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1215: Omnipocalypse

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	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, February 9th, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1215.
	This is no agenda.
	Canceling our cruise tickets and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Boston, Texas.
	Capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm selling off my closet, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Okay, you've got me interested.
	The closet or the contents of the closet?
	All the contents of the closet.
	Oh my goodness!
	This is a treasure trove!
	Yeah.
	Are you putting it on Etsy?
	I'm not sure how I'm going to do this.
	The first item, Fred, is going to be done item by item.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	I don't understand.
	You're a classically trained archivist.
	Yeah.
	Why would you consider giving anything away?
	I'm not giving it away.
	I'm selling it.
	No, I mean getting rid of any.
	No, I understand.
	And how did you come to this?
	This is big news.
	This is shocking.
	Because I'm worried about a couple of the items.
	I know they're going to end up getting damaged or something.
	And they should be in the hands of a capable fellow archivist.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Okay.
	Are you going to do it item per item?
	And can we discuss each one on a different episode of the show?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	What's today?
	What do we have on the docket?
	I have a Microsoft Bob Frisbee.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Okay, we will be posting a picture later, of course.
	I have it.
	Of this fine, fine collector's item.
	And what do you hope to get for this item on today's show, John?
	A hundred bucks.
	A hundred bucks!
	Okay, great.
	Well, and how many items do you think you have?
	How long will it take?
	About a year.
	Before we've gotten rid of everything.
	A year to two years.
	Wow, that's fantastic.
	I'm very excited about this estate sale.
	Estate.
	A stank.
	A stank sale.
	Okay.
	I have a suggestion.
	By the way, I should mention the Microsoft Bob Frisbee.
	It has never been flown.
	It's just mint condition.
	Virgin.
	Does it have plastic on it or any other markings that will prove its virginity?
	You can just look at it and tell.
	It's never been used.
	Okay.
	Virgin Bob, everybody.
	$100.
	Can't wait.
	Very exciting.
	Well, you know what, since we're just kind of getting off to a different start, there was something that happened on the last show that we as marketers, branders, marketers, advertising executives, you know, should be kind of interested in.
	Yes.
	As I'd like to put it, marketeers.
	Marketeers.
	Yes.
	Let me see.
	Okay, right away, everything that I wanted to do, of course, a false part.
	I got it, I got it, I got it.
	Let me play for you the piece from the show.
	And Tina actually kind of called me out on this.
	She said, what was going on there?
	What exactly did you think you recalled, remembered?
	Did you really know what John was talking about?
	This is from 1214.
	This is about the Super Bowl advertisements.
	They had a lot of screwy stuff, too.
	The Google ad was creepy.
	That was enjoyable because it was so bad.
	Wait a minute.
	Which one was that?
	Oh, my gosh.
	That was horrible.
	Yeah, the worst ad.
	I think it was the worst ad.
	Explain it again.
	I don't remember it.
	All I remember, I just grabbed my notes.
	Horrible worst ad ever.
	Creepy Google ad.
	So it was not effective in terms of memory.
	No.
	So here is what happened.
	I remember...
	Because Tina asked me...
	Because you kind of pretended like you knew what it was, and then you said, John, why don't you tell us?
	Fully well knowing that I wouldn't really remember what was going on.
	And then you didn't remember.
	I was immediately looking at the troll room to see if they remember.
	Tina told me about this and said she didn't remember the ad either.
	So I figured we'd play the ad.
	Hey, Google, show me photos of me and Loretta.
	Do you remember what the ad was now?
	Oh yeah.
	Here's the nutty part!
	The ad is literally for a service that helps you remember and neither you, me, the troll room, or my wife could remember the ad!
	This has to be some subliminal thing that is wrong with this advertisement.
	Or right with it.
	Say what?
	Or write with it.
	Oh, well, no, but if they're trying to promote something to help you remember, you should at least...
	And you can't remember the ad.
	It's possible it's dug into your brain.
	So this is the...
	And the reason it was kind of creepy is because it was clearly an old guy whose wife had died, and he's saying, oh, yeah, remember all this.
	Google, remember it for me.
	And then Google, of course, remembers and will tell him, And, you know, it was just, there's something about what was going on that no one remembered the actual ad, and I just wanted to put that as a data point.
	Also, a data point to this comment.
	Okay, here's the problem.
	What was with all these callbacks to the 60s and 70s, how old was this audience?
	Exactly.
	That ad was for 80-year-olds.
	Oh, that's an interesting connection.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Well, the callbacks were annoying.
	I mean, they weren't to me.
	I got all of them.
	But, you know, I'm sitting there watching it with Jay, and she's looking at it going, huh?
	What do you think that's about?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Because they didn't know.
	There's no way you would know half of these callbacks.
	I mean, all that was missing was an F-troop callback.
	Yeah.
	F-true.
	That's even hard for me to remember.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	We have, maybe before we get into debates, we do just something a little more international for everybody, even seeing the ratings of the debates.
	People don't care that much more in America, just as a little...
	I have a few debate clips.
	Well, why don't we, you want to do some Wuhan flu to get that out of the way first?
	Well, what do you got?
	Everybody's blue from the Wuhan flu.
	Okay.
	Wuhan flu.
	What I got?
	I got this guy.
	He's a professor at University of Chicago.
	I think that's where he's from.
	His name is Dr.
	Boyle.
	He's actually the guy...
	Dr.
	Boyle?
	Have you heard of Dr.
	Boyle?
	Is his first name Lance?
	Ha!
	That would be funny, wouldn't it?
	No.
	Let me see if I can find his first...
	Well, Francis Boyle, he is the...
	He drafted the Biological Weapons Act...
	And he still works at the university at Chicago.
	Let me see which one it is.
	Okay, well, before we play that, let's play the update on PBS of the coronavirus story that came out on Saturday, and they'll go right into that.
	Okay, and it's titled...
	Coronavirus Update Saturday.
	All right, here we go.
	US officials announced today that an American citizen has died from the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
	The 60-year-old woman who died on Thursday reportedly had underlying health issues before becoming the first known American fatality from the illness.
	As the death toll rises and the virus spreads, authorities from around the world are taking strict precautions to slow the spread of the deadly disease.
	Hong Kong said today that it will begin enforcing a mandatory quarantine for anyone arriving from mainland China.
	And 3,700 people are being ordered to remain aboard a cruise ship for 14 days after 64 passengers tested positive for the virus.
	The coronavirus has infected nearly 35,000 people globally since it was first detected in December.
	Right.
	So the main issues, the things that I'm hearing, but of course have no evidence of, because we really don't know how honest the Communist Party of China is being, that every number you hear, you should probably just multiply it by 10.
	That's the general consensus among people discussing it at great length.
	Dr.
	Francis Boyle, here it is, drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was approved by both houses of the U.S. and signed into law by H.W. Bush.
	And he really doesn't get on mainstream media anymore.
	I'm not sure why.
	I have a feeling that he might have said something during SARS that pissed somebody off and he's just ignored it.
	So he shows up on all kinds of other podcasts and radio shows.
	This is my favorite radio station, KPOO. K-P-O-O. Are you familiar with KPOO FM? Actually, I am.
	I've heard of that station.
	I think it's a West Coast.
	KPOO, everybody.
	Here he is.
	I routinely monitor outbreaks of disease around the world, both for humans and animals, to see if there might be a biological warfare agent at work.
	So I followed what was going on there at Wuhan and eventually reached the conclusion that what we are dealing here is an offensive biological warfare agent that leaked out of the Wuhan Biosafety Level 4.
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop.
	Let's back up.
	Now you're asking the rhetorical question at the beginning of this clip, why they don't bring this guy on and he seems to be marginalized?
	Yeah.
	Who can bring this guy on and panic the public?
	I think he was marginalized before the Wuhan outbreak.
	Here's his full credits.
	He's not a medical doctor, which makes it a little more interesting slash challenging.
	Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, also from Harvard.
	So he is not a medical doctor.
	No, but he sounds like a very smart person.
	Well, yes.
	You get a JD from Harvard and magnet come louder, you're no slouch.
	But again, here he is saying stuff that, for whatever reason, including widespread panic, is not allowed on the M5M. That leaked out of the Wuhan Biosafety Level 4 laboratory there that has been DNA genetically engineered With gain-of-function properties that simply accelerates the DNA genetically engineering
	for a biowarfare agent in the first place.
	And as far as I can tell right now, Steve, just having read the public record, it does appear as if it's a combination of what's called a camera, that basically you have the SARS And we know that that facility has previously worked with SARS,
	and SARS leaked out of there at least twice before, combined with the flu virus, and it appears also combined with HIV that, you know, leads to AIDS at a minimum.
	Here's probably why it got marginalized.
	October 26, 2010, Boyle sharply criticized Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, stating that, quote, Obama was bought and paid for by Zionists.
	That's why Rahm Emanuel was his chief of staff until just recently when he decided to run for mayor of Chicago.
	Emanuel was bought and paid for to be put in there the same way Dennis Ross and the White House Mrs.
	Clinton sold her soul to the Zionists in New York to get elected as senator from New York.
	Yeah, I think that is what kind of gets you kicked off mainstream.
	Yeah, that's not going to fly.
	That doesn't work.
	So here's the second part of his analysis.
	It's my opinion that, you know, it's extremely dangerous.
	The Chinese government, the first case was December 1st.
	It had nothing at all to do with the food central there.
	That's just baloney and propaganda.
	Clearly, the Chinese government knew about it probably right around December 1.
	The first human-to-human transmission was December 15.
	So the Chinese government has been lying about it since then.
	This is a specially designated WHO research lab.
	Now imagine that, the WHO specially designating a biowarfare lab.
	So the WHO is in on this.
	These BSL-4 facilities are only good for research, developing, testing, and stockpiling biological warfare weapons.
	So, of course, what we don't know...
	And I take this guy's word for it.
	No worse or better than anybody else's.
	No one really has information.
	Um...
	The question is, did it really just leak out?
	If this was some flu, some virus, it appears, as many have now seen, that it appears to really affect Chinese men in particular, and even, was it the Han province?
	No, Han Chinese is an ethnic subculture of the Chinese.
	It's a genetic difference, Han Chinese and the The other ones, the Tibetan Chinese, the Mongols, and all the rest, they're all different in some little genetic way.
	And Han is the ones that are Chinese.
	What we think of as Chinese.
	And Han, are they really only in the Wuhan region?
	Are they everywhere?
	No, no.
	Han's all of China.
	Oh, it's all of China.
	China is Han Chinese.
	Okay.
	So that's the big problem.
	After playing that clip, you might as well play this one, which I think is...
	It brings some light to this clip.
	This is the dead Chinese doctor clip.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
	The Chinese doctor who warned the government about a possible coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital.
	34-year-old ophthalmologist Li Wenliang warned his fellow medical workers about coronavirus on December 30th.
	He was then investigated by police and accused of making false comments.
	His death has sparked a wave of anger and outrage in China where the hashtag we want freedom of speech went viral on Chinese social media site Weibo on Thursday.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, it would make sense if it really only attacks the Han Chinese because Trump doesn't seem overly worried.
	What we also are not hearing is people who are in the United States and other countries that have the virus We have lots of Americans who are Chinese Americans, and I think many of the cases may be Chinese Americans and not necessarily Anglo-Saxon Americans or whatever the...
	Well, they won't give the ethnic makeup of the woman who died, the first American who died, the 60-year-old woman, and they just won't give her name out, which would indicate whether she...
	I think, generally speaking, it would give you some indication.
	Right.
	At the same time, on Thursday, not long after we did the show, Bloomberg came out with a report.
	U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the Phase 1 trade deal signed between the two countries last month.
	You'll recall that I put questions to their force majeure clause, which said, hey, if we're If something happens, you know, some freak of nature or something we can't help, then we can go back to the negotiating table.
	So that may have been what that was about.
	The two presidents agreed to continue extensive communication and cooperation between both sides.
	The White House said in a readout of the leader's call on Friday, they also noted the great achievement of the recent United States-China Phase 1 trade deal and reaffirmed their commitment to its implementation.
	And if it really is something that does not affect many outside of Han Chinese DNA, Trump is in a fantastic position to put the screws to the Chinese and get anything we want, because I think that this is...
	Going to affect their economy and their output much more severely than expected.
	Yeah, but if there's that, then it affects us too, because like you said in the last show, you pointed out, it's just-in-time nonsense.
	Yes, exactly.
	So besides, I guess they've got some auto industry, a lot of telecommunications, fiber optics, from what I understand, comes out of Wuhan.
	Yeah.
	And lo and behold, what does Bill Barr do at some think tank that he was speaking at earlier this week?
	And other countries that do not want to put their economic fate in China's hands.
	are not going to install Huawei's infrastructure.
	We have to have a market-ready alternative today.
	You need a system that will allow you to seamlessly migrate your installed 4G base to 5G. There have been some proposals that these concerns could be met by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and or Ericsson through American ownership, of a controlling stake, either directly or through a consortium of private American and allied companies.
	The main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither Huawei's scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large embedded market like China.
	Putting our large market and financial muscle behind one or both of these firms would make it a far more formidable competitor and eliminate concerns over its staying power or their staying power.
	We and our closest allies certainly need to be actively considering this approach.
	Pretty interesting words from the Attorney General.
	It makes no sense.
	Well, the only thing I can read into it is, hey, finally we've got a chance to get rid of those pesky Huawei dudes.
	Here's what we do.
	Hey, if you're interested in investing in Nokia or Ericsson, we'll back you.
	We'll put some money into your company.
	No worries.
	We need to have that.
	It seems like...
	He's right about that.
	Yeah, but it seems like the timing is kind of...
	Let's do it now.
	There used to be a story going around.
	I heard this from at least two different sources.
	That the whole Huawei...
	And this also, by the way, was the way Sun Microsystems used to do business.
	But not in such a sneaky way.
	Mm-hmm.
	Is that Huawei spent most of their time doing due diligence on where Ericsson was going to sell product.
	Right.
	And as soon as they did follow the sales guys around for all practical purposes and when the guys left, they'd go into the company and say, what did Ericsson bid?
	We'll do it for 10% less.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Well, I just find it all very coincidental.
	The timing of it is obviously good for us in that regard.
	You know, we had, what's the Commerce Secretary?
	Wilbur?
	Who said, oh, we have to produce stuff here if they shut down.
	I think something's coming.
	I really do.
	They're not opening anytime soon.
	Let's go back to analyzing the possibility.
	Now, first of all, let's go back to the virus itself.
	Now, there's another rumor that showed up, floated around about how it was like something developed or found or discovered or something in the Middle East.
	Yes, in Jordan specifically.
	Now, is it possible that...
	This was maybe a bioweapon but not developed by the Chinese because it makes zero sense to me that the Chinese would develop a bioweapon aimed at them.
	If you recall, one of the first times we were talking about it, identified was the ACE2 marker, DNA marker.
	I don't know if I'm using the right terms, but it's ACE2. ACE2. And that is prevalent in Asian, so Han Chinese.
	I'm not a DNA specialist, so I'm shooting from the hip.
	But also, apparently, in Askenazi.
	It's possible that it was initially some kind of either, I don't know about Jordan, but I would say maybe Saudi Arabia or some other not-friend of Israel who set it up for them.
	Wow, that's a good...
	Now we're getting there.
	Yeah!
	Do you need a little theremin for that?
	Yeah, you remember this is why I said everybody on the 23andMe DNA report has Askenazi.
	You may want to be careful around coughing people.
	It could hurt you.
	So...
	Because it makes no sense to me that the Chinese are going to develop a bio...
	Maybe they had it and they were analyzing it and there's just a sloppy operation.
	And one of the guys caught it and walked around town for a while at the market and wherever.
	And it started getting out.
	And then this other guy identified it and they cracked down on him as fast as they could because the government knew what they were doing and they didn't want word getting out.
	Yes, possibly.
	That's the only reason you – why would you send – call the police on this poor whistleblower the way they did unless you knew it was going on.
