Cajun Knight Live 33

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Night at Patreon. Now, let's get into it. Starting off here, the CDC, their new leader who has been in her position for less than a month, just got removed from her position. Interesting points. Let's listen in here we.

It's actually I think a little bit further in depth from what we just heard about. And I do want to hear this and then we're going to read the article in detail.

only led the agency for about a month. And remember the agency is going through a lot of changes that we have been telling you about here under Health Secretary RFK Junior, I want to bring in Berkeley Lovelace Junior, who's been following this for us, in joining us. Now do we know why Berkeley she is suddenly leaving the agency.

So we're not exactly sure why she was ousted. She did join that she was confirmed in late July, and she's been a long time government scientist.

COVID shots in the next few weeks as well. There are also some research going on about potential links of autism. There are some rumblings that Kennedy will either could find potential leaks between vaccines which have been thoroughly debunked. So right now it's it's very unclear. Also, a source, Erica Edwards, our colleague, has also just discovered that three other CDC leaders have also just resigned as well following Moneris disaster.

has a PhD in microbiology and immunization. She has been in this field, not necessarily for the CDC, but she has been in this field for a very long time. She, as far as I can tell, has a very decent track record as a medical professional. Now that has nothing to do with political leanings, That has nothing to do with conspiracy theories or anything like that. I'm saying as a doctor, I could find no red flags initially to

say that this woman was not about her business. That being said, let's read The Center for Disease Control and Prevention leadership is in a stunning disarray Wednesday, evening after the nation's top health official, RFK Junior, appeared to force out it the agency's director, only for her to refuse to resign. So he's forcing her out and then she's like, I will not resign. He's like, cool, don't worry about

her resignation, just leave. The director, Suzanne Monarez, said she was being ousted after about a month in office, not even a full month, by the way, for political reasons by the Trump administration. Direct quote here when the CDC director Suzanne Monarez refused to rubber stamp. Oh, we already read that one. All right, cool, doctor Monares has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been and as a person of integrity and devoted society,

she will not resign. The attorney, who did not return a request for comment, added, shocker. You would think that they would write for something so public and so out there in the public eye like this. You would think that the lawyers would give statements to reporters to try to make this as loud and messy as possible. But all right. Their statement came hours after the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC and which Kennedy leads said in a post on x that she

is no longer director of the agency. Would think of her dedicated service to the American people that sparked a near immediate leadership exodus from the CDC, which is charged with the safekeeping the public health for excuse me, is charged with safe keeping the public health of more than three hundred million people in America. Three other leaders in the CDC. I wouldn't call that a leadership exodus. That's

just me personally. I think there might be making a little bit more that, But then again, I don't know if that was just an initial three that says of shigo, we go, and they took off and more followed. You know, this is still breaking news as far as this goes. At least four top officials announced excuse me, not three.

Four top officials announced their resignations, including doctor Deborah Oweri, the Chief Medical Officer, doctor Dimitri dosca Lakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, doctor Daniel Jernigan, director of National Center for Emerging in Zoonautic Infectious Disease. That's a word I've never seen before, dope, and doctor Jen Leyden, Director of the Office of Public Health, Data, Surveillance,

and Technology. Kennedy, a longtime anti vaccine activist, has been controversial of controversial figure to lead the country's health agencies. He has cut five hundred million in contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines, drawing sharp criticism from the scientific community and former government officials, and under his guidance, HHS has made made a number of vaccine policy decisions that limit

access to vaccines or call vaccine safety into question. In recent weeks, some of those sentiments were echoed by the officials who resigned. In his resignation letter, des Galakis, I hope I nailed that, wrote quote, I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health or weaponizing of public health, I should say, our easer, I hope that's how you pronounce that. One auri's resignation letter spoke about the continued

spread of misinformation around vaccines. Another quote, Recently, the overstating of risks of vaccines and the rise of misinformation have cost lives, as demonstrated by the highest number of US measles cases in thirty years. In the violent attack on our agency, she wrote. The CDC staffers said they were shocked by the developments. This is a direct quote, again from the CDC staffer who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. These guys are the best in the business. They know

