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Nov. 4, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Taylor Swift Idiocy, Deep Fake CSAM, Protected Speech As Hate Liberty's End
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It's amazing what I will have to do to pull a $5 note from somebody.
I must start off with this concocted era of some type of malfunction.
As the rest of you say, I could contribute, but no, I'm not, because I don't do this.
I kid, of course.
I kid, of course.
Years ago, I told people and I suggested to people, you know what we're going to do?
Let's do it again.
I'm going to do the whole thing again.
Ready for this?
Let's do the whole thing again.
I'm going to do the whole thing again from the beginning.
What do you say?
Let's do it from the beginning.
Ready?
Another 30 second count.
What do you say?
Let's do it from the start.
Shall we?
Bye.
Thank you.
you you you There was a time years ago when I would warn people, I would say, there's going to be something one day that will change everything.
And what it will be, will be somebody creating something artificially that does not exist.
Something that will seem to be true, but it's not.
And you are going to question, and we're going to question this notion that we have this thing called the First Amendment.
And it was right around the time that the Ashcroft It was right around the time Ashcroft came about.
And what happens, which I think is the most critical, is that it dealt with something which was very interesting at the time.
It dealt with something where somebody said, using, I think, CGI, we didn't even know to call it AI or AGI at the time, but at the time, there was this...
Creation where somebody said, we're going to take something that looks like it is verboten pornography, as we'll call it, and then we will see whether this thing works.
For example, I'll take a picture of a woman who is, let's say, quote, underdeveloped.
But who's 18 or 21 years old, whatever the particular age is, right?
I take this picture.
And then I'm going to take another picture of, let's say, an underage child and superimpose that head on this adult body.
Is this verboten pornography or CSAM child sexual abuse material?
Think about it.
Then I'm going to change.
This was years ago.
This was during the Ashcroft decision.
I'm going to take CGI, as we used to call it, and we're going to fix it, we're going to change it, we're going to do something in which we create the illusion, the illusion that something is actually, what's the word, that something is there which isn't.
We're going to call it, maybe now, deepfakes.
People are using this now, the term deepfakes.
And there's a case that happened recently.
And I find this interesting.
AI-generated pornographic images, this is from the New York Post, of female students at a New Jersey high school were circulated by male classmates, sparking parent uproar and a police investigation.
Students at Westfield High School, located in Westfield, a town about 25 miles west of Manhattan, where the average household income is $259,000.
According to Forbes, I told the Wall Street Journal that one or more classmates used an online AI-backed tool to create the racy images and then shared them with peers.
Racy, okay?
They call them race...
Excuse me.
A mother whose daughter is a student at Westfield High School recounted that her child told her...
To the journal said sophomore boys at the school were acting weird.
Multiple girls started asking questions and finally on October the 20th, one boy revealed that all the whispering was about.
At least one student had used girls' photos found online to create the fake nudes and then shared them with other boys in the groups.
They're calling the police.
They're investigating.
What do we do about this?
What do we do about this?
How does this thing work?
Okay, now, let me stop right there.
This is beyond the realm.
This is beyond the ability.
This is beyond the chance of people to understand what is going on.
I say this with all due respect.
It is beyond the realm of anything that we, as a society, are able to grasp.
It is not.
Something that will in any way lure or inspire discussion in the like because it is a subject matter which is a little bit, well, a tad arcane.
And most people do not want to understand.
They don't want to deal with that because of the fact that it is so strange.
It is so weird.
It is odd.
It is strange.
It's not really clear.
But it is the biggest implication there is, and I promise you, do not waste your time going on and trying to find anybody who understands this.
But it is, in my opinion, the most fascinating subject that I could talk hours about because of the derivative issues that it employs.
And I am wasting my time!
Not with you, perhaps, but with the rest of the world.
But when I tell you I talked about this 10 years ago or more, let me see, the Ashcroft case, I know you're dying to find this on, Ashcroft case, free speech, this was, this was the, ah, Free Speech Coalition, this was 2002, right after 9-11.
U.S. Supreme Court case struck down an overbroad provision of the Child Pornography Prevention Act because they abridged the freedom to engage in substantial amount of lawful speech.
And this was the issue then.
And the question is, does the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 abridge free speech when it proscribes a significant universe of speech that is neither obscene under the Miller test nor child pornography under New York v.
Ferber?
And it said, yes, in a 6-3 decision delivered by Justice Kennedy, with Scalia and Rehnquist dissenting, held that the two prohibitions described above or overbroad in unconstitutional court found that the CPPA should be inconsistent with Miller.