	So they knew it was going on even though they acted like they didn't.
	And now they got a problem because they have to – I don't think you can – I don't know.
	Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine – Cordoning off 11 million people in the city of Wuhan and having that work for more than a week or two before people just start burning down the place.
	Apparently now they've filled up community centers and sports halls with beds.
	And this is what I've understood from virologists.
	This is, if you don't have a vaccine, pretty much the only thing you can do is put people together and wait for it to, quote, run its course so herd immunity starts to take hold and then it passes.
	So, you know, this also isn't real.
	You know, there's nothing being reported.
	This is the problem because everyone's like, Trump, Trump, Trump, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	That's all that we hear here.
	So, you know, I got to watch Sky and RT and Al Jazeera.
	And I tried to get a clip from the World Health Organization press conference, which literally they're like, okay, I'm going to do a press conference on the website.
	Click the Raise My Hand button or press star 9 if you want to ask a question.
	And they had no statement.
	It was just questions you couldn't hear.
	Then there's a bunch of people who you almost could not understand.
	Including the chief of this meeting.
	I will read to you from the BBC. They didn't even take a clip of it.
	It was so unclippable.
	What's his name here?
	Dr.
	Tedros said, I would like to speak briefly about the importance of facts, not fear.
	People must have access to accurate information to protect themselves and others.
	Misinformation, he says, at the World Health Organization, we're not just battling the virus.
	We're also battling the trolls and conspiracy theories that undermine our response.
	That's us.
	As a Guardian newspaper headline says today, misinformation on the coronavirus might be the most contagious thing about it.
	So, exactly.
	We really don't know anything.
	And all the World Health Organization keeps saying is, oh, good job, good job.
	And also, I'm so sorry I couldn't clip it.
	It just was inaudible.
	They're the ones that contacted Facebook and Twitter and said, could you please remove stuff that is disinformation?
	That's how Zero Hedge got banned.
	The World Health Organization did that.
	So, if you don't have any kind of information, and my goodness, how many times do we have to go through these epidemics, pandemics, before they figure out how to communicate?
	So, yeah, this is what you get.
	You get conspiracy theories and questions.
	Can you imagine what the conspiracy theories must be like in the city of Wuhan itself?
	People must be freaking out.
	These poor people.
	Yeah, we got one of our producers is in, not in Wuhan.
	Yeah, Professor Jones.
	Let me see.
	Where is he actually?
	I think he's in Shanghai.
	But he lives there.
	A few notes about what's happening in some Chinese cities.
	House-to-house welfare checks.
	I had a woman come to my apartment.
	He's in Shanghai.
	I had a woman come to my apartment complex, walking door-to-door, asking if people are sick or taking temperatures.
	I told her in Mandarin, we do not have a problem.
	And she smiled and went away.
	In Wenzhou, where I used to live.
	That's great, isn't it?
	Smile.
	In Wenzhou, where I used to live, a metropolitan area of about 10 million people, has only 1,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus.
	But since February 3rd, the entire city is on lockdown.
	People not allowed to leave their house unless they have the pass.
	The travel pass is given per household.
	One person is allowed to leave the house once every three days.
	Let me repeat that.
	From a whole household, one person is allowed to leave the house once every three days.
	So my friend can go to the grocery store on Monday, but can't leave the house again until Thursday.
	The only exception is if you're going to the hospital.
	Many cities do not allow more than two people to be in proximity.
	A group of about six men were playing mahjong.
	They were all wearing masks.
	A cop came in, smashed the tables with a hammer.
	It was posted to WeChat.
	Undoubtedly, some other person reported them as, quote, congregating.
	This is a super snitch country.
	I have no idea in which city it was, but there are a few in addition to Wuhan, Hangzhou, and Wenzhou that have instituted a forced curfew and no association order.
	All schools have been closed since mid-January.
	The last two weeks were part of the regular Chinese New Year holiday, but kids will not go back to school until March 3rd at the earliest.
	Most of the expat teachers have left China before the holiday.
	Then another group left China in the last week of January.
	Subsequently, places like the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia have banned Chinese or people who were in China for the preceding two weeks.
	Just today, Thailand is refusing entry to allow anyone from China.
	They're too busy killing people over there.
	Furthermore, many of my work colleagues cannot return to Shanghai anytime soon because so many flights have been cancelled from the UK, Korea, Philippines, etc.
	I have access to a medical doctor in Wenzhou.
	He's from South Africa.
	He's conveyed that his hospital is not treating people with high doses...
	They are not giving people vitamin D3. They are not giving selenium, chromium, magnesium, or zinc.
	Instead, the standard protocol is just recycled antiviral drugs.
	Those drugs are simply a non-organic derivation of essential fatty acids like, oh, this is a tough one for me, phosphoditeclicline?
	Lastly, we can walk around the streets of Shanghai with impunity.
	Most people are going out, even though most businesses are closed.
	Only things that are open are big box stores, grocery stores, bakeries, gas stations, and hospitals.
	The subway is running with literally no one on the train.
	Shanghai.
	All the tourist areas are closed.
	Museums, bars, bookstores.
	Banking is large electronics.
	No effect there.
	The funny thing is watching people jog with paper-thin masks or even smoking with the mask on.
	That is all for now.
	Dr.
	Jones from Shanghai.
	That's Shanghai.
	That's a good report.
	Yeah, it's a dynamite report.
	We need another one of those reports.
	Yeah, we need as many as we can get.
	That is a good report because it does indicate that...
	He brought up a couple of interesting points.
	There is a sense that this Chinese-specific aspect of this, or Chinese-targeted, because anybody could get this.
	Yeah.
	But Chinese-targeted is...
	It's in the, it's in the, it's underlying that entire report.
	Exactly.
	People are sensing this, or they know this, or they already, it's clear to them.
	There's got to be some partial truth to it, because it's just, from almost day one, we've seen, you know, this actual meta, they look real.
	The publications of what's in it, they sure look pretty official.
	I don't know.
	No.
	This story is going to go on for at least two months.
	The question is, I think Wuhan also manufactures a substantial amount of pharmaceuticals.
	Is that possible?
	Anything is possible.
	Right.
	I thought maybe we could get some shortages of things.
	I mean, it's not just steel and iPhones, you know.
	There's other stuff that comes out of N5G. Too much stuff.
	Yeah.
	Well, this will be a good lesson for a lot of people.
	And that's it.
	Everybody was a Kung Flu fighting.
	There we are, with our racist jingles, as always.
	Eh, somebody's got to do it.
	Well, onward to what's next on this.
	I got some crazy stuff.
	Well, do you want a little review?
	We got some impeachment stuff.
	We got debates.
	I've got some serious stuff which needs to be discussed and nobody in the mainstream media is discussing it.
	You do get it here and there from AJ. I got it from...
	You want to do that first?
	Let's do some serious stuff.
	Yeah, I want to get the serious stuff out of the way because nobody knows what's going on.
	They're all hells breaking loose.
	Yeah.
	Is this with the Russians?
	Are they in both the Turks?
	Is there crap going on between them?
	Well, here, let's listen.
	Let's start with this one.
	I've got three clips.
	I have one from, here's one from Al Jazeera, and this is all happening in Idlib.
	Syria mess, Idlib, AJ. The United Nations has long warned that the last and most bloody chapter of Syria's brutal war could take place in Idlib.
	The Security Council have now been told that is happening.
	We are witnessing the humanitarian catastrophe that the Secretary General has warned of.
	This is causing totally unacceptable human suffering and endangering international peace and security.
	The bombing and shelling have forced hundreds of thousands more people to move in the attempt to find safety.
	We now estimate that 586,000 people have moved in the last two months.
	They are mostly children.
	This emergency meeting was called by the US, France and the UK. I think the worst nightmare on Idlib has come to pass.
	Her US counterpart ended her speech with these words.
	I want to close now by speaking directly to the Syrian people.
	Yes, these are dark days.
	Of that, there can be no doubt.
	But you are not alone and you are not forgotten.
	But after nine years of war, no one could blame the people of Idlib for feeling abandoned and betrayed by the world.
	The Security Council has not protected them.
	In fact, one permanent member is directly, militarily involved in the onslaught they're facing.
	James Bayes, Al Jazeera of the United Nations.
	So I'm looking at Idlib.
	Which is in a weird place.
	It's between Aleppo and Homs, which kind of rules out the traditional pipeline routes.
	Oh, okay, here we go.
	How Russia and Turkey are eyeing new deals on Idlib and Libya.
	Okay.
	Libya.
	Yeah, Idlib and Libya.
	Yeah, I think that maybe this is part of their TurkStream.
	What the hell is going on in Libya that those two guys are getting involved?
	Just look at them!
	These two gangsters, they're involved in anything and everything they can get their hands on.
	Okay.
	Well, the situation with over half a million people displaced and mostly kids is just not acceptable.
	But it's not even played on democracy now, these stories.
	This is like completely...
	Ever since Trump somehow...
	credit for this, got us out of that mess.
	I think we still have people there, but generally speaking, I think we're out, and the Turks have somehow taken over, and they're fighting the Russians now.
	It's ridiculous.
	Let's play this second clip, which is Syria mess.
	This is IR.
	Turkish President Erdogan said Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syria's Idlib without anger, after a deadly flare-up in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara.
	The two countries support opposing sides in Syria's nearly nine-year war.
	In a phone call on Tuesday, Putin and Erdogan highlighted the need to follow Russia-Turkey agreements on Idlib that envisage increasing cooperation to neutralize extremists, the Kremlin said.
	Turkey's report on the same phone call said that Erdogan told Putin that Turkey will use its self-defense rights in the event of another attack on Turkish military personnel in Syria.
	At the United Nations on Tuesday, Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an end to hostilities to keep the situation from getting out of control.
	So the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Turkish troops were hit because of their failure to communicate with the Russian military?
	It could be.
	But the thing is, of course, Turkey thinks they've got NATO behind them, and who knows what's going to happen.
	And if they call Article 5, we're kind of obliged to go in and, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, gasp.
	Fight the Russians on behalf of the Turks?
	That's not going to be very popular.
	And now the last one is this real screwball story, which is, again, making things even more complicated.
	This is the Syrian mess with Israel involved.
	So, later in the week...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Wrong one.
	This one.
	We're learning that Israeli airstrikes in Syria may have prompted local air defences that almost shot down a passenger jet.
	The plane was on its way from Tehran in Iran to the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday with 172 aboard.
	It was forced to make an emergency landing at a Russian military base in Syria.
	The Russian government announced the near miss only on Friday.
	Russia says the plane came under fire from Syrian air defenses who were responding to the Israeli airstrikes.
	And it comes only a month after the Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down by Iran, killing everyone on board.
	Russia did not name the airline, but flight data shows it was a Syrian Sham Wings flight.
	Sham was hit with US sanctions in 2016 for allegedly transporting pro-Assad fighters to Syria and sending weapons and equipment.
	Oh, man.
	I don't even understand.
	How can Turkey still remain in the NATO? Didn't they buy all this Russian stuff?
	Didn't they buy the S-400 anti-aircraft missiles?
	Yeah.
	And then meanwhile, they're fighting Russia with Russia's gear.
	I mean, this is the strangest situation.
	It's not being covered at all.
	Very, very crazy.
	I mean, I'd like to see some real analysis here, and it's just like completely...
	It's hard to imagine it being under the radar after all this serious serious serious stuff.
	But there it is.
	It's baffling.
	Well, it's not important.
	It's not about Trump.
	That's not important.
	Oh my God, man.
	There's nothing you can watch in America that originates here.
	Even BBC America, it's all Trump, Trump.
	It's such a disservice.
	Such a disservice.
	I'd like to know more about this.
	This seems to be a little more than your typical proxy war.
	This seems to be something real that's going on.
	Yeah.
	And we don't want any part of it.
	It's like we don't even have to be involved, and the rebelization continues.
	Isn't that great?
	Yeah.
	Wow, look at these guys.
	They'll do it.
	Who's going to go and rebuild?
	Do we still get to go in and rebuild?
	I don't think so.
	When the rebuilding begins, you can call on Bechtel.
	Yeah.
	I've gotten several emails about the situation in Australia with the rain.
	And here's an example.
	Sir Ned Knight of the Convict broadcasts says, I remember a while ago there was some discussion about how once the rain stick gets used on one location, it stays there, and the power of the rain stick can build up over time.
	I don't think we actually discussed anything like that, but...
	Then he says, Dear Sir Ned, I quote, I believe it may be Nietzsche.
	The gods are most cruel when they grant our wishes.
	And I wish I could change it, but no.
	We don't have a reverse rain stick.
	A drought stick.
	I'm sorry.
	Maybe it was those three extra shakes I gave when we did it, and I won't do that ever again.
	It's Adam's fault.
	I thought Australia would be able to handle it, you know, tough, down under, Aussies.
	This is a knife!
	No.
	Crying.
	So, of course, I have sympathy for what you're going through.
	I see the pictures, too.
	But at least you're not burning alive.
	So we do have a story in this Thailand shooting.
	I got a PBS thing on that with an ISO. Yeah, this is...
	This is an unresolved story.
	A couple of things.
	Wasn't there something last year that also happened in Thailand?
	There's some weird shootings that take place.
	Let's play this Thailand shooting and then I think you'll be amused by the ISO. An army sergeant in Thailand killed at least 20 people and injured more than 30 others during a mass shooting today.
	Police say the man killed another soldier and a woman over a land dispute at a military base before driving to a shopping mall.
	He fired shots along the way and reportedly posted updates to his Facebook page.
	People in the multi-story mall about 150 miles northeast of Bangkok were trapped for hours.
	It was unclear how many were injured or killed at the mall.
	Shortly before midnight, police secured the building and more than 100 people were evacuated.
	The gunman reportedly had an assault rifle, but as of late today, there was no word on whether he had been captured.
	Okay, what was the ISO? Well, here's the end of show ISO suggestion.
	That's not very nice.
	That's not a happy ISO ending.
	By the way, the ISO from the last show, people have been saying, oh, can you please post it?
	I really want to get to be able to say it right.
	I want to say it right.
	It's the backup and the backup and the backup and the backup and the backup and the backup.
	That's the one everybody loves.
	A backup and a backup to that backup and a backup to the backup to the backup.
	That is what exactly what they did at the Iowa caucus.
	Or a backup and a backup to that backup and a backup to the backup to the backup.
	Son of a bitch, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, gun.
	You thought I was going to say a son of a bitch, didn't you?
	Okay.
	So we do have a little update.
	MSNBC went in full force.
	As far as I understand, the actual results still have not been published.
	This is now, what, eight days?
	Or this is, what, seven days?
	Almost a week later, they have just not been published?
	Can I play this clip?
	Because, yes, you're right.
	And I've come up with my own thesis on this.
	Play this clip.
	This is a hanky-panky in Iowa plus Sanders.
	In election news, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez is calling for a re-canvass of some of the voting precincts in Iowa as the latest caucus results show Senator Bernie Sanders and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg virtually tied with 100% of the results now reported.
	Sanders is still leading in the popular vote by thousands, but Buttigieg maintains a tenth of a percentage point advantage in what's known as the state delegate equivalent race.
	But the New York Times is calling even these results into question after its investigation found the results released by the Iowa Democratic Party were, quote, riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws, unquote.
	On Thursday, Senator Sanders declared victory in Iowa.
	This is Sanders responding to a reporter's question when he had moved on to New Hampshire.
	Mayor Pete's been declaring a win for days now.
	Why should people believe your victory speech over his?
	Because I got 6,000 more votes.
	And from where I come, when you get 6,000 more votes, that's generally regarded to be the winner.
	Latest polls show Senator Sanders is leading in New Hampshire, where seven Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage for a debate tonight ahead of the Tuesday primary.
	Yeah, it's exactly what we discussed, is that the numbers for the actual, what we would call the popular vote, were not even published.
	This was only about the delegate count.
	And some have surmised, and we may have even talked about it, this would be a good scapegoat to get people all fired up about getting rid of those pesky electoral college...
