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March 3, 2025 - Louder with Crowder
55:58
Should Trump Ditch Free-riding NATO After Zelensky Blowup?
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Guffies.
And then kind of like flat, like instead of...
No, that sounds like a deaf person.
Sorry to interrupt, man, but yeah, Sam from HR needs to see you guys.
For what?
I don't know.
It sounds serious.
It's Sam from HR. Just go see.
Well, I don't think so.
I don't think so.
That door can eat me.
No.
No.
All right, gentlemen, take a seat.
Stephen, I said take a seat.
I know your name's on the show in the front of the building, but you can at least take a seat, right?
Take a...
Oh, for f***ing sake.
Thank you.
Gentlemen, thank you for joining me this afternoon.
The reason you're here is I've been getting a ton of complaints from you.
What's all this about, man?
Hey, what's all this then, Sammy boy?
Oh, that's Cockney.
It's a good region.
It's Sam's favorite kind of knee.
Fist bump!
Oh, that reminds me.
We should do a sketch called Schindler's Fist.
Guys, that's not appropriate.
Get it?
Yes, I get it.
But the reason you're here isn't because of your inappropriate nonsense.
Oh, right.
What are you on about, boyo?
It's Irish.
The accents.
They need to stop.
I, uh, don't know what you're talking about.
Why?
No, no, no, no, no.
Why are you so mad, Samuel?
Why are you so mad?
Don't pay me, you have all the money.
All money in the whole world.
Do money.
All money in the whole bank.
Why are you so mad?
Guys, separate apart from what you're doing right there, the accents.
They need to stop.
Come on, mate.
We're just having a little fun, you know?
You sound like one of those aborigines.
What?
That's not an Australian accent.
Oh, really?
This is an Australian accent.
And that's a knife.
For the love of God, Stephen, don't wave that around at everyone.
That's what she said.
Get it?
Yes, I get it.
I get it.
Calm down, Essie.
Look, we're just looking around, bro.
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It's on to date, bro.
Okay, this needs to stop.
We'll be bringing complaints from legal, and I've been on the phone with...
Enough!
Samuel.
Silence.
Listen to me, Samuel.
Mein Fuhrer!
Mein Fuhrer!
Oh, my God.
Steven.
All right, let's go.
Garpa Diaz, Sam.
That's not even the right ways.
That's how I say it.
Bischel determines the dialogue.
Oh, Rick.
Hey, relax, essay.
Hey, Holmes.
You need to just relax.
That's me.
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That's the sound of Monday, I guess.
What's the sound of every day?
But you haven't heard it on the weekend, so it's the sound of Monday.
Look, let me make my point of view here really clear.
I think that Putin is an authoritarian prick, and I think that Zelensky, along with most of Europe, is an ungrateful little...
Can those two things be true?
I think that's actually probably more of the mainstream view.
Comment below.
I don't think it means that you're on one team or the other.
We're going to be talking about the Trump-Zelinski conversation Friday.
I released a video on X that kind of encapsulates it, but there's been some fallout.
I don't like the idea of us throwing money at a problem when they have to kidnap people in Ukraine.
We're going to show you a video that is heartbreaking so you understand what is actually happening.
And I really want to get through NATO. The entitlement of these nations.
You may think, okay, they don't spend their fair share.
Okay, we got that.
Do you know the amount of free crap that has been provided to the rest of the world off the backs of the United States?
That's what I think this moment in history is about.
If Doge is about recognizing what we already knew to be true and the experts told you was simply a conspiracy theory, right?
They tried to gaslight you.
No, no, no.
You need these.
Entities.
You need these institutions.
What we are seeing with NATO is these nations have taken advantage of the United States, and then we, of course, they're complicit here, the Democrats are complicit, because then they tell us that all these nations provide, insert whatever here, free internet, free healthcare, free lunches, free vacation, paid nine-year maternity leave, whatever it is, including men who can menstruate, whatever.
The point is, all of that goes away.
If there's a catastrophe, and they have to defend themselves.
That is what this is about.
And we have our own stuff to deal with.
We have our own stuff.
We have a border problem.
We have inflation.
We have a homeless problem.
We have a drug problem.
Why is it our job to subsidize free internet in Germany?
Talking about that official language of the United States is now English.
That's fun.
That is fun.
Better habla and glass.
I have to make a correction to It's better speak English.
What?
You said habla ingles.
What does that mean?
I don't know.
It's Spanish, though.
Oh, okay.
I thought I said it wrong.
That's not official.
I know no habla ingles.
It means they don't speak English, which means yo soy calling ice.
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I'm very sorry.
Very badly, yes.
Hope you are doing well.
That's all right.
If I sneeze into the mic, forgive me.
Well, don't sneeze into the mic because I pay you very well and you should know better.
Josh Firestein, not underscore Firestein on the X. That's not you.
Yes, that's not me, but Gerald can sneeze into my mouth.
Whoa!
Hey!
That's how COVID started.
It's called the bird's knees.
I'm kidding.
It was our chief rivals who engineered something in a lab and then lied to us and we were banned if we pointed it out.
Hey!
