and we never did.
We never really did.
Yeah.
And even, like we talked about, I keep forgetting his name, I'm horrible at remembering.
Kenan.
Kenan.
Who was the architect of this?
Hold on a second.
The Cold War is done.
We have to now put this behind us and actually give it a go.
And we never did.
It doesn't mean that they're good actors.
But let me go back here to more claims from RFK Jr.
Here's another claim that he's made in this video.
That U.S.
defense contractors pushed for NATO expansion.
The big military contractors want to add new countries to NATO all the time.
Why?
Because then that country has to conform its military purchases to NATO weapon specifications, which means certain companies, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed get a trapped market.
No, fact check, that is absolutely true.
Fact check!
That is true.
U.S.
contractors did encourage NATO expansion.
So after you had the Cold War, after the Cold War, you had Poland and you had, there was these, there's Poland and the Warsaw Pact countries.
Yeah.
Right?
So if you say, you think Warsaw, but they lined up to join.
Poland along with Warsaw Pact countries.
Hungary, I think, and yeah.
I don't know all of the countries, but we'll make the references available.
They wanted to join NATO.
Now, defense contractors, you could argue seeing an opportunity, lobbied Washington to expand NATO.
So between 96 to 98, $51 million spent, which today we say, that's cute.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a lot then.
But here's the thing, it did come with terms.
New NATO members had to update their military tech, right, which means money for contracts.
I didn't know that.
You've heard Lindsey Graham say that.
You've heard CNN say that.
So this is basically a loan, which of course I'll never have to pay back, to American defense contractors.
And why do they need to create more?
Well, because they've sold so many to Ukraine.
And comment below if you'd like us to do a segment on this.
There is so much, there's so much bullshit, sorry, surrounding NATO specifications of weapons.
It doesn't make any sense.
If you look at the specifications that are set, you will say, this doesn't make sense
because you claim the Geneva Convention when it's convenient for you,
but you do this with ammunition, only this ammunition is allowed,
but then hold on a second, what about how we deal with urban warfare?
And then these bombs are allowed, none of it adds up.
We can do a whole segment on that where when you look at something
and there's an alarming amount of inconsistency, you say, okay, this isn't necessarily
about what's safer or what's best for human rights.
There are certain people who are benefiting.
And I also thought that the whole, I mean, I understand like limiting civilian casualties, but if you're a soldier on the battlefield, the whole point is to kill them.
Why would you want to make something less deadly?
The other thing that you have to keep in mind that's very important when it comes to the military-industrial complex is that it is real in the sense that we've never seen this kind of consolidation of power.
There used to be a hundred military contractors.
Right.
There are now five, ladies and gentlemen.
Five.
That's very significant.
Add to the fact that you have these failed projects like the F-35.
The F-35 is not a good airplane.
It's made in 45 different states.
You know why?
It's assembled in 45 different states because it's impossible to cancel.
Now everybody, tell that politician to scrap that program.
Jobs are lost in that state.
So that's how they do it.
They spread it out so it can never go away.
No, you're absolutely right.
So we'll maybe do a segment on that, on NATO specifications and kind of the history of that and why it's remarkably inconsistent.
Because a lot of people just say, it's NATO!
Or sometimes you'll have people say about, like, firearms, it's MIL-SPEC.
It doesn't mean anything.
That means it's exactly, it's what you need at an absolute minimum.
And by the way, a lot of the firearms that get giant military contracts just comes down to lobbyists.
Yeah, I was about to say.
This is the part of this that I was not aware of, that they had to conform to kind of NATO guidelines on this.
I would love to see how those guidelines came into being, like, hey, you have to use this specific thing, and here's kind of whatever fabricated reason.
I'm not saying that those exist, but I'm pretty sure those probably exist.
They absolutely exist.
That you have to do this, and did the military contractors, did they lobby to get them Maybe the exclusive right, because they happen to make something that fits what they're lobbying for, and now they can be the only person on the planet to sell that particular weapon?
I don't want to speak out of turn, but you have entire firearms companies out there that basically kind of sell to civilians so they can check that box, and then they're actually anti-Second Amendment.
