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Dec. 9, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Syria Has Fallen: Should The US Intervene?
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I felt inspired today.
Nice.
The mood hit me.
The mood hit me.
It's a little bit of Christmas cheer, right?
We've got two more weeks.
Two more weeks.
Our last show is next.
Well, I think next Friday.
Something or other.
Next Thursday, of course, if you're a Rumble Premium Mug Club member, next Friday.
So we've got two weeks to go.
I've got a long Christmas list, and I have not started.
Comment below.
Have you started the Christmas shopping?
I just realized.
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Geez.
I've had enough to hear about Turbo Man.
If there's one person I don't want to hear about right now, it's Turbo Man!
I should have got it months ago.
It's nestled safely under our tree.
So, for those of you who know, you know.
And if you don't know, now you know.
Other question is, what's been your worst experience with health insurance?
Because today we're going to be talking about Obviously, the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. What's worrisome about this is that a lot of people are celebrating it.
Now, I get why people are mad, and I get why people feel as though they have no power or recourse versus the elites.
I don't think we want to be in a world where we just start offing CEOs, but if someone was looking for the guilty party, they probably would have been searching for, I'm not condoning this, hunting down the people who voted for the Affordable Care Act.
We're going to get through the timeline here as to why health insurance has become as awful as it is.
Some common ground, the left and the right, can agree that our health care system is broken.
We disagree on the solution, where they believe we should become more socialized, where we have a socialized health care system in all but name anyway, and I believe we should actually put more power in the hands of the doctors and patients, you know, health care providers as opposed to administrators.
Also, Assad is gone now, so Syria is seeing a little bit of a shake-up.
A little bit of a change up there.
I know it's hard to care because you think, hey, they've never gotten it right, you know, throughout all of human history, but we'll get through some fact and fiction out there right now.
There's a lot of fake news circulating, a lot of takes that are simply inaccurate, and hopefully I'll help you out with that.
So at some point today, probably when we're talking about jihadists, terrorists, and, you know, the religion of non-peace, you'll see this on YouTube.
Head to Rumble.
It's a weekday show.
10 a.m.
Eastern.
Captain Morgan, CEO. You know what?
I'm going to stop calling you CEO. Yeah, because I don't think we should be taking out CEOs.
No, we have a CEO. I mean, that's...
It's not the same thing.
But I'll post a list of your hobbies and address.
Thank you.
How are you?
I am officially sick.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I thought I was sick last week.
I wasn't.
I had probably like a mild cold.
Whatever my wife had, I got.
You're the boy who cried...
Cold?
I actually was sick, but I was helping my wife.
How are you?
I'm not sick.
So let's try and keep it that way.
When you hear this, you know him, you love him.
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And he looks like a rapist in that picture.
Hey, looks can be deceiving or accurate.
Yes, exactly.
In this case, I don't know.
It's good to stay ambiguous.
Yeah, that's a sick photo.
That's what I see.
Let me see it again.
Let me see that stache.
Yeah, you like that?
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The ladies like it.
You're fascinating to talk to.
That's what they tell me.
I like how my cheekbone is showing by my fat.
You can see where my face used to be.
You look like you're out on bail.
Yes.
I have been for eight years.
All right.
Speaking of cheeks, Rosie O'Donnell went, she did a TikTok post because, you know, they hate the X, so they decided to go to a platform that's the largest holder in the company is Communist China.
So, Rosie O'Donnell went to TikTok to, I say, she says possibly herpes, spoiler alert, she has herpes, but It is.
Somehow, somehow, something, something, something.
It's the fault of MAGA Trump voters.
Watch.
Well, hey, everybody.
It's Friday all day, as my Nana would say.
And look what I have on my lip.
Such a stupid saying.
Everybody's been saying, you have herpes, you have herpes, all this time.
And I never had a cold sore in my life.
And now I have a cold sore.
And it makes me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore, too.
On your nose?
And so I talked to my doctor today, and I did a video telehealth.
She gets in there.
And they said that it's not a cold sore, it's some reaction to the sun.
Now, I did sit in the sun yesterday, but I had sunscreen on.
Unless it's a coffin.
I will let you know tomorrow if I do, in fact, have herpes.
Do you have sunscreen on your lip?
Some of the taunting from the MAGA people in the last couple of weeks.
Couple of weeks.
Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen?
To be standing in direct opposition to everything he is and represents.
And always have been.
And...
Tough guy.
Always will be.
Ah, okay.
Everything he represents and the people, you mean like freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, low taxes, you know, economic protectionism, and we're getting screwed on international business.
I don't know what that means.
They're just so vague.
You know, this, obviously, this is MAGA. What?
What?
Do you take accountability for anything ever?
How about, let's start with your haircut.
Anything?
And by the way, you know what she's doing there?
The reason she looks that way, it's like every time I take a picture or go and take a driver's license, I make a silly face.
So then they go, oh, this is a terrible picture, but I meant to make it terrible, so I don't have to say that I hate the way that I look.
There's no way to make it good.
Yeah, there's no way to make it good.
That's what she does, only it's permanent.
I meant to look stupid and ugly, so I got to take the day off from making a video that no one's going to want to watch anyway?
I liked her Conan O'Brien hair.
Yes!
I thought it was nice.
By the way, the teasing.
Can you believe this?
It's the teasing.
I don't know if you know this, but Rosie O'Donnell, she's no stranger to teasing and making fun of people.
Remember when she mocked the Chinese on The View, which I thought was funny when she said, Ching chong, ching chong, ching chong, ching chong.
She actually said that?
She did?
We'll bring it up on Mug Club.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's how she could throw it down.
2016, she said that Trump, Baron Trump had autism, right?
She defended the child murderer Casey Anthony.
She's insulted conservatives, Christians for very long.
Don't forget when she berated Tom Selleck when he was on her show because he appeared in an NRA ad.
Like, look, I get that you want to tie everything to Donald Trump because orange man bad, right?
I understand all that.
But people teasing you online?
I haven't checked my at replies in close to a decade because it's what you expect.
I'm certainly not going to develop genital warts because of it.
Where you don't have genitals.
The good news is it has a happy ending.
She appears to be just fine.
Yep, everybody.
It's a cold sore.
There you have it.