	I think that's an element, but I think the real element being uncovered is if we look more and more at it, once they came up with the app...
	Yeah.
	Perhaps the app was honest and the app worked, but because the Iowa Democrats have been corrupt from the get-go, they're the ones who sidelined Bernie the last time.
	Bernie was irked about what the results were, and that's why Bernie put people in all the caucuses to really double-check their work.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	It's possible the app had the right numbers and said, oh my God, we can't have this because we want this guy to win.
	Or we want that guy to win.
	Or in the olden days, Hillary or whoever else it was.
	It's possible that the Iowa caucus system was just bad and corrupt and the app proved it.
	Here's an MSNBC report on the app.
	This is from Thursday, so it was on the last show day, so take that into account.
	Well, it's incredible that after all the cybersecurity concerns and concerns about Russian interference and the threat of hacking...
	The app has actually been leaked.
	We were able to get a copy of the app from one of the Iowa precinct managers and actually download it.
	I actually have a copy of it on this phone here downloaded here in New York.
	Whoa!
	You're so amazing!
	And we sent it to analysts who found that the coding was rushed, that there was some design and technical considerations.
	That were problematic, and yet still this app was rushed into use.
	This is such a detailed report, isn't it?
	While the core functionality of the very kind of simple, basic app looked to be okay, there was a coding issue on the back end, how that data was being transferred to the Iowa Democratic Party servers.
	This is the big NBC News organization.
	They have so many resources.
	They can't tell us anything other than, well, yeah, it was rushed.
	How do you know if a developer rushed to put it together?
	Did you actually have the source code, or are you just looking at some API that it's talking to?
	This is a very...
	No grade report.
	That's the key issue.
	The other thing that we saw, because we got copies of the email chain sent from the developers, Shadow Inc., and the Iowa Democratic Party, to these precinct chairs, giving them multiple layers of information, complicated instructions, asking a lot of the precinct chairs to do on their phones, on their Apple phones, and their Android phones.
	And it just looks like a rushed job, and just poor deployment.
	You can't forget that...
	For all the consideration about cybersecurity issues, election is a lot more than just cybersecurity.
	We're talking about real people on the ground being asked to change settings on their phone, go into their phone and change to allow these outside apps that the phone was telling them was not safe.
	You've got to do that groundwork to train people in advance and people are telling us that there just was not enough training.
	Okay, so I think we can discount everything from this guy's report except for two pieces.
	One, it was about what was happening on the back end, which pretty much has, once the app sends the data, unless it never sent the data, then the shenanigans were on the back end.
	And I think the real on-the-ground trouble is an oversight and a stupid one at that, that they probably did not have their predominantly Android app signed for the store.
	So you downloaded it not from the App Store, from the Google Play Store, whatever it is.
	Download it from their server, and your Android phone, most people's phones, not the typical no-agenda dude named Ben phone, will say, ah, are you sure you want to give permission to this app that is not officially sanctioned by Google?
	And people will freak out.
	So I think that's probably true, but I'm with you.
	This is bull crap.
	And the fact that NBC pushed this out as their technical report almost matches the insane notion that, ah, the problems, yeah, the app was a problem, but it was really...
	Trump!
	So we have some brand new reporting we're scooping right here on NBC News about what went wrong in Iowa and why 100% of those caucus results still are not in.
	Here's the deal.
	We're learning more about why the phone lines used to report results were flooded Monday night.
	It wasn't just caucus organizers.
	The Iowa Democratic Party tells us there were also a bunch of Trump supporters apparently calling in, jamming things up.
	Calling in, jamming things up.
	Great report.
	Hostile calls.
	Where might those supporters have gotten the idea or even the number itself?
	NBC is first to report this, apparently, from one of the most extreme far-right message boards on the internet.
	One we've talked about a lot on this show called 4chan.
	I think she's confused with 8chan being the really far extreme right.
	But okay, 4chan.
	Oh yeah, that's where it's happening.
	There's reporting that Trump supporters on these 4chan sites were told to clog the lines, basically.
	What's up?
	Yeah, so there was these posts that came out at like 10 o'clock, roughly, on Monday night that said, here's a phone number, clog the lines.
	Just stay on these lines.
	And it was the number.
	It was the number for the people who were supposed to be calling in to report caucus results.
	That's exactly right.
	And here's the deal.
	Like, it's easy to blame 4chan for this, but 4chan is going to 4chan, right?
	Hey, John.
	4chan is going to 4chan, right?
	This is NBC News.
	This is NBC News.
	And it was the number.
	It was the number for the people who were supposed to be calling in to report caucus results.
	That's exactly right.
	And here's the deal.
	It's easy to blame.
	Also, the guy's...
	Here's the deal.
	Yeah, he's a...
	By the way, I would like to say this is the only show in broadcast media today where you will not hear the phrase, here's the deal, or at the end of the day.
	And except for in the clips...
	This guy's clearly a Biden man, you know, saying here's the deal.
	You say here's the deal, here's the deal.
	That's only Biden says it constantly.
	That's a Bidenism.
	The number for the people who are supposed to be calling it to report caucus results.
	That's exactly right.
	And here's the deal.
	It's easy to blame 4chan for this, but 4chan is going to 4chan, right?
	They left a door open.
	This is like a saloon door of bad cybersecurity.
	It was wide open.
	A saloon door of cybersecurity.
	People kept calling this number, and at least that's what they claim on 4chan, but now we have evidence from the party itself that said, look, you know, Trump supporters were calling, people were calling and just hanging up.
	Oh, I feel an end of the day coming.
	These resembled, like, prank calls, basically.
	We're not sure if the idea started on 4chan, but it was definitely there on Monday night.
	There are posts to prove it, and we've backed it up with a lot of reporting.
	I think you said 4chan's going to 4chan.
	Saying that 4chan's going to try to mess with something big on election night is like saying the ocean is wet and you can swim in it.
	Oh, thanks.
	So now let's just push that out there.
	Let's get that going.
	Oh, 4chan, Trump supporters, 4chan's going to mess with election night.
	Oh yeah, let's get y'all primed up for that.
	Shame on you, NBC News.
	Shame on you.
	But I think Poot actually set us up at the CNN town hall and told us that he really also thinks this popular vote is probably not so good.
	We have a responsibility to talk about what we believe in and to make the case for what we think is right, when it's popular and when it's not.
	I know that some of my views on what we need to do as a country aren't popular.
	Frankly, I'm showing a level of respect for New Hampshire voters' expectation of my honesty when I share with them a view that might not be popular around here, that I think that the Electoral College has run its course and in the future we ought to pick our presidents in a way that makes sure that the one who got the most votes actually gets to be president.
	But I say that because I think it's the right thing to do.
	And I think everybody, left, right, and center, ought to come into the public square making the case for what we think is right.
	Okay, hold on.
	There's one other thing going on.
	This is going to be the number one, and the media is going to be behind it because they make more money.
	I've written about this saying that the media will support getting rid of the Electoral College because it...
	Then the advertising makes more sense in states like California, New York, etc.
	Yeah, so they make more money.
	But the thing you're going to start to hear, and I've started to hear it.
	I don't have any clips.
	I tried to find some.
	It's in passing, and then I tried a clip, but I don't get it.
	But it goes something like this.
	18% of the public controls 51% of the Senate.
	How's that fair?
	Yeah, I've heard this.
	This is a good one.
	And that's why Trump is still president.
	Yeah.
	By the way, it doesn't matter when Clinton was president and you had the same situation and he got elected by the Electoral College.
	That's bad.
	It's beside the point.
	But 18% of the – and what they're saying is that states like Wyoming have two senators.
	Right.
	And they have very little population.
	There's their population.
	Wyoming is less than the population of the Bay Area.
	Yet they have two senators.
	It's the same with Montana.
	Some of these other sparsely populated states, they all have two senators because the country was set up that way for good reason.
	The same reason that the Electoral College was set up to keep criminals out of the White House.
	And it worked.
	Yes.
	Hillary is not president.
	You're not president.
	You're right.
	Hillary is not president.
	It's part of a larger issue, which is, I think, pure elitism.
	Michael Bloomberg, this clip is from 2016, but it surfaced, of course, during this election cycle.
	He was at Oxford, and he was explaining some of the issues with the stupid American public.
	Which he identifies by calling himself and the people in the room at Oxford the intelligentsia.
	If you think about it, we, the intelligentsia, people who could make it into this room, we believe in a lot of...
	Let's just let that settle in for a second.
	What is the actual definition of the intelligentsia?
	Well, it...
	It refers broadly, I think, to the more intelligent people that are highly educated And have some control over the society.
	Here we go.
	The intelligentsia is a status class of educated people engaged in the complex mental labors that critique, guide, and lead in shaping the culture and politics of their society.
	As a status class, the intelligentsia includes artists, teachers, academics, writers, and the literary.
	Yeah, John Legend.
	If you think about it, we the intelligentsia, people who could make it into this room, we believe in a lot of things in terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people.
	They're not opposed to you having some rights, but There's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world, I think it's fair to say, that the rights of society comes first.
	And so, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the bathroom issue in the United States.
	Anybody know what I'm talking about?
	If you want to know, is somebody a good salesman?
	Give them the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter.
	If you can sell that, you can sell anything.
	I mean, they just look at you and they say, what on earth are you talking about?
	And you say, well, this person identifies his or her gender as different than what's on their birth certificate.
	And they say, what do you mean?
	You're either born this or you're born that.
	And, you know, I will say, in our prison system in New York City, we have to have the policy, when you walk in, you know, drop your trousers, you go this way, you go that way.
	That's it, because you can't sit there and you can't mix things in a jail.
	That's a practical case of where you have to make a decision.
	But it's...
	So many things that we are nuanced and the social issues that we're very proud of achieving aren't believed by the vast bulk of the people.
	I mean...
	What?
	Yeah.
	So he's defending the...
	Wow.
	But you see, the message is, the people who can make it into this room, the intelligentsia at Oxford, we are enlightened enough to understand that we need to protect prisoners from being raped, but not children.
	I mean, that's the comparison he made, whether you believe it or not.
	I mean, it's like, well, in prison, it's a different situation.
	It's school.
	It's school!
	And stupid people, they can't, they're not enlightened enough.
	They can't grasp.
	They just can't.
	I mean, that guy wants to be president?
	Can you imagine?
	Well, he's the one with the, you know, you shouldn't be drinking big sodas.
	He's a classic Nazi.
	I think that's a timestamp right there.
	That's the opening of the show.
	People are like, oh, finally they're going to say something nasty about Trump.
	Good.
	He is a classic.
	That's a good clip.
	Well, that's another clip that's floating.
	I mean, one I'm trying to promote.
	This is from the first debate.
	Let's see if I can find it quickly.
	First debate.
	This is the first debate.
	This is where they...
	This was NBC's...
	Everybody stopped doing this after this first debate because this is, I think, the killer.
	and I have a photo, which I'll put in the next newsletter, of the first debate where they ask this question and everybody's hands goes up and then when you start thinking about it logically, you realize it's crazy, but they keep it up.
	This is where they ask the question, how many here think that undocumented aliens should get free healthcare if we have a socialized system that you guys all want?
	A lot of you...
	Wait, one of them, Marianne and somebody else lifted their hands up.
	Then they all lifted their hands up.
	Everybody said yes.
	A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you've proposed in one form or another.
	This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see.
	Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
	Let me start with Mayor Buttigieg.
	Why?
	Mayor Buttigieg, why?
	Because our country is healthier when everybody is healthier.
	And remember, we're talking about something people are given a chance to buy into.
	In the same way that there are undocumented immigrants in my community who pay.
	They pay sales taxes.
	They pay property taxes directly or indirectly.
	This is not about a handout.
	This is an insurance program.
	And we do ourselves no favors by having 11 million undocumented people in our country be unable to access health care.
	But of course the real problem is we shouldn't have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship.
	It makes no sense.
	And the American people...
	The American people agree on what to do.
	This is the crazy thing.
	If leadership consists of forming a consensus around a divisive issue, this White House has divided us around a consensus issue.
	The American people want a pathway to citizenship.
	They want protections for dreamers.
	We need to clean up the lawful immigration system, like how my father immigrated to this country.
	And as part of a compromise, we can do whatever common sense measures are needed at the border, but Washington can't deliver on something the American people want.
	What does that tell you about the system we're living in?
	It tells you it needs profound structural reform.
	Vice President Biden, I believe you said that your health care plan would not cover undocumented immigrants.
	Could you explain your position?
	I'm sorry, I beg your pardon.
	I believe with the show of hands, you did not raise your hand.
	Did you raise your hand?
	No, I did.
	Oh, yeah, I did.
	Sorry, sorry.
	So you said they would be covered under your plan, which is different than Obamacare.
	Yes.
	Can you explain that change?
	Yes.
	You cannot let, as the mayor said, you cannot let people who are sick, no matter where they come from, no matter what their status, go uncovered.
	You can't do that.
	It's just going to be taken care of, period.
	You have to.
	It's a humane thing to do.
	But here's the deal.
	The deal is that he's right about three things.
	Number one, they, in fact, contribute to the well-being of the country, but they also, for example, they've increased the lifespan of social security because they have a job, they're paying a social security tax.
	What?
	Come on a second.
	How do you contribute to the lifespan of Social Security if you're an undocumented worker with no Social Security number?
	Oh, please.
	Moving on from Joe.
	I mean, these guys.
	But here's the thing that always gets me, and this is going to bite them in the ass.
	There's all this hand raising.
	They're all in on this.
	Luckily, Klobuchar and Warren weren't in on this.
	This is where they had the two parters.
	And the problem is that, okay, so I've got some horrible disease.
	And I can worm my way onto a flight to the United States as a travel visa.
	And I just check myself into a hospital here and it gets paid for.
	What they're saying is that everybody from all over the world can come to the United States and get free medical care no matter how sick or how undocumented they are.
	It's just crazy to say that.
	I think it's worthwhile to read through Pete Buttigieg's bio once again.
	This is not really done.
	He's always positioned as, well, he's just a mayor from a very small town in Indiana.
	That's pretty much it.
	Now, the Keeper grew up partially in these parts.
	And, you know, it's a good school, Notre Dame.
	But it's, you know, it's okay.
	It's not an Ivy League school.
	But this is Poot's roots.
	So from the Wikipedia, he's a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, you know, where the intelligentsia assemble.
	Attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship.
	It's always a fun one.
	2007-2010, he worked as a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey.
	This is well known.
	2009-17, served as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve as a lieutenant.
	He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 for seven months.
	Then, he also worked on the political campaigns of...
	Joe Donnelly and John Kerry.
	He served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
	As we know, he still is.
	So his dad was a 29-year tenured professor at Notre Dame.
	And apparently quite the lover of Marxism.
	So Pete is an elite.
	He's a total elite, and we should mention something to people out there who are looking for little things to check off the box.
	Rhodes Scholar, the Rhodes Scholarship, it was developed by Cecil Rhodes, who was responsible for Rhodesia, which was this racist operation, but nobody wants to mention that part of it.
	And his whole thing in life was one world government.
	Yep.
	Cecil Rhodes was a big promoter of one world government, and if you get a Rhodes Scholar, you are going to be inoculated, brainwashed into every possible one world government scenario there is.
	All Rhodes Scholars are really anti-American one world government people.
	All of them come out that way.
	Let's take a look at the list.
	We'll do it in reverse order.
	We'll start at the most recent one.
	It's a long list.
	I'm going to go...
	Let's see.
	Who do we have here?
	Oh, it's not even...
	Ronan Farrow?
	He's a Rhodes Scholar.
	Let's see.
	Pete Buttigieg is there.
	Okay.
	I think Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, if I'm not...
	Yeah, I wonder how much inundation...
	Inoculation, indoctrination is the word I've been looking for.
	Indoctrination that Clinton had because that was a stoner year.
	You know, Rachel Maddow is also a Rhodes Scholar, so she's an alum, so she and Pete should have a lot in common.