They go, we're not really a civilian firearm company, we just exist to serve giant military contracts.
They're our companies.
That is their business model.
This is where the vet bros come into play.
Just because someone is a veteran does not mean that they understand the Second Amendment or that they support you.
And certainly not because someone works in the offices of the military-industrial complex, for lack of a better word.
Let's go to another claim from RFK Jr.
and hopefully this serves you well.
We've had a lot of requests for it.
And it always sort of grinds my gears when something goes out and people go, I'm at the point where I don't know what it sounds true, a lot of it is, and some of the specifics are not.
So he goes on to say, all right, we've connected these dots, Russia, the terms for peace, you've been lied to about that, military-industrial complex, defense contractors, that part is irrefutably true.
And then he connects this to, and BlackRock owns the defense contractors.
Here's his claim.
Mitch McConnell was asked, can we really afford to spend $113 billion in Ukraine?
He said, don't worry.
It's not really going to Ukraine.
It's going to American defense manufacturers.
So he just admitted it's a money laundering scheme.
And who do you think owns every one of those companies?
BlackRock.
Okay, here's the truth.
Earlier, I said Lindsey Graham.
I meant to say Mitch McConnell, but in my mind, they're one and the same.
Admonish?
They're like, yeah.
So, I've been fact-checked.
We can admonish you.
Both.
Dual fact-check and admonishment.
Double whammy.
Dang.
I meant Mitch McConnell.
I said Lindsey Graham.
Even then, I had to freeze.
Like, wait, what?
Oh, jeez, that woman on CNN owns no neck.
It's like a tete-a-claque person in real life.
French Canadians will like that reference.
Okay, so I'm gonna ask. Blackrock, here's the truth, Blackrock is absolutely one of the many
institutional investors when you're talking about having a stake in these companies.
I'll give you some examples like Northrop Grumman, BlackRock, Grumman, Grumman, Grumman,
Grumman, Lindsey Graham, Grumman, it's a hard word, Northrop Grumman.
Don't feed it after midnight, don't get it wet.
So BlackRock has a 6.4% share, State Street has a 9.28% share, Vanguard has a 7.4% share.
Now, the same trend holds true for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Honeywell, Boeing.
Yeah, they're all big investors.
This is one of those claims where I think he opened himself up to a critique by saying these companies are owned by BlackRock.
They are not owned by BlackRock.
BlackRock has enough to be influential.
For sure, huge influence.
Their influence out punts their percentage of ownership.
I would agree.
These institutional investors, they can influence company management through buying, selling stock.
And you also have to keep in mind that companies like BlackRock, they've been deemed too big to fail by the United States government.
Elizabeth Warren!
When Elizabeth Warren, the self-professed socialist says, they're too big to fail, oh and by the way, these are our terms.
So, you're now a company, you go, wait a second, I get to privatize profits and socialize losses and I'm never at risk of going bankrupt?
Great!
I'll do your bidding.
That's what happened with the big banks, that's what happened with the airline industries, that's what happened with the health insurance industry, and that's what happened with the big three.
I'll distill it down to the big three, the auto manufacturers, because it's something that you can understand.
This happened under, I can't remember the name of the initiative, but under Barack Obama.
GM, right?
We're talking about these bailouts.
And they said, you have to have X number of cars that get 30 miles per gallon or more.
Why?
In the name of this green initiative.
Now, keep in mind that GM offered more 30 miles per gallon cars than Honda or Toyota combined at that point.
But GM said, well, hold on a second, people aren't buying them.
Why?
Because the Cavalier sucks!
And so they said, yeah, you need a UT Austin burnt orange Cobalt?
The Cavalier.
We'll name it the Cavalier.
Just that name itself sucks.
How out of touch were you?
Sorry, University of Virginia Cavaliers.
And so what happened is they said, but no one's buying them.
They said, it doesn't matter.
You're going to do what we tell you to do.
They said, but hold on a second.
Now we actually have a shortage of SUVs.
And then in California, they had laws that said you can only have X number of SUVs in a lot because they were trying to artificially influence and manipulate the market.
Hey, guess what happens?
