Title: DeProgram Show with Ted Ra
Show: DeProgram Show with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas
Date: 2025-10-23
URL: https://youtu.be/0JhzkWOsd1s
Duration: 58:00

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[00:02] Good morning. It's Wednesday, October 22nd, and you're watching the program with Ted R and John Kiryaku back stateside where he belongs. >> Finally. >> Thank you so much for uh joining us. Thank Please like, follow, and share the show, John. It's really good to see you again. >> Good to see you, Ted. Glad to be back. >> Robbie held down the fort while you were gone. >> I appreciate it very much, Robbie. And uh so um yeah, let's uh By the way, Robbie has some housekeeping to uh take care of. So let's go ahead and pop him

[00:32] in. Rahi, Robbie. >> Yeah. What's up? >> So I'm back in my appropriate place in the background. Rob belongs. So I can't break people's brains anymore with real right-wing populism. Uh so just a quick thing about YouTube for those of you who are over there. Super chats and memberships have been restored. So, if y'all want to support the work that John and Ted are doing, uh, you are able to do that now on YouTube in addition to the PayPal and in addition to the Rumble

[01:03] and, uh, it's really all I've got. >> Okay. Uh, thanks, Robbie. See you later. Let me know about ads. Okay. Okay. So, uh, we are here Monday through Friday, 9:00 am Eastern time. That's the regular time. Uh, John, do you wanna how did you survive the tarantulas and the uh and the the canceled flights and the snakes and the mosquitoes and the heat and the no air conditioning? >> Who moves into

[01:36] the southernmost tip of the Baja Peninsula and builds a resort with no air conditioning? >> Now that's insane. It it's insane. And why would you build a resort in a place? Well, it's very beautiful. It truly is. It's very beautiful. Palm trees everywhere. Those big sagoro cactuses with the arms, you know, they're everywhere. >> And and that's where Jacusto did most of his diving. He called it uh the world's aquarium, which everybody's very proud of down there.

[02:07] >> But I saw wildlife there, Ted. Half the time I didn't know what the heck I was looking at. The other half of the time I didn't want to see it. >> Snakes, >> tarantulas, the snake. >> I can count on one hand the number of snakes that I saw in the first, you know, 60 and a half years of my life growing up in Pennsylvania. Um, and they were garder snakes and black snakes. >> Sure, >> no big deal. These were freaking

[02:41] rattlesnakes and they're everywhere. I I saw I had to Google it and see what the heck I was looking at. It was called the the California ratnake. >> Oh, yeah. >> Things are big, too. >> The rat snakes aren't going to do anything to you. No. >> But then the scorpions, we were warned in an email before we went down there not to ever go barefoot. Okay, you're at the beach for God's sake. >> That's crazy. >> Never go barefoot. Well, I never did. And thank God I did. And I have this

[03:13] habit like most people my age I would suspect where I get up in the middle of the night. I want to get a drink of water or something. >> Well, my little mini fridge was outside. >> Oh >> yeah. So I'd have to like shake out my shoes to make sure there are no scorpions or tarantulas in there >> and then put the shoes on and then go outside. But I had to have a flashlight with me to make sure that the scorpions and tarantulas aren't on my mini fridge, which the tarantula was on my mini fridge one night at 3:00 a.m.,

[03:44] >> man. >> Oh, it it's you don't get used to it. You just get >> tarantulas spin webs or not? >> Not that not that I ever saw. >> Yeah. >> They they'll attack and and sting something or bite it >> if they consume it. Yeah. >> Yeah. But even to eat, they'll eat that. I'll tell you, I saw a deer. It was the biggest freaking deer I ever saw in my life, but it was completely gray. >> Huh. >> Yeah. >> There's a lot of variety in deers, right? Like those um like the key de

[04:14] like the key deer in the deer. Very tiny. >> Tiny. Yeah. >> There there's the Outer Banks deer in North Carolina. Very tiny. This thing was like the size of a of a mule deer. You know, mu deer out west. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Big giant, but completely gray. Road runners everywhere. >> Those are cool. >> Never saw one flying just running down the road. Sometimes with as many as a dozen pals of his >> running down the road. >> But it was the scorpions and the tarantulas that really got to me because

[04:46] they're everywhere. >> Yeah. Like I've I've seen those um images like where they use fluorescent lights in the desert, right? >> Let's see where the scorpions are. And it's like they're everywhere. Like everywhere. >> Everywhere. It's it's awful. Awful. >> You know, you know what's like that and nobody thinks about this is Bali. Bali has a lot of things that bite and sting and hurt you. >> I don't get the I don't get the uh the appeal. I don't understand the appeal.