their stuff. I'm stunned how fast this all happened. The departures came at a tumultuous time for the agency. On August eighth, a gunman shattered windows of six buildings in the CDC campus in Atlanta. A police officer died in the shooting. Several days after the shooting, Monarez sought to reassure staffers during a virtual meeting. Is a quote from her during the meeting. We know that misinformation can be dangerous, not only to health, but to those that trust us

and those we want to trust. We need to rebuild this trust together. The CDC employees said that although Monarez hadn't been in leadership for long, it quote seemed like she was a fairly strong advocate for CDC employees and she was the only one to take the shooting seriously. She was the only one to take the shooting seriously. That's an interesting direct quote from an anonymous source. Okay. President Trump has not made any public statements about the shooting.

In March, Trump picked Monerez as the nominee to head the CDC. Monrez's previous work involved using artificial intel legence to improve health, of course it did. Before joining the CDC, Monrez was deputy director of the Advanced Research Project's Agency for Health, a research funding agency focused on biomedical innovations. The Senate confirmed her nomination in late July. Last Friday, Monarez canceled a meeting with the CDC staff members that

had been scheduled for Monday. The focus of the meeting was going to be safety concerns and security enhancements after the shooting, quoting here from her, Unfortunately, we need to postpone Monday's event for an HHS meeting that I have been asked to attend in person in DC, she wrote in an email to the CDC staff members. Doctor Mandy Cohen, a former CDC director under President Biden, said quote, we lost exceptional leaders who have served over many decades and

many administrations. The weakening of the CDC leaves us less safe and more vulnerable as a country. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert, and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the Universe of Minnesota said in a statement that the departures are a serious loss for America. The loss of experienced, world class infectious disease experts at the CDC is directly related to the failed leadership of extremists currently in charge of the Department

of Health and Human Services. Ulster Home is launching the Vaccine Integrity Project cool that's a if that's not a loaded title as a potential alternative to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. In June, Kennedy fired all seventeen ACIP members and replaced them with his own picks, including several COVID vaccine skeptics. Yep, we could talk for forever

on that, all right. If Monterrez is pushed out, the agency will return to the leader list state it has been in for the majority of the new Trump administration. Trump's original pick for director, David doctor David Weldon, was pulled from consideration hours before his confirmation hearing in March. Weldon, a forming former congres from Florida, had a history of questioning vaccine safety. Manaas briefly served as the agency's acting

director before she was nominated in Weldon's place. So all right, So again, I don't know, there's still more that's going to be coming out about this as time goes on, but this is kind of one of those hot off the presses. As of time of recording, we don't know if there was something that was said, some sort of an email chain that indicated that she would not be a quote unquote team player or whatever the case was. Like I said, as far as her career goes, she

seems to be pretty much on her game. So for them to remove her in such a way, of course, it's gonna have to be connected to vaccines. And I didn't think AI was gonna get a plug on that one. But all right, cool, But yeah, COVID allegedly COVID is back on the menu. I personally know of one kid that had COVID here recently. Of course he's fine. It was about three days of him feeling like hell, and now he's back in action. No vaccines, I should add, and I know it's a shock or no shots or

any of these things. He just you know, his body's immunity just kind of fought back because COVID is essentially another type of version of the flu by another name. It's not the exact same thing, and I understand that, but your body fights it about the same way. And yeah, so that's the thing that I'm hearing more and more about. Oh well, this COVID season is coming up, and I'm like, since when is COVID season in the fall, the summer

to fall time. I always thought that what we were told for forever was that it was a springtime thing, the same as all other types of sicknesses and ailments that come winner to springtime, summer to fall. I was unaware that this was the new COVID season. But hey, here we are. Maybe it's some new variant. Maybe they've what are they on right now? Have they run out of the Greek alphabet and now they're on to something else?

I don't know, But anyway, Susan Monrez is out. There's some obvious issues that are to be said with this, and of course, because RFK is involved in the Trump administration, it's clearly going to get pointed at them that they are just taking out the good people and they don't care about your health and all of these things. I don't know where the truth and lies start and end with that. Again, this is very new, but I did think it was worth mentioning on our conversation tonight, Royce, go ahead.

