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	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, April 9th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode Niner 1 Niner.
	This is no agenda.
	Watching closely for the wagging of the dog so you don't have to.
	And broadcasting live from the darkest corners on the internet here in the capital of the drone, Star State, downtown Austin, Teos.
	Here in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I think we need a good bombing, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's interesting you say that.
	I had it written down in my notes for Thursday's show, the last show.
	Actually, I've had it written down for a couple shows.
	It's about time we get two things.
	Terrorist attack and some new hype-y tech gadget.
	Or tech thingy.
	And I was right about both.
	What's the hype-y tech thing?
	We'll get to it in tech news, maybe, if we get to it.
	Okay.
	But last night, no, Friday night, I was able to introduce Tina the Keeper to a no-agenda favorite, which we've talked about, and I'm sure many people still have not seen it.
	You need to see this movie, and I was happy I saw it again, because I had no idea how many people were in this that are now super, superstars.
	Okay.
	And that is Wag the Dog.
	Oh, yeah.
	Great movie.
	And so it's Robert De Niro.
	He's a gov fed, and he has to, because the president's up for re-election, he has some sex scandal with a 13-year-old, some crazy stuff like that.
	Yeah, he's a spook.
	Yeah.
	And then he goes to see Dustin Hoffman, the crazy producer, which, by the way, is pretty much exactly the way crazy producers are sometimes, in those big houses running around and not giving a crap.
	I think so.
	And Tina, at first she said, oh, this is like how you and John always talk on the show.
	I said, yes.
	Exactly.
	And as we were watching this, she says, wait a minute.
	Because this is also, this movie was produced by Robert De Niro, by Tribeca Films.
	And what's the date on this movie, just so we can get that straight?
	1997.
	20 years old this movie is.
	20 years old.
	And already everything, and they were still using blue screen.
	For chroma key effects.
	Before green screen became the norm.
	So it gives you any idea.
	But what Tina said, wait a minute.
	So De Niro produced this movie.
	He stars in this movie.
	He clearly understands the idea of propaganda being done through Hollywood.
	Otherwise, you don't make this movie.
	Exactly.
	But yet, a year ago, or less than a year ago, this was the video that De Niro released.
	I mean, he's so blatantly stupid.
	He's a punk.
	He's a dog.
	He's a pig.
	He's a con.
	A bullshit artist.
	A mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Doesn't do his homework.
	Doesn't care.
	Thinks he's gaming society.
	Doesn't pay his taxes.
	He's an idiot.
	Colin Powell said it best.
	He's a national disaster.
	He's an embarrassment to this country.
	It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point.
	That this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has.
	He talks how he wants to punch people in the face.
	Well, I'd like to punch him in the face.
	This is somebody that we want for president?
	I don't think so.
	What I care about is the direction of this country.
	And what I'm very, very worried about is that it might go in the wrong direction with someone like Donald Trump.
	Now, when I listen to this again, the two things I notice.
	One is, it is exactly the same cadence and timbre of voice that he used when he was the government spook in the movie.
	Now, maybe he does that all the time?
	No, not really.
	But this is very, very similar.
	So either A, he's a moron and forgot all about Wag the Dog, or...
	And this was kind of my favorite part of Wag the Dog, not so much the video trickery, but when they were calling up during the press, you know, the White House spokesholders doing the daily press briefing, And they call him up and say, okay, have him say this.
	And the guy, you know, touches his earpiece briefly, you know, like the sweaty Sean version.
	And he says whatever they have to say.
	And then, you know, De Niro launches this.
	He explains to the PR department.
	He says, you know, the way you got to do it is you got to say, look, I don't, this has nothing to do with the B3 bomber project.
	Nothing at all.
	And of course, there is no B3 bomber project.
	So it's launching these false, launching the memes.
	And maybe that's what he intended to do here.
	That he was actually in that role trying to do a little bit of Wag the Dog.
	I have no idea what he was up to when he did that.
	I think it's still up for interpretation.
	But I like your thought that he's in the same cadence.
	Yeah.
	Because when he's on talk shows or any place, he doesn't talk with that That is definitely a scripted message that he's acting.
	Yes.
	For some reason.
	Why was he doing it?
	And it was extreme.
	It was not like, you know, Rosie O'Donnell or even Joy Behar, these people just going off on Trump.
	It was a long-winded, very scripted message.
	It seems to me it had something good.
	There was something about it.
	It was very unusual.
	Well, let us do...
	Let's get people up to speed.
	I want to do a side-by-side of Rosie O'Donnell and De Niro, but maybe that's too much for this early in the show.
	Yeah, it might be.
	So, on the show day, of course, on Thursday.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Right after the show, they decided to send 60 missiles.
	One landed in the drink right off the boat, so they kept saying 59.
	59.
	I've made an executive decision on the show, John.
	It seems to work so well for all of the news media.
	I think, since we don't have pictures, but I think we should just during the show, just from time to time, have footage of cruise missiles launching.
	Everyone seems to be doing that these days.
	It's all the same B-roll.
	I know.
	We have the same...
	Sounds good.
	They sound pretty nice.
	By the way, when you're on that topic, I do have, since you're collecting these things, I have the ISO of the Fox.
	I've noticed this because you were so excited about that crazy RT interlude noise.
	I have the Fox.
	This is the Fox.
	I have it here.
	Yeah, I got it.
	I got it here.
	This is interesting because I didn't realize until I was listening.
	They add a little extra element to their swoosh.
	Ooh.
	A gong.
	Yes!
	It's a bell.
	It's a down, it's an up, and then a gong.
	Nice.
	Okay, here's RT. You're stepping on it with your missile launch.
	I'm not doing anything.
	That's in your clip.
	I'm not touching it.
	The missile launch is in the clip?
	Listen again.
	That's interesting.
	This is my missile launch.
	It's the same missile launch, by the way.
	It is.
	So they're incorporating them.
	I'm telling you, this was a swoosh.
	This was the beginning of the show with the fox thing and the thing flying around, and then they come into the show.
	They weren't showing a missile launch, but now that you play these back-to-back, it's got a missile launch in it.
	We have our own.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me try this one for our own little sweeper effect.
	Nice.
	Well, the missile launch is very effective.
	I like it in the upper quarter of the screen.
	This is what people are typically doing now, the control rooms.
	They're putting it right-hand, upper corner.
	Just to see the spiraling smoke every single time.
	Just everywhere.
	It just doesn't stop.
	So they sent these missiles over to blow up an airbase, and of course they didn't blow up anything.
	And a couple old jets and a cafeteria.
	In fact, the best rundown of what happened was...
	Well, first, before we go to that...
	I didn't hear about the cafeteria.
	Yeah.
	Now I'm angry.
	They blew up the caf.
	Yeah.
	They blew up the caf?
	Oh, no.
	First of all, let's listen to Tillerson, because he was all jacked up about this.
	And this is Tillerson gung-ho giving us the rundown.
	For everyone to recognize a couple of things on the Syrian attack.
	First, it was an overwhelming success.
	I think the performance of our military and the expertise...
	And the power of what the U.S. military is able to execute on a fairly short planning window was extraordinary.
	And I think all Americans, and indeed I think all of our allies in the free world, should take great comfort in what occurred with that strike last night.
	And Americans should be very proud of their men and women in uniform.
	It was the Navy that sent these things over.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	He's getting on my nerves, this guy.
	Tillerson?
	The problem I'm having with him in so far as my psychic relationship is he is reminding me more and more and more of a Jonathan Winters character.
	Jonathan Winters used to, when he did his...
	The thousand-year-old man.
	Was that Jonathan Winters?
	No, no, no.
	That's Mel Brooks.
	Jonathan Winters did the first family with the Kennedys, didn't he?
	No, no, no.
	Who was that?
	That was Von Meter.
	Oh, God.
	That sucks.
	Jonathan Winters, who was one of the first stand-up concerts that did record albums.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but Tillerson, he is an a-hole he is an a-hole boss.
	That's where he comes from.
	He's an a-hole boss.
	So I can't watch Tillerson without thinking of Jonathan Winters up there doing some shtick.
	Well, there's not a lot of people who have that specific problem anymore.
	Well, anyone older than...
	Well, you're probably right.
	Yep, yep.
	End of an era.
	End of the road.
	So Tillerson was called out because within 24 hours, we know it from the news, he...
	The planes were taking off and landing again.
	Yeah.
	And so they didn't do crap.
	Because they didn't hit the runway.
	They didn't hit the runway.
	So I was baffled by this.
	I was wondering how they were going to react.
	So somebody at the secret, the no-camera press conference, which I think is going to be standard.
	I don't know why, because I think of the switch.
	I know why.
	Because I've bitched long enough about the damn clicking.
	So they said, all right, no more cameras.
	Thank you.
	No, I know why.
	I just thought of it.
	Oh.
	Saturday Night Live.
	Oh, so right.
	So right.
	You nailed it.
	Yeah, Saturday Night Live.
	They don't like it.
	So what's-her-name's out of a job?
	So we're not going to see sweaty, Sean.
	It's going to be this.
	So some reporter asked him about the runway.
	What happened?
	You guys sent 60 missiles over, and it turns out, if you listen to all the reports, only 24 of them made it.
	Oh, I didn't hear it.
	I didn't know that part.
	Only 24?
	Wait a minute.
	These things cost a million bucks a pop?
	Yeah.
	And a couple of them didn't make it?
	One fell off the boat.
	Hey, man!
	Whoa!
	What'd you do, man?
	That's why they were 59.
	Oh, they had 60, but one fell off the boat?
	No, apparently as it took off, it never ignited and just fell into the drink.
	Merica, baby!
	Merica.
	So, believe me, I got some really funny stuff here.
	But here's Tillerson's answer.
	Somebody asked him the question.
	Listen to this bogus answer.
	About the runway?
	Yeah.
	Secretary Tillerson, you talked about the great success.
	The AFP is reporting that the runway is still operational and is actually being used.
	Is that accurate?
	And can you comment on whether that was your intent and if that was a damper on the success of the operation?
	The runways were not a target.
	Due to the nature of the construction of those runways, our military...
	Our estimate was that we could not do serious damage to the runways.
	They are very thick and are constructed in a way that the ordnance that were used, the damage would have been easily repaired in a matter of hours.
	So the targeting was selected very deliberately to render the airbase essentially Bullshit!
	Wow.
	I thought you'd get a kick out of that if you hadn't heard it.
	You know, when they closed, what was the airport in Chicago, the one that was right off?
	Midway.
	Midway.
	They closed that.
	It's not really closed, it's open again.
	Right, but when they closed it, the way they did it, it was all a political thing.
	But there were people who had aircraft at that airfield.
	Who just hadn't left yet.
	They closed it.
	They took two diggers and they dug huge grooves across the tarmac.
	And that was it.
	That was not going to be repaired anytime soon.
	It doesn't go that couple hours.
	Asphalt?
	Really?
	A couple hours?
	No.
	Well, maybe it was cement.
	No, I've seen the pictures.
	Six feet of cement.
	The pictures that I've seen look to be pure tarmac, asphalt.
	The thing is, and this is kind of why I started with the whole wag the dog thing, we have seen nothing.
	We have seen only speculation.
	We've seen very odd things going on.
	People being called the white helmets who aren't wearing white helmets, who are saving people without any type of protective gear from sarin gas, which means you would be in trouble in about 15-20 minutes, if not less.
	No hazmat suits.
	We didn't, we didn't, you know, we had these great videos going back to the smart bomb going right into the smokestack, yet we have nothing from this fabulous offensive.
	Why not?
	Mirka!
	Well, no, we didn't, we, all we got was some Syrian footage, which...
	And that, this is what we got.
	We got a lot of noise.
	Yeah.
	And I, again, let's get back to the runway thing.
	Are you crazy?
	Are you crazy?
	A thousand-pound bomb, a couple thousand-pound bombs, I don't care how thick these runways are.
	Well, what I understand from the military sources, many of these hellfires had no warhead at all.
	These were tomahawks.
	Tomahawks, I'm sorry.
	Had no warhead, and many of them had very small loads.
	So what we know for sure is this was not meant to do anything but message.
	Well, that's an interesting theory.
	Oh, I have a whole theory on it.
	Of course I do.
	I'm looking forward to it, but let's listen to it.
	First, don't you think we should get the official report from the CIA outlet?
	The CIA broadcasting system, yes.
	And we have the official report, which we have to assume is all government approved.
	Yes.
	And this will be...
	Government written, you mean.
	Yes.
	Government written.
	Government drafted, yes.
	And here are the three...
	This is a three-parter, and this is a CBS official rundown one.
	David Martin tells us about the target.
	U.S. officials estimate 20 Russian-made aircraft belonging to the Syrian Air Force were reduced to scrap metal.
	Satellite photos show 59 cruise missiles, each with a 1,000-pound warhead, hit ammo dumps, storage sites, and radars spread out around the 10,000-foot runway.
	Commodore Tate Westbrook commanded the small Navy task force that launched the missiles.
	These were targets specifically associated with to deliver chemical weapons specifically attributed to the recent attack.
	Westbrook told CBS News he first was alerted for the mission on Tuesday, the same day a Syrian jet was tracked taking off from the airfield and dropping a bomb loaded with nerve gas on a roadway, where it left a small crater and a cloud of death.
	You know, and sadly, we have none of that video.
	Everything is armed with video these days in the military.
	Everything.
	But we're not being shown any of that cool.
	It would be cool.
	Show me the plane.
	You're tracking the plane.
	Show me.
	At the time, the destroyers Porter and Ross were some 1,500 miles away.
	I turned both ships around, and both ships maintained maximum speed to get in position all the way across the Mediterranean.
	By the time President Trump approved the strike at 4.30 Thursday afternoon, the Porter and Ross were southwest of Cyprus, well within the 1,000-mile range of their cruise missiles.
	I had to stop it here because a couple of things stood out like a sore thumb.
	One, these guys, by the way, I'd love to see these destroyers going at full speed.
	They can go at a pretty fast clip, actually.
	Yes, I bet you that's frightening to see those things go by.
	I think they have turbine engines, I think.
	Yeah, something.
	They're fast.
	I think they can do like 40 knots.
	What was it that they had two names, Roger and whatever?
	It should, of course, be the destroyers, Curry and Dvorak, are on their way to the Mediterranean.
	So they turned the boats around, ships around on Tuesday.
	So this thing was underway immediately.
	Trump signed off on it on Thursday, but they were already in position and everything by then.
	So this part of it was, to me, a little sketchy.
	All of it was set up.
	What are you talking about?
	Of course.
	Yeah, well, I was just pointing it out.
	Okay.
	It's like two days before they had this thing ready to go and then Trump had to put his X on something and then boom.
	And all he had to do was say babies.
	Little babies.
	Babies.
	Babies.
	All right, onward.
	Well within the 1,000 mile range of their cruise missiles.
	The command center for the operation alerted the Russians a strike was coming, but was not aimed at them.
	The Russians had helicopters and crews at the airfield and the missiles deliberately avoided those locations.
	At 7.36 Thursday evening, the Porter and Ross began launching 60 missiles.
	One failed and one in the water.
	The Air 69 flew different routes in order to reach the target at the same time.
	This is what it looked like from a distance as shown on Syrian TV. Neither Syrian nor Russian air defenses tried to shoot the missiles down.
	Now, another question comes to mind.
	I'm sorry.
	Just because the reporting was so beautiful everywhere.
	And it's actually created a rift in separate universes.
	Oh, I know.
	Mimi's been going on about her face bag accounts.
	Oh, well, we'll get to it in a minute.
	I want you to finish these three clips.
	We got all this stuff to discuss.
	Yeah, we do.
	We got a lot of stuff to go.
	Yeah, for sure.
	So...
	Oh, yeah.
	What was the point?
	At least that's what he said.
	This is the official account.
	What was the point of sending these things off in all kinds of different directions so they all arrive at exactly the same time?
	Well, it's like water ballet.
	You know.
	What difference does it make at this point?
	I don't know.
	To make it look cool.
	It had to be it.
	Come on.
	What is the footage they released?
	It was like...
	Everyone thought that was cool.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm telling you, Brian Williams going on and on about how beautiful it was.
	Did you get a clip of that?
	I didn't clip it.
	It's incorporated in a Maupan clip from RT. Okay.
	But you want to do this third official one now?
	Yeah, do the third.
	Just wrap it.
	We had no indications of any Russian intent to interfere.
	U.S. intelligence believes the Syrian regime resorted to chemical weapons in a desperate attempt to stop opposition fighters from capturing key terrain.
	It is still investigating whether Russia, the regime's protector, had anything to do with that chemical attack.
	Scott?
	Yeah, so there's so many different angles to this.
	And I have to say, I'm disturbed because I used to be the crackpot, the conspiracy theorist.
	This is what I do.
	And now all of a sudden, everyone's doing it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like, oh, he just did that to distract attention.
	He did it.
	Well, can I play a couple clips here?