[05:18] >> Another thing too was the road. And I'm going to put Eric with the road. So >> Afghanistan, >> I Jeff Fehee is the star of the movie that I was in and is an easily recognizable face if you just Google Jeff Fehee. He and Tyrell Vanto, Jesse's son, drove me to the airport early one morning to go to do the Joe Rogan show. So, hurricane um I forget who uh

[05:51] hurricane uh Loretta or whatever the heck it was. I I I don't remember. >> Tarantula >> had had come through and it washed out the road. And so they were like, you know, buddy, you may not make it. We're not sure we can make it. We didn't go 100 feet and the road just didn't exist. It had just washed away. And we had to drive up this dune over cactuses and animals are just jumping out of the way. And it took us to go the

[06:23] 35 miles took us almost two hours and then those poor guys had to drive back. >> Jesus. Yeah. >> I know about those roads. >> Jee said to me um he said, "I was just in Afghanistan six weeks ago and the roads aren't this bad in Afghanistan." I said, "I know. I I've been a million times in Afghanistan. >> They used to be. They before 2005 they were. >> Yeah, >> but this was bad. Anyway, the important thing is >> I got to be in a real Hollywood movie,

[06:53] Ted. >> Like a real honest to god Hollywood movie. >> Is it going to be in theaters or is it like a >> straight to streaming kind of thing? >> They're in talks with Netflix to to sell it to Netflix. Um the editing is going to be done by April. Then they're going to lay over the soundtrack and it should be ready to ready to watch um by July or August. >> Fantastic. >> And that was that was really fun. Great group of people. >> Obviously, it's impossible to tell. I used to be friends with a film director

[07:24] >> and he you know he told me like you don't really know what you have until you get in there. >> I asked the same question. I asked Jeff, he's been in like 280 movies and TV series. And I said, Jeff, do you know when what you're working on is is good? And he said, "No, you don't." He said, "What what we tell ourselves, >> right? Sometimes, you know, you you've got lightning in a bottle, but not usually." >> You know, and if Scorsese is directing it and Pacino's in it or whatever. Sure.

[07:55] >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. He said, "What we tell ourselves is just to be proud. If if you're proud of the of the job that you did, then that's good enough because it's really not possible to know if it was good enough. >> Sometimes your best moments end up on the cutting room floor." >> Yeah, it's interesting. Um, thank you for the donation, USX A-Rod. What are the long-term ramifications of Marco Rubio agreeing to send US informants to El Salvador essentially going back on

[08:26] agreements made with the informants? >> Great question, man. When I read that, I was absolutely appalled. What that is essentially is a death sentence. So he offered to rat out all of our informants in exchange for the El Salvadorans uh allowing us to lock people up in their in their gulag. That's really what it came down to. >> Sec absolutely chilling.

[08:56] So yeah, I mean I mean the thing is um there's always going to be another sucker who's willing to work with the US, but I you would think that over time people might become more more skeptical. Um so also uh Declar Robbie, I agree with this argument. This is from yesterday. The immigration laws should be followed, but this Trump initiative has almost nothing to do with immigration. It's about shutting down descent on behalf on his behalf. I I would agree with that.

[09:27] >> Yeah. >> Nicholas Franos is asking you, John, was Afghanistan more comfortable. >> Sounds like it. I mean, I've been to Afghanistan a bunch of times. I mean, uh, the last few times were, you know, um, bite-free. I didn't There were no Well, first of all, there are no tarantulas in >> I never saw a snake there either. >> I saw a snake, but I saw hundreds of foxes. >> Desert foxes. They come out of their their dens when the sun goes down. You can see their eyes shining off in the

[09:57] distance. >> They're not dangerous. Marmets. There's lots of marmets. >> And they had marmets down there in Baja as well. Saw dozens of them. Um that's a good question. You know, the the first couple times I went to Afghanistan, um I just slept in a tent with everybody else. I mean, there was once where I actually had my own tent, so I was, you know, living high on the hog. Um, and then once we got a serious foothold there, um, I'd stay in the officer's quarters

[10:29] in, uh, at Bram. >> And then when I went as a private citizen to get those little kids out who had who had starred in, um, the Kiterunner, >> uh, I stayed at, um, one of the big Afghan hotels. And it was like any, you know, three-star hotel. >> Yeah. >> That I stayed in anywhere else. this resort in in Baja, it was built by a group of hippies uh as a commune. Uh >> the leader of >> that explains a lot. That explains the

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[11:30] take to secure your financial future. Text safe to 35052 today. >> Excellent. Um um also in answer to a couple of people's questions um uh about foxes there there was a fox that would come Oh no no no the compound. So the the sort of head of the of the hippies was the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton the the famous author of 20th or I'm sorry artist the from the early to mid 20th century. Um,

[12:04] you know, we were joking with them. Four of them were still there when we first arrived and then they left. So, the whole place was was ours. But, um, they built it in the in the 60s, starting in the 60s. And and the guy said, you know, we weren't a cult. People accused us of being a cult. We're just a bunch of like-minded left-wing long-haired freaky people, you know, from Los Angeles. But they were also very skilled. One of them was a an architect, one of them was a

[12:34] builder. And so Thomas Hartbettton's daughter had plenty of money. They built this gorgeous resort. It's got about a dozen different buildings. And um and they just ended up living in it most of the time and renting out rooms to scuba divers. Otherwise, the thing is is that there's literally nothing to do there unless you're a scuba diver. M >> and then even if you are a scuba diver, there are signs around like beware of rockfish. They will sting you through

[13:06] your flippers and you will >> you're not even safe in the water. My understanding I'm you know as you know John I'm a scuba diver and my understanding about Baja is that it's kind of like a completely binary thing. You're either g it's deep water. You don't really see much. If you do see something it's the it's a whale shark which is something all divers like want to see. Right. And and that's that's what most people go down there to see are the whale sharks. >> Yeah. But you might not see [ __ ] You might you'll see either nothing at all.