	I didn't realize that she was one of them.
	Bobby Jindal, Cory Booker, we knew that, Rhodes Scholar.
	Going down the list if I see any other interesting names.
	I think just the fact that Rachel Maddow is what?
	Susan Rice?
	Graham?
	No, that's not a known name.
	Naomi Wolf?
	Hmm...
	Yeah.
	These are all people indoctrinated to the idea of one world government.
	And they all tend to be egalitarians in their approach.
	This is the thing that came up earlier in the show in how do these – why do we want to get rid of the electoral college and why do we have the caucuses the way they are?
	Egalitarianism, which is part of the Democrat ethos, you have – their main thing, as we talked about on the show before, is egalitarianism and justice or justice.
	Equality and justice, the way they put it.
	And the Republicans are freedom and liberty.
	And so the egalitarian mindset is that everybody's equal to an extreme.
	This is what's hurting the people in Sweden right now because every immigrant is exactly the same as in Sweden.
	And so if you're egalitarian in your approach to things, you can't have an electoral college because it has to be one man, one vote, which is egalitarian.
	The American system is not set up as an egalitarian system.
	It's a federalist system, and the reason for the electoral college, again, is because the states are the ones that are equal, not the individuals in the country.
	And so you do end up with 18 percent of the public controlling 51 percent of the Senate, but that's the way it was designed because egalitarianism is bad.
	Right.
	Yeah, historically we've seen that that doesn't work out very well, but you wouldn't know it from listening to these candidates of the Democratic Party.
	They're all against the popular vote.
	They're all against the Electoral College.
	They all want the popular vote.
	And they keep referring to the United States.
	While defending the Constitution.
	Yes.
	And they keep referring to the United States as a democracy, and they're just routing around the system and really lying.
	I don't think it's good.
	I mean, we have a system.
	If you want to change it, that's fine, but don't try to sneak it in with lying about it and saying this is unfair.
	I mean, how many times I've heard someone on CNN or MSNBC say that the caucus system is inherently undemocratic.
	Well...
	That kind of ends there, doesn't it?
	I mean, what are you going to say to something like that?
	Yeah.
	Well, it is.
	That's the point of it, exactly.
	I can't wait to talk about the debate and maybe a little bit of the State of the Union fallout, but first I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in constitutional scholar, John C. DeVorex.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning, all ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls, who have been...
	They're all kind of like, oh man, America's over, it's done.
	No, no, no.
	It's okay.
	We'll be fine.
	The Republic will get through this as well.
	But if you want to commiserate with the trolls, go to the troll room.
	It's noagendastream.com.
	I'm going to do a quick head count, see what we got in the troll room today.
	We've got...
	Oh, good one.
	Almost 1,400.
	This is good.
	Hello, all you trolls.
	Nice to see you there.
	You can listen to this show live, multiple shows live.
	Darren O'Neill does the pre-stream an hour before we start live on the show.
	I think every day we have a live show.
	Wednesday night, Nick the Rat.
	And there's podcasts that run, and you can basically discover, but do it with trolls.
	If you want to find podcasts, you might as well have trolls to help you.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Also, a big in-the-morning, too, Mountain Jay, who I believe is a female.
	I believe Mountain Jay is a woman.
	I saw her.
	I'm pretty sure she posted on NoAgendaSocial.com and forgave me for misgendering her.
	Brought us the artwork for episode 1214.
	It's an odd name for a woman.
	You'd think that, you know...
	I would think Twin Peaks would be a better name.
	Oh my goodness, Dvorak.
	Stanktuary was the title of the episode.
	Of course, how could it not be?
	And the art was, there wasn't a lot of good stuff, we thought, not stuff that really applied.
	This was, we kind of both said, yeah, this is a good one.
	And it was the blue, red, black, kind of the bumper stickers.
	We have Glitch, that would be the Democrat donkey.
	Then we have the red Republican elephant.
	So that, of course, is Russian hacking.
	And then no agenda with our little microphone.
	It was just a good piece.
	And I started using the Overcast podcast app.
	Man, I have to say, and I want Apple to be successful.
	They've really done a lot for podcasting, but they should buy the Overcast app, in my opinion.
	That thing is so good.
	It really has all the pieces you want in a podcast app, including quick updating of the art.
	In the podcast from Apple app, sometimes it takes a while.
	Yeah.
	You have to refresh.
	Yeah, why just buy them?
	I think they should.
	It's like Apple hasn't got any money.
	Yeah.
	But there's a lot of, you know, so we invented, you know, not invented here.
	We already have an app, you know.
	These companies like that will sometimes be reluctant to buy something that they already do, but not as well.
	That's true.
	But they have...
	Marco's put in...
	Marco, the developer, he also put in something quite interesting.
	He put in a sound enhancer just recently.
	And it is kind of...
	Most of those podcasts that have crappy sound, it does kind of make it more listenable.
	Huh.
	I wonder what he's doing there.
	Listen, compression.
	I'm a big fan of giving the listener all the control.
	This is the part that a lot of people disagree on with me, but I like it.
	Like, fast forward, you should be able to chop stuff up, anything you want.
	Now, that you're going to miss beautiful things is up to you.
	But I like it.
	I think that that's true interactivity, is that you can mess around with whatever you receive.
	And that may be part of Apple's problem of not wanting to do everything.
	Or they want to control.
	Everyone wants control.
	Anyway.
	Well, Apple traditionally is the one to control.
	That's the difference in the Mac and the PC. Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Exactly.
	All right.
	Well, let's thank a few people for show 12.15.
	Yes.
	Let's do this.
	Craig, Knight of North to South is our top donor with $500.
	Right.
	John and I have Knight North to South here, and I am now the biggest believer in the No Agenda Karma.
	As you remember, three weeks ago, you gave karma to my...
	To my horse fast enough, oh, he's the horse guy.
	Wait, wait, do we need to listen to the winning horse race again?
	I don't think so.
	And my dog, Yuki, pronounced Yuki.
	My horse went on to win the California Cup Derby.
	Oh, I guess maybe that was the California Derby.
	Yes, yes, that's the winning horse.
	Well, you know, they used to have the California Derby here at the local fields that we have in the East Bay called Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I can look down on the field, where I am, and watch horse racing.
	You see the horses going around and around.
	Now, with your scope, can you see the numbers?
	Can you actually see which horse is running?
	I probably could.
	I'm not that interested.
	Could you shoot a horse from where you are?
	I think so.
	Oh, yeah.
	Definitely.
	You could throw the race.
	Interesting.
	Okay.
	Now...
	So you watch all these races, and then you watch the California Derby.
	And it's like, what is the difference?
	This is not even like the same race.
	These horses that are at this level, so if he won the California Derby, the horses at that level are so much faster than the average horses that run in all these races.
	It's not even close.
	It's almost frightening to watch.
	He has a fast horse.
	Well, the horse, of course, is called Fast Enough.
	That means that this is the level horse that can play in the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont, and there's all the big races.
	Oh, I'm feeling Triple Crown with the big No Agenda logo on this horse's butt.
	That's what I'm feeling.
	I'm all in on this.
	That would be great.
	A reminder, we don't do karmas for sports games or anything like that, but we felt this was...
	Okay, since Craig Knight North is out.
	And he owns the horse.
	He owns the horse.
	I suppose if somebody owned a football team, we'd help him out.
	Anyway, he says his dog had bone cancer.
	He had successful surgery to remove a bone in her foot instead of having to have her leg amputated.
	Good.
	She started chemo this last week and is doing great.
	Oh, man, that's...
	It's a lot of money on a dog.
	He says, needs my help again.
	My help, your help.
	My horse, fast enough, is running tomorrow in the San Vincente Stakes at Santa Anita.
	He has to take on the big boys this time, including the two-year...
	Okay, this may not have been...
	The California Cup may not be the California Derby.
	The two-year-old champion and...
	A Bob Baffert monster is inside baseball.
	Yeah, some kind of breeder, I guess.
	Some trainer or something.
	Unfortunately, I won't even be able to watch the race live as the night north to the south will be on a plane north to Alaska.
	I would appreciate the karma you can give.
	Love the show as always.
	Yuki would appreciate dogs are people too and F cancer jingles.
	Thanks, Craig.
	Night of the north to south.
	Okay.
	So what he doesn't mention, is this part of the purse that he's donating here?
	Did we get a piece of the purse?
	I hope so.
	Alright, first let's do some karma for Fast Enough for tomorrow.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, now for his doggy.
	Dogs are people too.
	You've got karma.
	With a goat twist for Yuki.
	And thank you.
	Onward to Chuck Boyce, Sir Hashtag Blessed.
	333 from Yarmouth, Maine.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Can I please request a title change?
	My current title is Sir Hashtag Blessed and is anonymous.
	I have decided to go...
	Go the freelance dude named Ben route.
	As a pants optional freelancer, I think it's time to drop the anonymous and change my title to Sir Chuck Boyce, Sir at Chuck Boyce of the data.
	If you could play the 2030...
	I'm the apocalypse.
	I'm the apocalypse jingle.
	That would rock.
	Word, Chuck Boyce.
	Word, indeed.
	So he will be, sir, at Chuck Boyce Jr.
	of the data.
	Okay.
	Consider that done, sir.
	There you go.
	I don't even remember that.
	Sadly, I do.
	This is Fletcher, man.
	I remember all these things.
	I was thinking about this last night, that I am very good at retrieving clips, but not all of yours.
	Because when you don't name them yourself, it gets a little harder.
	Yeah, I'm sure it does.
	Sir JD is on the list.
	Baron of Silicon Valley 32020.
	Hey Buzzkill Crackpot, I at Little Valley for Valley help supporting the best podcast in the universe from the barren of Silicon Valley.
	Here's three hundos and a bit to help keep 2020 going.
	Three requests.
	Answer three requests to go with it.
	One, some goat karma.
	What?
	Some goat karma.
	Goat scream getting into college karma for our human resource.
	Okay, Dame Phyneonymous, who is getting ready to launch yourself into the world, to please answer private email requests for connections.
	Yeah, he needs to be hooked up with Dame Astrid.
	It's done.
	The connection was made yesterday.
	Everyone's connected.
	It's done!
	It's done!
	You're asking for something we already did.
	Running out of time to meet up, promote the site.
	I gotta say, you know, Sir Mark is an MBE, member of the British Empire.
	And it's always fun, you know, like, I forwarded to, I think, Astrid, and she forwarded it to Mark, and then Mark replied to Sir JD with me on it.
	It's like, you know, I'm asking these world-renowned architects, member of the British Empire, to go hang out.
	With all of our wonderful barons and knights.
	It's a cool dichotomy.
	An actual member of the British Empire is with our peerage.
	Well, they're also in our peerage, too.
	Of course they are.
	Yes, they're...
	Oh, man, they're way up there.
	They're way up there.
	Viscount.
	Anyway, promote the cyber meetup during RSA conference in San Francisco on Sunday, February 23rd at 3.33 p.m.
	at Chesty's Bar in the Marines Memorial Club.
	Oh, okay.
	Details on no agenda meetups.
	Keep up the great work.
	Sir J.D. Barron of Cycon Valley from the future.
	Konichiwa.
	Yeah, let us know how your hookup went with Sir Mark and Dame Astrid.
	Anonymous in Boulevard, Texas.
	23456.
	Thank you, Guardians of Reality.
	Thank you, Anonymous from Boulevard.
	Yeah, Boulevard.
	Joel Tucker in Largo, Florida.
	2.22.22 in the morning.
	Too many things have happened in my favor, and I was wondering why I've been having such a good fortune.
	It finally occurred to me that it was the karma sent my way from the last donation, and to be honest, I think it came back to me 3x.
	3x.
	In my own attempt at living an OTG lifestyle, I'm trying to convert a school bus into my new home.
	Classic.
	That's a classic look.
	Yeah, there you go.
	This week I'm undertaking the project of raising the roof to the bus, and I would like to request some house-building karma.
	Thank you for this great content that leaves me wondering every Tuesday.
	Is it one of those Thursdays yet?
	Okay.
	I hope I sent this email to the right spot.
	Yes, you did.
	If you're new to the program, you're hearing this for the first time, these donation segments.
	It's okay.
	If you feel nauseous, just look at the ground.
	The spinning will go away.
	It takes a little bit to get used to all the things we're talking about.
	House building karma for you, sir.
	You've got karma.
	Onward to Brian Tucker coming in with $211.11 from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
	In the morning, John and Adam, self-proclaimed douchebag Brian from the December 3rd, 2019 Kitchener, Ontario, Scandinavian No Agenda Meetup here.
	I had a great time at the meetup.
	It was like a party.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Before attending the meetup, I did some rough calculations to figure out how much I had donated to the BITU and realized I was very close to the knighthood.
	I started listening to No Agenda at some point in 2009.
	I don't remember exactly when.
	It was in the middle of the H1N1 swine flu hysteria.
	I started on the 1111 monthly donation in mid-2012.
	With my January 2020 monthly, I finally reached knighthood entirely on 1111 donations.
	LGY.
	Bye. .
	I was also skeptical about the M5M bullcrap in your level-headed analysis and humor are much-needed voices of reason amongst the media overreactions.
	Please knight me a Sir Baron to slow and steady knight.
	Is he on the list?
	Sir Brian.
	Sir Brian, sorry.
	What'd I say?
	Sir Baron.
	In addition to the knighting and producership, it's also my 47th birthday on Tuesday, February 11th, hence the 211.11 producer donation, 211 birthday date smashed into my regular 11.11.
	Which would be actually 2, 22, 11.
	But that's okay.
	Let's add me to the birthday list.
	Jingle requests I would like in F cancer for Abigail, the seven-year-old daughter of family friends.
	Also, please send along a karma goat variety for myself and the entire No Agenda community.
	Thank you for your courage and passion in helping to keep amygdalas healthy.
	I'm looking forward to Adam's upcoming appearance on JRE. Thanks, Brian Tucker, a.k.a.
	Sir Baron.
	Thank you very much.
	And yes, the appearance is booked March 3rd, Tuesday, March 3rd.
	Is that Super Tuesday?
	Is it?
	I don't know.
	It might.
	It will be now.
	It will be now.
	I'll be on Joe Rogan Experience.
	That's right.
	Very excited about it.
	Stop it!
	You've got...
	That's for Abigail.
	Sir J., the medical examiner, $202.02.
	ITM, John and Adam, first of all, sorry for the Don Quixote three-volume note.
	I have listened for too long to not have contributed before, so please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	I have signed up for a monthly donation so my douchebag does not fill up as fast.
	The magic numbers last Sunday worked.
	Oh.
	And after a long hunting season with no luck, I got a buck.
	After having...
	That's...
	After having...
	You know, I always like to find some local hunters that...
	Because you can't really eat all the meat.
	And I don't mind having a couple of steaks.
	Mm-hmm.
	After having such good fortune in listening to the show on my drive home from Alabama, I knew it had to be in some way related to the date.
	I would like to call out my best friend, Jojo Kokomo, who hit me in the mouth as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	I can also please give him some Nancy Jobs karma and some oral surgery boards karma for his wife.
	I would like to and with a barren shakalaka.
	What are you with barrens today?
	It's boom shakalaka.
	I don't know why I keep saying barren.
	Well, you're saying barren a lot.
	I'm seeing it.
	My eyeball is my...
	Oh, now you're going to be your victim because you have an eyeball problem?
	Yeah, I'm a victim.
	No pity, you're heartless.
	I am, totally.
	With a blue shakalaka, Hillary don't eat me, that's true, thanks for the infotainment.
	Should be infotainment, but okay.
	It's not really infotainment.
	No, it's infotainment.
	Dr.
	J, the medical examiner.
	Thank you, Dr.
	J. Yes, of course we have all of that.
	Did he want to...
	He wanted to...
	It was a Nancy Jobs karma.
	Okay, here we go.
	Boo-chakalaka.
	Boo-chakalaka!
	Eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	That's true.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And next, 200 bucks from Bellingham, Washington, we have Jenna Barron.
