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1554: The Verger
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Picks a can down the road.
Adam Curry.
John C. Devorah.
It's Thursday, May 11th, 2023.
This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media Assassination Episode 1554.
in episode 1554.
This is No Agenda.
Deconstructing 45 on 42 and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're all wondering whether it's true or not, that Super Beats is a game changer.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Okay, I'll bite.
Super Beats?
You mean the Super Beats that all the, the, the radio, radio shows advertise?
Yeah.
That's been around forever.
Super Beats.
It's a game changer.
It's not gonna be a game changer.
It's not a game changer.
It's what it said in the last ad I saw.
Oh, is that it?
No, man, that's not a game-changer.
All that stuff is lame.
What's the Vita-Vege-Vegemin?
Super Vites.
Super Vitamins.
Super... See, it's such a bad commercial, we've seen it a million times, can't remember the name.
I always think of it as Super Vites.
Vital... Super Bits?
No, it's Vital... Bits, it's Bits.
No, it's not Bits.
It's something... Bites!
It's taking your vegetables in powder form.
Yeah.
Right.
There you go.
Whatever it is.
I know what it is.
Supervites.
No, it's fruits and it's... No.
Superfruit.
No, this is how bad it is.
Even the troll room doesn't know what it is.
This is, this is... Oh, do you hear that?
Somebody knows what it is.
No, they don't.
Supervites.
No, but we're registering that domain name.
Supervites, everybody.
Get your Supervites.
Uh, it's... Superfruit.
No, it's daily something or other.
Look, look, look.
Uh, there's so much going on and none of it is honest on the news.
It's great.
So much is going on, they're not even reporting half of it.
I know.
I know.
I watched the entire CBS News Hour with Nora, and all they were talking about is Trump.
Oh yeah, Trump pinched a girl's ass.
Oh, he's a rapist, but he's not a rapist.
He was found not guilty of rape.
And his lawyer comes out and says, well, at least he wasn't a rapist.
That guy's a horrible lawyer.
Wait a minute, is that what the lawyer said?
At least he's not a rapist?
Well, kind of.
I think I have the full report here.
Why don't we play it?
Okay.
I saw those in your clips.
Are we really going to do this rape story?
But yes, we are.
Okay.
Let's put it this way.
Comer comes out with a bunch of damning evidence against the Biden family.
It's not even touched.
Yeah, we have those clips too.
The CIA is busted for fixing the last 2020 election.
It's not even touched.
You mean the letter?
Yeah, of course!
It's Balance of Nature!
That's what it is.
What a dumb name.
Balance of Nature, oh yeah.
Supervites, much better.
Supervites.com, everybody.
All right, let's get into this.
CBS is right.
There's so much happening.
The border, by the way, which everyone's dishonest about.
I got some clips on that.
This is going to be a dynamite show.
We have, uh, we have JT, the Wagner Group, we got everything, but first, let's start off with rape!
We begin with breaking news verdicts in this civil rape and defamation trial of former president Donald Trump.
A federal jury in New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll nearly 30 years ago.
The jury also found...
Hold on.
Did they explain here that this is a civil case and what the difference is between a federal case or a criminal case and a civil case?
Did they explain this in this report?
What, you're a comedian?
...found the former president liable for defaming Carroll when he denied the allegations and said she was lying to get publicity for her book.
The former writer for Elle magazine was awarded $5 million in damages.
The trial saw Carroll testify in graphic detail about the assault Inside a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s.
The jury was also shown a videotaped deposition of Trump being questioned under oath about the allegations.
CBS's Elaine Cajano has been following the trial and is going to start us off tonight outside the federal courthouse in New York City.
Good evening, Elaine.
Good evening, Nora.
E. Jean Carroll appeared to nod as the jury's decision was read.
It was an emotional nine-day trial, and in a statement, Carroll called the verdict a victory, not just for her, but for democracy and sexual assault survivors everywhere.
For democracy!
Writer E. Jean Carroll walked out of court saying very little, but the jury's verdict spoke volumes.
After just under three hours of deliberations, the jury of six men and three women found Trump liable for one count of battery and one count of defamation.
It awarded Carroll about $2 million for abuse and about $3 million for defamation.
This verdict is the first time that a former president of the United States has actually been found liable for sexual abuse.
Hey, wait a minute.
Can't, uh...
Monica Lewinsky go back now and get some dough?
Doesn't this open it up to any president?
How about Jack Kennedy?
Can this happen now?
Well, anyone can do anything they want, but no one's doing it.
There just happened to be a jury in New York City that, for some reason, took a dislike to Trump.
Well, because it went from being a Democrat to a Republican.
And we're joking around here, but of course, rape is nothing to laugh about.
However, the actual so-called victim herself went on, we played that on the last show, Anderson Cooper Show, saying, oh no, it's like sexual fantasy.
And joked about it.
And joked about it, yes.
As well as defamation.
Carol had accused Trump of raping her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-90s.
She first went public with her claim in her 2019 memoir.
Trump denied the accusation, calling it a hoax.
I was falsely accused by this woman.
I have no idea who she is.
It's ridiculous.
During the trial, Carol— You know, I have to say, that's just—it's a dumb response that Trump is giving there.
Of course you know who she is.
She's suing you.
You know?
You know what I mean?
It's like, he keeps saying, he said something, I watched the whole town hall, which we'll get to in a minute, and he kept saying the same thing, like, yeah, I've never, I've never, I don't know who this woman is.
Well, you do, obviously.
You know, it's a weird way to address it.
Trump denied the accusation, calling it a hoax.
I was falsely accused by this woman.
I have no idea who she is.
It's ridiculous.
During the trial, Carroll gave graphic testimony.
She told jurors, I'm here because Donald Trump raped me.
And when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen.
He shattered my reputation.
Oh, nice cutoff there.
I thought, yeah, I cut it there.
Because, what, reputation as being a rape victim?
No, she worked, she was a writer for Elle, Elle Magazine.
She still is a writer.
Well, had you heard of her before this?
No.
I think he bolstered her reputation.
Actually, she should be paying him for the reputation uppage.
Here's the weird, weird, this is a, I have a comment on this next short clip.
This is DJT Rape Case, Marla.
Donald Trump waived his right to testify and the defense called no witnesses.
Outside the courthouse, his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said the deck was stacked against his client.
Barbie was obviously very happy that Donald Trump was not branded a rapist.
But during the trial, jurors heard parts of Trump's deposition in the case.
That she's not my type?
He misidentified Carol in a photograph as his second wife, Marla Maples.
It's Marla.
Hey, I saw it!
They showed that photo!
Ah, and?
I've met Marla Maples.
I know what she looks like.
That was Marla Maples!
Oh, really?
Yeah, and they've showed the photo on the TV.
I've seen this photo before.
It's got his... It's got Ivana on the right, and then Marla Maples is standing there.
She's very distinctively look... She looks... She's a distinctive looking woman.
She is...
Not as photogenic as she is actually beautiful in real life.
I've talked about this before.
But how does this pertain to this case that he apparently misidentified her?
They claim he misidentified her.
He never went to testify.
They showed the picture.
He says, there's Yvonne and there's Marla, my ex-wife.
And then they take that and twist it into he misidentified.
I've seen, I've heard this before.
Was that evidence?
This is a hoax.
Was that evidence they used in the trial, that picture?
Oh, interesting.
And the picture, I'm telling you, it was a picture of Marla Maples.
It is not this woman.
All right, now we have to know, just, you can, you can abbreviate it.
In what context did you meet Marla Maples?
It's a weird one.
I went to, there was a big computer confab in New York City, and one of the vendors had an event, and I can't remember who the vendor was, which makes you wonder how well, because it was at Bob Guccione's house.
Oh man, you have lived the life, haven't you?
I mean, listen to this.
I just happened to be at Bob Guccione's house, publisher of Penthouse.
Okay.
So Bob Guccione's house at the time was the largest- Just Bob to you, right?
Hey, Bob.
Yeah, Bob.
Bob, yeah.
It was the largest single-family dwelling in Manhattan.
Oh, later owned by Epstein.
Is that the same place?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I thought that was the claim, that that was the largest family dwelling.
Anyway, there's a lot of people there, and Marla Maples was one of them.
And you're like, hey, Marla?
I chatted with her for a minute or two.
And she was kind of bubbly until I said, what do you do?
I'm a writer.
Oh, and that was that.
You weren't interesting to her.
But I made this one observation.
For one thing, she's prettier in person than she is in those photos.
She's actually kind of a drop dead knockout in person.
And in photos, she's pretty, but she's not as good looking as she is in person.
Was she ever in Penthouse?
Was she?
No, I don't think so.
Were you ever in Penthouse?
I was in the Penthouse building.
Okay.
All right.
No.
What would I be doing in Penthouse?
I did get to be a judge for the art competition that Penthouse's, one of their spin-offs once did.
They used to have a science fiction magazine.
And I was an art judge for that operation.
Marla Maples was, I'm just looking at some pictures seeing if there's anything in Penthouse.
She was, she really truly is kind of like the all-American, all-American girl.
And it looks like she was pretty all natural.
Well, when you saw her in person, you could imagine, I mean, the first thing that comes to mind, if she put her hooks into you, which she did to Trump, you were doomed.
You were doomed.
All right, let's finish this because we have other things to talk about.
I think gossip is good.
Go on with clip three, wrap it up.
For more, let's bring in Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett.
Good evening.
What's the political impact of this?
Because he's running for president.
Yes, and he's the current Republican frontrunner.
Not just a former president, but this was in all terms, Nora, a character sketch of Donald Trump then and now.
And Senate Republicans are not rallying to his defense.
Let's just talk about the case for a second.
The defense for former President Trump was he's rude, he's crude, but he wouldn't sexually batter this woman and then defame her.
Well, in a contested process where everyone had every opportunity to put evidence and witnesses before a jury, a jury said, no, in fact, that's precisely what the former president did.
Now, those who rallied to the former president's defense say, well, there was a character debate in 2016, he passed and was elected, or this is all politically timed.
But Senate Republican leaders today, Nor, on Capitol Hill, in the aftermath of this verdict, said there's too much drama.
Voters will evaluate that.
And, yes, Trump can get the nomination, but he can't be elected in a general election.
That's Senate Republicans, their verdict on this verdict.
Huh?
Oh, bullcrap!
It's not true, is it?
None of it's true.
He says, oh, the Senate, and he always says Senate Republicans, by the way, never mentions House Republicans, but he says Senate Republicans aren't rallying to his defense.
Why would they?
What are they going to do?
Set up a picket line?
What is he talking about?
Don't know.
Don't know.
Well, that was the breaking news.
Oh, there was more breaking news!
By the way, hold on one second.
That was at the beginning of the news.
The beginning.
That was it.
That was the top of the news.
There was nothing about Biden, the CIA.
No!
No!
Because we had more breaking news.
I was in the car.
I was driving.
I took Tina to the airport.
I'm driving back.
Breaking news!
Moments after pleading not guilty to 13 criminal charges, George Santos was on the federal courthouse steps.
Make a halt so we can get through!
Every single, because I have Sirius XM in the car, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, I think even CNBC, when breaking news, there's some douchebag and something, who cares?
Breaking news!
Crush of reporters, defiant as ever.
I'm going to fight the witch, and I'm going to take care of clearing my name, and I look forward to doing that.
The indictment accuses the freshman congressman of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds, and lying to Congress about his finances.
Federal prosecutors say Santos devised and executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy, telling donors their money would be used for things like campaign ads, but instead paying off personal debts and buying clothes.
The government also accused Santos of collecting tens of thousands of dollars in unemployment money from the state of New York during the pandemic, all the while making a salary of $120,000 in Florida.
Meanwhile, Santos is out on a $500,000 bond.
He faces, if convicted on these charges, a maximum sentence of up to 20 years, but it's unlikely that he would get a sentence that long.
Meanwhile, Sam Bankman Freed roams around free at his parents' house.
I mean, the world has gone nuts.
You've taught me for more mundane news than the Trump case.
Now we go to the House Oversight Committee, who had a very reasonable presentation, and it must have been difficult for the newsrooms because this Comer, Comer's?
Is it Comer's his name?
Yes, yes, yes, Comer.
Comer.
Comer.
A big black guy.
You know, it's like, oh, we can't call white supremacy or anything on this.
What are we going to do?
No, Comer's not a black guy.
Who's the black guy?
I don't know who the black guy is you're talking about.
I thought he was the black guy.
No, no, Comer's a big white guy.
Ah, well, who was the big black guy?
They got a big black guy, a good-looking big black guy out in front doing his whole thing.
Well, listen to this.
In March, the committee released its first bank records memorandum that showed a Biden associate, Rob Walker... Oh, that was Byron Donalds.
Byron Donalds, that's it.
No, not Isaac Hayes, Troll Room.
Good one, though.
No.
...funnel money from the Chinese to various Biden family members.
Democrats dismissed the evidence, even though it was based on bank records directly from the bank.
The Democrats on the Oversight Committee received the same records as the Republicans, and they were able to verify the information.
Democrats said all the bank records showed were Papa John's and Starbucks receipts.
So that's all they could find.
This is so good.
This is so good.
I think now we get, now we get Byron.
When we're talking about these associates, what are we really getting at?
They used them as vehicles to move money directly into Biden family accounts.
Why is that?
It's because they were looking to obfuscate and hide where the money was coming from.
For example, the Bidens used their associate Rob Walker to bring in millions of dollars from China and Romania.
Walker's limited liability company Robinson Walker LLC paid Hunter, James, Hallie, and others in the Biden network more than $2 million after foreign money hit his account.
One third to the Bidens.
That was the pattern.
For example, on March 1st, 2017, only two months after Joe Biden left office, Robinson Walker received a $3 million wire from State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese entity.
The next day, one-third of that money, $1,065,000, went to the bank account in Abu Dhabi of the company DEIG, which was controlled by James Gilead, another Biden associate.
Over the next three months, RobinsonWalker LLC sent 16 incremental payments to over five different Biden accounts, totaling $1,065,692.
This included payments to James Biden, who received five wires and over $50,000, who did no discernible work to earn that money.
A third to Gilear, a third to the Bidens.
You know, I've had LLCs and stuff and, you know, I mean, how do you even think you can move this money around like that without someone getting, I don't know, suspicious?
Nobody got suspicious until just recently.
Look how long it's been going on.
But what about the IRS?
The IRS doesn't look at this and go, I mean, when we went to get our mortgage, just a mortgage for this house, and you know, you deposit, every two weeks you deposit money into my account in the bank in California, and I have to then write a check to get it, because we can't actually, that bank is so weird, you can't actually wire money, so I have to write a check to myself, and then deposit it in my community bank here.
Then I got questions.
What is this?
What is this money?
Is this money being deposited?
It's for myself?
Yeah?
Oh yeah?
Is someone just trying to spike your account?
No!
So, but Biden's no problem.
Last clip here.
The Biden family doesn't really have a business.
Whoa, stop a second.
Just compare this story, as it's just unfolding in real time by actual congressmen, to the George Santos story.
Yeah, exactly.
What is the Santos story?
Top of the news!
And then this story, totally ignored by CBS.
Okay, I have to say, what they did wrong is you got to do this outside, on the steps, They did inside, you know, they had the flags, they had the little podium.
They should have done something like, oh, oh, congress people outside on steps, in front of Capitol, great show.
It was not a good visual.
Joe, I think that is a mistake on their part.
Oh, they should hire a PR agent.
Yes!
Just to get to news.
Isn't a news organization supposed to be, like, hot on this sort of thing?
It's not important.
They have to be sold a bill of goods by a public relations person?
We have response from the director of CNN.
Don't look over here!
Nothing to see here!
Ooh, look at that!
Alright, back to the final clip.
The Biden family doesn't really have a business.
There is no business structure around this family.
Except politics.
And since Joe Biden has spent decades in the Senate, served eight years as Vice President, and is now President of the United States, and the family's getting money from various countries and foreign businesses through various shell companies and this web of LLCs.
I mean, guys, you in the press, this is easy pickings.
I'm giving you Pulitzer stuff here.
All you have to do is literally look at- Wait a minute.
You told me anyone can get a Pulitzer.
Pulitzer's easy, easy, easy pickings.
Isn't it?