Can I be right in that?
Moreover, the court found...
Prohibited speech that records no crime and creates no victims by its production.
It prevents prohibited speech that records no crime.
Remember, recordation of a crime is that which is involved in the CSAM.
And creates no victims by production.
Provisions of the CPBA...
Materials beyond the categories recognized in Ferber and Miller and the reasons the government offers in support of it have no justification in our president.
The freedom to engage in a substantial amount of free speech.
This is something which is so critical and we are losing in terms of free speech.
And I'm telling you right now, you're wasting your time if you even attempt to engage in this.
Don't waste your time, but we're going to do it here.
When somebody yells, death to Israel, death to the Jews, death to whatever, is that protected speech?
Yes or no?
Is it?
If somebody stands in the corner and says this, if I go up and there's a picture of people who were kidnapped by Hamas, and I rip this off a wall, it is there.
Somebody put this on a wall.
You've got to ask yourself, is that trespassorial in and of itself?
Let's assume it's graffiti.
If I walked up and I erased graffiti, graffiti which shouldn't have been there in the first place, but I erased something that shouldn't have been there in the first place, does that count?
Does that count?
Does that make any sense?
So if somebody yells death to the Jews or whatever, is that protective speech?
Damn right it is.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Of course it is.
What's the matter with us?
Yes, it is.
Death to Hamas.
Well, obviously that's okay.
Death to Hamas.
Death to Palestinians.
Now, wait a minute.
Death to Gaza.
Destroy Gaza.
Blow up Gaza.
Destroy Gaza.
You tell me what is and isn't whatever.
Tell me what is and isn't allowed.
You can't.
It is protected speech, I say unto you.
It is protected speech.
You hear me?
Protected speech.
It is protected speech.
It is speech which is the fundamentals of what we begin.
Now let me ask you this.
Answer my question.
Your daughter comes home and she says, look at this.
There's a picture.
Somebody takes a picture of your daughter and creates, they call them deepfakes, but let's say creates an AI-generated, seeming picture of pornography.
Is that protected?
Yes or no?
What do you think?
What do you think?
Answer my question.
I'm going to ask you, because one of the things that we're doing a lot of times is we're Not having enough of a rap session, but I want to use the ability for you to be here to answer my question.
I want to be the teacher.
I want you to be the student.
I want to be able to lead the discussion rather than having these sometimes disjointed and kind of subsidiary conversations that really don't do much of anything other than amuse us.
What do you think so?
What do you think?
What happens?
Your daughter comes home.
There is that picture.
What do you think?
What is it?
What do you do with this?
You got to do something.
What do you do?
What do you do?
Is this protected?
What is this?
What does this mean?
Tell me.
How do you say to somebody, well, you know, you took somebody.
What if it was a picture?
What if it was a drawing?
What if it was a drawing that somebody took?
What if it was a drawing that somebody took?
What if it was a drawing?
Somebody just took a pen, just drew a picture.
There's a picture of your daughter.
And there's a cactus.
Okay, good.
What happens?
Can you call the police?
Hello, police?
Yes.
Hello, Westfield Police?
Yes.
I want you to arrest us.
They drew a picture of my daughter.
They drew a picture?
Yes, they drew a picture of your daughter.
Yes.
Yes, they did.
And I want you to arrest them.
Arrest them for what?
For drawing a picture of my daughter.
This is obscene.
Wait a minute.
It's a sketch.
Yes.
But that's not, you know, the same.
I don't care whether it's the same or not.
That's a sketch.
It's obscene.
And I want this to be dealt with immediately.
What happens then?
Well, that's, you know, a sketch.
Well, wait a minute.
What kind of a depiction is...
What if it was a picture?
Or if it was a picture, if it was an actual photograph or something, that would be a different story.
Okay, so what's the difference?
Well, this might be somehow construed as, I guess, maybe, this might be, I don't know.
Do you see what's happening right now?
Do you see what's happening?
Do you see what's happening, my friends?
Tell me you do.
Tell me you do.
Tell me you recognize what's happening.
Tell me you, this is so big.
Because when Hamas is gone, when Israel is gone, not the country, but when the issue is gone, we're going to be looking at this.
We're going to be asking ourselves, what do we do with this?
What do we do with this?
How do we fit in a world with weird ideas where people now, by virtue of technology, how does this How does this work?
Does this make any sense?
How does this work?
Now, again, I tell you this.
