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Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Thursday, January 21st, 2016.
Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 7, 9 or 2.
This is No Agenda.
Protecting your sanity in a sea of stupid and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, which is in California, by the way, I'm John C. DeVoy.
It's Crackpot and Boss Kill in the morning.
Yes, it is.
As the starlight goes by.
I guess it's the coast.
I don't know what it's called.
We only know about the Zephyr.
Now we have the starlight and the coast.
During the show, I can look down and see there's about three, four, five, six trains go by that are passenger trains.
All empty, by the way.
Oh.
I think.
I don't know.
I've got to drive one.
It's interesting you bring that up.
I received an email.
Hold on a second.
And this is actually quite good.
Can't mention where he's from, but we can.
Okay, here we go.
Okay, this was about kefir.
Kefir?
Kefir?
Kefir is what Americans call it, but kefir is what it can be called.
Kefir, kefir, kefir, kefir.
Okay.
Quick note about kefir, kefir.
As John mentioned, is it kefir?
Is that what it is?
Kefir, kefir.
You call it kefir.
It's the easiest thing for Americans to say.
It's huge in Caucasus, and I'm a Chechnyan.
Your only Chechnyan listener, by the way.
That's probably true.
It's in the Caucasus.
I used to drink kefir all the time.
Anyway, he says, I work for BNSF. In the Caucasus?
No.
So I'm not allowed to say.
That's the only thing he asks is I not mention where he works, but it's in the United States.
So he works for BNSF. And business is slowing down.
Yes.
BNSF is furloughing people at the moment.
Seems like the low energy prices and a strong dollar is slowing down our exports.
China is the biggest consumer of our coal.
So far, one coal mine who is a major customer of BNSF is refusing to sell their coal to China because the price is too low.
Australia has taken over and underbid us and is now supplying coal to China.
Also, back in shale, oil companies are very big customers of BNSF, as we know, of course.
That's why the Key XL pipeline couldn't happen, because BNSF is Warren Buffett's transport.
And because of low oil prices, there's a great deal of uncertainty with Dakota back in shale.
In other words, having a strong dollar sucks, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Here's the thing I think was most interesting.
I know John is a big train fan.
We call them foamers.
That's what the people who actually work with trains call the...
Foamers.
Fans like you, foamers.
Frothers.
Frothy foamers.
Standing around with a tripod making movies.
Santorum foamer.
Oh, he can send you an annual BNSF calendar, which features pictures taken by the employees.
How excited are you?
You've got the post office box.
Send it there.
I'm very excited.
One more thing.
He says, railroaders have a saying that the first sign of troubles with the economy is when railroads or transportation business slows down.
Then the crashing economy follows.
Guys that have been around me at BNSF are saying the same thing happened right before the 2008 crash.
Maybe slowing railroads is a sign of things to come.
Hopefully, John can confirm this.
I can.
When I was younger, I was always in and out of the stock market, but I noticed this one phenomenon just before the...
Actually, it's dating me.
But before one of the downturns...
You mean of 1932?
Which one, John?
How dated are you?
The 29th.
I've noticed this a couple of times.
I don't notice it so much anymore, and I haven't seen it since probably halfway through the Reagan administration.
But there used to be, when the economy was slowing down, one of the sidings over here that I can see from my house, up from the hill I can see down on the tracks, I can see the tracks down there.
Yes, yes, yes.
Fabulous.
One of the sightings, and I used to live down toward the tracks, one of the sightings was constantly used as backup for empty rail cars to be stored.
That means that the entire Oakland train yards, which are huge, they're not massive huge like in the Midwest, but they're huge, would fill up with cars, and then because they had no place to put these cars, they'd put them on this siding over here, and they'd sit there for months.
Yeah.
Every minor little downturn that's ever taken place since, I've noticed there'd be all of a sudden a bunch of cars stacked up.
So yeah, the rail...
The question is, are the hookers on the trains cheaper?
And better looking.
Fairly obvious to me.
The hooker phenomenon is, I think it's a leg.
It has a leg.
The train thing is a...
Oh, there goes the Zephyr.
Foamer!
You Foamer, you!
I love it!
He's a Foamer!
It's a great word.
With no private car in the back, I was thinking to myself, he was talking about that guy, what Warren Buffett's private car must be like.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, I know you have dreams.
That'd be something to get a ride on.
I don't know, man.
I think the foamer...
Anyway, yes, he's right is what I was always...
I gotta call Mimi and give her this foamer name so she can call you that.
I don't talk about trains that much.
You don't?
Coincidentally, during the show, a train goes by and I mention it.
Just once in a while.
Since every show.
This morning, going through email, I had tears in my eyes once again.
Tears in my eyes.
And you cannot really predict what will trigger our producers, but we have such fantastic producers for this program, who also happen to be the consumers and listeners, which is kind of the cool way it works.
It's the modern way.
Yes, it is.
It's the only way to go.
Hello, NPR. Hello.
So we had the ISO of Obama, which you actually made me create live on the air.
Let's see, here it is.
Sucking in soot.
Sucking in soot.
I think I've received five new Obama songs this morning.
Would you care to have a little taste?
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Would you like a little?
Play the best one and then we'll play the rest later.
Oh, they're all good.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on!
No, no, no, no, no.
When I first started college, when I went running, after five minutes, I started feeling a burning in my chest.
And it was just me sucking in soot and smog.
The smog was so bad, it was like, you might die.
Barack is an inventory of the devil, but you know that he's black, and that's all you want to know.
I said this is blatant racism.
It is destroying the dream.
It is anti-Dr.
King.
You African, you Jesse Jackson, you process head Al Sharpton, you are wicked!
You are corrupt!
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, Lord, have mercy.
When you bring in Manning and the suckiness, it's beautiful.
That's a great little ditty.
And that is from Sub70, who's our guy, boots on the ground in Damascus.
Actually, he's now 20 miles to the west of Damascus.
This is the guy in Syria.
Like, ah, nothing going on today.
I think I'll make a jingle for those guys.
What else?
What better things do I have to do?
Let me see.
Maybe just look out the window.
Let me see.
Anything happening?
No, just a couple of...
No, nothing.
Nothing important.
I think I'll make a jingle for the boys.
Thank you.
070.
More where that came from.
Work.
Yeah, it's great work.
Love it.
Yes, you've done a lot of work, and I see it.
I got the hearings.
I got the hearings where the British decide.
Well, to remind people, John and I never speak in between shows.
I have no idea what clips he has.
He has no idea what my clips are, what direction, where we're going to go, any of that.
So I don't even hear the clips.
I see the clips come in, and I say, oh, John has a little pre-produced thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, there was a petition of nearly 600,000 people, which is a very big number according to the Brits, asking that Donald Trump be banned from the country the way Michael Savage was.
Fabulous.
And some others.
For hate speech.
Yes.
And I don't know what hate speech they're talking about, but they dreamed a bunch of it up, that's for sure.
Yeah.
And the group said, it's pretty obvious that this was done in the Muslim community.
And maybe part of it done in Scotland.
For some reason, the Scots really are over-represented in this particular debate.
The Scottish National Party, which seems to have a lot of Muslims.
Oh, okay, that's why, gotcha.
And Muslim women.
And they're kind of harpies.
Harpies?
Yeah, harpies.
You know, they're kind of harpies.
Every time somebody comes up to say, well, why, this is a stupid idea, because the guy might be president of the United States, they would, well, it's the law's the law, the law's the law, and we can do it to other people.
We have to do it to him.
And I think we should point out, people, that This is being done against a foreigner for you in Gitmo Nation East and Merkin.
But the same laws will be applied to you, citizens.
So pay attention.
Let's start with, first of all, just both sides.
The most logical arguments were coming from the side that said this is a dumb idea.
But both sides, because they could, decided to insult Trump as much as they possibly could imagine.
This medley is an example of...
Both sides, both sides, condemning him for being dumb.
That this ridiculous individual, that is Mr.
Trump, may be elected.
May be elected as President of the United States.
So you don't need a crystal ball to recognise that the person you're dealing with, maybe a successful businessman, is also a buffoon and has the dangerous capability of saying the most obscene or insensitive things to attract attention.
Now while I think this man is crazy, while I think this man has no valid points to make, His policy to close borders if he is elected as president is bonkers.
And if he met one or two of my constituents in one of the many excellent pubs in my constituency, then they may well tell him that he is a wazzock for dealing with this issue.
A what?
I can't get it either.
A Wafik or something.
No, I think it's Wazuk.
Wazuk?
Wazuk?
May well tell him that he is a Wazuk.
Wazuk.
Yeah, Wazuk.
Wazuk.
Who is that?
Someone in the chat room will know.
Dealing with this issue in this way.
Can I not suggest that actually this is about buffoonery, and ultimately buffoonery should not be met with the blunt instrument of a bang, but with the classic British response of ridicule.
Why Donald Trump is a buffoon, not a criminal, a buffoon.
Donald Trump is a fool.
He is free to be a fool.
He is not free to be a dangerous fool on our shores.
On that point, about 1.6 billion Muslims.
Thank God there are 1.6 billion Trumps.
Yes, certainly.
Yeah, we make our lives...
I think it will make our lives very, very difficult.
Up close, we might also get to see just what is under that hair.
Wazuk.
W-A-Z-Z-0-C-K. A foolish or annoying person.
Unknown origin.
That is its slang.
So you get the idea that...
I mean, I found that this to be the...
I mean, these guys are trying to...
Don't they have anything better to do is what I'm thinking.
Well, there's...
A, they got nothing better to do.
And they, just in general, were the most insulting group.
Pretentious and insulting.
Anything you've ever seen.
This went on for a couple of hours.
I saw some of it, yeah.
It was...
It was horrifying how insulting they were.
And hardly...
We should declare independence from them or something.
Well, that's, I think, one of the reasons we did.
So let's listen to the...
History repeats itself.
Yeah, well, I couldn't believe it.
It was idiotic.
The whole thing was idiotic.
But let's go on.
Here is the reading of the petition, which kind of gives us the background we need.
Now the first petition reads, the signatories believe that Mr Donald J Trump should be banned from UK entry.
The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech.
The same principle should apply to everyone who wishes to enter the UK. The United Kingdom is to continue applying their unacceptable behaviour criteria to those who wish to enter its borders Oh, the unacceptable behavior criteria.
Is that a term that we've missed somewhere?
It's one of the British, I think it's the Parliament has a list of criteria and one of them is unacceptable behavior.
And this is all, by the way, these guys arguing doesn't mean anything because it's all determined by the Home Secretary.
And she has been banning everybody that she can, especially anyone who has any Muslim complaints.
And if you say anything bad about the Muslims, you're not getting into Great Britain.
If it's become bloggers.
Two famous bloggers were banned.
A bunch of bloggers are getting banned from going into England.
It's hilarious.
To those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as the poor and the weak as well as the powerful.
And the other petition reads, we shouldn't be banning anyone for their opinions or domestic actions in a U.S. political race that doesn't concern us.
Well, yeah, it doesn't concern you.
There are two petitions at the same time.
The second one, which was the lesser one, is saying that the first petition is full of crap and they shouldn't deal with it.
But they didn't really talk about that much.
Alright, so let's start with the opening salvo.
I believe this is one of the, there's about four, maybe five Muslim women there that were doing all the talking.
And this to me was the opening salvo.
And if I'm not mistaken, having just recently edited these clips, there are literally a half dozen lies that Throughout the complaints.
Guidance.
The honorable member for Newport West has already outlined some of the other views that Donald Trump has.
Whether that's views on Mexicans, whether that's views on black people, it was Donald Trump.
Don't forget.
Wait a minute, what black people?
What views on black people?
Did I miss something?
You missed the lies.
This gets better.
It was Donald Trump, don't forget, who ran a dog whistle campaign against Barack Obama's birth certificate to find out whether the president of America was really American.
Can you imagine, in the mother of parliaments, if my colleagues decided to question ethnic minority MPs about whether they were really British?
And let me tell you...
It's a little different, lady.
There's a very specific technicality that is being discussed here.
Not to see if it's really British.
That's bullcrap.
I'm going to encourage you to interrupt on this series of clips because this is common.
Really British?
And let me tell you...
I thank my honourable friend for giving away.
Is she aware that also some of the things that people find repellent about this individual is he's not...
Repellent?
Isn't it repelling, not repellent?
No, repellent's good.
Oh, okay.
Fair.
I thank my honorable friend for giving away.
Is she aware that also some of the things that people find repellent about this individual is he's not only racist, but he is homophobic and misogynistic as well.
What?
Homophobic?
I haven't heard the homo thing yet, but might as well bring it in.
I haven't either.
I haven't heard the misogynistic thing is questionable.
Yeah.
So he's racist, homophobic.
And misogynistic.
Where's the homophobic come from?
I can't remember.
Well, nobody stopped her from going.
Of course not.
People find repellent about this individual.
He's not only racist, but he is homophobic and misogynistic as well.
I thank the Honourable Member for her intervention, and I'd like to read out what Donald Trump said when asked by Megan Stiles on Fox News.
What is he?
Megan Stiles.
Ha ha!
It was Megan Styles.
That's Harry Styles' sister.
You know Harry, don't you?
Harry Styles?
By the way, they did this constantly.
All these British, they kept saying, they were quoting people that don't exist.
Maybe there is a Megan Styles, but it wasn't Megan Kelly who she's talking about.
You know who Harry Styles is, don't you?
No.
Oh, all right.
Megan Stiles on Fox News.
She asked him to explain why he called some women fat pigs, slobs, dogs, and disgusting animals.
Wow, that's taken a lot of quotes and put it into one little handy ball.
And Donald Trump replied, What I say is what I say.
Oh, man.
Before you go any further, this is...
Unbelievable.
This is just blatant lies.
Yes.
This was taken completely out of context.
The first thing he said out of his mouth after she accused him of calling women certain names, he says only Rosie O'Donnell, which is, if you look into it, it's pretty true.
Yeah, it's all Rosie O'Donnell, yeah.
It's all Rosie O'Donnell.
Now, before we continue, I probably should mention this, as people will be listening to the show.
I went a bit of viral since our last program.
Unbeknownst to me, I think, you know, the guy, there was some right-wing guy who was on Twitter and he got unverified.
We didn't really talk about it, but I'm sure you saw that.
No.
Okay, some guy was like, I don't know, he has like 600,000 followers.
And he got unverified.
He got unverified, which is hilarious.
Did he change his name or something?
Because if you change your name, you can get unverified.
Well, this shows you the hate of Twitter.
Who knows?
They unverified him.
I think he's lucky because this verified business is obviously the mark of the beast.
You might want to consider changing yourself, Dvorak.
I'm good.
So apparently there's a Wikipedia page, and it really blew up in Holland.
And the Wikipedia page shows the list of celebrities, commentators, and activists who have endorsed Donald Trump.
And the list is about 30 people, but of course, the C shows up near the top of the list right after Ann Coulter.
Adam Curry, political commentator, former MTV VJ, and the citation is from, I guess, what was it, June or July?
When I, on the show, I said, oh, I fully endorse Donald Trump, which of course I said.
You did?
Yeah.
And I'm not denying it, but it is very interesting to see the tweets like, well, I always thought that guy was a moron when I watched him on TV. Oh, man.
First he married Patricia Pye, then he's endorsing Trump.
What an idiot!
Really good.
So I am not at all going to, just to keep it going.
I want people to go, this is interesting.
Well, I will tell anyone out there who's just new to the show what you really meant, just for your edification.
What he meant was, this is going to be great for the show.
I'm all in with Trump.
Yes, exactly.
Because it's going to be great for the show, and in fact it is.
And we get a lot of material, and we get this hateful British...
It's unbelievable.