No, you had to be connected.
Oh, I mean, guys, you in the press, this is easy pickings.
I'm giving you Pulitzer stuff here.
All you have to do is literally look at our memo and see the level of detail upon which they have created this.
And it's very, it's very, very frustrating.
We have now been able to clearly see that the Biden's associates like Rob Walker, Eric Sherman has been discussed, created at least 16 companies while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States.
16 companies created while he was Vice President.
Now the list is 20.
And as we continue our investigation, that list is growing.
And like I said before, the question is to serve what purpose?
And the purpose of all these companies being created is to conceal money.
That the Biden family has been gaining because Joe Biden has been sitting at the upper echelon of our politics for almost five decades.
No, there you go.
And as you point out, nothing.
Silence, silence, silence from them.
Total silence by the mainstream media on this.
It's unbelievable.
Especially after the Donald Trump rape case and the George Santos, who gives a shit about George Santos story.
Well, at least ABC this week with George Safavopoulos.
At least they're on top of what the people think of Joe Biden.
Wait, wait.
You mean on the Sunday morning show that nobody watches?
Yeah, that would be the one.
Political Director Rick Klein here to break it down.
And Rick, this poll is just brutal for President Biden.
Absolutely, George.
And you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for President Biden.
It's actually six points down just since February.
And the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party.
Only 36% of Democrats think that their party should nominate Joe Biden for a second term.
58% say they would support someone else or prefer someone else.
This is what was funny.
So the guy has his screen up and it's like 38% Joe Biden and then 58% someone else.
I've never seen that!
It's always been... There's always been a name!
I mean, what?
Yeah, it literally just said someone else.
The majority.
It literally says someone else.
Yeah.
We all know it's Michelle Obama, but OK, someone else.
Oh, boo!
Support someone else or prefer someone else.
That's despite the fact that the entire DNC and most of the Democratic establishment has rallied behind President Biden.
And you're seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered Joe Biden to the presidency back in 2020.
Biden carried independence by 13 points against Donald Trump.
He is now trailing Trump by nine points among those same voters.
He carried black voters by 75 points in 2020.
Now he's up just 35.
That may sound like a lot, but the fact- Whoa, I guess they're not black anymore.
40% of black Americans are no longer black.
Matter is, in modern politics, that is not the kind of number that a Democrat needs to be victorious.
And then, of course, that does spill over into the head-to-head matchup, a hypothetical rematch, Trump versus Biden.
Right now, a seven-point edge in our poll from Trump leading Biden.
Wow.
In fact, it's an identical number with Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head that might happen next November.
That tells us at this very early stage, George, that this race is shaping up a lot more about the incumbent president, Joe Biden, than it is about any of his challengers.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Well, that's all part of the takedown.
You signaled the takedown of Joe Biden and you believe Kamala Harris is on deck.
As sick as that is, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, by the way, this may be, there's a little clip here.
Just, uh, I think, uh, President Biden was talking to, uh, Chinese American businesswomen.
I think that's what he was talking to.
And, uh, this is part of the reason I think why Americans just, and Americans are all kinds of creeds, races, backgrounds, religions.
I think they're kind of like this guy's toast.
We can't have this guy.
Groundbreaking Asian Americans like Vera Wang.
Vera Wang.
Groundbreaking.
Yeah.
40 years ago, but okay.
Brown break in Asian America is like Vera Wang.
And Joan Shingang.
I'm going to pronounce her.
Shinga.
Koala.
Koala.
I think I pronounced it correctly.
I don't think so.
Anyway, former President Trump did a town hall on CNN video.
Very, very interesting.
And we know CNN has new ownership, new boss in town.
This is rather early to have any type of town hall from any candidate.
So there was a lot of pooh-poohing from the political left.
What is this about?
What is CNN doing?
They're just ratings whores!
Why would they do that?
Well, of course.
Of course they're doing it for the ratings.
And what was the woman's name who did... I think she did a very admirable job.
What is her name again?
Nobody thought so.
I, you know, first of all, considering it's exactly what you'd expect from Trump, he answered everything exactly the way he would have, you know, six years ago.
Yeah.
Yes, if you're, if you're on the left, you thought she did a great job, which I'm not either.
If you're on the right, you know, ah, she was stupid.
You know, Trump, Trump owned her!
Yeah, of course he owned her, sure.
She got her questions, and she didn't break the quorum.
I thought, you know, I'll give her props for doing it.
I saw, you know, I'm giving you this.
I didn't, a couple things.
One, I didn't watch this except in pieces, because I figured you would.
And you did.
I don't know how we do that, but it manages.
It's Wonder Warlick, yes.
It's weird.
And the pieces I saw, I thought she was just kind of a creep.
Well, of course.
It depends.
Caitlyn Collins.
Yes.
Now, I will say the choice of outfit is not what I would have selected as stylist and just acting as a producer here for a moment.
I don't think that all white was appropriate.
I don't know what that was supposed to signal, but it made her look too nice compared to her very accentuated makeup and dark hair.
So just as a producer thing.
I thought that was a bad choice.
She didn't have power.
It was not a power outfit.
Yeah, it should have been red or blue or... Yeah, something like that.
Anything.
Red would be the power outfit.
Anyway, so I have two highlights.
One from CNN themselves, and then of course from some, you know, political YouTuber, John Talks.
You can slice it both ways.
CNN's highlight reel first.
Former President Trump met a friendly audience in New Hampshire.
He even drew laughs when he mocked the trial in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse.
What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you're playing hanky-panky in a dressing room, okay?
Trump also defended comments he made on the Access Hollywood tape, saying he could grope women.
I said it's been true for one million years, approximately a million years, perhaps a little bit longer than that.
So you stand by those comments?
Well, I don't want to lie.
On abortion, he says he favors exceptions for rape, incest, and the mother's life, but would not say if he'd sign a federal abortion ban.
Some people are at six weeks, some people are at three weeks, two weeks.
Where's President Trump?
President Trump is going to make a determination what he thinks is great for the country.
Throughout the town hall, host Caitlin Collins often sparred with Trump.
I would like for you to answer the question.
Okay, it's very simple to answer.
That's why I asked it.
It's very simple.
You're a nasty person.
It was so uncalled for what she did there that she deserved that comment from him.
What did she do?
That's why I asked it.
Here, listen again.
President Trump is going to make a determination.
Well, she was hounding him.
She kept hounding him saying, well, what are you going to do?
Would you sign a national abortion ban?
And he was very clear.
What he was basically saying was, now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
There's negotiation room, which I didn't put in this clip.
He said it used to be that pro-lifers had zero negotiation, and as we all saw with our own eyes, the pro-abortion choice, whatever you want to call it, they pushed so far it was like, well, when the baby's born, you can still kill it.
You know, three weeks up, You should be able to kill the kid.
They push, they push, they push, they push.
And Trump now says, appropriately says, now there's negotiating room.
And he's clearly signaling that he's not all in on no abortion whatsoever, that it's up for negotiation.
She kept on saying, will you sign the National Federal Abortion Ban?
It was annoying because he was clearly saying, hey, it's open for negotiation, and the country is not all pro-life and not all pro-choice.
He was saying that in a very reasonable tone.
And then she just got all... She did get nasty about it, and you'll hear it here.
And what he thinks is great for the country... Throughout the town hall, host Caitlin Collins often sparred with Trump.
I would like for you to answer the question.
Okay, it's very simple to answer.
That's why I asked it.
It's very simple.
You're a nasty person.
It was uncalled for.
Prompting testy moments.
Given many opportunities to accept the 2020 election results, he continued to make false claims.
And he would not take a side in the ongoing and bloody war in Ukraine.
Can you say if you want Ukraine or Russia to win this war?
I want everybody to stop dying.
He's really anti-war.
Very appealing, I think, to people.
Certainly to that crowd.
So now here's a more pro-Trump cut of the CNN evening.
It's a super cut, so of course, we always have to put stupid music underneath.
The flight of the bumblebees music.
Please, people, stop doing that.
John Talks from YouTube.
What is the first thing you would do to help bring down the cost to make things more affordable?
Drill, baby, drill.
And by the way, the way he got out of Afghanistan was the single most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
Why did it take you three hours to tell them to go home?
I don't believe it did.
Oh, let me pull it out.
I have to pull it out.
I'm 26.
I'm a veteran.
I help manage a private aviation company.
You want a job?
I'd love one, yeah.
I'm looking for somebody very good.
Do you want Ukraine to win this war?
I don't think in terms of winning and losing.
I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people and breaking down.
I was impeached by a crazy woman named Nancy.
But the question here is what do you give Ukraine?
The country is being destroyed by stupid people.
By very stupid people.
You once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen.
You said that when you were in the Oval Office.
That's when I was president.
So why is it different now that you're out of office?
Now I'm not president.
Are you ready?
Can I talk?
Yeah, what's the answer?
Can you mind?
I would like for you to answer the question.
Okay, it's very simple to answer.
That's why I asked it.
It's very simple.
You're a nasty person, okay?
Stop doing the music, people.
So I thought by far the most interesting... You know, as super cuts go... It was not a great one.
It was really crappy.
Yeah, I know.
But I'm just showing you that you could cut this either way you wanted, depending on whoever you work for, or if you're on YouTube and you... Yeah, you should be able to, yes, and that's what happens.
What I thought was interesting was the debt limit questions.
And which of course, you know, all these questions were set up where people had the cards, the producers had given to them up front.
I think pretty much everybody in the crowd was pro-Trump, even though, whoa, not sure I'm gonna go vote this year.
Oh, sure.
And he was... Well, there was an art debate on some other show about this, and they did It was billed as an event for Republicans and so it should have been a group of people pro-Trump.
Later people bitched about, oh they're pro-Trump, there's no good.
Duh.
Duh.
They even said that.
It was undecided voters and people who had voted for Trump previously but weren't sure now.
Okay.
We've always been, I think, amazed by his macroeconomic views.
We didn't really know he was such a macro kind of guy.
His very interesting views on this debt debate, which actually, let me play this little explainer from the Wall Street Journal, it's only a minute, that explains what this is about.
Party leaders are still debating raising the debt ceiling as the deadline to default gets closer.
But they do agree on one thing.
They do agree!
Defaulting on our debt is not an option.
Not an option!
It will have catastrophic consequences.
They're not exaggerating.
The U.S.
Treasury uses tax revenue and debt to pay the country's bills, like funding government programs, Social Security, and paying interest on existing debt.
If it runs out of money and isn't able to pay these investors back, that's default.
And that's what will happen if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling to allow the Treasury to take on more debt.
Which would cause massive upheaval in financial markets, stock prices falling, interest rates rising, probably the dollar falling too.
And that could affect a wide range of your own financial life.
In a worst-case scenario, it could cause a whole new recession.
It's because U.S.
debt has become... A new one?
What are we in?
This is all supposition.
They have no idea what would happen.
Exactly.
It could affect a wide range of your own financial life.
In a worst-case scenario, it could cause a whole new recession.
It's because U.S.
debt has become the core of the economy, from Wall Street to banks to interest rates.
U.S.
Treasury borrowing is the center of gravity for almost all finance on the globe.
Here's why, how it works, and what a default would mean for you.
Okay, so as you point out, it's supposition.
We have no idea.
What is important to understand is that it's not completely binary.
Like, well, if we don't raise the debt limit to print more money, borrow more money, then we'll default.
Well, no, you could not spend the money on other things, which is always the debate.
We've seen this.
At least 30 times, no, at least 20 times in the course of, yeah, maybe in the course of this show's existence, this debate, and it's always back and forth.
And Trump had a very interesting take on it, which I think was underplayed because it's something that no one wants to, I think, believe.
Such an important question.
So we're at $33 trillion, a number that nobody ever thought possible.
When we had our economy rocking and rolling just prior to COVID coming in, like literally we were making a fortune.
And oil, we were going to make so much money from oil, we were going to start paying off debt.
But then with COVID coming in, we had to do other things.
We had to keep this country alive.
Remember he said that he wanted to refinance the debt back in those days, which I always thought was a fascinating idea.
Yeah, we can refire that.
Yeah, refi.
Yeah, and we could have.
I think he's right.
If COVID hadn't hit, he might have done it.
Paying off debt.
But then with COVID coming in, we had to do other things.
We had to keep this country alive because it was so serious.
But we have to get the country back.
We have to lower energy prices.
We have to lower interest rates.
Interest rates are through the roof.
Energy has to come down.
It all has to come down.
And we have to start paying off debt.
But when we have... This is the only That person I hear talking about paying off the debt.
No one talks about that but him.
A debt limit, and they used that very seriously.
They came in, Schumer came in with Nancy Pelosi, and they were using it.
We'll violate it, we'll do whatever.
They talked a whole lot different than they do right now.
I say to the Republicans out there, congressmen, senators, if they don't give you massive cuts, you're going to have to do a default.
And I don't believe they're going to do a default because I think the Democrats will absolutely cave.
Because you don't want to have that happen.
But it's better than what we're doing right now.
Because we're spending money like drunken sailors.
So just to be clear, Mr. President, you think the U.S.
should default if the White House does not agree to the spending cuts Republicans are demanding?
We might as well do it now because you'll do it later.
Because we have to save this country.
Our country is dying.
Our country is being destroyed by stupid people.
By very stupid people.
You once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen.
You said that when you were in the Oval Office.
That's why I was President.
So why is it different now that you're out of office?
Because now I'm not President.
Duh.
But here it comes.
Listen to this.
The U.S.
defaulting would be massively consequential for everyone in this room, for all Americans.
You don't know.
It's psychological.
It's really psychological more than anything else.
And it could be very bad.
It could be maybe nothing.
Maybe you have a bad week or a bad day.
But look, you have to cut your costs.
We're spending $7 trillion on Much of it on nonsense.
Seven trillion dollars on nonsense.
Get all of that money that was wasted and frankly the Senate should have never approved it.
Get all that money that was wasted and if they don't get rid of that you'll have to default.
Mr. President, we've got another voter here tonight.
And by the way, you're going to default eventually anyway, but it's going to be much messier.
I don't think you'll have to default.
I think if the Republicans hold strong and they say we won five, let's say we won five trillion dollars off, I really think the Democrats have no choice but to do it.
And if I win, they're going to be doing the same thing to me in two years.
I guarantee you that.
I think that's really interesting.
He says, you don't know.
It's all psychological.
Could have a bad day, could have a bad week, could be horrible.
We don't know.
And that's the truth.
But it's so, oh, how many, really it must be 20 times that we've been through this debate and we've listened to all this nonsense on the show.
It's just once a year, so I mean.
No, it's not always, it's not once a year.
I think it comes whenever we hit the ceiling.
It's not a yearly thing.
It's happened multiple times.
It happens a lot.
It happens too often.
It happens a lot, yeah.
And so now, it's so tiring, but this is one I hadn't, I don't recall this coming up as a solution, as an emergency measure, which of course now we have Janet Yellen, former New York banker's best choice.
He loves her.
Janet Yellen, and now we have one, because it's going to be, it could be June 1st, it could be June 15th, we're running out of cash, we got no more money, but we have a stick behind the door.
Then it comes back to the President.
He said on Friday night that he's not ready to invoke the 14th Amendment.
Of course, the 14th Amendment says that full faith and credit of the United States should not be questioned.
The implications of that would be if he invoked it, is the United States would just continue to issue debt saying it's unconstitutional not to.
Now, the president said he's not ready to do that, but it didn't seem like he took it off the table.
So is it still a possibility?
Look, you know, our priority is to make sure that Congress does its job.
There is no way to protect our financial system and our economy other than Congress doing its job and raising the debt ceiling and enabling us to pay our bills.
And we should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the president can go on issuing debt.
This would be a constitutional crisis.
But do you, but is it on the table?
Is it something that could be considered?
Are you saying, you just said there's no way this can be done without Congress.
Is that a hard and fast position that the President will under no circumstances invoke the 14th Amendment?
Look, all I want to say I'm still not exactly clear on whether it's on the table or off the table.
If we fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making.
And there is no action that President Biden and the U.S. Treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe.
I'm still not exactly clear on whether it's on the table or off the table.
Is it a break glass in case of emergency option?
Look, I don't want to consider emergency options. - Yes.