Patient zero.
I know what you're thinking.
No, don't worry.
We're not going to cover the Oscars.
We used to live stream that every single year and then we realized nobody cared.
Right.
Apparently the winner was about some sex worker who...
Oh, yeah?
It was the equivalent of Rochelle Rochelle.
One lady's erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
OnlyFans Models winning Oscars now.
Yes, exactly.
And the award goes to Lily Phillips.
Wow, I had no idea.
So, I know you don't care about the Oscars.
I know that many of you don't care about SNL, but let me tell you why.
SNL, just like John Oliver, they write their entire sketches based off of headlines and clips that they see.
Did you know this?
Did you know that there was a 40-something minute long meeting when Zelensky sat down and made his demands?
I guarantee you, the writers at SNL only saw the 10 minutes, because that's the only way you end up with a sketch this unfunny, this lazy, and they couldn't even find the right shirt for Zelensky, which is kind of what they're supposed to do.
I'd like to welcome President Zelensky here to this incredible trap.
It's going to be a big, beautiful trap, and we're going to attack him very soon for no reason, right, J.D.? Watch out, because this kitty's got claws.
President Zelensky, you want to say a few words?
That little Asian, I believe, is the reason that that little homosexual Asian is the reason that Shane Gillis didn't get on SNL. Oh, it's not a character?
He is?
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
So all his characters end up being sort of catty because he's one note.
All right, continue.
He's not playing gay pants.
Tell Mr. Putin how much you love him and that you're sorry you invaded Russia.
Maybe offer him one night with your wife.
Mr. President, with all due respect.
Excuse me?
I'm sorry, what?
I'm sorry, I could jump in here because that's how we planned this.
If I could just say...
You have been talking this entire time!
Keep looking at the prompter.
Scooby-Doo laugh track.
Yeah.
No, it says America House.
Sorry if I... You know, you say you want to end this war, but frankly, you don't have the cards, okay?
I have the cards.
It's disrespectful.
Who shows up to the White House in a t-shirt and jeans like a garbage person?
Here's where Mike Myers does Philip Dr. Hypo and Dr. Evil.
Same character always.
I think that concludes a pretty much perfect press conference.
We humiliated this guy.
And JD finally got to audition for Real Housewives of Potomac.
So, lazy, sure.
And, you know, some of it can be funny.
I'm not going to say that it's never funny.
But the whole theme was, Zelensky couldn't get a word in edgewise, right?
Zelensky kept being interrupted.
And if you hear people on legacy media, dead media, that's their narrative.
Zelensky wasn't allowed to speak.
This was rude.
They interrupted.
They set him up.
You may think that if you only watch the 10-minute clip.
And that is the danger of social media and the clickbait culture that we live in.
They were, meaning President Trump and Vice President Vance, incredibly tolerant, and Zelensky spoke for basically half an hour until he decided that he was going to be an entitled little ingrate.
Here's actually a time lapse.
I highly recommend you watch the whole thing so that I'm not the only one who has to subject myself to it.
But the proof here is SNL. They simply write based on propaganda and marching orders.
Talking, talking.
I think he even brought visual aids.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
And only when Zelensky tried to turn to Vance, his screw-up, and say, Why don't you tell me?
And they were like, Okay, that dog won't hunt.
I just...
And I've worked in this industry long enough.
And by the way, the same thing happens on the right in cable news and Fox News and CNN. But at SNL, they're hoping, they really are hoping that you don't do your research.
Please go watch the whole video.
That's the era that we live in.
It's propaganda.
Is it clear enough now?
Absolutely clear.
And by the way, Zelensky, listen to what he was saying.
He was saying, there is no peace that can be achieved with Russia.
What kind of diplomacy are you talking about?
By the way, he said JD. Not that I'm super worried about that, but even JD, Vice President, when he was pissed off at him, said, excuse me, President Zelensky.
He was nice in front of the media.
Don't be disrespectful.
And by the way, there is some kind of peace available.
You want World War III, I think is what he was saying.
There is no peace with Russia, so we have to defeat them totally.
Well, Russia said no.
Right.
So, what are you going to do?
Yep.
Absolutely right.
And Zelensky, by the way, just in case you don't know, he was there.
There was a deal ready and on the table.
Yes.
It was supposed to be a photo op to sign the deal, which would have made a lot of sense.
He screwed himself over and screwed himself over after by trolling and acting more ungrateful.
He fumbled the bag, as they say.
And the lunch.
Yes.
They had a nice lunch.
They had a lunch set up.
He fumbled the bag lunch.
Also a better film than Rochelle Rochelle.
Let's move on.
And by the way, Billy the Kid, we did revert the mics back right after doing the recording session.
Yeah.
Okay, who knows?
We have a recording session.
You guys will see.
Maybe.
Here's another win, actually.
Do we have the stinger for Donald Trump wins?
No?
Oh, I can get it.
Yeah, let's get it.
There are too many wins to count.
There are too many wins to count right now.
And this is another one of them.
Especially if you're American and you believe that we should have a national language, you know, as most countries have.
And by that I mean pretty much all countries and many of them have languages, including English, that are official.