This is the British, this is the parliament, this is the people that run England, and they are extremely, I mean, there's a bunch of logic that they involve themselves with, but the Muslim side of this, they don't want to listen to reason at all, and then they lie, as you could tell from this last clip.
Let's do some more lies.
Give me some more lies.
Give me another bundle.
Well, let's see what we got.
Okay.
There's plenty of lies to come.
Well, I'll tell you what.
Let's go to...
Good work on this one.
I like this.
This is very good.
Let's go to the one guy who's not a Muslim, but he represents a lot of Muslims.
He's Birmingham's MP, and he is the worst.
And I think there's a bunch of lies in here, too.
But there's not only lies, but I would say...
More misrepresentation with this guy.
This guy's name is Jack Bromley.
And I'm sure the British can be quite proud of Mr.
Bromley, who actually chewed out one of the other parliamentarians during, I don't have this, I don't think I have the clip in here, but the guy comes in and interjects on one of these British jokes.
And the guy says, this is, and he gets any jumps on him and says, this is no laughing matter.
This is not time for levity.
He goes on about that, and the guy really grimaced when he said this.
He was irked that Bromley was all over this.
But here's, let's try Bromley 1.
This is where he starts.
Now, some of the foolish things that Donald Trump has said.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
It's freezing.
Land him!
I don't think Trump said that exactly, but I like it.
The interpretation's okay.
This is a misrepresentation, but ban him for saying it.
I'm competitive.
It's freezing and snowing in New York.
We need global warning.
Even the Parliament thinks it's funny.
Of course.
Yeah, and he should be banned.
Yeah, he should be banned from making jokes.
It's freezing and snowing in New York.
We need global warning.
He, John McCain's no war hero.
He's a war hero because he has captured.
I like people that weren't captured.
Okay, I hate to tell you.
He then went on to the offensive.
If you say Chamberlain was responsible for the war, World War II, did you not get allowed in or...
If you say something bad about their own so-called historical figures.
If it catches their attention, that's why Michael Savage got bad.
Right, right.
Yeah, it caught his attention.
Somebody caught some one person's attention.
So the British Parliament has pretty much become like a flag button on Facebook.
To flag someone's post as hate speech so that Facebook can go in and delete it.
That's kind of what Parliament is now.
A couple of them, I will say, there's about three or four guys that were adamant about this, saying, you know, blaming political correctness, and they were very pro the second petition, which is to ignore the first petition.
Theresa May is the character in the home office that makes the decisions.
It's not these debates are just for her for her to listen to.
And she's been a complete maniac about banning people, bloggers, Michael Savage.
You know, Trump would be in the target if it hadn't gotten so much attention, could have been banned under any other circumstances.
But the real argument that was going on was if we ban this guy and he becomes president, we're screwed.
Are you nuts?
And the Muslim women, again, I didn't see any men, women, they said, what difference does it make?
The law is the law.
The law is the law.
What difference does it make?
And it was almost kind of...
What happened to our special relationship?
They don't even care about the future of the British Empire, to say the least.
And I think, especially with this group of them in Scotland, they should cut Scotland loose.
But let's play the rest of this guy.
Is that the end of that problem?
No, no, no, there's more.
I hate to.
Tell you.
He then went on to the offensive.
He said, I would build a great wall, this is in relation to Mexico, and nobody builds walls better than me.
Believe me.
And I'll build them very inexpensively.
I will build a great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
Mark my words.
Now, I will.
The Honourable Member makes an excellent case as to why Donald Trump is a buffoon, not a criminal, a buffoon.
Those remarks are daft and offensive.
I would defend people's right.
You know, that's pretty rich coming from a country who has blocked off the tunnel.
They won't let anyone come through the English Channel.
They've got, you know, they're the only, or they're outside the Schengen area because they wanted to protect their borders.
And regardless of how Donald Trump wants to handle the situation, you know, it's not offensive to say we want to build a wall.
The UK has walls all around its island.
Beside the point.
To be daft and offensive, I was chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties, now Liberty, and I fought to defend freedom of speech throughout my life, but freedom of speech is not an absolute.
Oh.
Neither is there a...
Pay attention, hold on.
Let's pay attention.
Shut up, slave!
Neither is there an absolute right for Donald Trump or anyone else to come to our shores.
Well, okay.
It's not an absolute right.
Well, that's true.
That's absolutely true.
Shut up, slave!
So Bromley continues.
I have the second part of him where he's a little more riled up as he continues.
He's just pushing this thing as hard as he can.
Now, first of all, what has Donald Trump actually said?
Of course, legendarily about the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
He then went on to say as follows, that 50% of our country, of those polled, agree that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Sharia.
Sharia, he said...
Authorises such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won't convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women.
Little wonder that after those remarks, there was a recorded rise in attacks against Muslims in America.
Now, why do I argue for the exclusion of Donald Trump?
Why?
I do so because I can turn, Mr Chairman, to the context of us having this debate.
There is a uniquely awful threat facing our country, a generational threat of evil terrorism.
We are now seeing terrorist arrests at the rate of one a day in Britain.
Key to preventing terrorist attacks has been the patient building by our police service of good relationships with the Muslim community through neighbourhood policing.
That has been key to the successful detection of terrorist after terrorist in our country.
And the nature of terrorism confronting our country takes two forms.
First, it's the organized cells organized from Raqqa.
And secondly, it is a strategy to radicalize the vulnerable, in particular, those with mental illness.
And in particular, those who suffer from the victimhood encouraged by ISIS. I'm not quite sure where you went with that.
That was rather strange.
Yeah, he went off the rails, but he did express something that I've been wanting to discuss probably for five or six shows, which I'll just discuss in brief.
The idea...
The naive idea that it's only the insane that are radicalized.
And it's only insane Muslims, by the way.
Yeah, only insane Muslims.
Not at all racist or anything.
No, there's no racism there.
But if you're an insane Muslim, you might get radicalized by Raqqa by playing the victim card.
In fact, the people who have really studied this will tell you that...
The ideology that they're selling, that ISIS folks are selling, is very attractive to young males.
In fact, it's a gallant kind.
I have a little clip.
Hold on a second.
Let me just grab it here.
Exactly about that.
I think you'll like this one.
Here we go.
She writes in flowery detail of her first meeting with her future husband.
After a few minutes, I flipped my niqab.
He looked at me.
Our eyes catch each other's.
I had palpitations.
This is a young Muslim girl who is blogging and using social media and explains how she fell in love with an ISIS fighter.
It's faster than the speed of light.
This is a blog written by a woman who calls herself Shams and goes by the handle Bird of Janna.
Analysts say this blog is a recruitment tool for ISIS, targeting mostly women in a Match.com style.
Where it's about romance, it's about the perfect life, it's about making everything bad in their past go away because now they're going to have the perfect future.
Experts say there's even a catchphrase circulating, jihadis.
Jihadis, John.
Jihadis.
Jihadis refers to men who are displaying their masculinity, showing what heroes they are and how amazing they are as good Muslim men who are pure and who are willing to fight.
They're doing it all wrong.
The kids today want a swipe left, swipe right opportunity.
They need a Tinder for the jihadis.
Double their recruitment numbers.
Yes, they need a jihadis Tinder.
Part of an explosion or a grinder of online recruiting for ISIS that's eye-catching and inviting.
Young women are promised free housing, health care, cars.
Men are promised beautiful brides, true to the faith.
And in many cases, it seems to be working.
I'm thinking that this is recruitment right here.
That's working.
Yeah, it's got nothing to do with insanity.
No, it's hot babes.
This guy, Jack Bromley, and to our British listeners, he's an asshole.
Yeah.
Okay?
Yeah.
And I said okay.
Yeah.
Alright, let's go on to, we're wrapping this up.
I like it.
Let's go to...
Now, this is a Scott woman.
She's the one who is a very attractive, kind of angry Muslim woman.
And she is the one that's leading the charge, it seems to me.
At least she's doing the best job.
And she's a heartbeat because she keeps coming in.
When everyone says anything, she wants to interrupt.
She's always interrupting.
And these are called...
Scott girl.
Interventions.
In a committee meeting like this, as a committee, when somebody writes...
Interrupts.
They interrupt, but it's called an intervention, and they get to say something for a minute.
Only if addressed.
Only if called upon.
They have to be called upon.
They have to be acknowledged.
That's where everyone stands up, right?
They stand up.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is a small group.
This is not where everyone stands up.
In fact, they do stand up when they go to the next speaker in a similar way, but it's a different structure.
The overall structure is different.
Yeah, okay, you're going to play.
Yeah, okay, play this.
I'm sorry.
I thank the member for his intervention, and it is within the gift of the British state about which he speaks to deal with Mr Trump in the same manner as you've dealt with other people.
And I accept that you have referred to Mr Trump's buffoonery, but I have to say...
His remarks are condemning an entire religion of faith which I practice.
And it may be difficult for people to understand how that affects us, but it does, because he's talking about me.
He's talking about my family.
He's talking about my children.
That is what Mr Trump's talking about.
It is worthy of note, however, You know, it's so disheartening, and we talked about this on the last show, but once you get stuck, something gets plastered on you with Trump, you know, it started with the American dream is dead, and they didn't finish his, you know, they didn't show the rest of his quote, and then we need to stop all Muslims until we figure out what's going on.
This twisting and the hate that I'm receiving for being on a list, which is always nice, A, you're on a list, B, you get hate for it, People just have not put in any effort to see what was really said.
They are all in all believing of what the media tells them.
Even people I kind of respect for their intelligence.
Well, you made a mistake.
I did.
Mr.
Mr Trump's policy would make it impossible for me or other Muslim friends of America to travel to his country to make the same case there that we are making here.
This parliament can be extremely proud of its improving record in electing strong Muslim MPs across this side to represent their constituents' interests.
But Mr Trump would ban the new members for Ealing Central and Acton, Hampstead and Kilburn, Wield and Bradford West and Bradford East from entering the USA and allowing us to make our case there.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, the funny thing about this entire debate, especially on the side of the Muslims that are bitching, is they've assumed that he's already done this, and they're going to ban him.
Yeah, for some reason.
There's a suggestion.
He's a guy who's just talking right now.
Just a suggestion.
Yeah.
By the way, there's one little aside here, which is something this guy, there's one black guy who's there, and I didn't get his name because they wouldn't give him a lower third, but he's a very erudite character.
And he kept directing stuff that was like, I think this is like the argument to use if it comes up in the conversation and somebody starts to talk about the situation.
This is the Saudi bands of Christian kicker.
Play this.
Okay.
...president, or he's got the right to offend.
Oh, but lots of my constituents think like that.
Would he get the same treatment that Donald Trump is getting from this government?
Very pleased.
On that very point about banning heads of state, it's widely known that Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years, yet we entertain and have entertained the King of Saudi Arabia.
The Mecca and Medina are banned, re-prescribed for Christians.
Oh, don't try to put any logic into the conversation.
That won't help.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
Can't do that.
That side, he's on the side of that this should not be accepted as a concept.
He has some pretty good arguments, that guy.
Including a history lesson, which I couldn't clip.
It was just too long, but it was a very funny history lesson about some of our policies in the United States over the years and how this is hardly anything worth talking about.
Let's go on.
This is the Scott girl on her personal offense.
This is a classic.
I thank the member for his intervention, and it is within the gift of the British state about which he speaks to deal with Mr.
Trump in the same manner as you've dealt with other people.
And I accept that you have referred to Mr.
Trump's buffoonery, but I have to say that his remarks are...
Is this the same clip?
Is it different?
It sounds the same.
Did you play clip one before?
I think I did.
That's strange.
Play clip one again.
Muslim faith is certainly not only contrary to our values, but contrary to our national security.
As he threatens to secure the national security of our friends in the USA, he threatens, too, our own security.
Since her appointment as Home Secretary in 2010, Theresa May has already banned hundreds of individuals from the UK. Her job, quite correctly, is to protect public safety and promote our security.
She has already explicitly excluded 84 people for hate speech.
Under her judgment, my view is that Donald Trump should be number 85.
So, let me just get this right.
So this woman is complaining about giving Donald Trump access to the UK, but at the same time the UK is banning people for hate speech across the board.
Yeah.
And she's mad at Donald Trump for wanting to ban Muslims' entrance to the United States until we, quote, have this figured out, which is a strong statement.
Well, but she's saying that the way she plays it, though, she plays it as if he's already made the ban he's president.
Yeah, yeah, this is the strange thing.
How do they come up with this?
One guy came up, one of the parliamentarians said that she doesn't, she and her cohorts, there's a group of these women sitting there, didn't understand the American system.
He says that the president is not a dictator, he's not a royal, he's not a, he's one, a group of a balanced system, and you have to have Congress and the judicial system involved with stuff like this, and she's just, you just don't, and He said to them directly, you just don't understand how that system works.
Obviously.
There's a lot of insults going on.
Now, there was one thing that's kind of an off, that I thought was one of the more important clips.
This one doesn't have the, the clip is fringe candidates.
And I want to explain this clip.
And I think it explains a lot.
This is a woman who's against this banning, and she's explaining how free speech helps get people to understand what's going on and how it's going on.
Yeah.
And it's important to have free speech.
And how people feel and have diversity of thoughts.
And get stuff out of the way.
Now, one of the Muslims who I don't have too many clips, I don't have any clips of her, but she's the one who's...
Oh, actually, she may have been the first one at the beginning.
Very snotty-looking woman who is just sneering the whole time.
And she intervenes in this particular little discussion with a point that is missing the point to such an extreme.
And I want to explain it maybe after this discussion is completely over.
But play Fringe Candidates.
Mr.
Conley, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are both going through drug epidemics.
Oh, wait a minute.
Stop, stop, stop.
That wrong clip.
That's the wrong clip.
Okay.
All right, I've got to find this.
You didn't sound very British.
While you're looking...
Not very British.
Yeah.
No?
Haiti, IRS, Northern United Planet.
Huh.
Is it on the back page?
Okay, well, let me just dig in the clip.
Let me just explain what happens.
She talks about the BNP party and how it went on television.
It was getting traction.
And then after the guy yacked and yacked and yacked, the public just stopped voting for these people.
And then the party was banned because they didn't have enough support.
After she discussed how this works, the woman, the anti-Trump woman on the other side, she says, well, if you didn't know, after this guy spoke on television, they accumulated 3,000 new members.
3,000 new members joined.
This was out of 8 million who watched.
And then the other woman had to come back and say, well, that's always going to happen.
And when you listen to this thing, I'll have to get this for the next show.
Because when you listen to it, you're hearing an absolutist about, if somebody's bad...
Isn't that the BMP story and the basic problem, perhaps?
Is that what it says?
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Now, listen to this carefully, because this is your cultural...
Impasse.
This is a super bad situation the way I see it.
If somebody actually thinks like this, and you have a cultural problem in Great Britain, if you have people like this with this sort of screwball logic.
Limiting free speech does not always quash unwelcome beliefs.
France has more laws restricting free speech than any other Western democracy.
It also has Europe's largest far-right party.
In 2009, Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time, watched by 8 million people.
At the time, the BNP polled 6.26% of the national vote.
But in the first general election after that, not only did they fail to win a seat, but they fragmented in the polls.
And last week it was announced by the electoral commission that the BNP had been stripped of its status as an official political party.
Let me just finish the point.
The new statesman referred to the poor performance on Question Time as a factor in eroding Nick Griffin's popularity and the support of the BNP. To persuade those who may share the beliefs of the speaker, we need to do more than silence them.
We need to address the real grievances of those who may support them.
We need to listen.
We need to take note.
And then we need to respond.
Yeah, put them on the list and chop their heads off.
We'll give way.
I thank the Honourable Member and my constituent for giving way.