Stress can do horrible things.
That's not stress.
Why are you stressed?
Herpes.
A lot of reasons.
Oh!
Let me guess.
Something, something, something Trump.
Is it because people replied to your stupid TikTok video?
I don't know.
There are things to be stressed about, you know, worse than that, like war, or, you know, even just being eligible for the draft.
Don't worry, you don't have to worry about that.
Stillbirth, miscarriages, cancer.
But people leaving at replies.
This is how fragile.
Let it never be said that women are as robust as men, because even the most angry lesbians are incredibly fragile.
Brightside.
Looks like she's actually perfect for her upcoming role right now as Nosferatu.
So she's going to be doing that pretty well.
Good for her.
I come to the herpes.
Herpes is forever.
All right, we're going to get on to Assad because we have a lot to get to with Assad, but it's about the last week before the Christmas shipping, so cridershop.com if you want to get it in time, right?
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
It is.
I know Bruce Willis and his...
And so is Lethal Weapon.
No.
Is Lee the Weapon set around Christmas time?
No.
No, it's not.
No, it really isn't.
No Santa, no Christmas movie.
That's it.
Yep.
Shut up!
Okay, fine.
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Great plug, Gerald.
All right.
The good news is, look, there's good news here.
Look, we're not at war here, Gerald.
You and I were on the same side.
But it's time.
The good news is, there's going to be another war in the Middle East.
Oh good, yes.
And I know you're saying it ever stopped.
No.
But it's just kind of a different version of war.
And then maybe we'll be getting involved as it relates to our foreign policy here.
And let me ask you this.
You think the United States should get involved with what's going on in Syria and Assad?
You agree with Biden?
You agree with Lindsey Graham?
Or do you agree with Donald Trump and Vance?
It is kind of a binary choice here at this point.
We made the right choice, America.
Yes.
So there's a lot of fiction out there.
There are some facts out there.
We're going to try and separate that and make all the references available to you so you can kind of understand the timeline.
But after over a decade of civil war...
In really a short amount of time, with more counterfeit Adidas tracksuits than I've seen in my life, the Assad regime has fallen in Syria in really a matter of days.
A momentous day in the Middle East, the family dynasty that controlled Syria for more than half a century is no longer in power, with President Bashar al-Assad having fled the country as rebel forces closed in on the capital, Damascus.
Those bullets have to come down, boys. . boys. .
I will step on his face.
I love how they took time to steal the chairs.
I know.
Like, what are you gonna do?
The incoming government's gonna be like, hey, where do we sit?
Also, how ballsy is the guy that's honking his horn at the guys with the AK-47?
Hey, get out of the street!
Hey!
That's the back lane, asshole!
What?
You didn't see that bumper sticker.
I said, honk if you love bullets.
You got some guy with a folding table and $10,000 chairs at his house.
There's one guy with an AK in his car ready to go mess stuff up, but he's looking at the HOV lane.
I'm not a monster.
Sorry.
Let me give you a quick timeline.
And it's silly because it's a silly place.
And I mean this, the Middle East is a silly place.
Let me set this up for you really quickly, okay?
It's hard for me to care unless it involves American security directly.
This area of the world has never gotten it right.
That is because of their ideology.
If you and your 21st century very comfortable bubble want to understand it, These jihadists are 13th century religious extremists.
They have not changed.
They have not evolved.
There has never been a place where Islam has achieved governmental power and not become a corrupt totalitarian regime.
Just give it a decade.
Take any country at any point.
It's never worked.
So, let's stop trying to fix it.
I don't think we should get involved unless it's with the intent of breaking stuff, converting them, subjugating them.
Otherwise, let's stop spending money.
But let me give you a quick recap.
You can comment below if you disagree.
November 30th, that's when the rebel fighters, they captured Aleppo, fun to say.
And then less than two weeks later, they captured Damascus, which basically is what ended the Assad regime.
It's been there for decades.
And Gary Johnson actually offered this take on the situation.
Aleppo.
And what is Aleppo?
You're kidding.
No.
Aleppo.
Yeah, he still doesn't know.
I think it's like a medicine.
I think he thought it was like an elf in a Christmas story.
Oh, Aleppo, he made the doll that warmed Santa's heart.
Now, according to the Russian media, yesterday Bashar Elisad arrived in Moscow, so that's what they're saying.
The rebels were basically able to take over everything so quickly because some people are making the point that Russia, Iran are busy right now.
They have their hands full.
They do, yes.
They're the only reason he was staying in power in the first place.
Effectively, yes.
They're kind of propping him up.
Exactly.
Kind of like the Castros for a while.
Yeah, exactly.
With all the Soviets.
We do actually have exclusive footage, though, of how Assad managed to escape.
Hello?
Is anyone there?
I think you forgot to make air holes.
I have to make pee-pee.
You hate to see that, even though, you know.
Your humanity gets the better of you.
So it's time for a new segment, fact or fiction.
That seems way too serious for us.
It also seemed like a party.
Yeah, it did.
It also seemed like a good stinger, and we can make them.
I didn't know that we were going to have house music.
So, let's go through some things that you may be hearing.
All references available at livewithcredit.com.
Link in the description.
So, is it fact or fiction?
The idea that Syria is now free!
You may be hearing that.
We rule this one fiction.
Way fiction.
That's fun.
So...
There's a very strong chance, and by that I mean I would bet my bottom dollar that Syria's probably going to get quite a bit worse.
Way worse.
So, HTS, I want to make sure that I have this correct in my pronunciation.
If I don't get it correct to terrorists, please forgive me.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, we'll call them HTS. It's a designated terrorist organization.
They're very forgiving, by the way, especially for pronunciation.
Yes, they are.
Look!
Look!
We get it!
It's hard for me.
It's like the TH in English.
We don't have it!
So the group, to give you an idea, who are at the center of a lot of this, they were founded as basically an Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Qaeda adjacent for those in real estate.
And the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has also played a role in helping to form this group.
Which is really weird.
ISIS and Al-Qaeda getting together to form a group?
I know.
Guys, look, look.
There's more that we have in common that makes us different.
Is that like when Dave Grohl went to the Foo Fighters?
Something, yes.
So, this group also, they've been consistently targeting and killing Syrian Christians.