I'm buying time to make sure that we have this thing.
Time for...
You good?
Yeah.
Time for more wins!
All he do is win, win, win, because he's Trump, Trump destroying liberal life.
He's in the dust, dust, and now that he is in, we're getting back to building this amazing nation.
And we're going to stay there.
President Trump signed an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Gay?
Was said collectively from a bunch of illegal immigrant slash Tim Allen impersonators.
And it looks, by the way, like the United States is making these changes across the board.
They've already gotten started on some of them.
There you go.
Right there.
Sucked by American balls!
That's what it means.
No Latin.
No more services in Latin.
I wanted an English.
The king's English!
So...
What this means is for government agencies and organizations that get government funding, this rescinds the Clinton mandate that they offer language assistance to non-English speakers, or as I refer to it, a waste of time and money.
It allows them to choose whether they offer any services in languages other than English, and I would be willing to bet that if they do, there probably will be some rescinding in funding.
If you choose to provide assistance in other languages, and you all know that this is a pain in the ass, obviously private companies can still do it, but when you call for customer service, and it's not default English, but it asks, if you would like this in English, press 2. I don't want to have to press anything, just like I don't want to have to tip somebody for an order pickup.
The default...
Should be zero.
Should be, I do nothing.
Nothing!
And of course you have people who have said this would be ethnocentric, that this would be Nazi-like, nationalistic, except, you know, it doesn't take into account that 180 countries have an official language.
And by the way, 65 have English as one of their official languages, including India, Botswana, Fiji, the Philippines, Uganda.
So India...
And Fiji could have English as an official language, but not the United States of America?
This is how you know we've gotten so far off the beam that we've lost all scope.
I think it's funny that you got snooty on Fiji and not Botswana.
Well, I don't really know enough about Botswana.
I only know when George W. Bush would say...
Botswana.
And he felt very accomplished when he could say it.
Botswana.
I'm just happy to see that England is finally changing their official language to Farsi.
Yes!
It's going to be nice.
You've got to change with the times.
Otherwise, it's very hard to communicate with the men who are kidnapping your young ladies.
Having choice is a good thing.
And by the way, the same goes as it relates to having choices for doing your taxes.
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That's not so good.
Yeah.
But that's what it is.
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Another win for Donald Trump.
This morning, Honda announced they're going to be producing the Honda Civic in Indiana instead of Mexico to avoid potential tariffs.
Hold on, is this a win?
A Trump win?
Yeah.
Should we do it again?
No, no, no.
This is all part of the segment.
All part of the same segment?
Yeah, that's why I wanted to say it.
Indiana win, for sure.
I wanted the song again.
That means that 210,000 more vehicles are going to be built in the United States.
And the good news is they're not even made from the big three and they're made in the States.
They're ones that might actually work.
It's these Japanese companies.
They keep going to the United States for their manufacturing.
I know.
Well, they were going to go to Mexico.
Keep labor.
But I think it's, what is it, 40% of Hondas sold in the United States are imported from Mexico and Canada.
So that's over 500,000 vehicles.
So if more of these companies decide to start moving the manufacturing here, hey, that's a huge shift.
And especially if it's something that makes sense for them financially.
Do you see?
You see the power of tariffs?
I didn't know that people still drove Honda Civics after fast.
Fast and Furious 4. I thought it was done.
It's not.
No, no.
Hats still go on backwards.
Is it?
They do.
Yeah.
Because we're a family.
Now, how many Fast and Furiouses are there now?
Too many.
Way too many.
And it's all China's fault.
I hate China for that more than just about anything.
Yeah.
Me so sorry!
Well, I hate them for running their people over with tanks, for sure.
Yeah, that's a bad thing, too.
But listen, Fast and Furious...
Yeah, they have to make crap for international markets.
I like those movies.
No, you don't.
Yes, I do.
They're exciting and cool and realistic.
By the way, it's just a threat of tariffs.
Not even the actual tariffs themselves.
Right.
That have made this kind of stuff happen.
Yeah, they're just like, oh, we were making in Indiana beautiful scenery.
That's okay.
I hear Gary good this time of year.
Yeah, very good.
We like your Peter Potter gig and a Christmas story.
Very good.
What is it?
The Dillinger Escape Museum is there?
I don't know.
Let's go to this next one.
I want to get to NATO and I want to get to why it's awful and so entitled and this is really the theme of this moment in time.
If people are going to say that America is arrogant, fine.
Let's be arrogant.
I don't even know that we should be in NATO. I know we should not be in the UN. We'll have laying the brain on later.
I think I'm 50-50.
60-40, we should just pull from NATO. That's where I am at this point.
It starts with the kind of arrogance that you see from Zelensky.
You saw what happened last Friday.
That's obviously been everywhere.
And you see the divide in media.
You can see the exact same story with different headlines.
And you know who's lying to you.
But then there's been some fallout.