What's important is that members of Congress recognize what their responsibility is and avert what will surely be, regardless of how it's handled, what option is used to handle it, an economic and financial catastrophe.
I'm very confused by this 14th Amendment talk.
I'm going to throw something out.
They haven't mentioned it yet, but you're going to start hearing it probably as we get, like, within a couple of days of June 1st.
The term, which we've heard it before, and here it comes, continuing resolution.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
As we recall, this has happened before, and every time it comes up, they never can really just say, they can't say no, they just, well, we'll have a continuing resolution, which all it does is kicks, here's the other term, kicks the can down the road.
So we hear that again, so there's going to be continuing resolution, it kicks the can down the road, and there's going to be, and this will probably go on until close to July.
Right.
I'd like to hear from some of our constitutional lawyers how the 14th Amendment, which describes the full faith and credit, which is something about the states having to adhere to the judicial proceedings of other states.
There's a reason we haven't heard from anybody about this.
Okay.
Because it's bull crap!
Yet the news is feeding that to people.
Oh, the 14th Amendment, Biden can always invoke the... No, he can't.
You don't invoke the 14th Amendment.
It's not like the 5th Amendment.
You don't invoke it.
It's not like... Oh, he's gonna invoke that too.
Harry refused to testify.
He will definitely invoke the 5th Amendment eventually.
There's no doubt about that.
No doubt.
I don't know.
It's just...
And meanwhile, California defaulted on $18.5 billion worth of debt.
Yeah, but we're going to do reparations.
Did you see these reparations?
This committee?
By the way, it's just a committee.
The news reports it like it's going to happen next week.
It's just a committee.
It's just a committee and they're all having hearings and everyone's going, but we should have $300 million per person.
It's just a committee.
It's crazy.
You don't want to set those committees up.
No, you don't.
It's got Newsom screwed over because he was kind of like, you know, OK, well, I think he may have set the committee up or had something to do with it.
But he's now he's, you know, backing off.
We can't afford this.
Ridiculous.
It costs more to figure out who gets the money.
Exactly.
Got an interesting answer from Renegade Six, one of our producers.
We were wondering how people, this is in the context of Cole from K&C Cattle who hired 10 people and after two weeks only two showed up and no one calls off and just like don't show up anymore and how can this be?
Where are people getting money from?
We questioned is this government money that we're unaware of and how can we get our hands on some of it?
So Renegade Six, One of our producers says, in addition to several self-employed side hustles, and I have to mention this, there's entire communities of people who are indeed hustling, and they have work-from-home jobs, but they have two.
So they pretend that they're working full-time for each of these companies, and they're actually working two.
So they're making like $200,000 working from home for two companies at the same time.
Which I think is genius.
And I think everyone should explore that, as long as you can still work from home.
Work for two companies.
It's a great idea.
So he says, in addition to several self-employed self-hustles, I'm currently a retail store assistant manager.
My bottom line up front is that parents have to stop giving their adult children money.
I don't know of any getting government money.
I see parental support of adult children as a leading culprit.
My employees that live on their own have great drive and most have second jobs.
The ones that live with their folks or on their parents' dole have no drive, work as little as possible, and have high absenteeism.
I've also seen this in my extended family.
When parents step in as a safety net, it causes harm where more tough love is needed to get folks off their butts.
I think, I think he nails it here.
I'm, I see this every, I'm guilty of it myself.
What are you doing?
Well, when Christina's electricity bill doubled, thank you, to climate change regulations.
Oh, I'm sorry, Putin.
Yeah, she needed help, so of course I jumped in to help her out.
But I hear the Zoomer in New York All I hear about is her parents, the parents of her friends, kicking in and helping out and, you know, they have jobs, but, you know, their parents pay for the rent, for the house.
I hear this all the time.
Maybe you think she may be running a scam on you.
Hey, everybody else is getting money but me!
Hey, we didn't fall for it, okay?
We're not falling for it.
I'm just saying that now that I heard this boots on the ground report, I think it's true.
I think it's true that parents go, oh well we have to help him out.
And that a little tough love would go a long way.
Anyway.
Then we have a very odd shooting here in Texas.
And so annoying when I see people in Australia, literally people in Australia, posting stuff on, this is on Macedon.
Well, America has more mass shootings than days in the year... Yeah, big shots.
Yeah, big shots now that you have no guns and no power.
And this is of course being perpetuated by...
Well, here's a story, just a quick story of this latest shooting here in Texas.
Meanwhile, we are learning more about the shooter in the shopping mall massacre.
A senior law enforcement official has just confirmed to NBC News that a social media page which appears to belong to the gunman includes rants against Jews, women, and racial minorities.
That social media activity is now part of the investigation.
Okay, so the problem... I have a clip too, let's play my clip.
Okay.
So we can talk about both of them.
Okay.
This is the mall shooting clip and it brings in a little more than that NBC guy.
Tonight, investigators are running digital forensics on the gunman's cell phone and computers, trying to learn more about a possible motive.
Troopers confirmed the shooter had embraced white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology in online posts he made on a Russian social media site.
We do know that he had neo-Nazi ideation.
He had patches, he had tattoos, even his signature, you know, verified that.
Investigators today admitted they still don't know why the gunman opened fire outside the Allen Premium outlets.
The big question that we're dealing with right now is what's his motive?
Why did he do this?
Well, the big question is we don't know.
Yeah, I'm just going to say it.
This is a tension strategy, a tension session, whatever they call it.
This guy was jacked up, he was just like they coerce all these crazy people to set off bombs and stuff that isn't really even, they don't even have, at least they give those guys a fake bomb, but this guy was all jacked up.
By the way, it's kind of annoying that he's Hispanic, but okay, then you're still a white supremacist according to The View.
This shooter, who happened to be Hispanic.
Happened to be, what is it?
This is the kind of language you use when he just happens to be gay.
What is this just happens to be stuff?
No, he is Hispanic, so everything you say about white supremacy in the context that you use it view is wrong.
This shooter, who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is very bizarre to me.
Very bizarre to you?
Oh, they don't kill people?
Had a white supremacy moniker on him.
And so, you know, Christopher Ra- What is a white supremacy moniker?
I think they're talking about, they showed pictures of his tattooed body.
These tattoos, a couple of things you should note.
These tattoos are new.
Thank you.
Very new.
They're still raised.
They're very new.
In fact, one of them on his arm is still swollen.
Still raised, yep.
It's raised up, and you can see it, and they're black, which means that the ink has not had time to, you know, to turn green, which it's going to end up doing.
So this is all new tattoos.
And when you see these pictures of the tattoos, what do you not see?
His face.
Because, oh, you'd see that it's brown.
It doesn't fit the narrative.
And what, in the report that I had, which was a better produced report because it was CBS compared to NBC, just to make a note, you heard that he had a bunch of neo-Nazi things that they had to throw in on a Russian.
Social media site.
Just throw everything in that you can.
What the hell's it got to do with Russia?
And why don't they just say social media site?
Why does it have to be Russian?
Let's go back to the view.
Let's go back to the view.
And this is America talking.
This is, you know, it's a smorgasbord of ladies up there.
This shooter, who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is very bizarre to me, had a white supremacy moniker on him.
And so, you know, Christopher Wray, these are not my words, so people don't start with the I'm a race baiter crap.
Christopher Wray said that the biggest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
He testified before Congress.
Yeah, but that was quite a while ago.
That wasn't in context of this shooting, which is bizarre that you bring this up.
Even with that testimony, you have someone named Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, where there have been so many shootings, saying, mental health, and there's nothing else that we can do, but we can do this piece.
Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
They have the power to make the change.
There it is.
Get rid of the AR-15.
We all have to remember that the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tarrio.
Uh-oh!
Uh-oh!
The Proud Boys is also Latino!
What is going on?
The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group.
Okay.
Look, being Hispanic or being black does not, or being anything, does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal.
And we are seeing it over and over again.
Alright, well thank you.
So it doesn't matter what color you are, you're still white, okay?
When it comes to supremacy, I don't care if you're black or... If you vote Republican, no matter your color, you're a white supremacist prick.
Yes, exactly.
So, this is how Kareem Jean-Pierre Abdul-Vandam starts off her press briefing the day after the shooting.
I left all the pleasantries out.
Hello.
Good morning, everybody.
How you doing?
Good afternoon.
Today is Monday, May 8th.
That means it is the 128th day of 2023.
And yesterday, according to leading accounts, we witnessed the 201st mass shooting in this country this year.
This is the stuff that drives me crazy.
200 mass shootings.
Now, when you say that, knowing fully well that the credible accounts, whoever, whatever that is, count two or more people as a mass shooting...
Which could be a murder-suicide, could be all kinds of stuff.
This is very misleading, and this is what makes people in Australia think they should post stuff about America after their guns have been taken away.
And it gives you an idea that we're just being shot at all the time, that you're not safe anywhere, and she's going to- Bullets are flying!
Yes, she's going- this is her whole opening statement, bullets are flying.
That means we are averaging more than one a day.
More than 200 mass shootings in 128 days.
Credible estimates show that more than 14,000 people have died this year from gun violence.
Incredible.
This is a crisis.
It is a crisis that the Republicans in Congress are refusing to address.
There it is.
Oh, 20 seconds in, it's Republicans.
We are talking about the number one killer of kids in America, and Republicans in Congress are saying there is nothing that we can do about it.
And that's true.
The only thing that can be done is creating a new amendment which would overturn the Second Amendment, and the majority of the country does not want that.
Schools, shopping malls, churches, movie theaters, grocery stores, temples, Places that are part of our everyday lives, that are essential to our everyday lives, day after day are coming under attack from weapons of war that have no place on our streets.
This is a talking point.
This is about protecting our kids, our places of worship.
This is about protecting our everyday life.
Congress must address this crisis.
Yesterday, the President once again, once again asked Congress to send him a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Ending immunity for manufacturers, requiring safe storage, enacting universal background checks.
It's just common sense.
It's just common sense.
All of these common sense things would not have deterred this shooter or any other shooter.
The guy was part of security services, his guns were legal, there was something else going on with him.
And it's what the American people want.
Majority of the American people want.
Fine.
When we have 200 mass shootings in less than 130 days, more than one a day, this is a crisis.
Congress must do something about it.
And a majority of these, hold on, a majority of these mass shootings are in fact in the crime-ridden areas of the largest cities of America, such as Chicago, where I know from Alderman's office straight up, they do not even send cops into the south side of Chicago anymore.
No.
They just don't send them.
That's where your mass shootings are happening on a daily basis.
But when you say this, oh, our schools, our churches, our temples, what do you not think?
Black people.
Because they don't care about black people.
You were gonna say?
I thought this was a press conference?
She go up there and just lecture and lecture?
Yeah.
How about, like, taking questions?
Where's Biden, by the way?
How come he doesn't do a press conference?
Oh, he can't talk.
That'd be crazy.
According to the Texas Online Private Security Database, Garcia, they never mention his name either.
I mean...
Garcia.
Oh, that sounds off for a white supremacist.
Was approved to work as a commission security guard in the state from April 26 to April 2020.
Had three previous employers before his license expired.
Record showed he received firearms proficiency training 2015.
Further firearms training in 2018.
DPS, which maintains the database, automatically disqualifies applicants who have committed certain violent crimes.
Well, yeah, he's definitely disqualified from that now.
But it's important for our Americans as well, but for our foreign listeners, why you and I have this stance.
Because we know, we know, and Australia is the shining example, the minute you take the people's guns away, it's all over.
It will be way over here in America.
That is the final thing.
If they can just get us to hand in our guns, Then they will rule over the country.
Forever.
And we know this.
It's so obvious.
Yeah, we were stupid and we locked down our country for two weeks, but we weren't like Australia.
And that would have never happened.
Australia was pathetic.
Yes!
It was.
And New Zealand was worse.
And, you know, America is built on this.
Like it or not, you're free to leave.
We were built on violence.
Yay!
We were born out of guns.
It's just what it is.
And this is why there's also no one invading America except for what we allow to happen at the border, which is the next thing we need to discuss because this is also weird.
Because I am of the belief now that what is happening at the border, you know, today is the day that, oh, my daughter can finally bring her boyfriend into the country because you don't need a... and we're booking a trip for him, of course.
You don't need to have a proof of COVID vaccination.
And I still need to see this actually happening.
I don't trust anybody.
I haven't helped them book anything yet.
But this also ends Title 42.
And what is in the US press, this is not even press, this is political.
And it is my belief that even Republican Congressman and Senators are using this, are extending this, or are making it look like it's really what's happening at the borders.
Oh, now they're just going to come flooding him, all for political means.
And I'm not so sure that's true.
I'm not so sure, because if you look at the foreign reporting, you get a little different news view.
But first let's look, this is NBC, Tom Lamas.
The number of migrants now breaking records, even before Title 42 expires.
Yesterday, more than 11,000 illegal border crossings in just 24 hours.
CBP processing centers overcapacity.
All after this message from President Biden.
It's going to be chaotic for a while.
But NBC News now learning the Biden administration is set to make a major change, preparing to direct Border Patrol agents to release migrants into the U.S.
without an immigration court date, and with no way to keep tabs on them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
Mallorcas insist it's a fraction of the migrants who are being released, and they're vetted.
Tonight, Republican lawmakers blasting President Biden.
The Biden administration has failed the American people.
He has failed our border patrol agents.
He has failed our border communities.
And he has failed America with his open border policy.
See, this is what the Republicans are using this continuously to discredit President Biden and the Democrats.
Even though this has been going on for a long, long time.
And it appears to me what's happening is Title 42 has dropped, but Title 8 is coming back into play.
We now see the Texas National Guard has razor wire all across The hot spots where people are coming in illegally and they are really turning people back.
Something has changed and Republicans are not telling you about that because they're dishonest as dishonest as any politician.
But if you go to France 24, you get a little different idea of what is now happening and what the changes truly are.
After hours of waiting, tensions rise outside these immigration offices in Tapachula in the south of Mexico.
They've come in their hundreds from the border with Guatemala, in a hurry to cross the border into the US before Friday.
We need to go as fast as possible.
I heard on the news that they were going to close the border and that we had to get through before May 12th.
Many are misinformed and think they'll no longer be able to enter the U.S.
after Thursday.
But what Title 42's expiration actually means is the end of a policy that allowed authorities to quickly turn away migrants at the border.
So while some fear that applying for asylum may become more difficult, that's not what's worrying U.S.
authorities.
They're bracing for a surge in illegal migration, which could exacerbate an already challenging humanitarian crisis.
In places like San Diego in California, border staff are already out of their depth.
Hundreds of migrants have been waiting here for days, stuck between two checkpoints.
To help border police, the Biden administration has planned to deploy an additional 1,500 active duty troops to assist the National Guard.
Texas' governor has also taken matters into his own hands and announced the deployment of a new unit.
They will be deployed to hot spots along the border to intercept, to repel, and to turn back migrants who are trying to enter Texas illegally.
Homeland Security says migrant crossings could reach up to 10,000 per day once Title 42 is lifted.
I'm telling you that there's something different going on here, and the foreign press is picking up on it, and people around the world are hearing, oh crap, the border is closed.
We can't come in anymore.
That's the message that somehow has gotten out.
Maybe this next report gives us a little more information.
All right, we'll turn back to our top story now.
That's the U.S.
government set to deny access to asylum seekers unless they have either followed the correct procedure in what's a major shift in immigration policy.
Our press reviewer Diptika Laurent is here to take a look.
Well, Erin, the border crackdown begins, that's what the Miami Herald says today on its front page, going with this picture here of Texas State Police who are putting up barbed wire at 11.59 p.m.
this Thursday, Washington time, that so-called Well, Title 42 border policy will expire.
And as you said, migrants will be denied access to the U.S. if they haven't already registered in another country prior to arriving.
Now, we had a look at the Mexican papers to see what they were saying.
And there were some pretty strong headlines from the Mexican press, too.
This is La Jornada, a Mexican journal, which says that the world's most powerful country, the U.S., is preparing to confront the most vulnerable populations in the world.
A rather accusational sort of headline with this devastating picture here of a very sad picture of a newborn baby traveling, a migrant baby traveling in what looks like to be a small suitcase.
Yeah, excellent.
Put the baby in the suitcase.