You know, the group of people who, when Barack Obama was president, we didn't actually grant asylum.
Less than 1%.
You may not remember that.
We brought in a bunch of military-aged single Muslim males.
less than 1% were Christians from the Middle East, specifically places like Syria, who were fleeing persecution, being burned alive in cages.
HTS is one of the groups largely responsible for that. - Yeah, and by the way, so there were a lot of Christians celebrating this.
You heard them ringing church bells and celebrating.
Now, they're the group probably that needs the most prayers right now.
They were persecuted under the Assad regime, but not nearly as bad as people think they will be persecuted under a regime that has zero kind of You know, issue with burning Christians in chaos.
They have no guardrails.
Exactly.
They're not going to have any problem at doing that and probably not going to have the world looking on for much of it.
So you really need to be praying for Christians and I hope they're either getting out or making sure they're taking the proper precautions.
Let me tell you this.
The only language that people like these groups like HTS understand is Vlad the Impaler.
Yeah.
The only language they understand is barbarism and being more effectively violent.
You need to understand this.
This is why the Islamic world is as it be and it do.
And there is some good news.
There is some good news because the leader of HTS said that actually you needn't worry because as of an hour ago, they're like super moderate now.
The group has had affiliations with al-Qaeda, with ISIS, and now you are projecting this image of a moderate A leader and a moderate group.
What is HTS right now?
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is one of the factions in the region, just like all the others.
Now we're talking about a larger project.
We're talking about building Syria.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is merely one detail of this dialogue, and it may dissolve at any time.
It's not an end in itself, but a means to perform a task confronting this regime.
Once that task is complete, it will transition to a state of governance, institutions, and so on.
Oh, okay.
So they're planning, yeah, institutions, perhaps a democratic process.
There we go.
He'll step out of the way.
Yes, that sounds nice.
Oh, I'm getting word.
It's time actually for a Polymarket check-in.
It looks like there will be a 0% chance of this happening. *laughter* That went zero fast.
Not one bet.
Not one.
Even Buster Douglas at 42-1 odds had like...
One.
Even HTS is like, we're not going to even try.
No, no, no.
Well, we don't want to get caught from insider trading.
Haktua coin, right?
So she's going to be fitted for an orange jumpsuit.
Maybe.
So they're saying, ah, we're going to step down.
This will be more.
And this is why, look, I don't want to say I'm hopeless.
I just don't care.
I just don't care enough about these places unless it directly involves the security of American citizens.
Let them fight.
And if we think it gets to the point where it's a threat to us, Destroy them.
That's my point of view.
Either all in or all out.
Really, I'd love to...
We'll take your chats later.
That's my opinion.
And when they say they're going to be somewhat moderate or creative...
The reason I don't believe them...
I just...
Is it...
Where have we...
I feel like we've heard this before.
Women will be afforded all their rights...
Whether it is...
The guy looking at him like, don't you say it?
...or other activities because women are a key part of society...
And we are guaranteeing all their rights within the limits of Islam.
These scenes have caused outrage around the world.
Young Afghan women turned away from universities after the Taliban banned them effective immediately.
The latest decree to crack down on women's rights and freedoms.
After 14 months of hijab order, the hijab was not observed.
They were wearing makeup and wearing dresses, like they were going to a wedding ceremony.
Who could have called this but thousands of people who've been there over the last 20 years?
Yes, exactly.
Who could have called it but everyone?
For those who don't remember, that was the Taliban, by the way.
Like, no, yes, we're going to have gender studies.
Very good, yes.
You know, we get it.
They won't have to ride in the backseat.
They'll be able to drive.
They're buying it!
They believe it!
We will holster our stones.
Yes, exactly.
I carry inside the waistband.
Appendix carry.
Good place for limestone.
Now!
Let's go to...
Of course this is still happening.
This is going to keep happening.
Of course.
War is going to keep happening.
War in the Middle East is like Rosie's herpes, okay?
It's forever.
Yes, it is.
It keeps on giving.
Just lurking.
At least I like the security of having a constant.
Now, let's go to this.
Is this fact or fiction?
You're hearing this on social and you're hearing this in the media.
Oh, this may be good for the region.
The truth is...
Kind of mixed.
Let me explain this to you.
It does hurt Iran's ability to spread terror, but it does open up some other potential chaos.
And again, this is why it's just not a situation where you want to get involved.
So Assad-Syria, it was a pretty important link in Iran's, what they called the Shia Crescent, right, which was...
It connects Iran to Lebanon through Syria.
So now it's going to be harder for them to support Hezbollah and Hamas.
Yeah, but for now.
For now.
Yes, I know.
What do you think?
Iran's going to go, darn.
Yes.
They're going to find another way.
Of course.
They're going to work with whoever becomes the main leader there.
Right.
Which, again, I don't want to leave you with a hopeless message.
But the good news is, if you're in the United States of America, it probably won't affect you that much.
And I know you're going to say, that's so selfish.
Look at all the suffering going on in the world.
And to those I say, if you are a Democrat, shut up.
Because you're complaining about patriarchy and you're complaining about women's rights here in the United States where women aren't allowed to go to college or even come forward with accusations of rape.
So, yeah, yeah, we're enjoying sitting up here in our ivory tower because we live in the Western world.
Thank God.
You condemn the Western world, so...
Let's look outward.
What is the rest of the world like?
Oh, here we go.
Syria and all the Middle East.
You want to do Africa next?
Here's the thing.
Potential power vacuum could be created here.
You have a bunch of groups who have an interest in Syria right now.
You have HTS, you have ISIS, you have the Kurdish forces.
You know, they made a comeback after the gassing, so good for them.
You have Turkey, you have Iran, you have Russia.
No one knows how this plays out.
Yeah.
So, let it play out.
Okay.
Either destroy them or let it play out.
Yeah.
By the way, anybody who says, and I know I've gotten some notes over here, and this is a fair point, like Iran doesn't really play well with some of these guys.
It's true.
But that has never mattered.
That has never mattered.
Right.
You find a way or you kill them or you replace them or you put somebody else in power or you pay them enough or you do whatever you have to do and they will find a way to work the thing that they have been doing this entire time, which is funding Hezbollah.
Right.
Which is sending rockets, which is doing everything that they've always done.