And there's a little bit more that we need to get into.
to so it's time for insane in the ukraine so unless you've been living under a rock as you know the meeting at the white house where zelinski was primed and ready to have a deal a great deal by the way the mineral rights deal which was would have been brilliant because it would have guaranteed security because of financial interest that the united states would have and allow russia to save face without involving nato
he just decided that he had to pull the rug out from under president trump in advance and grandstand for the media He was 10 minutes away from a peace deal.
As you know, those last 10 minutes are the reason it didn't go great.
What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about?
What do you mean?
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict.
We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
I'm not telling you.
Because you're in no position to dictate that.
Remember that.
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks.
By the way, he's trying to say you're spouting Putin talking points as though, hey, if Putin says soup is hot and Donald Trump says, careful, that soup is hot, is he parroting Putin talking points?
Putin said without the United States, Ukraine would be conquered very quickly.
Donald Trump was saying without the United States, you wouldn't last.
Yes, yes, because you are on board with Putin, you ungrateful little pisshead.
So I did issue a rant, by the way, that you can go and watch on my timeline at S. Crowder on X. For those of you who want my thoughts, I don't want to recap them here, but this is a brief clip.
Zelensky is more indicative of the pervasive problem that we're dealing with, whether it's NATO, whether it's the UN, whether it's the rest of Europe, whether it's Canada.
This idea that it's a never-ending supply of support from the United States while you bitch about it.
This has to start with some semblance of truth, okay?
Without the United States, guess what?
You're Russia, Ukraine.
That was the law of the land.
That's what happened.
Stronger nations conquered weaker nations.
And by the way, I make no apologies.
That's how the world worked.
That's how it still works if you don't have the man with the biggest stick on your side.
Oh, you don't want to be Russia?
Well, they have several times the population you do, and you can't fight back.
That's it.
You're now Russia.
Genghis Khan is going to give you a flag warning, but really he's going to come and conquer and rape anyway.
There's nothing you can do.
Turks, Ottomans, Romans, take your pick.
That's how it's always been.
That's why people...
People are so unaware.
Canada is a marvel that the United States is in the position of power that it is.
And I wonder how historians will look back on Canada and how they'll understand that it was allowed to exist considering their lack of military might in comparison to the United States.
This deal with Zelensky was going to be signed until he had to grandstand.
And by the way, it's like he read a book.
The wrong way to deal with President Trump.
Before he's being advised.
Yes, because after he left, he was given the opportunity to apologize on cable news, and he said no.
And then, the Ukrainian public broadcast studio, Kvartal, that was founded by Zelensky, posted this picture on their Facebook.
The name Trump on a piano.
For those who don't know what it's...
This is trolling Donald Trump, implying that he's playing on Donald Trump with his dick.
here.
It's also why we don't import Ukrainian comedians.
Ha ha ha!
Yes, we do.
You have your Bill Hicks, your Nick DePaulo's, your Norm MacDonald's, but we, look, we have paper mache hat and play piano with penis.
Very avant-garde.
You've got to knock Jeff Dunham's.
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
Donald Trump did post this after that on Truth.
He said, We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today.
I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement will give him big advantage in negotiations.
I don't want advantage.
I want peace.
He disrespected the United States and its cherished Oval Office, my office, the people's office, but I spend a lot of time there.
He can come back when he is ready for peace.
So then...
He's allowed to come back.
Yes.
He's allowed to come back?
He's allowed to come back after that?
Oh, he will.
He will.
But then to leave, and this implication, you really...
Do you have any idea how stupid it is?
Any idea how stupid it is?
Ukraine.
All of Ukraine.
Do you have any idea how stupid it is to insult the country that is the sole reason for your current existence?
It's enough for me where I'm like, ah, sorry, Ukrainian people.
Ah, sorry.
He's there.
You guys got to deal with Zelensky.
No more money.
Guess you're speaking Russian.
Guess you're all speaking Russian next week.
Guess you are Russian next week.
Well, because you implied that you were going to play on our president with your dick.
So, you know, we just don't take that really...
I don't know if you know about the Boston Tea Harbor, but we actually basically started blowing people's heads off because of attacks on a breakfast beverage, implying that you're going to dick slap our president.
It's just not something that we take very well.
So, feigning shock that they couldn't believe this.
Pretty much all of Europe...
And Canada and even the penal colony that is Australia, none of whom have collectively met their defense spending, the contract that they promised to honor because we pay for all their free crap, they decided to come to Zelensky's defense.
You have full backing across the United Kingdom.
It's a small kingdom these days.
Why didn't you do it before?
We know that the Canadian military has ways that it can contribute.
This is the struggle of a democratic nation versus an authoritarian regime led by Vladimir Putin.
How do you take that guy seriously?
I don't know.
He looks like gayer Truman Capote.
Authoritarian.
We have things.
Why haven't you done it?
Why haven't you done it?
Why haven't you spent the money?
Other people decided a virtue signal.
You have the German Chancellor.
Olaf Scholz said, Ukraine can rely on Germany and on Europe.
Well, that's not necessarily something that we think of when we think of Germany.
We don't think Germany and reliability in the grand scheme of world history.
Especially when you know where they're getting their gas from.
Yeah, exactly.
He also said, we love the Jews this time.
That's right.