[13:36] Uh you know, you won't even see an angel fish or you'll see a whale shark, >> right? >> So it's like that's, you know, that's what it that's what it's all about. Chad, we got a lot of news to talk about. We're talking Ukraine and Russia, the shutdown. Uh believe it or not, there is really things are getting real there. Uh Venezuela and Israel. What do What do you want to do first? Yeah, let's do Venezuela first because I think that that's, you know, there's there's some immediacy there that that we legitimately should be should be um

[14:06] worried about. By all accounts, Ted, it looks like Donald Trump is planning some sort of imminent military action in Venezuela. >> It definitely looks like it. >> It really does. We don't have ground troops in the area. Although Venezuela is so close that it wouldn't be hard to get ground troops there once something were to take place. >> But wouldn't it take a while though? Cuz it's like >> Yeah. There's no infrastructure for them. >> I mean it's Yeah. I mean basically it would be an amphibious invasion like D-Day, right? Wouldn't it be? I mean

[14:36] >> which is what they've tried which is what they've tried twice in Venezuela already. You remember these these bozos who got wrapped up, you know, as they were coming ashore. >> Yep. just like Bay Day of Figs 2.0. >> One of them actually emailed me a couple of weeks ago saying, "Hey, I really want to be on your show. I want to blow the whistle on communism in Venezuela." I'm like, "Yeah, you're you're not a whistleblower. No, you're not coming on my show." So, um I I think that that what you wrote

[15:07] half an hour ago is correct. I think we're looking at some sort of amphibious assault. I think that we're looking at an air war and uh you know it's funny Ted the idea behind all this is apparently what the idea was behind u George W. Bush's uh invasion of of Iraq that you you bomb the [ __ ] out of a country and then of course in your logic the people will rise up against their

[15:38] leader because that's what will make the Americans start bombing and then they overthrow him and then they throw flowers at us when we cross the border and everybody lives happily ever >> and we have a free trade agreement for hundreds of >> and then we have a free trade agreement and that never ever ever happens. >> I mean, how how popular do you think Nicolas Maduro is? I mean, I don't think that really matters much, but I'm just curious, you know? >> Yeah. I don't I don't think it matters much either. I I think he's less popular than my than my friends on the left

[16:10] believe he is. >> He's not Hugo Chavez. >> He's not Hugo Chavez. No, he's not. >> Who was really popular? >> Yeah. You know, when I was working on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff in back in 2009, uh I >> Bay of Piglets. Hilarious. >> That's really what it would be. That's that's I wish I had thought of that. Um Maduro was credibly accused of of looking the other way as drugs were transiting Venezuela bound

[16:40] for Africa. We've talked about this before. And then they're they're picked up in um Giddy Basau and then from Gide Basau they're put on camels and just walked up this ancient Tarig smuggling route to to Morocco and then >> emissaries, >> right? And then transferred to Europe. So they're not even American drugs. They're not even drugs that enter the United States. >> Fentinel is what's killing Americans. >> Fentinel. We should be we should be

[17:10] talking to the Mexicans. we should be threat Chinese, which we are. >> But this Venezuela thing, >> I mean, you know, Robbie faciciously, I hope faciticiously suggested that we invade Mexico. I'm like, we already took half their country. Um, but like um you know, but I mean like we have cooperation. Why aren't considering that we do have good cooperation between Mexican and American law enforcement and intelligence very good cooperation? Why aren't we making more progress in in in keeping in stemming the flow across the

[17:42] border? >> Because even the Mexican government, the federales who by all accounts are, you know, great gung-ho working for the right reasons, >> incorruptible, >> incorruptible. That's why they're successful. But even the federales have, you know, two hands tied behind their backs, >> which is why >> just because the the cartels are too strong. >> So So basically there's just like it's an it's an internal Yeah. >> military force.

[18:13] >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So basically the government doesn't just just doesn't control certain parts of Mexico where they are. >> You know, Ted, I know you've been to Mexico many times. I've been to Mexico many times. I've been all over Mexico. I love it, too. The only place I haven't been is Chapas, and I' I'd love to see it. >> Me neither. >> But the thing is is, >> you know, we we should have been helping the Mexicans develop their economy for the last

[18:43] hundred years. >> True. >> And we haven't. We've punished them. We've tried to keep them out, force them out. We've supported and we've supported the most retrograde factions in their in their political scheme >> without a doubt. >> I mean that basically four we allowed four families to run the own entire economy. >> Exactly. >> So >> exactly. Yeah. It's just like Haiti. We we lament like oh poor Haiti. Oh we wish we could help Haiti.