But my point is there is a school of thought that I don't necessarily disagree with for the record to say that that you don't need to give your children measles vaccines because when measles was killing people way way way back, our medical technology wasn't in the best position, and measles could be potentially deadly these days if your

child was to contract measles, heaven forbid. We have a medical system now and medical technology to where you could just let it ride its course and your kid'll be fine more often than not, so they're bringing that up, and it's actually funny that you asked about this. I just learned this. There was a measles spike that happened in American Samoa not too terribly long ago, and anti vaxxers use this as like one of their big talking

points in this conversation. They for lack of better words, there was two kids on the island that died as a result of measles vaccines. For the record, it wasn't the vaccine that killed them. The needles that they got injected with actually through a very chain freak accident chain of events was actually full of muscle relaxers instead of the vaccine, and nobody realized that until much later. So these kids contracted measles and they died. The muscle relaxers

did not help that situation. So the island as a whole, because of the very tight knit community, decided they were no longer going to be vaccinating their children. There was a rise in deaths associated with the measles, and by a rise, I mean it was it was noticeable. The island went from I think it was like eighty five percent vaccinated to like children from like five to newborns to like fifty five percent, and there was some more

kids that did end up contracting measles. There was a few more deaths, and it was not misinformation, but it was a chain of events and some mistakes that were made. And it's very hard to make people forget whenever they saw these kids got vaccinated and they died. Clearly it was the vaccines that did it, and it kind of

got spun out of control. But you know, listen for any parents out there that are questioning if you should or should not vaccinate your children, do your own research and talk to people that have vaccine injured children, and then talk to those that have non vaccine injured children and make your own decision. I'm not going to tell you what is and is not the correct way to go about it. I have heard both sides of the argument, and I think there's valid points on both sides. But yeah,

that's the thing, I don't even realize. I don't know if this had anything to do with COVID or is this because she was going to talk about real medical science and RFK talks about other real medical science. That just disagreed. But Trump is the one that appointed her. So it doesn't make sense to me out loud, but yeah, they bringing up measles to be like another buzzword in the conversation anything CDC and vaccine. We got to bring

up the Spanish flui. You gotta bring up the measles and mumps and tuberculosis and all these other things that don't have anything to do with anything. But yeah, Raven, I see your hand raise, go ahead.

this is because of all the anti vaxxers. This is gonna sweep it's coming back, it's gonna sweep the country.

And I guess the big question, like the big thing that both sides of this stance should really be discussing is why can't we have vaccines that are safe, right, Like, that's a big push with a lot of the anti vaxxer like staunch in their no vaccines period, which I also am heavily against vaccines, but I also think that with them done correctly, they could be beneficial to war off a lot of you know, issues that have killed

lots and lots of people. At the same time, the Black Death is you know, making its round right now, but if you actually read into it, it's now has a tally of twenty five people dead in the last I think it's like seventy five hang on seventy five years and it's there's three types of plague actually, But this big push with the plague is a conversation that a lot of people are having right now that like this is because of the anti vaxxers and because RFK has shed so much light on and a lot of

the things and opening the door for at least having the conversations of like, hey, the way that vaccines are made are not safe, and us having seventy seven plus vaccines for children under the age of twelve is not okay. Look at our rates verse, look at the rates across the ocean of what at like, you know, just autoimmune. Let's take autism off off the table. Autoimmune diseases. We are substantially more susceptible to them than any other country

in the world. Our children are skyrocketing with them. But no one wants to wonder, like maybe what it is. And I think this whole thing about this lady, like I don't doubt she has amazing credentials. It could be

that they have a disagreement about what's being said. You know, a lot of a lot of the people in the community that are actually immunologists, they are paid through big pharma because like they get funded that all their projects are funded by a big pharma and if they don't report a certain way, then they get cut and you can always trace the money back and how the programs are done and what they're reporting on, and damn near most of the people that have actually come out and

try to link vaccines with some type of injury have managed to end up dead in various ways. Like oh boy that shot himself in the back of the head and drove in a pond thirty miles down the road in the opposite direction on his fortieth anniversary, Like it's you know, like there's a lot to it, but I think that opening the door up to those conversations is important. But I think they're using measles as a big step now.