	Well, I just want to play the one follow-up clip to this series because just to balance it and then it's all yours.
	All right.
	But I want to play the Russians because we have to get the...
	What did the Russians say about this?
	I find it hard to believe that the Russians moved their helicopters to some little spot and it was avoided.
	I just don't...
	You don't buy one?
	They were...
	I'm not buying the whole thing, to be honest about it.
	No, of course not.
	But we do have...
	This one could get it out of the way, which is what the Russians say about the damage to the airbase.
	Okay.
	You know, judging by the damage that has been done to the airbase, and judging by what the Russian Ministry of Defense has said, the Syrians have said...
	Not all of those cruise missiles made it to their target.
	Apparently, according to one version, is that many of them may have flown into mountains.
	The Tomahawk cruise missile has had historically a problem in Yugoslavia, a huge problem where the missiles fly very low to avoid detection, to avoid being shot down.
	And they basically hug the ground.
	And when they come up against the cliff face, they often get confused, don't know what to do.
	What?
	We're going to have self-driving cars and we can't have a missile say, oh, cliff face, pull up, pull up?
	I guess apparently can't pull up fast enough.
	They don't have a lot of control mechanisms on those things except a rocket.
	Well, for that kind of money, I think we should.
	A million dollars?
	You'd think they would?
	...get confused, don't know what to do.
	And the thinking here is that because their flight path took them over mountains in Lebanon, many may have flown into cliff sides.
	That's one version.
	Another version is that their tracking may have been confused.
	Some of them may have been shot down, but, you know, if the Russians were complicit in this, if they touched anything, they haven't said so, and I don't think we'll find out any time soon.
	But the missiles themselves, the ones that actually impacted the base, the ones that actually arrived at the destination, The effects were lackluster.
	The 60 cruise missiles, or 59 cruise missiles, destroyed six MiG-23 jets.
	These are archaic, almost 50 years old.
	You could actually buy them in the United States privately for about $100,000 each.
	Apparently the ones that were destroyed were mostly in for maintenance.
	They also destroyed a radar station, a warehouse, a training block.
	And the local cafeteria as well.
	That apparently took a hit.
	However, the jets, the other jets that were there, the functional operational jets, the more modern ones, apparently they were, although they were out in the open, they were untouched.
	The runway itself, the most critical part of any airbase, largely untouched.
	And you don't have to be a military expert here.
	All the footage coming out of the base, it's evident, you know, that it hadn't sustained major damage.
	No.
	Alright.
	I'm still very angry about the cafeteria because it was Sloppy Joe Day and they had to go and bomb it.
	Bastards.
	From the war room, these missiles that were used are from the 80s and a possible reason for them being shot off is to get rid of them so we can load up some new stuff.
	There apparently are 3,100 of these things, these old tomahawks, and this has only gotten rid of 60 of them, so we've got a lot left.
	Oh, well, good.
	I'd say North Korea, be on the lookout.
	All right, now, I noticed a number of things, and I don't want to get to my conclusion just yet, but I want to identify a meme that, as far as I know, started on RT, which is why it was interesting where I heard it next.
	But this, I think, will see cropping up more and more.
	So by the U.S. bombing the Syrian government and Syrian government forces at this point, they are by default helping ISIS and al-Qaeda.
	Yesterday, after the Trump administration bombed that air base, what you had afterwards was almost immediately ISIS capitalized on that attack and launched offensive operations against the Syrian army around Homs.
	So that's one of the most stunning aspects of this is that the U.S. is essentially, by doing this, acting as the air cover for ISIS.
	All right.
	I thought that was an interesting statement from this girl.
	I don't remember who she is.
	What was she on?
	RT. RT. Oh, okay, she's RT. But she could have easily been CIA, for all I know.
	Could have easily sounded like she's CNN, too.
	I mean, she's just...
	Well, exactly.
	So now we go to CNN, the same meme, fine-tuned by our anti-constitutional douchebag, Zareed Fakaria, or Fareed Zakaria.
	Whichever one you prefer.
	There is a civil war in Iraq between Assad essentially and ISIS and a bunch of other jihadis.
	Are we now saying we're against Assad?
	Do we want to strengthen ISIS? Do we want the Assad regime to fall?
	If so, are we willing to commit ourselves to that goal?
	If not, we've just thrown bombs in the middle of one of the most complex civil wars in the country, and now we're going to step back and say, well, that's it, we're done.
	And the reason it's hard to answer many of the questions that you're asking is because this is such a young presidency, and we really don't know what the foreign policy is, especially when it comes to Syria.
	There is a danger, Ben Wiedemann mentioned it on Anderson, there's a danger that we have effectively acted as ISIS's air force, because anything that weakens Assad in a strategic sense...
	I think this is a meme.
	I think we're going to hear this a lot.
	We are now ISIS's Air Force.
	I want to hear it a couple more times first.
	Yeah.
	No, I think it's on the way.
	Now, as you already mentioned...
	I like it, by the way.
	Thank you.
	And I think there's some truth to it.
	And I think if you want to take the conspiracy all the way to...
	And maybe you're going to go in this direction.
	Oh, I would think so.
	To the extreme, which is that we want...
	A caliphate.
	We want...
	No, no, that's not...
	Okay, well that's what I think you can do.
	You can do that.
	You can make that argument.
	You can make it.
	I first want to talk about women.
	I noticed immediately that this act had a much more severe or created a much more severe response in women than men.
	Did you notice any?
	Well, you don't get out much, but did you notice anything in your own personal life?
	Get out?
	Did you notice anything?
	Did you notice women?
	Well, you mean when I go to the Monterey Foods or Berkeley Bowl, the shop, did I notice a bunch of women hand-wringing and talking?
	No.
	No, I didn't.
	I noticed the coverage on the television had a lot of women analysts.
	I know Parrage was out there, you know, plugging for the thing.
	I know that my wife noticed that Face Bag has gone nuts.
	What did she say about women on the face bag?
	She says it's like they're short-circuited.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Because they didn't know which way to go.
	Either it was, oh, great, because Assad is evil.
	But wait, he's ISIS's Air Force?
	So now we're terrorists?
	Wait, but Russia?
	Wait, but you're right.
	It was a complete short circuit.
	Two morning shows to watch.
	The first one from Australia.
	Carrie Bickmore is one of the hosts on this morning show.
	Here's how she responded.
	Sorry, I know I was going to start this conversation, but I just can't see those images.
	I find them incredibly distressing and I know I'm not alone.
	I saw our audience there just, you know, covering their faces.
	But the thing is that our tears, us feeling sad, it ain't going to do anything.
	And I know that.
	I know sitting here in safe Australia, us feeling sad for these people doesn't change anything.
	What, you know, what can Trump do?
	Will he change his mind?
	Will he act?
	Will he?
	Or is this just something that we're going to look back on and...
	Hold on a second.
	She's breaking down.
	Duh.
	I'd like to know, where is this again?
	This is an Australian morning show?
	Yes.
	Who was it?
	Carrie Bickmore.
	Where'd you get this clip?
	From Australia.
	Wow.
	This is a clip of the day.
	You might as well give it that because I can't believe this is so unprofessional.
	Holy crap.
	It's dynamite.
	I didn't expect that.
	Clip of the day.
	Well, I'm just saying because it's just like...
	It's almost like this is part of the whole thing.
	This is Michael Dvorin who sent me that from Australia.
	He said...
	Would love to know what you think of this possible show clip, a taste of Australian media.
	Michael, I share this award with you, and I want to thank God, our creator, for giving us Clip of the Day.
	I did not expect it at all.
	I really didn't.
	I didn't have a speech prepared.
	Yeah.
	Now, let's go to...
	That was the end of the clip?
	More or less, yeah.
	Now I want to go to an American TV show with women.
	Oh, what could that be?
	Hmm.
	Oh yes, The View.
	When President Obama declared a red line against Syria and said if these chemical weapons, if these chemicals...
	You just have to listen to the whole thing because they're talking over each other.
	Remember, there's...
	No, there's a horrible show.
	They're out of control.
	You can't...
	There's a Republican woman on the panel.
	There's, well, of course, Behar, who's the screecher, and Goldberg.
	I don't think, I don't remember if she's in this clip, but they're arguing, and they just don't know what to do.
	When President Obama declared a red line against Syria and said, if these chemical...
	If these chemical attacks continue, that's it.
	We're done.
	We're getting involved.
	And we did nothing.
	And we know now that there have been several of these attacks since then.
	Well, he went to Congress to get permission to do it.
	Yeah, but when you're the commander-in-chief and you put that out there and you say there's a red line, this is our red line, the buck stops with you.
	You're not supposed to be able to do it without Congress.
	That's not true.
	It's not a declaration of war.
	It is true.
	I love this because here are five women.
	None of them actually have anything right about the War Powers Act, Declaration of War, the authorization of use of military force.
	And they're reintroducing the stale meme that apparently only us two like to harp on, which is that that that gas attack that took place that involved the red line crossing was bogus, bogus, bogus.
	If he had not gone to Congress, President Obama, they would have impeached him.
	That's not true.
	Yeah, like they did when, I don't know, when he bombed Libya.
	Yeah, they would have impeached him if he did that.
	Yeah, no.
	What happened is we didn't show any video, so it didn't happen.
	I thought they had 48 hours, according to...
	48 hours.
	This is great.
	Out of her ass, yes.
	After making the decision, and they could stay there for 60 days.
	It would be 90 days if you want to be technical, but you're talking about two different things.
	Without congressional approval.
	Can I just say this, please?
	Can I clear this up about the law?
	Because the bottom line is, if you look at the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
	Oh, someone has read something.
	A headline, at least.
	Resolution of 1973.
	It made it very clear that a president cannot unilaterally act like this without Congress.
	And there are good reasons for that.
	In 2001, after 9-11, certainly it was broadened.
	Those powers were broadened.
	You think?
	Moron!
	Yes!
	Of course it was broadened, and that's when the AUMF was put in place.
	As long as it combats terrorism in our national interest, the president can do whatever he wants.
	And President Obama killed people every Tuesday.
	Stop.
	Only to the extent that the national interest, and that basically there would be a direct attack on the United States.
	President Trump did not have the authority to do this without...
	I actually do think this was a bold move.
	And I don't think the timing that he was meeting with the Chinese president was also.
	He wants to show might in the face of North Korea.
	South Korea.
	North Korea.
	I love that!
	Doesn't even know which Korea is the shitty one.
	North Korea.
	South Korea?
	What?
	He wants to show might in the face of North Korea.
	South Korea.
	North Korea.
	Back him for it.
	No, she looks at the other girl, South Korea?
	Was it South Korea?
	Am I fucked up?
	Is it South Korea?
	North Korea?
	Korea?
	I don't know.
	Where the little guy is.
	He wants to show the might of what he can do in regards to that.
	Maybe she meant Crimea instead of Korea.
	Maybe it was a Pelosi thing.
	I don't know.
	He showed a decisive step when the Chinese president is here.
	I think that was a good step.
	I think it showed someone that was willing to unilaterally act without Congress.
	And we've got to be very careful with that because what is his plan?
	What is his plan for North Crimea?
	We have to be careful.
	The war I'm coming up with is something I think might be worth the title.
	Project Runway.
	That's pretty funny.
	Project Syrian Runway.
	Yeah.
	No, Project Runway Syria.
	That's what it would be.
	Project Runway Syria.
	Okay, let's look at a couple more heads exploding.
	On CNN, Republican Representative Thomas Massey showed up.
	It's hard to know exactly what's happening in Syria right now.
	I'd like to know specifically how that release of chemical gas, if it did occur, and it looks like it did, how that occurred.
	Because, frankly, I don't think Assad would have done that.
	It does not serve his interests.
	It would tend to draw us into that civil war even further.
	Who is it?
	Who do you think is behind it?
	Her head is going, what?
	And the control room is definitely going, what is he talking about?
	Don't let him run too long.
	They're very concerned about this guest.
	Who do you think is behind it?
	You know, you've got a war going on over there.
	Supposedly, that airstrike was on an ammo dump, and so I don't know if it was released because there was gas stored in the ammo dump or not.
	That's plausible.
	I'm not saying that's what I think happened, but I think...
	You're more inclined to believe the position of what Bashar al-Assad is saying and what the Russians are saying right now than more inclined to agree with, believe what even your colleagues here in the United States believe is truth, that this is Assad?
	We're going to cut this guy pretty soon.
	Don't give him too much leeway, okay?
	What human rights observers over there say is Assad?
	I don't think it would have served Assad's purposes to do a chemical attack on his people.
	So, you know, it's hard for me to understand why he would do that if he did.
	All right.
	Congressman Tom Massey, thanks for your time.
	Get off my air.
	You know, somebody pointed out to me that sarin gas Right.
	Right.
	or been hit with it.
	Right, right.
	Causes, now one of our experts out there, there might be a military guy out there that contradict this, but my understanding is it causes enormous amount of vomiting.
	Yeah, foaming, vomiting at the mouth.
	A lot of vomiting.
	Vomiting, throwing up.
	There was no evidence of that.
	No evidence of that.
	There's one video where they stack the children up nicely.
	Syrian children stack well, I have to say.
	They're stackable.
	Yeah, they're stackable.
	Now in stackable format.
	And yet one kid opens her eyes.
	The camera pans away.
	Kid opens her eyes.
	Stacked on a pile of dead children, we think.
	This is very, very annoying.
	Yes, this stuff is very annoying.
	Now, Bill Maher had his show, and...
	Ah, I'm glad you saw it, because I knew there'd be something in there.
	Yeah, just pick up a little piece.
	Had an ex-CIA guy on, another spook who I'd never seen before, which leads me to believe that Bill Maher is just so in bed with the spooks.
	It's crazy.
	Every week he's got a different ex-CIA guy on.
	Then he had on Ted Lieu, the Democrat from California, and Anna Navarro.
	And Anna Navarro, if you recall, she's the Hispanic American lady who hates Trump.
	She was always on CNN talking about hates him, hates his grab-the-pussy thing.
	We've had many clips of her.
	You'll recognize her voice.
	She actually agrees with Trump like hell had to freeze over in this clip.
	Okay, let's talk about what everybody's talking about.
	Trump fired off some missiles.
	Everyone seems to be very jazzed about this on TV in the last 24 hours.
	Let me add some facts to it.
	First of all, I'd like to mention that he's really sliding on the fact that on Monday, Of this week, the Trump administration told Assad, you know what?
	We don't really care what you do, whether you stay, whether you go.
	So maybe that emboldened him to do this on Wednesday, Ted?
	Well, it's not that complicated.
	Assad...
	Thanks, Ted.
	What Assad did was horrific with the use of chemical weapons.
	Yes.
	But the Constitution does not allow the President of the United States to engage in unilateral acts of war without congressional approval.
	Congress never authorized him...
	And let's not forget, Obama begged him to do it.
	When they say Obama did nothing about the chemical weapons, Obama did something.
	He went to Congress.
	This is a great revisionist history.
	I really like what he's doing here.
	Obama drew the red line.
	The red line was crossed.
	Then he went hummina, hummina, hummina because he found out From the laboratory in Gitmo Nation, GMT, that the chemical weapons used, this is a 2013 red line attack, that they had the signature of Turkish military, Turkish chemical weapons.
	And certainly not anything the Syrians had had or Assad had had.
	So he stopped.
	Well, he stopped, but don't leave out Dempsey.
	What was Dempsey again?
	This is the point where Dempsey put his foot down and said, no, you're not doing anything until we get all these results back and all the rest of it.
	Dempsey showed up in the conversation at this moment.
	He's the one who apparently put the kibosh on bombing Damascus.
	Did we have a clip of that?
	We had some...
	Let me see what this is.
	Let me see what this is.
	I haven't seen any intel to suggest that AQ was responsible for those attacks.
	Although we do know that there have been extremist elements that are trying to make inroads in Syria.
	That is to be distinct from the opposition.
	I'm not tying those together.
	I don't know if that was a name or not related.
	Right.
	But then President Obama...
	I remember clearly, we said, oh, this is bull crap, so now he's going to go, oh, Congress, will you please let me do this?
	It was a smart move.
	It was a genius move.
	I thought it was a savvy move.
	And now they're giving him crap for doing it.
	Yeah, of course.
	Let's continue.
	Obama did something.
	He went to Congress.
	And he said, give me the authorization.
	And they went like...
	So Obama tried to follow the Constitution.
	What Trump did yesterday was illegal.
	You can't just fire cruise missiles into a country that has not attacked the U.S. without congressional authorization.
	Yeah, you can.
	I hate to say it, but yes, you can.
	We did that with Libya.
	We've done that with many countries.
	We have not had a congressional declaration of war since World War II. Korean War, Vietnam War.
	Yugoslavia.
	Yeah, thank you.
	All under the same exact same pretense and legalities, which I agree.
	I agree.
	It's bullcrap, but there you go.
	I think it's a bewildering situation in every which way.