[19:13] >> Hardworking, very intelligent people who would do great if we just left them the [ __ ] alone. Yeah. Um, >> John, right? >> Good question from Real Real and thanks for the two bucks. John, last week, uh, Trump authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela. I've been dying to talk to you about this for three for three days. Uh, what are some examples and of of like what what would that look like? In other words, >> yeah, that's a great question. >> And what timeline line would you expect to see results in? >> And don't freak out. I'm going to hit refresh on my uh on my on my StreamYard

[19:46] because I see that my signal is a little weak. >> Okay, go for it. So, first of all, it's highly unusual to the point of being unprecedented for a president to publicly announce that he has authorized CIA covert action. Right? That is something. When I was when I was being called to testify in the Scooter Libby case, I was told that I wasn't even allowed to say the words covert action. Wasn't even allowed to say the words, let alone to talk about a program. Here

[20:17] the president of the United States is talking about like publicly announcing a covert action program. I never saw anything like it in my life. So that can mean a lot of different things. It can be something as innocuous as giving a $100,000 to opposition newspapers to do investigative reporting. Okay, no big deal. But it could also be, you know, training paramilitary forces in the United States to parachute in and overthrow the government. It can be training assassins to take out Nicholas

[20:48] Maduro. Um, it could be a plan to seize major intersections in Caracus and hold them for the likes of Juan Guyaido or this woman who who apparently won the election. Um, it can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I think the the goal was twofold. The goal was to actually set in motion the overthrow of the Venezuelan government, but the second goal was to so frighten Maduro that that he at least make contingency plans to run off somewhere to Cuba most

[21:20] likely. >> They're trying to spook him. They're trying to >> This is This is a dude who's been targeted for years now by the United States. And not to mention his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, was actually overthrown for the weekend by the US. Yes, he um and you know with the cooperation of the New York Times, not one of their finest moments. Um >> but like basically he knows what's in the mail. He knows what he faces. He's not spookable, right? I mean he knows. >> No, >> he's not he's not too

[21:52] >> he's not going to run scared. >> Number one, he will not run scared. >> Number two, >> and the Venezuelans are very nationalistic people, right? They'll support an unpopular president that they don't like over an invasion force. >> 100%. As would most countries. >> Yes. >> I would support Donald Trump. >> Me too. >> Over, you know, some >> invading Canadian army. Invading Canadian Army. >> Canadian army. Absolutely. >> [ __ ] off Canadians. Yeah. >> So, number two, a lot of the people who

[22:22] would be naturally opposed to Maduro politically are not in Venezuela. They're mostly in the United States working. And so I I just don't see that this is going to be a big problem internally for Maduro. The the big problem is the prospect of an American invasion. Well, let's talk about that because that that that was definitely something I've been dying to talk to you about. Like I said, um you know, in terms of um you know, what's very interesting and disturbing about this. I mean, you know, war powers are

[22:53] assigned exclusively to the US Congress with very under the Constitution, but they've been whittleled away for really for 200 plus years. And now um Trump has brought this to a new level where basically he's not even consulting with Congress anymore about the deployment of 10,000 US troops and the murders of over 30 Venezuelan nationals of whom at least one appears to have just been a fisherman. Certainly uh the guy from um

[23:25] from uh Colombia almost certainly was a stranded fisherman. Um, and you know, so basically he wants to do this without any accountability to the American people, right? JFK went on national television and revealed the existence of spy plane technology to show that Cuba had Soviet missiles. Uh, and and and basically was like, "Look, I'm bringing you to the brink of World War II, World War II, but here's why and here's what's going on." This president is not telling us, he's either lying to us. These are

[23:56] trendy aragua. None of them are trendy aragua. >> No, none of them. >> None of them. It's like, and you know, they're bad. They're narotists. There's no such thing. Um they're bringing drugs to America. No, they're not. Uh basically, he he's asserting the right to just sort of kill people without identifying them or providing any evidence about who they were or why they mean the US harm or why it's legal to do so. And he's not even consulting with the gang of eight in in the in in in the in the Capitol. He's not even, you know,

[24:28] calling a few representative members of Congress, uh, and saying like, "Hey, so here's what I'm up to." There was apparently a briefing that happened, uh, I guess a week and a half ago where, um, someone who came out of it and had seen all of Trump's information said, "This isn't at all about um, V, you know, drugs. We don't care about drugs. This is about overthrowing Nicolas Maduro. It's about regime change. >> Um so I mean what about will Congress,

[25:00] if they ever get their, you know, get back into session, are they going to assert their right to oversee military action? >> Absolutely not. Absolutely. Positively not. >> Now that's dangerous. >> It's very dangerous. You know, Congress, of course, has the constitutional responsibility to declare war. Congress has not declared any war since December the 8th, 1941. >> That's right. >> Even even >> only five times, right? >> Yeah. In history. And even before the

[25:33] the first Gulf War, they didn't vote to declare war on Iraq. They voted to authorize the use of force. And then the and then like there's that uh post 911 authorization to use military force that basically every president subsequently has been using to do whatever the [ __ ] he wants. >> Yeah. Yeah. Our our our country is in shambles right now policy-wise. It really is. >> And you know I don't blame Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the stressor. I blame all the institutions that are supposed

[26:04] to serve as checks and balances. the so-called opposition party, the Democrats, the, you know, the the the executive the the legislative branch, which is basically not doing anything, and even a lot of the judiciary, which I was for years, I've said was the last best hope. >> Yeah. >> They're they're rolling. Now, >> just as an example, did you see this kid? I say kid because he just turned 30 that Donald Trump had named to be the head of the office of special counsel.