Does the Honourable Lady know that after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time, in the 24 hours after he appeared, 3,000 people joined the BNP immediately after he had a platform?
It's important to have free speech and so that we have debate.
So Nick Griffin's discussion at Question Time will have evoked a number of responses.
Of course there will be people, when there is an advocate for something, of course there will always be people who follow them, and that may be a small minority.
But what we need to do is put those voices out there in order to slam them down.
And that ultimately is what has happened to the BNP. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Now, if you really understood what just took place, which I prefaced, apparently, that is a very, very disconcerting back and forth.
In other words, you have a guy you don't like, He gets some air time.
He makes a fool out of himself, and then the party falls apart and never heard from again.
But that's not what's important.
Did you know that 3,000 people joined the party right after they heard him speak?
Yeah.
We can't have that.
No, no, this isn't that because the mind control is working.
For the wrong people.
I consider this the most disconcerting segment of the entire...
Yeah, the idea is that someone has thoughts and ideas and then people join in and that's bad.
Yeah, it's bad.
The hate speech thing is bad enough the way it works, but this was...
I mean, if you've been to the Middle East...
Anywhere in the Middle East.
I've been to Dubai.
Read the newspapers.
Our great leader, you know, they go on and on, these princes, these principalities, and there's no dissent.
You say something, and if you were a blogger, you know, you get your head chopped off.
Yes, you get arrested and decapitated.
Yeah.
Beheaded.
And this is fine with this woman and these women that were representing this side of the debate.
Well, maybe I should remind everybody what their own politicians sound like there in Gitmo Nation East.
And of course, I'm not talking about the people who live there who are just suppressed, repressed, you know, being trounced on.
Here's what your politicians sound like, lady.
Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
Protect their freedoms.
Alright, remember that one, people.
Your freedoms will be protected.
Anyway, I found the whole thing deplorable.
In all kinds of dimensions.
There was some humor in there, and it was kind of funny to watch the real upper crust types, you know, just poo-pooing the whole thing and turning up their nose at everything.
But for the most part, it was deplorable.
It was an embarrassment, and it just, you know, it was insulting to the American electorate.
To the electorate, yes.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
With all of this Sharia law talk going on, I had an idea after a Sunday show.
I've read the book, the Sharia Law.
There's a translation.
It's a pretty thick book.
Hardcover, I'd say it's about three and a half inches thick.
And in this book, it has every bit of life that anything you might encounter, it has solutions for it, such as you get a stain on your clothes.
In the Sharia Law book, the one I read, and I presume it's a correct translation, They have, you know, okay, if you have a protein stain, here's how you get rid of it.
If it's a different kind of stain here, and I'm thinking to myself, what a fantastic opportunity for a skip logic artificial intelligence robot.
You just program all this stuff in, and whatever happens to you, the Sharia bot will take care of it, because it knows exactly what to do.
What do you think?
I think it's a product.
Find no agenda products.
I've already registered ShariaBot.com.
Maybe we just started off with a database where you can just type in, you know, fell down, scraped my knee.
And the ShariaBot will tell you what to do.
Why not?
I'm just putting it out there for our many producers.
Does it have this stuff about chopping hands off?
Oh, of course it does, yeah.
It'll actually do that for you, if you request.
Allah Akbar Allah Akbar You know, would you like to stay in Europe or do you want to go through to U.S. elections?
I could do a quick little, uh...
Well, since we're in Europe...
Yeah, I'd like to do a few Europe things.
We can hit the U.S. shortly.
There's plenty of good stuff all over the place.
But I have maybe a couple more European things, too.
Yeah, so this is...
Right now we have the Schengen Agreement, which is really, along with the Euro, one of the cornerstones of the whole concept is to have an entire United States of Europe, although they say, oh, we don't want that, but yeah, you do.
United States of Europe, with all the borders open, everyone can cross back and forth, except for the UK, of course.
They say, oh, we can't be in Schengen, we're an island, and I agree with that.
But this thing is on the verge of collapse and it's not just us saying it.
The Netherlands is far from being alone in the struggle against the influx of migrants in Europe.
Officials in Brussels even predict the crisis could end the European Free Movement visa agreement within two months.
We have no more than two months to get things under control.
The March European Council will be the last moment to see if our strategy works.
If it doesn't, we will face grave consequences such as the collapse of Schengen.
And that was Tusk who was saying that from Poland.
So the collapse of Schengen within two months.
This is now what is being predicted internally.
This is a big problem for Germany.
Germany, namely, is surrounded by borders.
They famously do not have a beach.
That's why they always go to the Netherlands.
In Holland every summer.
Take the bikes and take the beaches.
They take the beaches, so they roll up on the beach.
They dig these big holes.
They put huge windbreakers around them.
And if you happen to be anywhere near a facility that has beach chairs or lounge chairs, they will be up at 4.30 a.m.
placing their towels and other trinkets on the beds to say that this is ours!
We have captured the beds.
We cannot take them away.
The Dutch always make jokes about the Germans.
I'm sure they do.
So in order to conduct normal...
Racists.
Yes, of course.
Well, there was this little thing a couple years back that got a little...
There's a little annoyance between them.
So not having open borders is extremely detrimental to Germany's economy.
You need open borders, or you don't need them, but everyone's kind of gotten used to the idea you can just roll across the border, you don't have border checks, it's going to slow down business, slow down the economy to an extreme degree if they can't stop this collapse of the Schengen area.
Now this is...
Well, you can't Germany just unilaterally just keep their borders open?
They don't care about the rest?
Borders are on two sides, usually.
Oh, yeah, right, so you can't get out of it.
Hello?
It's true.
Now, this is Davos.
CNBC is there, of course, and they have a CEO of, what's this, RWA? I forget what this company is, but he explains this very problem.
I think there's no real alternative to what she's doing.
People might like something different, but it doesn't really work.
I mean, closing borders means that a country like Germany, which is in the middle of a lot of business traffic going through that, an export country, it will fend itself off.
Now, that's not going to work.
It might even jeopardize the whole euro.
And I think her way is the right one, but it's a very difficult one.
But that's what politicians are for, you know, not only good times, but also bad times to master the challenges.
I do think a European approach is the right one.
You need to even stop or channel or organize the migrant streams there where they come in first and not hand them over from one country to another country as unwanted citizens.
Rolls Royces, I guess.
And I think the European Union needs to get their act together to get this organized.
Otherwise, you know, the Euro and the Union would be at jeopardy.
Yes, the Euro and the Union at jeopardy.
And I do not take these comments lightly.
I believe that is really happening.
Now...
Nothing like a little riot in the Netherlands.
This is happening on a constant basis, where small municipalities, small towns, usually more in the rural areas, all of a sudden they get a notice, yeah, you're going to get a center here for migrants, I'm going to put 500 here, which everyone kind of knows usually means double that, if not...
If it's 500, it'll be 752,000.
And they'll be here for 10 years.
And there's no questions asked.
Of course, this is a not-in-my-backyard problem, which is very typical of all human beings.
The Dutch, though, are rioting.
Now they're actually up in arms and rioting.
And what that gives us...
This is odd.
Why is it odd?
Because we've been watching the Dutch put up a lot of crap for years and years and years and years, and why now?
I believe I have predicted that you can only push the Dutch so far.
Look at the 70s, man.
The anarchists in Amsterdam and the squatters, and they were throwing hot oil off the roofs onto the SWAT teams.
You can only push them so far.
And what RT does is gives us a little bit of a backgrounder on the new asylum center in Heche, which everyone will mispronounce.
What's great about this is lots of Dutch people.
H-E-E-S-C-H. Heche.
And I really love the Dutch when they're speaking English.
Because these migrants, it's completely shit, you know?
The mayor of the Dutch town of Heche has been trying to explain how anti-migrant moods ended in a riot in her town earlier this week.
All of this against the construction of a brand new migrant asylum center.
People are concerned about what's happened in Köln.
They didn't say we don't refugees.
They told me, yes, we have to help, but why in our backyards?
Why in our backyards?
Put it in the back door?
Why so many and why so long?
But nobody told me we don't want refugees.
That's Holland for you.
More than a thousand people gathered to demonstrate against the new migrant center on Monday evening.
The clashes erupted when some of the protesters started throwing objects at the police.
People say some 500 newcomers that should be hosted in the new center is far too many for a town of only 12,000.
I think 500 refugees for this city is too much and too long for 10 years.
I think 100 for three years is enough.
Here he is 500.
It's too much.
Too much, too much.
It's too much.
It's just too much, too much peoples.
We can't have them all here.
You're crazy.
It's too much.
The people don't like it.
Go away.
It's too much and then 10 years.
Only for us is 1% of the before.
It's enough.
I don't believe that it are refugees.
I think the refugees are in Turkey, in Lebanon, in Jordania.
And the people who are coming here are just people who want to prove their luck in Europe.
Don't underestimate the Dutch.
They have eyes, they have ears.
They rarely say it.
Here's a Dutch journalist who's explaining a little.
Dutch journalist Joost Nimola predicts we'll see more violent outrage in the Netherlands as people grow increasingly frustrated with their politicians.
What happened here and here is one of many examples of these kinds of riots going on at the moment in the Netherlands.
And the main reason why this is happening is because the local people don't have anything to say about what's happening.
So they just hear that migrants will be there in their local community.
And the decision is already made.
I'm pretty sure that we will see more of these kinds of attacks on authorities.
You see that the politics are not really talking about it.
They are not really trying to figure out how they can stop this whole movement coming in.
And that means the debate is getting more heated.
Not so much in the politics, but between people.
Yes, in the bar.
We talk about it all the day.
It is not okay.
This thing...
Hey, what are you laughing?
You don't have it in your backyard, yes?
I got my backyard.
It's fucked.
This has got to be the theme of the EU. Where they just tell...
There's no discussion.
It's not a democratic system.
I think Farage has always bitched about this.
Nobody's elected.
They don't care.
There's no constituency that you have to appeal to or you have to appease.
You have to appease anybody.
You just say, we're putting 500 here.
Shut up.
And now, what I understand is Germany, this comes from German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, has called for a new EU-wide tax on gasoline to pay for the refugee crisis.
You know, the EU has already paid $9 billion and another $7 billion on the way, mainly to Turkey.
And now they want the German...
Of course, Germany kind of runs Europe at the moment.
Yeah, we might as well have a whole...
Everybody in the EU should...
This is what they said would never happen.
We wouldn't have an army.
We wouldn't, you know, be levying taxes directly from Brussels.
And here it is!
Yeah.
Wow.
Yes, this is World War III, or there's actually not really this war yet.
No, it's not.
So let's play this little clip.
This is Austria's decided to, like, kind of, of all countries, I mean, they're the last you'd think would start to rebel.
Well, they're just sitting there waiting for Germany to attack, aren't they?
Isn't that what always happens?
Well, eventually that probably will happen again, but the Austrians are fed up.
Tonight, Austria sends what it calls a wake-up call for Europe.
Vienna is to slash the number of asylum seekers it is prepared to accept, after saying Europe has failed to protect its borders.
With Slovenia and Croatia following suit, attempts to find a pan-European solution to the migration crisis seem to be faltering.
Our first report looks at the Austrian move.
There'll be even tougher checks here in the future.
Austria wants to reduce the number of incoming refugees.
The government came to agreement on the new policy at a meeting in Vienna.
Chancellor Werner Feynman laid out his reasons.
The measures must be humane.
The measures must have meaning.
The measures must apply to a European international level, but also to each individual country.
Roughly 90,000 people applied for asylum in Austria last year, one of the highest levels per capita in the entire EU. With a population of just 8.5 million, Austria intends to cap the number of arrivals over the next four years.
You know, there was a, see, it was an article, I caught it in the Dutch paper, but it's, I believe, by a German woman who was working in one of these asylum centers.
She's been doing it since the fall of 2015.
I am translating a little bit on the floor.
Yeah, so apparently this was posted anonymously in Die Welt.
And she said she was really looking forward to working with the asylum seekers and migrants.
She was really a dream job.
And she says that she was in one of the Hamburg asylum centers where there are 1,500 migrants, asylum seekers, whatever you want to call them.
But she said it was so horrible.
Every single day, they would come up to her and say, where's my house?
Where's the car?
And where's my good job?
How come I don't have that?
And if I said, well, it's just not going to go that quickly, they got aggressive, threatened to kill me, and she had to quit.
And mainly, she said there was just absolutely no...
Respect towards her as a human being, moreover the way she describes it, as a woman.
And I need to connect that to Christina, who now is working in like a miniature Whole Foods organic store.
They have like six stores throughout the Netherlands, and the main one is in Rotterdam.
And so she deals with people, you know, with money, who come in to buy overpriced produce.
And the mayor of Rotterdam, who's a Muslim, I believe he's originally Moroccan, He came in and Christina had to turn to her colleagues later and said, that guy was such an asshole.
He really, really, really doesn't like women.
And she could feel that.
And the other women who were working there could feel it as well.
And that's the mayor!
The mayor of the city where she lives and works!
And she said, yeah, they just, that guy was just really unfriendly towards me, and she felt that that, and she didn't even connect everything necessarily, but I was talking to her about what's going on, and she said, oh crap, the mayor of Rotterdam is the same way!
So these are cultural things that are complicated.
It's not a good or a bad thing.
It's a cultural thing.
You just have to, if you don't like that, why are you inviting it in?
Now, the Austrian comment that was just subtle, but I think, and it's not really appreciated by the Americans in particular, is that the claim from the Prime Minister, I think it was the Prime Minister, said that the EU is not protecting its borders.
No.
And it's not as though Austria has to deal with, I mean, because it was assumed that once the Schengen Agreement and everything got to the point where you didn't have to put all these guard gates up all around your country and the Germans and Austria both are landlocked.
It was assumed once you let this thing slide, you didn't have to worry, yeah, okay, you got maybe, you know, some people floating around, it's not a big deal, but you didn't have tens of thousands of people pouring into the EU unabated.
Well, there's another issue that was brought up on Secure Message from one of our military contacts.
That the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are buying land with lots of houses on it in Macedonia.
The Saudis have built over 200 mosques in Kosovo.
You kind of see a little bit of an encroachment or surrounding, if you will, taking place.
This has not been spoken about yet in the news.
It will come up.
And by the way, the Saudi mosques are all radical.
Yeah.
The Saudis only build Wahhabist mosques.
There's a bunch in the United States.
They're all over Europe.
They're everywhere because they spend a lot of their money doing this.
Nobody's bothered to stop them.
Salafist and Wahhabist mosques, they all carry the same anti-Jewish stuff, literature, and they're all over the place.
And if the Saudis are behind it, then it's not a good thing.
No.
It's always just to protect the kingdom.
In Bosnia?
No, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Right.
You have this...
You put these radicals all around you.
It's a counterintuitive way of keeping yourself in business.
Well...
Because these same radicals would just as soon blow you up.
Yeah, well, again, that's cultural.
That's cultural.
That's cultural.
We don't really know.
George Soros, though, did come out and...
He said, the quote is, Europe is on the verge of collapse.
And this was written in the New York Review of Books.
Soros?
Soros, yes.
As you know, the quote, as you know, I've been critical of the Chancellor in the past.
I remain very critical of her austerity policy.
But after Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, she became the leader of the European Union, therefore indirectly of the free world.
Wow, he's saying Merkel is the leader of the free world?
There is plenty to be nervous about.
As she correctly predicted, the EU is on the verge of collapse.
The Greek crisis taught the European authorities the art of modeling through one crisis after another.
This practice is popularly known as kicking the can down the road.
Although it would be more accurate to describe it as kicking a ball uphill so it keeps rolling back down.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
I think my Soros is getting better.