If you want to be successful in our culture, in our civilization today, do yourself a favor.
Stay away from words that hurt people.
Words that bother people.
I'm trying to figure something.
I wish I could tell you what I'm doing now, but I can't.
I can't.
Because if I do, you would not understand it.
But I'm working through algorithms.
I'm constantly working through algorithms.
And I'm fascinated by things.
And I don't want to tell you what I'm doing.
But this is the most fascinating subject, especially if anybody has ever been a creator.
You don't understand.
This is what I deal with.
There was that nude painting of Sarah Palin.
There's Sparky.
Yes, in fact, remember Sparky?
There was also that case, the Supreme Court case, that dealt with Jerry Falwell, who wrote this poem about...
Remember Campari?
No, Larry Flint wrote this case about...
It was Campari, my first time.
And he wrote this...
You can look it up yourself.
Thank you, Mr. Sparky.
It dealt with the idea of...
Jerry Falwell, his first time was in an outhouse with a relative.
Something obviously crude.
This is the most fascinating thing in the world.
If you've ever dealt with any kind of content creation, there are algorithms and algorithms that kick in and you'll write something and it will say, No.
No.
You'll be notified to either demonetize or this or that.
And you merely change the order of the word.
Change the order of the word.
And it's okay now.
Same content.
Same everything.
You switch the order of a title.
Fascinating.
This is everywhere now.
So let me go back to you.
Let me ask you.
What happens?
What do we do with this?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, again, we'll hear people say, you know, that's sick.
That's awful.
That's childish to react that way.
How do you live in a society?
And I would take the case in a heartbeat.
I would love to argue that case.
I would say 100% this is first member protected.
Now, you can use other methods if you want.
You can protest.
You can embarrass you yourself.
Can counter this?
What I would do is I would say, okay, is this your son?
Yes.
Your son thinks this is funny?
Yeah.
Okay.
Then you're not going to mind my entrance.
I'm going to give you some CSAM stuff that's going to blow your mind.
And I'm going to show you what it feels like when your son is the object of this.
And let's see how he responds to that.
Let's see how he responds.
I'll do this.
I'll show you.
You think it's funny?
Watch this.
I can do that too.
But when somebody comes back and says, eww, that's not a reaction.
See, this is the childishness that we're dealing with.
These are people who don't understand.
The issue of the First Amendment.
The issue is not whether it offends you.
And this goes to the fact that we in schools don't teach.
We don't teach this enough.
We don't teach this.
What about hate speech?
Should a person who writes...
Let me go back to this.
You have these students, or these people, who are in the Upper West Side, who are ripping down and ruining...
Signs that are put up that basically either announce or celebrate or discuss individuals who have been kidnapped.
And they rip these signs down claiming terrible things about Israel.
What are you supposed to do?
Can they do this?
Ask yourself, what legal questions would you ask?
And there's a picture of these two.
It's in the New York Post.
Who are these people?
And they're doing it because they're getting covered.
But the bottom line is, let me ask you this.
You as a jury, what are you going to charge them with?
You're up there.
There's a sign.
And if I go up and it says, Free Palestine, and I rip it down right next to your picture of ripping down Jewish hostages, and I say, okay, I'm going to stand up next to you.
I'm going to rip down yours as well.
Okay, first of all, Let's talk about this.
Do I have a right?
Is my ripping down the sign?
Is this constitutionally protected?
MC says vandalism.
MC says vandalism.
Vandalism, right?
Good MC.
Also called criminal mischief.
The question MC is, is this vandalism in and of itself?
Is it vandalism what I'm tearing down or vandalism what is being put up?
We have signs in New York that say post no bills.
If I put a sign up on something and I never received any kind of an okay for this, is this vandalism?
Is this?
Now my friends, think about this very, very carefully.
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It's fascinating to hear people not able to really think about this, but yet some people who do.
The question we have to ask is, in the case of somebody pulling down structure, pulling down pictures, the question is, if I go up and there is something that is trespassorially put up, let's say a picture or something like that, on a wall, and I remove that, what happens?
That's a fascinating case.
What happens if you throw garbage down and I come up and I pick the garbage up?
You throw garbage down, you say, wait a minute, that's my speech.
No, no, excuse me, there's no right to throw it down.
Yes, but that's my speech.
I left this here, this garbage, this discarded cup.
Well, I picked it up.
That's a tough one because I'm basically cleaning up.
Well, one could say they're removing improperly posted pictures.