They don't turn.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter anywhere else in the free market.
GM would say, well, we're not going to make more cars that people aren't buying.
You have to, because the government tells you those are the cars you better create or else.
They say, by the way, once you go bankrupt, we'll just bail you out with more taxpayer funds.
Same thing happens with big banks, and the same thing will happen, they promise will happen, with these giant corporations like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
That is already in the writing.
So the issue is not just these companies.
The issue is the unholy alliance with government.
When government picks winners and losers, it just means that they can privatize profits and socialize losses.
So, hit the like button if you're bullish on defense contractor stocks.
I know I am.
But my problem with RFK is that when he says that BlackRock owns these companies, which they don't, it's the equivalent of what he said on Rogan's podcast where he said 5G causes brain tumors and he is representing clients who have brain tumors as a result of their cell phone.
And when pressed on that, he said, well now we're getting into an area I don't have expertise in.
Yeah, you don't.
But it's not the same as that claim though.
He doesn't even have a fundamental understanding of what BlackRock does.
And by defending BlackRock, it's a service that allows you to invest very cheaply in the S&P 500.
So the idea that they actually go into Lockheed and Raytheon and have influence would be a violation, it's illegal, it would be a violation of their fiduciary duty.
Oh yeah, because nothing illegal ever happens with giant equity funds.
When RFK does not do his due diligence, he doesn't have an even fundamental understanding of what BlackRock is.
How long before Madoff?
It's not the same thing.
It is absolutely the same thing.
No, it's not.
Okay, here's an example.
They have $12 trillion under management, and they've been deemed too big to fail by the government.
That's a concern.
Now, let me give you an example of this that you might experience.
You know that housing prices keep going up, and you know that rent prices are skyrocketing.
This is how, when the government deems too big to fail, it harms you, and you create these giant leviathans like BlackRock.
Disregard, let's put aside the idea of assets under management, which is the metric that's used by governments and by the market.
The term, you're right, he's not saying they own, he shouldn't be saying they own these companies.
They own enough, or they have enough of a stake in these companies that they can manipulate markets.
Wrong.
Let me give you an example of, again, trying to sell to someone that you experience.
Because it's hard, right?
You don't have a lot of experience with, let's say, Honeywell defense contracting, but you buy a house.
By the way, I have a Honeywell air purifier.
I didn't know you did defense stuff.
Was it Mil-spec air conditioning?
They keep your air very clean.
They make my fridge filter and hydrogen bombs?
Yikes.
Diversification.
Okay, so big banks, you know that.
They say, oh, banks, too big to fail.
Well, what happened to the local credit unions, the smaller banks?
Hey, guess what?
They don't get the never-ending supply of bailouts.
And so, Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, I don't know who else it was at that point, but these are the big ones.
Merrill Lynch.
Merrill Lynch, I believe TD.
I'm not sure.
They all received bail.
And it's like, now you're going to do business the way we tell you to.
I mean, even before we had this crash, right?
It was, now you're gonna do business the way we tell you to, and you're going to offer loans to people who can't afford to pay them back.
Don't worry, the government's going to make it up.
So, what happens?
Smaller banks close credit unions, and now you end up with super banks.
Same thing happened until Elon Musk with the big three.
It's really, really tough to get into auto manufacturing.
Same thing with airlines, by the way.
Really, really tough to get in there because they enjoy never-ending supply of bailout funds from the government.
Now let's look at housing.
Now, is this to say that BlackRock came in, evicted everybody, and screwed you?
No!
But, remember rent forgiveness?
You had Joe Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, respect the office, who said, uh, yeah, I know it's a violation, uh, of constitutionally, and the Supreme Court's gonna They're going to obviously kick it out, but we'll have a few months before then.
Okay.
So let me ask you this.
You had a bunch of people who didn't have to pay rent.
Did the small mom-and-pop landlords, home providers, did they get forgiveness?
On their payments?
On their mortgages?
No, absolutely not.
I'm talking about there are a lot of people, at one point in time, that's how Arnold made his money when he first came here, you own a few properties, you rent them out.
That's part of the American dream at one point in time.
Oh, wait, the government steps in and says, renters, you don't have to pay.