I think what's going on here is that the Biden administration has said, crap, we've got it.
We need to get some points on the board.
They are going to turn people away.
And the Republicans now are lying and making noise about the border just being completely... Laura Logan actually was on Bannon.
I didn't clip it.
She had some names and she said the Republicans are now full of crap.
Because the Biden administration is going to turn, what, you didn't register in a different country?
You didn't have your interview in a different country?
The only thing they have is some app, which doesn't work.
Everyone's complaining about the stupid app, which I'm sure is not intended to work.
Or it doesn't work.
I think they're stopping it.
I think the Biden administration is stopping it.
I think they're stopping it.
I have a whole different take on this.
Okay.
I've had this take before.
I bring it up once in a while.
During the era of just wide open borders and letting Mexicans come into this country, knowing they're going to vote Democrat is one thing.
The recent problem has been Venezuelans.
And you can talk to them, half the people coming across are now Venezuelans.
They're not voting Democrat ever.
They're running from communism and they will be voting Republican.
We now have to close the borders because these Venezuelans are not going to contribute to the bottom line of the Democrat Party.
That's a thesis.
I can't prove it.
I just see the observations because I know there's a lot of Venezuelans coming in and they talk about the Venezuelans coming in and there's thousands of them and they had a few of them come over.
They've interviewed them on some shows.
There's a Venezuelan woman and her baby.
And you can just see that once the Venezuelans start coming in, this is changing the demographics of what we want, which is a Democrat voter.
It fits perfectly with what I'm saying.
You give the reason, but I'm identifying that it's changing, and that the Republicans are now full of crap, and I think you're right.
We've definitely discussed this.
And of course, we have to point out that back in the day, literally, you'd have the big farm outfits, they'd send a bus down to the border, hey, you want to come work?
Yeah, come on over!
And they'd just walk in, get in the bus, boom.
And that's the way business was done for decades.
And then it kind of got out of control.
I think you're right.
And of course it would be purely cynical of Democrats to do that because these are the wrong kind of immigrants.
In fact, they're xenophobic!
They are!
They're xenophobic and racist!
White supremacists!
There is a new immigration bill.
There's something in there which is not a good idea.
Back on deck is the E-Verify.
Remember this?
E-Verify?
Oh, yeah.
So, in this bill, E-Verify, several states have already put that into place where, you know, in order to be employed, you have to have an E-Verification token, whatever, so you can verify that you're legal to work.
But this immigration bill essentially calls for it to be a federal law, which I don't think you want.
I don't think you want to be registered in some e-verify thing.
Anyway, New York City is considering closing off streets to shelter illegal immigrants.
Yes, they're going to put up a bunch of mini houses right in the street.
Yeah, that makes total sense.
Which is going to annoy the locals, to say the least.
Yeah.
And they're going to block those streets off from traffic.
It's so stupid.
And Abbott's going to keep sending them to New York, and the New Yorkers want to send them to the suburbs, but they've already filed some court orders.
We don't want them.
Well, you know, if you're going to call yourself a sanctuary city, become one.
That's what you get, yeah.
So, talking about, I have a couple of clips here that I'd like to get to, talking about stupid people, which is what Trump kept saying.
I do have a three-part series of our friend John Kennedy.
Oh, well, we love John Kennedy.
He's funny.
He's taking the head of the DEA to task, and I'll preface it, this is a typical Republican grandstanding, as I like to use.
Grandstanding, yes.
Grandstanding, just to prove the point that these, I don't even know why they do these hearings, the people never answer the question.
I know how she could have, having been a former bureaucrat myself working in the government, We know why.
They do these hearings so we can get clips.
They want to hear themselves on the No Agenda Show.
And used to be played on Tucker after, you know, Tucker's producers would take them from us.
Tucker is now, according to the... I don't have any clips.
Yeah, he's going on Twitter.
He's going on Twitter, which means there's a deal that has been done between him and Musk.
I'm not doubting it.
I disagree.
Musk was on his last show.
Sure.
So they chatted about this.
I'm just saying, I'm not so sure that Musk is paying Tucker Carlson to do this.
Musk has set up the whole Twitter infrastructure to take money to subscribe to shows.
I think it's going to be a subscription.
I don't think it's going to be a free-to-air.
We'll find out soon enough.
And, and, and, you have to give it away free, you have to give people a taste.
We'll see.
Yeah, of course you can give them, oh, freemium model!
Oh yeah, Tucker Freemium!
Um, Kaylee McEnany?
What a dud.
Oh, I didn't see it.
Oh, she's doing, she's doing the whole week!
We predicted this.
It's a dud.
I mean, I think she has the same writers.
It kind of feels very similar.
But she can't deliver an opening monologue like Tucker did.
She can't deliver.
I like her.
She's not an actress.
No, she's not an actor like Tucker.
She can't do it.
It's a dud.
It's a dud.
It comes across as insincere.
She's too pretty, too.
You know, she's got a Christian little face and her cross.
You can't take her seriously as a meanie.
Would you have to have some of that?
They've got to get Perino in there or... Dana Loesch, I said it in the newsletter, is the... Oh, that would be interesting.
Dana Loesch, who is a meanie, and she's cynical and she's perfect for this job.
I don't know why she's been blackballed or something.
I don't know what's the deal with Dana Loesch.
Yeah, interesting.
But if you could hear her, she would fit right in.
You know what?
Because she's too associated with Super Beats.
Well, maybe.
I think she's done a lot of Super Beats ads.
I really do.
Super Beats?
Yeah, she has.
Or that vitamin stuff, VitaVit.
What is it?
SuperVite.
SuperVit?
Super Beats.
We already forgot!
Healthy nature.
Nature's healthy by nature.
Naughty by nature.
Nature's goodies.
Nature's own.
Oh no, that's poop-it-out tea.
Anyway, let's get to your Joseph Kennedy.
Okay, here we go.
Kennedy with the head of the DEA.
A woman.
Madam Administrator, the two cartels that are sending fentanyl into the United States are located in Mexico, aren't they?
Yes, sir.
And isn't it a fact that we could stop those cartels in their tracks if President López Obrador would invite American military and or law enforcement personnel to come into Mexico and work with his military and law enforcement personnel?
Senator, what I would say from my purview as the head of the DEA.
But is my statement true or not?
What I would say is that we're focused on the two cartels who we believe are doing exactly what you say.
They're responsible for the fentanyl company.
Let me ask you again.
If President Lopez Obrador invited the American military and or American law enforcement officials to come into Mexico To work with the same in Mexico, we could stop the cartels, could we not?
Senator, I believe this is a whole-of-government effort and has to be, including whether it's the military, us, FBI, and others.
Madam Administrator, I've listened to you here for almost an hour, telling us how bad Fentanyl is.
Thank you for that, but we know.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to ask you a third time.
If President Lopez Obrador invited the American military and our law enforcement personnel to come into Mexico and work with the same in Mexico, we could stop the cartels.
Isn't that a fact?
She just won't answer the question.
That's interesting.
Well, this is an amateur, because I would say that if I was up there and I had learned my chops.
Which you have, as having worked in government.
And I have.
I would have said, and she's been asked this three times, there's two more clips and she just won't even address it, let alone answer it.
Well, you know, blah blah blah.
What she should say is, Senator, with all due respect, there's actually no evidence that that would work.
These people are so entrenched and the situation is so complex that just bringing in more people to solve the problem won't necessarily work.
Which I think would have been true.
And it is true, I think it is true, and it will stop this guy, Kennedy, from asking anything.
From badgering her.
He's embarrassing her.
She's an idiot.
This is stupid people.
Yeah.
So Senator, I can speak to the law enforcement side of this, and you just mentioned law enforcement.
I believe that this is vital for both Mexico and the United States.
Mexicans are dying as well, as we showed in the Chepito.
Well then why don't we stop them?
Would it help, let me ask you a fourth time, would it help If President Lopez Obrador, I don't think it's a complicated question, Madam Administrator.
You're asking us for more money every year.
More money and it gets worse, worse, and worse.
You know, in the real world, the nitty-gritty of the real world, when you fail, you get fired.
In government, when you fail, you get more money because obviously you need it.
Now let me ask you a fourth time.
If President López Obrador, and I'd appreciate an answer, if President López Obrador invited the American military and our law enforcement personnel to come into Mexico and work with his, we could stop the cartels, couldn't we?
I believe, Senator, that we can stop the cartels.
Okay, have you made that suggestion to President Biden?
If I could, I believe that we can stop the cartels by... Have you made that suggestion to President Biden?
Senator, I have been very vocal in the whole of government setting on the importance of fentanyl and all of us using every single effort and authority that we have... Why hasn't President Biden done it?
I mean, this is the way the American people, whose sons and daughters are dying, look at it.
Our economy is $23 trillion.
Mexico's economy is $1.3 trillion.
Ours is 18 times bigger.
We buy $400 billion every year from Mexico.
Without the people of America, Mexico, figuratively speaking, would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an outback.
So why don't you and the president, embarrassing no one, Get on the phone and call President Lopez Obrador and make him a deal he can't refuse to allow our military and our law enforcement officials to go into Mexico and work with his to stop the cartels.
Why don't you do that?
There's two stupid people in this conversation.
He's stupid too.
He's stupid.
This won't stop anything.
Stupid dope.
Yeah I have to agree.
He's just showboating and it's like okay he's got her in the corner she won't answer the question she says bullcrap stuff and let's wrap it up here with the third one which is short.
Why don't you do that?
Senator what I am doing every single day is working with the incredible men and women of DEA who are risking their lives across 334 offices worldwide.
And I appreciate that, but you're not doing what would work.
Why won't you do what will work?
Why don't you call the president this afternoon and say, Mr. President, let's call President López Obrador privately and make him a deal he can't refuse.
Because we both know that President López Obrador has neither the ability nor the will to stop the cartels.
But yet we go along and pretend that they're our friends.
And Mexico is our friend.
But he has criminal organizations that are killing our people.
And you know how to stop it.
And the president does.
And you're not doing it.
Senator, we are working every day to stop it.
But you're not doing what would stop it.
We are transforming and we are working in countless ways across the globe to do what needs to be done for the American people.
And there's nothing that the... You know, when it's important to you, you make it happen.
When it's not important to you, you make an excuse.
Yeah, I'm tired of this guy now.
And really, the real enemy here is the enemy on the inside.
The enemy is Big Pharma.
These people who run Big Pharma, and it's not just the pharmaceutical company... No, it's a part of this.
Yeah, but you gotta include the banks, please.
No, I'm moving towards Big Pharma for a reason.
Ultimately, the banks, of course.
But what we've allowed pharma to do with our children, with our brains, advertising day and night, now, oh my gosh, we used to be the country that was nuts about jogging, and about aerobics, and rollerblading, and roller skating, and we'd walk around with bottles of water as the first people in the world.
Oh, Americans.
No, we now, oh, you wanna lose weight?
Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic, it's magic!
It's beautiful.
Just, oh, who cares about my face?
I don't care if my muscle goes away.
I don't care if my brain deteriorates.
We have become the country of the pill will fix it.
Just as a little intermezzo, 33 seconds of the pill will fix it.
A Utah mother who wrote a children's book on grief after her husband died.
And she is now charged with murdering him.
Brand new court documents alleged Corey Richens poisoned her husband, Eric, with a lethal dose of fentanyl by mixing it into a celebratory That's a business model.
March of last year.
She's now facing aggravated murder charges and three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
And stunningly, she was promoting the book she wrote about grief and she had dedicated to her husband up until just last week.
That's a business model.
Tina, don't get any ideas.
So now I've I have received a couple of very interesting boots on the ground reports and And now we're going to move into trans Maoism, which really what's happened here is big pharma.
I'm just making that a big umbrella, big pharma, which is doctors, really the people who control the doctors.
Let's not forget what happened.
We just saw happen with COVID, which is clearly some kind of test for, you know, the next thing they'll throw on to us.
Even the fentanyl crisis comes ultimately from people getting hooked on Oxycontin and being lied to, doctors lying, everybody lying about it being something you can get that is highly addictive.
Oh, it's not.
It's all a lie!
No one's allowed to talk about it because the only place you can talk about it that would make sense is on television.
You can't do it because that's the biggest advertiser.
You couldn't do it on social media.
So the only place left is a podcast.
Aaron sent me an email in the morning.
I've been listening to your coverage of the contributions of therapists to the transgender kids and teens issue and I want to try to explain something I think you're not aware of.
I'm a therapist.
And I've been very harsh on the therapists.
I said, you know, you can say therapists or the rapists.
What's going on?
These therapists are the people who are telling these children, oh yes, you're a boy.
You need drugs.
So, luckily, she reaches out.
I'm very grateful for this.
I'm a therapist in practice for 10 years.
This issue is popping up much more frequently these days, and I want you to know how we got to the world where it looks like all therapists are affirming and encouraging minors' gender transition.
It does look like that.
In fact, it seems like it is like that.
It started with the APA, the American Pediatrics Association, writing guidelines for pretty much everything.
What kinds of therapies I should use, what language I should use, etc.
These guidelines were adopted by many states in their licensing procedures.
Now, the APA guidelines for trans and gender non-conforming youth indicate that, quote, affirming care is the only kind that competent psychology professionals can give.
This means my state could determine that I am incompetent if I disagree.
The APA has also done its best to forbid me from simply referring these kids to someone else, as this would be discriminatory, so I'm kind of stuck.
I own my own business, so I have some more freedom than others, but I do live in some amount of fear that I could lose my right to practice if I say the wrong thing.
Thus far, I've been able to work with trans-identifying kids by simply focusing on their depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues, which is very typical for teenage girls, That I think are the real problem.
I don't argue with them, but I do gently challenge them.
Quote, what does a female brain look like?
But I do worry that one day I'm going to get hauled before an ethics board for challenging this.
It sucks.
Just wanted to let you know why clinicians are nervous around this topic and why it is so much easier to just go along with the majority and give kids whatever referrals for drugs or surgery they want.
And then she came back with more.
The APA did a very clever thing by introducing themselves into high schools and middle schools with APA style.
That's a quote, APA style.
This is a format for documents and citations, and it's the standard for scientific papers.
Because of this, students are taught to use APA style in high school, thus they get the idea that this is a scientific organization.
Which it kind of is, but it's also an effort to control the whole field and to prevent people from seeking whatever psychological and emotional care they want.
Well, the APA is, of course, not really a scientific organization.
It's a lobbying group.
They exist to protect their own members from competition with other qualified professionals.
State licensing credentials are designed by them.
They're constantly lobbying against master's level counselors and therapists so that only people with a doctoral degree can practice.
It's in their interest to make it more difficult to be a clinician and they're very good at what they do.
When you find you can't get an appointment with a good counselor, this is why.
The supply is held artificially low.
APA is a corporation, they get a favorable tax deal because they do all kinds of advocacy.
Oh yeah, they advocate for no guns, they advocate for abortion.
This is part of the big pharma system.
And now you add to that the email that I got from DeeDee, one of our longtime producers, who is an adult trans male to female, and says, you know, what is also going on here
Is adults who have later in life determined that they had gender dysphoria or gender dysmorphia or pick whatever you want, just like back in the day of gays and lesbians, they feel like, wow, if only I could have had more time living the way I wanted to.
So this is why they all are like, well, we have to help the kids, help the kids, help the kids!
And while they mean well, The big pharmaceutical system is jumping in and taking these children and transitioning a large percentage who have no business being transitioned.
And when it comes to gender-affirming care, that could be a haircut to make you more like a tomboy.
So people in the community are putting a lot of emphasis on saving or creating trans children, and everyone is jumping in on this, and the worst is, once again, politicians who have this, and certainly the Democrats who have this Maoist agenda, want Marxism, want equity, and all this bullcrap.
They are perpetuating this and making these people, particularly Big Pharma, even stronger.
So we're focusing on the wrong thing.
And while it's really fun to see Anheuser-Busch going down the tubes, which it truly is, sales are now down 29% year over year.
Dylan Mulvaney is not your problem.
It's Big Pharma, and this is what we have to go after.
And there's one outfit called GenSpect.
Who's been very critical of all of this and John, it's unbelievable that you've got this thing called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Which used to be the Harry Benjamin Foundation.
Harry Benjamin, and this is where it goes right back, now I understand, Kara Swisher.