If these are on your store, if there's a Black Lives Matter poster in front of your front yard and I come and I repeal it, steal it, whatever it is, that's obviously theft.
That's a different story.
But the bottom line is simply this.
They have the right to hate Israel and you have the right to hate or love or hate whatever.
And we are losing it altogether.
What about somebody who's 20-something years old who decides to write terrible things about Israel and then has a...
A Wall Street hedge funder suggests to colleges that they should release the names of these students.
Does that make sense to you?
Is that a good thing?
I don't know about that.
I'm not sure about that.
See, these are things nobody is ever even discussing.
All we do is we talk about the outrage part.
The outrage.
Now I want to talk about something else which is important and this kind of sort of maybe is one of my problems with I think the whole notion of you know social media.
I was watching something the other day about Vietnam.
Vietnam veterans.
And one Vietnam veteran said we had a rap session.
A rap session.
We need a rap.
Nobody does that anymore.
We do not have these notions of sitting around like somebody's home or a salon or just talking.
We talk to our imaginary friends in these minimalistic little moments of glyphs and I don't know what you want to call it, but these Blurts and little farts and memes and little passages of nothing.
We don't really talk and discuss and really enjoy what is happening.
Next, I want to talk about something which nobody will understand because we love, of course, to always discount something and not really investigate what it really means.
Taylor Swift, the Taylor Swift phenomenon.
Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, it used to be Paris Hilton, the manufactured notion of celebrity, celebrity status.
In the old days, celebrity, you had to have something to back it up.
Marilyn Monroe, you might laugh, was a great actress.
There were other people who were great actresses or great musicians or whatever it was.
Today, it's...
And Taylor Swift, you could argue, is a good performer as well.
But what we're seeing right now is the manipulation of attention, the likes of which, and I promise you, 99% of...
People will not be able to recognize, and I keep saying this because, of course, as you know, people are stupid.
They don't understand it.
They go for the immediate issue and not say, yeah, but what does this mean?
What is really going on here?
How are influences affected?
Nobody cares about this.
Listen to what I'm telling you.
And people love to just make fun of Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift is bigger than the Beatles.
Taylor Swift is bigger than anything else.
You are being manipulated, and it's the same way you're being manipulated with politics or anything else for that matter.
And it's not me just being mean or saying this.
I mean it with a passion and a fury the likes of which you cannot understand.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
I'm telling you this.
I am telling you.
You're missing one of the most fascinating issues there is.
It's about adulation, adoration.
But not that can be manufactured, but that can be exacerbated.
The same thing can be looked at regarding religion, fads, remember what I'm telling you, tattoos, studs, interesting new thing.
Kids are dropping, smoking, smoking, this was in Reason Magazine, smoking among teenagers, smoking and vaping, are dropping, To levels unheard of.
Maybe.
We keep saying, this new generation, there's hope.
I don't know if there's new generation, there's hope.
But new levels of behavior, the likes of which we have not seen before, which is really critical to note.
That's number one.
Number two, kids are not drinking as much, but cannabis use is through the roof.
What do you think about that?
Fascinating.
Next, how many folks are involved in Ozembic?
Do you know what's happening with Zembic?
Do you understand what's happening?
Look, somebody writes.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Somebody writes this.
Here we go.
She's a bimbo and so are the Kardashians.
With all due respect, missed point completely.
This is where we are today.
With all due respect.
And you're entitled to your opinion.
This is missed.
You see what's happening?
Low-hanging fruit.
She's a bimbo.
She's brilliant.
The Kardashians are brilliant.
Noam Chomsky, manufacturer's consent.
Noam Chomsky territory.
Absolutely.
You see what's happening?
You see what's happening, Sparky?
See, you get this thing.
Other people say, no, it's easier.
It's easier sometimes to belch than to hold back the belch.
Okay?
You got it?
People love to sit there and just say, I don't watch that.
I don't like this.
That's stupid.
I don't watch CNN.
I don't like Twitter.
I don't like Facebook.
I don't like.
That's stupid.
That's dumb.
She's ugly.
She's fat.
She's untalented.
She's a bimbo.
She's an idiot.
That's my contribution.
Ew, P-U.
Yuck.
What is P-U?
What does P-U stand for?
What is it?
That's an abbreviation.
It's not an acronym.
What does that mean?
Do you see what's happening?
And this is what social media provides.
It provides for unimaginative, no thinking, no rap.
No, let me think about that.
What's the difference between Taylor Swift and Frank Sinatra?