Hey, hold on a second, they pay me, so I, you have to pay, the bank's going to take it.
Then what happens?
These properties, single-family housing units, get purchased by BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, And they get to consolidate it and create an entire generation of renters.
You can go out here in Texas, and there are people, you know, we have people who move here from across the country when we make new hires.
Hard to buy a house.
And it's not only hard to buy a house, but you want to rent.
You say, okay, this is a short-term rental.
Okay, fine.
They go, yep, sign here.
By the way, we reserve the right to put you in any of the homes that we actually own.
Wait, wait, wait, what?
Yeah, someone give us a better offer.
We can switch you.
So what happens is, hey, look at these victims, renters.
Then there's the middle class.
So typically the left preys on the lowest class again, those below the poverty line.
They say, hey, we're going to use you for votes.
Screw this big wide middle class.
We use the poor class really as a victim that we hold out So that then we can enrich people at the top.
And you end up with people getting richer, richer, richer, in the name of helping the most poor among us, meanwhile the middle class people who have saved.
If you are actually at a distinct disadvantage, and this is because of the government, and this is because of companies like BlackRock, and it's one and the same when you're talking about Chase, when you're talking about whatever it is.
I'm talking about governments setting terms and never ending bailouts.
You are worse off if you went, for example, through the 2008 crisis.
And rather than buying a house you couldn't afford, you decided to save money so that you could get a down payment When the market would recorrect itself and waited until, let's say, 2009.
You would be worse off than someone who overspent, who overextended themselves, and was bailed out by the government in the name of diversity.
The banks were better off.
The people that had no business being in those houses were better off.
You, if you were responsible, saved, and lived within your means, you were worse off.
And that's what's happening now.
Does that help?
You could make the argument.
Comment below.
Does that help?
I'm trying to distill it to how it affects you beyond defense contractors.
Because this is, to bring it back to you, that's also why you would have dozens of defense contractors down to five.
That's what happened.
That's government policy that causes that problem.
And so what happens is BlackRock comes in and says, let's buy these things.
Now, the one thing you have to add to that, though, is you as an investor can actually invest in that consolidated renter's market.
So that is actually something that you can invest in.
So you'll get a dividend for that.
So if you think that people are going to be renting because interest rates are too high and that nobody can afford their house, which is a fact.
Thank you, quantitative easing, etc.
We can go through that.
We're not.
But it is government interference.
But you could make the argument that that's why Americans can't afford a house.
Now, when the rental market is what it is, you can actually invest in the rental market.
Yeah, but it's basically blood money.
That's my point.
When mom-and-pop home providers are now out, it's like, yeah, but you can invest through BlackRock services to screw those people.
Oh great, I'm glad those folks were forgiven for their rent, and I'm glad that now I can invest through BlackRock.
But the mom-and-pop business has never come back.
That's the issue, and that's why Donald Trump has a base.
It's those people who are left behind.
Yeah, and look, I could have also invested in credit default swaps, too.
They can create all the financial products that they want to sell people.
That's what led to the crash in 2008.
But hey, I got to invest in these things.
I got to invest in these.
It doesn't matter.
Like, these guys are consolidating power.
They can flex muscle in ways, Brian, that I don't think you fully give them credit for.
And I don't know why you think that they've got these altruistic means and that they're just basically serving their customers.
You can make a ton of money by investing in defense contractors right now.
You can do that, and guess what?
Hey, it's great if you just want your portfolio to do well, it's great for us to be in a state of perpetual war.
I've got Raytheon stock.
I think the threat here is actually technology is allowing for small groups of people to
make impossible amounts of money just by the nature of how you can manipulate technology
to scale costs.
So Amazon's a classic example.
It's just cheaper for me to order something online than it is to go to the local, you
And Amazon can force out small producers.
Somebody who has a book who can't sell on Amazon, you're keeping them from the marketplace.
I understand that's the kind of power that they have.
BlackRock's the same thing.
I can invest in the American stock market, get 11% of my money on average, and pay very low fees.
That's kind of what it is.
But I'm not worried about their investment.
What I'm worried about is the consolidation of power.