We're fine with the Jews.
No, it's good.
I mean, as long as they're not too Jew-y.
Yeah.
It's just...
Turn down the Jewiness.
So, the Prime Minister of Spain, also Pedro Sanchez, decided to go out and virtue signal.
If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true.
Sorry, wrong clip, but correct name.
From Spain, he said, Ukraine, Spain stands with you.
But right out of our nap.
That's right.
They will know that Spain...
He's no pussy boys.
We are sending a whole battalion of bulls.
That is right.
Russia, you are going to kick no ass.
Understand that.
I am Spain, the ass-kicker of you.
Don't wait for dinner, okay?
How about that?
So, pretty much all of the EU has said that your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone.
This is the self-sympathy, like, we have been strong and we have been all alone.
That's what Zelensky said.
You have not been strong.
No.
You've been getting your ass kicked.
Doesn't mean I like it.
And you've not been alone.
It's that kind of arrogance that says, okay, you know what?
Show us your strength when you're actually going to be alone.
I'm done with, and I know Christians, that's unchristian of you.
Fine.
Want to feed my own kids?
Then we'll talk about the rest of the world.
You want to tell me that's unchristian?
I don't care.
Especially when it's a guy whose greatest qualification is acting like a spoiled brat and fake playing a piano with his dick.
Now remember, the United States, for Europe and all these places to now be righteous, the United States has contributed basically all of Europe's contributions combined.
It's not even close.
Wow.
It's not even close.
There was already a deal on the table, would have provided for everyone, would have effectively guaranteed security, would have given Putin the ability to save face.
And all Zelensky had to do was not act like a child in that meeting and certainly not go out and make a dick joke about our president.
And I say this as someone who loves a good dick joke.
Love a good dick joke and a good dick.
But what does Europe get out of it?
Out of our mineral deal?
Right.
Nothing.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
They do get some kind of security where they don't actually have to fight a war because the United States guarantees some security in Ukraine because, hey, there's a financial incentive.
If I were Donald Trump after that little stunt, I'd go, oh, it's no longer 50-50, it's now 60-40, and maybe we'll turn it down to 55 if you put some adults in charge.
Yeah.
You know what pisses me off the most about this is that when you pull that graph up of what we're giving and what the European Union's giving, Let's pull in a figure of what they're buying in gas and oil from Russia.
Yes.
It's more than what they've given to Ukraine.
They're funding both sides of the war.
By the way, where were you Europe in 2014 when Russia took over Crimea?
Where were you in 2022, this strong, united, big, bad European Union?
If you guys were strong to begin with, this would have never happened.
Russia would have looked at you, sized you up, and said, it's not worth the fight.
What he saw was weakness in you.
Not us!
You!
And by the way, I'm going to show you...
I'm going to show you a video.
I warn you, if you have children, probably shouldn't watch it.
It's not graphic, but it's pretty heartbreaking as to how they actually get bodies for the war in Ukraine.
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So when they talk about this, how strong Ukraine is, we are all united.
Well, there's something that doesn't sit well with me.
With the United States providing, I know we haven't put boots on the ground, but providing any money to a nation.
That is fighting a war that its citizens believe in so little that the government has to kidnap them.
The government has to kidnap men in the streets and throw them to the front lines, which, by the way, is a death sentence.
It's not like World War II where people are lying about their age and claiming that they have good arches in their feet so they can go and serve their country.
There's a huge percentage of Ukrainian men who are not willing to and they don't want to fight for their country.
If your own citizens aren't willing to fight for your country, you get not a dime from ours.
Does that make sense?
For people out there who think that Ukraine is filled to the brim with brave patriots who are willing to stand up to Putin.
Well, you know what?
I'm gonna play this for you.
You may be in for a reality check and then I ask you, should we be sending money to the government that does this?
Footage like this of men apparently being confronted by military conscription officers or trying to escape them is being posted across social media in Ukraine.
Ukraine is fighting and Ukraine lives.
We stand, we fight and we will win.
We are not ready to give our freedom to this terrorist Putin.
That's it.
That's why we are fighting.
We are going to fight for every inch of our territory.
We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost.
we will stand and fight Ukraine holds its lines and will never surrender all things all things which are Ukrainian will be Ukraine even you but you have a nice ocean and don't feel now but you will feel it in the future
hey how about this You go to the nation for a vote.
Look, you want to keep fighting Russia?
Do you believe in this war?
Okay, great.
Unless all of you join the military, we surrender.
We're done.
We're not going to fight.
It's really easy to vote.
It's in your own country.
Hey, if we have to kidnap one more of you to send you to the front lines to fight, we're done fighting.
Tells me you don't want to fight.
How about the Ukrainian people make their own decisions?
Because I don't want to send billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to a government so we can aid and abet kidnapping conscripts.
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Is that sensible?
Don't need to host a national election.
I know those have been stopped.
Just, people, you say you want this, but you're not willing to fight.
Start fighting.
If not, it's now Russia.
We're going to get to NATO here, the entitlement.
It really has been, I've been losing my mind over it this weekend.
It's really pissed you off.