Or Taylor Swift and Joel Osteen?
I think Joel Osteen is far more dangerous, but protected by the First Amendment.
See, we are an anti-intellectual group of people.
We don't like thinking.
We don't like it.
And we live in a world where we are not allowed to, the thing is, get an answer out, get it out quick.
Get it out quick.
And if you can use an OMG, if you can use an emoticon or an emoji or something like that, do that.
But don't worry.
But whatever you are, just present.
That's what people are saying.
Present here.
That's all we say.
That's all we are saying.
Swift is an icon.
Paul or Raul, I agree 100%.
How about this new Beatles story?
I will never understand.
Beatles are a religion.
They are a religion.
They were so, not manufactured, but the momentum that was created of the Beatles is so great and so...
I can't put into words how great it is.
And I think it's unwarranted.
The Beatles were very good, but never anything to warrant my obeisance and my patellar connection to this.
Do you know what I'm saying?
It's ridiculous.
And this is the part which is the most important.
I also look at the idea Sometimes, and this is kind of a weird thing, where is anybody...
I'll give you an example.
I saw something and I just laughed at it.
It was Piers Morgan and Jordan Peterson in a debate.
Now, I don't even want to see this.
But this is our salon.
Salon.
This is where we are today.
This is considered the height of the intellectual apparatus where we have...
Piers Morgan and Jordan Peterson pontificating about something, which is, and by the way, it's a free country and you can do whatever you want.
And somebody somewhere, and I think, honestly, when Noam Chomsky, you can laugh whatever you want, but at least he recognizes, and, you know, Pinker and all these others who are, you know, the linguists and who sit back, and I think Sam Harris to an extent.
You know, Steven Pinker and maybe Eric Weinstein and Lex Friedman.
I mean, there's a point to it.
And I really enjoy that.
But that's not going to go anywhere.
I mean, it's popular, but that's not it.
Taylor Swift is playing this country so perfectly, so perfectly, and I want to know, what does that NDA look like?
What does the NDA look like with this boyfriend, and how they have scripted this, knowing exactly how it is that people think.
Now, we have right now, as we know, we have a year until the elections.
We have a year, and we are absolutely bereft, bereft of any choices.
We have right now Donald Trump, who I don't know what Trump is doing.
I don't know what he's doing.
I think he's kind of caught up in this business.
He's doing whatever his stuff is, but he's not doing anything as far as I'm concerned.
He's not helping me out.
He's not making my world a better place, in the least.
And the same thing, but yet there are people who just do love, oh, you have no idea, the ones who, people that I know, I'm going to Mar-a-Lago.
What is going on with you?
Oh, we're to Mar-a-Lago.
Barry Taylor says, I think it was Carl Jung who said, people don't like to think, therefore they judge.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, Barry, I can't say it enough.
There is nothing better than sitting around and asking questions.
And I thank you for that.
I love asking the questions.
What about this?
What about that?
What about this?
What about that?
How is this different than this?
Is this different than that?
Forget anything even remotely similar to that today.
Because as you know, and what's also interesting about social media is that it brings to the fore just how anti-intellectual people are.
And it is true.
It hurts people.
Look, there were people for the longest time who just never really involved themselves in anything, and they didn't really care.
But I would submit to you that during the 60s and 70s, during the Vietnam War, they were far more aware of what's going on than now.
I promise you that.
And how do we change that?
We can't.
We can't.
Social media just...
It acts as a means of potentiating something.
It doesn't...
Social media...
It's so important, and this is social media that we're doing right now, whether you like it or not.
It's because it brought everybody out of the woodwork, and people who would not necessarily be a part, or that we never knew were behind the woodwork, or resisted in the woodwork.
And there they are, and they're able to, sometimes, it's weird, some people say, I really don't want to move.
Do you know friends of yours who are not a part of social media at all?
I do.
Friends who are just, I find that more fascinating than anything.
People who say, I'm not interested.
I'm not interested in Instagram.
I'm not interested in anything.
Facebook, Instagram, not interested.
That is more fascinating to me than anything else.
How does that even work?
How does that even work?
You understand this?
This is the most fascinating.
I love that.
How is it that you missed that?
Give me an example.
Recently, Jimmy Buffet died.
Jimmy Buffet was the purveyor of, kind of like Taylor Swift to an extent, a world of complete and colossal bullshit.
This Margaritaville and living in line.
Jimmy Buffet.
Jimmy Buffet.
Okay.
Jimmy Buffet.