[26:38] >> Did you see this? And he and he withdrew yesterday >> after wasn't available, >> right? He withdrew yesterday because um because of uh text messages he had sent friends of his that just were made public in which he admitted to having a Nazi streak. >> A Nazi >> one can who hasn't who hasn't who among us can truly say we haven't had our Nazi period. Plus, man, if if you've been if you've been out of school for six years,

[27:11] you have no business heading up an office at the Department of Justice. >> Well, John, we weren't going to talk about this, but since you brought up the DOJ, what about the fact that this Donald Trump always going for the new low? Two things. First of all, I'm just going to mention the ballroom. I didn't really care about the ballroom at first. I didn't either. >> Today, the Washington Post published a uh a graphic of how big it's going to be.

[27:41] >> It's bigger than the White House. >> Yes. Yes. Like offbalance much. It's more like we're going to have to call it like, you know, like Gilligans Island and the rest. It'll be like the ballroom and the rest. >> Yes. Exactly. >> It's crazy. I mean, it's it's And then also the DOJ. He's shaking down his own DOJ. Yes. For a quarter of a billion dollars. Yes. For his because he's like, "You [ __ ] sued me and and [ __ ]

[28:12] with me back during the charged me back during the Biden years. And I want my [ __ ] money back. I I want you to make me whole." It's like basically he's gangstering his own company. It's like, hey, nice government I got there. Be a shame if something wor but it's your government. >> When when I saw that he was asking to be reimbursed $230 million, I I called Bruce Fine, our our friend

[28:43] and former deputy attorney general >> Bruce Fine, and Bruce said, "Oh, yeah, he can do that." >> Oh, yeah. There's this there's this obscure federal law that goes back to the 19th century that says that if you're the victim of a of a vindictive uh >> prosecution um you can sue the justice department and they have to reimburse you >> but he's the president. Not to mention Donald at some point when

[29:13] is enough enough? I mean you've grifted so much already, right? I mean, like, you've made billions of dollars. You never were a billionaire before you became president, but now you are. >> Now he's a real billionaire. Yeah. >> But get getting back to this ballroom, Ted, it's it's so I I would encourage people to go to the Washington Post website today and just look at the graphic. It's going to make you furious if if I >> didn't care up because up until that point, I was like, well, you know, pre the White House has been rebuilt more

[29:43] often than people think. Truman balcony and so on. Well, the irony here is that he he tore down the east wing of the White House. Do you know what the east wing is? >> It's the first it's the first lady's office. >> Yeah, sorry, Melania. >> It no longer exists. It's sitting in rubble >> on the White House grounds now. Rubble. >> And by the way, shockingly, he lied and said that there would not need to be any demolition whatsoever. I mean, when you see the size of that thing, this guy, look, Donald Trump, if he knows anything, it's about construction and development. He knew there was going to have to be a lot of destruction. He and

[30:16] he said last week, I actually laughed when I read it. He said, "We're not going to tear down the East Wing. I love the East Wing. It's my favorite part of the White House." I look at it and I say, "I love this East Wing. It's fantastic." And then literally the next day they tore it down. >> Oh my god. Yeah. It's it's it's bizarre. I mean, and it's kind of like, you know, I mean, look, presidents have put in bowling alleys, uh, you know, swimming pools, movie theaters,

[30:47] >> all sorts of [ __ ] But, I mean, and that's okay, right? I don't have a problem. It's just the size of it, right? It's just sort of like with so many things with Trump, it's not about the idea, it's about the execution. >> That's it. >> That's it. Yeah. So, I wonder, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, and I realize it's not important in the greater scheme of things, but I wonder if the next president, if it happens to be a Democrat, is going to tear the thing down. >> Nope. >> Not a chance.

[31:18] >> They They're going to say, "Look at this monstrosity. Trump did this." And then they're going to enjoy the great benefits of a giant ball. >> Yesterday, John, I was getting the rig the the runaround at the post office. It's too boring to get into why. The point is it was it was and then I was like, "Oh, that's right. It's Trump. They're very short staffed and it's because of Trump's shitty postmaster general who he appointed during his first term." And wait for it, Biden kept. >> Yeah. Biden kept. >> And now we're stuck with him. Or I mean, Biden kept all sorts of [ __ ] right? Like Trump got rid of the homeowner uh

[31:50] deduction for property taxes over 10,000 in order to [ __ ] the people who live in the blue states. Exactly. Biden kept that when he came in. I mean, no, Democrats will keep everything. They will keep ICE. They'll keep up the ICE raids. They'll keep it all going. Nothing will change. >> That's exactly right. >> I mean, no, that that no way are they tearing down that ballroom. I mean, first of all, they'll they'll want the ballroom. And besides which, they'll just sort of say like, "Oh, if we did if we tore it down, they would accuse us of wasting taxpayer money and like, you