Soros.
Soros.
That guy.
You can get a ball of bail.
With that, I think I should thank you for your courage and passion.
Keep pushing.
And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Well, I would have to return the favor and say in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all ships and sea.
Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to 20-watt bulb brought us the artwork for episode 7-9 or 1.
This was nice.
This was Ronald Reagan with, you know, posterized, with his pipe, with the soot, with the soot coming out.
Somehow this soot thing really, really caught on with people.
You might die.
Sucking in soot.
Ha!
Ah!
Thank you.
You might not.
Sucking in soot.
Thank you, S&J Shanghai.
We got good stuff today.
It's pretty good.
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Yeah.
I want to thank a few people that, if I can get this spreadsheet, you know, this doesn't happen all the time, but it happens once in a while and it's annoying.
Do you have your magnifying glass by the hand?
I don't use the magnifying glass of the spreadsheet.
I kind of feel like an idiot.
But the problem is right now is that if I try to squeeze the data over to the right, it pops this stupid little thing over.
Oh, no.
Yeah, it pops some crazy thing over, but I think I got it.
It's snapping.
It does the snapping thing.
All right.
And then the cells are too...
Of course, if I had this open earlier, I guess it would have been better.
From starting off with Sir Blackballs of Twit, the Baron of Logan Square, Glenview, Illinois, $333.33.
From Sir Blackballs of Twit, the Baron of Logan Square with a throng of Threes.
Throng of threes.
Throng of threes.
I like that.
I like throng of threes.
Throng of threes.
All I ask in return is to hear sucking down soot, which I think you've heard a few times.
Get out of my vagina, followed by see all that juice.
I have an ISO. Oh, no.
That might work after get out of my vagina.
Okay.
Just having this conversation is great.
Okay, what is it?
This is the whoopee, as many things as we can.
Throw that in.
Okay, hold on a second.
Alright, here we go.
Get out of my vagina!
As many other things as we can stick in here.
Oh my gosh!
Can you see that juice?
Nice, John.
You've got karma.
Wow.
You should be ashamed.
Yes.
Good one.
Peter Gill in Kenmore, Queensland, Australia, 333.
He's got another throng of threes.
You're John and Adam.
I'm making a donation as a birthday gift to my son, Sir Gill, Charlie Gill.
I've been listening to No Agenda since show one.
He and I listen to every show and discuss your analysis regularly.
This is our third producer contribution to Noah Jenin.
You may remember he contributed to his own Festivus money to complete his knighthood.
This is my contribution to Charlie's Next Step, the Baronet.
I'm proud to watch Charlie as he regularly hits people in the mouth with his cutting and knowledgeable analysis of current events.
This is no small amount due to your show.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Charlie's birthday is Thursday.
He's on the list.
We will hear the podcast on Friday.
So I'd like to request a bird because he's in Australia, which is Friday instead of Thursday.
So he's listening yesterday.
He's listening yesterday.
That's great.
He's listening yesterday, tomorrow.
It's Thursday, like the request of birthday, Charles.
Charles is also commencing his first year of university, where he is studying to become a cis-admin dude named Ben.
Would appreciate a karma call out for that.
Give him the great work.
Oh, absolutely.
We love all the dudes named Ben.
You've got...
And thank you for your throng of threes.
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Donation Sir Mad Hatter, Knight of the Fifth Column, please only refer to...
Okay, we did that.
By the time you read this donation, the job karma I'm requesting will have hopefully already worked.
I'm on the cusp of what I hope will be...
Two offers of employment within 48 hours and figured a donation would help.
Sure, nothing goes wrong.
I'm also donating.
Good idea, by the way.
I'm also donating because the show continues to be To be phenomenal.
And you are more than entitled to some value.
Keep up the great work in deconstructing the media.
Would love to hear Obama Team America.
Oreos are more addictive than cocaine.
And how about George Clooney is a spy?
Classic.
Okay, let me see.
Yeah, we got it.
There's a need for a rescue mission.
When the world is threatened, the world needs help.
It calls on America.
And that's the story.
Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
George Clooney.
George Clooney.
George Clooney is a spy.
You've got karma.
Damn, that fit too.
I like that.
Good combo today.
That was a good combo.
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I've been listening to the show since the first show.
This is the second one on the list here.
Well, welcome.
I apologize for not donating sooner.
Ah, first-time donor.
I'm going to give him de-douching.
De-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Unrequested de-douching.
Had to do it.
Had to do it.
Life and its related expenses always seem to take precedence.
I'm a help desk dude named Ben, working in the energy sector due to the recent drop in oil prices.
I like everyone else in the energy sector.
I'm quite worried about my job, but the show is your job, and I could not in good conscience continue without contributing.
I admire the value-for-value model you are basing your livelihood on.
Yeah.
And we'll try to reciprocate more often going forward.
Going forward.
If you can...
In the future, it might be a better way to put it.
You sound like a bureaucrat.
If you can please play the Atlas...
If you can play the Atlas Shrug jingle, thank you for a great show.
Subod.
Subod.
Atlas Shrug.
By Ayn Rand.
And a karma.
Give him a karma.
No, there was no request.
I'm doing what I'm told to do here.
You've got karma.
Thank you very much.
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Rhymes with Saskatchewan.
23456.
I just got paid 40 minutes ago, but I want to send some value for value your way after Thursday's Dynamite Show.
You know, I sent that show off to Montreux, actually.
Okay.
No, you know what I did?
I sent it to Sirius Satellite.
What, the show?
Yeah.
I said, this shit should be on your airwaves.
It should?
Yeah.
It was a dynamite show.
Yeah.
The show before was dynamite, too.
We've actually been stringing dynamite shows together.
And they should be on Sirius.
Because people can listen to you while they're driving through the mountains.
Sorry donations are down.
Times are tough everywhere, it seems.
Take some of my network tech money and keep up the good work.
I think I'm within $100 of a knighthood.
Fantastic.
We'll give you karma for that, Jason.
Thank you.
You've got karma.
Scott Shipper.
Ah!
Eh, eh, eh, eh.
Read his note.
What does he say?
Oh, he's Dutch.
Schipper.
He's in Murphy's, California, whatever.
So you get a little bit of...
Other than Schipper in Murphy's.
But if you just...
Old mining company area.
Do you want to learn how to do it?
Because I can teach you.
Okay.
If you get a little bit of saliva on your tongue, kind of in the middle, right?
Don't swallow it.
And then when you go to the...
You push the saliva up against the roof of your mouth and you breathe out so the saliva bubbles.
Skipper.
There you go.
Skipper.
Very close.
I made a mess.
Keep it up.
He says, here's my donation for $202.15, $200 to you, $2.15 as a due date for my first human resource.
I'll be damned if she is born to a douchebag dad.
Exactly.
Then he says, I would liken it in.
I think he needs a de-douching, and I'll give him a karma while he's at it.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
That's probably what he wanted.
That would be my guess.
John, oh, and finally, our last associate executive producer is jonoverall.com in Victoria, BC. Beautiful town, one of the greatest cities on the West Coast.
I think it's prettier than San Francisco.
$200.
People should visit it.
Hi, John and Adam.
John Overall here from the WP Plugins A to Z podcast in Victoria, BC. Well, hello!
Scandinavia.
Hello!
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Go podcasting!
I get a kick out of how you treat us, eh?
Well, this is not a drunk donation, but should be by the time the note is complete.
I have been listening to your show for a while now, and I really need to get you some money for all the hard work you do.
I have tried to make a donation.
I'm trying to be a donation here for some reason.
Life kept getting in the way.
I need a dedouching, and this $200 is all I can muster.
At least for right now.
Your show has made it easier to talk about current events with interesting insights as to what really is causing them.
Keep up the good work.
By the way, don't forget, Mecca and Medina has been banned for Christians.
Right now, I am in the middle of a Kickstarter to try and take my own podcast to a full-time business and would like some Kickstarter karma to help push it along the path.
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Can you see that juice and get out of my vagina?
Thanks, John.
Overall, WP plugins, A to Z. P.S., you need to update the links on dvorak.org slash N.A. The one for the art generator goes to, okay.
I thought I changed that.
Okay, I'll fix these links.
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People need to watch more porn or something, man.
What are you doing?
You guys are lewd.
You're very lewd.
I'll say.
He comes up with lewd combinations.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
You know, as we would say, the old commercial where the kid, you know, the parents are like, where did you do this?
Where did you learn about these drugs?
And the kid turns around and says, I learned it by watching you, okay?
Someone's getting cornholed today.
That sounds like a recipe for success to me.
So it is your leadership, John C. Dvorak.
I learned from you.
It is your leadership that has brought us here.
Good work.
Excellent group.
Very good.
All funny.
And thank you all very much, our associates and executive producers and associate executive producers.
These credits are completely real.
And unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, we do not discriminate.
This is true.
That thing is really getting legs.
Yeah, yeah, we can probably do something on that.
So thank you for this, and of course we'll be thanking everybody else later on in our donation segment.
And remember, we will be doing a show on Sunday.
And between now and Sunday, there's a lot you can do.
You could, for instance, go out there and, I don't know, propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
Hey, want to do a quick thing on the Oscars So White?
Well, as soon as I mention something, which is I'm very disconcerned when you said we're going to do another show on Sunday because I was realizing I was operating under the opinion since I maybe didn't get enough sleep that this was Sunday.
It happens to me.
You've done that a couple of times.
It happens to me all the time.
But it's annoying, because what it is, it's like I had to think to myself, because when I woke up, I thought it was Sunday, because I was thinking, oh, maybe I can, you know, certain things, because I do certain things on these different days, and I say, well, I've got to get ready for this.
Actually, it's worse than that.
I was thinking it might be Saturday.
Okay.
Okay, anyway.
I think we need lots of donations.
Send them quick.
The problem is this offset, if we did a show every five days a week, and then had a normal weekend, like the average slave.
Like normal people, yeah.
I'd have a nice love life.
I don't get to do Saturdays.
Yeah, no, you can't do Saturdays.
No, I can't do Saturdays.
It's just show night.
You can do it once in a while.
You can prep on Friday.
It's really not possible.
It's really not possible because you have to be, you know, you got to stay on Sunday morning.
I'm looking and clipping stuff.
It's brand new.
There's no time.
But it doesn't matter.
I understand the problem.
It happens all the time.
Okay.
So a couple of...
Now, this Oscar's so white thing, which...
Just a quick review.
Deconstructed beautifully in the last show.
People should go back and listen to that show.
Yeah.
I think the deconstruction was pretty darn good.
And the main things to remember are that of the 6,000 members of the Academy, all 6,000 plus are secret.
You can go back and figure out some people who are a member.
First, if you're nominated, you're always asked...
If you win, you're always asked.
But you don't have to have either of those to be asked.
But in general, there is no published list.
Nobody knows.
So when people say, it's 95% white, they don't know that.
When they say, it's all old white men, they don't know that.
They don't.
But there's a number of people who we will recognize who are going to be speaking in a moment.
And the first person I wanted to bring up here, now we have Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Is out there saying, oh, we should boycott the Oscars.
And we have Spike Lee standing beside her.
And amidst all of this, of course, it is really only abusing the American public and the fragile race relations that have been created over the past decade to promote this crappy-ass show.
And again, who gives a crap about the Oscars?
This was said quite eloquently by Janet Hubert.
She is an actress.
She played Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
You recall?
Oh, yeah.
I think there were two Aunt Vives.
I'm not sure if she was the first one or the second one.
It was kind of like a bewitch thing going on.
And she had a message, which she put out there, to Jada Pinkett Smith, which I think really touched on all the bases.
I want to say something about...
J.D. Pinkett Smith asking other actors, black actors and actresses, to boycott the Oscars.
First of all, Miss Thing.
Miss Thing.
Does your man not have a mouth of his own with which to speak?
Ooh, snap!
And...
The second thing is, girlfriend, there's a lot of shit going on in the world that you all don't seem to recognize.
People are dying.
Our boys are being shot left and right.
People are hungry.
People are starving.
People are trying to pay bills.
And you talk about some motherfucking actors in Oscars.
And it just ain't that deep.
For you to ask other actors and other blackresses and black I like that.
Blacktresses.
Blackters and blacktresses.
We should be using that, John.
Blackters and blacktress.
Yeah, so she would be a blacktress.
Actors to jeopardize their career and they're standing in a town that you know damn well.
You don't do that.
And here's the other thing.
They don't care.
They don't care.
And I find it ironic that somebody who has made their living, made their living and made millions and millions of dollars from the very people that you're talking about boycotting, just because you didn't get a nomination, just because you didn't win, Love it.
That is not the way life works, baby.
Maybe you didn't deserve a nomination.
I didn't think, frankly, you deserved a Golden Globe nomination with that accent, but you got one.
With that shitty-ass accent, you should have even gotten that nomination.
What was she talking about?
For Golden Globes, she was nominated for something.
Viv here is taking the opinion that Jade is doing this because neither her husband or she were nominated for an Oscar.
Ah!
I didn't think, frankly, you deserve a Golden Globe nomination with that accent, but you got one.
And just because the world don't go the way you want it to go, doesn't mean that you can go out and then you start asking people to stand up and sing, we shall overcome for you.
You ain't Barack and Michelle Obama.
No way.
And y'all need to get over yourselves.
Hell yeah.
You have a huge production company that you only produce your friends, your family, and yourself.
So you are a part of Hollywood.
You are a part of the system that is unfair to other actors.
So get real.
Now, for those of you who say, Miss Huber, here she go.
Here she go.
Here she go being bitter.
Bitter.
Bitches, please.
It's not about being bitter.
Bitches, please.
It's about being right.
You know, some of us got mortgages to pay.
We got bills to pay.
We got bigger shit to worry about than the Oscars.
Yeah.
Very good.
Very, very happy with that.
How did she...
Where did that show up?
On YouTube.
Wow.
Then...
That was a...
You know, using all the barrels of two or three shotguns.
Yeah, she says it.
Hate speech, though.
She's got to be careful.
Hate speech.
It was hate speech, for sure.
Michael Moore has been in the news because of Flint, Michigan, and the lead poisoning.
But he, of course, was then asked...
I think he was on with...
I don't remember.
Was it Don Lemon?
No.
Anyway, he's asked about this.
Now...
Michael Moore did a pretty good job of explaining how it works and admitting that he is also a member of the Academy, although he only votes in the documentary series, which is the way it works.
You should explain this, that most people only vote in their subcategories.
Right, so there's about 1,600 actors in the actor category, including actors male and female, and transgendered, whatever you want to be, and they can only vote for actors.
But they all get to vote.
Well, Michael Moore explains it.
Yeah, I said I stand with Spike and Jada.
This is wrong.
Not just in terms of the Oscars, but really it's the industry.
I mean, I just served a term recently on the Board of Governors a couple years ago.
So he is one of these old white dudes.
Because the Board of Governors is a more powerful body than just the individual categories.
So he has a lot to say over his particular category, but also the entire Board of Governors admits people into the system.
At the Oscars, representing the documentary branch.
And I know that amongst the Board of Governors and amongst the people that run the Academy, they are absolutely disgusted with this all-white nature that keeps happening every year.
So if they're all disgusted...
Yet they all are voting.
Isn't that a little creepy?
I think they're going to fix it.
And I think I and others who symbolically stand with Spike and Jada...
Well, what's there to fix?
It's easy.
...will help this along.
But it's the industry, Chris.
It's an industry that's an all...
It's an industry that's so white and so male.
And the Academy, too.
I mean, demographically, it's incredibly...
What?
Chris Hayes.
Chris Hayes, yeah.
It's an industry that's so white and so male.
And the academy, too.
Now, please pay attention.
He's talking about the movie industry.