This is a guy who was born in Berlin, raised in the days of the Weimar Republic, during the crazy Berlin transgender days.
He wrote the book.
His book was the first one to get burned by the Nazis.
I mean, it's all connected.
It's all connected.
This is why you hear this Nazi talk right in front of us.
It is the crazy big pharma.
So bad now that in the Netherlands, where they stopped doing a lot of this medical transitioning, now they're saying, you know, We've looked at what's going on.
The Dutch protocol was the first protocol for children to be transitioned.
They call it, they say, trans people are sent into a FOUC, which is a FIKENET.
You know what a FIKENET is?
No.
Oh, it's where the fish go in and it's like a cone and they go in and they swim further until they're at the very end and then they can't turn back because it's kind of like a cone-shaped net, almost like a windsock except there's divisions in it.
You can go in one way, you can't swim back out.
So the further you go the deeper you get.
Now even the Netherlands is saying there's this medical specialist fikenet that people are shoved into and they can't get out and we're transitioning people who have no business being transitioned.
But we haven't gotten through that here in America because of the politicians.
It's a travesty.
It's a travesty, I tell you!
Meanwhile, you've got Stanford.
Everyone's producing, well, better mental health found amongst transgender people who started hormones as teens.
Sure, Stanford.
Critical benefits of familial community support for transgender youth.
Yes, National Council on Family Relations.
It's all of this.
The money that these people have is, it's disgusting.
So, you gotta watch out for your own kids.
It's all I can say.
The irony is that there's a socialism aspect to it.
Yeah.
So you'd think you could say, well, as a capitalist, this is a good example of capitalism at its worst.
But yet, it's not.
It's like an example of socialism at its worst.
Yes.
Yes.
You know, by the way, just as I mentioned, you talked about these PD, you know, these guys get ahold of systems.
It's a systems situation where you get ahold of a system and you dominate how it's going to be used.
During the middle of COVID, I asked my pharmacist, I mentioned this on the show a couple of years ago, my pharmacist about what would happen if you got a prescription for ivermectin.
Yeah.
This is so we couldn't fill it.
Perfect example.
Why?
Because we're guided by these guidelines.
Yep.
The Pharmaceutical Association of America, no doubt, or something like that.
I think it was more like some pharmacy aspect of the CDC, and we have to follow those rules.
Or you get kicked out.
Because they get kicked out, you know, you lose your job.
And this is what was going on in Canada, it was a little more obvious, easy to report on in Canada, where the doctors couldn't say anything.
When someone came in and said, I need some sort of treatment, and the guy said, I can't help you.
You can't get treated for COVID, you have to just die.
And did you see that ivermectin is now off the do not prescribe list?
It can now be prescribed again?
Oh my goodness, horse paste!
Now anyone can have your horse paste!
Everybody saw this, no one does anything.
We've got to stop this pharmaceutical system.
It's scarier than anything to me.
The banks at least, well you know the banks, they do what they do.
You know, by the way, what banks?
There's no, no banks will be left.
Everyone's shorting these small banks so they all can, we all can roll up into Jamie Dimon's back pocket.
We see that.
That's pretty open.
But the trans thing leads me to four TikTok clips.
Ah, of course.
Talk, talk, TikTok.
Thank you.
This is how, this is why there's two of us.
Let's start with the gender fluid lunatic.
I'm non-binary, genderfluid, right?
And within that, technically, by the definition standards, I am trans, right?
However, I'm not always, like, trans, you know?
Like, I'm not always, like, I am trans.
But sometimes, I am, like, I am trans.
And you know what I realized?
It is this—you know what I realized?
It is—literally, it's that.
Like, literally, by being—oh, cool.
That trunk opens like a door, not like a... Oh, there's a cat!
What?
Oh, look at this, sweetie!
There's a cat!
She's distracted.
She's distracted by a squirrel?
What happened?
A trunk opened?
A cat.
There was a cat.
Somebody opened the trunk of their car and she saw a cat and she just completely lost it.
This woman has so much... What's it called when you can't... attention disorder problems.
Attention deficit disorder.
Yeah, ADHD.
Yeah, so she's got this issue.
So back it up past pre-cat.
That trunk opens like a door, not like a...
Oh!
Oh, look at this, sweetie!
There's a cat!
Look at this!
Okay.
Which comes from social media, by the way.
This is where you get the ADD training.
The training for it.
Like, oh, look at this!
Oh!
Oh, sad!
Oh, happy!
Oh, a cat!
Oh, cute!
Oh!
Republican!
Ah!
So, sometimes I'm literally trans, and sometimes I'm literally not.
Like, in my gender fluidity, Like, it just is.
Like, sometimes I'm trans and sometimes I'm not.
I'm always non-binary.
I'm always non-binary.
I'm always gender fluid.
Sometimes I'm trans, sometimes I'm not.
Because that's part of my gender fluidity.
And, like, realizing that, just, like, all the pieces clicked.
And I just love it.
Like, I, figuring out that I was gender, gender fluid, like, made so much sense for my life.
And sometimes I'll be sitting here and being like, well, I haven't felt mask in a really long time.
Or I haven't felt like a pretty boy in a long time.
Or, like, I just don't want anybody to perceive me as any kind of gender sometimes.
And I'm like, dude, that's literally what it is.
Like, that's literally your gender fluidity.
Because sometimes I am a pretty little boy, and sometimes I have, I want zero fucks to do with gender.
And sometimes I'm a femme little princess, and I love that.
And sometimes I'm all of it all at once and none of it simply because I'm done.
Now this is, this is a, I'd love to know more about this person because this is a prime example of... Is she black or white?
She sounds black to me.
She is black.
Sounds like under-educated, over-socialized, and I wonder, you know, does she have a job?
Are her parents paying for her?
This is someone who knows no hardship.
If you have hardship in your life, you don't have time to think about this the way she's thinking about it.
And she has too much social media in her life.
She's distracted.
She is, in fact, clinically ill, I would say, is my diagnosis.
These people are all clinically ill.
Let's go to the next one.
Who else do we have?
Okay, well, let's try this one.
Let's go to... This one I don't remember what it is about, but this is the cis trans complaint.
You know, one of the reasons why cis people think they're real or not... Do these people live in California, is the question.
Are they from California or do we not know where they're from?
We don't know the geolocation.
You know, one of the reasons why cis people think they're real or natural or the default is because they've fallen into the trap of the myth of white supremacy.
Yup.
Oh, there we go!
They're connected.
So if you think things like trans women aren't women, or if you call people trans but then refuse to call yourself cis if you're cis, that means that you have been influenced by one of the original influencers.
The siblings, the twin siblings of colonialism and the myth of white supremacy.
And those twin influencer siblings get paid by capitalism to influence.
They have literally influenced you to believe that there is a version of a man and a woman that is more human than all the other versions.
Sound familiar?
Yep.
White dominant culture, colonialism, capitalism, they've been working real hard on us.
Remember, just like with any influencer trend that is toxic, we don't have to believe it, and we don't have to follow it.
And in fact, we can even point out the ludicrousness and make it completely obsolete.
So she's only one step away from the new hashtag which I see everywhere, which is Christofascist.
This is the new hashtag.
So it's not just colonialism and white supremacy, it's also Christians who have done this to people and have ruined the world.
And it's being driven, small intermezzo, it's being driven by our Vice President as one.
And this is where the socialism aspect comes.
This person here, this trans person, I guess she claims to be trans, she is prime meat for socialists like our Vice President.
You know, so many of us have come from movements that were about the fight for equality.
We also understand there's a difference between equality and equity.
Equity is everyone deserves to have, right?
And be treated equal.
But equity understands that not everybody starts out on the same base.
Yeah, colonials have more power.
So if you're giving everybody an equal amount, but they're starting out on different bases, are they really going to have the opportunity to compete and achieve?
That's why we purposely, as an administration, the president, myself, the secretary, and everyone in our administration, are so dedicated to a specific principle, which is that of equity.
There you go.
Equity.
This is what these people are vying for.
Equity.
Yeah, equity is a socialist agenda.
Yes.
Construct.
Construct.
I want to play a short one, then one last one, another complaint about cis being bad.
I think it's interesting.
There's a new pronoun, I thought we should at least bring it in, because we bring new pronouns, and this new pronoun is fae, fair, fares.
Oh, this is interesting.
Don't know why it has to be there at all, why it has to even exist, but let's listen to this woman.
Happy Pride, everybody.
I already mentioned this in my story, but I've added a new set of pronouns to the pronouns that I'm comfortable being called.
I've been sitting on Faye Fairfair's pronouns for a while and honestly kind of psyching myself out about it.
I'm like, oh, do I really want to change this again?
And then I realized, I was like, who cares?
If I decide that I don't like them, I can just stop using them.
My other thing about this new set of pronouns is that I would only like for queer and trans people to use them for me.
Cishet people, they, them.
Queer and or trans people, you can use they, them or fae, fair.
It's all good with me.
I'm excited because fae, fair pronouns make me feel very affirmed in my not feeling like a person.
I don't know what to say to that.
There's nothing to say!
Other than I don't use them.
I won't use non-English language pronouns.
And I think we need to take a stand against it as a show.
Alright, here we go.
Last one.
This is a cis woman.
This one is titled, CIS WOMEN ARE BAD PEOPLE!
I might get obliterated for this take, but the most transphobic people that I've encountered, both online and off, have been cis women.
I see so many videos of cis women talking about how they're essentially tired of sharing the space of womanhood with trans people because they don't understand the reproductive struggles that they've had.
Just because you get periods and you have the capacity to have kids does not make you a woman, inherently.
Intersex people exist.
Trans people can and have had kids.
There are plenty of cis women that can't have kids or don't have periods or have other reproductive struggles for one reason or another.
These same people will claim to be allies while also complaining about how somehow womanhood is being taken away from them because trans people are calling themselves women without having the same experiences that they have had.
If trans women bother you in that way, you're being transphobic.
There's no other way around it.
Oh, goodness.
I love the smugness of it all.
Thank God for Megyn Kelly, man.
That's her beat.
Is womanhood.
Yeah, that's her beat.
Yeah, good luck.
Do you know where cis comes from?
Yeah, it is a term used in chemistry a lot, and it's the opposite of trans.
You had the word trans.
What's the opposite of trans?
You had it.
Cis is Latin.
The Latin preposition cis means on the side of, as in contrasting anything else.
Cis is on the side of, so not the side of transsexual or transgender.
Cis.
It's bullcrap.
This thing is total bullcrap.
It was just created since 1990.
So it's a very recent structure.
By a German who loved making up names for other people.
So it's a new thing and it's been foisted on the public with demands that you use it.
Whose idea was this and why is anyone accepting it?
Well, you know who's propagating it is the medical community.
This is it.
And then the medical community, they're seen as the scientists and science and shut up and COVID is real and it's going to kill everybody and millions have died from it and you need this vaccine.
You've got to walk away from this bullcrap.
And someone is taking a stand.
This is the last time you'll ever see him on the screen.
Richard Dreyfuss.
Starting in 2024, films will be required to meet new inclusion standards to be eligible for the Academy Awards for Best Picture.
They'll have to have a certain percentage of actors or crew from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
What do you think of these new inclusion standards for films?
They make me vomit.
There you go.
That's what you gotta say!
We've gotta say this.
We've gotta take a stand on this stuff.
It's insane.
We've gone crazy.
And we're captured.
We're captured by this.
But not us!
Because we're a podcast.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courtesy.
In the morning to you, the man who just put the sea in cyst!
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeVore!
Well, in the morning to you, uh, Mr. Ann McCurl.
Also, in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning, oh, hold on a second, oh, I'm stuck!
I'm stuck!
Get me out of here!
No, there we go.
In the morning to, to the trolls in the troll room!
Hello there, trolls!
Let's see how many we have in our troll room today.
We've got two thousand, no, where's my count?
Two thousand fifteen.
That's good for a Thursday, is it not?
That's very good.
Anything over 2,000 is record-breaking.
Good.
Record-breaking troll account!
Very nice.
Good to have you here, Trolls.
Wonder what they wanted.
Welcome, those of you who are in the Troll Room by just surfing over to trollroom.io, or for those of you who, I don't know, maybe you got one of those fancy new podcast apps, Drop the Legacy.
By the way, We need to, since people are running away, you know, we always have trolls.
Oh, it's a donation segment.
I have other things to do.
Let me see.
How many do we drop?
Yeah, there we go.
Like what?
25.
Yeah, exactly.
Like what?
Um, big news.
NewsGuard and Barometer have unveiled episode level misinformation detection for podcasts.
Oh, please.
And it gets better.
NewsGuard Barometer is offering an advanced AI-powered solution.
Oh, there you go.
That would work.
That's AI.
It's AI that can detect potential misinformation at the episode level in seconds!
Oh, sure.
This allows those who use the solution to rapidly inform economic and brand value-based decisions ranging from vetting a podcast show before including it in a brand's advertising strategy.
Yeah, there you go.
to pausing a media buy for further examination.
Oh, there goes that.
NewsGuard's machine-readable fingerprints each contain a description of the false narrative, a detailed debunk with factual information, citations to authoritative sources, associated keywords, hashtags, targets on the host's associated keywords, hashtags, targets on the host's forehead, and examples of the false narrative spreading online and other descriptive metadata.
Barometer's AI uses these inputs as data seeds.
Okay. - Yeah.
I need me some data seed.
In order to detect when information narratives are likely being discussed in a particular podcast episode.
And you know, we'll never be tested because we don't have advertisers.
And this is why we have been on the air for going on 16 years, is because we trust that the people who listen to and produce this show, which you do, boots on the ground, running servers, building stuff, promoting us, or supporting us financially, we won't need the advertising, which is inherently censorship.
So a lot of your favorite podcasts may be going away because of this AI data seed nonsense.
So get a app that won't kick anything off.
Podcasting 2.0, newpodcastapps.com.
And you can also get alerted to bat signals, get a troll room right in the app.
We've got all transcripts which you can search.
There's all kinds of cool new stuff.
Or you can just follow John and Adam on noagendasocial.com, still a very thriving community.
Although blocked by many, it's nice within the community.
Freeze peach.
Freeze peach, that's right.
Freeze peach.
Follow John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com or Adam at noagendasocial.com to learn more.
Now as part of the Value for Value Hallmark, we'd like to thank our artists for delivering some absolute
Value to the show by creating a brand new piece of cover art for every single episode that we publish we are currently on 1554 so we've had quite a few of them and we want to thank Nessworks for bringing us the album art for 1553 which There were there were we had a lot of choices and
But Biden as MacArthur with the corncob pipe and the beautiful Operation Re-elect Bojo logo with kind of the... Oh yeah, it stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Yes, it was kind of a Third Reich piece of art there, a little bit, with that logo.
Yeah, a little bit.
The German bird of war or whatever it is.
We did have other things to select from.
We had some Not My Kings, Ample Bosom.
Thank you very much, Sir Net Ned.
We got a chuckle out of that.
Some people showing us the Hooded Ghoul.
Which, this has been quite a topic, the Hooded Ghoul, the Grim Reaper, in the UK.
Have you followed any of this?
No, I haven't followed it, but we did see it.
I did see it.
So, in fact, the BBC took all of the videos offline for about a day.
This people, oh, what is going on?
What is this Grim Reaper?
What is happening here?
And they have... They discovered what it was?
Yes, the official word is, this is a verger.
A verger.
And a verger is, um, I guess they kind of like, uh, like they clean stuff up?
You know, like they, they dust around and do stuff?
But if you look at the Verger's outfit, they have the Verger's bonnet, they have a funky hat, but none of them have this hood.
So, you know, people are not happy with this explanation.
So the explanation is not acceptable?
Not acceptable at all, no.
You know, who was the Grim Reaper at the coronation?
Has officially been identified.
Let's see.
Where was it here?
Newsweek went ahead and contacted Westminster Abbey Newsweek, so you know it's legit, who revealed that this footage is not in fact the Grim Reaper, and is instead a random averger, aka a member of the Abbey community who assists with religious services, but is not a member of the clergy.
Uh-huh.
Sure.
And it was Vivat Regina Camilla, which means Long Live the Queen.
That's my bad.
Yes, we got that one, yes.