	I'm John and Adam writing from upstate Washington here.
	I'd like to use a donation to wish a very happy 34th birthday on 211 to my smoking hot boyfriend, Sir Ryan the Refiner.
	He hit me in the mouth over five years ago and regular discussion of the show since then has helped us overcome the crazy people in our lives in Washington State.
	Yeah.
	Jobs, karma for all, and keep on chooching with the great analysis.
	Thanks, Jenna.
	You're welcome, Jenna, and so happy that it works for families and for couples.
	It's fantastic.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	All right, this next one is a $200 donation, and it came in as not this, what Eric put it, it's actually twice.
	So it just came in an envelope, it was a check, no note, no nothing, except it said RED331, RED331. So I assume that means something to somebody.
	It's some kind of code, clearly.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was RED331, RED331. And no note, no anything, $200.
	Thank you very much, RED331, RED331. Okay, if that's it, that's good.
	That's it?
	That's it?
	Yeah, that's our producers and executive producers for show 1215.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for all their thoughts, and this really helps quite a bit.
	It does.
	Thank you.
	It's always good to have support on a Sunday, which is the second Thursday of our week.
	And these credits that you now have are real credits.
	You can use them anywhere.
	Credits are recognized.
	We have associate executive producer...
	For $200 and above and up $300 and above is the executive producer.
	Put it on your LinkedIn.
	Put it on your resume.
	It always results in people asking questions, which you can then, of course, answer any way you want.
	And say, oh yeah, those guys, yeah, he's going to be on Joe Rogan.
	Say that.
	It sounds impressive, I think.
	And it helps the show, which is part of our Value for Value system.
	We'll be thanking more people in the second segment, but of course we'd like you to support us for our next show, which will be Thursday.
	To participate in the Value for Value Network, go to...
	And you know that you are officially part of the No Agenda Intelligentsia!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	You!
	What?
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	I had one comment.
	I think you even mentioned it, but now the president is saying, everyone's saying, well, you know, if the Democrats can't even tally up votes, how can they run the economy?
	How can they run health care?
	And we have such short memories.
	Can I remind everyone of the Obamacare website debacle?
	How long was that thing delayed in launch?
	Months.
	Months and months.
	How much did it cost?
	Like six, seven hundred million dollars.
	And it wasn't just a website.
	It wasn't just a website.
	Nah, to be fair, it was connecting to legacy systems.
	But that is exactly the debacle that is not exclusive to Democrats.
	It's when government gets into these things.
	They have no business or they just don't have the knowledge, the culture...
	And so instead of saying, oh, you want these people to run their economy or health care?
	How about self-driving cars, drones, facial recognition?
	You want them to run that?
	That's the question I have.
	Not anything else.
	Keep it out.
	They don't understand it.
	And it's not just Democrats.
	But government in general, I think, is not currently qualified to run these types of things.
	Okay, you made your point, but it's time for the debates.
	Okay.
	No, so the debates went on.
	They were terrible.
	It was a little lively at the beginning.
	They got, you know, Biden, apparently they doped him up enough that his eyeballs would explode.
	At one point, I think Steyer was talking, and Joe turns around, has his back to the audience, and snorts something.
	I missed this.
	Yeah, it's in a wide shot.
	Now, it may have been a nasal stick.
	Whatever it was, there was doping on the field.
	I'm telling you.
	And he turns his back entirely and his hands are up to his nose.
	I don't know what he was snorting.
	One of the olden days in the 70s when the...
	The drug cocaine was a big deal because it got the cover, I think it was Man of the Year on Time Magazine.
	And probably the usage of it was less than it is today.
	There was an old trick of getting these.
	They used to have this Vicks.
	Yeah, the Vicks, they still have.
	And those Vicks things are actually addicted by themselves.
	Yeah, a little inhaler of some sort.
	And people would load them up with powder.
	And then they'd use that.
	Maybe that's what he had.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	It was odd.
	It was just odd.
	The whole thing was odd.
	I got four clips, but I have a kicker that goes before one of them.
	If you're interested in the ratings, just under 7 million people watched.
	It was ABC, so they always get more than anything else.
	I'm actually surprised.
	It was higher than I would have expected.
	But I think that's also, considering it's a Friday night, that's the entire...
	Most activated political audience in the United States.
	It's probably that.
	All the people yelling on Twitter, it's probably them that watch this.
	I think that's a good chance that the real politically active audience in the United States is about 6-7 million.
	Yeah.
	Not much more.
	I think that sounds right.
	For all the noise, it's a very small percentage of the country.
	So let's do a few things here.
	You definitely had Bernie going on with it.
	Here's Bernie's impeachment rant I thought was good.
	We sat for two weeks listening to the impeachment process.
	And here's what I think the horror and the danger of what happened was not only the acquittal of Trump, who in fact committed impeachable offenses and obstructed Congress, it is the precedent that it set.
	The precedent that it set.
	And what that precedent is about now is in the future, you're going to have presidents who say, hey, governor, you want highway money?
	You better support me or you're not going to get it because I am the president.
	I can do anything I want.
	Hey, Congress, you want to investigate me?
	Don't be ridiculous.
	Who cares about the Congress?
	Who cares about the separation of powers?
	Who cares about the Constitution of the President?
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	I love that bit that he did there.
	You know...
	By the way, presidents do that to the governors.
	They say, hey, you want to get any support from your state?
	I'm not giving you any highway money.
	They constantly do that crap.
	Do you...
	No, I'll do it in a minute.
	It's okay.
	Yes.
	I thought that was a good line, and actually, that should have been a possible ISO. I didn't make it either.
	Yeah, you're right.
	That's a good ISO. Because I like my ISO so much, I think.
	Anyway...
	Before we play, this is another one that was good, but before we play the other ones, I want to play this Bill Maher clip.
	He had Banyan on.
	Oh, I saw it.
	It wasn't very good.
	It was just Banyan talking over him and then the audience booing him.
	But this part I wanted to play before I play the next debate clip.
	We've seen this in other countries.
	When you talk about people like they're scum and they're evil, we've seen it in Rwanda, cockroaches.
	We've seen it in Germany, vermin.
	You don't think that when you talk about people like that, your side, the people who hear those words, you don't think eventually it translates into action.
	They see people on our side.
	No, absolutely not.
	Wow, how about literally Hitler, Nazis?
	Am I missing something?
	It goes on and on, of course.
	Yeah, but the way Morris sees it, no, no, his side is fine, so let's listen to the base Steyer doing his name-calling.
	But he's been, the Republicans have rolled over, they've had a sham trial, they've refused to have witnesses, they've covered up the truth for the American people.
	And it doesn't matter anymore that he's a crook.
	And he's always been a crook and he always will be a crook.
	Right now what we have to do is we have to beat him in November.
	And we have to beat him because he's incompetent and bad for the American people.
	And that's the case we have to make now.
	Is he a crook?
	I knew that two years ago.
	Is he going to be more of a crook now that he believes he can get away with anything?
	Of course he is.
	Of course!
	Don't hinge that guy.
	Ah, there was a lot of...
	Well, what I saw, what I noticed is it started off kind of slow.
	I mean, if you start with Joe, he always sets the pace.
	And Joe was, you know, in kind of third gear of a seven-speed transmission.
	And, you know, so it kind of slowly starts getting up there.
	And then I think it was probably Steyer who first...
	Poured the gas on.
	And then everyone's like, oh, maybe that's where we go.
	Maybe we kind of do a little Trump, a little yelling, and make it loud.
	And then Bernie got louder.
	And then everyone got a little bit louder, except for my favorite, of course, Amy Klobuchar.
	And I think it really missed the mark, because all I heard, except for a few exceptions, was how shit everything is.
	Everything is shit.
	It's horrible.
	This is no good.
	These guys are depressives.
	I wake up and I'm part of the most racist system in the world in all of history.
	And in fact, I'm responsible for it.
	All of these things.
	And I'm going to die.
	I won't be able to afford anything.
	I'm going to die of poverty, hunger, sickness.
	There was almost a sparkling light not to be found amongst anything that anyone said.
	And it was so repetitive.
	Well, let's listen to...
	This is Klobuchar and her bogus...
	Oh, by the way, this is a...
	Well, no, let's play the Biden to Klobuchar first, and I want to play the other one because I have a follow-up to it.
	Here's the deal.
	Whomever the nominee is, the president's going to make up lies about.
	He thinks he has free reign right now.
	One of the things that I think is really important is we have to be authentic with the American people about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.
	And by the way, Colonel Vindman got thrown out of the White House.
	They walked out.
	I think we should, at the same time, he should be tending a medal on Vindman and not on Rush Limbaugh.
	And I think...
	I think we should all stand and give Colonel Vindman a show of how much we supported him.
	Stand up and clap for Vindman!
	Get up there!
	That's who we are!
	That's who we are!
	The Democratic Party's last presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders' track record in the Senate.
	We were able to hear that question.
	Okay, sure.
	The Democratic Party's last presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders' record in the Senate, saying nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him.
	He got nothing done.
	Senator Klobuchar, you serve with Senator Sanders in the Senate.
	Is he going to be able to get the support?
	Not if you like him, but is he going to be able to get the support that he needs from Republicans?
	Okay.
	I like Bernie just fine.
	We actually have worked together on a number of things, including pharmaceuticals.
	We actually had a vote late at night one time, Klobuchar-Sanders amendment, to bring in less...
	No, no, no.
	It was not to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries, since in this great state of New Hampshire, like in Minnesota and Vermont, we can see Canada from our porch.
	And we ended up getting, I think, 14 Republican votes.
	And they might not have noticed what was happening late at night, but we got those.
	All right.
	I'd like to say something about the Vindman part.
	This is your next article of impeachment.
	Lieutenant Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, his brother, who was a problem, but they'll find out soon enough, and Sonderman.
	Oh, Friday night massacre!
	This is the next Articles of Impeachment.
	The media is already setting it up.
	It's wall-to-wall.
	Fallout!
	Whistleblowers!
	Retaliated against!
	Witnesses!
	You watch.
	This is the next Article of Impeachment.
	It's coming.
	Well, it is definitely coming.
	And it's going to be this.
	It's going to be abusive power for firing these guys from the National Security Council.
	He didn't lose his job.
	He just got back to where he was.
	From the National Security Council.
	Removed from the National Security Council.
	They've been trying to cut it down anyway.
	You don't have to justify it to me.
	It's totally stupid.
	The whole thing is dumb, but that's what they're going to waste our time with next.
	It's going to be about that, and then everyone's going to want the brother to show up, the twin brother, but we can't have that because he's not really just a National Security Council guy.
	He's a hedge fund guy with big fines for shady business dealings.
	With Eastern Bloc countries.
	So, waste.
	Meanwhile, people in China are dying.
	Who cares?
	So I got this last clue.
	Well, in Syria.
	Who cares?
	Let's go.
	Here's Klobuchar.
	And then she makes this assertion, which I did some research into.
	Taking on a president.
	If you want to talk about being tough enough to take him on...
	Taking on a president that literally went down to Mar-a-Lago after he signed that Republican tax bill and looked at all his friends and said, you just got a lot richer.
	That is exhibit A for those carpenters in Pennsylvania.
	Did he do it?
	No.
	There's no evidence of this.
	This is a thing that was...
	This was...
	This was a big story about when that tax plan was put.
	I think I had a clip that was one of them, and it gets it in there.
	It's a tax plan clip.
	Tax cut bullshit, 2017.
	Play that.
	He's also touting the passage of his tax cut legislation, but it's what he reportedly told guests at his Florida club that is raising some eyebrows.
	I predict that Santa will bring you building blocks.
	President Trump's night before Christmas was full of...
	What did he say there in that little snippet?
	Nothing to do with you're going to get richer.
	It was a whipsaw.
	And the report itself, he started over.
	He says reportedly.
	This was a CBS planted story.
	Oh, of course.
	Of course.
	I will start it over.
	I want to hear the report.
	He's also touting the passage of his tax cut legislation, but it's what he reportedly told guests at his Florida club that is raising some eyebrows.
	I predict that Santa will bring you building blocks.
	So they just threw that in there, and you connect it in your brain, so it's almost as if you heard him say something, but he said something else.
	He said Santa will be bringing building blocks.
	This is before Christmas.
	Okay.
	President Trump's night before Christmas was full of good cheer in front of the cameras.
	He and First Lady Melania took calls from children to give updates on Santa Claus from Trump's luxury Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.
	Okay, take care of yourself, and Santa's going to treat you well.
	He also sent season's greetings to members of the military stationed overseas.
	Your families have been tremendous.
	Always underappreciated, the military families.
	Let me guess, the report doesn't actually include the line, you're all a bit richer now.
	I guess that's not in the report.
	You're never going to hear Trump say it, and he denied saying it.
	It was just as all reportedly...
	It all came from a CBS story where somebody said he said it, who was supposedly at a table nearby, and then I guess he told the reporter, it's bullcrap.
	But it's okay.
	We don't care.
	You've got the list of lies that Trump does, but these aren't lies.
	That's interesting you bring that up, because I went back to it to get some new ones to talk about on the show.
	They have not reported any new lies.
	It's stuck at 1,624 lies.
	He's lying all the time!
	January 20th.
	And they're not updating it.
	I'm very disappointed.
	He lies every day!
	I wanted to read a new one for you, but it's all the same.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	16,241.
	No, the last update was January 18th.
	That's it.
	Well, so Amy's basically lying here.
	You know, I was thinking about this because Amy had a couple of good bits.
	She'd always point to herself when she wanted to say who could be a better president or who could be the one that could beat Trump.
	If she actually came out with a little more aggression and said, look, these guys are no good.
	I'm the one that can beat Trump.
	These are all a bunch of old white men.
	You know, except for Yang.
	And who knows what?
	He doesn't even have any experience.
	I'm the one.
	And she should go on and...
	I'm not saying she can't do this, of course.
	She should brag about her education.
	She's the smartest one up there, technically.
	I think what connected with some voters, and certainly some in the media, which I will play for you, was this end of kind of her pitch...
	And she compared herself to FDR. There's an old story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
	And when he died, his body was put on a train and went up across America.
	And there was a guy standing by those tracks along with so many Americans.
	And he had his hat on his chest and he was sobbing.
	And a reporter said, sir, did you know the president?
	And the guy says, no, I didn't know the president, but he knew me.
	He knew me.
	And I will tell you this.
	There is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now.
	And I will bring that to you.
	If you have trouble...
	Stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent, I know you and I will fight for you.
	If you have trouble deciding if you're going to pay for your childcare or your long-term care, I know you and I will fight for you.
	If you have trouble figuring out if you're going to fill your refrigerator or fill your prescription drug, I know you and I will fight for you.
	I do not have the biggest name up on this stage.
	I don't have the biggest bank account.
	I'm not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people.
	I'm asking you to join us at amyklobuchar.com.
	I'm asking you to believe that someone who totally believes in America can win this, because if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me.
	Please, New Hampshire, I would love your vote.
	And I would love the vote of America.
	Thank you.
	So, I think that was very good for the audience at hand.
	She totally distanced herself from the other people on the stage.
	I'm not the most famous one.
	I'm not the biggest bank out.
	I'm not a newcomer with no experience.
	F you, Mayo Pete.
	But I feel you.
	I feel you.
	And you know who felt Amy?
	You know who really felt Amy?
	Chris Matthews from MSNBC was all jitty about it.
	I thought Klobuchar was wonderful.
	I've never seen her this good.
	I think she showed in the last week audacity.
	What you want to see from a politician is audacity, spontaneity.
	Don't have it on the damn script.
	Be somebody home with the lights on, somebody who's there, a human being.
	And that's how she came across tonight.
	She never raised her voice.
	She was confident.
	She looked.
	I'm sorry.
	It's weird to say this.
	She seemed like a president tonight.
	An endorsement from Chris Matthews!
	Who went unhinged, by the way, over Bernie.
	Unhinged.
	I've got to play this for you.