These are the powerful people who move and shake with the Democrats.
He's talking about the actual power of Hollywood, and he's saying they're white a-holes.
I just want all Democrats to realize that's who your friends are.
Graphically, the actual voters.
Because they work in this industry.
I mean, literally, I can go to L.A. for two or three days.
Let's say I've got to take some meetings for my next movie or whatever.
They put me in a West Hollywood hotel.
I can go to a meeting in Century City, a meeting in Burbank, a meeting in Santa Monica.
Three days later, I've not encountered a single African American in any position of any decision-making power or authority.
It is stunning how segregated the town is, how the industry is.
You know, it's the General Motors of that town.
Yet you couldn't go to General Motors in Detroit and for three days at GM not encounter a black American who has some power there.
It's a real problem that's got to get corrected within the industry itself.
And as Spike said today, you know, there needs to be real affirmative action with this, with race, with gender.
All right, we need affirmative actions.
Yeah, that'll do that.
That'll do it.
Before you go on.
This is typically how Democrats solve things, though.
It's not fair.
Well, we'll just, you know, fuck voting.
Who cares if anyone's good or not?
We need to just put some, you know, minorities up in the winning circle.
I agree, but since you brought Chris Hayes into the picture, I have to stop right now to stop the show.
Oh, hold on a second.
Right, right, right.
I have a record A new record.
A new record?
Chris Hayes saying right in his normal conversation four times in five seconds and setting the 25-second record with six rights.
Let's play, Chris, and I will ring the bell.
Okay.
Here, hold on.
Ready to go?
Yep.
There's something too, right?
If what you say is true, right, if this would be a huge risk, right, and that's clear to you, right, and here's this person who, you know, frankly, in terms of the spectrum of American politics, would be something quite different.
If Hillary Clinton can't beat that person in the primary, well, then she's not a very good political candidate anyway, right?
I mean, from a pure electability standpoint, like, in some ways it sort of should cash out that way, whether Jonathan Chait nudges it that way or not, right?
Yeah.
Six.
I'll give it to you.
It's well deserved.
What a douche.
Right?
Right?
But the four and five seconds was unbelievable.
Yeah, that's dynamite.
Dynamite.
What a dick.
Right?
Right?
Look, right?
Now we have Stacey Dash, who is an actress, a TV actress, but she somehow is also a media commentator.
Mainly she's a moron.
Here is her weighing in on the Oscars boycott.
Join us now to weigh in, actress and Fox News contributor, Stacey Dash.
Stacey, good morning to you.
Good morning.
What do you think about this?
I think it's ludicrous.
Why?
Because we have to make up our minds.
Either we want to have segregation or integration.
And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET awards and the image awards where you're only awarded if you're black.
Okay.
Okay.
I think that this is a news model who has been wound up.
They've plugged a whole bunch of, you know, sentences and key phrases into her brain, which she, I mean, who goes on the answer?
Well, you know, let me just ratchet this up a little bit.
You know, We shouldn't even have Black History Month.
We should not have BET as a channel.
If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms.
Well, yeah, of course, but that doesn't work that way anymore, darling.
You can say the comb-over cracker.
This is another one I saw.
This was Mark Cantor, John.
You know Mark Cantor.
Oh, yeah.
I've known Mark for years.
So Mark Cantor is back.
He's back in Silicon Valley after, you know, he basically had to go reinvent himself.
He comes back and he set something up with this Cola.io.
Interesting company.
He's already out of that.
And then he posts this thing on the face bag.
It's like, ah, asshole, comb over cracker.
Comb over cracker?
Yeah, why don't I just call you a Jew ass?
I mean, come on, man.
That's not okay.
Just because we can, I guess we can call ourselves crackers and honkies, doesn't make it right, Dick.
Come on, Mark.
It's a double standard.
So you say there shouldn't be a BET change?
No, I don't think so, no.
Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month.
You know, we're Americans, period.
That's it.
Are you saying there shouldn't be a Black History Month because there isn't a White History Month?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Okay, that was dumb.
Now the dumbness really kicks in.
By the way, people should, I don't know if they know this, I'm just looking at her.
I remember seeing her.
She's black.
Yes, oh yeah.
It's important that you know that.
She's a black dress.
Yes, very good point.
Exactly.
Al Sharpton has jumped on this boycott bandwagon.
That's some news I didn't know.
Oh, well, there you go.
I'm surprised it took so long.
By the way, she has a nice, sultry voice when she talks.
She's very pretty.
She says, hey, you know, well, I think that's cool.
So do you think that Sharpton has jumped in as an outsider or maybe as a part of it?
Well, I didn't know that he jumped in.
I didn't know either.
So I don't know.
I had to listen to him.
I mean, he just...
You know, he's gotten so much money.
He's semi-retired, and he's got that show.
He still has the show, I think.
I don't know.
Maybe they kicked him off.
No, he's only on Sunday morning for...
Oh, okay.
They moved him to...
For an hour or so.
Yeah, I thought he was killing it, actually, in terms of numbers, but maybe not.
There's no real conflict!
I think that MSNBC is trying to change its image and change its model.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, they're totally trying to do that.
Boycott bandwagon.
He says, don't watch because Hollywood, here's a quote, Hollywood has become like the Rocky Mountains.
The higher you get, the whiter.
But why do you get...
Well, that's not necessarily true.
And if it is, you know, that needs to change.
What I find astounding is that we've had a...
Now, listen.
Here is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
You ready?
You know, that needs to change.
What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood.
yet there are not very many roles for people of color.
How can that be?
And why is it just now being addressed?
Okay.
So the president, the president gets money from the American people, but yet there are no roles for black actors.
I don't even see the connection.
There's no connection.
That's the whole point.
She's an idiot.
God.
She's an idiot.
And Fox hired her for this.
We've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood.
Yet there are not very many roles for...
People of color.
How can that be?
And why is it just now being addressed?
That's so insane.
That would be the definition.
Perfect.
It'd be good if you could just write it out.
The definition of a non sequitur.
Yes, that is a non sequitur.
Indeed.
A non sequitur.
And she gets paid money to deliver those on MSNBC, wherever she is.
You know, we actually lost the first black president earlier this week.
We've had a slew of deaths in the entertainment industry.
And we lost the official first black president.
Did you know that?
Okay.
Yeah, President Blowfly.
You know Blowfly.
I mean, wasn't he like a movie guy?
No, no, no.
Blowfly.
Exploitation movies?
No, Blowfly.
Blowfly was arguably one of the first hip-hoppers of our time.
The first rapper.
This, I'll play a little bit of it.
Back in the day, you could play this on the radio, not anymore.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the first Nick, I mean the first black president of the United States of America, President Blowfly.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And like I promised y'all when I was running, I'm going to make sure there are chillings in every pot, ham hocks in every table, control pills in every purse.
I'll put it in the show notes.
So he passed away.
Blow a fly.
Played that song a lot back in the day on Amsterdam Pirate Station.
Okay, final clip.
Now, this is multifaceted.
This is from my beat.
We're on the beat.
The View.
You can always go to The View to find out what is being propagated to the people of America.
I had to interrupt because I have to say I poached.
Not with any real, you know, vigor.
But I do have another ISO from Whoopi.
Okay.
Which is the second one there that's on the list.
Yes, I have it here.
Are we ready?
Yeah.
Can this bitch run the country?
Yeah.
I love the ISOs, John.
That's another good one.
I'll pop that one in the end of the show.
Yeah, very good.
Drop it in.
Now, here's where it gets interesting.
It's multifaceted because Whoopi is a blacktress.
She is a gun owner.
She was, at one point, also an NRA member.
She admitted this on the show in 2012.
I don't know if she's still an NRA member.
She loves the controversy.
However, the problem is she works for ABC. And when you work for ABC, the same network that is abusing the American people with race tension to promote their crappy-ass Oscars, what are you going to do if you're Whoopi?
What do you think?
What would she do?
What would she do?
I have no idea.
She has to calm it down a little bit.
She has to run some interference.
Because the whole idea of this being promotion is great, but it's getting a little out of hand.
Remember, we got Chris Rock and now Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee.
They're saying, hey, Chris Rock should not host the show.
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
So the executives clearly called Whoopi and said, all right, girl, you can make it happen.
Let's get right to this.
There's a call for an Oscar boycott.
They're getting louder and louder over the lack of diversity among nominees.
But here's my question.
Why is this a conversation that we only have once a year?
Because every year, we get all fired up.
Yeah, it's because you're promoting the show.
That's why you have the conversation every year.
And then...
The rest of the year, nobody says anything.
These movies have been coming out.
We've been going to see them.
I'm sure people notice when there's lack of diversity in the movie.
So why are we speaking about it now?
It's like Christmas.
You only talk about it once a year because they're...
Joy Behar, you're an idiot.
It's just like Christmas.
We talk about Christmas just like the Oscars.
It's the same thing.
It's in your face.
It's the same thing.
So here it is again.
But it's in your face all the time when you go to the movies.
You know, Chris Rock...
Is the host of the Academy Awards.
And so to boycott him seems just as bad...
For the channel...
Is what everybody's saying.
Oh.
See?
Because to me...
No, you don't have to clap.
You don't have to clap.
It's okay.
You don't say right.
She says see.
Oh, when she says see, we say right?
No, well, we could do that, but I'm just saying, instead of...
Oh, she says C. C is her version.
Okay, C. Look.
Look.
It usually comes at the beginning, though.
Yeah, you can use look at the beginning, and then you can use C at the end, which is like a double-I thing.
Ooh, that would be a nice balance.
Look!
I've been trying to make this show great, C. I think that's a good way to put it.
So to boycott him seems just as bad as what everybody's saying.
Oh, thanks.
See, because to me...
Whoa!
She kind of uses it as an intermediary.
She uses it between two sentences.
See?
And then she continues.
See?
Yeah.
By the way, the way she's using it, she reminds me of, it's so subtle, because see, it's almost like the way Comey uses right.
Right.
Yeah, very short.
Seems just as bad as what everybody's saying.
Oh.
See?
Because to me...
No, you don't have to clap.
You don't have to clap.
It's okay.
Because we have this conversation every year and it pisses me off.
And it pisses me off because there are people...
You know, there's not a lot of support for little companies who make movies that may be more diverse than everything else.
But you can't bitch about it just on...
Ask a time.
You have to look and say...
And I am mad.
So don't be surprised.
And keep your emails and text.
Keep all that to yourself because I don't care.
She's saying that because she knows that she's saying something unpopular, but she has to.
It's the company line.
She has to, you know, hold your applause.
Don't send me emails with your anger.
You know, we have to, we still have the show.
We can't, like, ruin the show.
...and text.
People all like to use it because I don't care.
I really don't.
Everybody who is...
Who it is possible to nominate anybody who was in a movie.
You can nominate them.
Okay.
As an actor, I can nominate anybody who was in a movie.
So I will point out Whoopi Goldberg is a member of the Academy.
She is in the actor department.
She votes.
She is partially...
Yeah, she has won an award or two.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
She's a member of the Academy and she votes.
So she is just as complicit, I think.
The same with the best movies.
I can nominate any movie I want that's on the list.
And every movie is on the list, including Ride Along and Ride Along, too.
That's very true.
They're all there.
But maybe the people who are doing the nominating are too white.
Yeah, like Whoopi.
Whoopi, you're too white.
You're doing other nominating.
Joy Behar is such a moron.
She doesn't even see that.
And then 94% of them are white.
94%?
How do you know that?
No.
If the president, Cheryl Boone, just came out with...
No, no, no, no.
Yes!
I make movies for a living.
Let me tell you what the problem is.
It's not that the people nominating are too white.
They're not looking at a movie and saying, oh, that's very white.
I'm not going to nominate that black movie.
They're not sitting there like that.
I like that.
Finally!
So you can't say that as a white person.
You can't say, the people are not sitting there saying, I hate that movie because there's black people in it.
I'm not going to nominate it.
Thank you.
Racist.
Yeah, finally she said it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's true.
They're not looking at a movie and saying, oh, that's very white.
I'm not going to nominate that black movie.
They're not sitting there like that.
What's the problem is, the people who can be helping to make movies that have...
Blacks and Latinos and women and all that.
That money doesn't come to you because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
If there are more than two people, two black people in a movie...
I think that was an underhanded anti-Semitic comment because she says the people who make movies are not interested and then she goes straight into money.
I think...
Maybe.
You might be reading into it, but it's a good observation.
Is that there's no place for black movies.
If there are more than two people, two black people in a movie, I'm telling you.
Let me explain something to you.
There has never been, in the history of movies, there has not been a plethora of black movies made.
Because people believe we don't want to see movies with black people in them.
So until you start making movies like The Avengers, where you see more than 70 white folks saving the Earth, and I am mad about this.
You know why?
Because I would like to be one of those people saving the Earth, but they're not coming to me.
So what she's saying is, Ho-Ho, it's not the actors who are actually responsible for the voting.
She's saying it's the money and the people who make the movies who believe black people...
They're not bankable.
Yeah, they don't make money.
And you know what?
What I know about Hollywood, they've tested it.
And if it made money, they'd be making them.
I agree.
If it was making tons of money...
Why don't we make Bollywood films?
You know...
Doesn't work here.
In fact, that's one of the issues.
And it is an international thing, too.
I mean, we do have our local market, but the big movies, the big blockbusters that would get a lot of attention for black actors, those movies have...
The racism is not here.
It's in China.
It's in Europe.
It's in everywhere.
And it's not even racism.
It's just a preference for...
I think there's racism involved.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to call racism on the Chinese.
Wow.
Well, yeah.
Okay.
Chinese.
Yeah.
It's a big market.
I mean, they probably don't like white seats.
They're starting to invest.
In fact, what movie was it?
I think it was the new Bond movie or something.
It has a huge shine at the beginning of one of the production.
Yeah, well, that billionaire who bought all the movie chains, he has a huge studio.
Everyone went off to China to go celebrate the opening of the studio.
Yeah, it's big money, of course.
So it's the Chinese then.
There's a unifying theme.
It's the Chinese.
They're the ones that are screwing up their stock market.
They're screwing up, you know what?
I think you're right, John.
We have a platform.
We have a multi-racial platform.
It's the Chinese.
I don't know, I don't see any evidence that the Chinese are demanding multi-black actor movies.
Yeah.
Go bitch about the Chinese, people.
Except Shaft.
Shaft.
Whatever happened to Cleopatra Jones?
I think you've made your point.
I've made my point.
People are crazy and this is a publicity stunt that's gone awry.
Yeah.
Let's talk about the endorsement of Donald Trump by Sarah Palin.
Yes, let's do that.
Now, I have a couple of clips I want to play.
I don't know if I have an introductory clip, but this has been quite interesting.
Can I start with a clip?
Please.
Because this is the DN report on Palin, and I call it the best.
This is the most jingoistic, probably racist in some odd way.
Explain jingoism.
Jingoism.
Look it up.
Read the definition while I'm giving my spiel about this clip.
This is a democracy now, which I use as a source of news, has a...
They're bigoted.
And they have all the, you know, they have these, they normally give some pretty good news.
They try to remain objective.
But in this case, they hate Donald Trump so much.
And they hate Sarah Palin so much that instead of just doing, kind of doing this story, they start with like, I believe, a screechy thing she says, which is everything she says.
And then they, this is the funniest clip, but Sarah Palin, would you have the jingoism definition?
Yes, I do.
Jingoism.
Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or war-like foreign policy.
Well, okay.
Extreme patriotism.
It didn't fit in with what I was saying.
No, that's right.
Take it back.
It's kind of like I'm going more for the feelings.
Well, feelings and beliefs of people who think their country is always right and who are in favor of aggressive acts against each other.