The black plague quote unquote, but there's three types of the category of plague, and not one person has actually had the bubonic plague yet, but it still is around though globally it's been around. It's still happening like every year, there's like five hundred deaths. It's never gone away, it's just gone down significantly, not killing twenty five million of you know, people in Europe.

just let them die slowly for the most part. And if I'm not mistaken, like a lot of the inoculation practices, I'm not saying got rid of it by any means, but especially with our medical technology today, yes, deaths do happen. I'm not going to deny that, but by and large, a outbreak of the bubonic plague would not be nearly as detrimental to our society today as it was to you know, medieval Europe.

But it's the one thing that anyone should be worried about is tuberculosis because that's actually well that's been the silent, silent riser, and like that's actually technically it's an epidemic right now, and it has been for the last like almost two years, and it's been rising more and more, not just in America but all over the place, and

people are just kind of like, eh, it's whatever. Ye wait, So we're not concerned about the thing that actually kills people, but we're concerned about COVID, which we know is manufactured and released and these statistics have been skewed, so vastly. I don't understand people's logic.

of how many actual deaths were associated. Now, I don't mean a car wreck that happened and this person might have been sick from COVID, so it's considered a COVID related to death. I don't mean that. I mean people that were actually dying, confirmed from the infection itself. And you compare that at its peak to anything from tuberculosis over the last decade, it's not even a comparison. We're not even we're talking about comparing a grape to a

watermelon by all metrics. Somehow, no one cares about TV that's been around four forever. Hell, it killed doc holiday, nobody's really just talking about it. Those just one of those things. Go ahead, Royce.

think that it's not something that they can manufacture. They can't make money off of it, so they're not going to promote it. And here's the deal, even if you were to just raise awareness for it, even if the mainstream media and all these news sources were to start talking more about the tuberculosis epidemic that has been going on for years and years and years, not necessarily to blow the lid off of it, but if nothing else, how about we start really kickstarting some funding towards research

into TV. I know there is some going on there always has been, but if we were to start putting even more resources and more experts in that field, perhaps we could see some really generally groundbreaking breakthroughs. But to your point, they can't profit off of it. It's not as big of a fear tactic because it's been around for so long, So I think it's a it's doubly, you know double entendre what you just said. Go ahead, Sam.

to stay like stints in the hospital. I actually my ex was actually exposed to TB and then I had to get tested literally probably I think it was like every month for two solid years to make sure that I didn't have TB because it can live in your body without you having an infection, kind of like how you can carry an STD around for years and years. You didn't know that, Sam, fun fact.

have a symptom. Also, like chlamydia gonorrhea, you can have those for years and have no symptoms, and then you can infect other people and you'll keep popping negative on tests, but you actually are asymptomatic and you're passing that along with TV.

you got going on, you know. Just so everybody's out there, I am not I am not promoting free and noncommittal sexual relations. Same time, I'm not gonna judge anybody who's out there living their life. I'm just saying, be safe about it, protect yourself and those that you may come in contact with. It's really not that big of a deal. But yes, to raven Lee's point, there's a lot of STDs you can carry laying dormant in your system for years and never know it until it's too late. And yeah,

tuberculos is also one of those. It lays dormant for quite some time and the next thing you know, you've got it and like you said, there is medication that you could take. Again, I do not know for a fact, but I believe it depends on how long it's been in your system and to what level the infection has spread, depends on what treatment options are available to you, or even if the treatment options are willing to work at there are able to work, I should say go ahead, Raven.

Well they've used that kind of technology now and they have it with TB and they also have it like they're doing intervenous treatments as well, so it's like it's a multi combo thing. But sometimes the bodies can't stand up to the amount of treatment, just kind of like how cancer and you're treating it with chemo and radiation, which a lot of us that actually read into it

and know what that does to bodies. But you know, it's it's one of those things most of the time now that you can actually catch it, but it's people will still die from this because they just kind of think that it's just a simple cough and that's it.