That's my bad.
I had to pull my head out of the gutter.
But anyway, there was some Charles stuff there, there was Not My King, Kido's Rice Krispies, that was kind of cute.
Oh, oh, I know why we find Kido so offensive.
I figured it out.
Okay.
You ready for this?
Yeah!
Kiddo has been used in many horror films.
Yes?
Yes!
Example?
I'm desperately looking for my page here.
I have three examples.
Etymology of Kiddo.
Kill Bill, Volume 2.
Character played Bill.
David Carradine refers to his daughter as Kiddo throughout the film.
Well, this is not a horror movie.
Use of the term creates a sense of unease, particularly given the violent nature of the film.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974.
Leatherface uses the term kiddo to address one of his victims.
And of course, Silence of the Lambs from 1991.
Buffalo Bill uses the term little lady and kiddo to address his female victims.
Lame.
Lame?
I'm not buying it.
And I haven't said that for a long time.
But what's lame about it?
I don't believe that the reason somebody like Jesse would start calling kiddo, and millennials start using the word kiddo because of some deep-seated thing because they saw some movie they saw, maybe, they probably didn't even see these movies, they're all predating the millennials.
That's not what I said!
I said why we feel uneasy about it.
That's what I said.
Oh, you're just referring to our Yes.
I can't argue that.
You have to buy it.
That doesn't get to the point that I'm trying to get to, which is, why is anyone using it?
I know, but I didn't have any answer for that, and so I'm just trying to keep the conversation going.
Okay.
Good work.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's all I needed to hear.
Was there anything else you wanted to discuss of this art?
Because it was kind of meager, I would say.
I didn't think we had anything.
This thing was so head and, like I said, head and shoulders above everything else.
It really was.
In fact, I remember, I have to say this even though I don't want to embarrass you.
Uh-oh.
You said, oh, Ness works again?
Yeah.
Well, I didn't stop it because of that.
I've just said, I meant that more as in like, kiddo, you know?
It's like, Ness works again?
I get a kick out of that.
Brutal.
I mean, when you look at this art, you say, what could even come close to beating it?
I mean, it's so head and shoulders above everything.
Not much.
Not much.
I agree.
I agree.
And then, of course, we love thanking our executive and associate executive producers.
We're going to be pretty short today.
We're going to go all the way through everything in one go.
One donation segment.
You know what that means.
Help us out, people.
We kick it off with Sir Borislav Marinov from Trabuco Canyon, California.
He comes in with $513.23.
I'm not quite sure what that's about.
Maybe we will learn.
He says, please send some spinal surgery karma and lots of prayers for my surgery on 5-13-33.
I'm going to write it down.
Twenty-three.
Twenty-three.
Thirty-three would be crazy.
I will write that down.
I will certainly pray for you.
My case is one of the worst my surgeons has ever seen.
Oh, geez, that's terrible.
Give him some karma.
This is really bad, man.
I'm going to write it down.
You've got karma.
He's one of our better guys.
Borislav Marinov is like a classic on the No Agenda Show.
He is, certainly.
Sir Kevin Dills is up from Huntersville, North Carolina.
He says he came out 5'12", which is nice.
Uh, in the morning.
This is my annual birthday donation.
He does this every year for 512.
I'll be turning 37 on May 12th.
512.
Please add me to the birthday list.
You're on it.
No jingles, just karma.
Thank you for your courage, Sir Kevin Dills, Duke of North Carolina.
You got it, Sir Kevin.
Thank you.
You've got karma.
Sir Leron is in Dothan?
Dothan, Alabama?
Dothan?
Dothan?
Uh, 376.
Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
We love you.
Four trips around the sun donation.
Sir Leron.
What, Mom's only four?
Yeah, she's four.
Maybe it's a leap year, so maybe she's 32.
No, she'd be 40.
She's a 40.
She's a 40-year-old spring chicken.
There you go.
Peter Eisch in Hudson, Wisconsin.
333.33.
Happy 17th anniversary to the Dame of the Ten Key.
Okay.
Happy 17th anniversary to the Dame of the Ten Key.
Okay.
Oh, very nice.
Laura Cram, 333.33.
Boy, do we love that number.
And she says, switcheroo.
I'd like this credit to be given to my husband, Jake.
Alright, I'm doing that right, so that would be Jake Cram.
Done.
Gents, this week our son said, no agenda is keeping me sane!
He's 13!
Good for us.
Our three kids love the show, keeping them unbrainwashed.
Now that's value for value.
Shout out to their uncle, Sir BK of PNW.
Dedoosh us, please.
You've been dedooshed.
And a goat scream for the kids from the Cram Fam.
You've got...
Nice.
Karma.
You bet.
Love hearing that.
Joe Franco in Wallingford, Connecticut is also in at 333.33 and he says, Gents, thanks you for creating the media deconstruction exercise for the world.
My donation is my first, so please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
I'm celebrating my 52nd trip around the sun on 5-11 and he's on the birthday list.
Starting listening in 2020 after hearing Adam on Rogan.
Rogan Donation.
Once I saw behind the media curtain and heard all the people who believed you in your work enough to become producers, I was hooked!
Now everything is a psy-op!
Yes!
That's correct.
And I'm a better man for it.
Many blessings to you and your faith journey, Adam and John.
Stop trolling, Adam.
Frequent mentions of 100% notwithstanding.
100%.
Uh, Jingles.
Reverend Al Longversion.
I got ants and yak karma for all.
Best always.
Phil Franco in Wallingford, Connecticut.
And after this, I want to play a clip about PSYOPs.
Oh, okay.
I've put the full I've Got Ants version in the end of show for today.
So just get a little clip today.
I've got ants.
I've got ants.
And here's Al Sharpton.
Resist.
We much.
We must.
They're all jitty about a shutdown.
The Tortoise in the race.
Then co-author of Hubris.
U2 lead singer Bono.
Fran Drescher.
Siganoi Weaver.
This is the best one.
Jahar Sanaev.
Rush Limbaugh.
The show Rush Lombard hosts Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
It's Mike, uh, Mercury.
Yesterday, Antonin, Antonin Scalia.
Kim Kardashian and the Republican candidates, both Cairo and Benghazi, we rank behind Latvija, uh, Lavita.
First Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan to college students in Beijing.
He's getting lunch at Chipotle in Iowa.
Bane is appropriate.
The GOP's tax day giveaway to millionaires.
Why was Traffic Problems' email sent?
The Environmental Projection Agency.
And what sequestration has done?
You've got it.
That is the OG.
All right, what clip did you want to play?
Now, there's a clip.
This is a clip from Michael Francesco.
He is an ex-mobster who's on the, you know, he's on the circuit.
He's got a podcast and a couple of these guys do.
But the mob is now getting in on the action.
What's going on?
Sammy the Bull has a podcast.
Oh, well, he's Sammy the Bull.
So Michael has said this before, I've heard it before, he brings it up all the time and it's something I think this is true.
I think you'll hear this is about the CIA not killing Kennedy.
Oh!
Which I subscribe to.
I don't think they killed Kennedy.
It would be ridiculous because you don't just, you don't have to kill him.
I mean, you could do other things.
You know, make him fall down his flight of stairs instead of assassinating him with a bullet.
And so he has, this is an aside that he made because he keeps saying this on various podcasts.
And this one's got a little more elaborate than usual.
And this is his thesis based on what he heard when he was in the mob.
Carlos Marcello.
Now we know who he was.
He was the boss of New Orleans.
And by the way, Carlos confessed to being part of the JFK assassination.
I don't know if you know that.
And some people, for some reason, they don't want to believe that.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Because the CIA, the U.S.
government, never would want to admit that the mafia was able to get to a sitting president.
But there's classified documents about the JFK hitting that have never been revealed.
They're always supposed to be, uh, every 25 years, they're supposed to, you know, make them public, but for some reason they never do.
I believe that's the reason because I've said it in the past.
Everything that I've heard during my time in that life from the right people was that, uh, it was definitely a mob hit with JFK.
Not proud of that, I'm just telling you.
And, um, Carlos Marcello actually confessed to it.
Why are you playing this in the donation segment?
Because it was brought up about everything's a PSYOP in the last note and so there's some sort of a PSYOP going on with this Kennedy assassination because they won't release the stuff and it doesn't make any sense and if it turns out to be true that it's just a cover-up to CIA's, not that they did it, but that they couldn't stop it.
And that's the thesis, and the funny thing is the guy who made this confession on his deathbed was the New Orleans boss, and it was out of New Orleans with Garrett, or Garrison, whatever that guy's name was, there was a big stink during the assassination, inquiries, and there's this one guy, the DA, it was all out of New Orleans.
So what you're saying is the mob is really more cunning and better than the CIA.
At the time.
Since then, they turned the tables with the Rico stuff and all that.
They just decided that this is not working out.
We can't let this continue.
Let's set up shop here to stop these guys and let them know that this is not acceptable.
And that's what I think happened.
I think that's the only thing that makes any logical sense with the refusal to show these documents, which is illegal.
What do you mean?
What's illegal?
They're supposed to release these documents every 25 years and Biden and everybody else has refused to do it.
Why?
Well, that's my question.
So why?
Why not pin it on... Why?
Because the CIA is implicated because they knew about this assassination.
They couldn't do anything to stop it.
Or they didn't want to stop it.
Well, there's always that possibility, but I get the sense that they...
I get the other sense.
I get the sense that they couldn't stop it.
They got blamed for it.
Who needs that aggravation?
260 trolls did not hear this clip.
Sad for them.
Good work.
Well, that's the reason I played it during this segment also.
Besides the mention of a PSYOP, I thought I'd play a reasonably interesting clip right in the middle of nowhere.
I like it.
There's no other way to play it anyway.
Well, you know, what's going to happen now is every single time that we do this, and I did it the last time, and now you're going to get the disperse for this clip!
A clip of the day that no one heard.
If no one heard it, was it a clip of the day?
That's the question.
Teal is in Crystal, Minnesota, 333.
In the morning, this donation is in honor of my best friend, Mr. Bugaki.
Bugaki.com.
B-A-G-A-K-I.com.
He hit me in the mouth several years back, and the knowage in the show has guided me on a healthy path of skepticism ever since.
Thank you for your service!
Teal.
Nice.
Brockport, New York, is where our friend Sir Johnny B comes from.
He comes in at 250 bucks because Associate Executive Producer.
Happy Mother's Day, Polly, from Chase Wyatt and Sir Johnny B.
Brian Maloney is in Spokane, Washington, and our second Associate Executive Producer, 242.44, happy belated birthday to two proud members of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Kyle Tuhig, a.k.a.
Spook of Spokane, turns 42.
Spokane.
Spokane, sorry.
General Wemberly, a.k.a.
Jen with a G, turns 44.
Please add them both to the birthday list, they are on there.
Also, I'd like to call out my smokin' hot girlfriend Lacey, That's a douchebag.
I hit them all in the mouth since moving to town and can now attest to the truth that couples who know agenda together stay together.
Lastly, I hate to be put... Not now!
Not after that douchebagging.
Lastly, after... I hate to be put in this position, but I would like to request that NJNK's song be included in the end of show mixes.
NJNK...
Um, I think I can, uh, you know what, let me just have a little taste.
Oh yeah, that is a good one.
Yeah, that's good.
Okay, I will put it into the, somehow I'll put that, that's a great, I'd forgotten all about that one.
That's great.
We'll put it in there.
It's very nature.
It's impossible to request.
Yes.
That's an exchange for no jingles, no karma.
You got it.
I'll put it in.
Thank you for your courage.
Yours truly, Brian.
Also a spook, Maloney.
They're all spooks.
Do you think they're really spooks?
There is a few.
Do you think they're really spooks or are they just saying it to be cool?
It's hard to say.
Okay.
Probably at half of them, I guess.
I mean, we know there's spooks out there.
There's a couple, but they're usually not bragging about it.
No.
Mont Sweeney in Edmonton, Oklahoma, 235.11.
No jingle.
He didn't put anything, so let's give him a... Double up karma?
Double karma.
Karma.
Hold on a second, I'm literally putting this song into the end of show mix stuff.
There we go.
Where are we now?
We've got Anonymous in Chicago, Illinois.
Our last associate executive producer, 233.33.
In the morning, gents, long-time listener, first-time donor, words matter, keep deconstructing the M5M, no jingles, no karma, love is light.
Or lit, as we sometimes say.
Perfect.
Thank you to these executive producers and associate executive producers for supporting us here for show episode 1,554.
We highly appreciate it.
It is what keeps us going and while I line up the birthdays and two nightings, John's gonna take you through to the 50s.
Yeah, we're gonna start off with Baron of America's Mountain in Viscount of Very Fine People, $155.51.
It should be mentioned that he sent in a kind of just a thank-you note, but the end of Marvelous, the book by M. Andrew Jones, who is actually... I got this book too.
I got this book too.
This is very funny.
Yeah, especially because of the blurb on the back.
Well, first of all, you notice on the front, he has instant bestseller, which is a John C. Dvorak trick.
Running gag, yeah.
And then I have a quote in the praise.
Here's Adam Curry.
Oh, wow!
That's mine.
Yeah, that's yours.
Mine is an excellent product.
I'm buying it.
Have you read the book?
No, I haven't, but it's cool.
You never, you just write blurbs.
It's got nothing to do with reading anything.
11th anniversary edition.
Okay.
It reads well, so it's probably something people should look it up.
It's called The End of Marvelous by M. Andrew Jones.
So the blurb on the back is from Mark Pugner of the Gitmo Nation Times.
Like the labeled rope-a-dope, The End of Marvelous often appears to be stuck on humorous side plots, but the story is simply wearing out the reader's preconceived notions so it can deliver a well-orchestrated and near-flawless victory in the final rounds.
Fabulous.
I'm taking this on my next vacation to read, for sure.
Good.
I just like my blurb, oh wow!
Oh wow.
Oh wow.
Which is a great blurb.
Adam Curry.
So let's go with, I'm going to read these donors off, one at a time, with their name, location, and amount.
We're starting with Gregory Furek in Chicago, $100, Sir Weasel.
In Palmer, Alaska, I think.
Yep.
Yeah, Alaska.
100.
He also sent us some sad puppy photos.
Matt, we're trying to... Mark Stevens in Waycross, Georgia, 100.
Happy Mother's Day, Meredith.
Yes, that's coming up Sunday.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
If you love your mom, you donate to the show.
Kevin McLaughlin, Locust, North Carolina, 8008.
Our friend with the absolute longest streak so far.
A boob.
For one donation number, 8008.
Chris Galleon in Meridian, Idaho.
Switcheroo from a smoking hot douchebag of a wife.
And for Mother's Day.
And it's a Mother's Day call out.
Yep.
Never names her.
Jeremy Hirschman also in Sheboygan, Wisconsin comes in with 8008 for his poopsie.
Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington.
Sir Rick!
Who, uh, we've been misnaming him in the show and he got a little irritated.
This has happened twice.
6996 Dustin Clendenin in Arlington, Texas.
$65 Jason Templeton in Ackworth, Georgia.
6336 needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Hector Sosa.
$55.23.
Sir Tom Darian, DeForest, Wisconsin.
$55.10.
Corey Stewart in Jackson, Mississippi.
Michigan.
Jackson, Michigan.
$52.32.
Sir Luke Rayner in London, UK.
$51.
Call out to the East End.
Cumming, Georgia is where Bob Butler resides. $50.69.
Bad Idea Supply!
Parts Unknown, it seems.
$50.50.
Where can I get some bad ideas?
I don't know.
Capic Chiropractic in Capic, Michigan.
$50.00.
George Wushit in La Vernia, Texas.
$50.00.
These are all $50.00 donors.
I'll just rap through them.
Donnie Norris in Torrance, California.
Sorry guys, I've been a douchebag for too long.
Good.
Thanks for what you do.
Nadia Borg in San Marcos, California.
Anonymous in Westwood, Kansas.
Margarita Eidenhood in Orangevale, California.
Gavin McGoldrick in San Francisco.
Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York.
Tim Del Vecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania.
Corey Cunningham in Warrington, Virginia.
And last but not least on the list is Sir Brett Farrell in OKC.
I want to thank all these folks for contributing to show 1554.
We got next show is 1555.
Nice number.