Because I was raised in Canada.
I was raised in Canada, where I would hear them all the time, you Americans are so, just shut up.
Just shut up.
Everyone is entitled.
The whole world bitches about how we don't have X, Y, and Z, and the only reason they are afforded.
The luxury of doing that is because the United States protects them.
And you know what?
We should pull that from the table in many instances.
You wanted to talk about...
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Yeah, thank you.
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Good morning, Tim.
Did you have a good weekend?
Yeah, it was fine.
Excellent.
That's great news.
I was hoping you could help me out with something.
What do you want, Sam?
Well, over the weekend, someone used Gerald C., and I need your help to clean him.
Someone used Gerald C.? Yes.
Borrowed him?
Yes.
Who?
Gerald A. Gross.
Well, I know.
No, that's why I'm going to need your help cleaning him.
It's your...
Oh, you, Sam.
Tim, this falls under your responsibility as a director.
I mean, I need...
Why?
Oh.
I wonder we've had to replace Gerald C. so many times.
It gets a lot of use.
Also, some have gone missing.
Yes, that's true.
Any hole will do.
That's why he kills them every time.
Let's be honest.
They're not exactly missing.
It's not a Natalie Holloway situation.
We could look through the desks of employees here and we could get to the bottom of it quite quickly.
I wonder why turnover is so high.
Yes.
So I want to get to NATO here and the entire timeline of these nations, these arrogant, entitled nations.
And I mean that.
And I don't care anymore.
Let me step back.
As someone who was raised in Canada, I always know the game that is being played when you see the Bernies of the world, when you see the leftists of the world, when you see the Democratic Party say, every other country provides, insert whatever entitlement here.
Now let's put that in the context of the nations who are supposed to be good neighbors, good allies, who actually provide these entitlements off of the backs of our defense.
I want you to really closely connect the disproportionate amount of spending from the United States to protect Ukraine by proxy Europe and just how much more as a percentage of their GDP these nations spend on entitlements.
And hopefully you'll start to get the picture.
But you've heard this ad nauseum.
America is the bad guy because we don't have nearly as much free stuff as places like Europe, Canada, insert inferior nations here.
Why is it that the United States of America today is the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right?
It's more affordable to treat everybody.
It's possible to treat everybody.
And people can get higher quality care than they ever could under our current privatized for-profit system.
The United States of America is less superpower and more failed state, where infant mortality lags behind Bosnia and Cuba.
This only happens in this country.
And nowhere else, nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day.
Universal free meals for every child ought to be something that we're all dedicated to getting done.
So all that free stuff.
I wonder why these European nations in Canada, I wonder why they've been able to splurge on these social programs.
Does anyone?
Noodles?
Oh, there you go.
That's right.
Pre-Donald Trump, 72% of all the spending when you're talking about NATO has come from the United States.
And let's also get that chart of the different nations and how much they spend based on their promises and the agreements.
That's right.
You can provide all of these things because you don't have to spend on your national...
And by the way, this is not something new.
You know that.
This is not something new.
Europe and Canada, they know that they are being bad allies and neighbors.
And they still do it anyway.
For years, American leaders have been begging them.
To step up and start honoring their word.
There is no substitute for nations providing the resources necessary to have the military capability the alliance needs when faced with a security challenge.
Ultimately, nations must be responsible for their fair share of the common defense.
The situation in Ukraine reminds us that our freedom isn't free.
And we've got to be willing to pay for the assets, the personnel, the training that's required to make sure that we have a credible NATO force and an effective deterrent force.
NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.
But 23 of the 28 member nations...
And that allows us to spend less time and less resources on the Middle East and focus more on East Asia.
In the same way that we want our own allies to do the job in Europe so that we can focus on East Asia, I think the same is true of the Sunni nations in Israel and the Middle East.
And of course, seeing that these nations have not met.
There are contractual obligations.
I guess there are no consequences if you don't.
we know that the rest of us here in the United States, we're all thinking the same thing.
Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading, son of a bitch, retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk.
Mr. Hughes had away with words.
Oh, hold on.
Your microphone is on.
That was me.
I did the sneeze button.
I did the sneeze button.
By the way, I think we have a chart.
Just to illustrate the point, yeah, oh, you see that line?
That's kind of where maybe we should be spending money, and there's only a handful of people there.
Yeah.
14 and 15. Us?
Grease of all people?
Yeah, Grease of all people.
Well, when your economy is really small, it doesn't count.
Yeah, exactly.
And we're going to go through countries.
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What they've provided since they've signed on to NATO and not been spending what they promised the rest of the world they would on defense.
We're going to go through this country by country so that you can actually have some context here.
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And let me ask you this.
People say, Donald Trump mean...
Okay?
Before Donald Trump, no one was even close to honoring their agreement as far as spending.
Now, when I say NATO spending, it's shorthand for they promised to spend a certain percentage of their GDP on their military, on their defense, in order to be a part of NATO. That's almost the key to membership.
So no one was doing this.
Let me ask you this.
Do you think Ukraine, well, even though they're not NATO, but do you think Europe, do you think these nations would be better off if they'd have actually built up a military?