Well, they feel the same way about their politics.
Yeah.
The way the democracy now people work, they're jingoistic about their politics.
So let's play this clip.
And this is a classic offhanded slam trying to sound objective.
Ready to make America great again.
Are you ready to stump for Trump?
Today's New York Daily News cover shows a photo of Palin and Trump pointing at each other with the headline, I'm with Stupid.
Less than 24 hours before she endorsed Trump, Palin's 26-year-old son, Track, was arrested for allegedly hitting and kicking his girlfriend and pointing an AR-15 assault rifle.
Yeah, that story, the second part that the kid did has got nothing to do with the story, A. And then they run this I'm with stupid thing, and they have a picture of it.
It's hilarious, by the way.
I mean, this is the worst news reporting in the world.
This is how much hatred that Democracy Now!
people have.
Oh, well, perhaps I should just read a little bit from my face bag feed just to give you an idea.
I was shocked.
I expected it, but I was shocked at the misogyny coming from mainly women.
Oh, yeah.
About Sarah Palin.
And in the past, I've been the first to...
Now, I'm very disappointed by what she's done with her political career and statements, but I read her book, and people looked at me like I was crazy.
I said, well, would you like to burn it?
You know, maybe just burn her book because it's so horrible that she wrote a book.
Oh, she didn't write it.
Whatever.
People calling her the worst things, things you do not want...
Now, this is a post by a woman.
And I'll read that in some of the comments, which are also from women.
Sarah Palin's voice makes my ears hurt when she talks.
Could it be because she's full of asshole air?
Go back to Alaska, please.
I know, right?
She's such an idiot.
I can't stand her.
No, but I would shag the shit out of her, LMFAO. You might have to put duct tape on that trap if you're shagging her.
The beaver trap?
Oh, laughing my ass off.
Nope, her poop shoot mouth.
And then I posted, hey, misogyny anyone?
I'm not a Palin fan, but what makes these personal attacks permissible?
Uh, sorry, she annoys me.
Aw, that makes sense.
This kind of stuff.
You actually post it into a stream of crap like that?
Of course.
It's people I like.
You have guts, my friend.
I'm not even a Facebook member because the place is...
A cesspool.
A cesspool.
It's a cesspool.
No, these are people who I like and some who I love.
I'm shocked.
Sarah Palin blames Obama for her son's arrest on domestic abuse charges, which she didn't say.
That's not true.
Because the bitch is fucking crazy!
The amount of hatred that's leveled at her is remarkable.
I would say...
You could kind of make fun of her because of her voice.
It's gotten worse.
In fact, I have trouble listening to her, by the way.
But I don't go off the deep end.
I do want to analyze what happened, though.
Let's play this...
I have some things too, but okay.
What do you got?
Palin classic fighting meme.
Here we got a redhead from the big red apple running for president, and yet the GOP machine, all of a sudden, they're saying, we're not red enough.
We're not conservative enough.
And I say, what in the world do they know about conservatism?
Maybe we should just stop with the clips for a second.
I'd like to analyze this a bit with you.
Do you have something to say about this?
No, I do have one more clip I want to play.
And this is my favorite clip.
This is my personal clip of the day.
So they're talking about, apparently there was a screw-up and Palin didn't show up at one of the events.
And so they talked to two people.
This is ABC again.
ABC is kind of pushing Trump a little bit.
And they tried to analyze this overall, and I think you're going to probably do a better job in about a minute.
But I got the biggest kick out of this particular clip where they talked to two disappointed Trump supporters.
And I realized, and I want everyone out there who's a Facebook user, and they say, oh, I can't stand her voice.
It's so squeaky and it's terrible and it makes me itch.
We're in Iowa, and I want you to play this clip of the man and then the woman, and I can tell you, if you listen to this clip, you can see why so many Iowans like Sarah Palin.
I'm going to need help, what it's called.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is the...
This is the P-A-L-I-B-N clone spelled C-L-O-P-N-E. Surprise.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
Not everything going as planned.
The Trump campaign announcing Palin would be at a morning rally in Iowa.
The tickets even promising a special guest.
But no sign of Sarah.
We were hoping Sarah Palin would be here.
And what happened?
No show?
No show.
I was looking forward to seeing her.
I'm wondering where she went.
Yeah.
People love her in Iowa.
Well, that woman sounds just like her.
In fact, if you play the ISO... You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.
I'm wondering where she went.
Where she went!
Yeah, it's Iowa.
Now, here's what I saw happening.
Genius move.
Genius.
We are right in front of the...
The primaries, what do you want?
You want what Donald Trump knows works.
It's airtime.
You get airtime, you win.
You buy airtime in America, you win.
You want airtime, you want controversy, you want all that stuff.
And you always, always, always win in America.
That's how it works with the media.
Sarah Palin got so screwed by...
Media, but also these people filled with hate.
Hey, you know, it's just a lady.
You know, who gives a crap?
She, you know, don't watch her.
It doesn't matter.
It's just a lady.
There's plenty of people.
I mean, you know, you can hate on so many people, so many things.
But for some reason, people lose their crap entirely over her.
And ever since she, of course, screwed up, she was not prepped properly, and she couldn't mention what newspaper she read.
I mean, this is how America works.
We had the Howard Dean scream.
The guy lost the entire race because of some stupid-ass scream, which, in retrospect, when you hear it, isn't even that stupid anymore.
It was kind of stupid back then.
Now it's just like, whatever, moron, move on.
So Trump is brilliant and is Iowa!
Yes, of course.
Sarah Palin is acting as what we call a surrogate in political parlance.
And the job of a surrogate is to make personal appearances on behalf of the candidate.
Which is great.
You know people will come to see Sarah Palin, whether they like her or hate her.
They'll come.
Well, that's what you noticed with that clip I had with the clone girl, the clone wife.
They were disappointed that she wasn't there.
She was to the point where they were complaining about it.
Exactly.
Now, Trump has another surrogate.
I'm sure he has several.
Omarosa.
Omarosa is...
I think she was on...
Let me see.
She was on The Apprentice.
Yeah, but if you look into her background, she's not just some ditzy...
And she's black.
She's extremely beautiful.
She currently teaches in the executive education program at the executive MBA program at Howard University School of Business.
Is that anything?
I would think so.
Yeah.
So she's not a dummy.
And for whatever reason, and this is Matthews, Chris Matthews, idiot Matthews, and he's going to force some crazy notion on, and this is what everybody's thinking, which of course we'll talk about in a minute, going to force this crazy notion on her.
Well, would you want to see Sarah Palin in the White House?
Would you want her to be vice president?
It's like, oh, can we come up with nothing better?
Her response is, Amorosa?
Clearly, I want to see Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Under any circumstances, would you want to see Sarah Palin as president?
Any circumstances?
As president?
Yeah.
I want to see Donald Trump as president.
I have no opinion.
You're dodging the ball here.
Oh, well, let me ask you for an opinion because you're out here selling Trump and he's got her as his surrogate.
I'm asking you, is she qualified to be president of the United States?
He didn't announce her as his vice president.
He announced her as a surrogate.
And none of the surrogates have to go through a vet like they're running for president.
They just have to accomplish what you want them to accomplish.
And in this case, she's going to help him win Iowa.
That's why she is endorsing him.
What an a-hole.
I was hounding the woman about something.
Well, if you had anticipated that dumb question, you probably could have handled it a little better because she was, you're right, she was, what are you talking about?
How would you answer that?
How would we have souffleur'd her I say, well, first of all, she's not running for president.
She's not running for vice president.
There's no indication that she's doing either.
And you're asking me just a hypothetical.
You might as well ask me if you should be president or vice president.
There you go.
That would be the answer.
Over on MSNBC. But you can't...
I know what it's like to be in these situations.
Yeah, it's hard.
It's hard.
She was by remote.
You have a delay.
All kinds.
But it was just being a dick.
It makes it even harder, yes.
But this is the thinking.
That's all people can think of.
Hey, you know what?
Maybe he will ask her to run.
Oh, man.
It gets a...
I mean, yes, I'm still fully endorsing Donald J. Trump for president with these moves.
It's genius!
It's interesting to watch the way the right-wing radio people took this, because they, including my wife, she says, I think he was punked.
No!
Yes, and then there was an indication.
I have a clip that kind of discusses this, but then I went to the post office to get the mail, and I listened to Michael Savage.
And he was thinking that it was the worst thing that could happen to Trump.
And he went on about it, and apparently he got hate mail and all the rest because of it.
why they were thinking this way and then I did and I was kind of thinking that way too until I started hearing the ABC analysis and everybody else's and then then when I heard this woman the clone woman who sounds just like Sarah and realized that Sarah Palin is very important to a certain demographic it does really dominates Iowa politics And apparently Cruz really wanted her endorsement, and he was very disappointed.
This was the other part of the move.
This was the big one.
Everyone thought Sarah Palin would come out and would endorse Cruz.
I think the real smart move by Trump is...
He's having trouble with the religious base.
Bring in Sarah Palin.
She is God on two legs.
Exactly.
So let's play the Trump vs.
Cruz, ABC. This is ABC. This week, Trump leveling this attack on Cruz.
He's a nasty guy.
Nobody likes him.
Nobody in Congress likes him.
Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.
Trump also blasting Cruz for slamming Wall Street while failing to disclose he took out a million dollars in big bank loans to fund a Senate race.
Oh, he's a total hypocrite.
He wants to look like Robin Hood, that he's the one protecting the people from the banks.
You know, Cruz never should have crossed Donald Trump.
That was dumb.
Well, he's actually borrowing money and personally guaranteeing it and not disclosing it, which is illegal.
Today, Cruz tweeting this video in response to being called nasty.
Hello, 1980 column.
We want our memes back, Ted Cruz.
No president can be...
We cannot have a man be president of the United States who still thinks Janet Jackson's nasty is relevant.
Cruz says he's getting under Trump's skin.
You know, Donald seems to be a little rattled.
Cruz's campaign continuing to hammer Trump over his, quote, New York values, releasing this 1999 video, Trump in his own words.
Hey, I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, okay?
So, you know, my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa, perhaps.
I'm...
Very pro-choice.
And again, it may be a little bit of a New York background.
That message now hitting home with some.
Rush Limbaugh today saying Trump won't win over conservatives by bashing Cruz.
There are a lot of conservatives who think that he's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
That he's a traditional, lifetime New Yorker, and that means something.
There are all kinds of conservatives with suspicions of Donald Trump.
And Tom Yamas joins us now live from inside Cruz headquarters in Des Moines.
And Tom, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump are neck and neck in Iowa.
How important are the folks right there behind you, the ground game here, given this is two weeks from tonight now?
Well, David, take a look.
Every single person is on a phone.
They hope to make 12,000 calls a day here in Iowa.
And staffers and strategists are convinced this is how you win the Hawkeye State, with the ground game.
That said, Trump is here tomorrow.
Three stops, including his first stop, which is in John Wayne's hometown.
He's hoping to make the argument he's the GOP's real hero.
Oh, man.
Now, this was the day before the Palin announcement.
Oh, okay.
And so you saw this setup.
And it was at the point where everybody got to come out of the woodwork and say, oh, he's this, he's not this, he's not that.
And then Palin makes the announcement.
It was beautifully timed.
It was well orchestrated.
And Trump by himself is like Marcus Garvey, you know, arriving in his beautiful 757, walking down the stairs.
People love this.
This is so arrogant of the media establishment, the media elite, to think that everybody thinks like them.
It is just not true.
Guys in the heartland, guys in Texas, the flyover states, you know, we look at Sarah Palin and go, well, I'd tap that.
Women go, she looks great for her age.
You know, there is just not this incredible hate.
And yeah, there's a huge religious component to it, which, you know, you can't come out and say, you know, you believe in God or you read the Bible anymore in America.
No, you don't get any protections.
You shut up, you idiot.
Bible thumper crazy.
And that's what she was on stage saying.
So it is misunderstanding of the population.
Rick Wilson, who is a Republican media consultant, whatever that is, was on MSNBC with this little ditty.
Oh, it's something.
But the fact of the matter is most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime.
They're not real political players.
These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity.
So Trump fans are middle-aged men who masturbate to anime.
This is what he said?
This is what he was referring to?
Yeah.
That was the reference?
Yeah, Trump voters, people like Donald Trump, are middle-aged men who masturbate to anime.
I think it is a fact.
Oops, this one, here we go.
Oh, it's something.
But the fact of the matter is most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime.
Childless single men who masturbate to anime.
Holy...
And this guy's a Republican?
Apparently a Republican media consultant who's very mad about Trump.
I guess his client is not happy.
Whoever that is.
Oh, his client must be Jeb Bush.
Probably.
But the best.
The best, the best, the best.
That was a great clip.
It's a nice little clip, isn't it?
I wish I had more context.
Yeah, they're just talking about Trump voters.
I didn't think that you would need more context.
So in all of this, the field has now shifted.
I think this is a big shift.
A brilliant move by Trump.
Because a lot of people, in a way, myself included, who are just happy to see someone take Sarah Palin at face value.
And for who she represents.
I mean, I don't hang out with people like her a lot.
But I don't mind them.
Ever.
Well, that's not true.
That's not true at all.
I live in Texas, son.
There are a lot of good old boys and old girls here.
But they're not hate-filled.
They're just not hate-filled like that.
But anyway, so now we have some problems.
By the way, one of the things that I do admire, one thing about her, she comes up with these little ditties.
It's like poetry slam.
She's sitting there rhyming and rapping on the stage.
She has one, and I thought I had a clip of it, but apparently I don't.
I was trying to remember it earlier, thinking, what the hell was it?
It incorporates the something, it's like something's bad because we've been had, and somebody has to get me this phrase, because it's such a good phrase, I want Mimi to use it up in political battles.
Channeling Sarah Palin.
Excellent.
Well, she hates Sarah Palin because, again...
She hates?
She actually hates Sarah Palin?
Well, she...
Yes, I think so.
Why?
Why does she hate?
What is with the hate?
I think it's the voice.
I think that voice is offensive to her.
Yeah, but it's different to say you hate somebody.
Just hate.
Does she say, I hate her?
No, she never says that, but she does.
I'll have to have a word with her.
On FaceBag.
Yes, on Facebook.
That's where hate belongs.
So we have this over here.
And there's no doubt that people are thinking, oh, maybe she'll be a vice presidential pick.
So that is definitely in people's minds.
Now we have the Hillary issue, which is just getting worse and worse.
We see that the new douche, Ash Carter, has threatened to strip General McChrystal of one to two of his general stars.
As an additional punishment for sharing classified information.
Which I think is a shot across the bow of Hillary.
Saying, hey, you know, you did that.
Look at what this guy did.
It's arguably not quite as bad.
He was having sex with a woman.
She was writing a book.
It was illegal.
But he's even going to be...
They're calling him back to strip him of two stars.
Hillary, you better watch out with your emails.
And of course, all of this email stuff which came out...
When the Iranian drifting boat crisis came into play, coincidentally.
I do have the Clinton server news you can play, which is a little background.
Yeah, that may lead into this, okay.
A review of the private home email server used by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary.
I'm sorry, it was Petraeus, not McChrystal.
Was it McChrystal or Petraeus?
Petraeus.
Petraeus.
Yeah, I was off.
My mistake.
I think you said Petraeus.
I think I said McChrystal.
Well, Ms.
Petraeus.
Petraeus state shows the server contained information classified at higher levels than previously reported.
Officials reviewing the emails found information deemed to be top secret, SAP, which stands for Special Access Programs, a level of classification beyond top secret.
Clinton has previously said none of the emails she sent or received were marked classified at the time.
The news comes as Clinton's Democratic presidential rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has increased his lead over her in New Hampshire.