So why is it still such an epidemic To the point that Royce was making, I'm just speaking on behalf of myself here, believe it is because it is not a hot button topic enough. There's not enough money to be made from this, so it's kind of one of those things where it just kind of gets pushed under the rug, even though statistically by the numbers, it kills vast amounts of people around the world every year, So Anyway,

again back to the point of this article. I do not know as of this time what the overarching reason behind this new CDC director's dismissal was, but I am sure that more information on this is going to be coming out in the next few days. We may even be talking about it next week on the Cajun Night Live. Moving on to the next topic, this is a BBC article.

I found a couple of articles talking about this that were American based, but I honestly thought that the BBC might have a different perspective on it, so it might be worth a read. The US tells Denmark to calm down over alleged to Greenland influence operation. Yeah, get ready for this one, y'all. The US has told Denmark to calm down after the top US diplomat in Copenhagen was summoned overclaims that Americans had been conducting covert operations in Greenland.

Denmark's public broadcaster DR quoted sources saying that the aim was to infiltrate society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US, although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for. A White House official who could not confirm an influence campaign was underway, but said we think the Danes need to calm down right. Foreign Minister Lars Loke Rosmussen Yeah, said any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Denmark will

of course be unacceptable. Danish intelligence warrened Greenland was being targeted by various kinds of influence campaigns. A US State Department spokesperson said Chars d Affairs Mark Strow had met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adding that he had a productive conversation quote unquote that quote unquote reaffirmed the

strong ties between Greenland, Denmark, and the United States. The spokesperson could not comment on the actions of private US citizens in Greenland, but said the US had always respected the right of the people of Greenland to determine their own future. President Trump said several times he wants to annex Greenland, a semi autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Vice President J. D Vance has accused Copenhagen of

undervesting or excuse me, under invent in the territory. I think that's a fair statement, not that I'm necessarily like a big jd Vance fan I'm not exactly anti hymn either, but I think that that's also a pretty fair statement, but okay. On a visit to Greenland a few months ago, Danish Prime Minister Met Fredrickson warned the US that you

cannot annex another country. Denmark's foreign ministers said in a statement to the BBC that the government was aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland and its position in the Kingdom of Denmark. It is therefore not surprising if we experience outside attempts to influence the future of the kingdom in the time ahead. Denmark is a member of NATO and the European Union, and has long seen the US as one of its closest allies.

I'll bet the Danes have been shocked by Trump's determination to control its semi autonomous territory. The US President said this year he would not rule out seizing it by force. I don't exactly know if that's a true statement or not. Let's see what this clip is. The Danes, who fought alongside the US needs all right, Let's see. Let's see what it looks like here.

I've actually met and trained with some Danish marines at one point in time. Solid guys, I might add, they are just like American Marines, they just talk funny. Same with the British Royal Marines. They're literally us. They just talk funny. But overall, when you're looking at like real numbers and figures and statistics, as far as military might goes, that's not But comparing American military to pretty much any

other military on earth is an unfair comparison. We are, by low estimations, twenty five years ahead of any competition, by best estimations, fifty or sixty years ahead in tech and all the other things. So it is what it is. But let's continue here. Denmark's PET Security and Intelligence Services said in an assessment that influence campaigns would aim to

create discord in the relationship between Denmark and Greenland. This could be done exploiting existing or invented disagreements, either with traditional physical influence agents or via disinformation. It added. PET said it had strengthened its presence in Greenland and cooperation with its authorities. The US currently has no ambassador in Copenhagen, so Rams Rasmussen excuse me, has summoned Mark Strow, who was the charge of the affairs, is the most senior

diplomat in the Danish capital, Lars Loke Rasmussen. I'm gonna get that right here, has already some in the US. In Denmark, the US sharda Fashar affairs. I guess that's just like, you know, a title. For a second, I thought that was maybe like a noble rank or title or something like that, a lord or something. It's I don't think so. I think that's just a position, but anyway, summoned him in Denmark this year in response to a separate report in May suggesting US spy agencies have been