[32:22] know, this thing that's already been built." >> Yep. I mean, because we've seen this, John, over and over. Democrats constantly keep Republican policies and actions. You know, Republicans don't do that. They come in, they're like, "Oh, Affordable Care Act, we're getting rid of that." Oh, yeah. Right. Hey, real quickly, and I apologize. It's already 9:34, but I I wanted I wanted to mention um yesterday afternoon, I started feeling a little bit better. So, I walked over to the courthouse which is

[32:52] very close to my house uh here in Arlington, Virginia. And I voted I did early voting. Um the the only race >> Thanks for the reminder. I have to do that too for Mdani. >> So, the only race of any import here is is the race for governor. So, it's it's Abigail Spanberger. And I I worked with Abby at the CIA. She's perfectly nice person, but she would in the 1970s and 80s, she would be kind of a middle- of the road Republican. >> And then the the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Winome Windsome

[33:25] Earl Sears, is is a nut. She's just a nut. her her campaign pictures when she was um running for lieutenant governor four years ago. Um she's just smiling, standing, and holding a machine gun like this. A machine gun. >> Well, that's like Marjgerie Taylor Green with her early campaign ads shooting up the pictures of the Democrats. Yeah. So, so there was a debate a couple of nights ago um between the two and and Winome Earl Sears never shut her flapping gums

[33:58] through the entire debate. She had to be repeatedly slapped down because Spanberger couldn't get a word out. So Spanberger, in my view, is very conservative. She's she's from the conservative wing of the Democratic party. and her big thing was that was that um Earl Sears uh supports discrimination and her she said for example when some Earl Sears doesn't want to allow gay people

[34:28] to get married and Earl Sears jumps in and she goes that's not discrimination that's God's will and she just kept repeating this every >> and by the way I would love to be debating someone like that because I'd be like, "Do you talk to God? Are you on psychotropic psychotropic medications?" Because people who claim to talk to God are Oh, and somebody's got a great question for us. Maybe it's just Robbie. Uh, but

[34:58] John, what's your opinion on the Virginia Attorney General's race with the Democrat talking about killing his opponent and his family? >> That's become the biggest issue >> in the Virginia the statewide Virginia races. Uh so the the candidate the Democratic candidate for attorney general was joking in a text exchange with a friend of his um and he said something about like target practice against Republicans or some stupid thing like that. >> I thought he said get rid of >> Yeah, it was several. It wasn't just

[35:28] one. He said several several different things. You know, my my knee-jerk reaction is shame on him. He's advocating violence even if he's doing it doing it uh in what he says to be a joking manner >> and in a private conversation. >> And it's in a private conversation. >> I mean, come on. We all talk [ __ ] privately. >> And I've gotten to the point where my position is we all talk [ __ ] privately. The Republicans pull this [ __ ] all the time. I don't care. >> Yeah. Look at the rep look at the young

[35:58] Republicans uh text scandal from last week. >> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, the Abby is beating Winmer Sears by six percentage points right now. Um, this U Muslim woman uh that the Democrats have nominated for for a de for sorry um uh lieutenant governor is winning by the same six points. And the Jason Mures uh I forget the other guy's name for attorney general is a dead heat. I I

[36:31] don't think, you know, when when Jason Miis, the Republican, he's CubanAmerican, uh, born in Cuba, when he first was elected attorney general four years ago, I thought, "Oh my god, there we go. He's a right-wing extremist. It's going to be terrible." No, he's been a perfectly fine uh attorney general. >> Never in the news enforcing the laws. >> There's some there's some pearl clutching in the New Jersey race, too, >> which is closer than the Virginia race, >> right? And it's closer only because the Democratic nominee

[37:03] >> just isn't a very good candidate. >> No, she really I mean today the New York Times ran an op-ed by uh some some female uh writer that was it's really depressing. Uh she basically was arguing that um Hillary Clinton, Kla Harris, and uh the the New Jersey lady, they're all victims of sexism. >> Mikey something. Oh, please give me a break. And I'm like, these are terrible candidates. >> Terrible. >> I mean, look, here's the thing. Like I

[37:33] like I posted online in response to that. Look, you know, Donald Trump when he campaigned was able to to say credibly, I understand why you're pissed. You're pissed because of high prices. You're pissed because all the buildings in your downtown area, all your factories are closed and boarded up and no one cares. And that sucks. >> Now, he doesn't have any solutions to those problems. No. But he's able to say that, >> but he tapped the vein, >> which is one step more than these Democratic candidates have been able to do. They're not able to even say, "I see you and I understand your problems."

[44:16] was trying to say is like I I can they [ __ ] this up? Um, I mean, Democrats are sitting pretty. Could they [ __ ] this up and undernegotiate and underleverage this? >> Absolutely. >> They could. Yeah, >> absolutely. Yes, >> they could really blow it. But, I mean, you know, right now that the Republicans are starting to finally feel the heat on something, you know. I mean, Donald Trump, this is eight years overdue, but he in 2016, he promised to come up with a plan to to repeal and replace aid the ACA. Ain't nothing yet. And I I mean I

[44:46] think the bottom line is I I don't know what the answer to this is. Either the Republican party is split on this issue because like MTG says we've got to do something about it or Republicans in general just don't care about healthcare. And I'm leaning I lean more toward the latter. But what do you think? >> Yeah, I think the Democrats probably consider them themselves fortunate that they have uh the ACA as an issue. Otherwise, there is no issue, >> right? Um, and that's the only thing that's going to save them as this thing.