	That Donald Trump changed...
	You recognize her?
	Oh, God, yeah.
	She's horrible.
	But listen...
	...situation in every which way.
	That Donald Trump changed his position should not be bewildering.
	The man has had more positions in the Kana Sutra on just about every way.
	Oh, oh, oh!
	Oh, she met a phony!
	...to wake up today and hear folks like a John McCain, like a Lindsey Graham, like an Evan McMullin, like an Anna Navarro, actually be in agreement with what he did.
	It's even more...
	Notice she puts herself in that list.
	She puts Anna Navarro in the list.
	Yeah, she did.
	She dropped her own name in the list.
	Along with some senators.
	That's pretty cool.
	She's talking about herself in the third person.
	That's pretty brazen.
	I love it.
	John McCain, like a Lindsey Graham, like an Evan McMullin, like an Anna Navarro...
	Yeah, that's a psychotic thing, isn't it?
	There's got to be something psychotic.
	That's totally psycho to do that.
	Or maybe she's just reading this.
	Yeah, it's like everyone's in agreement with him.
	Abe Lincoln, George Washington, John Dvorak.
	Actually be in agreement with what he did.
	It's even more confusing for those that supported him because he said he wasn't going to do it.
	Now, look.
	When he was campaigning, I thought he was a racist, misogynist, lying pig.
	You go, girl!
	He is a racist, misogynist, lying pig.
	He's a pig!
	He's a pig!
	At what point does the name-calling go too far?
	I mean, when you use technical terms like misogynist, I think you can say a liar, okay?
	I think there's a more technical term.
	But pig, now you're just going down to street level, girl.
	You know?
	What is a technical term for a pig?
	A swine.
	No, no, more technical.
	I'm looking for a technocratic word.
	Hog.
	A hog.
	He's a hog.
	This misogynist lying pig.
	But he's also my commander-in-chief.
	Oh.
	And he just violated the Constitution.
	I don't think so.
	We can argue about that, and we are a deeply divided country over that, but for too long we've been looking the other way in the face of genocide.
	See, she's all in, and she hates Trump.
	So we have a rift inside the rift.
	There's dynamite.
	This is a great time to be alive.
	We get to watch the tearing of the space-time continuum right before our very eyes.
	Not just that we're documenting it, John.
	We are scientific historians here at work.
	It's all in the show notes.
	All we have to do is hit the big button and publish, and we've got our white paper.
	Well, before you go on, can I give you the Maupan Trump rundown, which shows example after example of what you just showed?
	Yeah, I would love to hear that.
	Remember when Donald Trump was running for president and all those bold statements?
	For too long, we've been moving from one reckless intervention to another.
	In Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, this destructive cycle, bad decisions.
	We cannot be the policemen of the world.
	America first!
	America first!
	Well, now Donald Trump has carried out the USA's first direct strike against the Syrian government.
	And in doing so, he's won over the mainstream media, the so-called fake news he despised.
	Overnight retaliation from his Florida estate of passionate President Trump.
	We see these beautiful pictures at night.
	I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen.
	I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.
	What changed?
	Hold on.
	Douchebag.
	What is he thinking?
	Guided by the beauty of our weapons.
	I mean, he's quoting...
	Who did he quote?
	Georgie Scott?
	No, no, no.
	It was a poet that could call her.
	I am tempted to quote...
	Let me listen to it again.
	You had it.
	You nailed it.
	Overnight retaliation from his Florida estate of passionate President Trump.
	We see these beautiful pictures at night.
	I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen.
	I'm guided by the beauty of...
	The great Leonard Cohen.
	Here's the deal.
	You say, I'm tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen.
	And then he quotes him.
	That's not being tempted.
	That's actually doing it.
	That's what douchebags do.
	You get up there in your tweed suit and with your pipe.
	Well, I'm tempted to quote Leonard Cohen.
	It's so beautiful.
	The bombs bursting in air.
	Wait, that was George C. Scott.
	That's what I want to quote.
	And the bombs bursting in air.
	That's Francis Scott Key.
	Yeah, same guy.
	He has a pseudonym.
	It was also Dr.
	Seuss, I think.
	I'm tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen, I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.
	What changed last night?
	I think Donald Trump became President of the United States.
	It's not just the mainstream media.
	Remember his old arch-rival, Crooked Hillary?
	Well, Hillary Clinton was on TV, and she called for a strike against the airbase just hours before it happened.
	Assad had an air force, and that air force is the cause of most of the civilian deaths.
	We should have and still should take out his airfields.
	John McCain and Lindsey Graham, some of his staunchest opponents within the Republican Party, they're now singing his praises.
	I think it's a good beginning.
	It sends a tremendously important signal.
	I'm glad the president did it.
	I want to applaud the president for taking action.
	It was justified.
	It was necessary.
	It was the right move.
	First of all, it was legal.
	With many of Trump's staunchest opponents now on his side, where does that leave his loyal supporters?
	What do they think of his sudden conversion to aggressive military intervention?
	Those who wanted us meddling in the Middle East voted for other candidates.
	I guess Trump wasn't Putin's puppet after all.
	He was just another deep state neocon puppet.
	I'm officially off the Trump train.
	Missiles flying.
	Rubio's happy.
	McCain ecstatic.
	Hillary's on board.
	A complete policy change in 48 hours.
	Why did Donald Trump suddenly make peace with an establishment that he's always raged against?
	With a president capable of such an aggressive U-turn, it may be impossible to predict what comes next.
	Caleb Maupin, RT. Yeah, I'm actually going to predict what comes next.
	But first...
	Because you requested it and I actually went on my own mission and I really watched the President very closely when he announced the Syria bombing, which to me was one of the most over-dramatized Really, it was quite sickening to see him do this.
	And again with the babies and all this crap.
	It was truly insulting to my intelligence.
	I don't know what you felt, but I was like, holy crap, man.
	Can you lay the bull crap on any thicker?
	But I got a Bombard's Body Language review of this speech.
	And I know you like it.
	I do.
	And Bombard...
	It's your beat, too.
	I'm going to let you do it.
	Yeah, and I don't want to do these too often, but this was one that I happened to be looking at it myself, and his body was incredibly still.
	And then when I watched her analysis, you see the nuances, and she, of course, adds some color to that.
	I have to say, she hates Trump.
	She hates Trump with a passion.
	I'd left most of that off.
	At the end, I brought in a little bit, because I did edit this down, obviously.
	But let's listen to her analysis of Trump's body language.
	On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al- He's trying very hard not to talk with his arms.
	He holds onto this podium pretty much the entire time.
	So his body is trying to sing with him.
	This is the woman with the clunk keyboard again.
	Launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.
	Using a deadly nerve agent.
	Deadly nerve agent.
	That one got him to jump his arm.
	Apparently that really bothers him.
	That nerve agent use.
	Asad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children.
	It was a slow and brutal death for so many.
	What was missing was slow and brutal, puking their guts out, shitting their guts out, slowly dying in agonizing pain.
	He could have gone further, I think.
	Even beautiful...
	Babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.
	A barbaric would be like hitting you in the head with a sledgehammer or chopping your head off.
	Barbarians had no chemical weapons, did they?
	No.
	No child of God should ever suffer such horror.
	Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack.
	We saw an eyebrow raise from where the chemical attack, the believe me look.
	On the airfield.
	So you understand what she's saying there?
	Like, believe me, believe me, it came from that airfield.
	Yeah, it came from there.
	In Syria from where...
	With a shoulder shrug.
	So he's not even sure about where it came from.
	Chemical attack.
	Yeah.
	Was launched.
	It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.
	There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations, Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of chemical weapons.
	There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.
	And he believes that statement, that it was Syria.
	Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council.
	The UN Security Council, by the way, did not.
	It was vetoed.
	I believe by...
	It was vetoed by Russia, but I believe it was vetoed by China as well.
	I'm not sure on China.
	Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically.
	As a result, the refugee crisis continues...
	Now, when he said that failed dramatically, he adjusted himself with a foot, not just a turning of his body as he's reading these teleprompters.
	He adjusted himself.
	It would suggest that he was uncomfortable with that statement, meaning it was deceptive.
	...to deepen, and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies.
	Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types.
	We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world.
	We pray for the lives of the wounded.
	Our very troubled world, and he shifted his weight on that one, too.
	I really am just really disgusted.
	Like, wow.
	I wonder if this will be the proxy war that will no longer be called a proxy war with Russia.
	Somebody please think of the children!
	We got a lot of children stuff going on.
	Babies, little babies.
	Here's a summary of the whole thing, just for a little aside.
	Of course.
	Short clip, this is O'Reilly ISO dead babies.
	Aside, yeah, he probably destroyed some stuff, but he kept some stuff, and now 20 babies are dead.
	That's how it goes, man.
	You wrap it up.
	Hey, kept some stuff, and now 20 babies are dead.
	Well, there was one more baby we brought onto the scene.
	This came to us from Turkish television.
	The tweeter, the Syrian tweet girl, known as Bana, She went on TV again.
	And we have a behind-the-scenes look as...
	I love this little Syrian girl with her mom, whoever that is.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	So it's in English.
	And the TV host is going to say, okay, I'm going to ask you a couple things.
	And she's just getting her ready to go, right?
	She's just getting her prepped and warmed up and ready to go.
	Of course, sometimes I speak fast and I have a South African accent.
	My name is Imran.
	I have a South African accent, so sometimes you won't understand me, and that's okay.
	Your mom, Fatima, will help out.
	Okay?
	You can speak in Arabic, or you can speak in English.
	And, of course, we have Nusayba on the side there, so if you really don't understand me, you can ask Nusayba, and she can help.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	Now, I have one question for you before we talk to everybody.
	Okay, she understands.
	She's got it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Before everybody else's questions come in.
	Do you like the food in Istanbul?
	Yes.
	What do you like?
	Save the children of Syria.
	Do you like the food?
	Yes.
	What kind of food do you like?
	Save the children of Syria.
	Okay, thanks for understanding English.
	Save the children of Syria.
	Do you like Istanbul?
	You like Istanbul?
	Fish.
	Yes, fish.
	You like fish?
	Fish.
	Do you like Istanbul?
	Fish.
	I'm just going to answer that.
	Whenever someone asks me anything, my answer is going to be fish.
	Yeah.
	Fish.
	Me too.
	I've thought a lot about this.
	Well, before you wait, you're getting to your conclusion?
	I am.
	I don't want you to do it yet because I've got a couple more things so you can add to it.
	Okay.
	First of all, I thought this was very funny.
	This is Tucker Carlson.
	Yes.
	I ended up grabbing his beat.
	He had Lindsey Graham on, which I can play later.
	It's got nothing to do with what you're going to conclude.
	But this fake news, the fake news analysis, part one, this clip, it has to be played because Tucker has kind of become a cynic, again, trying to get O'Reilly's job.
	But just play this so we get a nice way of seeing how he's...
	It's kind of like a no agenda analysis.
	Cool.
	Well, the reviews are in on last night's attack on Syrian airfields.
	The media loved it.
	So did John McCain, and as you heard, Lindsey Graham, too.
	Most official Washington was thrilled.
	Even many Democrats in Congress, the ones who were denouncing the president as a Nazi and a Russian agent simultaneously just 20 minutes ago, managed to say nice words about last night's mission, which was nice.
	So who's not on board?
	Let's see.
	Well, according to a piece by someone named Ben Schreckinger at Politico, the skeptics are limited to what he calls Trump's troll army, racists and conspiracy mongers.
	Huh.
	The New York Times came to the same conclusion, noting that the strongest opposition to bombing Syria came from the, and I'm quoting now, small but influential white nationalist movement.
	The Washington Post agreed with this assessment.
	They said the war's critics hold, quote, racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist views.
	But wait a second.
	Why would white supremacists oppose the bombing of a non-white country?
	Wouldn't they be for it?
	I was never explained, by the way, just asserted because, of course, it makes no sense.
	It's literally absurd.
	Like so much news coverage, it's not news, but propaganda designed to smear and deceive rather than to inform the news on this topic has never been faker.
	Yeah, he really needs to avoid hot tubs.
	He's getting himself in trouble.
	One add-on clip to that.
	Again, I think with the same kind of messaging as in the New York Times and elsewhere, you're a racist if you're not for this.
	Listen to O'Reilly.
	This is O'Reilly lecturing about believability.
	And as he says this punchline, I'll comment on it after you're done.
	In that area, is that correct?
	That's correct.
	Okay, now.
	The Ron Pauls of the world say, oh no, no, no.
	How solid is the evidence that Assad killed these 20 children with poison gas?
	We really have a tight lock on this intelligence.
	I was told by my contacts that we have very...
	A tight lock?
	That's not a term I'm familiar with.
	I know what I mean.
	I believe she means that they're not letting it out.
	Let me just check.
	That's worth looking up.
	Consulting Book of Knowledge.
	Tightlock.
	Consulting Book of Knowledge.
	Tightlock.
	Got a lot of products.
	Come on.
	Definition.
	Two dogs having sex.
	Tightlock.
	A disease?
	Huh.
	How can this be right?
	We'll do Merriam-Webster.
	That's our favorite.
	Here we go.
	Tight lock.
	A disease of cotton caused by several fungi and characterized by failure of the affected locks to fluff and by discoloration and weakening of the fibers.
	Huh?
	Yeah.
	I guess that's the right response to that.
	What is he talking about?
	At least 20 children with poison gas.
	We really have a tight lock on this intelligence.
	I was told by my contacts that we have very high confidence and there were multiple streams of information from overhead imagery to radar from information gathered by our partners in the region and today they released a graphic that showed radar information And you can see these Syrian government jets over the site of the attack twice within a nine-minute time slot, which is exactly when the sarin gas was released.
	So there's really no doubt.
	No doubt.
	There is always doubt among those who will not believe, no matter what you present to them.
	That's correct.
	That refers, I think, I guess he's referring to the weapons of mass destruction or Colin Powell holding up the yellow cake or any of these things.
	What's he talking about?
	Well, they can really only be...
	Just the shut up slave moment.
	For sure.
	There can only be a couple of things going on, the way I see it.
	And the first one is Occam's razor.
	Trump is an idiot.
	He got tricked.
	I had one of my military guys say, I think he got tricked into doing this.
	That he got tricked.
	Now, we heard from the analysis he believes quite a bit of it, but he's unsure about other things.
	This came at an interesting time when he was with...
	And you should note, as J.C. Buzzkill Jr.
	pointed out...
	And who has a friend in Uzbekistan and in the circles of gossips, and he's in the Middle East now, in the circles of gossips, in other words, what you would get from an Uber driver, apparently King Abdul from Jordan was visiting Trump a couple of days before and talked him into this.
	Well, it's the same players.
	Here's how I see it.
	This is my no agenda analysis of this event.
	And with this, I'm giving President Trump a lot of credit.
	So we have to be wary of that because we do not know if his mind is like this.
	Now, the previous gas attack in 2013 was identified as chemical weapons from Turkish military slash Turkish rebels.
	And we know we have the Turks in the region because they hate the Kurds and they're killing the Kurds.
	We need to go back to the original premise.
	The original problem here is that the Saudis wanted a pipeline from Qatar through Homs and Aleppo.
	This is why we called out those two cities specifically way before any of this started, years ago.
	Homs and Aleppo.
	Keep your eye on those two cities.
	That's where all the crap's going.
	We have Raqqa now, but that's where all the crap went down.
	That is the path of the pipeline from Qatar.
	Please look at your maps.
	All the way up north through Syria into Turkey, which is a gas pipeline.
	And Assad, who is friends and a client state, as we call it, of Russia, said, no, that's okay.
	We really like your pipeline idea, but we're going to keep our pipeline, which is the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline, which, of course, Russia is partner in.
	And that goes right into the Mediterranean.
	And from there, they want to ship the gas up through Cyprus and Greece, and then hopefully into Italy, and then into the rest of Western Europe.
	Now, we have a lot of problems.
	Trump has a problem.
	Putin has a problem.
	Turkey has tons of problems.
	Turkey is the bad actor in this case.
	The way I see it, a deal was struck between the three horsemen, and it's the United States, it's Russia, and I believe China, And this is about the TPP, which in my book means the Trump-Putin pipeline.
	That's where this is going.
	So, we bomb the airfield, which is complete theater.
	The Russians knew about it ahead of time.
	Everyone knew.
	So, it brings about a whole bunch of different feelings in the United States, which, you know, that's quite good, actually.
	There's a lot of healthy conversation back to things we care about, like authorization of use of military force, etc.
	And At the same time, it totally clears the way, because now Turkey is, okay, well, you know, maybe we'll just hang over here, we do this little false flag, because Putin promised that if we do this, we'll get our own pipeline, which we know, this has been a negotiation, we're going to get our own direct pipeline from Russia, so we don't really need the Qatar pipeline.
	Everyone's saying, screw the Saudis, we don't need them anymore.
	Their gambit went away when Hillary Clinton lost.
	Because she was the key.