You don't think that boards of directors... Me too.
I'm worried about that.
You know why I know this is true?
I'm worried about that.
You know why I know this is true?
I'm going to bring this up because he said I could say this.
BlackRock owns, I think, 6% of Rumble.
Rumble got a letter from BlackRock about our video about one of their managing directors.
And he said, fundamentally understand the statement he's about to make.
This should tell everybody what they need to know.
From Chris Pavlosky.
We don't give a damn.
They want us to take down your video, you didn't break any laws, you did your job correctly, we don't give a damn and they own a lot of my company.
For him to say that shows you the influence they have on CEOs whether or not they ever even use it.
Chris's mind goes to immediately, they could dump my stock and come up with a really good reason to make sure they're taking care of the investors and following the law, right?
And he said, I don't care.
That's in every CEO's head.
They've done that with every other company until they ran into the brick wall that was Chris Pavlovsky.
So show him you love him there at Rumble.
Look, a lot of people would have thrown us under the bus.
Even though the reporting was accurate, just because of the pressure from BlackRock.
Pavloski for president!
That's right.
You want to know another thing?
So in 2017, obviously we talked about this, Larry Fink basically goes out and says we have to force behavioral change.
If he has no power, if he has no influence, he can't do it.
Now I know what you're going to say because we talked about this, Brian, that he had to go out and correct it, but only because he got in trouble!
Not because he doesn't believe it and still want to do it.
Hold on, everyone pause.
We're going to continue this after this segment on Mug Club.
We were going to play Pokemon a racial slur, but I think we can continue this.
The problem is, too big to fail, and it's predicated not just on, well it's certainly not predicated on honest business dealings, it is predicated on a worldview.
And the worldview right now is the world economic forum.
The worldview right now is, if you look at BlackRock, you look at where their CEO is lined up, is an open borders policy.
The worldview that is shared by elites in government, and elites at these giant companies, who by the way were bigger Then the governments of the greatest empires that have existed throughout human history, if you understand their power, let alone big tech, they base it on a worldview.
They go, the policy is going to be favorable to you.
If you do our bidding as it relates to DEI, if you do our bidding as it relates to transitioning to energy, if you do that, you're too big to fail, you never have to worry about going bankrupt.
We'll bail you out.
That's the problem.
That is not an honest market.
I'm a free market guy.
I don't care if you're a big business, if you're a small business.
Just be an honest business.
That's the issue that people have.
Let's go to claim number four.
Why do they call it a loan?
Because if they call it a loan, they can impose loan conditions.
And what are the loan conditions that we impose on?
Ukraine to sell all their government-owned assets.
Why do they call it a loan?
Because if they call it a loan, they can impose loan conditions.
And what are the loan conditions that we impose on?
Ukraine has to put all of its government-owned assets up for sale to multinational corporations,
including all of its agricultural land, the biggest single asset in Europe.
Okay, really quickly, before I get to the truth, look, right now on CNN,
they're still talking about damage control after flipping House seat.
The entire time we've been doing this show, I don't think we've seen any mention of Mayorkas.
No?
No.
If they mention it, it's going to be like, House Republicans do something stupid.
And it's the same when we're talking about BlackRock.
It's what you don't see.
It's the moves that they don't make.
Because, nah, hold on, stay away from this.
CNN says, we're not going to talk about that because that makes us look bad.
Alright, let's talk about the flipped House seat.
Go back to RFK here.
The truth!
Because we're doing our fact checking today Yeah
R.F.K.
Jr., this one he's off.
He's definitely off.
I think he's referring to the 2018, and credit to Ginger Snap who did this, the privatization law.
And this means that in order to receive IMF, meaning the International Monetary Fund, in order to receive funding Ukraine, with certain state-owned enterprises, would have to be sold to private owners.
Now, to be clear, the Ukrainian government still owns plenty of assets, and we tried to find the substantiation for his claim here.
This one's paper-thin.
Yep.
This is a bad job of trying to make the point that the IMF can come in and basically force your hand if you want to get some of our money.
You have to do kind of our bidding, so to speak.
Right.