Just weeks before the primary, Sanders leads Clinton by 27 points in the poll, 60% to 33%.
Mm-hmm.
She's fighting the war on multiple fronts.
The other front is Wall Street.
And this is Bernie's counterattack.
Bernie has to attack because Bernie's in front and now he's got to really push her down.
I think it's a little too early, but he's going to attack.
And he attacks by saying she is a Wall Street shill.
Yeah, she is.
Now, of all people to come up with the solution to this problem, It was Mika from Morning Joe.
Let's listen to the lead-in.
I think it is a fact.
It's a fact.
Anyone disagree with me on it?
She has received $600,000 in one year as speaking fees from Goldman Sachs.
If that's not true, I will apologize.
It's true.
It is true.
Clinton's 2013 tax return shows speeches for Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, UBS, Bank of America, and three for Goldman Sachs.
Her usual fee?
$225,000, more than four times the median American family's income.
Did she help protect Wall Street?
Do I think Hillary Clinton or many other senators have shown the courage that is necessary to stand up to Wall Street power?
The answer is no.
Backup recently from Vice President Joe Biden, who seemed to question Clinton's commitment to fighting income inequality.
It's relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.
Hillary's focus has been on other things up to now, and that's been Bernie's.
No one questions Bernie's authenticity on those issues.
Take a piece of Bernie Sanders' argument saying, I get what's happening in the country, and I'm here to help, much like Bernie is.
To which Bernie says, wait a minute.
You've been working for Goldman Sachs.
You've been taking money from Goldman Sachs.
You've been doing all these things with Wall Street.
How can you credibly say that you're the person who's going to take down the banks the way I can?
Just say the only person that can help her now is Elizabeth Warren, and she's going to have to make her her running mate.
Katty K, stay with us.
Still ahead.
There was no other way around it.
Still ahead on Morning Joe.
They should give you a look.
I think she's right.
I think she's right, but it's not going to happen in a million years.
Why not?
You cannot run two women.
And that is not a good idea or a bad idea.
Let me tell you.
The party will not allow it.
Oh, really?
The misogynistic party?
Yeah.
Why?
What have we been talking about all this whole show?
They will not allow it because women can't run things?
You can't have two women?
What do you think the actual reason?
You can't have two women.
It's not balanced tickets.
I would do it if I were Hillary.
I think that the love for...
It's not going to happen.
They won't let her.
I'm just saying.
Also, she doesn't think for herself, so she won't even suggest it.
And she doesn't want somebody like Elizabeth Warren getting attention.
I'm sure she doesn't even like Elizabeth Warren.
I think what I would do in her place, because it's tough.
It's tough for Hillary.
She's not feeling well.
She's got migraines from the embolism, whatever she had.
She's on medication.
All kinds of issues.
Her health is bad.
Her health is not great.
And here's another thing, because they know her health is not bad.
She could drop dead in office.
Well, hello, now you're talking my language.
And she could drop dead in office, and that would put Elizabeth Warren in.
Again, the Democrat Party does not want Elizabeth Warren as president, necessarily.
They don't want Bernie, and Bernie and Elizabeth are pretty much the same person.
But the great thing is, think about it from Hillary's perspective.
If she starts to lose, then what I would do is, oh, well, of course, it's a stupid party.
They don't want two women.
Misogynists.
She could totally turn on the Democratic Party.
She's not going to do that.
Okay.
They still have the big foundation that's raking in dough.
I mean, and nobody wants to ever do this simple thing about the $225,000 speaker's fee, but she must have got a discount, by the way, from Goldman Sachs because she did three speeches and it came out to $600,000, so she did three for six instead of the normal fee, which would be $675,000.
But let's...
Call this what it is.
There's no reason that she would be getting these sorts of speakers over and over, especially three in one year.
These are out and out bribes.
Yes.
Yes.
This is just passing $225,000 to Hillary so she does a good job for them when she gets in as president.
And let's sweeten the pie a little bit and make it $600,000.
Does that satisfy you, Hillary?
Almost a million in bribes?
Yeah, that'll do it.
That'll do it.
Yeah, that'll do it.
That'll do it.
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Well, a lot of soot.
Bill LeClaire, I want to start off with him in Riverdale, Michigan.
One, two, three, four, five.
They had apparently a pretty good meetup in Michigan.
That's good.
I'd like to see some more people show up.
Because we have, I think, probably as many listeners in Michigan as we do in any one place.
Really?
Oh, you've been.
That's why you know.
Yeah, there's lots of people there.
And then if you start looking at the donations come in, Michigan, Michigan, Michigan, a lot of Michigan.
People, you need to go to meetup.com slash noagenda.
There's a lot being organized now.
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I've been listening for several months, and I'm now hooked on the deconstruction format of the best podcasts in the universe.
You came highly recommended from my good friend, Carrie, who, as it turns out, needs to be called out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Since I don't believe he's ever donated, today is his birthday, so this donation is for him.
Please send him on his way with a dedouching.
He gets a dedouching when he donates.
That's the rules.
We can give some karma, because it's requested.
And I plan to follow up with a $20 a month nighthood layaway.
Keep up the great work, Bill.
You've got karma.
Now, is he on the list for the birthday call-up?
I don't think Eric's receiving my emails.
It's just strange.
Yeah, you say that.
Yeah, I've tried three addresses, and I say, please respond if you've seen this.
Oh, maybe he's going into spam or something.
I'll ask him.
I'm checking, I'm checking.
What's his name?
I've got to go back.
Yeah, I got it.
Yeah, it's on.
It's on.
Well, Dame Bang Bang in Buellton, California, 121.16.
And this is in celebration of Sir D.H. Slammer, Baron of the Central Coast, and my 15th wedding anniversary on 121.16.
If not too much, I'd like to request a dude named Ben Jingle for my dude named Ben and some job karma for him as he would just laid off.
Oh!
We will put that...
I'm going to put that at the end.
We need a dude named Ben.
We have a cool thing.
I'll do end of show.
That'll be fun.
Jason Daniels, $116.16 from Dallas, Texas.
Diana Carruthers in Tonino, Washington.
And she's got a happy birthday call out.
And she sent a note in, which I had here somewhere.
Screwy.
I put the note right on top.
Oh, here it is.
It's on the side.
She sent a card.
Always nice.
And with a postcard inside the card.
Thank you for having the best podcast in the universe.
Love your show.
She had the note that had to do with the birthday call out for Keith.
Eric got that, so I'm not going to try to track it down any further.
Michael Robinson in Salem, Oregon, 69-69.
Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 69-33.
Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 64-32.
These came in as checks.
Sir Mac Tank in La Jolla, California, 5510.
Lance Eurelian in Woodlands, The Woodlands, Texas, 5510.
I always get a kick out of cities that are named The Something.
Dean Roker in Parts Unknown, 5510.
Sean Regalado in Saranac Lake in New York, 5243.
Murray Robb in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5150.
He had an interesting note.
In the morning, gentlemen, earlier today I started a subscription for $13.50 a month to match Adam's prediction of where the bottom is for oil.
That's an interesting note.
Where are we?
Adam, you should have had a higher prediction.
We were going off the WTI crude price?
That's what we were doing?
Yeah.
Where is it today?
I think it's 26, 27 maybe.
Oh, so it's under the 28.
Yeah, yeah.
We're looking at a bottom.
It's typical.
All right.
I'm not saying it couldn't possibly go down to something lower because nobody's thought.
But we talked about this on the Horowitz show.
Where are they putting this stuff?
There's only so many tanks.
I tell you where, they put it in ships, and the ships just moor off in the sea, in the harbor.
That has happened.
Roger Esty in Palm Harbor, Florida, $51.
Jeff Anderson in Stewart, Florida, $50.34.
Sir Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia, $50.33.
We got birthdays for both Jeff and Herb.
Bozeman Sporting Goods in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The rest of these are all $50 donors.
We ran out of steam here today.
$50 donors following people.
Bozeman Sporting Goods.
Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
Steve Winslow in Bristol, Avon, UK. Hope you got a kick out of our analysis.
Chris Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana, $50.
Diana Carruthers, Tumwater, Washington, $50.
It's interesting because it came in also at $99.
Or maybe I'm getting mixed up.
Paul Girdo in Birong, New South Wales, $50, Australia.
He says, I'd like to set up an automatic payment of $25 a week.
I just can't see myself attaining knighthood any other way, but I don't think I can do it from my end.
Yeah, you can.
Yeah, you can.
You can do an open...
If you go to just a normal, everyday, like, open donation of any amount, the new PayPal structure has it so there's a box you can check to make it monthly.
Now, if you can't get PayPal, I mean, this came through PayPal, I think.
Yeah, had to.
If you go to the normal thing, put in 25 donations, just the average do-it-yourself donation, then click on the box that you'll see, and it'll make it recurring.
Gary Newson.
I love do-it-yourself donations.
My favorite.
Yeah, do it yourself.
Do it yourself subscription.
Gary Newson in Sittingburn, Kent, UK, 50.
Bill LeClaire, capital L, small A, Riverdale, Michigan.
Anyone who gets that joke will be admired.
Michael Gates, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada.
These are all $50 donors.
Eric Mann in Spring Hill, Florida.
It could be Sir Eric Mann, Sir Mark Tanner.
In Whittier, California, gives twice a month $50.
Sir Alan Bean in Oakland, California.
Sir David Trotsky in Romeoville, Illinois, and...
And finally, last but not least, Joshua Defabo in Alameda, California.
I can wave from here and say hi.
I want to thank all these folks for keeping the show going.
I have a couple of make-goods since communication is, we have an issue.
But I think, let me see, we had a mix-up with Taylor Fox, and he says, Adam, so sorry for the name trouble in my donation.
He says he is both Taylor Stewart and Tyler Fox, not some schlub trying to steal credit for someone else's donations.
And he attaches...
Yeah, of course.
We trust you.
But anyway, he wanted the karma to go to Sir Tyler Fox Baronet.
And we will make that happen.
And...
I missed the request from...
Who is this from?
This is from Sir Brian the Blue Knight, who was at the meetup in Bedford, Texas.
I missed the request from JCD to enclose donations in an envelope, but I did present Adam with a $50 shell gift card.
True.
It's been used.
If you could add that to the donations for Sunday, I would appreciate it.
Thank you very much, Sir Brian the Blue Knight.
Yes.
And there's a couple other things I believe we still have to figure out, but Eric and I will work out.
I'll get a hold of him somehow.
We had the one guy who put the money into, for some reason, I don't know how he managed to do it, into the J at Dvorak.org, my personal account, which is where I, you know, it's got nothing to do with anything.
He got it in there, so I refunded it.
I sent it back out of that account back to the guy.
And then he can re-donate through one of the normal channels.
And then from Sir Kevin Dills, Black Baronet of the Queen City in the morning, I have an important birthday call-up for Thursday's show.
I wish a very happy birthday to my nephew, Edison, who was born yesterday afternoon.
That was Tuesday the 19th.
Congratulations to Scott and Kristen on their new human resource.
Yes.
Depleting...
$9.2 million value as a citizen of the United States.
Very good.
We already congratulated Dane Bang Bang, Sir DH Slammer.
And with that, I'd like to thank everybody who helped us out today.
Dude, you did kind of lose steam there.
Just dropped off real quick.
We appreciate the support.
There's a couple of things going on that are hurting donations.
One of them is the time of year.
January has always been slow.
The stock market doesn't help because people start thinking that this is important when it's not.
This is a correction that will end probably.
It's not going to mean the stock market is going to go skyrocketing, but it's going to end here, bounce around the bottom, and then kind of move up a little bit to some normal numbers.
And people should look at the bright side, which is what the stock market doesn't want to look at, which is the low price of oil gives people a huge opportunity to fill the tanks up, go driving around.
Transportation for all things, flying, airlines, the train that goes by.
Everything else is going to be cheaper.
And goods and services are going to be cheaper.
because the trucks have to buy gasoline too.
We're going to have a little boom here.
It's a big deal.
It's great.
It's a big deal to have these low gas prices and people should appreciate that.
You're going to have more money in your pocket.
How much money do you think the average American will have extra at the end of the month?
I'm thinking $100 or something.
But I mean, it would be $100 a tank, and some people have to fill the tank up four times a month, which is $400, and then now it's going to be $35 a tank.
So they're going to have $300 a month minimum.
That's dynamite.
If I'm looking at the numbers right, and I think so.
Yeah, so you get all the extra money.
Alright.
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Peter Gill says happy birthday to his son, Sir Charlie Gill.
That says he's celebrating today.
Brian Gilbert turns 33, magic numbers.
Bill Leclerc says happy birthday to his friend Kerry, celebrating today as well.
So does Sir Herb Lamb and Diana Carothers.
Happy birthday to Keith Carlyle.
He turned 50 on January 16th.
Michael Robinson's happy birthday to his brother-in-law, Mark Johnson, and Tigard, or Tigard, Oregon.
Celebrating today, Jeff Anderson.
Happy birthday to his son, Russell August, turning 34.
And that concludes our list.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah.
No nights, no changes.
That's all we got.
A lot of birthdays, though.
We had none last time, if I'm not mistaken.
I ran across something that I wanted to discuss.
I figured something...
It wasn't that hard to find, but I always love it when you do kind of stumble on something.
And it started out...
With this question that was posed to spokeshole Josh Earnest in the White House daily briefing.
The Department of State announced this payment of $1.7 billion to the government of Iran just before the plane carrying the freed Americans landed in Geneva.
You're really telling me that this is an absolute coincidence that this payment just happened to coincide with the precise moment when the American prisoners were flying to freedom?
John, I think we've made pretty clear that this is not a coincidence.
The fact is, these kinds of diplomatic opportunities...
Because Paul Ryan has suggested this was a ransom payment.
He's wrong about that.
But you're saying this is connected with the freedom of...
What I'm suggesting is that the successful resolution of our concerns about Iran's nuclear program We've created a series of diplomatic opportunities for the United States that we've capitalized on.
And we use that opening and we use that deeper diplomatic engagement to secure the release of Five American citizens who are being unjustly held inside of Iran.
And we use that diplomatic opening to resolve a long-standing financial claim that the Iranians had against the United States in a way that ultimately saves U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars, potentially up to six or seven billion dollars.
Now, this got me interested, because we know that there's $150 billion that were released, and all of a sudden there's this late payment, $1.7 billion, and apparently just minutes or hours are very close to the hostages, prisoners returning from Iran, people who were imprisoned.
That was part of the deal.
And it wasn't...
I didn't get anything from Paul Ryan, but not just Paul Ryan.
What's the guy?
Cotton.
What's the guy's first name?
Senator Cotton.
I don't know.
Cotton-eyed Joe.
As Secretary Kerry said, first, this is not part of the nuclear deal.
This is a standalone agreement that didn't have to be undertaken, unless it's just part of the ransom that we had to pay to get innocent Americans back from Iranian captivity.
So he's saying, oh, this is ransom, this was ransom.
So, I did a little bit of research and came up with some interesting things.
First of all, because of this controversy, This is the latest of a series of important settlements reached over the past 35 years at the Hague Tribunal.
In constructive bilateral discussions, we arrived at a fair settlement to this claim, which due to litigation risk remains in the best interest of the United States.
Iran will receive the balance of $400 million in the trust fund, as well as roughly $1.3 billion compromise on the interest.
Iran's recovery was fixed at a reasonable rate of interest, and therefore Iran is unable to pursue a bigger tribunal award against us, preventing U.S. taxpayers from being obligated to a larger amount of money, which is what Josh Earnest was referring to.
So...
Thank you.
There's been so much outrage over this money that we're giving back to Iran.
First the $150 billion, and now this.
So I go and look and see, what was this about?