	So we have Putin and Trump now able to go in and eradicate any rebels who are in there.
	Any of them.
	Everybody gets their pipeline.
	And I think in a few months, Trump will be seen as quite the smart guy.
	He did what he promised to do.
	He brought peace back to the region.
	No one gives a crap about the pipelines.
	No one understands it.
	But that's what it's really about.
	And then we all...
	And we say, you know what?
	It's America, it's Russia, and yes, it's China, and fuck the EU. Well, I think there's a lot of missing pieces to that thesis.
	Possibly.
	But I can't see anything wrong with it, and if it was exactly that, it wouldn't surprise me.
	I'm hoping it's that, because that shows that there's actual intelligence in Washington, D.C. If it's the other option, we're doomed.
	Well, what is the other option by your standards?
	That Trump has just become all in with the neocons, and he's okay with all of this.
	It doesn't make sense.
	It doesn't make sense to me either, but that is Occam's razor from what we have been told by the mainstream media.
	I believe my version, a version of that, It could be, but there's some house intrigue that's kind of a problem, it seems to me, which is the Bannon getting kicked off of one thing and being downgraded.
	Yeah, but hold on.
	There's a picture of Bannon.
	That may have just been procedural or whatever.
	I don't know if it was coincidence, the timing of it, but you look at the picture of the war room.
	Who's in there?
	Steve Bannon, sitting right behind the president.
	So that should be the National Security Council.
	So he's not on the council, but he's in the room.
	And the guy I told you about, Gary Cohn, fucking lawyer, Goldman Sachs guy.
	Yeah.
	He's in there.
	Yeah, that's a picture.
	Yeah, but what's he doing in there at all, picture or not?
	Now the problem, again, this goes to kind of the right-wing conspiracy people, Ann Coulter being at the top of the list.
	Going back to Occam's Razor, which is that Trump's an idiot, and he's suckered into doing this by his daughter, Ivanka, and Jared Kushner.
	Yeah, I like that.
	Jared Kushner, who I still wonder, and I think Bannon...
	Now, this could be bullcrap, it could be just theater, but supposedly Priebus has to break up fights between Bannon and Kushner.
	Kushner is a Democrat, right?
	Kushner is a globalist.
	Yeah.
	Hold on.
	I actually have a clip about this.
	Wait one second.
	Let me just play this.
	This is from...
	I'm not sure where it's from, but it's about the paranoia and unrest in the White House.
	I think it'll fit into what you're talking about here.
	The blistering series of tweets raised extremely serious accusations about the Obama administration wiretapping phones at Trump Tower with zero evidence to back the claims.
	Why is this guy screaming at me?
	Trump's team stormed the talk circuit echoing his outrage.
	I think the American people have a right to know if this happened.
	And God bless the United States.
	What spurred the roaring tweet storm?
	After the president's widely praised speech to Congress, sources say he was furious to see questions about his team's ties to Russia again stealing headlines.
	Particularly galling is Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to step back from an investigation into the matter.
	I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.
	One source told CNN nobody has seen the president that upset, while others said in a meeting laced with expletives, Trump accused his staff of fumbling the Sessions situation, creating a mini-disaster.
	TV cameras captured an animated meeting in the Oval Office involving Trump's senior staff, including Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jerry Kushner, and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
	There was nothing wrong with talking to the Russian ambassador about sanctions.
	The current sanctions that were being put in place by the Obama administration.
	I just answered the question.
	Although Priebus has been visible in defending the White House against the Russia questions and was originally slated to travel to Florida with the president for the weekend, that changed.
	Priebus stayed in D.C. Some sources say because of the chaos, the White House says he had a family commitment.
	I don't like the idea of Ivanka and this Kushner guy being in the White House at all.
	You know, the problem with this is that shows a tendency to run this the way you would run a big family business.
	We have a small circle of people and you have your conciliaries and your confidants and they have your ear and you make decisions.
	That's all the hallmarks of that by having that close inner circle.
	I really think Trump is seeing that that's not working.
	Well, let's hope.
	He's got to fire his daughter.
	Yeah, or...
	She's got to go.
	What does she bring to the party?
	Besides, oh, she's level-held, you should do dad, you should do all the dads.
	I mean, she probably knows his outbursts and his personality.
	I have a clip.
	I know exactly what she brings to the party.
	And who better to tell us than Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
	She's a woman.
	She knows women.
	She's talking to Erin Burnett from CNN, a woman.
	When she says she's fighting for women, you know, she's going to be attending this conference in Europe this spring.
	You know, when she says she's working on behalf of women, do you see any evidence of that at this point?
	I would say that because of her complicity with her father's agenda, she's fighting women.
	That's right.
	Woman hater, Ivanka Trump, who the New York Times, they did place a correction, but they said they incorrectly identified her as Donald Trump's wife.
	Oh, they just mixed up with Ivana.
	There's a lot of careless news reporting.
	New York Times.
	Yeah, the New York Times figures.
	I think that something happened recently there, and this is really...
	It's really deteriorated that The entire operation.
	I think what Tucker Carlson pointed out, New York Times are claiming that the only people that are against what Trump did are a bunch of white nationalists.
	Where does this come from?
	And the New York Times, I read here, they had a list of all atrocities that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had committed, and they compiled a list I have the list here.
	New York Times.
	But you know what's missing from the list?
	What?
	The 2013 chemical attack.
	It's not on this list.
	Oh, that's funny.
	It's very telling.
	Because they got that list from the CIA. It's the actual list.
	They know.
	They actually understand what happened or what did not happen.
	It's crazy.
	Alright, you were making a point.
	That reminds me, just a little aside of that kind of missing.
	This is the problem with giant mechanisms, the machine that really runs everything.
	Missing from the FBI crime statistics is the whole Sandy Hook thing.
	Hey, you gotta be careful, man.
	You get kicked off for shows for talking about that.
	Well, you won't get kicked off this show.
	You get a bonus when you do that.
	I did have one other counter clip to this, and this is former ambassador, let me see, what is this?
	Former, no, I'm sorry, former Deputy National Security Advisor, Ambassador James Jeffrey.
	This was on CNBC, which I like that because, you know, it's an NBC product, yet they don't really toe the line all the time.
	They're just trying to...
	They're all about stocks.
	They're trying to make people buy crappy stocks.
	Yeah.
	I thought that the first big crisis would get him to this point.
	I'm surprised at how quickly he moved.
	And despite all this talk about chairs not being filled in the bureaucracy, I am impressed.
	His people, Tillerson, Mattis, and others, they called all of our allies.
	They alerted everybody.
	They even alerted the Russians.
	They were doing all of the right tradecraft diplomatic things as if they'd been in the job for six years.
	This was very impressive from a diplomatic standpoint.
	It's one reason why everybody around the world is applauding this rather than criticizing it.
	And again, that puts pressure on Russia, and it will be noticed by China.
	That's helping the atmosphere of the meeting.
	All right, so let's talk about Tillerson's upcoming meeting to Russia.
	What message is he mandated to give?
	Do we come out of that meeting next week with a different sense of U.S.-Russia relations?
	Hey, the only thing you really need to know about that meeting is it hasn't been canceled.
	And if it isn't canceled, Donald Trump won Putin zero.
	Essentially, if the Russians don't cancel that meeting, they'll basically be saying, you can smash the hell out of my ally Assad's airport, because he was, even though he won't admit it, a bad boy on chemical weapons, and we still want to talk to you because we have important issues.
	So that kind of adds a little bit of strength to my argument.
	No, I agree about Tillerson going there.
	Here's another kind of interesting, just open question, especially since we started with the Tillerson stuff where he's talking about what a great success this was, even though he didn't touch the runways.
	Why are we even listening to Tillerson?
	How come we're not listening to the head of the Defense Department?
	What's the State Department got to do with this?
	That is the key question.
	That is the key question.
	When Hillary was here, did she militarize the State Department so they can now talk on behalf of the Defense Department and the U.S. Navy?
	Remember when the old Gulf War took place and we had Colin Powell and Schwarzkopf and the two of them were giving us all these briefings?
	That's actually how I got to eventually showing Tina Wag the Dog because I said, have you ever seen the Peter Arnett videos?
	Not Peter Arnett, the other guy as well from CNN where they're in the hotel with the blue screen.
	Yeah, they're ducking.
	And they're ducking, they're pretending that there's incoming bombs.
	And she'd never seen it, of course.
	She was blown away.
	She's like, what?
	What?
	And you go to YouTube, it's all there.
	Yeah.
	It's all there.
	So, yeah, Hillary did have a little bit of those tendencies, to answer your question.
	So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
	Yes, we came, we saw, we died.
	Yeah, so the answer is yes, she militarized it.
	Of course she did.
	Now, what will happen next?
	And that, of course, will either happen today or Thursday.
	That's just the agreement with the universe.
	Show days is when it goes down.
	I don't think today's up for grabs.
	I think today's going to be clear.
	What is an interesting theory that I'm seeing crop up is kind of a middle-of-the-road approach.
	People saying, well, this was clearly a message to North Korea.
	Yeah, I've heard this a lot.
	Yeah, Kim Jong, yum, yum.
	And I'm not buying that at all.
	I am not either.
	You get China, you get China in there.
	Hey, China, look what I just did.
	I think the argument that's never made, which could be made, if they wanted to, I mean, although this is all scripted messaging, because you could have made this argument, he had Xi in his Mar-a-Lago place when he sent the missiles out, and this was, the message here would be, okay, you guys are in the United Nations, you and Russia both vetoed the Security Council proposal, but we're going to launch missiles anyway.
	Have another bun.
	Do you like sourdough?
	I wonder what the Chinese president thinks of sourdough.
	Oh, he's got to love it.
	What is this crap?
	Everybody loves sourdough.
	So if you hear me in particular laughing about this, I don't believe any of this.
	I think this whole thing is one big setup.
	I've been around too long.
	I've seen these ops.
	I see how the media is responding.
	I see the video that we're being given.
	I hear all the talking points.
	I really don't believe anybody died.
	I have no evidence of this.
	I have no evidence even of our missile strikes.
	I don't really even have evidence.
	I just have, you know, this.
	B-roll.
	B-roll and a sound effect.
	Yeah, and Brian Williams saying they're beautiful.
	They're so beautiful.
	They're so beautiful.
	I get the sense he was actually masturbating when he said that.
	Brian Williams...
	Let's listen to Tucker Carlson again.
	I'm sorry.
	I did what you said you wouldn't do, but the guy's on a roll.
	Here he is, and there's a three-parter, but it's not that long.
	Here he is with the douchebag of the decade.
	He brings him on.
	I don't know why.
	Douchebag!
	This guy comes on, I don't know why he came on, but he comes on Lindsey Graham.
	Passage Japan.
	Here's what I would do.
	I just wanted the implications of what he did are fascinating to me.
	Your compatriot, Senator McCain, said yesterday when asked, well, could this lead to a wider war with Russia, said, in effect, bring it on.
	He did.
	He said, we'll beat them.
	They will lose because we are superior to them militarily.
	Nobody doubts that.
	The question is, why would you want to go to war with Russia, too?
	Are you for that also?
	No.
	What I'm for is giving Syria back to the Syrians.
	I'm for two things.
	Destroying radical Sunni Islam, ISIL, and other groups inside of Syria.
	So it won't become a safe haven for terrorists like Afghanistan was before 9-11.
	And I'm for replacing a side, not by the Americans, not by the Russians, not by the Iranians, but by the Syrians.
	And the way you replace them is you train Syrian opposition people to go take him on and eventually beat him because he has a poor hand.
	Now I think we should be listening to this complete jizzed up moron idiot.
	Because he may have the plan.
	This may be what Trump's plan is with Russia.
	He may have the plan.
	He probably does have the plan.
	He's in the right committees to know the plan.
	He's too stupid to shut up.
	But listen to what he said there.
	He said he doesn't want it to become a Syria, by the way, which is a very diverse country with Christians and all these other people.
	He says he doesn't want Syria to become a safe haven like Afghanistan was before 9-11.
	And later on in this thing, he says we should have occupied Afghanistan before 9-11.
	That's what a nutball this guy is.
	But he says, and I'm thinking, does he know that the terrorists of 9-11 all, all came from Saudi Arabia and almost none of them had any connection to Afghanistan?
	Does he know this?
	I think he does.
	And I think he knows that...
	Inherently, he knows it, he knows this, but that's not the message he's functioning on.
	And play the end of that clip again, because there's another point I wanted to make.
	Okay, hold on a sec.
	Americans, not by the Russians, not by the Iranians, but by the Syrians.
	And the way you replace him is you train Syrian opposition people to go take him on and eventually beat him because he has a poor hand.
	Yeah, he has a poor hand.
	So what is he using a poker analogy for?
	I don't know.
	Unless you're actually thinking...
	You're thinking in poker.
	If you're thinking in poker, that means you're thinking bluff.
	I'm giving you...
	I'm giving you dings.
	You get dings for that.
	So you don't...
	I mean, if you're going to use analogies, you use sports analogies.
	You don't use a poker analogy unless you're playing poker.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, on to number two.
	Okay, but that would not include the ISIS-allied groups that we're fighting now, and it would not obviously include the government groups that we're fighting now.
	It would not include the Iranians who we hope to fight, or the Russians who we're happy to go to war with, or perhaps the North Koreans who might want to go with you.
	I'm losing track of some of the wars.
	I guess my question is, what would this cost if we did what you're calling for, 7,000 American troops in Syria?
	How long would they be there, and what would that cost?
	I had to interrupt there for a second.
	What did I tell us?
	That's how I talk about us.
	What did I tell us three weeks ago?
	What did you tell us?
	I told you there was a huge troop build-up in Kuwait City, and that was for something?
	Yeah.
	Here it is.
	Here it is.
	You might be right.
	What would that cost?
	Oh, stop, stop.
	On the Twitters, there's a woman, there's an Arab woman who does a lot of tweeting, and she's like a...
	She's just a very good tweeter.
	I don't know what agency she works for.
	She's a Sharia tweeter.
	No, she's not a Sharia-ish.
	She's the opposite.
	And she says that there's troops already moving into Syria.
	I would totally believe that.
	And this also makes sense when you think of...
	We'll get back to this clip.
	I want to jump.
	It also makes sense because of the movement of...
	And you can play the clip.
	Where is Holly Williams?
	Okay.
	Holly Williams reports tonight from the Syrian border where survivors of the gas attack were being treated.
	Okay, she's on the Syrian border again, but no.
	Last time she was in Ankara, that was on...
	Turkey.
	No, in the middle of Turkey.
	Yes, that was in the middle of Turkey.
	That was where she was, I think, what was the day yesterday?
	Well, it was like earlier in the week before the last show.
	And then on Thursday, she's in this town.
	She's in this town, and she's moving around, this woman.
	She's in Antakia.
	I said, I never heard of this.
	It's near the Syrian border, but it's not that close because I went to Google and got the directions from Antakia to the Syrian border on the Google Maps.
	How many camels did it say you'd need?
	Well, you need to head southwest on the NOU road, then you take a right, then you take a left.
	It's like, you know, a few meters, and then you start to drive, and it's like 38 miles after the roundabout when you take the second exit.
	And you drive, you turn around again, and you get on another road, and then you get to entering Syria after 5, 38, about close to 50 miles.
	40 to 50 miles, which means I'm on the border of San Jose right now.
	And I don't even think of myself on the border of San Francisco, which is seven miles away.
	So this is okay.
	So then I followed her the Friday presentation.
	Wait, do you have a wall with pictures and with yarn and string?
	So Holly...
	She moves.
	I don't know what she's doing here.
	This is that little peninsula that was talked about earlier in the show that used to be part of Syria, and she's there for some unknown reason.
	Oh, that's a little good piece there, near Latakia, is that it?
	Yeah, that little chunk.
	Yeah, that little paradise.
	She's in there.
	That's a very safe zone there, although they've had some crap land there, but it's pretty safe.
	So on the Friday show, she was in Ankara, and then she went to this place.
	And then on the Friday, and I don't know why, I think she's a spook.
	And then on the Friday show, now she's doing a report, another report.
	Where is she now?
	They didn't say border.
	She's in Istanbul.
	Again.
	So she's hanging out doing something.
	And maybe there is troop movement.
	Maybe there's as we speak.
	They're crossing the border as we speak.
	Could be.
	Okay, but that would not include the ISIS-allied groups that we're fighting now, and it would not obviously include the government groups who are fighting now.
	It would not include the Iranians who we hope to fight.
	That's exactly right.
	Or the Russians who we're happy to go to war with, or perhaps the North Koreans who might want to go with you.
	I'm losing track of some of the wars.
	I guess my question is, what would this cost if we did what you're calling for, 7,000 American troops in Syria?
	How long would they be there and what would that cost?
	Well, I think they'd be there long enough to defeat ISIL. They'd have to stay in some level.
	How long do you think that would take?
	as long as it takes to help train a Syrian opposition to get a peace deal in Geneva.