In some ways, and maybe making them out to be more nefarious than they are sometimes, but I don't think so.
Yeah, but he's reckless when he talks this way.
Well, this goes on to his next claim.
I think we're on to claim number five.
And again, we're providing all these references because so many of you have asked about this.
The claim is that U.S.
companies have purchased, and he gave specifics here, up to 30% of Ukrainian farmland.
You godless son of a bitch!
You stop this shit!
You godless son of a bitch!
Again, like McConnell and Graham, I confuse them in my head.
Here's the right clip of RFKG.
In Ukraine, there's been a thousand years of war.
We're brought over that land.
It's the richest farmland in the world.
It's the breadbasket of Europe.
They've already sold 30% of it.
The buyers were DuPont, Cargill, and Monsanto.
Wrong.
He'd have a better claim to facts if he just said that DuPont screwed the Schultz brothers.
There you go.
Here's the truth.
I love wrestling references, dude.
You're my favorite.
Here's the truth.
The companies that RFK Jr.
mentions, they do have business stakes in Ukrainian agriculture, but really it's that they help finance Ukrainian oligarchs who control the land.
But they do not Oh, meaning these companies, any actual land in Ukraine.
Foreign ownership of Ukrainian land is illegal.
Which, hey, we might want to tear a page from their book looking at you, China!
Not so bad.
Great idea.
Nah, we just want to buy wheat.
We'll grow wheat.
Yeah, but when the shit hits the fan, we can just take it.
You know what I mean?
That's the thing.
It's still on our land.
Oops.
We'll just annex it.
That's not a bad idea.
We take the money now and we're just like, eh, we're not gonna honor this.
That's literally how we think about it.
We put up yellow tape and like, hey, what are you doing?
Yeah, it's mine now.
I'm digging my heels into this land.
Yeah, we got a plane for you to fly back to your country.
What?
Me so sorry!
Good luck calling in your tab.
Don't wait up.
Oh boy!
So Russia did that?
It's not so bad, I guess.
But here's another claim that he made, and we're fact-checking the fact-checkers because they just want to broadly say all of this is false.
That's not true.
That's not true.
And a good portion of it is very important for you to know, but some of the specifics are incorrect.
So he went on to say that former Vice President Biden, respect the office, gave BlackRock the contract already to rebuild Ukraine.
Yeah, BlackRock.
And then in December, President Biden gave out the contract to rebuild Ukraine. And who do you
think got that contract? BlackRock.
Now here's the thing, he's speaking in absolutes, but the spirit of it, the truth,
yeah. So BlackRock has been tapped to guide reconstruction in Ukraine. And this is where
we did that segment on McKinsey, not too long ago. I don't think that's true.
So along with JPMorgan and McKinsey, the firm will advise, right, we've talked about the consultant class, they will advise on the Ukrainian development fund, and of course the firms, they were courted by Zelensky, there was a lot of shoulder rubbing, but former Vice President Biden did not give out the contract.
Now, he created favorable conditions For that contract and it's not just black rock again mckinsey,
which is in my opinion just as nefarious It's an entire organization that provides consulting go and
watch that, you know Let's link that in the description of the site because
everyone talks about black rock and a lot of people ignore the influence of mckinsey
Um, but here's an actual quote from brennan hall one of the executives at black rock. He said
It's an opportunity to quote socialize the idea of the fund and its mission
Which is to quote attract as much private sector capital into the reconstruction of ukraine
as possible.
So it would guide capital to attract private investments.
And by the way, other entities, not just BlackRock, who are going to be involved with the reconstruction, World Bank, the EU, of course Britain, and there are a bunch of other private firms, just to be clear.
So this is one of those things, before we get into it, look.
I always want to make sure that we're as clear as possible.
But I also understand you could be watching right now and you're a surgeon.
You could be a genius, and you don't necessarily understand the world of high finance.
So a lot of the time, people make it seem as though you don't understand economic policy, just like people say you don't understand foreign policy.
Well, hold on a second, you don't have to to know that there were no new wars started under Donald Trump.
Hold on a second, you don't have to understand quantitative easing, that the too-big-to-fail policies are not good.