[45:17] >> And it is a shitty It's a shitty plan. It's just that it's better than no plan. >> Yeah, without a doubt. >> Uh, C Morris, thanks for the dollar. Did we Did you all see where a former J6 pardon was arrested for threatening to kill Hakee Jeff? >> Yes, >> I did see that. >> Yeah. Yeah. You know, so many of these people that Trump pardoned um have gotten in trouble since their since their pardons and their release from prison. One was shot and killed uh in a shootout with a cop in Indiana.

[45:50] >> Of course, there were Could that be Could that just be simply that there were thousands of them and if you randomly select Yeah. 3,000 people, >> you know, eight of them are going to get into trouble with the law. >> Yes, I think that's it. I think that's it. I mean, it does remind me a little bit about the four [ __ ] that Bernard gets, the uh subway vigilante shot in the mid1 1980s here in New York City in the subway. Yes. >> And then one of them was later, you know, there were liberals who were like they were just underprivileged youths. And one of them got caught raping his

[46:23] 85year-old neighbor on the roof of his housing project. Lovely fellow. >> Oh lord. Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. There's a special place in hell for people like that. >> For sure. And it's kind of like after all that I was kind of like I'm on team Bernie Gats. Besides which I always thought I always thought that the most interesting moment there was that like when the cops showed up they said which way did he go >> and everyone who was on the car, nobody who knew him, they all said he went that way when it was the other way.

[46:55] >> Yeah. >> So they saw what happened and uh they all sided here. Um, so, okay, let's let's get into um the uh I'm I'm super interested in this uh genocide thing. Genocide 2.0, as I put it in the thumbnail. So, Israel I mean, it's unbelievable. I guess it's not unbelievable, but Israel is blocking aid into the Gaza Strip again. Now, the whole point of the well, a big point of the 20point plan was the aid was going

[47:25] to be completely restored um and it was going to flow in and flood the zone. Um which by the way would put a major crimp into those criminal gangs who've been stealing aid. Um so basically the uh the the the border crossings, two out of seven of them are open, five out of seven are closed. Aid trucks are are stranded. Um, UNRA was supposed to be allowed back in. They're not being allowed back in. A bunch of NOS's are that are that have long experience, very

[47:57] reputable, are not being allowed back in. Um, so basically there's a ceasefire. I don't get this. So, John, explain this to me. Israel signs assigns a ceasefire, but they're still shooting and killing and blowing. >> Well, you you called this you called this weeks ago. You said that the Israelis always, always, always violate the ceasefire and they violate it quickly and they did it within hours of >> over and over with air strikes, shootings, you name it. Right. Then

[48:27] also, um, they said they're allow they're going to allow aid in. They don't allow the aid in. Yeah. >> Um, I mean, it's kind of like, >> what is this? What is this [ __ ] agreement? Well, we're moving on to phase two. Y'all haven't done phase one. No, no. In fact, um, uh, JD Vance is in Israel right now, and I just got a push notification 15 minutes ago or so that Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel as well, >> presumably to tell the Israelis to get with the program.

[48:58] >> He even said like, "Oh, I'm not here to babysit the the ceasefire." I'm like, "I think you are." >> Yeah, I think that's exactly why you're there. Yes. >> And by the way, I'm all for it. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. >> Um, so yeah. So, let's um Well, >> may I add something, too? You know, Tucker Carlson has been more and more outspoken about Israel and he's making a lot of enemies, especially on the on the pro-Zionist right. And um

[49:30] lately he's been talking about both the notion of of greater Israel as well as this Zionist extremist plan to blow up the the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Islam, and to build what would be the third temple, right? The the first temple on the on the >> Those people are crazy. They're crazy. But it's it's entered the mainstream of Israeli scholarship. >> Chiron visiting

[50:01] the the Dome of the Rock was enough to trigger the second inif. >> Yep. That's right. To blow it up and and he said the other day and and I agree with him wholeheartedly. >> To to destroy the Dome of the Rock would be the event that starts World War II. >> Yes. >> Easy as that. And by the way, I think it would probably be the end, the beginning of the end of the Israeli government and all of its support. I think it what would happen to them in a way I hope they do it because it'll be just like

[50:32] what happened to the Taliban after they blow up the bamean statues, >> bamean statues >> and like and the whole world up until that point. People forget um you know, yeah, they were, you know, obviously a very isolated regime. Sure. >> But >> they were the world was starting to warm to them, right? like the Clinton administration was actually paying Taliban official salaries. Uh they were we were funding um you know opium eradication in Afghanistan. We were flirting with this uh trans Afghanistan

[51:03] pipeline project. That's right. >> Um we were you know we were we we we flew Taliban emissaries to Houston to meet with with uh you know with the bushies. Yep. >> Early on. So we were start things were starting to maybe warm up. And then they pulled that and then that was from that point on they were dead to us. >> Yes. Exactly. Yes. >> It's interesting, right? I mean because the >> it's fascinating. >> Mulla Omar said like, "Well, you guys

[51:34] care about these, you know, old rocks more than you care about the people who are affected by sanctions." Point taken. But he's also right. Like we do care about old rocks a lot. Yeah. In this case, we and we care about old religious buildings, too. >> That's right. That's just the way it is. Sorry if that's offensive, but that's just a fact of life. >> Yeah. Human psychology is what it is. Y >> um do we want to uh talk about Well, we should. I mean, it's perfect timing. Russia and Ukraine. >> So, >> yeah, we have to.