told to focus their efforts on Greenland, Okay. DR's report on Wednesday gave detail of a visit by one American to Greenland's capital, Nuk, saying nuke. I think that's how you pronounced it, saying he was seeking to compile a list of Greenlanders who backed US attempts to take over the island. The aim would be to try to recruit

them for a secession movement, the DR said. The earlier May report in the Wall Street Journal also referred to learning more about Greenland's independence movement, as well as attitudes to American mineral extraction. At the time, the US Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbert did not deny the report, but accused the journal of quote breaking the law and undermining our nation security and democracy. Okay, Tulsi, I see you,

Colonel Gabs. Greenland has a complex relationship with Denmark. Despite having broad self government since nineteen seventy nine, its foreign and defense policy is made in Copenhagen. Although most of its political parties favor independence, they disagree on how quickly they should push for it. While Greenlanders have had the right to call referendum since two thousand and nine, Pole suggests the vast majority of them have no wish to become a part of the US. I also could see

that too. If anything, they would want to become their own independent nation, But for the land size that they have, the location of this land size in relation to global defense, and the fact that they have so few people living there. I don't know if independence is going to go as well for them like as they think. But I could

be completely talking out of my ass here anyway. When the Vice President Jade Vance visited a military base on the island in March, he accused Denmark of not doing enough to keep US troops and Greenlanders safe from Russia. China and other countries that he said were interested in its buttential, mineral wealth and Arctic naval routes. That's kind of what I was getting at there, to be honest

with you. However, Greenland leader Jens Frederick Nielsen, I don't know if they pronounced the jay like that or if it's like a soft jay. Is that YenS? YenS Frederick Nielsen maybe made clear in May that the US would not be taking over the territory. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future. Very proud man, mister Nielsen. The Danish foreign Minister's latest decision to some of the US charged affairs amounts to the a diplomatic

yellow card, unprecedented in Danish relations with the US. According to Yin's Latifadged Mortensen Jesus of the University of Copenhagen, this hostile attitude towards Denmark from the Trump administration is shocking, he told the BBC. As a pro American country, we're asking why are you doing this. One of Denmark's biggest companies had already been caught in the crosshairs of the US government in recent days following in order to stop the construction of a big wind farm off the co

of Rhode Island because wind farms suck. That's like, we need to stop trying to make that a thing. That's a net negative. And I thought that was understood at this point. But yeah, moving on. The revolution Win project, already eighty percent complete, is being run by Danish multinational wind farm developer or STED, which is fifty point one percent owned by the Danish state. Why why do we have a wind farm in America being primarily owned by another country. I feel like, even if that's an allied

nation like that, that seems weird. You know, when we set up a shop in another country, it has to be fifty point one percent owned by that nation. Yet somehow that's allowed here anyway. It is the latest wind power initiative to be targeted by President Trump, who said last week we're not doing the wind. Yeah. Good share. There's an Orsted plummeted sixteen percent on Monday in response to the so called stop work order, although they have

since clawed back some of the losses. The company said it has already installed forty five out of the sixty five turbans in the project, aimed at providing power to three hundred and fifty thousand homes. Okay, so again, apparently the US is still allegedly. I haven't heard anything about

US trying to annex Greenland in quite some time. I remember when Trump was going on about it and people were like, oh, well, we could really use a fifty first state and yeah, but I thought that was more of a joke, right, I thought that was more for the lulls and all. This Annexing another nation into US is extremely difficult, and now we even talked about that a couple weeks ago. There's three provinces of Canada that

are starting to take the steps to annex themselves. Not America taking them over, but if they were to secede from Canada and pledge allegiance to the United States, what that would realistically look like. Would that be another territory situation like a Guam in Puerto Rico, an American Samoa and Virgin Islands kind of thing, or would it be

more like an Alaska Hawaii situation. There's a lot of other levels to this, and a whole spectrum of red tape and bureaucracy and DC fuddy duties that would like to have their statements be heard on the matter. I