Just like I don't need to be a surgeon to understand that Dr. Ben Carson, despite the fact that he speaks like he's in half-speed on YouTube, was the first to separate conjoined twins at the head.
So, the thing that really bothers me is you have places like CNN and MSNBC and ABC and, you know, Colbert, those places.
They assume that you're idiots.
And they cater to people being idiots.
Then you have this world of intelligentsia, and even yes, the conservative non-profits and think tanks, where they try and tell you, you wouldn't really understand this, it's high finance, beige books, what are you talking about?
No, no.
You can understand enough, and you can be a brilliant person.
A surgeon isn't going to know finance.
Someone who works on Wall Street isn't going to know, not only surgery, how to do an x-ray.
Someone who's the world's best carpenter won't know how to manage a portfolio necessarily.
It doesn't mean that you're dumb, and it doesn't mean that you're hyper-intelligent.
It means that people have different priorities.
So we're trying to instill this in a way that hopefully you can understand.
That's why we use the examples of the housing market.
That's why we use the examples of the UAW, the big three, so that you can apply it and say, okay, these same principles are at work here.
Because the world of high finance, it's a very confusing one.
My eyes glaze over.
Thank you for being CEO, Gerald, because I can't stand dealing with money.
You're welcome.
Me and Howie Mandel.
You're spiritual, dude.
We do have our own resident expert for guidance.
Now, I'm not just here to entertain you.
I'm also here to educate you.
Maybe make you a few dollars.
So give me a call at 555-55-55 or tweet me at WhoCares69.
Now, forget what you know about war profiteering.
Pay attention.
The Soviet weapons are out and NATO weapons are in, baby!
That's right!
Locally sourced grains and produce?
Who needs them?
GMOs?
Yes, please.
May I have some more, please?
This war's going places.
Where?
I'll tell ya.
Reconstruction.
So get yourself a ticket on the Fink Express.
Choo-choo!
Get on this Black Rock train, baby.
Let's go!
You wanna know where to spend your money?
I'll tell you where to spend your money.
Lockheed Martin?
That's a safe bet.
Raytheon?
Booyah!
Collision to cuff?
Collision to cross?
No, thank you!
Monsanto?
Monsanto, yeah!
DuPont?
Dubai!
Borislav's bead farm?
Beaded Boris!
Black Rock?
I'm addicted to this sh**!
Call it Crack Rock!
That's right!
Local Ukrainian labor unions?
Destruction unions?
more like demolition unions!
Bottom line!
Broke a lot of stuff.
Well, you know, that's how I know how to invest.
Yeah, he's a passionate guy.
But destructive.
We still have to call RFK out on being recklessly inaccurate.
Well, yes, we will.
Well, no, I wouldn't say completely.
His claims need to be taken seriously because we have claims from, yeah, the initial claims, yes, and we can, we'll disagree on this, we'll continue on Mug Club, but Again, you do need to have someone who's providing some other perspective.
And look, he's a third-party candidate.
He has the right to run.
I don't think he's right about a whole lot.
I do like the fact that if he's in a race and it's a three-way race, it actually really extends Donald Trump's lead.
So stay in as long as possible.
Don't want to scare him away.
Now you're talking!
But it doesn't really matter necessarily whether, you know, if you have defense contractors or hedge funds or if they're predators or scavengers.
When you take a bird's eye view on this, you do end up seeing the same people benefiting.
And what it is in this country is class warfare where the most poor among us who are not contributing, let's be clear, 40% of Americans pay nothing in federal income tax.
are the beneficiaries and then the ultra-wealthy. It's that big swath in the middle of middle-class
Americans, the people who run... by the way, when I say middle-class Americans, I also mean people
running businesses that are maybe five, ten, fifty million, hundred million dollar businesses. That's
nothing compared to what you see with BlackRock or giant airline manufacturers.
I don't even know if we've done the segment on airlines.
Sorry, airline manufacturers, airline companies, and the manufacturers too, by the way, which a lot of it comes back to Boeing.
But their planes are working like a charm right now.
Love that 787.
Yeah.
Doors blowing off.
Yeah.
One's just going missing.