This is not going to change anything.
It may make it harder.
It may make them take a pause for a minute.
It may cost a little bit more money, but they're going to do what they're going to do.
Right.
Good.
Next one.
Fact or fiction?
That the United States, and this is where you see the swamp, the Democrats, I don't know where code pink is, and the rhinos out there.
To use the terms, I hate using those terms, but these are the terms that you understand.
The United States has to do something, has to intervene.
No, that I will definitively state as fiction.
I think that the only interest the United States should have in Syria is stopping any type of terror threat to us.
If it doesn't exist right now, it's none of our business.
We've never gotten it right.
Rebuilding?
I don't know if you know this, we rebuilt a lot.
Afghanistan, Iraq, by the way, a little bit in Syria.
Worked like a charm.
They tend to hate us for the rebuilding.
They hate us for the bombing.
They hate us for the rebuilding.
Why are we doing anything?
And by the way, I don't want to hear people take this and extrapolate it out.
They're saying, oh, they're going to export terrorism.
We can't let it become a hotbed for terrorism because that would be grounds to go into, I don't know, half the world and make sure that we have a presence there.
If we do something in places like this, it has to be specific threats in-out and that's it.
Done.
Not like military going in in full force.
I'm talking like six guys dropping in, doing the thing, and getting out.
Yes.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
You know what helps, by the way, with stopping the exporting of terror?
Having border security and having a travel ban from hotbeds for terrorism.
Sorry, that was racist.
Yeah, that's true.
So instead, we should spend billions of dollars on sending our troops into foreign countries.
We don't want to have a wall and don't want to have a ban from countries that, well, yeah, they happen to be Muslim because they've never gotten it, right?
That would be racist.
Let's just leave the borders wide open.
Let's the 20 million undocumented aliens come into this country in the last three years and hope for the best.
And then while we're also paying for Ukraine to wage war with Russia, well, sorry, Russia and Ukraine in war.
I don't want to say Ukraine's the one waging war, but you get the point.
Paying hundreds of billions of dollars.
Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars more to go into Syria and and to repeat iraq or let's just make sure we're safe and let's start enforcing the laws that we have here instead you have former vice president biden respect the office saying that the united states needs to and will be active in rebuilding the i don't want to be i don't want to be uh i don't want to be coarse the that is syria as we all turn to the question of what comes next The
United States will work with our partners and the stakeholders in Syria to help them seize an opportunity to manage the risks.
We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime toward an independent and independent, I might say it again, sovereign Syria.
The United States will do whatever we can to support them, including through humanitarian relief to help restore Syria after more than a decade of war and generational brutality by the Assad family.
Yeah, it's just never-ending.
How about no humanitarian relief at this point?
How about nothing?
How about no war and no relief?
Handle your own crap.
Is there a good group of freedom fighters there?
Like a good group?
No, I mean like a good group that would set up like a government of, by, and for the people?
Yeah, you know what you would have to do?
If there were modern crusaders.
And I mean that.
If you had a Christian group who were just as extreme and willing to eradicate Islamic terrorism in that region, that would be the only group that you could support.
People would say, oh, how good?
Yep, sorry, it's my litmus test.
And you know what?
Considering that those Christians there are actually burned alive simply for their faith, that would be the group to support.
There's no large enough group that could actually wage any kind of a civil war there.
So, outside of that, again, look to every country in that cesspool of filth and sadness, the world, Middle East, the Arabic world.
Find me one that's gotten it right.
Which is why I disagree with Lindsey Graham, but, you know, you probably saw that coming.
He even went as far as saying that we probably need some ground operations there to handle ISIS. He said, I appreciate the air shrine and ISIS terrorists in Syria, but it will not be enough.
We have to ensure that the roughly 50,000 ISIS prisoners in northeastern Syria, being primarily held by Kurdish forces, are not released.
Hey, you first, Lindsey.
Put on some body armor.
Get out there.
Get your dirty work done.
Hey, surprise, surprise.
Lindsey's in favor of war.
Okay, fine.
Well, that's where the boys are.
Full steam ahead.
Ring, ring, ring.
Goes the trolley.
Clang, clang.
Ding, ding, ding.
Goes the bell.
I'll be in the mess hall baking cookies for the boys.
So here's the good news.
Luckily, President Trump, some people call him former president, incoming president, I call him President Trump, in advance, they both basically signaled that the United States should completely stay out of it.
Hey, there you go.
One of these things is not like the other.
Also, he did, Donald Trump, President Trump, use this to pressure Russia into some peace negotiations.
Again, the art of the deal.
He said, Assad is gone.
He has fled his country.
His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer.
Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now.
Very weak.
A lot of people say how weak they are, sad.
One because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success.
Likewise, Alinsky and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness.
There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin.
I know Vladimir well.
Very well.
This is his time to act.
China can help!
The world is waiting!
So...
My favorite part was the Brady Bunch.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
Her boyfriend, George Glass.
Oh, Jan.
You love to lie.
We caught you.
Marsha's fine.
Now, we're back at...
I think you know where we are.
We're really...
We're back at the...
It's time to repatriate.
That's where I think we are.
There's Syrians in other countries, too.
In Netherlands.
Yeah.
And in Sweden.
Syria must be empty.
So let me get this straight.
You're fleeing a country that is a shithole, has always been a shithole and always will be a shithole, really that entire region of the world.
And so in claiming you are entitled to asylum to not even the nearest neighboring nation, but any nation you want to go, you go there and you want to instate the kind of government that you just fled?
And the only people dumb enough to play this game are those in the Western world dealing with their crippling white guilt?
How about, no, how about go back, fix your own country?
And we certainly are not going to, hey, you know, and even more, if you come here, first off, full stop, just go back to your own country, but we're not going to adapt to you, you adapt to us.
That means you don't get to yell Allahu Akbar, voice any kind of support for Sharia law.
Not because it's a First Amendment issue, but we're talking about something that cannot be juxtaposed with the Constitution, with freedom of speech.
Islam is a system of laws.
It's a political prescription.
Just as much as it is a religion.
That's the big difference between Islam and Christianity, and it is an active threat to the Western world.
You don't open your doors to that.
Let's start with here at least reinstating the racist travel ban.