don't know enough to speak intelligently on it. If Greenland wanted to secede, like most of Greenland is saying, they would probably want to become their own independent sovereign nation, how would that go for them in the case of some sort of a world war that would potentially break out. And no, I am not saying that the world war

would be Russia and China. I'm not not saying that either, But just in the sense of World War III, name your belligerents, and it doesn't really matter in that scenario. Greenland is not a They're in a prime location on the globe. They are not primed to defend themselves as an independent sovereignation. I don't and that's I don't think they're actually gonna secceede from Denmark. If they did, I would hope that they would try to become a little

more tighter with America in that sense. But who's to really say, you know, But anyway, Raven, I see your hand go ahead.

ever run, Greenland will survive. So, I mean, there's a lot of talk that there's like a whole bunch of bunkers in Greenland too, there is for the elite, and that that's where like you'd want to go if you could get to.

it's such a large land mass. It is so freaking cold there that most bacteria doesn't really do well surviving in that environment, and there's such a low population that really and truly even if some sort of outbreak was to hit there, it would probably not go very far at all. Right to that point, Also, because it is a very large land mass with not a large population, there's a lot of uninhabited land to be had there. There is a lot of underground bunkers for the elites.

But also Trump was trying to buy back military bases that used to be manned by American forces in Greenland during the Cold War. So let's break that down. Before we had satellite technology to level that we have now, we had a series of radars that were essentially set up surrounding any key points to where Russia could come in.

Again I say Russia Soviet Union. Let's give that distinction that if they were going to try to send a submarine through one of these corridors, we needed to know about it, or if they were trying to fly a little close to an airspace of an ally of ours, we needed to know about it. So America had a legitimate line of radar system bases set up on Greenland, or in Greenland, I should say, I keep saying on as if it's like a it is an island, but

it's a large island. And Trump bought back they were leased from Greenland, and then when the time came, we just didn't renew our lease because we had satellite technology that far surpassed the radars that were installed at that time, and installing new or better updated radar systems, especially in Greenland at that time was just seemed like a net a costly thing, a net loss overall. Now these bases are still there, and they are are still relatively functional,

not with those old radar systems, of course. But yeah, so Trump was going through the process of releasing the land, if I'm not mistaken, leasing I don't know if he outright bought the spaces or not, but leasing them to that point. So, yeah, Greenland has ties with America. We're not like, We're not as thick as thieves with them, as like America is with Israel by any means. But yes, Greenland and America have a very very good working relationship

and we have for decades. So this is the thing when the Greenlanders are saying that they are worried about Trump taking it by force. I have no no beliefs as of this moment that Trump is going to actually launch some sort of a military campaign to take over Greenland. That sounds preposterous to me at this time. I could be wrong. I could absolutely be wrong, but I just

don't see it as of this moment. But we shall see. Apparently, Denmark caught quote unquote spies that were trying to spread disinformation or information into the Greenlander culture to make the public want to become US citizens. Was that accurate or not? Everybody's kind of playing the deny game. So I do not know, but I think it is interesting. Go ahead, Sam, This just might be.

of Ireland. Well, why wouldn't they want to be a part of England. England is doing far more successfully than they are on the world stage, even to this because the Irish are a very proud people and want an Irish owned Ireland. And I understand that point British right, right, But that's that's my point. So why wouldn't Greenland want to be a part of us? Like we just heard from the people on the ground there, the people that

live there, some would be in favor of it. Most want Greenland to be if anything, they wanted to be autonomous and sovereign. So again I understand the points. Again I don't I don't think that we are at any risk of actually enveloping Greenland into the fold of the US States and territories. But I guess time will tell. But as we are talking about US politics and Trump and things, let's talk about ABC News here. Trump is very angry with Putin as russia strikes on Ukraine continue

despite the peace push. As everybody knows, Trump just had this big meeting with Putin in Alaska and he felt very good about it. Afterwards, he was saying that I think Putin really wants peace. I think he really does. Then, of course the strikes continue. There's a quick little forty five second clip, and then we're going to read the article. Let's listen in.