Donate and donate over 50 bucks and give your mom or somebody, your mom or wife, a call out for Mother's Day.
It'll be Mother's Day.
And we do break for night.
Sir Timothy of No Fixed Title sent me a note and asked for an emergency.
Jobs, karma, we'll do that for you of course.
Jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
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Our formula is this.
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Water.
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Shut up, lady.
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It's your birthday birthday.
I'm so much younger.
And we start off today with the brother of the Clip Custodian, Clip Collector, Steve Jones.
Turned 49 yesterday.
Nick Rasulius celebrates today.
Phil Franco turned 52 today.
Sir Kevin Dill is turning 37 tomorrow.
Lisa Diermer wishes her husband, Wade Diermer, a happy birthday for the 13th.
And Dame Vox of the Gateway, her Sir Keeper of Vox, turned 60 on the 13th.
She wishes him a happy birthday.
Eric says, hey, Ryan the Douchebag, happy birthday.
That's Ryan the Douchebag Hutchins.
He's turning 3.
33, and Brian Maloney wishes Kyle Tuig a happy 42nd birthday and General Wemberly a happy 44th.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
Now before we get to our knights, we have... These are layaway knights who have been saving up for a long time.
So let me read their notes.
The first one is from Sir Tinley.
In the morning, Adam and John, I was a part of the 20-month PayPal plan.
20 months.
And this coincides my 20-month donation to a knighthood.
I would like to be known as Sir Tinley, not from the land of woke.
I would like some... Aaron Cheney?
What's Aaron Cheney?
What's hello?
Hello.
A-R-A-N-C-I-N-I.
I've never heard of this product.
Arancini?
Arancini?
I don't know.
Maybe it's a bitter.
I've never heard of this product before.
Arancini and some grass-fed ribeyes from Greenfire Farms in Monticello, Wisconsin.
Okay, we got it there for you.
I have a question about vacations.
In a month, I will be a father.
It's my first.
I'm nervous about the vacation.
Oh, not vacation, vaccination.
I was wondering why he was asking about vacations.
I'm worried about the vaccination schedule.
Is it hard to find solid, straightforward information?
It's an Italian rice bowl.
I don't know.
Why don't you just say that?
Deep fried.
I want a deep fried rice ball.
A rice ball.
You got a rice ball coming your way.
So I have a question about vaccinations.
He says, in a month I'll be a father.
It's my first.
I'm nervous about the vaccination schedule.
Is it hard to find solid, straightforward information that's not pharma propaganda?
Any references?
Any advice?
Now, we can't give advice.
We won't give advice.
But I think that if you go on knowagenthesocial.com, you'll get a lot of people who have pointers to some good advice.
I'll just say this, it seems like there's a lot of vaccines on the schedule.
More than when I was a kid or when my kid was a kid.
Thank you both for all you do.
Shout out to my Gitmo slaves here in FEMA Region 5.
I'm glad we met.
Love is lit.
And he'll be certainly not in a moment.
SirLoin started listening to the show during COVID.
After being introduced by a thread on the rival's main board and started donating $33.33 a month, I finally received knighthood status.
Please dub me Sirloin and have Tomahawk Steaks and McCallons at the roundtable.
Yes, this has been requested before.
They always like to up their game with some expensive single malt.
You got it!
And while we're at it here, let me get out a blade.
Make a Macallan 18 just to be on the safe side.
Hold on a sec.
Can we make that a Macallan 18?
The Verger says no problem.
The No Agenda Verger.
Macallan 18.
Verger helps us out with everything.
Yes!
I need your blade.
A lower blade.
A lower blade.
Oh, here it comes.
There you go.
Oh, it's a nice one.
It's a good one.
Alright!
Tinley Knott, James Larraway, hop on up on the podium.
Both of you, as we just heard, have supported the Noah Jenner Show in the amount of $1,000, and you did it on the layaway program.
That is fantastic.
Everybody can be a Knight, and I'm very proud to pronounce the K-V as Sir Tinley Knott from the land of woke and sirloin.
Now, brand new Knights of the Noah Jenner Roundtable for you.
We've got it right here.
We have Arancini, it's a rice ball, and some grass-fed ribeye from Greenfire Farms in Monticello, Wisconsin, and Tomahawk Steaks and McCallons, 18, along with that, Geisses and Sake, Hookers and Blow, Red Boys Chardonnay, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Breast Milk and Pavlov, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, and of course we've got the Mutton and Mead.
You should try that.
Even though you got the McAllens, try some of our mutton, try some of our meat, and then go to NoAgendaRings.com.
You are more than welcome to, anyone can go ahead and take a look at it.
They're really beautiful.
NoAgendaRings.com.
We need you to send us an address, there's a form there, and let us know where to send that off, along with your ring size.
It comes, of course, with your wax to seal your important correspondence with.
I love getting notes in the P.O.
box in the mail that has that little night ring seal on it.
It makes me feel good every single time.
Thank you so much for that.
And also a Certificate of Authenticity.
And welcome to the roundtable, Brand New Nights of No Agenda.
No Agenda Meetups!
Yeah, the party is always at the No Agenda Meetups.
Dayton, Ohio had a meetup on the 9th, and in attendance was the writer of this note, Sir Egghead, Sir Ladyfingers.
Man overboard, but still living the life.
Oh, please.
Sir Leary, Deaton from Dayton, oh famous names here, Deaton from Dayton, and Gregory from the Orlando meetups known as Big Mo or Jay.
Nice to know through the power of no agenda meetups that some dork like me can quickly gather four other diversely experienced slaves to join me for some beers at the Dayton Beer Company with around 24 hours notice.
If you haven't participated in a meetup, you'll find the networking that can take place is incredible.
Instantly, we're having flowing conversations like we've known each other for years.
It's common that folks share phone numbers and start having or continuing conversations on their own.
There are great people at the meetups and we're all friendly, approachable, polite, and interesting, even if we may not look it.
No douchebags in the crowd, I suspect.
We're all knights, even if it hasn't yet been claimed.
In the morning, Sir Egghead.
Night of the long shadows of Trash Mountain.
Well, I can't give you a better endorsement than that.
Thank you so much.
And today, there's a meetup at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
It's the Look, Here's the Deal meetup.
No joke, that'll be at 6.30.
Tomorrow, gateway to the MO meetup.
Seven o'clock at Venice Cafe in St.
Louis, Missouri.
On Saturday, the Uwe Hui Southside OKC Meetup.
OKC time, baby!
One o'clock, the Garage on I-240 in OKC.
And then we have the Local 512 Mother May I Meetup, one o'clock at Doc's Backyard in Sunset Valley.
I will be there with my buddy Jimmy.
Looking forward to that.
Of course, Baron Scott of the No Agenda Armory is organizing.
We expect a big crowd, everybody.
The Annapolis area meetup, 2.30 on Saturday in Arnold, Maryland at O'Loughlin's.
And the Red 33, Red 33, Boston Taurus 23 Skidoo at Castle Island Brewery in Norwood, Massachusetts, 2.30 on Saturday.
We have, oh that's Sir Nathan Lee Miller Foster, chaotic goodnight of the White Lodge organizing.
And let's see, Saturday as well, the No Agenda Three Mile Island EVAC Zone Meetup 333, Plantdemic HQ, so you need to register for that in Lewisbury, Pennsylvania at Central PA.
Surf Soiree Southeast Portland meetup five o'clock Pacific Portland that's also a private home in Portland Oregon of course can't be doing that out in the open in Portland and finally on Saturday in Houston the second Northwest Houston meetup 630 in Wakefield Crowbar Houston Texas or the economic hitman is organizing that we have meetups all the way through the end of June and And beyond, you need to join one of these.
I'm joining one, as I said, on Saturday in Austin.
It's going to be a hootenanny.
Looking forward to it.
NoahJennerMeetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one.
on Guaranteed a Party.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be.
Triggered or hell's lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
Like a party.
All right.
I have, oh, I have three ice.
How about that?
ISOs.
ISOs.
I have three.
Shall I play mine first?
Yes, please.
Okay, hold on a second.
There is this one.
Suck on that.
Okay.
This I think we both received.
It's too long, but I do want to play it since someone sent it to us.
Wow!
Yeah, that's a good one.
That one's good.
A little long.
And then the inevitable.
They make me vomit.
There you go.
Richard Dreyfuss.
Make me vomit.
Well, I don't like this bad reflection on the show, but try mine.
Wow.
Wow.
And this one?
Sound familiar?
Yep.
I think I like the wow better.
Wow.
I like the wow better too.
I think the wow is good.
It's just that that non-binary person, she threw out her little spiel.
She kept saying, yep.
Yep.
And she would emphasize the yep.
Yep.
So Saturday.
Very offensive.
Saturday is the big Eurovision song contest.
Oh yeah!
Yeah, and you know, every single year we say, you know, we should be doing our own audio version, and every year we don't do it.
It's also, it's on Peacock now.
Let's see, in the finals we have Norway, Serbia, Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Israel, Moldova, Sweden, Czechia, and Finland.
Then it will be held in Liverpool because it's too dangerous to do this in Ukraine, who of course won last year.
Just from a general perspective, these things are usually rigged.
Who do you think will win?
Let's see, I'm thinking Finland maybe?
Well, it's Finland or Sweden, because Finland is now a NATO member, so they should get the nod over Sweden, who are still waffling.
Yes, for playing along.
I think Finland for the win.
I agree.
I can't think of anything else.
Yeah, for being good doobies.
Poland!
Poland!
You know, we cut the cord!
You cut what cord?
I cut the cord.
I cut the cable cord.
Oh, you did?
Yep.
We got the 5 gigahertz... gigabit per second fiber.
So you're relying on that?
I do have two backups.
I also cut the Verizon dongle.
I got rid of that.
$130 a month.
Oh, that's too high.
What about your OTA?
Did you go OTA over the air?
I have OTA antenna, yes.
Now it's not anything on the roof or outside, but I have not yet Tina is in New York, so Saturday morning is when I do my OTA test.
But I did want to mention something that really was very irksome.
Spectrum was our cable provider and our internet provider.
And it was an outrageous bill we got every month.
I mean, it was $255.
I mean, that's outrageous.
But to cancel?
I had to go through a whole questionnaire with the lady.
Oh, you know, there's companies like that out there that's shameful.
And I said, you know, I'm just, can we just skip the questionnaire?
I just, I really don't, I just want to cancel.
No, you can't!
This, I have to go through this with you!
And it's rude questions like...
Uh, what did you watch?
What did other people watch?
And I just kept saying nothing, nothing.
No, we didn't watch anything.
No, that's why I'm getting rid of it.
No, we didn't watch it.
You had premium, you had HBO.
Nope, didn't watch it.
Nope.
But it was- So you lied to them?
I- Yes!
But 20 minutes almost of this nonsense, and you can't skip.
And then, you know, they keep trying offers.
Well, you know, I see here that we can offer you this or that.
Oh yeah, there's that.
That should be, that should be illegal.
Illegal.
Thank you.
That's Elizabeth Warren.
Yeah.
Thanks, Liz.
It should, that should be illegal.
It was very, it was very, I was surprised.
Whereas Verizon, I called them up, I said, I've had this dongle.
We were RVing.
I don't use it.
I'm sorry.
I've loved your service.
I've had it for over 10 years.
I just don't need it.
I'm getting rid of it.
He's like, oh, that's okay.
There's no problem.
I understand.
I feel like I'm breaking up with you.
I have that same feeling, but it's okay.
At least you're ripping the Band-Aid off.
And it was fun.
We were done in five minutes.
Good for them.
Yes, Verizon, good company, but Spectrum?
What a douchebag.
Douchebags.
Unbelievable douchebags.
I have a clip I would enjoy playing.
This clip has been cut down and played a lot, and this is the woman at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors screaming.
Oh no, you're not going to play the whole thing.
I'm going to play the whole thing because it was taken out of context.
Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was.
So the whole thing, how long is the whole thing?
It's on here.
Two minutes!
Yes, two minutes.
And a lot of it is screaming.
She's screaming.
This is, no, it's, well, 1.59.
I guess it's just under two minutes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
It's not.
But we've all heard this.
We've all heard this clip.
And I want to play the whole thing because it's actually interesting.
And this is classic San Francisco politics.
People like this really, it's ridiculous.
She claims there's a, there's in San Francisco of all places, that there's a transgenocide.
Yes.
And this was, what is, what kind of meeting was this?
Was this a council meeting?
This is the Board of Supervisors meeting in one of the, is for the school, the Board of Supervisors?
That's what, no, that's for this, that runs the city.
Oh, they run the city?
Oh.
Yeah, the Board of Supervisors pretty much operates the city.
Okay.
So here she is, complaining.
Okay.
My name is Leah McGeever.
I live in D6.
I hate a lot of people on this board.
Good start.
For the reasons that led up to Benko Brown's death.
So, often I prepare something, maybe it's a little historical, maybe a little poetic, whatever.
There's a lot of performative people on this board who will say one thing in support of black people, homeless people, trans people, and then immediately stab you in the face.
Being racist, transphobic, anti-homeless.
So I don't have any words prepared today.
I just want you to feel our pain.
I don't know if you can at this point based off your policy choices, but I have to pretend you have some form of empathy left.
So, I am going to spend the next minute screaming, because that is what is going on in here.
That is what the transgenocide in this country, in this city, has brought me to.
too.
Imagine that.
Thank you.
I HATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO US!
I HATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO US!
I HATE YOU, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS!
I HATE YOU, LONDON BRID!
I HATE YOU, JENKINS!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Cowards!
He needs to suffer solitary confinement with that security guard!
Y'all have these armed guards!
He's walking free!
Y'all have a man walking free in the city!
He's walking free!
Forgive us somebody!
Okay, now you must explain why you wanted to play this.
I thought that, and I still believe that is one of the greatest clips ever played on that show.
My periodontist showed that to me.
I went for my post-ops.
I love my periodontist.
This is Mitch, he's Maverick.
Oh, by the way, I'm clawing back some of that dough I sent him.
He's flying me up to Dallas to do the Beck Show on the 23rd.
He is?
Yeah, he's got his own plane.
Oh.
Hello, he's a periodontist.
Those guys are rolling in dough.
Oh yeah, those guys make the big dough.
I'm like, hey man, you have to cancel your patients and fly me up on Tuesday.
He's like, okay.
Anyway, so after my post-op, he says, let's go have a drink in his office.
It's so weird to be drinking alcohol in your dentist's office.
And he has some great tequila.
What was it called?
Abandonado.
Have you ever heard of this?
No, I haven't.
That was good.
And then he shows me this clip.
I'm like, wow, you need the whole thing in context.
Listen to the show.
John will play it.
And there it is.
Perfect.
We delivered.
All right, since you did two minutes... Yeah, most people just showed the clip of this woman screaming into the mic.
No, I agree.
I agree.
I still don't know what it was about, except she hates the Board of Supervisors.
She hates them and there's some trans genocide going on, which seems just like the opposite of what's going on.
I don't know.
These people are weird.
Well, she needs... She's not getting enough pharmaceuticals, in my opinion.
The National Legal and Policy Center is a non-profit, I'm sure it's a conservative, that monitors and reports on the ethics of public officials, supporters of liberal causes, so they're out to get the libs, and labor unions.
The center files complaints with government agencies, challenges what they view as abuse and corruption, and they publish reports!
The chairman is Peter Flaherty, and he showed up at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting.
And hilarity ensued.
I am Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
If we had an independent chair, the company would be less identified with Mr. Crawford's political activities.
He's donated tens of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As Bill Gates explained, when the company was still together, although the company bears our names, basically half our resources have come from Warren Buffett.
If world culture is the disease, then philanthropy is the virus.
The Gates Foundation bankrolls the teaching of critical race theory around the country, including that math is inherently racist.
The Gates Foundation offers a gender identity toolbars which asserts that gender is a result of socially and culturally constructed ideas.
This is a lie!
Gender is not a cultural construct.
It is a genetic and biological fact.
You're not going to censor what I say, ma'am.
I'm very sorry.
And I'll appeal to the chair that I be allowed to continue.
Sir?
You may continue, but you're under a three-minute limitation.
Of course.
We know how much Bill Gates cares about children.
He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein's death.
I love all these moral people.