Do you think they'd be safer?
Do you think they would be facing this instability with a threat like Russia or potentially China if they would have done what they promised they would do?
Is it mean for Donald Trump to be the only president in modern history to call them to task?
I don't think so.
I don't think that stern equals mean.
I think demanding that your friends do the right thing when they promised you they would, I just think that's the right thing to do.
And I think it's better for all nations.
Let's look at Canada.
Everyone talks about, Michael Moore loves Canada.
He always talks about their health care and how friendly they are.
I mean, it has one-tenth the population in the United States.
They've been a member of NATO since 1949. Okay?
Again, the target for all these nations is 2%.
Of their spending, meaning 2% in relation to their GDP, should be spent on military and defense in order to be in NATO, right?
So collectively, NATO is a power.
2%.
They missed it, of course, Canada.
Their spending was about 1%.
About 1%.
So about half of what they promised.
And remember that montage?
Everyone said, oh, all these other countries have.
Okay, so cut their guaranteed, their promised spending in half.
And during that same time, since they've been in NATO, what have they done?
They've provided universal health care.
Hey, free health care!
Well, I guess you have that $344 billion annually.
12% of your GDP when you're not spending on your military.
Isn't that nice?
Hey, shouldn't $100 billion of that be going to honor your word?
They spent over a billion dollars on zero-emission buses, which has been nothing but a problem.
They spent billions subsidizing the planting of two billion trees.
Didn't meet their NATO spending, though.
Well, you know what?
If the United States wasn't overspending on NATO, guess how easy it would be to provide a bunch of free shit.
And now we're condemned for saying, hey, We're going to scale back on this so we can take care of our country, which is what these nations have always been doing.
Only we are discussing scaling back to what we promised, 2%.
We've been paying close to 4%.
These nations have been lying, have been screwing us while providing entitlements.
Let's just pay our actual promise so that we can help Americans.
That?
That's the evil?
Let's go to France.
They've been in NATO since 1949. They missed their target of 2% spending.
Do they miss it by 1.79% or have they been spending 1.79%?
They've been spending 1.79%.
1.79%.
It's close.
It's close.
Of all countries.
It's close.
Many years they didn't.
Come on.
We spend about 3.6 to 4, depending on the year.
Some years have been over 4. During that time, what did France do?
Ah, universal healthcare.
Again, another $340 billion annually.
Jeez.
Free subsidized meals for employees.
That's a few billion dollars.
120 million dollars spent on state visits at the French Presidential Palace.
Not to mention people throw a fit if you want to raise the retirement age.
My point is this.
They actually shouldn't even have any social safety nets until they meet their spending and until they reach their back pay.
And I certainly demand that the rest of these nations...
Don't bitch about us saying, ah, we're going to scale back so that we can secure our own border.
We are effectively securing the borders of these other countries.
That's what we're really arguing.
Borders with Ukraine.
Where do those borders line up?
Why in the hell should we be subsidizing any type of war for territory there when we're not even allowed to protect our own?
Let's go to Germany.
Germany.
They've been a member since 1955. They've been spending, again, 2% target, 1.2%.
1.2%.
So they have not honored their agreement, but they spend $522 billion annually on universal health care while they tell us arrogantly, you Americans, you're the only country that doesn't provide universal health care.
Well, yeah, you know what?
But you guys break your word.
It's really easy to do.
How about no billion to any other entitlements until you just...
Honor your promise.
By the way, during that same time, they can't possibly meet their military spending.
They're agreed upon 2%.
They declared internet a human right for all, so that's going to be free for everybody.
They created basically propaganda broadcasting as well, similar to Canada's CBC, Deutsche Welle, $430 million a year.
So you can't honor your international agreement where this is long-standing tradition.
Yeah, but instead of actually honoring the contract, You funded socialized healthcare and $430 million on a broadcast corporation.
Couldn't you just let companies do broadcasting, especially now with social media?
Oh, that's right.
You have to control your population because you don't have freedom of speech.
Right.
How else are they going to control what you say and arrest you for what you say on the internet if you're paying for it yourself?
Right there.
$430 million a year.
All of that.
Go right into the military.
Socialized healthcare makes some cutbacks.
Put $100 billion.
There you go.
They can do it.
They just don't want to.
Because they expect us to do it.
Spain!
Let's go to España!
With their stupid list.
They've been in there since 1982, I believe.
.9%.
Not 2%.
.9%.
Less than half.
Less than half.
Second to last.
Hey, they increased their universal health care.
$95 billion annually.
That's 6% of their GDP. They have...
Taxpayer-funded vacations for seniors.
What?
Yep.
Seniors get to go on subsidized vacations.
A 10-day vacation, $475.
Do they come back?
Right.
If they don't come back, I'm maybe not against it.
Just think about that.
You're paying less than half and you're subsidizing vacations for old people's photo albums?
There should be no photo albums.
There should be no old people.
You should be speaking another language because you don't have the ability to defend yourself and we only allowed you to be a part of this organization because you promised you'd spend 2% of your GDP. You didn't do it.
You're out!