How's that happen?
Engines blowing.
It's just bad week.
Very, very little innovation.
Very, very little innovation in the airline industry when you look at over the last few decades compared to everywhere else.
Compared to phones?
And I don't know, did we do this segment on CEOs of airline industries?
I don't think so.
What ends up happening is they end up getting, and this is the problem with bailouts, so to use airlines.
Do you like airlines?
Hey, do you like dealing with health insurance companies?
You think American cars have really taken it to the next level?
What about big banks?
What about student loans?
If you look at any industry where there is an unbelievable amount, an uncharacteristically high, as it relates to the free market, amount of intervention and red tape, these are the places that you hate doing business with the most.
Airlines are a great example.
Well, the bailouts were supposed to be temporary.
The cost for services never went back.
And then you have this administration, by the way, who has the nerve to bitch about shrinkflation.
What about the checked bag fee?
That never went away.
Well, we're talking about the goldfish bag being one and a half ounces smaller.
I still have to pay for checked bags and risk being a victim of the knockout game at the Spirit Terminal!
So my point here is, yeah, you take a bird's eye view, too big to fail applies to banks, it applies to giant companies in the United States, and it certainly is at play as it relates to international conflict.
It's chicken or the egg.
Do you think That this is something proactive?
We're the military-industrial complex and these giant companies who are the main beneficiaries of perpetual, never-ending war?
Or do you think they just benefit because international conflict breaks out?
We've been provided one side of the issue.
And something else, too, that I really want to bring up.
I have never said, to be clear, that, oh, I'm a centrist, or, you know, I do not believe in finding common ground on a lie.
All right?
And I have not said, oh, I used to be a liberal, but the Democrats left me.
Nope.
It's 1115 on Valentine's Day 2024.
I want to transport you back to NOFX Rock Against Bush, right?
When we had Rage Against the Machine, Code Pink, they're protesting outside the White House.
Every single Democrat and every single person in leftist media right now is pro-war.
And if you, by the way, who are conservative, you likely supported the war in Afghanistan.
You likely wanted to kick some ass after September 11th.
And you were painted as a gun-toting redneck.
Today, the entire Democrat Party and their lackeys in media and big tech have decided that a war, to a bill right now of $150 billion, I believe pledged, when you add it all in, if this $60 billion gets passed, they're trying to tell you that you are a fascist.
That you are someone who doesn't care about your country if you don't believe in foreign wars, in foreign interventions.
That is a flip.
That is absolutely a flip.
How is that looking out for you?
Well, you would have to draw, you could only say, this is for me, meaning the Democrat Party, the party of the working class, they're for me because the biggest threat that I am facing at now 11-18 Eastern, Valentine's Day 2024, is Russia.
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I'm just going to let the bullets fly where they may.
I know everyone's been champing at the bit.
And if you're watching on YouTube, thank you.
But you know, the free show doesn't continue to exist at all if you don't join Mug Club because we are funded by no one else.
We don't have any of that Raytheon money.
No!
We actually have to spend money fighting BlackRock, for crying out loud.
Where's our billions?
This is a goof!
It's chomping.
I never thought.
It is chomping.
It's not chomping.
I always say chomping.
It's not chomping.
It's chomping.
Thank you.
Save it for my mom.
It's an equestrian joke.
Save it.
So if you're watching on YouTube, hey, we'll see you tomorrow because it's a live show, weekdays, 10 a.m.
Eastern.
I was going to say Monday through Friday, but that's redundant.
But thank you, Rumble.
Thank you, Chris Pavlovsky.
Seriously, thank you.
Thank you for having our backs.
And I say this I don't need, just to be clear, I do not need to kiss Chris Pavlovsky's ass, okay?
This, he has no ownership in Lotto with Crowder.
We have a partnership that we are happy to be in a partnership with.
It's the first time that we've had someone we've partnered with that we know unequivocally actually has our back.
And not to start, but your back.
They're not going to be bending to the government of France, to the UK, and they're not going to be bending to BlackRock.
That's not a baby step.
That's a giant leap.
So, show them some love in the comments section.
Thank you, Rumble YouTube.
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