This is poorly explained, if at all, in any press.
And instead we get this, oh, it was a ransom payment.
The timing may have been interesting, but this comes from something very, very old.
This is from the Hague Tribunal.
This is from 1979.
And in and by itself, it had to do with a bit of a payoff.
You recall we had the...
Now, was it 79 we had the October surprise?
Well, the October surprise, I think...
Yeah, 79 is...
Well, it was the Iran hostage event.
So here's what happened.
I don't think that specifically was referred to as the October surprise.
The surprise was the release or something.
It had more to do with Reagan.
Yes, yes, yes.
So I looked through the documents of the Hague Tribunal.
We were in weapons negotiations with Iran at the time.
We were going to sell them some stuff.
They had deposited $2.5 billion into an escrow account.
And then something got messed up and they took our people hostage.
So we shut it down.
We said, you know what?
Screw you.
You're not getting this back.
Then according to the documents, an agreement was reached which led to the release of the hostages.
Only the United States, typical a-holes we are, we said, yeah, well, we're not giving you that money back right now.
And this was 35 years ago.
So, as part of the settlement, and this is Iran's money, and we're going to give it back, the reason why this has been held up for all these years is because of a secondary lawsuit that I didn't know about called Leibovitch v.
Kerry.
That's the most recent one.
There's previous ones.
And this is a class action suit, one of the largest in history.
A group of American victims of Iranian terrorism who hold more than a billion dollars in court judgments against the Islamic Republic for its sponsorship of terrorist attacks.
And they moved in the first instance to get their money back from the $100 billion in frozen assets.
And this has been going...
So here we have a huge class action suit which is being played out on the international...
Oh, this is funny because I remember this lawsuit.
Talk about it.
I don't know what happened to it.
I just remember when it happened.
It was like, oh, you think they can get away with this?
Why are they suing Iran?
Why do they expect to get out of it?
Yeah.
And really what I'm reading into this, just going to say it bluntly, this is Jew versus Arab.
This is mainly a class action lawsuit brought by American Jews against the Iranian assets, against their atrocities.
And there's a lot of documents if you really want to go deep into that.
I put some of it in the show notes.
But that's what was holding on.
That's what the real outrage is.
That's why people like Cotton, I'm pretty sure, he just panders to this.
Oh yeah, no, it's horrible.
These guys are just giving away money and really should go to these other people.
And the aggregate of the compensatory judgments was like, it's an outrageous amount.
$2.5 billion that they want to have back.
And that's why it was such a problem.
And the fact that we only gave them $1.7 leads me to believe there's about $800 million which someone is going to get.
It could be.
Makes sense.
A lot of these things that people are listening to on the radio and everywhere where this is discussed, it's always about as if we are writing a check to the Iranians.
This is money that they...
This is their money.
Yeah, and it was their money to buy weapons, and then we got into a beef.
We said, well, screw you.
And then we said, well, if you give our hostages back, we'll release the money.
And then we didn't release it because of these lawsuits.
That's what's happening.
So a lot of people pointed out, we played the clip about the ships that drifted into Iranian waters, and there was an anomaly there which multiple people jumped on, and we missed it.
I want to play it, and we'll see if we can catch it this time.
Tuesday evening around 5 p.m.
in the Persian Gulf, the capture.
Two American boats are surrounded and subdued as Iranian Navy cameras record the scene.
And then, a few minutes later, the surrender.
Images of the 10 U.S. sailors kneeling, hands on their heads, the Iranians in control.
Through the night, Secretary of State Kerry makes five calls to the Iranians demanding the Americans be released, explaining it was a mistake.
And those American sailors, nine men and one woman, spend a night in captivity.
Their passports are examined, a meal is served, and then a mild but pointed interrogation.
Now did you catch it?
No.
I am reliably informed that active duty personnel do not typically travel with their passports.
Yet this report claims that they had their passports.
...in control.
Through the night, Secretary of State Kerry makes five calls to the Iranians demanding the Americans be released, explaining it was a mistake.
And those American sailors, nine men and one woman, spend a night in captivity.
Their passports are examined.
A meal is served.
That is something that...
I think that's true.
There's no reason if you're on a Navy vessel to be walking around with a passport.
It's not foreboding?
Unless you're going to go on shore leave or something, maybe.
Maybe they were ready for a little Tehran action.
Yeah, bring my passport on.
So that thing remains still very, very suspicious.
Did they actually have their passports with them?
Is the reporting true yet?
Yeah, and why would you be in one of those little dinghies with a stupid little boat that they were on?
With a passport.
You're going to get wet on that thing, for one thing.
Yeah.
So thank you, everybody, who pointed that out.
Yeah, thanks.
We expect this.
Of course we expect this.
Then we get it.
Quickie.
Oh, we should probably...
I didn't have the jingle.
You know, this woman is so crazy.
Victoria Newland Noodleman.
What is it?
Where in the world?
Is that our clip from her?
Yeah.
I can't find it anymore.
Oh yeah, here he is.
Here she is.
Yes.
Where in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
Yeah!
We were watching her on our way to Moldova.
We are now in the third day of unrest.
Anti-government protesters in Moldova.
Moldova, you know, nicely located between Ukraine and Poland.
And Newland goes through.
Two days later, there's riots.
Okay.
This woman is unbelievable.
When is anyone going to get a clue about this?
Yeah, you know who has a clue?
Lavrov.
It's like, we're the only ones that have a clue.
Who does, you said?
Lavrov.
There's a great video.
Oh, Lavrov.
The audio is not usable.
The audio is not usable for the show, but you have to watch it.
It's in the show notes.
So Kerry and Noodleman are in a conference room, and Lavrov comes in.
And Kerry, you know, walks over.
It's a conference room.
Shakes his hand.
And then Noodleman comes up to shake his hand.
And he puts his hand in hers.
Almost immediately lets go.
Looking to the left.
Doesn't look her in the eye.
She walks right past him.
Rolls her eye about what an a-hole he just was to her.
Which is deserved.
He knows that she was responsible for Ukraine.
He almost didn't want to even touch her hand.
It's a beautiful moment.
Oh.
Is it in the show notes?
Yeah, video in the show notes.
I'm surprised that Gay Ann, or that woman who's the reporter for RT, who's also in the State Department briefings, hasn't put two and two together herself.
Because she likes to do these little special reports.
She does, yeah.
And just show, you know, Noodleman here, then a riot, Noodleman there, then a riot, Noodleman here, you know, this whole thing.
But nobody does that, except us.
Very strange.
That's right.
Well, I mean, I should pretty much just play the jingle again, I guess.
Thanks for your time.
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This is an interesting clip.
There's a book out now on the Koch brothers as if it's even important now that we've shown that this...
Yeah, that you can do it without money.
Doesn't mean anything.
Just look at Bernie and Trump, the two leading candidates.
Where's the Koch brothers' money?
Where's the Citizens United?
I saw that Jeb Bush has spent $90 million and Trump and Bernie about $8 each.
So, you know, 10%.
10%.
But let's hear a little bit of this, the Koch brothers report, some of the stuff you want to know about because the Koch brothers are apparently behind everything.
And I was triggered by the great tease at the beginning of Democracy Now!
about the Koch brothers.
Among her revelations, the Koch's father, Fred Koch, built an oil refinery by Adolf Hitler.
No.
Right before the war started.
He imported, or somehow the family wound up, with a German nanny who brought up the two oldest boys, Frederick and Charles.
Charles, who's the Who's known today as one of the two Koch brothers.
And the nanny herself was a Nazi sympathizer of such fervor that when Hitler invaded France in 1940, she'd been with the Koch family for five years, but she said she needed to leave.
She wanted to go back to be with the Fuhrer to celebrate.
It was strange.
It's a fascinating family.
It was a strange upbringing.
I'm not saying that they were Nazis, but what I am saying is that this family was politically, from the start, filled with very strange influences.
And Fred Koch's involvement in the founding of the John Birch Society and what that is?
Well, so what happens is the father then also worked for Stalin and built the oil refineries there in Stalin's first five-year plan.
And he comes back to the U.S. and he's horrified by what he's seen of Stalin.
And he becomes just an absolutely A sort of vitriolic, anti-communist, and that leads to him being a founding member of the John Birch Society.
And he passes those views on to his sons.
And both David Koch and Charles Koch, the two that are known as the Koch brothers, were members of the John Birch Society, which kind of defined the anti-communist right-wing fringe in America in the 50s, 60s.
Coke Brothers!
Now, first of all, shame on this woman.
Did she just call the Coke Brothers Nazis?
Because that's what I heard.
Well, she says she's not calling them Nazis.
Okay, right.
I have a memo sent out to...
I'm pretty sure this was sent out to all Coke Industries organizations...
And I received this from an insider.
And by the way, they encouraged the sharing of it.
January 13th.
And I think I should read these two paragraphs here.
This is the Koch industry's own rebuttal of this accusation, which is really, really fucking low.
I don't care about these guys, but I do care.
This Nazi stuff has got to stop.
It's too easy.
It's too easy.
Everyone's calling everyone a Hitler and a Nazi.
What's wrong with you people?
Wait until we really get Nazis and Hitler in America.
You have no idea.
Between 1928 and 1934, Winkler Koch Engineering handled more than 500 projects.
Of these, 39 involved signed contracts to build cracking units.
One of those units was included in a refinery in the port area of Hamburg, Germany, built for Foreign Oil Company of Boston, which I think...
Is that where our term, our reliance on foreign oil comes from?
I really don't think so.
During this period, Winkler Koch worked on hundreds of other international projects including work in England, Scotland, France, Canada, Romania, the Soviet Union, Persia, and India.
Winkler Koch also worked on similar projects throughout the United States including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wyoming, Illinois, and Ohio.
Winkler Koch's contract with foreign oil was signed on September 8, 1933, and the refinery became operational March 23, 1935.
That signing was nearly six years before Germany invaded Poland.
Meanwhile, during the same period, many iconic U.S. companies were doing business in Germany, including Coca-Cola, General Motors, Ford, and IBM, who tracked the Jews on their punch card system.
IBM tracked the Jews on their punch card system.
Look it up.
While this was Winkler Koch's one and only project in Germany, some of those companies continued to do business in Germany throughout World War II. Simply put, this cracking unit was just one element in the composition of a single refinery.
To state that Fred Koch was hired to build the third largest refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler's war machine, is an outrageous assertion.
To cherry-pick one project among hundreds during this time frame and then use it out of context in order to further an agenda-driven storyline is grossly inaccurate.
I've not been able to fact check this, but I would say it's probably true.
Well, democracy now doesn't care about that.
They hate the Koch brothers because the Koch brothers are corrupting American politics.
Koch brothers!
You can tell by Bernie Sanders has and Donald Trump.
Goldman Sachs has got nothing to do with corruption.
No.
Jeez.
They're scot-free.
I don't know what this...
You know, people, turn off your television.
Really?
Turn off your television.
We've got a lot of stuff we're going to have to push to Sunday, John.
A lot.
Well, let's see.
What do we got?
Well, we've got the drone.
I do want to play one thing as a public service, because we always have a public service on the show.
Okay, as long as you don't say later to me we went too long, okay?
You know what I'm going to say, right?
See?
I'm going to say it.
But we have to get this out of the way.
This is the IRS scammers.
Apparently the IRS, some scammers, I think they're out of India because they have some clips of these guys talking.
And this one guy is so Indian.
He's got this Indian accent and he says, you're going to be sent to the jail.
And he's supposed to be an IRS guy.
And this is a story I think everyone should be aware of because I guess everyone's getting called.
I'd love to get a call from these guys.
Next tonight here, we're getting answers amid the new warning just as tax season begins.
The phone calls demanding you pay back taxes you don't even owe.
Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
Listen to this call.
Before there is an arrest warrant, I want you or your attorney to give us a call back.
From someone claiming to be an IRS agent telling you to pay up or else.
The next hour, they'll be at a bar step to hang up you and put you behind the bar.
Tonight, the government launching a new campaign warning you to be on high alert for scammers as tax season begins.
Melissa Dagan says she was conned out of more than $15,000.
I was just like, well, what can I do to fix this?
There's no way I can be arrested.
5,000 victims losing more than $26 million.
The number of these calls tripling in the last year to nearly 1 million.
Even the Treasury Department's top investigator received a call.
And at the end, I had the joy of telling them their day is coming.
You called the wrong guy?
You called the wrong guy.
So how do you know the call is fake?
It's not the IRS if.
If somebody tells you if you don't pay money immediately that you're going to be arrested.
The real IRS never threatens.
And if they need to reach you, they always send a letter first.
And David, these scammers are changing their game as people become more aware.
But what hasn't changed?
These threatening calls.
If you receive one, report it.
But first, just hang up.
David.
Great advice, Mary.
Thank you.
That's a good one, though.
That's a pretty good scam.
$26 million?
As scams go, I think it's a topper.
That's a top...
That's a grade A scam.
Meanwhile, we just work for a living.
Yeah.
We do our part of not scamming people or informing them of horrible scams they can be suckered by.
We don't do it that often.
Well, not just that, but we're...
We're of the opinion...
That we keep people healthy.
I think so.
We're in dire, dire straits now.
We just call each other Hitler all the time.
I love the Hitler thing.
Hey Adolf, good talking to you.
I like the way they also add the little touch on the democracy now, that the refinery was personally approved by Hitler, as though he was, like, part of the project.
What is this refinery?
Very good!
You Koch brothers!
We turn juice into oil!
In 1933, Hitler was a small-time operator at that point.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Oh, well.
That's your news, people.
All we do is deconstruct it for you.
Thank you for your courage and passion, John, in the morning and coming to you from the skyscraper in downtown Austin known as the Crackpot Condo.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
Eight stories.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
Adios, mofos.
After about five minutes, I started feeling a burning in my chest.
And it was just me sucking in soot and small.
Sucking in, tucking in, tucking in soot.
Sucking in, tucking in, tucking in soot.
And small.
The fact of the matter is 99.5% of scientists and experts see the oceans rise.
More extreme weather events, more drought, more flooding, bigger hurricanes, typhoons.
And you might not.
That's the dream each of us has for ourselves and our families.
Clucking in, clucking in, clucking in, soot.
Clucking in, clucking in, clucking in, soot.
Burning it, my job.
Truckin' in, truckin' in, truckin' in, sir.
And small.
Trucking in, trucking in, trucking in, sir.
And you say.
And you say.
And you wait.
There's something too, right?
If what you say is true, right, if this would be a huge risk, right, and that's clear to you, right, and here's this person who it's, you know, frankly, in terms of the spectrum of American politics would be something quite different.
If Hillary Clinton can't beat that person in the primary, well, then she's not a very good political candidate anyway, right?
I mean, from a pure electability standpoint, like, in some ways it sort of should cash out that way whether Jonathan Chait nudges it that way or not, right?
Everyone's crazy about a dude named Ben.
It's something.
But the fact of the matter is most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on.
No, no, no, no, no.
When I first started college, when I went running, after five minutes, I started feeling a burning in my chest.
And it was just me sucking in soot and smog.
The smog was so bad, it was like, you might die.
Barack is an emissary of the devil, but you know that he's black, and that's all you want to know.
I said this is blatant racism.
It is destroying the dream.
It is anti-Dr.
King.
You African, you Jesse Jackson.
You process head and cow shopping.
You are wicked!
You are cursed!
Yeah, yeah.
Oh Lord, have mercy.
Can I not suggest that actually this is about buffoonery, and ultimately buffoonery should not be met with the blunt instrument of a band, but with the classic British response of ridicule.
Can this bitch run the country?
You might die.
Sucking in soot.
You might die.
Sucking in soot.
Adios, mofo.
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