They spent over a billion dollars, 1.5 billion dollars on airports they never used.
What?
Use that to buy some javelins.
What?
Javelins!
Javelins!
Sweden.
Oh, boy.
So now they joined in 2024, but I have the same problem because they're coming into it late.
Yeah.
We're going to be neutral, yeah.
Well, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't get to do that and then join once there's a threat.
That's like getting health insurance after you got refused a Lyft ride because you're 600 pounds.
But they might have to rethink, Sweden.
This is their GoFundMe.
Yeah.
Your universal healthcare, $70 billion annually.
That's 11% of your GDP. We're going to have to shift some of that.
Your parental leave, I believe they have both maternal and paternal.
It's 480 days.
390 of those are paid at 80% wages.
Dude, I'd be having so many kids.
Well, the good news is it's already falling apart in Sweden because of all the migrants who've come in, so they've had to subsidize that as well.
The government is now paying migrants $34,000 to return home.
Because they have kids in litters.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
So we look at this thing.
Putin is bad, but Zelensky is a symptom of the greater problem.
It is this entitlement.
Wait, can I get $34,000 if I go to Sweden right now?
Get kicked out?
Can you guys give me a week off to do this?
Yes.
Yes, and we would demand that you be as obnoxious as possible.
I'll give you 2% of that.
Yes.
Go in and be the drunken American that they can't stand.
And let's see how fast they kick you out.
Easy for me.
Just keep coming back.
Sweden, what have you given the world aside from fish and birth control and books that fold into armoires or whatever the hell it is?
More than meets the eye.
And also, let's look at all these countries.
They've also given the world nothing in like 200 years.
Let's be real about this.
Sweden, Spain, Canada.
You know, Germany, you gave us some stuff.
You gave us a reason to come together to kick your ass, so I guess you were a great unifier in that sense.
That's what Zelensky is.
He embodies this entitlement and this arrogance of, well, you will feel it soon.
You know what?
I don't think we will.
I think you'll feel it sooner because you've been living high on this hog and it is subsidized by the United States.
Not to mention, by the way, these other nations who provide socialized health care.
That's because they don't...
They don't provide anyone near the R&D into new medical innovations or pharmaceuticals.
They benefit from the United States and then they slap tariffs on our goods and then they demand that we step in and protect them.
Hey, the whole reason for NATO is so that everyone shoulders this together and these nations are not.
These nations are not.
And we are now in an era where people are saying that the United States is being selfish simply to do.
By the way, simply to carry out what is legitimately under the purview of government, which means having borders and ensuring that our citizens are safe.
We're not saying, hey, we won't contribute to NATO so we can give everyone here free internet.
We're not saying, hey, we're not going to fund, we're not going to honor our NATO agreement.
Hey, we're not going to support Ukraine so we can start a new program to send seniors to Greece for $400.
We're not saying, hey, you know what, we're going to leave Ukraine out in the cold.
So that we can have over 400 days parental leave.
We're not doing that.
We're saying, well, you've been doing all this shit for this long.
You know what?
We actually think we have to protect our borders and we have an economic crisis here.
We have a drug crisis with fentanyl.
We need to focus on that.
You guys, free internet.
Free healthcare across the board.
You're welcome, by the way.
Wouldn't exist without the United States subsidizing that either.
Free vacations.
Free meals.
Free birth control.
Free parental leave.
As you look down your noses and judge the United States.
If we didn't have to support the rest of the world, if we just changed all this and said, you know what?
We're not protecting you at all.
You're right.
We have a nice ocean.
We think that's enough.
We're gone.
No NATO. You get no subsidies from us whatsoever.
Oh, and by the way, if we invent something, if it's created in the United States, you don't get to use it unless you pay a tax or a tariff.
You don't get to subsidize.
The drugs that we invent or the machines that we create like MRIs, new imaging technology.
You don't get to benefit from it if you guys aren't honoring your part of the agreement.
Do you have any idea how different that world would look?
So when you travel abroad and you have these people who say, you Americans are so blah blah.
Yeah, you know what?
Hey, they've said we're arrogant for a long time.
Good.
Good.
Let's be arrogant.
Let's be arrogant.
We're going to start acting it.
I have a proposal for you.
If you're one of the countries who hasn't spent the 2% number, and J.D. Vance actually raised that to 4 or 5 when he was over in Europe saying, hey, you guys should probably step up just a little bit.
You get to call all of the other countries who haven't spent the 2% when you need help.
The only people that get to call us are the countries that have met historically since we...
Poland!
Right, yeah.
And apparently Greece for some reason.
Poland and Greece.
Yeah.
You guys get to call the United States.
The UK, I think, is now finally there.
Everybody else, you've got to call somebody in your category.
It's the two-tier version of NATO. I'm fine with it.
Poland and Greece.
Only Greece.
If we come, we're taking the island of Lesbos.
I think it's a bit of a bait and switch.
Oh, no.
It's not what I'm expecting.
I mean, it's an island, but nothing else.
Ah, well.
So.
Gerald, what do you think about the United States and NATO at this point?
I know you were pissed off about it earlier.
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