Oh, you can't say that about Bill Gates that he traveled with Epstein.
Oh no, you're horrible.
Boo!
Boo!
Get him out!
Long story short, they kicked him out and he got arrested later.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
That clip was just too hard.
I mean, I had that clip.
It was just too hard to hear.
I thought it was worth it.
I mean, is it any worse than your screaming clip?
No, you can understand her.
You couldn't understand what he was saying?
Not really.
How about try this one then?
Yeah, well you might remember a few months ago its first foray into AI wasn't entirely successful.
This is about Google's latest barf!
Its conversation chatbot called Bard had some rather embarrassing problems when it was unveiled earlier this year.
Now, though, Google is opening BART up to the public, and it's bringing some of those AI capabilities to its most popular product, its search engine.
It means that Google Search will start offering AI technology for questions you never thought Google could answer, according to that announcement earlier on.
It'll also start including a next-generation language model called POM2 into about... Wait, next-generation language model?
What does that even mean?
What does that mean?
Hold on, hold on.
I'm trying to hear the name.
You're talking over it.
It'll also start including a next-generation language model called Palm 2.
Palm 2?
Palm 2?
Like the Palm Pilot?
Palm 2?
Like the Palm Pilot?
What an idiot.
They had a language, a little, not a language, but they had a bunch of strokes you could do.
Keystroke, or little hand gestures.
Graffiti.
Graffiti.
It was called graffiti.
Yes it was.
Large language model is all that this is.
It's just, that's all, it's not...
AI is not intelligence.
It's a large language model, which means it can predict which word should come next or might have preceded something.
That's all that it is.
But okay, it's barf and they have something called Palm 2.
Google's in trouble.
In marketing terms, they're in trouble.
It'll also start including a next-generation language model called Palm 2 into about 25 new Google products and features.
The rollout of a number of AI chatbots by the likes of Microsoft, Alibaba, and Baidu has raised concerns about regulators.
I like this.
This is from France24.
I like this because she just accurately describes what this is.
It's a chatbot.
That's all that it is.
It's a chatbot.
up with this fast-developing technology.
This Thursday, European lawmakers are set to vote on a set of laws that would address, amongst other things, copyright and privacy issues in the sector.
I like this.
This is from France 24.
I like this because she just accurately describes what this is.
It's a chatbot.
That's all that it is.
It's a chatbot.
And the chatbot can search stuff, and sometimes it's handy.
You know, like, I didn't know what Falk was...
Fouk, the Dutch fishing net.
And so I asked the chat GPT and it gave me that and I said, what would you translate this into English as?
And it said Fouk, which of course you didn't know, could be totally made up, but at least it gave me an answer.
It was a chat, just a little chat.
He's not going to do anything else for me.
These chatbots are annoying.
And sad news, after, see it started in 1987, I was a part of it.
So how many years is that?
1987, three, is that thirty?
About thirty-five.
Thirty-three years?
Thirty-five years?
We started with The Weekend Rock and now MTV has shut down its news division.
News division.
That was a news division product?
Yeah, Kurt Loder was brought into MTV to run the news department with Linda Corradino.
And he was brought in because, you know, he worked for Rolling Stone magazine and he had written I, Tina, the book about Tina Turner.
So he was the news guy and he was the executive editor of MTV News.
That was a news product, yes.
And things are so bad now.
The news is shutting down everywhere.
When they shut down MTV news, you know that things are really bad.
It's really hard up.
Yeah, stuff is bad.
But I wanted to touch on this Wagner group, because I've been thinking and reading about what's going on, and everything you read about Ukraine and Russia, it's always this jamoke from the Wagner group, which is the whole thing.
I'm thinking this is a PSYOP.
We kind of touched on that in the last episode.
But first of all, even naming it the Wagner group, you know, it's like, oh, okay, Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer, a bunch of Hitler guys.
This guy, I mean, the whole thing seems so phony and it makes nothing but sense that the news media would only report on this guy.
Oh, Bogner!
Oh, Bogner's this!
Oh, Bogner that!
Bogner said... The unpronounceable name.
I mean, The Economist even wrote an article in 2021 and said, is this even a real thing?
Is this even real?
Does it even exist?
You know who would know if we could get a hold of him?
Eric Prince.
Right.
Well, I think it's modeled after Eric Prince, you know, it being a like a Blackwater, G Academy type outfit, although Wagner's never changed their name.
And the guy's spouting off now, which to me means the end of the war is coming.
This is what he had to say to the BBC.
The head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has issued another stinging criticism of Russia's military leadership.
In a lengthy video posted on social media, he repeated his call for the defence ministry in Moscow to send more supplies to his troops.
Mr. Prigozhin then went on to ridicule those in charge of the war effort and an unidentified figure he referred to as the Happy Grandfather.
Instead of using a shell to kill an enemy and saving one of our soldiers' lives, they're killing our soldiers, and the happy grandfather thinks that he's fine.
If he turns out to be right, then may God grant everyone health.
But what should the country do?
Our children, grandchildren, who are the future of Russia?
And how can he win this war if, by chance, and I'm just speculating here, it turns out that this grandfather is a complete moron?
So I think this guy's being used to position the end of the pullout of Bakhmut.
Oh, Russia's not sending any ammo.
It's all over.
I think this guy actually will declare the end of the war and he's calling Putin.
Somewhere else it was also the happy bunker grandfather, not just the happy grandfather, but some additional verbiage to what he was saying.
And this to me is, it kind of Kind of makes me feel like this whole war is a wag the dog type scenario.
And then I got this clip which is from France 24.
They bring in the expert who is in Kiev, Kiev.
The expert on the Wagner group and explains, just tell me if this is your expert, Tell me this whole Wagner Group isn't just a big made-up story.
Joining me now from Berlin is Sergei Sumlemny, a Ukrainian specialist and former director of the Heinrich Bolt Foundation in Kyiv.
Thank you very much for your time.
Firstly, let's go back to the beginning.
Tell us more about the Wagner Group and how did it come into being?
Wagner Group is extremely important in Russian operations since years.
And why is it so?
Because Wagner Group was created by Putin's personal front, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was first Putin's personal cook and then was granted a chance to lead a trolls factory for the Russian interests.
Okay, so just so we understand, he was Putin's personal cook And then he set up the Internet Research Agency.
You know, the one that swung the election for Donald Trump?
Yeah.
Already I'm thinking bullcrap.
It's running all the fake accounts in the Internet.
So Evgeny Prigozhin has founded this Wagner Group to be an unidentified military force of Russia, like all the Tusks, the Wagner mercenaries.
I mean, does this already sound phony?
in the world, they all were given by the Russian army.
And pre-Gosian mercenaries were trained at the Russian military bases, were equipped with the Russian army, but they didn't wear any military insignia, and they were presented as the, like, private company, as, like, some sort of mercenaries.
And we don't know who are these people.
I mean, does this already sound phony?
This is the expert Wagner Group.
This already sounds so phony to me.
And this guy is an overweight, just a fat turd who's sitting there and going, oh yeah, I'm in charge of everything here.
This guy is not in charge of, he's got like, you see him in the shot with 10 guys who all look like, they don't look like mercenaries.
We know what mercs look like.
They're badass.
These are not mercs.
And there's no, Crazy mercs like you'd see, you know, mercenaries don't care who they fight for as long as they get paid.
This is, I'm telling you this is fake.
But in the fact that we're a hand of Russian military administration.
What is interesting for Wagner Group, they managed to like to advertise to get more people in their rows.
By promising unlimited access to any violence and violation of rules of war.
They really made it retarded.
join us you will go abroad you will be able to torture to rape to kill to do there you got me yep yeah yeah so yeah how about the viagra pills while we're at it yeah so you get to so if you join the wagner group you get to rape you get to rape you get to torture you get to maim you get to kill and it gets better rules of war they really need advertising join us you will go abroad
you will be able to torture to rape to kill to do whatever you want and you will not be punished They started to produce videos of how they executed the prisoners already while being deployed to Syria.
There is the first brutal video they have published.
Was how they smash with a sledgehammer arms and feet of a Syrian soldier, then they cut off his limbs and his head and burned down the body and post standing around of this decapitated and burned body.
So, in any army of the world, this would have to be, like, a catastrophic thing.
For Wagner, it was advertising.
They started to produce advertising with the sledgehammer, and they started to use a sledgehammer with which they have killed this prisoner of war as their advertising.
They now, pregaution, present sledgehammer as a symbol of Wagner Group to the Russian politicians, and even send it to the EU as a threat, like, to the European Commission.
John, this whole thing is bogative.
Just because the Wagner group is bullcrap doesn't mean that this war is ending.
I mean, you're putting, I like the fact that you stick with this thesis.
I'm going to play a couple clips from Claire Daly.
Ah, I love Claire Daly.
She's from Ireland, isn't she?
She is the socialist from Ireland.
She's a member of Parliament, European Parliament, MEP.
And I'll tell you, there's two clips I like here.
I've got a bunch of clips from her.
I've decided I'm following her now.
Just because she's a socialist doesn't mean she's wrong.
Let's listen to Claire Daly on the war economy and the EU.
Thanks very much, President.
Here we are and the corks must be popping in the arms industry boardrooms all over Europe.
A plan rushed through behind closed doors.
No public consultation.
No public debate.
Presented as a fait accompli just waiting for our rubber stamp.
A unilateral declaration by an unelected commissioner that Europe is now a war economy.
Not a war on poverty or homelessness or on climate change, but a diktat to the public of Europe that they have to accept another 1 billion euros being laundered from their pockets into the fat wallets of the global arms industry.
Yeah!
The workers in those factories have to suck up the suspension of the Working Time Act, and if they don't, they'll be brandished as traitors or Kremlin agents.
And if that wasn't bad enough, it won't be just our arms industries, because our friends in the US and Israel can dip into the pot Flog off bits to their European counterparts, we'll do the final assembly, put a stamp and a premium on it, and it's champagne all round.
And why wouldn't it be?
At 3,000 to 4,000 Europe per shell, and we're expected, the workers of Europe are expected to pay for a million of them.
It's absolutely outrageous.
If you really cared about Ukraine, you'd be pushing for peace.
But the EU hasn't lifted a finger to push for peace in Ukraine.
In fact, it's done everything to escalate the conflict and prevent peace.
Because for the EU, it's all about the war profiteers.
And the catastrophe in Ukraine is nothing more than a global opportunity for your friends.
It's an absolute disgrace.
It's about time you started to work for peace.
Next.
You know, I like the way they're bluzzing next.
In the same session, a Dutch politician stood up.
Now remember that the Dutch and the farmers, they elected the BBB party and the farmers won the election!
And the result?
2,000 farms can be bought up at 120% of the current value of the farm, and it's been approved by the EU.
Bye-bye, farmers!
Good work, everybody!
The shills that you voted in completely got rid of 2,000 farms.
Well, I think we're the only ones who reported that accurately.
And there's still some of the big alternative media podcasters like Jordan Peterson.
They've been totally bamboozled, which makes you question all the things they say.
Yeah, just saying.
The second clip from Claire Daly is another one.
It's not directly about Ukraine, but it's about some other big issue that you always bitch about.
Yes, the army.
This is Claire Daly on the EU army.
Which was never going to be.
We would never have a European Union army.
Ever.
Never.
Not gonna happen.
In Ireland we voted down the Nice and Lisbon treaties because we didn't want an EU army.
We were promised that there were no plans for one.
Those promises were lies.
And if you want proof you only have to read this so-called Rapid Deployment Capacity, which of course isn't an EU army.
It's just a permanently available, standing, multinational Modular EU force, including land, air, maritime components, funded out of an EU budget, under the full command and control of a permanently active EU headquarters, synchronised and aligned in the framework of NATO.
It's going to be there for collective defence, capable of rapidly deploying into future battlefields outside the Union to protect the Union's values and interests, including non-permissive environments, which as Joseph Burrell made clear, Next!
Next!
She's annoying for everybody.
This is not good.
You can't be talking like that.
Then we have the procurement, the logistics, and all the rest of it.
Now, I ask you, if that isn't an EU army, what in God's name is?
Next.
Next.
She's annoying for everybody.
This is not good.
You can't be talking like that.
Well, since you're doing that, you know, our internal enemy is the big pharma and the medical industrial complex.
The external enemy is the military industrial complex.
How many days until Iran has a nuke, John?
We always look at this as a bellwether.
Two weeks.
Two weeks?
Two weeks?
It's been two weeks since we started the show 15 years ago and it was two weeks then.
It was two weeks later.
During the 15 years, it's two weeks now.
Yeah, any minute, two weeks.
Let's check in with Christina Amanpour in CNN International.
Ali Vaiz is the director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, and he's joining me now from Washington.
Welcome back to the program.
Thank you.
Great to be with you, Christian.
Okay, so look, remind us where we were this time five years ago in terms of controlling the Iranian nuclear program and where we are now.
So on the 8th of May 2018, Iran was under the most rigorous monitoring regime that has ever been established by the UN nuclear watchdog.
It would take Iran about 12 months to enrich enough nuclear material for a single nuclear weapon.
And Iran was fully complying by its obligations under the deal.
And of course, by the time that President Biden walked into the Oval Office, that timeline had shrunk and is now, right now, according to Pentagon officials, at 12 days.
Instead of 12 months, it is 12 days.
And Iran has rolled back a lot of those monitoring mechanisms and so the transparency of the program is way less than what it was in the past.
And the IAEA is blind about a lot of Iran's nuclear activities.
In one sentence, Christian, the Trump administration managed to take Iran's nuclear program out of a box and to put it in the microwave.
Oh no!
Trump took Iran out of the box and put it in the microwave!
Twelve days, John.
You thought it was two weeks.
It's just twelve days.
Twelve days to Armageddon.
Twelve days to Armageddon.
Twelve days.
Let's make a note.
Make a note twelve days from now.
Let's see what happens.
I guarantee there will be nothing in twelve days.
We've got some Dynamite classic end of show mixes for you, including the No Jingles No Karma song, which I thought I put in here.
Wait a second.
No jingles, no karma.
There we go.
It's from Hey Citizen, that's who that's from.
Yep, we got that all lined up for you.
And coming up next on No Agenda Stream, or if you're in the troll room, trollroom.io, we've got Bandrew Says.
This episode is about the real cost of being a YouTuber.
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If you're blue and you don't know where this make news, why don't you get your Gitmo fix? .
Putin on the Ritz.
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper.
Trying not to look like Anderson Cooper.
Super Poopa.
Come let's mix where John Podesta walks with kids.
Oh, I mean pizzas in his midst.
Putin on the Ritz.
Everybody's talking about the sweaty pale monkey.
Swinging from a tree and he's moving like a donkey.
Places to go, got people to see.
Got deals to hustle, get the do-re-me.
I ain't never seen nothing like it done before.
He's a moving violation, breaking in your back door.
What you don't know, what you don't see.
Got mouths to feed, he got bills to pay.
Looking real hot and he's trying to suckle the product.
Face bags, Summer Bird, kind of like a robot.
Face bags, no face bags.
No face bags, no face bags.
Summer Bird, Summer Bird, Summer Bird.
Summer Bird.
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He knows where you're goin' and he knows where you've been.
Trackin' how you got fat, how you got thin.
Never too close, never too far to open up your webcam.
There you are, knowin' how you vote.
Watchin' every kiss, sayin' happy birthday.
That he'll never miss.
You never miss.
He's a Zuckerberg.
I started Facebook.
I'm trying to run it.
And I'm responsible for what happens here.
It's not enough to just connect people.
We have to make sure that those connections are positive.
It's not enough to just give people a voice.
We need to make sure that people aren't using it to harm other people or to spread misinformation.
It's not enough to just give people control over their information.
We need to make sure that the developers they share it with protect their information, too.
It will take some time to work through all the changes we need to make across the company, but I'm committed I'm getting this right.
I got ants.
I don't know if you had ants.
We had ant invasion.
I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine, fine grind of black pepper.
We were having dinner and yeah!
I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it.
These things are peppery.
I got ants.
I got ants. .
These ants, they don't need a lot.
And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
I'm going to back them off by doing the burning trick.
Just torch them.
And you leave them there.
The only occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
I got ants.
I got ants.
Music.
Ants.
Ants?
Ants.
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