Remember from Donald Trump, it was seven countries, including Syria, by the way.
Maybe that was a good one.
Yeah, maybe that was a good one.
Where are you guys at this point?
Hey, leftists.
So, let me ask you this.
In one hand, this is what we're presenting.
Don't get involved.
Don't wage war, but don't rebuild.
No humanitarian effort.
Let them handle it.
On the other hand, you have go in, ground operations, airstrikes, drone strikes, try and help with the peaceful transition of power, and because of the fallout, bring in tens or hundreds of thousands of people from the third world who have a vested interest in destroying us.
Which one do you want?
Don't get involved.
Ban any immigration from these countries.
Comment below!
I think that's a fair point.
And Israel's response, Israel doesn't get it right all the time, but their response was like, yeah, we're going to just blow a lot of stuff up that you don't need.
We're going to blow a lot of stuff up.
We don't know who's coming into power, and you guys might not play well, so all those munitions depot, those things are gone.
Yeah.
I wouldn't go there for a little while.
Yeah, smart move.
Yeah, weapons defense, gone!
And they need to rebuild their country, so I say, send them all back, all hands on deck.
There you go, there you go.
Build it up, come on, put a tool belt on.
Yeah, I mean, look, we'll give them like a Home Depot shopping spree and send them back.
Oh, like that TV show.
Yeah, and it's just like my dad used to say when he was a kid, he'd go to a fast food restaurant and if they brought out like a really sloppy, he'd go, look, make mine look like the picture.
Okay?
That's what they do.
Just go back to your country and go, okay, Syria, make this country look like that country and point to any, like, American or Western skyline.
Or one that borders it like Turkey.
Yeah.
Yeah, there you go.
Make your country look like our country.
Then we'll consider having any kind of open lines of communication.
Beyond that, I don't really have a whole lot to offer on this.
Hopefully it's helped you.
This has been Factor Fiction.
By the way, like I said earlier, don't let tax issues overpower you.
Contact Tax Network USA at tnusa.com slash Crowder.
A lot of people do their own taxes, don't get any help, and then you get piped.
Yeah, and if they have trouble with taxes, they can help you resolve that as well.
A lot of people feel like, oh, I just got to pay them.
No, there's a lot of negotiating that you can do.
Yes, there is.
Let these guys call for you.
Exactly.
My voice gets deep when I'm...
Yeah, I know.
For some reason you think it's sexy, but it's not.
No, it's just annoying.
That's what I thought.
I've told me that several times over the weekend, very nicely, but you know.
It sounds predatory.
Well, I've got an inny now, so.
Yes, yes, exactly.
We all do.
I feel like you should be talking over like a CB radio, like, I like a good rain.
It washes everything clean.
Candy cane.
Pink champagne.
So this is something I really wanted to get into.
Coming from, or was raised in a country, silly country, Canada, where we had socialized medicine.
And the first video that I ever did, where I actually did any type of investigative journalism undercover or on location, was a video on the Canadian healthcare system.
Because back in 2009, Michael Moore and all these other liberals were saying that's how we needed to reformat our system to mimic that.
You first, Michael.
Yeah.
And we also said that Cuba was better than the United States.
So I disagree with that.
But I want to be really clear.
I also understand why people believe that our system is broken here in the United States.
It absolutely is.
My question to you, before I move on and get through some of these historical facts here, And some numbers that may surprise you is why do you think that this system is broken?
And how do you think it needs to be fixed?
Do you think it's because it's capitalism run amok?
Or do you think it's the most heavily regulated industry in the United States and largely subsidized?
So, I get it when people talk about a lot of people have been happy, unfortunately, over the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. The search is continuing for this murderer.
Although we did just get a hint with, we found out who was in charge of his security.
Ah!
That checks out.
Jeez.
But we also have more to report on this.
We actually have an exclusive here because you have sent us your tips.
tips.
We actually have an insider right now at UnitedHealthcare, which brings us to Mug Club Undercover.
So just to set this up, a source inside UnitedHealthcare sent us this all-hands-on-deck call discussing the CEO, Brian Thompson, a source inside UnitedHealthcare sent us this all-hands-on-deck call discussing the This is a great question.
This comes from an insider there, and we do ask before I show this to you, again, if you see something or if you have any information that could be helpful, send it to lwctips at protonmail.com.
That's lwctips at protonmail.com.
We're always busy chasing down leads, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Here they are at United Healthcare.
Something, something.
All is well.
I just want to take a moment to pay tribute to Brian.
We've lost a friend, a colleague, a boss, a mentor, a great family man, a dad, somebody who has been incredibly important to many, many people across our organization, and somebody who was pivotal in the development of UnitedHealth Group, and always, always and somebody who was pivotal in the development of UnitedHealth Group, and always, always somebody who could bring a
We've also been working hard to make sure that people who feel concerned about security individually, but more importantly, perhaps, for our sites, continues to be reviewed and strengthened to make sure that we have put in place all of the appropriate mechanisms to keep our organization and our people safe.
Yeah, I mean, unless you're a client of theirs.
And yeah, this is a problem with a lot of health insurance companies.
So a lot of people were...
Happy about this murder.
I am not amongst them.
Taylor Lorenz, I guess this person's sub-stack said, why we want insurance executives dead.
Reddit actually had to delete threads because they were filled with doctors torching the United CEO.
And largely the feedback was praising of the murderer in this case.
The hotel or the hostel, I guess, where the assassin stayed, was actually review bombed for cooperating.
Hold on.
Hostels have reviews?
Yeah, I know.
I thought it was just like, you know, pay five bucks and hope not to die.
I didn't get raped, so it was pretty good.
That's pretty nice.
Pretty nice.
So these are some of the reviews.
They're mad that people are cooperating with the authorities at all, saying, terrible.
Staffs are narcs.
No solidarity with their fellow humans struggling to free themselves from an oppressive yoke.
Oh, good lord.
Let me explain something to you.
When you look at the fact that about 15% of all claims are denied by insurance companies, and that pisses people off, and then you understand that UnitedHealthcare actually denies on average 32%, right?
Significantly more.
That's a lot.
And in some cases, necessary medicine.
I get it.
I get why people are upset and I get why people recognize that the system is broken.