All right.
Manufactured.
He has as much to do with boats and beaches as I do the Iditarod.
But people bought into it, and he created this beautiful image of people.
He created this mythical, magical, fanciful image that doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist, but people want to buy into that.
Brilliant.
Let me tell you something.
I am 100%.
Do you remember, ladies, you remember when Martha Stewart came out?
Martha Stewart was one of the most incredibly...
Martha Stewart was brilliant.
Martha Stewart said, remember this?
She said, not only am I going to show you how to bake a cake, I'm going to show you how to make a cement wall, how to wrap presents.
I mean, it was brilliant.
Brilliant!
But people don't like Martha Stewart.
And of course, you go, I don't know.
Okay, fine.
That was great.
Oprah.
Oh, dear God.
Oprah.
Genius.
Genius.
Oprah.
Oprah responded and everybody liked Oprah.
And I can force, I can say, well, because she's kind of overweight and she kind of reminds people who we are.
She's kind of ordinary.
She likes to talk about normal things.
And she was black, but she wasn't ethnic.
You know what I mean?
There's all these ways of kind of a post hoc rationalizing.
I don't know how it works, but it worked.
And she just was everybody.
Rush Limbaugh.
What did Rush Limbaugh do that was not important?
I don't know.
Is Rush Limbaugh the first person to say stuff?
No, of course not.
Something clicked.
Something happened.
Something happened.
We were watching last night a movie.
It was very, very good.
It's the morning show, right?
On Apple?
Morning show?
Apple TV, Jennifer Aniston and Jon Hamm.
Billy Crudup?
Crudup?
Crudup?
Brilliant.
There's so much I get out of it in terms of the issue and the storyline and the fate and the future of media.
Oh, it's brilliant.
Brilliant.
Can't say it enough.
And it's this new thing.
Who knew Apple would be?
This new contender.
I was watching Pagisha Sharma on First Post.
Did you see where WeWork?
WeWork is collapsing.
Bankrupt.
Why do you think that is?
Why?
Why?
Well, again, post-doc, easy.
Everything was great until COVID hit.
But then it went off into these other worlds, these other realms, and it was so interesting where people said, I want to go in.
Remember when people would go into these community places and they worked together?
Remember that?
I thought, it worked.
It was the biggest thing anybody ever saw.
Samuel Bankman freed, or fried, as Palky Sharma said.
And maybe he's right.
Fried, fraud.
You do the pun you want.
This is bigger than anybody ever saw because of what he's going through intellectually and spiritually and emotionally right now.
What is he thinking?
He's 31 years old and he's been abandoned.
And I'm trying to tell people, do you understand what's going on here?
Do you understand what's going on here?
Do you get what he's thinking?
Be careful!
He's going to start talking.
They're going to tell them, shut up for your own good.
And the people who are in charge would have no problem whatsoever to say, you know what?
We're going to show you again kind of how we work.
We're going to show you again how we work.
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I think I told you before that everything involving the Israeli discussion is over with.
I told you I have such big...
I have so many...
There's so many good people.
I told you.
Judson Politano is great.
Colonel McGregor.
Scott Ritter is terrific.
Gerald Salenti.
I love to watch him.
John Mearsheimer.
But it's circular.
It's the same thing now.
And I just want you to understand that.
Please don't take it the wrong way.
It is circular, completely circular.
And what's happening right now is very simply this.
I want you to grasp this.
If Israel says, we're not going to budge, it doesn't end.
You can have all the Hamas in the world, all the Sadr groups and the Houthis, it doesn't matter.
Israel decides we are not budging.
We are not going to budge.
We are not going to budge.
We're going to keep bobbing and pounding and shelling.
There's nothing anybody can do.
Keep that in mind.
Does that make any sense to you?
Keep that in mind.
So all of this great analysis is just terrific, but it doesn't mean anything if they decide they are not going to be doing anything different.
You understand what I'm saying?
It's that simple.
I want you to make sure you are always following Mrs. L. This is her YouTube channel.
This is her YouTube channel, and it is so important.
Everybody, right now, I've got to tell you something.
Everybody and everybody is all of a sudden a warrior.
I'm telling you, it's the damnedest thing.
You know, I'm just saying.
It's the damnedest thing.
Everybody's a warrior.
Everybody.
It's like they just got this word.
And I wonder why.
How do you think that happened?
That's the weirdest thing in the world, isn't it?
You know, coincidence?
I don't think so.
Well, they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and so is outright theft.
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