	And it totally solidifies the theory that a lot of older people in politics, in the country in general, and certainly in the media, are still traumatized by the Cold War, by the Russians, by communism.
	How old is Chris Matthews?
	He's got to be in the mid to late 70s.
	I think he says, yeah, he's like 70, 72 maybe.
	But listen to what he does when it comes to Bernie.
	I have my own views of the word socialist, and I'll be glad to tell them, share them with you in private.
	And they go back to the early 1950s.
	I have an attitude about them.
	I remember the Cold War.
	I have an attitude towards Castro.
	I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War, there were executions in Central Park, and I might have been one of the ones getting executed.
	And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?
	So I have a problem with people who took the other side.
	I don't know who Bernie supports over these years.
	I don't know what he means by social.
	One week it's Denmark.
	We're going to be like Denmark.
	Okay, that's harmless.
	That's basically a capitalist country with a lot of good social welfare programs.
	Denmark is harmless.
	Pretty clearly in the Denmark category, yeah.
	Are you sure?
	How do you know?
	Did he tell you that?
	Well, I mean, that's what he says, and that's what his agenda calls for, right?
	He's not calling for anything.
	Let's see.
	Let's figure that one out.
	But we haven't seen a campaign yet where video of him praising the other version, which is Castro, has been used.
	It will be used.
	That's the question of how...
	We haven't seen how that plays out.
	What the effect that has in that question.
	That's a great question.
	What did you think of Fidel Ismo?
	We all thought he was great when he first went in.
	And then he became a communist and started shooting every one of his enemies.
	Hold those thoughts on the Cuban revolution.
	I have to go back to the spin room and Democratic presidential candidate.
	I love how a vasectomy boy there jumps in like, okay, well, you know, it's not really the Cuban Revolution anymore.
	Shut up, man.
	We're going to do something else.
	Okay, boomer.
	But basically, this was a pro-Trump rant.
	Trump should take this, should steal this and use that.
	That was unhinged, man.
	It was funny.
	Yeah.
	Wow, wow, wow, wow.
	I do have one clip I want to play because I played the switchback on that tax thing and the fact that Trump supposedly said something at Mar-a-Lago, which is bullcrap.
	We have one of our...
	back when this tax law was passed, you talked, read a note from him, and I can attest to this, is that people who, the upper classes that are going to supposedly getting the benefits of this tax relief got no benefits because they put a cap on tax crossovers.
	In other words, property tax and all the rest of it, it had a limit.
	And many people who are especially the billionaire class, they have tons of property that they would write off the taxes.
	Now they can't do that.
	They end up having to pay more.
	So this is bull crap.
	Yeah, it was the anonymous gay accountant.
	Yeah, famous, famous locally.
	Yes.
	And in addition to that, and of course the jury is still out with We'll see.
	But one of the biggest tax cuts, which is like a 10-year program, is the opportunity zones.
	And, you know, we've looked into that extensively, how it works.
	You have capital gains, and if you invest it into opportunity zones, then in 10 years, you can take it all out tax-free.
	So it's kind of a deferred tax advantage, but in the meantime, it's supposed to put money to work in underserved areas for 10 years.
	Now, the allocation of that, I think, is up to states, and states can delegate that down, so some of it will get used improperly.
	But in Austin, there's 50 or 60 opportunity zones, and it's being built.
	Now, will it ultimately...
	Help gentrify these now poorer neighborhoods?
	Probably.
	But it was, in effect, a reinvestment into the country.
	And no one ever defines it.
	Apple did repatriate a lot of money, so there were some good things going on there.
	And, as you can see, what it didn't do is it didn't really screw anybody.
	In fact, if anything, it proves their point that modern monetary theory kind of works.
	Print whatever you want.
	It doesn't make a difference.
	Everything keeps going up.
	You know, so long that goes on.
	Now, I do have one more clip.
	Yeah, it works for a while.
	It may work forever.
	Now, if you look at the money as something other than money...
	I got this clip because I had to go back and get this clip.
	This was after the Trump State of the Union speech, and it was Yamiche Alcindor on PBS NewsHour, and she dropped this little ditty in there because he was talking about immigrants, and it's a rewrite, which I think it was always intended to be.
	Just listen to this Yamiche clip from PBS. And quick, Mish, to you.
	You referred in your report to what you call, what's been referred to as either misleading or inaccurate statements the president made during the State of the Union.
	That's right.
	The president has been someone who has not shied away from bending the truth if it pursuits his political will.
	And this speech was no different.
	He talked about a lot of different things that were misleading, including the fact that immigrants were committing a lot of crimes.
	Study after study shows that undocumented immigrants do not commit more crimes than American citizens.
	I think that is wrong.
	I think.
	Fact check false.
	No, no, no.
	He was talking specifically...
	Well, I don't know.
	You tell me what you were thinking while I set my mind straight.
	Well, the thing that gets me is that this meme showed up a number of years ago, right after Trump first came down the escalator.
	And the meme was that immigrants don't commit as much crime as...
	Right, but that's not the same as illegal immigrants.
	Yes, that's the point.
	That's the difference.
	She said undocumented, meaning illegal aliens who are committing a crime even by being here.
	So there's no way that can even be possible.
	But the meme was first immigrants, and it was used to trick people into...
	Associating immigrants with undocumented immigrants or illegal aliens, which they took that term out of the lexicon because you can't say illegal aliens.
	No, people can't be illegal.
	And so you change it to undocumented immigrants.
	So the idea was to make the association in your brain, but never to really say the association, just say immigrants.
	And she actually said it incorrectly here.
	She said it incorrectly because the association has been so finalized that she can get away with it.
	I never saw anybody correct her on this.
	It wasn't on the next day's show.
	There was no mea culpa.
	No, now that's the way they're going to say it.
	And it's bull crap.
	It's total bull crap, and she should have been called out for it.
	I didn't hear anybody say anything during this little interview.
	I didn't see Judy correct her.
	I think you made your point.
	Yeah, I know.
	You could have put my little rant thing at the end.
	Oh, I could have, damn it!
	Case in point, you know, when I set up my whole Linux environment and I re-implemented all my filters, there was one, of course, you know, stuff that I changed or started anew, then if someone was in my bounce file, which pretty much deletes the email and sends a reply saying, no, I'm still not reading your email, you're deleted.
	So this guy got back through Ed Z in Texas.
	And he sends form letters because even the font is different.
	He sends it to everybody.
	But I just want to read it to you.
	Trump is not Hitler.
	But when an American president addressing those mass rallies signals that all honest journalists...
	All Mexican-Americans, all non-Christians, all Californians, and in fact all voters for the Democratic Party are disloyal enemies of the state.
	He doesn't even have to spell it out, nor use the words in the language of his own old relatives from the old country, when he echoes the sentiments which those who hope for a new Hitler are waiting to hear.
	Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!
	When I was small and my aunt from the old country told me to do everything I could to keep Hitler from gaining even one posthumous victory, I had no idea what she was talking about.
	I guess I had to be shown.
	What moves you?
	Regards!
	Your pals!
	Ed and all the free Texans!
	So that's the kind of shit that people take away from it.
	That's how far it goes.
	It's sad.
	That's an amygdala close to rupturing right there.
	Very sad.
	So this is some guy that you've gotten spam from and you've tried to block him.
	It's not spam.
	He targets me and I blocked him.
	But then when I reset all my filters and was rebuilding my mail, he came through again with one of his notes.
	I wanted to share it.
	That's the kind of bull crap that people actually believe.
	There's no evidence of it.
	Now, you already went to the State of the Union stuff.
	I wanted to go back to the debate for one second.
	Two strategies that I want us to keep...
	So, a couple strategies.
	Amy is clearly going for the, I get you, I know you, you know me, we are one.
	Yeah, it is weak.
	Weak.
	Well, we know what Bernie's going for.
	Pete, I'm just not sure.
	He is...
	He's clearly an intelligence asset.
	He worked for intelligence.
	He's very similar to Barack Obama.
	In fact, I caught a little bit of the opening of Saturday Night Live last night where they had hashtag White Obama for Pete.
	I thought that was very funny.
	Elizabeth Warren, she understands that...
	No one can win the Democrat vote without the ADOS bloc, voting bloc, the American descendants of slavery, but she's going to pitch it.
	You know, I'm glad to stand on this stage with my fellow Democrats who talk about how important the black community is, at least at election time.
	Year after year after year, election after election after election.
	Democrats go to people in the black community and say, boy, we really care about these issues.
	Racism is terrible.
	We all want to do something.
	And then somehow, the problem just seems to keep getting worse.
	Well, I think it's time we have real concrete plans that are going to make a difference in people's lives.
	Yeah, which is totally empty because she doesn't have a plan.
	Steyer actually said reparations and then it was like cut off and moved on and like, I'm not going to talk about this.
	Shut up, you.
	But Bo Jiden He decided it was time.
	Endorsement or not, I'm going full on Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama.
	There's people right now facing what I face.
	This is a compilage.
	And what we face, without any of the help I had, we must move now.
	I'm against any Democrat who opposes, takes down Obamacare, and any Republican who wants to get rid of Obamacare.
	Let me turn to Senator Sanders.
	President Obama, I think, did a heck of a job.
	To compare him to what this guy's doing is absolutely, I find, close to immoral.
	As the Vice President of the United States, I work with a man who, in fact, we worked very hard to see to it we dealt with these issues in a major, major way.
	I think you're so underestimated with Barack Obama, Dan.
	He's the first man to bring together the entire The entire world, 196 nations, to commit to deal with climate change.
	We increased that background check during the Obama-Biden administration.
	I'm also the only guy that got assault weapons ban.
	The President turned to me and said, Joe, get our combat troops out of Iraq.
	Alright, so he decided, now's the time, I don't care if he's not endorsing me, I'm going to play off the Obama-Biden...
	He's pulled the Obama card.
	Well, but there was a moment, and I think this was a pivotal moment for the voters, for the viewers at home, for Democrats, for the people on stage.
	He made a very good point, and I think it kind of, it might have created some brain fry.
	Yeah.
	The politics of the past, I think, were not all that bad.
	I wrote the Violence Against Women Act.
	I managed a $900 billion recovery act, which in fact...
	I love his list of accomplishments.
	$900 billion recovery act...
	Well done, Joe.
	...which in fact put millions and millions of dollars into his city before he came and helped save his city.
	I was able to do it.
	I was able to pass the chemical weapons ban...
	Arms control.
	And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same-sex marriage.
	You remember when he gave that interview and it was supposed to be a big reveal that Obama was going to come out for same-sex marriage and Joe popped it like three days early and everybody was pissed?
	Yeah, this is probably still one of the reasons Obama's not going to give him any endorsement.
	By the way, I think we caught a flub here.
	Let me go back to the beginning.
	The politics of the past, I think, were not all that bad.
	I wrote the Violence Against Women Act.
	I managed the $900 billion...
	Oh, it is billion.
	I thought he said million, billion.
	All right, back to...
	The moment is coming.
	Arms control.
	And I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same-sex marriage.
	So I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad.
	What happened?
	What is it that he wants to do away with?
	We were just beginning.
	It was just the beginning of what will be the future of moving this country beyond where it is now in significant ways.
	And there's ways to do that.
	And one of the ways to do that is to make sure you have someone who knows how to get things done and can lead the free world at the same time.
	This was, to me, a very good point.
	If Barack Obama was so fantastic and everything was great, why not build upon what he did?
	Obamacare is not gone yet.
	It's not done.
	It has not been repealed.
	Why not build upon that?
	Everybody loved Obama.
	Everybody loved the, I'm sorry, the Biden-Obama administration.
	Everybody thought it was great.
	Why are we trying to do something completely different?
	That was never the plan under Obama, Biden-Obama.
	It was never the plan to do that.
	Why all these changes?
	What happened?
	What is wrong?
	And I think he's making an excellent point.
	If we all love Barack Obama so much and how he ran the country, why is every policy completely, in fact, in some cases, the opposite of him?
	The opposite.
	Obama deported millions of illegal immigrants.
	We're not going to stay on that Obama plan.
	No, no, no.
	We're going to let them all back in.
	Obamacare was flawed and we wanted to improve.
	No, no.
	No, no, no.
	Screw it.
	Let's just do Medicare for all.
	What the hell happened?
	That's Joe's question.
	And I think a large part of his constituency Thinks the same.
	But it matters not because no impeachment, no Bo Jiden.
	He's dropped.
	No one cares about him.
	He can't get above fourth place anymore.
	It's over and done with.
	I'm disagreeing, of course.
	Yeah, but you'll agree with me that this, why the Democrats are, in fact, want to implement policies counter to what the great Obama did is something that is just not discussed.
	It's not recognized.
	I'm in total agreement with that, and he makes a good point.
	Maybe he should have, like, started that point earlier.
	Well, Pete, of course...
	He's got it late in the game to dream that one up.
	Well, Pete Buttigieg had an answer.
	Buttigieg respond, then Senator Sanders.
	Those achievements were phenomenally important because they met the moment.
	But now we have to meet this moment.
	And this moment is different.
	The next president is going to face challenges from global health security, like what we're seeing coming out of China, to cyber security and election security challenges that were barely thought of a few years ago.
	That's all we heard of a few years ago.
	What are you talking about, poot?
	Sigh up, Pete.
	Get out of here.
	Sigh up, Pete.
	Don't eat me, Bulldog, and you're scary!
	So scary!
	I have one little Mayor Pete thing, which is kind of funny.
	It sounds like, you know, Democracy Now!
	is not a big fan of Pete.
	This little story didn't go anywhere else, but Democracy Now!
	played it.
	In more election news, the Daily Beast reports earlier this week, former mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign removed the name of the former head of a data company that contracts with ICE from the list of co-hosts of a Buttigieg fundraiser in Washington, D.C., after being contacted by the Daily Beast.
	Jacob Shapiro is the former president of Giant Oak, which was founded by a former high-level customs and border protection official and has received nearly $45 million in immigration and customs enforcement contracts over the past six years.
	Nah, who cares?
	Move on, people.
	We're all crooked here.
	Move on.
	Don't focus on him.
	Don't give him any fodder.
	What I thought would be helpful...
	Because, you know, this show changes, our attitudes change.
	Trump basically broke everything, which is fantastic.
	I mean, it invigorated my thinking.
	It's like, oh, it's something different going on.
	There's a new way of doing politicking.
	So the State of the Union was rowdy.
	It was unprecedented in the reality show moments, of course, which is just great marketing.
	He's a marketeer connecting personal stories to his outcomes, taking responsibility for it, taking credit for it, and at the same time setting a trap.
	Like, you can't criticize that because you're going to criticize the lady with the...
	The premature child who's still alive?
	You're going to criticize the Tuskegee Airmen?
	You're going to criticize the guy from Redemption with his alcohol problem and came back and is now an upstanding member of society?
	No, you're not going to do that.
	We had everybody dressed in, or everybody, Nancy's squad dressed in white, and all of a sudden they're all up and screaming, House Bill 3, House Bill 3.
	So the rules have changed.
	Let's go back to the President Obama State of the Union, which I think at the time we too thought it was inappropriate when this happened.
	And this, of course, is a little bit of the...
	I forget which Republican said, you lie!
	When it came to immigration.
	In hindsight, I think the guy was right because it was about rights of undocumented workers.
	And also the media and the political fallout.
	So this would have been...
	I don't remember what year this...
	Do you remember when the You Lie thing was?
	What State of the Union that was?
	It was a while ago.
	I'm thinking 2009.
	I'm thinking something like that as well.
	Just to show you how things have changed.
	It was early, early.
	This too is false.
	The reforms...
	The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
	It was stunning to hear such a statement made on the floor of the House from the President of the United States this speaking.
	Many details still have to be sorted out, but that does not excuse the Congressman's boorish behavior.
	Hopefully it can be sorted out without resorting to name-calling.
	How did we get to a point where it's okay to yell you lie at the president while he's speaking to Congress?