But this is terrorism, to be clear.
Do we want a world where we just go out and we execute every CEO? And how do you determine which CEOs deserve to be executed?
Look, I also think that the anger, the vitriol is aimed partially at the wrong people.
These health insurance CEOs are taking advantage of a system that has been set up and subsidized by government.
I shouldn't say set up and subsidized.
Demanded.
By government.
If someone was looking for some type of a culprit here, they would look to the people who voted for the Affordable Care Act.
And I know they won't because they hear the name and they think it sounds nice.
But do you guys understand why health insurance companies in this country have the amount of power that they do?
The Affordable Care Act was the biggest kickback that has ever taken place likely in American history for health insurance companies.
How has it gotten this expensive?
Let's go through a few key facts here.
And you can chime in whenever you want, Joe, because I know this is something that you've had to deal with, too.
So key fact number one.
Just going through the Affordable Care Act.
It forced, the ACA forced everyone to buy insurance.
So right away, imagine if you were a business.
Anyone out there?
A business owner?
Small business owner?
Let's say you own a diner.
Imagine if the government said, everyone has to get lunch at your diner.
Would you consider that a boon for your business?
Probably!
You'll love it.
Probably!
So that's what happened.
A lot of people, because it started with the single-payer option, thought, oh, this is going to be socialized healthcare.
Ultimately, it ended up being a giant greasing of the palms of the insurance company.
So anyone who was not insured had to get insurance or pay a tax.
Now, Donald Trump eliminated the mandate on a federal level, but a lot of states, they still have penalties for non-compliance like New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, D.C. And by the way, the damage was already done at that point.
So you had to pay an exorbitant tax or you were forced to get insurance.
Because a lot of people were not getting insurance before that.
A lot of people were young people who opted to not pay for insurance because they assessed the risk.
Now, everyone has to get insurance.
So you're talking about a record number of people who have to purchase insurance.
Okay.
Now, that may not necessarily be bad.
Because you say, okay, well, there are more people, so it's a bigger pool, so that should reduce the cost.
Here's the thing, key fact number two.
The ACA forced insurance to cover everyone with pre-existing conditions.
Bingo.
So now everyone has to buy insurance.
And insurance has to accept everyone, including those who may have self-induced diabetes because they've lived on a diet of Funyuns and Code Red.
So you don't have just a bunch of new, young, healthy people joining in, lowering the overall risk pool.
You have a guarantee that these people joining now will increase the cost.
That's right.
Where have I heard something like this before?
Everybody should own a home and you can't turn anybody down for a home loan.
How did that work out?
Exactly.
That seems like the same playbook that everybody should be able to do this.
We already had, by the way, most people don't know this.
You already had pre-existing condition pools.
If you had a pre-existing condition, that sucks, right?
You had to go into what they call the risk pool in your state, which is more expensive because it's filled with people that have higher risk.
You try to mitigate it to some degree by putting healthier people in there, but you don't screw the healthier people to take care of the people with pre-existing conditions.
And people are like, oh my gosh, you have to have some kind of healthcare.
Emergency rooms.
That's a really bad thing to use, but it was the ultimate fallback.
They can't turn you down.
If you have to go in for something, you can go to an emergency room.
That's what we've talked about with illegals.
They use that kind of as healthcare, and it's way too expensive.
They don't need to do that.
People thought that this was an easy solution.
The general public, like, this is a great idea.
It's a terrible idea.
It's like having no fire insurance for your house.
It's like forcing every single driving insurance, car insurance, to cover people who have suspended licenses.
Yeah, I'll just wait to get insurance until after the accident or after my home burned down.
And that's what a lot of people did.
That's stupid.
Exactly.
So what you saw with this, again, everyone has to buy insurance, and insurance you have to accept everyone with every condition no matter what, no matter how much it offsets the cost.
What happened is they decided to offset the cost by obviously increasing premiums and deductibles, but also by denying far more claims.
You actually saw three in four providers were actually surveyed, said that denials have gone up dramatically.
They've even created denial algorithms.
In other words, they're going to cut costs somewhere.
And then we also see, fast fact here, key fact number three.
When you marry, everyone has to buy insurance.
You have to cover every single person.
They go, oh my gosh, that's going to be crazy.
Is there any limit to how much we can raise expenses?
Absolutely not.
Charge whatever you want.
Good to me!
So, what did we see?
Under Obamacare, premiums went up by 80%.
Deductibles went up by over 50%.
And I believe this is really only the first couple of years.
I was about to say, I can give you my example.
Yeah, they've gone up hundreds of percentages since then.
In the course of a year, I think I went from paying $90 to about $400 for a health savings account plan that had a $3,000 deductible that then went to a $6,000 deductible.
Nothing about me changed.
Yes.
Well, you know what else happened, too, is 70% of counties in the United States...
Basically, we're left with no more than two insurers, meaning one or two insurers.
No competition.
A big reason for this is mergers and buying and acquiring.
And so there's significantly less competition than there used to be, and costs are higher.
And here is another one.
None of this happens, by the way.
The same thing when you're looking at the housing market.
The same thing when you're looking at airlines and CEO pay.
The same thing when you're looking at American auto manufacturers.
If you look at a business and you go, hold on a second, hold on a second.
Their business really sucks.
Customer satisfaction is an all-time low.
And their CEOs are getting hundreds of millions or tens of millions of dollars, especially if you're looking at an industry that's struggling to be profitable.
If you see that, guaranteed government subsidies.
Guaranteed bailouts.
Because it occurs nowhere in nature.
See, I get it.
So the key fact here is unlimited government bailouts.
We'll go through that, but let me explain to you.
This is a problem with the current capitalist system.
And I'm a free enterpriser through and through.
But, for example, if you look at UnitedHealthcare, okay, they have all this red tape and all these government policies they have to navigate.
And they ultimately are looking for either government money or to increase, to squeeze out more profit for their shareholders.
There's a big difference between healthcare that we used to have where the actual healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, practitioners, were largely in charge of determining the care versus today, it's administrators and it's red tape.
And these people, when your company that provides goods or services Is not beholden to the satisfaction of those receiving the goods or services, the consumer.
But really, this person providing goods and services has a fiduciary duty exclusively to shareholders to squeeze out as much profit as possible.