	The way the war ends is through political reconciliation.
	Right now, Assad is winning.
	He's backed by Russia and Iran.
	Assad was on the ropes four years ago, and Obama refused to act against sound military advice to help the Syrians because Assad is a cancer in the region.
	He's a destabilizing force.
	How is he the destabilizing force?
	We're the destabilizing force!
	He's full of shit, this guy.
	Dang.
	And he wants to have these troops, unlimited budget apparently, and Tucker in this third clip just keeps grilling him about the money, and he refuses to budge.
	Oh, that's the third one.
	He will never be the legitimate leader of Syria in the eyes of most Syrians in the region, so he's got to go.
	Let me hear that again.
	This guy gives me joy.
	He will never be the legitimate leader of Syria in the eyes of most Syrians in the region.
	No, they voted for him.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	So he's got to go.
	And he was on the ropes, and you know what?
	Obama gave him a pass, and now Trump's got this mess on his watch.
	Here's what I'd tell a person.
	What would it cost?
	What would it cost to do what you want to do?
	7,000 troops there indefinitely.
	Bob, I can't put a...
	I'll get a number for it.
	I'll tell you what it cost.
	Did you not think through what the cost might be when you called for it?
	It's minimal compared to the threats we face.
	Oh, there you go.
	What?
	That's a great risk-reward scenario.
	It's minimal.
	It's minimal compared to the risks we face from Syria?
	Yeah.
	What risks do we face from Syria?
	So we gotta get rid of this guy.
	And to put it mildly, what risks do we face from ISIS? I mean, what?
	There's a couple of followers here that have blown up, shot a few people?
	Yeah, now that we don't have a Muslim ban...
	I don't know.
	This is a sideshow.
	This guy is the worst, but you might be right.
	I never thought about him being a harbinger.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I listen to him.
	It's hard, but I listen to him because he knows what's going on.
	He's on the right.
	He's on the right committees.
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	Now, with this triple boob donation, a 240.24 is 3x8008.
	You know, we should put that on the list of donations, a triple boob.
	I've reached knighthood, so I humbly request to be known henceforth as Sir Not appearing on this podcast.
	Am I reading that right?
	See, accounting at the bottom of the message.
	Thanks for keeping me sane during the election cycle and making me actually look forward to my commute.
	I've been listening occasionally since 2009 and regularly since 2013 as a resident of super crunchy Oregon.
	Almost everyone else around me exists only in the alternate universe.
	I'm glad to have no agenda twice a week to keep me grounded.
	In lieu of requesting clips for Adam to play, he sent some stuff in, and we will look at it, and then we may or may not play some of these on the next show.
	Well, I actually have them all.
	Oh, you have them?
	Okay.
	Yeah, I just read ahead.
	I hate to say it.
	And he sent us clips.
	They seem to be short, so how hard could it be?
	I mean, it's risky.
	You never know what's in these clips.
	Yeah, you heard them.
	Let's do it.
	Ready?
	Go.
	It's a 24-hour news cycle here, Jack.
	We really don't have time to do it right anymore.
	It all makes sense.
	Kemp Trails are real.
	Well, of course, their request for subsidies was not a Paraguayan, as it were.
	The United States government would never have, if the president, our president had not, and as far as I know, that's the way it'll always be.
	Science is whatever we want it to be.
	Baby, you make me wish I had three hands.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Through a slew of clips, all tightly packed, from a bunch of movies and TV shows.
	Yes.
	I don't know if I encourage this.
	Well, those are okay, and they were quick.
	There wasn't like hours of them.
	Yeah, that was good.
	Hey, thanks.
	Our last associate executive producer comes in with $200 from Mechanicsville, Iowa.
	Sir Roger Boots, he says belated happy birthday to me.
	So we'll give him some karma for that.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Indeedy.
	And that's it.
	This is a bad showing today, John.
	Not so groovy.
	Yeah, well, that's what happens.
	People are getting ready for Easter, I guess.
	Maybe that's it.
	It pains me, because we're already so over...
	We're already long today.
	We've got to be careful.
	We've got to be careful.
	Well, of course, we have nothing but gratitude for our executive and two associate executive producers.
	Thank you so much for that.
	And we will be thanking the shortlist as well for donors $50 and above coming up later on the program.
	I am so proud, though, that we do it this way.
	We've got the war room with the producers.
	We've got the producers sending in their own clips.
	And we've got people financing the show, supporting us.
	Thank you so much.
	And remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	You can check that out at...
	Yes, coming up Easter, you should be prepared to go out there and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	You! Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, Ray!
	Shut up, Ray!
	It was kind of fun, actually.
	I got something in the email.
	The other day, which we hadn't had in a while, this one little bit we have here.
	Shut up, slave!
	It's one of our producer's children, who now is probably driving.
	20.
	Yeah.
	But Derek and his daughter Vivian, who was still in the car seat in the back of the car, sent him this submission.
	Do you think you can say, shut up, slave?
	Help.
	Say, shut up, slave.
	Help.
	Excellent.
	Excellent.
	Corrupting America's youth.
	Fabulous.
	And a no agenda shout out.
	She'll always get a job when she gets older.
	Hell yeah.
	Shout out to Maynard.
	Our boy there down under in Australia.
	Maynard won the Castaway Australian Podcast Award Saturday night in the comedy and entertainment category, surprising his parents, his neighbor, and his agent, according to his press release.
	And in the press release, it says, Maynard thanked the Holy Trinity in his acceptance speech, Adam Curry, Tim Ferguson, and John C. Dvorak, the Holy Ghost.
	Right.
	Congratulations, Maynard.
	What's pale of the skins.
	Yes, well, congratulations, Maynard.
	Very happy.
	Now, you played a couple clips there by Tucker.
	I want to play you something.
	There's a lot of hate going on for men right now.
	You heard Debbie Wasserman Schultz putting Ivanka Trump in the men category, as far as I'm concerned.
	Yep.
	Just hating on women.
	And where is my clip here?
	This was...
	Let me see what this was.
	Hold on a second.
	BFV. There was a...
	Hey.
	Hold on a second.
	This is going horribly wrong.
	Where'd my clip go?
	Oh, here it is.
	I went in the wrong bin.
	It happens.
	Okay, here we go.
	Well, no, actually, let's start first with a full piece of Hillary Clinton, just about her hating on men.
	This was at the Women in the World Summit.
	We already played a short clip on the last show.
	Why is she even doing this?
	Because she's going to be running for, I think, mayor of New York.
	Oh, this would be a good one.
	Yeah, I think that's what the idea is.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	Yeah, something like that.
	So here she is talking to...
	Ah, who's the douchebag?
	You'll hear it.
	Oh, Nicholas Kristof.
	Okay.
	I will put it this way.
	As a person, I'm okay.
	As an American, I'm pretty worried.
	So I think I'll take off my person hat and put on my citizen hat.
	Which is, surprisingly, looks a lot like a pussy hat.
	And, you know, there's a lot to be concerned about.
	The things that come out of some of these men's mouths.
	Men.
	Why do we have to cover maternity care?
	Oh, I don't know.
	Maybe you were dropped by Immaculate Conception.
	I don't know.
	I think what Putin wanted to do is to sow distrust and confusion as well as influence our election.
	And, you know, he's not exactly fond of strong women.
	So you add that together and that's pretty much what it's...
	There you go!
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Get rid of the penis party.
	Now, regarding Tucker Carlson, do you remember he had I think we played some clips from it.
	He had the freelance writer, but a writer for Teen Vogue on who was writing about Trump.
	And he was pretty much was unkind to her.
	Because she couldn't answer any simple question.
	You know, the way he usually sets his guests up and confuses them and makes them look stupid.
	And, you know, this woman was trying to explain how it was okay to write about Ariana Grande's knee-high boots and then the next day write about Trump being a shitty president.
	And so this exchange was played at...
	This was another...
	Let me see.
	What was the name of this event?
	Women are organizing, man.
	Pay attention to it.
	Uh...
	Well, it was Diane von Würstenberg.
	She's the one that you'll hear in this as well.
	Also, the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue magazine.
	And she's there, of course, to defend her freelancer.
	But they play a little bit of this clip at the end.
	And it's a little hard to hear, but the way Tucker signs off as he says, Yeah, you know what?
	You should have stuck to knee-high boots.
	Referring to the Ariana Grande story that the same journalist did.
	That was interpreted in a very interesting way by these women.
	Oh, I can see it.
	You can see what's happening, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	Get ready.
	So did you read the entire article?
	I did.
	I also read Liam Payne is 100% certain One Direction will continue.
	Adriana Grande rocked the most epic thigh-high boots in Gamble Bell in Black China and Rob Kardashian.
	It's incredible.
	Went through the messiest breakup of 2016.
	Those are your other pieces.
	But I'm trying to get to what you're writing about Trump, taking a break from the thigh-high boots, and ask what you mean about him committing psychological abuse on you.
	A woman can love Ariana Grande and her thigh-high boots and still discuss politics.
	Just letting you know that I read you as of today.
	And those things are not mutually exclusive.
	You know, now that you bring up Teen Vogue, we treat young women like they don't have a right to a political conversation.
	And like you can't enjoy Kylie Jenner's Instagram and worry about the future of this country.
	And those things are not mutually exclusive.
	So you know what?
	I did write about Ariana Grande and I did write about the abusive, bigoted, deceptive president of the United States.
	Those pieces are a little smarter than your piece about threatening the sovereignty of a whole religion.
	Alright, I gotta go.
	You should stick to the thigh-high boots.
	Did you hear that?
	Oh!
	Did you hear that?
	My God!
	I know.
	So, he says you should have stuck to the thigh-high boots, and then we get...
	Oh!
	My God!
	Oh!
	My!
	That's an ISO. That is an ISO. That is the ISO. Oh!
	I love that!
	My God!
	I iso-ed it.
	Oh, you did the iso-ed it.
	Yeah, because if you hear it, it's a little different.
	That's outrageous!
	Oh, it gets so much better.
	The whole religion.
	He's talking about the article.
	What do they think he's talking about?
	They think he's talking about she should just be barefoot and pregnant?
	Well, he's clearly in dimension A, and he says, you know what?
	You should have stuck the thigh-high boots.
	Maybe he meant that as an insult.
	That's totally possible.
	Oh, no, it's totally an insult, but that's not...
	I don't, it wouldn't, it wouldn't get you a, oh, oh my god!
	Well, that's what it did to these women.
	Did you hear that?
	Oh!
	Did you hear that?
	My god!
	Did you hear how I changed my ISO beautifully?
	Listen.
	Oh!
	My!
	See, I've spent some time on that to make the ISO just perfect.
	I know.
	I'm so glad I didn't see that before.
	Oh, I know.
	That's why we call him fucker.
	Yeah.
	That's why they call him fucker.
	Okay, that's funny.
	I know.
	Carlson fucker.
	Yeah, that's why they call him fucker.
	Wait, it gets better.
	Wait until you hear Diane von Furstenberg.
	She's coming up.
	I know, I know.
	That's why we call him fucker.
	Yeah.
	So, Elaine.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	Ooh, let's discuss.
	You know, it's only the vengeance of the white man with a small penis.
	It's only the vengeance of the white man with a small penis.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah, the beautiful...
	Oh, yeah.
	I think...
	When it comes to fucker, we're definitely making small talk.
	But Elaine, just tell me, what should we make of this debate about the teen girls, the thigh-high boots, and the president?
	First of all, what we just witnessed was mansplaining and belittling at its finest.
	And this is the editor of Teen Vogue.
	Where's the mansplaining?
	What was he explaining?
	It doesn't matter.
	These women hate men.
	These women, for sure.
	They hate white men, for sure.
	They're saying it.
	They're saying it.
	This is beyond.
	And belittling at its finest.
	And as much as that makes my blood pressure rise instantly, just re-watching that, it makes me really proud because she held her own.
	That's right.
	And what I learned from watching that, because I think we've all probably been in similar situations, she kept talking.
	Yeah.
	She kept talking.
	They over-talked each other, but she kept talking.
	And I thought that was a takeaway for me personally as a professional woman.
	One of my biggest gripes is people talking over each other or just talking through you.
	And this is now heralded as something great.
	Oh, my God!
	No way.
	That's not great.
	Don't teach your children.
	Now that you mention it, I think this has been some sort of a talking point or a meme or something because Again, I've noticed this more than ever on these shows with Tucker and people like that who come from that other extreme, women mostly, and they do that.
	It's like they've been told to just keep talking.
	Well, that's what you just heard.
	Keep talking.
	I know, and I didn't realize it was something that was actually deemed as the way to go.
	And they're all doing it.
	So there's like a messaging system that's, oh, that's a good idea.
	I'll just keep talking.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And look like, you know, it's unbelievable.
	It's a bad idea.
	The way to go is the way you pointed out some time ago, which I have not executed, but I would, which is that you don't talk over the guy.
	You go, excuse me?
	Excuse me?
	Excuse me.
	So you can talk.
	Get them to stop talking.
	One of our producers sent me something to kind of balance out the war on men.
	And this is based on Maxine Waters, who came up with that.
	We're still waiting for this meme to pop, but she came up with the sexual harassment enterprise, which the war room correctly identified as she, which would be a fabulous acronym.
	And something could be up with that.
	And, you know, she's talking about these guys are sexual harassers.
	They're horrible.
	So what producer sent in a little song, little ditty.
	It may be offensive to some.
	Is that okay?
	I'll be offended.
	Go on.
	Vagina.
	Vagina.
	The final frontier.
	These are the voyages of the sexual harassment enterprise.
	Its continuing mission...
	To explore strange new labia.
	To seek out new pussy regardless of sexual orientation.
	To boldly grab where no man has grabbed before.
	It sounded funnier the first time I heard it.
	It's kind of funny.
	It's cute.
	A lot of our end of show...
	A little juvenile.
	A lot of our end of show mixers came up with a couple of good ditties for later on as well.
	There you go.
	I got a little side thing here.
	This is just a completely different off-the-wall thing, which is a new show, which I think is absolutely...
	It's absolutely fabulous!
	No!
	It's you, the jury...
	I caught it by accident.
	Season one, episode one.
	Here's the intro.
	The people in disputes in this trial are real.
	No scripts.
	No actors.
	Your votes tonight will decide who wins this case.
	Hello, I'm Janine Pirro.
	Ripped from the headlines, a riveting mystery that gripped the nation.
	Five years ago, a beautiful woman disappeared without a trace, and her body was never found.
	Her traveling companion was arrested but never charged, and has been living under a cloud of suspicion ever since.
	There's never been a trial about the case until now.
	Tonight, was it a tragic accident, or was it something far more sinister?
	You will decide the verdict.
	This is you, the jury.
	Wow.
	The face of justice has changed.
	Somebody died.
	I know that, sir.
	You killed him.
	In a courtroom like you've never seen before.
	Lies from beginning to end.
	Real people with cases torn from the headlines.
	Racism is a choice.
	Tried by the best lawyers in the nation.
	You can't hear me.
	In the thunder, did you think you were doing?
	And for the first time, your live vote decides the verdict.
	You are all sitting in the room with a murderer.
	Tonight, I found you, the jury.
	Oh man, we are so close to my dream show.
	Oh, you have to see this thing.
	Let me describe it.
	First of all, it's in a dimly lit...
	It's a big auditorium in the round.
	It's like a big round thing.
	It's like a Roman Coliseum thing.
	The judge comes out and she is on a 40-foot thing at the top of it.
	Like a bad dream.
	Like a dictator type thing.
	It's a big giant thing.
	It's like Mussolini would be up there.
	And she crawls up to this thing and she's at the top.
	The this thing is well staged.
	It's got its millions of dollars to set.
	And every time one of the attorneys are top notch world class attorneys from the United from various cases like the defense guy in this one was Casey Anthony's got her off.
	And the prosecutor was some other character.
	They're very famous.
	They come into this thing.
	They have monstrous like Dallas football field size video screens on each side.
	And as they show the evidence, they do these packages.
	Oh man, that's awesome.
	And there's all this overlays on the whole screen.
	Oh, crikey.
	It is absolute eye-riveting, eye-candy dynamite.
	I think it's time to call Burnett, man, and put our show in.
	They're prepping, they're ready.
	Our show, which is called Death Row, and we watch people execute it on television.
	But we have a gaming element where we keep zooming in on the phone.
	Will the phone ring?
	Will the governor give him a stay of execution?
	Of course, nine times out of ten you don't, but that's when we go to commercial break.
	Will the phone ring?
	Will there be a stay of execution?
	We'll find out.
	We'll find out next.
	Right after this.
	Next on Fight or Fry.
	We have to have a name.
	So you've got to see this thing at least once.
	I don't know if it will sustain.
	It may not have anything.
	I have some audio from Judge Jeanine up on that huge thing here.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	Judge Jeanine is not involved in this show.
	She's just the announcer at the beginning.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	There's some real judge that is up on this.