	All that precipitated this moment, the you lie moment, a lot of things, everything from the president not being welcome in American classrooms to people casually wearing t-shirts with his image and Hitler and the Joker.
	This is awfully cavalier, awfully casual, if not callous.
	So, Phil, where does this come from?
	And are we saying now that it's okay to openly criticize the president to get this anti-Obama movement fueled?
	Some people here sense racial overtones to the Wilson heckle.
	Showing disrespect to a black president is something that some South Carolinians, I think a minority can accept much better than if the president were not an African American.
	I don't know how you can not Say that this has a racial factor associated with it.
	The very first president in the television age to be heckled, the first president to suffer a heckling in that situation is the first black president.
	An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.
	So, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
	It's all, of course, immediately because he's black, totally unbelievable that that connection is made, but okay.
	Here's what's going on.
	This tit-for-tat will go on forever.
	So we had a Republican guy, clearly a racist, and implications of calling him Hitler and Joker and all those memes were there.
	It's the same thing.
	We have longer memories than most because we've got clips to back it up.
	It was also with Bush.
	Yeah, of course it was.
	But because the Republicans started this one in particular.
	The Republicans started with, you know, heckling the black man.
	Woo!
	This is not who we are!
	And so now we get the mayhem that we get about the Republican president.
	And guaranteed the next Democrat president is going to be impeached on day three in office because the people who we elect are shitheels.
	Pretty much all of them.
	And this is what goes on all the time.
	So anybody can pretend to be holier than thou, but you're not.
	And we've changed too.
	We've become much more accepting of this type of behavior.
	And social media has a lot to do with it.
	The overall discourse, how people communicate.
	But let's not kid each other.
	Things have changed.
	And me, personally, I like it.
	I like it when people are just honest.
	It's for the benefit of those who enjoy being entertained all the time.
	How can you argue any of that?
	It's so obvious that's the correct way to view it.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Yeah.
	As time flies.
	It does.
	So we have a few people to thank for our show 1215.
	It's not a real long list, but it's a good list.
	Starting with Sir Davey, $133.33.
	He's got something in his note there.
	You might want to look at it.
	Borislav Myronov, $128.
	John Carney in Alfreda, Georgia, 12345.
	You need some jobs karma for a smoking hot wife?
	We'll give you that right at the end.
	Thomas Wilkinson in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
	You got bored with the Democrat debates, huh?
	I wonder why.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Earl of Luna in Locust, North Carolina, 8008.
	Black Knight Sir Lineman of the Net in Anna, Illinois, 6969.
	He gets boosted to Baronet.
	Very nice.
	He's on the list.
	Russell Rhodes, 6789.
	He's got a birthday for someone.
	Sir Jeffrey Zelen in Oakland, Michigan, 6688.
	He's got an F cancer call-out for a night.
	You should probably do that right now.
	At this very moment, yes.
	You've got karma.
	We do.
	Ben Klinger in Toronto, Ohio, $60.
	Aaron Mazenberg in Lincoln, Nebraska, 5663.
	Another happy birthday shot.
	Also, Ben's got a birthday.
	A lot of birthdays today.
	Yeah, it's a big list.
	Chris Roetker in Metitsy, Wyoming, not New York, 5510.
	We called it New York, I think, last time.
	But it's not.
	It's in Wyoming.
	Dame Adrienne in Calverton, New York, 5510.
	Another birthday.
	Shout out to my smoking hot husband on his 40th.
	John Fitzpatrick in Heber Springs, 5317.
	John Davis, another birthday.
	52 from Brentwood, Tennessee.
	Her birthday on the 7th.
	Sean DeSantis in Fort Pierce, Florida.
	Thank you for your courage.
	$50.33.
	And the following people, well, nope, sorry, Dame Catherine, the patient, $50.01.
	Got another birthday shout-out to Bill Walsh, Sir Saturday.
	And now we have $50 donors, name and location, if I have it.
	Sir Robin of the Utrecht Highlands in Utrecht, Netherlands.
	Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, California.
	Hey, Drew.
	Melody Fuguzotto.
	Dame Melody Fuguzotto.
	Yes, we had a very nice dinner with her last night.
	Oh, yes.
	We'll talk about it now.
	Okay.
	We took her to Fix.
	F-I-X-E. That's actually where Tina and I had our first date back in the day.
	Oh, you should have taken her to the Iron Bear.
	Have you been reading your Twit magazine again, Mr.
	Dvorak?
	Are you checking out those hunky boys again?
	And she's studying at UT. She was not with Dame Isabella because she's getting ready for yet another dance competition.
	We got a lot of inside info on the Riverdance community.
	Wow, there's a lot going on.
	Not to be repeated on the show, but oh my gosh, this is very competitive.
	And of course, Sir Dave is the Earl.
	He's still in Saudi Arabia.
	And it was really nice.
	It was nice to have Dame Melody to ourselves, you know, just to chat.
	I mean, she travels so much.
	They're ex-military, so they kind of never stop traveling, I guess.
	They just keep on moving everywhere, live in different places.
	Really good time.
	So nice to be able to host her here in Austin.
	Well, she donated $50.
	She's located supposedly in Gladstone, Missouri.
	Yeah, this week.
	Edward Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Tony Smith.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Tony Smith in Fort Worth, Texas.
	Larry Hay in Mooresville, North Carolina.
	Jason Gay in North Glen, Colorado.
	And that's a donation in honor of my Eyes Open brother, Aaron.
	When is Adam's show with Rogan coming?
	We got that.
	That's March 3rd.
	Okay.
	All right.
	We're with Sir Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia, and Jeffrey Zinneman in South Euclid, Ohio.
	Those are all our producers for show 1215.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for contributing to the show and making it happen.
	Yeah, thank you.
	And also people who come in under 50 to remain anonymous, or for those who are on some of our programs, you heard, we have a night coming up, I think, in fact, Brian Tucker, 11-11 a month, and he started, what was it, about...
	2009.
	Yeah, so he started 10, 11 years ago.
	10 years ago.
	Yeah, but it's...
	Actual value that we appreciate, and clearly he's received some value in return, so we could not be happier.
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	Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. It is the 9th of February 2020.
	Here's our list.
	We've got a couple of belated birthdays.
	John Davis says happy birthday to his daughter, Captain Kim.
	Ah, yes, I believe she's flying the B-52 now.
	She celebrated on the 7th.
	Russell Rhodes, happy birthday to his son, Vikram, turned 10 yesterday.
	And Dame Catherine the Patient, happy birthday to Bill Walsh, sir, Saturday, who also celebrated on Saturday.
	Coming up, we've got Brian Tucker, turns 47 on the 11th.
	Jenna Damico, happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Sir Ryan the Refiner.
	Ben Klinger, happy birthday to his brother, Rom, 33 years old today.
	Aaron Meinberg, happy birthday to brother Kevin Meinberg, celebrating tomorrow.
	And Dame Adrian says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband, Joe.
	He turns 40 years old.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	We've got two title changes for today.
	We have...
	Our Black Knight becomes Baronet, Sir Lineman of the Net, Raleigh Hawk, and Sir Hashtag Blessed becomes Sir at Chuck Boyce Jr.
	of the Data.
	Thanks to their continued contributions in another $1,000 to the No Agenda Show to support our Value for Value Network.
	Thank you very much.
	It is highly appreciated.
	Only one nighting for today, but at least we have one.
	We haven't had one in a few shows.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	I'll take that one.
	We got our blades out for Brian Tucker.
	Brian, come on up to the podium here.
	Brian, thank you for supporting the No Agenda show.
	For the amount of $1,000, you become a member of the No Agenda Knights and Dames here at the Roundtable.
	And I'm very proud to pronounce the KB. Sir Brian, the slow and steady knight, knight of the No Agenda Roundtable for you.
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	And of course, there's mutton and mead.
	And there's always enough mutton and mead to go around.
	Please, Sir Brian, the slow and netty knight and steady knight, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings and give us all of your info.
	All your info belongs to us, and we'll send you out your official No Agenda Knight ring, the sealing wax, and your certificate.
	And thank you for supporting the show, the No Agenda podcast.
	No agenda meetups!
	It's like a party!
	It's like a party!
	We had a number of meetups.
	These meetups are...
	Sorry, did we do the upgrades to some people's status?
	Yeah, the titles.
	Oh, I missed that somehow.
	I must have zoned out.
	You dozed off for a moment.
	Yeah, thanks for checking.
	We did.
	Um...
	We have a meetup report from Norway.
	This was the first one.
	Michael Tiny Homes MutualWin.com Bernstein.
	John Adam, happy to report that last night's first ever Norway No Agenda meetup was a rousing success.
	In total, we had five slaves that enjoyed moose burgers.
	That sounds good, actually.
	That sounds good.
	I'm going there next time.
	I'd love a moose burger.
	I would love a moose burger as well.
	Hmm.
	Mooseburger's expensive Norwegian beer and non-triggering convo, while most likely spotting the spook, you know who you are.
	I believe the Norway team will make this a regular event, and even though I saw the picture, it was obvious.
	Anyone who looks like Mayor Pete, probably a spook.
	Dress-wise.
	I believe the Norway team will make this a regular event, and even though unfortunately I will not be able to attend, I will be donating $33 on behalf of their continued success.
	One special shout-out to Hans-Peter.
	Hours before the event to show me this fantastic city.
	How incredible, how incredibly no agenda awesome is that?
	And I allow the use of the word awesome because, yes, that's exactly who we are.
	We got your knights and dames in Tokyo taking care of.
	It's like we are, it sounds corny, but we are a family.
	We have some meetup reports that were sent in via audio.
	Jesse Coy Nelson, who has diligently been going around the Middle East trying to organize, well he's organized meetups, has been unsuccessful in Beirut, was unsuccessful in, where was he after that?
	I think Ramallah.
	Well Ramallah, here's his report from the Ramallah meetup.
	Hey, this is Jesse Coy Nelson here in Ramallah, Palestine.
	I feel like a bit of a stalker as I wait outside of the Bar Barley's to see if anybody goes in.
	I'll give it another 20 minutes past the meet-up time.
	It was a long shot, but I figured I'd give it a try.
	As far as Ramallah, it's a very interesting, very busy, bustling place.
	Go along the main street, you got lots of restaurants, cafes, lots of nightlife, and people are just out and about, and it's always interesting to go to a place that you hear about, and you wonder what it's like, and you go there and find out, and it's very nice here.
	Okay.
	Yes, unfortunately no one else attended the Ramallah No Agenda meetup, but I believe that they had the Jaffa meetup today, and I expect some of our Israeli listeners to attend.
	Jesse Coy Nelson, by the way, will continue.
	He's already been...
	I think in 130 different countries or something.
	He's not going to stop, and he will be in Cairo on Tuesday.
	And we'll be talking about that in a second in the overview.
	Meanwhile, we had the Toronto Meetup, M-E-A-T, report.
	Hey, this is Bishop, but it's rope time, so I'm out of here.
	This is Constantine, in the morning.
	This is Michael, having fun in Toronto.
	In the morning, this is Sir Dwight the Knight.
	I have nothing else to say.
	In the morning, this is Sir Acid of the Scandinavian Woods.
	There's always one guy at the meet-up that sounds like that.
	Have you noticed that?
	There's always one guy...
	That's a funny point.
	Yeah, there's always one guy that sounds like this.
	In the morning, this is Sir Acid of the Scandinavian Woods from the Toronto Meetup.
	All right, a half-hearted in the morning there from everybody.
	We had the Shillanoisians meet up.
	Hey, this is Black Knight, Sir Lyman of the Net, pretty soon to be Baronet of Southern Shillanoi.
	That's how you say it.
	We're here at St.
	Nick's in DuCoin, having our second meetup of the Southern Shillanoians.
	Really enjoying our time here at St.
	Nick's.
	Really proud that I'm at the point where I get to be considered a baronet to get my title changed finally, and so I'm going to pass the mic along to Kyle here.
	Hi, I'm Kyle, and I'm a douchebag.
	I'm also a millennial, and ironically, I ordered mac and cheese tonight.
	I'm Stephen DeCoin, and I too am a douchebag, and it's like a party.
	Hi, I'm Faith.
	I'm married to Steve.
	And this is my first meet-up.
	Hi, I'm Michelle.
	And this is my first meet-up as well.
	And this is Joey Hawkins, or Joseph Hawkins, again, with the Southern Shill Annoyance.
	And I'll end with a shut-up, slave.
	Yeah, we're enjoying the mac and cheese here tonight at St.
	Nick's in Duquesne, Illinois.
	Once again, from the Southern Shill Annoyance.
	All right, Shillinoisans.
	Dame Jamie in Connecticut hosted a meetup.
	I don't know if they recorded this on one of those memo recorders, or it was all kind of like all nasal, high-end, so we'll see how well this comes through.
	What's going on, everybody?
	It's Brandon, once again, the only black person here.
	Step up, chip in, goddammit.
	Apparently, Brandon goes to a lot of meetups and complains he's the only black guy at the meetup, which I think is great.
	What's going on, everybody?
	It's Brandon, once again, the only black person here.
	Step up, chip in, goddammit.
	This is Douchebag Zach from Stratford, Connecticut.
	Military Industrial Complex, here we come.
	My fiancé threw me off.
	Why not going?
	It's us in the morning.
	I'm happy to be at a meetup in Fairfield where we just moved to.
	Nice place to move to.
	In the morning, sir.
	Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.
	Hey, it's Matt, the recovering millennial.
	John knows a lot more about beer than I do.
	It's Jordan, Baron of Pearl Harbor, in the morning.
	Sir Matt Hatter from the broke state of Connecticut.
	I am not having sexual relations with a Democratic candidate.
	That's about me.
	I'm sugar.
	Don't eat meatball, John.
	And this is Dame Jamie.
	I've had a kid on my tip.
	In the morning.
	Rowdy bunch there in Connecticut.
	Jeez.
	Rowdy bunch.
	So as I said, we've got the Club 33 in Cairo on deck for Tuesday.
	I hope someone's in Cairo.
	Jesse Coy Nelson, so nice that he's doing this.
	But at least we'll have left our stank on all these different places.
	We can always say there was a No Agenda meetup.
	It's just very small.
	Wednesday, No Agenda Local 1 in Plymouth, Michigan.
	Friday, a most marvelous Middle Eastern meetup in Manama.
	And that is Bahrain.
	And that is, oh, this is Sir Dave Fuguzotto, Earl of America's heartland in Saudi Arabia.
	This will be the first ever Manama Bahrain meetup at the Sherlock Holmes pub in the Gulf Hotel.
	This coming Friday, Stockholm, the No Agenda meetup there.
	Look for the organizer in the No Agenda Space Force t-shirt, looking extremely American, at O'Connell's Irish Pub in Gamalistan.
	That will be Michael hosting for you.
	And next Sunday, the Minneapolis warm-up at 5 o'clock, the Venn Brewery Tap Room in South Minneapolis.
	Dr.
	Hammer is your organizer.
	I have a note here.
	Okay.
	I believe we were going to a night, our meet-up meeting.
	NoagendaMeetups.com admin.
	Yeah.
	Did we check on that?
	Do we have a night name for him?
	Daniel.
	I know it's Daniel, but a night name.
	I know his name, but a night name.
	Well, it's supposed to be a surprise, maybe.
	Well, I'm sure he's surprised now.
	Daniel, let us know what your night name is going to be, because it's well-deserved.
	NoagendaMeetups.com is providing tremendous value, not so much monetary for the show, but for the show, for the producers of the show, it kicks ass over any other infrastructure that we've tried that was commercial like Meetups.com.
	Uh-uh.
	Noagendameetups.com, perfectly suited for us.
	It's where you can find a meetup near you, at a time near you, and if there isn't one, all you have to do is start one.
	Put it on the calendar yourself.
	And The Keeper and I will be in Florida-Delray Beach Meetup on the 21st of February.
	See you there!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days There we go.
	So I have three clips left that I want to play for sure.
	Okay.
	One of them is, I think, Well, let's just play.
	This is kind of an odd clip.