[52:05] >> So, it looks like um obviously So, I'm I'm at a little bit of at a loss here. I mean, you know, we are definitely reduced as Americans to Kremlin, like reading between the lines of isvestia every day to find out what's really true, right? Yes. >> So, >> um, so Sergey Lavro, foreign minister of of Russia, uh, under Putin, called Marco Rubio and basically said, "Look, our position hasn't really changed and Trump is misc is miscatategorizing our ability. Trump just wants to freeze the

[52:36] conflict at its current lines and just say, "Okay, that's it. These are the new borders. Maybe later on you can do some land swaps, but for now, this is it. Line of control just like Kashmir, and that's how we're doing it." Um, and then Trump was like, "No, no, no, no. I want this to be that's it. This is the war. It's over." Russia said, "Our position hasn't changed." So, they had this call. They there had been plans for Putin to go meet Trump and then Trump is going to get to say, "Look, I solved my ninth war, 10th war, whatever he's gonna say."

[53:08] Um, >> yeah. >> And um and and that that's now on hold. Is Trump now pissed at Putin or is this just sort of like is this a big deal or is this just sort of like a delay and these things happen? Um, you know, Trump wants a deal because it's going to make him look good and he thinks it's going to get him the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, a deal would be good for the two sides, but but

[53:39] Zalinski, despite being, you know, regularly beaten about the face and head by Trump and Vance, um, said, "We're not giving up territory." Now, we've all been saying from the beginning that that's likely the only way there's going to be peace on this issue is they're going to have to give up territory, >> of course. >> But I think I think Trump accepted that in this last meeting with uh with Zilinski and and that's why the the summit in Budapest has been indefinitely delayed.

[54:10] >> So what so what next? Well, the the counter proposal was a ceasefire with an armistice line. So, the Russians presumably could de facto control what they've got on the Ukrainian side of the border. Now, even though that that territory would not formally become Russia, that's going to have to include Crimea, of course, which is a real sticking point for the Ukrainians. But the bottom line is I was talking to

[54:41] Peter Kousnik about this the other day. Peter is the history professor at uh American University, chairman of the nuclear studies program. He's one of the country's leading experts on Russia. And um and he says that the Ukrainians are are losing, right? They they just can't keep this up. There aren't enough >> clearly >> people to fight. They're snatching old men off the street. literally snatching them off the street and just sending them to the front lines, >> fleeing when they can. >> And the young people are fleeing. They just can't keep this up. There's going

[55:12] to have to be some kind of negotiated settlement. And whatever the settlement happens to be at the end, >> the Ukrainians are going to come out on the on the short side of it. >> And Trump doesn't want to and Trump does not want to give uh these cruise missiles to uh Ukraine. that would so worsen the situation to give the Ukrainians Tomahawk cruise missiles that it would risk it would risk involving NATO. It would risk, you know, a tactical nuclear strike on Ukrainian positions.

[55:43] It's a it's a very bad idea. >> Want to thank very generous donation from Kevin Cronin720. 20 bucks over on YouTube. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. He said you are amazing. I don't know who you are. I want to say the plural you. I hope. >> Oh, I appreciate that. >> Uh question for John from Praasmataz. >> Uh John, you said that you were going to talk more about foxes. You mentioned it then mentioned something else first. Just wondering what species maybe tell hard to tell at a distance. >> No, I come they run right in front of

[56:15] your car as they're trying to cross this dirt track. They had huge ears which I had never seen before. And I saw rabbits with these gigantic ears that are standing right up. They're like desert rabbits or the desert hair or whatever. >> Yeah, I was going to say I think those are hairs. >> Yeah. Uh but yeah, there they were different from the foxes. You know, there there's this the cook at the resort told us not to worry about not finishing dinner because there was a fox that lived on the grounds and the fox would just eat our scraps.

[56:46] >> Well, cute. The fox would always poop right where I come out to go to my mini fridge every freaking night. And so these poor ladies had to clean up the poop. Um it it was a desert fox like you see in Sinai or uh or in Afghanistan. They're they're very small. They're gray and they only come out at night. Fasmataz says it sounds like a fenic so fox n I am not a fox I'm not a fox connoisseur so

[57:17] >> there it is let me see >> well >> yeah that's it that's it yeah >> that's it okay that's >> yeah very cool >> confirmed all right cool well guys uh here we go how do we American sweetheart asks how do we make it on small donations do you have any larger donors you have to uh no we don't we're currently only making it on small donations and of course uh what Rumble is is paying us from uh you know the views and the ads. Uh so basically the

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