	Oh, my God.
	A real judge.
	Becky, look at her butt.
	Unbelievable.
	That's great.
	I can't wait to see this.
	Now, that airs on what network?
	Fox.
	Fox.
	Great.
	Great.
	But they probably got Judge Jeanine to do that intro for free.
	Well, while we're talking about nut jobs, I'm sorry.
	It's another view clip.
	So sorry.
	You're getting addicted to the show.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	It's a problem.
	I don't think I've been saying of course a lot, but yeah, I'm addicted to that show.
	So they have on Rapper, they call him Rapper, let me just find him here, Tip Harris.
	Now Tip Harris, he's a nice guy.
	He seems like a really nice guy.
	He's dressed in a nice sweater.
	He's just a dynamite looking guy.
	Here's where it went down.
	We have a community, okay?
	And in this community, you are not going to come and challenge or try to belittle or demean us or our advancements by no means, shape, form, or fashion.
	Whatever Snoop said, he had the right to say he's protected by the Constitution and say it.
	So, you know, so for Trump to get on, use his platform to say, you know, how Snoop has a failing career, whatever he said.
	That always follows anybody's topic.
	It's whatever he said.
	Everybody who's against him has a failing career.
	You know, they can't listen to that.
	I mean, but to be honest with you, I feel like we have to protect our legends.
	We have to protect our heroes, the people who mean something to us and our community and our culture.
	Well, but President Trump says that Omarosa's role is to bridge a gap.
	I mean, within the African American community.
	She can't even bridge the gap in her teeth.
	You know what I mean?
	By the way, why is that not misogynist?
	Why is that okay to make fun of a woman?
	And I believe this to be a racial joke as well.
	She can't even take care of the gap in her teeth.
	And all they do is just erupt in applause and it's fabulous.
	It's disgusting.
	This is really not for public consumption.
	I think you just like to watch that show to be disgusting.
	I do.
	You hate to watch.
	I mean, within the African-American community, do you care?
	She can't even bridge the gap in her teeth.
	You know what I mean?
	Do you think this administration will do anything?
	Just speaking, you know, openly and honestly about it, before we can get anywhere with this present person in office, before we can get anywhere, we have to address all of the disrespect and degrading that was done during the campaign.
	You know what I mean?
	That was my issue when people were going in there to meet with them, whether it was Kanye or whether it was Steve Harvey or whether it was, you know, Jim Brown, whoever it was.
	Not that they shouldn't be mean, but when you go in there and meet, before you stand and smile and say, this is a good man and take pictures, like, what about addressing the disrespect and the disregard?
	So let me get this straight.
	Let me get this straight.
	Was Amarosa doing the disrespecting?
	Well, no.
	Why is he disrespecting her?
	Yeah, because that is...
	Why is he jumping all over her?
	I know.
	Why are they all, the whole audience, disrespecting this woman?
	She didn't do anything.
	Yeah, because it's fun.
	It's fun.
	So if it's fun for them, it should be fun for everyone.
	What are they bitching about?
	The killer is when you look at this guy's lyrics, it's all about hoes this and pimps that and bitch this and bitch that, and yet there he is in his sweater being a misogynist about a woman.
	I don't care, but I don't care.
	Somebody called him out on it.
	I'm sure Whoopi came in and quoted his own lyrics.
	Let me see.
	That would be incorrect.
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	It's just...
	The thing that bothers me is the audience.
	The moronic women on The View is okay.
	It's fun, it's entertainment, but the audience is so all in.
	That is what scares me.
	Do you not see what you're doing?
	You're making fun of a woman, calling her names, insulting her.
	That is all.
	You're done.
	Good.
	I'm sorry.
	I should say...
	I was really blotto.
	You stepped on it.
	Hold on.
	I was really blotto.
	Blotto.
	Yeah, I stepped on it.
	That's me from Swamp Thing.
	I have an O'Reilly drunk or not drunk.
	Oh, boy.
	So, O'Reilly, he was on the show the other day, and I thought...
	I don't know if this was taken from some other part of the show or if it was clipped in or whatever, but he was...
	It was like he was getting progressive.
	You know, I think...
	If you drink, sometimes it takes like a while before it gets into the system, and then as the show progresses, you would be drunk at the end.
	Yeah.
	And he's under a lot of pressure.
	I wouldn't be surprised if he has a few stiff ones before he does the show once in a while.
	That's how he got into trouble in the first place, isn't it?
	I don't know.
	With a few stiff ones?
	I don't care.
	Come on, come on.
	Come on.
	It was a joke, John.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	So here we go.
	This is O'Reilly drunk or not drunk.
	And then I want you to catch the gaffe.
	Personal story segment tonight.
	Earlier today, the Senate voted 54 to 45.
	Confirm 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
	He replaces the late Anthony Scalia.
	Joining us from Washington, Jonathan Turley.
	He teaches law at George Washington University.
	So is this good for the folks?
	Let's cut through the nuclear option and all this stuff.
	The regular people, regular Americans, many of whom don't even know who George Gorsuch is or what he does.
	Well, there was a first...
	I vote for hammered.
	Okay, it's not George Gorsuch.
	No, George Gorsuch.
	Nor is it Anthony Scalia.
	It's Antonin Scalia.
	He got that one wrong.
	George Gorsuch.
	Totally, totally hammered.
	Hammered he is.
	Hammered O'Reilly.
	Good one.
	Yeah.
	Drunk.
	Drunk, drunk, drunk.
	Let's see.
	I agree.
	We need some new memes that, yes.
	I think there's a desperate attempt, now that we saw the upgrade, which Scott Adams called the upgrade, then I gladly copied, from Hitler to incompetent.
	That was a good upgrade.
	I mean, you get that at American Airlines, you're happy.
	You're almost at the front of the plane.
	So there is a concerted effort by certain personnel to bring it back to white supremacy, hating blacks, hating Jews.
	I think Jews is the way to go now.
	Let's start with Jeremy Scahill, who I liked a lot.
	You know, he did some pretty interesting documentaries.
	He was...
	Now, he was a part early on of the $250 million WordPress blog from Pierre Drive My Car Omedia.
	I believe he's still there.
	I thought he left.
	No, didn't he leave in a huff?
	I'm pretty sure he did.
	Taibbi left in a huff.
	Oh, okay.
	But we'll have to check on him.
	Anyway, he was on PBS... Talking about the president and, you know, just tying in all these memes to try and, I think, bring it back to that.
	As a fundamental principle, I don't believe that we should be debating fascists, people that are openly advocating violence against undocumented immigrants or publicly shaming private citizens who are transgender.
	Have you seen any of this taking place at the Trump White House?
	Openly shaming transgender people?
	Well, I thought he was talking historically about maybe somebody in the 30s.
	Oh, yeah, maybe not.
	I'll debate anyone anywhere, but I won't debate a fascist.
	I will resist a fascist.
	Well, you're a dick.
	If there truly was a fascist, that's how you're going to resist?
	I'm not going to talk to you.
	I'm going to resist, but I won't talk to you.
	I'm going to stand here with my arms folded, and I'm not going to talk to you.
	I will protest a fascist.
	I'm going to resist, but I won't talk to you.
	I will resist a fascist.
	I will protest a fascist.
	But that's not like where there's some exchange of ideas that the First Amendment necessitates we engage in.
	These are people who, when we're talking about fascists, who want the extermination of black people.
	They want the extermination of Jews.
	They are openly...
	Yes, this is the Trump White House.
	He's implying that the Trump administration presidency wants to exterminate blacks?
	And Jews, not just blacks and Jews.
	Jews, come on.
	Come on.
	We need some Jews in there.
	But resist, we much.
	...of Jews.
	They are openly advocating a form of hatred that is vilified in history and somehow being normalized now by the President of the United States.
	What?
	What?
	This is a serious journalist, this guy, too.
	This guy, he's off the rails.
	Yes, sir.
	That is vilified in history and somehow being normalized now by the President of the United States.
	I won't participate in any platform where someone is acting as though, well, there's the fascist point of view and then there's Jeremy's point of view.
	That's not a debate to me.
	He's not being invited to anything anymore.
	I think that's what...
	Like, hey, you're not invited anymore, so you should complain really loudly that you won't do it anyway.
	...a conservative Republican in Congress.
	There are certain people that I think...
	I didn't want to go to your stupid birthday party anyway.
	Everyone has a right to free speech.
	I certainly agree with that.
	But they don't have a right to speak on television.
	Oh?
	Oh, is that in the Constitution?
	You have a right to free speech?
	That's interesting.
	There's one more.
	They don't have a right to be invited on the programs.
	No, you have no right to be invited on the programs.
	Get off the programs.
	I support real-time doing whatever they believe is right.
	I'm just not going to participate in it.
	And I got a lot of heat for that, and I may never end up on that show again.
	Yeah.
	That's the problem, John.
	You nailed it.
	He's been uninvited from whatever.
	I can go to sleep at night knowing that I had nothing to do with giving any attention to a fascist.
	I can go to sleep at night knowing I have no job.
	I didn't want to do it anyway.
	I didn't want to do it anyway.
	MSNBC apparently has an internal memo And the idea is blacks and Jews, Jews, Jews!
	He's been downgraded.
	He's been downgraded.
	He's been...
	Talking about Banyan here, your boy Banyan.
	He's...
	Bannon.
	He's been downgraded.
	He's been downgraded.
	He's embarrassed.
	He's not invited to the parties the way he used to be.
	Jared Downberg, too.
	I mean, in the front row, you showed...
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but I mean, I think it's really important.
	Kushner and his wife were sitting in the front row on the White House lawn today.
	Steve Bannon is an avowed anti-Semite.
	How...
	What?
	He isn't avowed.
	Avowed.
	And what does that mean, avowed?
	Avowed means that you're out in the open.
	It's not even an issue.
	Everyone knows it.
	Hmm.
	Look it up.
	I'm looking up.
	Hey!
	Again, we go to Miriam Webster.
	That is the favorite of the show.
	Avow.
	Here we go.
	To declare openly, bluntly, and without shame.
	To declare assuredly.
	Well, that is factually...
	Then you must have plenty of clips where he vows it.
	I don't!
	Play a clip, please.
	Please, play a clip.
	Okay, here's a clip.
	That doesn't prove a thing.
	I mean, in the front row, you showed it.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but I mean, I think it's really important.
	Oh, you're not.
	Kushner and his wife were sitting in the front row on the White House lawn today.
	Steve Bannon is an avowed anti-Semite.
	How on earth would Kushner and his wife be able to...
	You heard Matthews even say avowed, because Matthews apparently knows the definition, but he leaves it at that.
	Steve Bannon is an avowed anti-Semite?
	I mean, he...
	That's...
	He's a member of the...
	He vows this?
	He's really that bad?
	Yes, he really is that bad.
	I don't want to make a light of it.
	I didn't hear that before, but guys...
	So, I'll just take your word for it.
	I didn't hear that before, but go ahead.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We call that...
	Douchebag!
	Old douchebag.
	But it's a memo.
	It's going around MSNBC. Here's clip two.
	Joy Reid and Howard Dean.
	Joy Reid and Howard Dean.
	Here's what I do know.
	One, I don't know anything about Jared Kushner, but I know a lot about Steve Bannon.
	Steve Bannon, he's a white supremacist.
	He has absolutely no right to be in the White House.
	He has no right to have his values influence the President of the United States.
	As soon as he goes, the better.
	And I don't really care who replaces him.
	I mean, obviously I care.
	Jared Kushner, from the little I know about him, is a far better candidate, a 36-year-old, than a white supremacist who hates Jews.
	I just don't think somebody like that belongs in the White House.
	Wow!
	It's so...
	It comes out...
	You're getting a clip of the day for that.
	Damn it.
	Oh, I'm a...
	Let it roll, dude.
	Yeah, but wait, there's more than a white supremacist who hates Jews.
	I just don't think somebody like that belongs in the White House.
	I can't imagine why Trump put him in there in the first place, and the sooner he leaves, the better for America.
	Yeah, and he's there with about three or four other people with questionable views.
	Well, I assume they're going to go with him eventually.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And the question I think a lot of people have had, Elizabeth, is how does Jared Kushner abide somebody?
	He is a Jewish.
	He is quite a Jewish.
	Donald Trump's daughter, converted.
	But he's there living alongside somebody who uses terms like cuck and globalist, which are known to be anti-Semitic and racial slurs.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Shut the front door.
	Cuck and globalist are known anti-Semite slurs?
	That's what she said.
	That's what Joy Reid said.
	Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo.
	That can't be true.
	How is that?
	My God!
	Alongside somebody who uses terms like cuck and globalist, which are known to be anti-Semitic and racial slurs.
	How does he deal with Bannon at all?
	Wow.
	Yeah, I know.
	Cuck.
	Cuck is not anti-Semite, you fool.
	Cuck is a...
	Well, it means cuckold.
	It's a type of male who is subservient to his wife or woman of any sort.
	I'll give you an example.
	And I'm not even Jewish.
	Here's...
	The Jewish thing, I don't know what that...
	I guess it has...
	I don't know where that even gets into the picture, but...
	So I'm in Berkeley, and there's this...
	You can see it.
	The guy is...
	I would say this would probably be a definitive type of guy.
	There is a woman, two lesbians walking down the street, holding hands kind of, or they're just chummy.
	And behind them is their guy, a male with two babies.
	Oh, wait.
	Is this a trap baby?
	No, this is not the trap baby.
	These are two babies.
	He's just holding a couple babies.
	And he's obviously, one of these two women's had babies.
	And he's like the third wheel.
	He's the husband kind of in this relationship.
	And he's carrying the babies as the two women chat amongst themselves.
	And it's like, if that guy's a cuck, it would be, I think, by definition.
	Well, may I read the actual definition for you?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I got cuckoldery.
	That's not what we need.
	Cuckold.
	Here we go.
	Oh.
	Hmm.
	Merriam-Webster has a very different definition.
	Cuckold, a man whose wife is unfaithful.
	Ah, right.
	That's the original definition.
	Right.
	In other words, you have a wife who's fooling around and then...
	With a Jew.
	With a Jew.
	Well, apparently it has to be, but does the Jew mention it?
	I don't think so.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	There's a secondary meaning.
	Man whose wife is unfaithful with a Jew.
	It says it right in the book of knowledge.
	It's not in there.
	No, it doesn't.
	What is her problem, this woman?
	She's perpetrating bullcrap on whoever listens to that show, and it's just nasty propaganda.
	I don't like it.
	Yeah, and then to add to it, calling someone a globalist is anti-Semitic.
	Bullshit!
	Come on!
	Well, we know Kushner's a super globalist Democrat, so they'd love to have him replace Bannon.
	I think him...
	Who?
	Kushner.
	Kushner.
	That's what she's talking about.
	Yeah.
	Kushner and Ivanka should get out of the White House.
	They're the problem.
	Yeah?
	And how do you think they're the problem?
	Because they're the two globalists.
	They're like promoting a globalist agenda.
	Within the White House, which was elected to be America first.
	To be a nationalist.
	It was a nationalist movement.
	John, hold on.
	Then it's true.
	It's true.
	They're both Jews.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, there's a lot of...
	So there you go.
	Okay.
	Yeah, no nations, no borders.
	Most globalists are not Jews.
	But...
	Most Jews are globalists.
	I know.
	It's upsetting.
	I know.
	I don't know what to do with it myself.
	But most globalists are not Jews, but most Jews are globalists.
	That's the best I can do.
	But it doesn't mean if a globalist is a Jew by definition, like she said.
	Right.
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	And you don't have to like globalism.
	So, in other words, if you don't like globalism, you're an anti-Semite, that's what she implies.
	Yes, that's what she's saying.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Okay, great.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	Okay, so the timing is a little bit off.
	We could take our break now, which is just short.
	I got a couple shorties you can get rid of.
	You got a clip list or something?
	I got a lot of clips.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Well, let's do it properly then.
	Because your clips, your clips are on the list.
	These are the clips you last time dist.
	If you forget to play these clips, you'll be a douchebag.
	All right, let's hear your clip list.
	Want to hear a couple of gaffs?
	Gaffs?
	Or do you want to hear my little thing with Hayden, the ex-CIA guy who's still I didn't realize he's a Catholic boy, and he must be ridden with guilt.
	Sounds like you want to talk about Hayden first.
	Yeah, let's talk about Hayden.
	Okay, we've got...
	Here's a very short clip.
	This is the Hayden We Kill, not the Hayden We Kill 2L, the Hayden We Kill clip to remind people...
	Exactly why we've stopped grabbing people and why we just kill people at random.
	That is an honorable position, okay, and one that people like me have to deeply, deeply respect.
	What's happened, okay, what's happened because this has become so controversial, right?
	We have made it so politically dangerous and legally challenging to detain, right?
	That we don't.
	We kill.
	We kill.
	Jeez, where was this?
	We kill.
	We don't.
	We just kill.
	He was giving a speech to some government workers.