	This is talking about this PBS report on the Starliner.
	So it was Starliner.
	This is like the idea of the independent launches into space by Boeing and X, SpaceX or whatever they're called.
	And apparently the Boeing stuff is, again, they're having all kinds of software issues, and here's a report.
	So later in the week, we also had kind of an update to some of the things that people were figuring out about the Starliner project.
	What was happening?
	So right now, there are two companies that are creating these new vehicles to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
	And they're getting really close to actually putting people on those vehicles.
	But before they do that, they have to do these uncrewed flight tests.
	And Boeing did its uncrewed flight test in December, and it didn't really go according to plan at the time.
	A software glitch prevented the capsule from getting into the right orbit, so it didn't actually go to the International Space Station like it's supposed to.
	But now we're learning that there was actually a second software glitch.
	That was corrected at the time, but if it hadn't been corrected it could have been a catastrophic failure for the spacecraft and it could have maybe been destroyed when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere.
	We don't know because fortunately they fixed it, but it is kind of highlighting that Boeing is having these coding problems and NASA is really doing a deep investigation into that.
	As the Starliner project is happening, you also have the SpaceX project that's kind of working in parallel and that is planning on putting people into orbit.
	Right.
	So initially when they chose these two providers, it was supposed to spark competition.
	And man, since then, that competition has really heated up.
	They definitely are constantly going back and forth with one another and trying to prove and beat out the other provider.
	Beating out the other provider.
	Thank you.
	Provider.
	That was kind of interesting.
	You know, this is going on.
	We're still sending our guys to the space station, thanks to Russia.
	Their engines, yep.
	We don't have them.
	Well, their engines and their vehicles, too.
	I mean, we have to go to Russia.
	Yeah.
	Our astronaut goes to Russia and gets on a Russian product and they shoot it up and there you go.
	I found this an interesting clip.
	This is the Trump comment clip.
	It's just something he's giving some talk.
	He was giving talks all the time.
	He said this little ditty in here, and I kind of looked into it, but it did catch me off guard.
	In the coming months, my administration will hold summits just like this one in cities across the country, working closely with community leaders, workers, entrepreneurs, employers, and faith leaders, our great faith leaders, so many great people I've met.
	You know, we got rid of the Johnson Amendment so they can speak their will.
	Okay.
	John, do tell us about the Johnson Amendment.
	Well, apparently this was put in place, I think, in the 50s.
	And it had to do with 501c3s and how they can't come out for...
	And I think it also has to do with churches, because that's what he's specifically referring to, where if you're a church and you're a pastor, you can't go in front of your congregation and say, vote for Trump!
	We've known about this for a while, and Trump decided...
	With an executive order to just kill this thing.
	Yeah, and I thought it has not been talked about.
	It's underreported.
	The media's flat-footed again.
	They don't know what the hell they're doing.
	I'd say they'd want to report on that as something horrific.
	You'd think?
	Horrific.
	Now, wait a minute.
	That's not true.
	Wasn't it before the impeachment?
	I recall there was a brief moment of reporting...
	I can't remember.
	It certainly was on the radar just briefly and dropped right off.
	But yeah, to have church...
	I think the complaint went something like this.
	Well, you know, you can't not be paying taxes, you know, have the government subsidize your church.
	If it's all going to be political, then it's, you know, emoluments clause.
	I don't know.
	That was the original thinking behind it, the Johnson Amendment.
	Right.
	You're getting a tax break, and then we can't mix government with, you know, religion.
	I think it's a fair point.
	I think it's a fair point.
	You know, if you're going to get tax breaks, there's certain things...
	Okay, if you're going to have a tax-free organization, your speech will be controlled.
	That's why we never went that route.
	For this very reason.
	You don't want the government telling you what you can and can't do.
	Well, that's gone by the wayside, I think, and unless it gets challenged, that means the next season.
	The next president can turn it around.
	Because the next 2010 election, you're going to have a lot of fundamentalist preachers, evangelist preachers, telling people to vote for Trump.
	Because you know they're going to do that, especially if Bernie runs, because he's a socialist.
	He hates religion.
	He's an atheist.
	You want to vote for an atheist?
	You know?
	So this is like a little thing that nobody, you know, this should be a scandal to me if I was a Democrat, but they're too stupid.
	Vinman, Vinman, Vinman!
	Vinman, Vinman, Vinman, Vinman, that guy.
	Lieutenant Colonel, please.
	In fact, I think Biden should have been called out for not calling him Lieutenant Colonel.
	Yes, I think that was a big issue.
	So now this is a report, this may set a new trend that I don't, this is a classic democracy now kind of, let's add a new element to the way we report stories.
	And this is the report on the old El Paso shooting, apparently they found the guy guilty or whatever.
	But the way it was reported, to me, introduces some real problems.
	I'm looking for the clip, John.
	Which one is it?
	Oh, sorry.
	It says, Report on Old El Paso.
	I found it.
	Got it.
	In El Paso, Texas, the white man suspected of killing 22 people in El Paso.
	Gotta love that white man report.
	In El Paso, Texas.
	That's exactly what this is.
	How do you get away with saying the white man?
	You're going to say the black man, the Puerto Rican, the Mexican?
	You're going to start using that all the time as an adjective in front of whoever's doing stuff?
	I mean, if you start doing that, you're going to go down the road to perdition.
	But let's play it again.
	I think that the white man is the new Florida man.
	You know, like instead of a Florida man, just replace, search and replace a Florida man with a white man.
	In El Paso, Texas, the white man suspected of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart last August has been charged with federal hate crimes.
	The alleged killer is accused of targeting Latinos in a racially motivated massacre.
	Moments before the August 3rd shooting, the shooter published an online manifesto echoing President Trump's rhetoric about an invasion of immigrants.
	Trump.
	Oh, boy.
	Well, if you're going to...
	This is...
	I really paid attention to this white man thing.
	Yeah, if you want...
	You're going to do that with all black criminals?
	Or did somebody rob a bank?
	The...
	I just don't see it.
	I mean, I don't see this as a good thing.
	Well, to be fair, in context of the report which claims it was racially motivated against brown people, although they said Latinos should have said brown people, to be honest, that would be the style guide.
	If you're going to say a white man, you've got to say he shot brown people.
	That would be fair.
	But that's not what she did.
	No, but in the context, it was racially motivated.
	I'm going to wind up with three clips for today about the homelessness situation in Austin, Texas, which is quickly becoming a model of how not to do things, especially when you have examples of California, Washington State, Oregon.
	We have very clear models of how it does not work.
	So, we'll start with...
	Hold on a second.
	We start with a big...
	Now, this actually happened earlier in the week.
	We had a very big fire under a highway here in Austin.
	Couches, TVs, propane tanks, actually padlocked areas, mattresses, trash, and literally hundreds of needles.
	It's an entire system of underground homes.
	Stovetops, refrigerators, bunk beds, all built into this bridge.
	I like landscaping, and so I dug a big-ass cave into the wall under the bridge about Ten feet off the ground.
	Rich Johnson believes he's one of about a hundred people living under the bridge.
	I mean, I built a furnace and chimney in there, and it's nice and warm and cozy.
	This catacomb-like camp spans roughly three-football fields.
	Monday morning, it went up in flames.
	We've come down here for medical calls a lot.
	We've always feared there being a fire.
	Well, there was a fire.
	Upon arrival, there were no residents of the camp that we had to deal with and rescue.
	Everyone appears to be okay.
	The firefighters were worried about spaces and possibly people they just couldn't reach.
	It is definitely a very unsafe situation for our firefighters as they're going to have to dig through this stuff for hours.
	Hazmat has been called in just to make sure that, you know, it's safe for our guys to go down there.
	Techstock sent Hazmat to the scene as their bridge inspectors were unable to access the fire's starting point otherwise.
	They've become very resourceful in dealing with lack of no power, so there is a generator.
	That we have to account for, that leaking into the watershed.
	Last week, the city began cleaning up homeless camps and watersheds as part of a $250,000 year-long contract that could be extended.
	The city is flexible on how many sites they'll clean up this year, but right now they're slated to clean approximately 20.
	This site was not on the city's initial list of spots to clean.
	And TxDOT tells us the bridge is fine.
	Ridge Johnson tells us the room he carved out under that bridge is also okay.
	He plans to return as soon as possible.
	So this was quite, to me, quite spectacular.
	Three football fields of dwelling space dug out underneath the highway.
	Apparently not any danger to the integrity of the structure, but something caught fire and just burning and all kinds of stuff.
	The guy who...
	We heard in the beginning of the report, he said, oh, I like building things.
	He could be an architect, I guess, but no, he decides to do that under the bridge.
	And I really am losing compassion for the campers, because that's what this is.
	They've been driven out of downtown, so no longer do we have people camping in downtown Austin by ordinance.
	Go ahead and just go out anywhere else you want to, and these aren't even Austinites anymore.
	These are, many of them, vagrants and harassing people in their cars with squeegees, etc.
	And I'm becoming quite negative about them.
	As always, we have our monthly meeting in Austin.
	It happens on Thursday.
	You heard in the report hundreds of needles found around this camp.
	This is from the Thursday council meeting.
	Council member Allison Alter, she had something to say about these needles.
	And I just wanted to point out, because folks are expressing concern over the needles, that people use needles for health reasons and for insulin and other stuff.
	I believe that's what we were seeing.
	And so I just wanted to throw that out there, that a lot of folks who are homeless have health issues and are using the needles for health reasons.
	That doesn't make them safe to be on the ground, but that is one of the reasons that we may be finding those in those areas.
	Well, this woman is about to be run out of town.
	Oh, yeah.
	The needles are clearly for health issues for insulin, which I'm sure they have in their refrigerator right nearby.
	This is how insane it's become in Austin, Texas, that she can't even admit that people are doing drugs.
	No, no, no, no.
	It's for health reasons.
	Don't be so mean to them, please.
	So now the city of Austin has yet again a fabulous idea.
	If you recall, we had a consultant come in.
	The reports at the time were she quit after one day on the job.
	Now they've changed that to four months, but she really didn't do anything.
	But don't worry, we found another consultant.
	The city of Austin is recruiting more help, internally and externally, to work on homelessness issues.
	Today, the council approved hiring Matthew Daugherty as a consultant.
	Daugherty helped shape national homelessness policy for years.
	KXA investigator Kevin Clark spoke to city management about the decision to increase staffing and the difficult lessons learned last year.
	T lives life on the streets.
	She's far removed from the homelessness policy debate inside City Hall, where the movers and shakers are changing again.
	The city wants to pay close to $100,000 to Matthew Daugherty, who would work through the end of September to help Austin.
	Daugherty has national connections, having been executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
	We're certainly looking forward to his ideas.
	So ultimately, recommendations that he provides, connections and coordination.
	This comes as Austin is creating a homelessness services division within the city's public health department.
	It's expected to include multiple full-time employees and a public information officer.
	It gives what was a one-person homeless strategy office.
	It gives it the support that we need and believe is much more appropriate.
	Lori Pampilo Harris resigned as Austin's homeless strategy officer on the job less than four months.
	In emails from December about her long-term goals for homelessness policy, she told city management, I was hoping for enough time to do an appropriate assessment, asset mapping and intersectional discovery that would lead to some concrete planning and action steps.
	I never was given the space or time to do this appropriately or with the focus needed.
	She also told staff, I have seen it being exhibited from elected officials that they are looking for the solutions for today and not the solving of the issue for the future.
	I have a challenge with that.
	That Lori could have a lot of additional support from an administrative perspective that Lori didn't have that we've certainly learned in terms of lessons.
	Sorely lacking from this report about the brand new consultant to fix Austin's homelessness problem is the actual background of Matthew Doherty, who was appointed in 2015 by the Obama administration to lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which who was appointed in 2015 by the Obama administration to lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which was tasked with coordinating the federal response to homelessness across 19 agencies, including Department of Housing, Urban
	Last year by the Trump administration for utter failings, mainly in California.
	This is the dickhead we're bringing here to fix it in Austin.
	Can you believe that shit?
	Yeah, of course.
	And they don't even...
	That's what you do in Austin.
	They don't even report it.
	You've got lots of money, you're just throwing it away.
	They don't even report it.
	And something's going to happen.
	You know, I think the point that really, your real point is, why wasn't that reported by the news media that you have there in Austin?
	They can look it up.
	You looked it up.
	It was so hard.
	I had to do a whole search and type the guy's name and spell it properly.
	It's insane.
	I can understand how hard it is.
	So much work!
	Oh my god!
	It's like everyone's a teenage girl.
	Oh, do I have to?
	Do I have to?
	Really, really, really disappointing.
	That's funny.
	Yes.
	So, the struggle continues in the capital of the drone star state, everybody.
	And on Thursday, I have an OTG update that I'm dying to share with you.
	We've got lots of good stuff, and who the heck knows what else is going to happen.
	Because it's nuts out there.
	Oh, by the way, United Kingdoms of England, Gitmo Nation East, good luck with that storm.
	They've got a massive storm coming.
	It's like everything's shut down.
	No flights, no trains, bridges.
	They're looking at 80, 90 mile-an-hour winds.
	Yeah.
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	Until then, adios mofos!
	And such.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, yes.
	End of shows from Fletcher and Starkweather.
	End of shows from Fletcher and Starkweather.
	Back up and a back up and a back up and a back up.
	Back up and a back up and a back up and a back up.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Come on. Rip. Rip.
	Come on.
	Rip, rip.
	He violated the Constitution.
	He violated the Constitution.
	And I don't count Trump driving as a family.
	Rip.
	And I don't count drunk and driving as a family.
	Rip.
	That's the issue.
	That's the issue.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Rip.
	Rip, but that doesn't make it right.
	That doesn't make it right. Rip. Rip. Everybody knows who this guy is.
	Rip, rip.
	Everybody knows who this guy is.
	Rip.
	Rip, rip.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	That's astounding.
	Rip, rip, rip.
	That's the issue.
	Rip, rip.
	Come on, man.
	Rip, rip.
	You're going to get fired.
	What you see is so sad.
	You're fired.
	So sad.
	I'm looking forward to this, man.
	So sad.
	In her heart.
	You know who I'm talking about?
	Do what he did.
	This grand experiment we call democracy will have been fatally, fatally, fatally, fatally, fatally eroded.
	He's had enough.
	Rip, rip, rip.
	Nailed it.
	Rip, rip.
	Nailed it.
	My Republican opponents have gotten out of politics.
	And that guy started to cry.
	And that guy started to cry.
	This is a lot of fun.
	I think that sounds pretty good.
	That's why I always say you have to thank yourself because nobody else is going to do it.
	Henceforth, for, with, indubitably, affirmatively, we're the Democrats.
	Joe, I want to answer.
	Really, I think you should come over.
	Keep listening to this same debate, and it is not real.
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	Good for Republicans and Democrats.
	We saw what happened when that happened.
	These things are all connected, but that's the point.
	So are all of the things that need to change.
	Americans feel like the political parties have been playing you lose, I lose, you lose, I lose for years.
	And you know who's been losing this entire time?
	We have a drug offense.
	They go directly mandatory prison.
	I mean, excuse me, mandatory treatment, not prison.
	But at the end of the day, there's no way around it.
	You may want to nibble around the edges.
	Corruption.
	And that's what we can run on.
	We bring our party together.
	It's an issue we can all agree on and fight to end the corruption.
	I got this bill.
	Well, the reality is, actually, Joe Biden's right.
	They call me, I talk to them, and I believe I can get it done.
	Meeting the moment.
	Meeting the moment.
	We had a moment the last few weeks.
	Close your eyes, everybody.
	Remember what you saw on television.
	Largely black and brown women who do this work.
	Entrepreneurs who are black and brown and minorities to be able to get.
	The heart and soul of this party is diversity.
	Black people, Latinos, AAPI people, Native Americans and white people.
	But for goodness sakes, pull it together.
	Get your, get up there.
	Who we are.
	That's who we are.
	We are not what trust us.
	We're the Democrats.
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