That is now a warping of the free enterprise system.
And I get it.
Nothing has created more wealth in history than equities.
But we do have a problem, and it gets really, really bad once you involve government intervention.
I think that's the key.
Once you create too big to fail.
Yeah, I really do think that is the key to the health.
These companies, we have to have for-profit medicine to some degree.
They have to be able to make a profit.
I get it.
It puts people in a precarious position, but doctors and nurses typically do a great job of balancing that as long as the corporate people aren't pushing too hard.
I get it.
It's gone to administrators too much.
But the government going into this industry has caused all of, not all, The vast majority of the problems that we're facing right now.
Right.
We know that just by paying cash versus not paying cash.
The cost goes dramatically down.
Do you understand how many people we could cut out of this industry if we didn't have to have people specializing and coding stuff properly to get paid by Medicare or Medicaid or any health insurance company?
You just go back to a cash system and people taking care of themselves and having catastrophic insurance just to make sure you don't go bankrupt if something bad happens?
Yeah.
What a better system that would be.
But no, we have to have government involvement and we have to have people pushing for even more government involvement.
Well, let's look at the government bailouts and the subsidies.
So just, for example, in 2020, the CARES Act, right?
That was $2 trillion.
Now, it didn't go directly to health insurance companies, but it did benefit them by, for example, allowing them to just postpone expensive medical procedures indefinitely, right?
Because of COVID, yeah.
Thanks, COVID. Of course, there was taxpayer-funded COVID tests, vaccines.
Oh, I hate those tests.
Unholy alliances between insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
They're not looking out for your best interests.
It's just too much money on the table, especially when there are trillions of dollars in government funding out there.
Sorry, your tax dollars, while you were forced to lock down and lose your business.
2016, Obamacare, there's $170 billion in bailouts to insurance companies to keep them on the exchanges.
So, we had bailouts on top of waste.
I don't know if you remember this, but Barack Obama spent over $2 billion on the healthcare exchange website that didn't even work.
Well, that sucks.
We go back to 1995. You had a $364 million bailout of the Los Angeles County healthcare system by Bill Clinton, right?
Part of it was basically to prevent firing of union workers or rendering it non-profitable.
They're the best among us, Stephen.
They would go to their work no matter what.
Right.
So you have all of these bailouts.
You have bailouts.
And this is a great, especially during COVID, right?
It's the greatest wealth transfer that has occurred in modern American history.
It occurred because of the government.
It occurred because of mandates.
Your tax dollars, $2 trillion, while your business was shut down.
Or while, maybe at the same time, you had to pay your mortgage while someone else was granted rent forgiveness, and so you lost your property.
You were paying and funding for insurance companies to get kickbacks, for pharmaceutical companies to get kickbacks.
When your store was closed down, your tax dollars ensured that those who could lobby to make sure Walmart and Costco could stay open...
Their business was safe.
Where Amazon saw increases in revenue, depending if you use the annual number, the total number, hundreds of billions of dollars annually while you lost yours.
Your money, if you were worried about, you're doing it for the greater good, hey, we're a nation who takes care of someone when they're down.
Well, I hope you find solace in the fact that during COVID, when you were shut down and your savings account was irreparably damaged, you were paying for very wealthy billionaires across this country and their lobbyists.
Which brings us to key fact number five.
The lobbying that you see.
The lobbying that you see from health insurance companies.
Again, these are not doctors.
Very different.
These are people who have companies and are looking to squeeze out a profit.
And by the way, the biggest center of their business model is making sure that they are on the right side of government.
Because when those bailout dollars start flowing, they're first in line.
Health industry as a whole, their lobbying is up 70% since the year 2000. Dang.
70%.
Jeez.
Insane.
7 of the top 10 lobbyists on the Inflation Reduction Act were pharmaceutical or health insurance companies.
Think about that.
7 of the top 10 lobbyists on the Inflation Reduction Act were pharmaceutical or health insurance companies.
Hey, what do you need to keep lobbying for?
What point is hundreds of billions over time not enough?
This is when people, when people no longer have faith in their system, and I'm not a Bernie bro, not a socialist, but you want to know how you end up with some kind of a guillotine situation, is when people who are suffering, who are getting their claims denied, who are seeing their premiums go up, who are seeing their deductibles go up, they're seeing this, they're seeing the worst service they've ever seen in their life, and a company that is more profitable than ever.
How does that happen?
Nowhere else you go, this restaurant, if it sucks and I hate it, I don't go back.
They lose money.
The coffee shop, they started serving crappy, I don't go there.
For some reason, they're more profitable than ever?
Than ever?
That's when people feel like they're completely powerless and you end up with terrorism in the streets.
And so it's not lost on me, but we need to be really clear about where the problem stems here in the United States.
And you cannot have this awful, this giant, this leviathan, this hungry beast that is the health insurance industry without constant, never-ending Supplies of federal dollars, taxpayer dollars.
This goes to a key fact here, number six.
The administrative costs that are just growing out of control.
This is something that we're seeing in the healthcare industry.
Just since the 1970s, the administration costs have gone up 1,115%.
Jeez.
Must be healthy.
No, this is the number.
Oh, sorry, the number of administrators.
This is not the increase in cost.
The number of administrators has gone up.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
I misremembered.
From the 1970s.
I want to make sure I have this.
This is from Health Affairs.
Jeez.
1,115%.
Contrast that with physicians.
It's only increased by 200%.
That's insane.
That shows you everything I was just talking about.
It's people coding.
I'm not talking coding like programming computers.
I'm saying making sure that you get your government payments because it's coded correctly.
There's an entire field of this.
It's ridiculous.
It's such wasteful hiring.
And Americans are spending a huge amount on healthcare in this country.
And it's hard to compare those costs because in other countries where it's socialized, you're paying an astronomical amount on income taxes, sales taxes, right?
Everything is more expensive.
But in this country, it is a broken system.
It absolutely is a broken system.
And by the way, it's a system that requires employers to provide insurance, and so you're also limited in the kind of insurance that you can provide for your employees.
I think if we...