	It was on C-SPAN, obviously.
	And he's promoting his new book, which I think it's titled, I Didn't Really Break the Law, I'm Not Really a War Criminal.
	By the way, this is a bumper sticker.
	It's a t-shirt.
	I mean, the We Kill brand could go places.
	We Kill.
	We Kill.
	So this was his rationale.
	He says, we kill.
	And part two is more about how we just kill people now.
	We never grab anybody because it's kind of sketchy.
	He has the rationale for it, which is kind of funny, but it's sick.
	Since I left government, I probably got more fingers on this hand than people that we've actually detained outside of battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan.
	That might be a little bit of an overstatement, but it's...
	Now, if you talk to the folks in President Obama's administration, they will tell you, no, no, no, no.
	If we could capture, we would capture.
	But the historical record is, look, bureaucracy, I'm figuring I'm talking to some people with some experience in government here, all right?
	All right.
	Bureaucracies, particularly federal bureaucracies, work.
	If you make something over here politically dangerous and legally challenging, the system just starts, you know, water starts running in this direction rather than that direction.
	So what we have done, frankly because of the great controversy of this, which Stephen's brought up very real and serious issues, as a nation, we just have kind of gotten too skittish and we're over here pulling the trigger, which is not even more.
	It just doesn't create much intelligence.
	Now, hold on a second.
	What he says there is that now all we do is just pull the trigger.
	In other words, just murder people left and right.
	We kill, yes.
	Yeah, we kill.
	And he says, right after that, he says, which is not immoral.
	Well, no.
	But it doesn't provide much intelligence, so it's kind of a drawback because we don't get any intelligence from it.
	But just murdering people at random...
	Without a court trial or anything is not immoral?
	That's what he said?
	That they're brown.
	All right.
	So here he goes.
	Now he continues.
	I have more clips that I didn't bring.
	Because this thing is just, he goes on and on.
	The guy's a complete psychopath.
	I think he's very disturbed by his own activities.
	He talks about a torture story and a rationale for everything he's been doing.
	And this is, again, it's kind of creepy.
	Your safety.
	All right.
	We actually think what it is we're doing is protecting America's way of life.
	And I make the point in the book that frightened people don't make good Democrats or Republicans.
	Small d, small r.
	All right?
	All right.
	Right.
	Start to get frightened.
	They don't mind gnawing on their neighbors' liberties and privacies.
	They get really good and scared.
	They start gnawing on their own.
	And so one of the reasons we did push back, you know, playing to the edge, right, not unlawful, that using everything that law and policy said we could do, and using it pretty aggressively, was not just that it kept you safe, but frankly that we knew if we failed again,
	if we had a second 9-11, If some of you have gas about the Patriot Act, if you're a little concerned about renditions, if you're a little nervous about surveillance, I can't imagine what it was we would have done collectively if we would have had a second catastrophic failure.
	And so one of the items of conscience that we had was as tough as these decisions were, if they were inside the line and they actually made a difference, you need both, You're almost duty-bound to go do them.
	I tell a story in the book.
	I told you I only had two detainees, right?
	But I did authorize techniques against one of them, a fellow named Muhammad Rahim, because we actually thought he knew where a bunch of senior al-Qaeda folks, very senior, were living.
	And he was tough.
	He wouldn't talk.
	Why would he say senior al-Qaeda folks?
	Why does he diminish it that way instead of saying senior al-Qaeda operatives, war warriors or something?
	Anything but folks.
	I don't know.
	That shows an inherent...
	He's not afraid of it.
	He's a very...
	Interesting character, I have to say.
	We're a bunch of senior al-Qaeda folks.
	Very senior.
	We're living.
	And he was tough.
	He wouldn't talk.
	And I remember sitting there with the order.
	We killed him.
	You know, Catholic grade school, human dignity, with the order, saying, do I want to subject another human being to...
	Enhanced interrogation.
	In this case, it was sleep deprivation that was the real thing I was authorizing.
	And now I wish for all the world that somebody else had to make that decision.
	I couldn't do violence to my personal conscience, but in addition to my personal conscience, I carried yours.
	Or at least I carried your well-being.
	I have to say something about this.
	I know many military people, spooks, None of them have ever, as far as I know, publicly spoken about this type of thing.
	It is unspoken.
	You don't talk about who you killed, who you tortured, I'm sorry, enhancedly interrogated.
	This is outside the norm.
	I think he's a guilt-ridden Catholic boy.
	Could be.
	He's a cuck.
	And he's looking for rationales.
	He's coming up with, I did it for you.
	I did it for you.
	I didn't do, you know, all to protect you.
	That's when he starts to have a little school.
	He has a bad conscience.
	You're right.
	A really bad one.
	He's a huge, really bad one.
	He'd just be like the typical guy you're talking about and just shut the F up.
	No, I know it.
	He's a cuck.
	Cuck.
	Chew-hater.
	The war room has given me the Urban Dictionary definition of cuck.
	Okay.
	Short verb form for cuckold.
	To make your spouse a cuckold.
	Example.
	I want to get three black men with fat dongs.
	I need to cuck my husband after he porked the babysitter.
	Cuckold.
	Can you use the word in a sentence, please?
	Alright, we've got to take a break, but I do want to play three little clips that talk about our industry, our little industry here, the disdain of the mainstream media for what we're doing, and that, of course, is podcasting.
	Podcasting is the lowest rung in the show.
	We could do this segment forever.
	Yep, we could.
	But today we'll start off with three short clips, all equal length, from Family Guy.
	Hey, you know what, guys?
	This right here, this rambling, boring conversation containing already-made-before observations, this could be a podcast.
	What's the guy's name, Seth?
	What's his name?
	Seth MacFarlane is the writer.
	Yeah, blow me, Seth.
	It's actually not a bad idea.
	Really?
	A podcast?
	Don't you have to be some sort of whiz kid to do those?
	Definitely not.
	Anyone with a computer can make one.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I saw this.
	This is the mainstream take.
	No, you told me to watch it.
	Remember?
	You told me to watch it.
	Yeah, I did.
	I told you to watch it.
	It's a good one.
	I got one last one here.
	All right, you guys.
	Podcast time.
	We got the equipment and the perfect business plan.
	Give our show away for free and tell no one how to find it.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Well, we're not giving our show away for free, and I think we can tell a few people how to find it, even though we could do better.
	Yeah.
	Let's start with Chef James, who gave us $100, and he finally collected his bet from the election.
	Oh, nice.
	Good for him.
	Lance Forrest in Newport, North Carolina, came with $99.999999.
	Niner, niner, niner!
	What is this?
	Is this Lusano?
	Lucero?
	Lucero?
	Lucero Moes in Vala Beach, New South Wales, Australia, 91.
	What is Lucero?
	Lucero says, I can't believe you are so prescient, Adam.
	It is all about the gas pipes and the so-called Assad chemical attack on his people.
	It was a setup!
	Trump was finally given an offer he couldn't refuse, and now he's just another puppet of the deep state.
	Well, now you're confusing the two.
	Yeah, it happens.
	Yeah.
	But you're prescient, okay?
	Yeah, that's why I read it.
	Right, okay.
	Right, okay.
	Merrick Lannick, 6565.
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	These are happy birthday wishes for you, John.
	Oh, happy birthday, John, wishing you health and happiness.
	Thank you very much.
	And he needs to interview karma.
	We'll give you that right at the end.
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	David, what are you being interviewed for?
	I need to know.
	David Arelanis, 65.
	Another birthday donation.
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	Michael Aspenhag in Sweden, I guess.
	Fugesta.
	Yeah, we got a little Sweden stuff to talk about.
	Fugesta.
	65.
	Sir Steve McConnell in Cortland, Ohio, 65.
	These are all birthday gifts.
	Sir Andrew Lemesney, the baron of some place.
	Lemesney, Lemesney.
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	59 missiles, he said.
	So he gave us $59.
	You missed a great opportunity, John.
	Who knew?
	Yeah, fantastic.
	You could have done a dollar for every missile.
	We can prove that to Thursday.
	59 missiles, $59, and one in the drink.
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	That's our complete list of producers for show.
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	Yeah, Chuck needs reading because...
	You got one 919.
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	Good for you.
	Chuck Kendrick's note, my $50 donation takes me to $1,036.21 total to take me out of night probation.
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	Was he the guy who was in probation, night probation?
	No, no, no.
	Our ninth probation was Melanson.
	He was in Grand Duke probation.
	Ah, right, right, right, right.
	Okay.
	Big difference.
	Well, thank you very much, shortlist.
	And, of course, we had more people supporting us under $50, typically for reasons of anonymity, but also a lot of people on subscriptions.
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	Status report from Sweden.
	From Jürgen Andersen, producer over there.
	Diffin, I think.
	Hey, Adam and John, just want to let you know some information from Boots on the Ground in Sweden.
	You know all the information about what has happened.
	There was a couple of people arrested.
	This is in relation to the terrorist attack, truck attack.
	And he says, what I find very interesting is that the police and military had a training exercise regarding terrorist attacks just the day before!
	This always pisses me off.
	Just the day before.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	Well, that reminds me of this sketchy story from our side of the water, which is the manifesto guy.
	You got something from the manifesto guy?
	Yeah, I have two clips, actually.
	I have him talking, too, into a camera.
	Okay.
	But manifesto guy is the guy who's sent some big manifesto to the president, and there's a big deal, and the FBI's got to come in.
	You know, I don't know, you can play this, and we'll catch up.
	Police are searching for a man accused of sending an angry manifesto to President Trump.
	Law enforcement officials are calling the Wisconsin man a national threat after he allegedly stole handguns and rifles.
	Will Carr is live in Los Angeles with all the details.
	Will?
	Okay, first of all, this is all taking place in Wisconsin.
	Yeah.
	So why is the guy live in Los Angeles?
	I know why.
	Because he's on the border of Wisconsin.
	It's on the border.
	I mean, let's get over this.
	We're not going to get over it, John.
	It's not going to happen.
	Here we go with the rest of the story.
	Arthel, this is now a nationwide manhunt with the FBI offering a $10,000 reward.
	It all started on Tuesday when authorities say that Joseph Jakubowski broke into a gun store in Janesville, Wisconsin.
	He allegedly stole 16 high-end firearms, including at least two assault rifles.
	Authorities believe he also has a bulletproof vest and a military-style helmet.
	A short time after the burglary, authorities say that Jakubowski torched his car and then disappeared.
	Fast forward to Thursday when a so-called associate told police that Jacobowski made a vague threat about a school that caused a number of Wisconsin schools to close on Friday and at least one church has decided not to hold services this weekend.
	The same associate then told authorities about a want Anybody that got this letter, you might want to read it.
	There it is.
	You see, it's getting shipped.
	Revolution.
	It's time for change.
	Well, authorities think that Jakubowski is in Wisconsin.
	I'm told that the honest truth is he could be anywhere at this point.
	Arthel.
	Will Carr.
	Thanks, Will.
	This is interesting in context of something else I saw.
	Because they say manifesto.
	Have we seen said manifesto?
	Can we read it somewhere?
	No, we dropped it in the mail, depending on how the service is.
	We'll probably never see it because it's being addressed to Trump, I think.
	The Ministry of Truthiness in Washington, D.C., without doubt, is the Newseum.
	The Newseum.
	It's a museum of Newseum.
	And you know what's on display right now at Newseum?
	No.
	Ted Kaczynski's cabin.
	They took his cabin apart and put it together in the Newseum?
	Yeah, the Newseum.
	Oh, I'd love to see that.
	And it says, a big sign, please don't touch the Unabomber's cabin, it says.
	Wow.
	So, that could just be coincidence, but I always go with my gut.
	It might be a marketing trick.
	To get people to the Newseum, which is always good.
	All these good spook talks.
	The whole lectures about, you know, the spy craft.
	They're all at the Newseum.
	Yes.
	This is a news museum.
	Ha!
	Newseum.
	I loved all of these reports recently.
	About the Russian Navy approaching the U.S. Navy?
	Have you seen that junker that they show this Russian ship is smoking?
	It's not even a nuke.
	It's just this old Smokey Joe.
	It looks like an oiler.
	The thing is, that thing was, it was a planned mission.
	It did something.
	It's just on its way back home.
	They're not going to go fight our Navy.
	They're not.
	Of course not.
	They keep identifying the same ship in different places.
	I have it all in the show notes.
	You can take a look at it.
	It's very funny.
	Fact check false.
	Department.
	Oh, I have two fact check false items.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll kick it off and then you can take us there.
	Google News and FaceBag both now have started with their fact check labels.
	Which include a tag next to appropriate news stories.
	If you want to share, that's for Google.
	So Google News, a purpose-built tag for our era of discontent fake news stories on social media and flat-out lies.
	And on the face bag, there will also be a flag.
	And if you want to share a story, it will stop you and say, hold on, this is fake news.
	Are you sure you want to share this?
	Okay, cancel.
	I don't know.
	Whatever the options are.
	So this is now taking place, and of course it'll be, and it's all part of these verified checkmarks, the little blue dots.
	It's all a part of the world moving forward.
	You will have a blue checkmark on your sleeve if you're okay.
	Yeah.
	In the form of an armband, by the way.
	Probably.
	That's the way to go.
	Now, John, this is a great product idea.
	Finally, armbands with the little verified checkmark, little verified blue thing.
	What does it look like on Twitter?
	Let me see.
	Let me take a look at you, because you all have one.
	I'm sure you've never seen one.
	No, I don't have one, so.
	The real...
	You've been blackballed, my friend.
	Blackballed.
	No, they hate me.
	Why?
	Why, though?
	Who knows?
	It's somebody, some jilted lover.
	I don't know.
	I think it's a microaggression against people with Tourette's.
	Yeah, it's a little blue flowery thing with a check mark inside.
	That would look dynamite on an armband, don't you think?
	It would.
	That would look really nice.
	You wear it around, especially the mixers, these little parties they have in Silicon Valley all the time.
	And then you can just say, I'm verified.
	I'm sorry, you're not verified.
	Check me out.
	Yeah, I'm verified.
	It's not by Twitter, it's just I'm verified as a human resource.
	Well, that's the way it's going to go.
	Yeah, I'm verified.
	Okay, so what do you have on fact check?
	All right, I got a couple.
	You have to identify the fake news part of it, or the fact check false.
	Let's go with, apparently on China TV, which I watch now, to get very interesting perspectives on things.
	So, you know, Xi's over here, the prime minister, president.
	And he stopped in Alaska on the way back.
	Who knew?
	Here's a clip.
	Okay.
	At the top of our program, we follow Chinese President Xi Jinping to Alaska, where he met with a state governor during a refueling stop following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier in Florida.
	After arriving in the state capitol, Anchorage, President Xi and Governor Bill Walker held a business meeting.
	Dynamite.
	What's the capital of Alaska?
	I'm sure it's not Anchorage.
	This is Juneau.
	Juneau, yes.
	So...
	Yeah, so this is the Chinese news.
	They can't even get the capital right.
	You can't really get to Juneau, which is a great idea for a capital.
	And it's funny because Juneau is easier for them to pronounce.
	Anchorage.
	Anchorage.
	Now, the Gorsuch guy got in.
	Yeah, that was kind of underreported that they changed the rules.
	No, we wanted to report on the war.
	Come on, what's more important?
	War, yes.
	So let's play this little, this is changes in the Senate.
	This is a little rundown of what happened, so now you only need a majority vote to confirm a Supreme Court justice instead of 16.
	John, another important story tonight.
	The Senate Republican leadership has now cleared the way for a vote tomorrow on President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.
	But in order to do that, they had to change the rules of the Senate, and some senators say the Senate will never be the same.
	That's right.
	The Senate doesn't change rules that often.
	In this case, they made it so that Supreme Court justices can be confirmed with a simple majority and not the 60-vote hurdle to stop a filibuster.
	Republicans say Democrats forced them to do it by having a partisan filibuster.
	Democrats say Republicans are to blame for never allowing President Obama's nominee Merrick Garland to even get a hearing.
	Privately, what senators say to me is they feel locked in a partisan system.
	No one on either side wants to go against their voters or interest groups.
	Who treat these moments like purity tests.
	The Senate was designed to be distanced from all that, to give, to promote compromise, but has been growing steadily more partisan over the years, and so this was really the period to the end of a sentence.
	The United States Senate is not what it once was.
	And yet the Republican, the Republic will go on.
	John Dickerson, Jeff Gage, thanks very much.
	What does that mean?
	He said the Republicans are going to go on.
	So he was thinking, even though it's the Republic will go on.
	Yeah, he said the Republicans.
	Yes, it is.
	But he said Republicans because he's thinking, that's what he's thinking.
	He's a moron.
	He's a moron.
	Now, the funny thing about this whole debate about the Senate, the Senate only recently, through a constitutional amendment, is elected by the public.
	Initially, when the Constitution was written and when the system was designed, because of this problem that they're now experiencing, the Senate was chosen by the states.