If we allowed employees, if we allowed people to pick their own healthcare, if we allowed insurance across state lines, if we allowed people to have a relationship with their doctor, with their care providers, if we put the power back in the hands of the consumer and the doctors and the care providers, and limited the power of insurance companies as much as possible, we've talked about HSA accounts, we've talked about catastrophic insurance, there are obviously health exchanges out there, health sharing programs.
These are all tools moving toward a solution.
But, you are right.
You are right if you are angry to understand that those in D.C. have no interest in reforming this because of the lobbyists, because of the money coming in.
And yes, it's a revolving door of favors from these lobbyists to government and then government back to these industries.
But before you just blame a CEO and shoot a man who has a family, look at the people who enable this systemic corruption.
It's the same people who say, we need to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine and we need to put boots on the ground in Syria.
It's the same beast that we are feeding.
Yeah.
And it's incredibly sad.
That man did have a family.
Yeah.
And I don't know that he was the supervillain either.
From all accounts, I think somebody told me he worked his way up in that company from a very, very low position and made a lot of successful decisions.
Great.
Maybe he made some bad decisions.
But here's the thing.
What do you think is going to replace him?
It's just like in Syria.
It's like, yeah, you toppled Assad.
Great.
Now what?
That's no plan.
That's just calling for chaos.
Do you think the person behind him that's going to come in and be the CEO is going to be better?
They're in the same system.
If you want to really change this system, then fight to change the system.
Don't be an idiot and go and shoot somebody for no reason.
But you want to know, hey, what can you do as far as changing the system?
If you're in a small business, maybe all of you and the employees can get together and say, hey, we don't want you to provide health insurance.
Just give us a credit so we can go and purchase our own health care.
We've had that here where we had it at one point, but you had some people going like, well, I want the business to provide health, which we do here.
But I tell you what, it's more expensive.
And people could get better healthcare if they decided to go out and purchase their own healthcare.
But that's not how the system works, and you have many people who feel as though they're being wronged if you don't do that.
So we provide healthcare, which is, of course, tied up with red tape, and options are limited because that's a system that we have.
But people need to fundamentally change them up, and we do.
We provide health insurance here.
It sucks compared to what you could go get individually if you just took a credit.
Most people don't want to do it.
Just like saving for your own retirement.
Sure, yeah, okay, you can rely on Social Security, you can rely on a 401k, but you could also go out and invest yourself in an index fund And have a far greater yield.
People like the idea of personal freedom, but not personal accountability or responsibility.
And we have a system that is predicated on that.
I can tell you on the opposite side, the guy who signs the fronts of checks, not the backs of them, it's something you have to do.
Or people get mad.
People could have better healthcare if they were willing to take a credit, go out and purchase their own.
But a lot of people don't want to.
And so that puts a lot of power in the hands of these companies, where in 70% of American counties, you have one or at most two options for health insurance.
That's who your employer has to pick.
Doesn't that suck?
There's no way out of it until we change our mindset.
We're a very unhealthy country, and it's not because we're idiots.
We've farmed that out to somebody else.
We've looked at the government's responsibility to make sure that we're taken care of health-wise.
That's moronic.
And you know what else?
We have a health system in this country that doesn't take into account actual preventative care.
In other words, if I say, hey, I do blood work every, I would say, three times a year, right?
You do it to try and make sure to check your high cholesterol can run in the family.
You do this, you go get a physical.
Well, it's not covered because it's not medically necessary, but it's the kind of thing that would lower overall rates.
We don't take that into account at all in our system.
It's about treating the symptom.
Oh, and by the way, all sizes are beautiful.
You can be healthy at any weight.
Thank you.
Always thinking of the other guy.
Yeah, there needs to be a change, but if people think the change is going to be a socialized system, take this and give it steroids.
Well, look, just look at COVID. I think that has been the biggest eye-opener for the medical profession for most Americans that I can think of.
I think people looked at it and go, wait a minute, these are the people that we were trusting?
These are the people that said, these are the heroes?
They didn't know what they were doing?
They were doing stuff inappropriately?
They were recommending things that really didn't even work, that they knew didn't work for 100 years?
Right.
Are you kidding me?
These are the people we're supposed to trust?
Hold on, hold on.
Maybe the emperor has no clothes.
Maybe that's true.
Maybe doctors aren't gods.
Maybe hospitals aren't always these benevolent institutions that are always looking out for me.
They're looking out for themselves and trying to make a profit.
Okay, got it.
Maybe now that the blinders have been lifted, we can actually make some changes with RFK going in there and being a Tasmanian devil to some degree.
Not that he's going to make all the great changes that we need to, but he is at least going to be crazy enough to try.
People have seen my doctor on the show, Dr. Troy.
We need to have him back on with another What's Up Doc segment.
He's not cheap.
He's what they call a concierge doctor.
He's not even in the state.
But it's thousands of dollars a year as a membership that you pay.
I can get him on the phone.
And he actually asks me questions and makes sure that he'll call me up to check.
I mean, make sure that I'm in good health.
Hey, time to do some blood work.
Hey, maybe it's time to, we want to put a heart rate monitor on you.
Hey, we want to see how you're recovering from surgery.
He actually cares about that because he has an incentive to keep his patients healthy because he has a direct relationship with them.
It's a wonderful thing.
A lot of people just aren't aware that that actually exists out there.
Because you go, well, I need the insurance because what if I have a procedure that's $150,000?
Well, that's true.
That is catastrophic insurance.
And the reason those rates have inflated beyond control is because of the fact that insurance companies will pay it.
There's no actual market rate that is being established in health care today.
And by the way, we're going to move on and talk about Donald Trump's NBC interview, which is a lot of fun.
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You'll see on desktop it labels Rumble versus Rumble Premium, but some people felt like, is everything?
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They're going to fix it this week.
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It is the Bet It All on Black.
Or Red.
Doesn't matter.
Let's go to...
Green?
What?
Bet It All on Green.
Is it green?
There's two of them, right?
Oh, okay.
No one calls it green, though.
Rebel's green, though.
Oh, that is green.
I don't know gambling.
You don't want to call them a zero.
I'm a degenerate.
I'm just going to say, go Irish before we leave.
Donald Trump did go on Meet the Press with this broad Kristen Walker.
Welker.
Anyway, Donald Trump gave an interview with NBC's Meet the Press and this bitch yesterday morning.
This Sunday, return to office.
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