	So the California state legislature would pick two people.
	Two senators, yes.
	To represent the state in Washington.
	So they weren't worried about popular vote, which is what they're bitching about now.
	Because, oh God, everything's a litmus test.
	So whatever they do, they're going to get voted out of office.
	No, that's not the way it was designed to begin with.
	It was only designed during that period of time where we're thinking, why is the senator, he doesn't represent me.
	And they never were supposed to represent you.
	They're supposed to represent the state.
	And the state's interest, not the public.
	Not the voting public.
	Correct.
	But they should go back to it just to repeal that amendment.
	I like the old system.
	I'm sure it was crummy when you were experiencing it because of the type of corruption that used to take place.
	But that type of corruption doesn't exist anymore.
	It's new kinds of corruption.
	Well, there's the $500 billion fraud at the Housing and Urban Development Department.
	Yeah, that's a good example of new corruption.
	That got almost no play.
	I know war.
	I know.
	I know.
	I know war.
	War.
	I did enjoy seeing that Jared Kushner has hired...
	What was this douchebag's name?
	Hold on.
	He hired a Hollywood bozo.
	Yes.
	Ruffle?
	This is a Hollywood...
	Top Hollywood publicist for the White House.
	That's an interesting idea.
	This guy has worked for Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates...
	Worked for Bill Gates?
	Yeah, for his PR, yeah.
	Bill Gates was made in PR to death by Wagner Edstrom and Pam Edstrom, who just died recently.
	I'd like to know what this guy did for Bill Gates.
	We can find out.
	I'm skeptical, let's put it that way.
	Maybe during his most recent era, where he's portrayed as the great philanthropist, or maybe he had something to do with it, although I doubt that Wagner Edstrom was out of the picture.
	Yeah, look at who this guy is.
	Yeah, I will.
	I do want to mention some new technology.
	We don't have to do tech news.
	I found about this just yesterday, and it seems...
	I don't know how it caught fire.
	Again, this is what I was going to say.
	We need a terrorist attack, and we need a new trinket.
	I think a new trinket has showed up.
	It's called Mastodon.
	M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N. Oh, God.
	What?
	What?
	Well, yeah.
	Okay, go on.
	Just talk about Mastodon.
	I'll have my say after you're done.
	No, why don't you go first?
	It's a piece of shit!
	Why?
	I'm done.
	Okay, your turn.
	Okay.
	I think it's very interesting.
	I don't know why it's a piece of shit.
	Well, try to get an account.
	I got an account.
	I can't get one.
	Well, the whole beauty of it is it's decentralized or they call it federalized.
	So it's kind of like IRC. The way I see it, it's nothing more than IRC. Exactly the same.
	It's supposed to be like Twitter, but it's like the IRC. Yes.
	Hey, I want to just mention to anyone who wants to know, the IRC already exists.
	Right.
	I've long thought putting a social media web interface on top of email or on top of IRC is the way to go.
	And what I like about this is that we can set up a no agenda server or multiple no agenda servers and that's your own community but you can then connect to any other servers you want and that's how it builds out.
	It's a decentralized social network.
	I like the concept.
	I'm going to look into it.
	Okay, you can go ahead with the idea.
	But just because you didn't You called a piece of crap, I'll use a nice term, because you couldn't get an account.
	How hard is that?
	If it's any good, you should be able to get an account pretty quickly.
	The other thing, the reason I got into this is because Lance Ulanoff from Mashable says to me, how come you haven't blasted this thing?
	And he wrote some nasty thing about it.
	Why?
	Why did he blast it?
	Because of the structure.
	That's the beauty.
	Wow, man, you need to check yourself, bro.
	I'm just telling you, he blasted it and wondered why I didn't blast it, so I looked at it.
	And you just blasted it, and then you just went along and blasted it.
	You haven't even tried it.
	You couldn't get an account.
	There's no central authority.
	This is an open source project.
	That's the point.
	If it's an open source project, wide open, how come you have to go through a central authority to get an account?
	You don't!
	I signed up on an Italian server.
	You don't!
	So you're on an Italian server.
	How can I talk to you?
	By getting on any other server and then addressing my username on that server if your server is not already connected to the Federation.
	So this is the IRC with usernames that are permanent.
	Well, that is the one thing that is interesting about the system.
	I could have...
	There's no central repository of usernames.
	So you could actually wind up with...
	So you have a URL and then your username.
	But you could wind up with someone with the same username on a different server.
	And I'm not sure how...
	Look, I only started looking at...
	I got my account this morning in one minute.
	It wasn't that hard.
	That is what could be a problem, but I'm just looking at the interface.
	I'm looking at the excitement around it.
	I'm looking at the number of servers that are being set up.
	I think there's something there, and I encourage that a lot.
	Okay.
	Here's the problem I have, which made me jump to conclusions.
	You made it sound like some new trinket that's coming around that everyone's going to flock to like crazy, like Facebook.
	In mine?
	I don't see it.
	Well, give it a second.
	All I see is a huge uptick of people talking about it.
	It could be nothing.
	You're right.
	But I thought it was interesting.
	And I thought it was interesting because it has no central authority, unlike what you just said.
	If you go to their website...
	In the case, there's a central authority for getting an account.
	There's not.
	I didn't go any deeper than that.
	I just looked at the way it was structured, and I saw all these different servers floating around, all these different guys are running in with three, four people, 300 people, 500 people, a lot of people, no people, on these different little subsections.
	And they all talk to each other.
	They do that on the IRC. They have all these different servers, and the servers talk to each other, and you can...
	Get in a room and you can create a name, you can change your name, you can do whatever you want.
	No, that part isn't...
	So the room concept does not exist in this case.
	There's not a room concept.
	It's still all open.
	Right.
	So you tweet and you can do all the typical things.
	Look, I'm going to...
	Do I get when I'm in there?
	You've already played with it.
	I didn't get an account.
	When you're in a room and you tweet something out, or whatever you want to call it, mastodon it out...
	Actually, they call it toot.
	When you toot something out, which is a cocaine term, when you toot something out...
	It's a term like farting.
	It's not a cocaine term.
	It's fart, you toot.
	Yeah, you toot.
	It's a cocaine term.
	So if you toot some cocaine out into the public, everybody sees it, or who sees it?
	Yeah, the people who are on your server...
	They have to be on your server.
	No.
	No.
	If your server is connected to the federation, which means you're connected and there's bots that connect and do all kinds of things, then it doesn't matter.
	It's like email.
	I can send you an email on my server, my own curry.com server.
	It will eventually wind up at your server.
	That's the federated part that I like so much.
	And this was better than email how?
	Oh, God.
	All right, fine.
	Oh, my God!
	Look, I'm not going to argue with you.
	You haven't seen it.
	I will make a point of seeing it and argue with you later.
	Or I'll fall in love with it.
	You may.
	You may.
	It's possible.
	You may.
	All right.
	I have a funny clip from Malibu.
	Malibu.
	Malibu, yes.
	Malibu.
	Now, Malibu had a vote.
	And the vote was in favor, two to one.
	I think there's only three people in Malibu on the city council to make Malibu a sanctuary city.
	Yes.
	And it's only 25 miles from Los Angeles.
	Which brings us to the question I'll ask if you haven't asked it.
	Okay, so I play the clip and then you can ask it?
	Yeah.
	The Coast Highway in Malibu drawing a whole lot of attention.
	Take a look here.
	It reads, Official Sanctuary City.
	Cheap nannies and gardeners make Malibu great.
	Boyle Heights?
	Not so much.
	Malibu City officials say the sign is a prank.
	It was not put up by the city.
	The city manager says it will be taken down.
	I love that.
	Okay, I didn't know the whole story.
	I wondered about it.
	I thought it was a prank.
	Because I saw it.
	Well, no, no, no, hold on.
	They actually did become a sanctuary city.
	Oh, yeah, I know, but it's the sign.
	Yeah, of course that's bullcrap.
	But it's like...
	It looks good, though.
	It looks very official.
	No, the sign looks dynamite.
	It was obviously done by one of these signs.
	We have one of these around here.
	We could do that.
	But we have one of these companies that makes...
	Oh, we should do that for Austin.
	Austin is ground zero.
	We should do that here.
	You want me to get your prices?
	They make the real signs, you know, the do not cross, all these signs.
	There's a place right down here, like it's not more than 10 blocks from my house, that makes these signs.
	They make stop signs.
	You want a stop sign?
	You can go in there and buy stock signs.
	You can have these custom signs made.
	And whoever did that sign is good.
	That was a beautiful piece of work.
	Yeah, it was good.
	I'm guessing it probably cost a couple hundred bucks.
	Worth it.
	Worth it.
	Prank.
	Yeah, fantastic, man.
	Fantastic.
	Oh, and Tommy Lahren.
	She's doing something very bad.
	Dumb, dumb, dumb.
	Okay.
	So she got put on non-active first.
	Might as well.
	Yeah, give it a new story.
	Tommy Lahren's the blonde millennial girl who was on The Blaze.
	Very conservative, loud.
	I like her.
	Fast talker.
	Fast talker.
	I like her.
	Sharp.
	Very smart.
	I like watching her.
	I think she has some...
	Pretty.
	She's pretty.
	In kind of a way that, you know, too blonde and too white teeth, but okay.
	And she went on The View and she said, well, you know, I'm really kind of pro-choice.
	I'm not really against abortion in that way.
	And I can be conservative and still have different views.
	Well, of course, not according to Glenn Beck.
	And he put her on non-active.
	And now it comes out.
	And then he fired her.
	I think it was terminated.
	That's still up in the air.
	Well, what has come out now is that she has filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination.
	Yeah.
	That's according to Boston News.
	Yeah, we know what that means.
	It could be bullcrap.
	Well, no, it also means if it's not bullcrap, she's never going to work again.
	That's my point.
	Big mistake.
	Tommy dropped the lawsuit right away.
	You never work in show business if you sue someone over getting fired.
	Yeah, or anything that's even outside the realm of what goes on in the business.
	It's not a good idea at all.
	The business is you get fired.
	Yeah, it happens.
	Move on.
	A lot.
	Move on.
	But the real jip is when you don't get your money.
	And you can sue over that.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, that's because someone is a criminal.
	But you don't sue over stuff like that.
	Very dumb.
	Yeah, I agree 100%.
	That was a mistake.
	I just have one last thing.
	I don't know if it'll work because I saw the video.
	I heard the audio first.
	I thought it was funny.
	Then I saw the video.
	I thought it was funny.
	This is John McCain speaking.
	When they do these talks, he was at the lectern in this case, they have that odd microphone that they pass amongst each other.
	It's like the size of a crayon with a clip.
	And then so they clip that crayon mic with a wire onto their lapel or whatever while they're talking or some hold it or...
	You've seen this?
	Oh yeah.
	So McCain is behind Electron and Electron has, I think it's cup holders.
	Either that or hold it for flagpoles.
	God knows what those two holes are for.
	But McCain puts the mic...
	Into one of those holes, and it just keeps on falling out.
	And I don't know, the sound, everything just kind of made me chuckle.
	We'll see what it does for you.
	President, I rise for today to support the nomination.
	He's putting it back.
	He's trying to put it back in the hole there.
	He's doing it on purpose.
	No, no, no, no.
	When you see it, he's not.
	And confirming Judge Neal M. Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court.
	I do so with mixed emotions because I believe that the action taken in order to...
	I just thought it was funny.
	What a boob.
	The sound of that thing was just...
	It's so typical, this sound.
	That's a mic drop McCain style.
	What an idiot.
	I've got one last, or I can stretch either one.
	Well, it's time to go.
	Okay, well then we'll do this last one.
	This is just a story that we have to remember that when some of our great business leaders get too much money, they always go nuts.
	And many of them get involved with jet leasing, or the real screwballs get involved in rocketry.
	Space!
	Space!
	Wait, no.
	First it's million dollar cars.
	Then it's space.
	You gotta have your Asian house with all your Eastern secrets that you've learned from your many trips to the Far East and your katana sword and your komodo.
	You gotta have one of those.
	And you gotta have your airplane.
	You gotta have your little airplane.
	It's cool, like Harrison Ford has a Husky.
	And a big yacht if you feel like it.
	Gotta have a yacht.
	Okay, so we're there.
	Here's Bezos.
	Okay.
	Turning to rocket science now, it's increasingly getting a boost from private companies.
	In the United States, private firms are eyeing space exploration for their investment.
	Tech billionaires such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos have already poured money into the sector.
	Take a look.
	One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.
	Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced plans to sell one billion dollars worth of the retail giant shares every year to fund his Blue Origin rocket venture with the goal of launching paying passengers on 11-minute space rides starting next year.
	I want Blue Origin to be a thriving enterprise and to help open the gateway to this new generation of people who will have this dynamic entrepreneurial explosion in space.
	That's what we're going to do, and that can only be done if it's sustaining.
	But it's a long road to get there, and I'm happy to invest in it.
	But tourism isn't the only sector of the space race with growth potential.
	The market for global satellite services is vast, encompassing, for starters, imaging satellites and commercial communications like satellite TV, radio, and broadband.
	According to the 2016 State of the Satellite Industry Report, the global satellite industry grew 3% in 2015.
	That's slightly above worldwide economic growth and U.S. growth.
	3%!
	Oh my god, jump on that sucker!
	Well, the way I see it, just another guy is going out to get some of that government money.
	No, this is Bezos, no.
	I don't think he's doing the same scam that Musk is the smart money here.
	Bezos is just doing this as a lark.
	He's going to put a billion dollars a year in it, and the idea is to send 11 people up No, a group of people up for an 11-minute joy ride.
	This is an amusement park ride that he's invented that he's going to drop all this money into for some people with too much money to get in this stupid thing and go, oh, look, I'm in outer space, and oh, here I come.
	I'm coming back down.
	To me, it's like the first one of these things that blows up and then everybody in the port...
	That's going to be a benefit to mankind.
	It'll be glorious.
	Glorious.
	Where is Richard Branson's space plane?
	Where was that?
	He's still working on it, too.
	Oh, please.
	Please.
	It's not going to happen.
	No, this is not doable.
	None of this is going to happen.
	The liability issues are off the scale.
	For one thing, you're only appealing to people that are billionaires that can afford to get in this stupid rocket.
	And they've got teams of lawyers.
	They get killed?
	You're doomed.
	You're done.
	It would be so glorious.
	Oh, my God.
	I would love to see that.
	Well, you said it's not going to happen.
	No, it's not going to happen.
	All right, everybody.
	Well, we'll have to leave the trap baby story for Thursday.
	And...
	The whole list of stuff.
	Yeah, and your 50-50.
	We've got to talk about your 50-50.
	50-50?
	Yeah, your 50-50.
	I already forgot what that is.
	Oh.
	Yes, because you did 50-50 is why you forgot.
	I don't know what that means.
	Okay.
	You will find out on Thursday, John.
	And until that time, I want to thank everybody for tuning in.
	Thank you, everybody in the war room.
	And remember to support us for Thursday's show.
	Please remember.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. We need support, certainly after today's showing.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, here at the Crackpot Condo, located in the skyscraper, FEMA Region 6 on all the governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I have no such details, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll return on Thursday with another edition of your No Agenda show.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	Mr. Trump.
	Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	Well, I'm not saying the movie wasn't a piece of crap.
	Have you ever used cocaine?
	Mr. Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	As you can tell, she did a job inside the property.
	She did over there.
	But it's all catching up with Bill O'Reilly and that sexual harassment enterprise.
	Mr. Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	And you have over 30 advertisers.
	We need some element of decency.
	I'm not wanting to be between them anymore because of the way that they have.
	Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	She did her job.
	Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	Mr. Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	They do so because she's a woman.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Bill O'Reilly needs to go to jail.
	Mr. Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Any good standing up for Bill O'Reilly.
	And where was Ivanka?
	She's a woman.
	Baby cushion, someone's getting corn-holed today.
	Oh my God.
	I think she either advised him wrong or she's upset and she's not at that.
	Because it's spreading.
	This guy is a fuss to me.
	Mr.
	Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	Anything.
	Raw sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Anything.
	Raw sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Today, the president raged.
	Raw sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Well, I'm not saying the movie wasn't a piece of crap.
	A lot of great movies are pieces of crap.
	We need to kill them.
	Bomb them.
	and bomb them again.
	We need to kill them.
	We need to kill them.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	And bomb them again.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	And bomb them again.
	And bomb them again.
	Bomb them.
	And kill them.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them and kill them.
	Bomb, bomb, bomb them again.
	Bomb, bomb, bomb them again.
	We need to kill them.
	Bomb, bomb, bomb them again.
	Bomb, bomb, bomb them again.
	And bomb them again.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my God. my God.
	Oh, my God. my God.
	Oh, my God. my God.
	I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Eunice.
	It's all catching up with Bill O'Reilly and that sexual harassment enterprise.
	Whoa, you got butt slammed!
	Ho, ho, ho, ho!
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.

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