have with him is a good conversation. And then unfortunately Obama is loaded up into Kiev for someplace and then I get.

a peace deal between the warring neighbors. There's a direct quote of what he literally just said, So I'm not going to read that. Trump has repeatedly admonished Putin for Russia's nightly strikes on Ukrainian cities. Nonetheless, the president'sal reporters he is still hopeful of progress towards a peace deal, he says. I think we're going to get the war done, he said, though added you never know what's gonna happen

in a war. Strange things happen in a war. The fact that Putin went to Alaska, our country, I think is a big statement that he wants to get it done, you know again, actions and words on that one, my boy. Both Russia and Ukraine continued long range strikes through the weekend and into Monday. On Tuesday, Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched fifty nine drones into the country overnight, of

which forty seven and were shot down or suppressed. The air force reported impacts of twelve drones across nine locations. Russia's Defense ministry meanwhile said that it's forced down at least fifty one Ukrainian drones over night and Tuesday morning, to which two of which were en route to Moscow.

Following in person meetings with Putin and Alaska and Ukrainian President Zelensky plus a host of European leaders in Washington, DC, earlier this month, Trump raised the hope that excuse me raised the hope of an imminent bilateral meeting between Russia and Ukrainian presidents. Zelenski has repeatedly expressed willingness to attend such a meeting, but Putin and his officials have consistently

dodged the proposal. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. The president's old ABC News Monday of the potential of the two men to meet, Trump said he had spoken to Putin sin Zelenski's visit to Washington, but declined to discuss the specifics of the call, as if you wanted to

act if of the bilateral meeting does not materialize. Trump refused to detail possible consequences, but said he may act over the next week or two, as that's typically the rhetoric, right, give me a little more time, a little more time, little more time. It's very possible that Trump won't be able to broker this deal, you know it honestly might just come down to an all out, knockdown, drag out slug vest until both sides decide that they're done. I hope that a deal could be reached, but I just

I don't see it as of this moment. Uspe's efforts continued on Monday, with Secretary of State Mark or Rubio speaking with European counterparts and Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg traveling to Kiev to meet with Zelensky. For both US officials, the question of future security guarantees for Ukraine to prevent

future Russian aggression was a key topic of discussion. Obviously, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Adril Sibyha Sibiha sib Yah Sure took part in the call with Rubio I reiterated Ukraine's position that security guarantees must be concrete, legally binding and effective. He wrote on x after they should be multi dimensional,

including military, diplomatic, legal, and other levels. Zelenski said his meeting with Kellogg was productive, quote unquote, again expressing his thanks to Trump's effort to broker a deal and his willingness to lend US backing to security guarantees. Kellogg meanwhile said the US side is working very very hard to get to a position where in the near term we have, with a lack of better terms, security guarantees. That's a work in progress. So just keeping everybody in the loop

on this one. To the surprise of literally no one, Trump's still trying to brok her a peace deal. Zelensky is saying that he's about that life putin to the face to face says that he or he releases indicating that he wants a peace deal. Neither side is willing to stop firing at each other long enough to make a meeting happen. Will that meeting happen soon, Let's hope.

As we are still in the summer months, there is still massive surges and pushes going on on the warfront, we are about to get into the winter months where not much movements go to happen. If the last three years of this two week military operation is to be believed, the wintertime is not going to see much substantial gains, but pretty substantial losses overall. So just wanted to keep everybody in the loop on that one. With that being said, the UK has offered troops to defend Ukraine's skies and

ports in Pentagon talks. As from the Guardian, officials say the UK is prepared to deploy troops to the front line with Russia as head of Armed Forces prepares to meet US counterparts in Russia in Washington. I'm a little skeptic of some of the claims that this article is gonna make, and you'll understand why as we go through it. The UK has said for a while that they are very willing to send their forces there for consultative conversations, AID kind of you know, missions and things like that.

There hasn't been any talks of u UK soldiers and marines being sent to the front lines. That's a new one for me. But at the same time, maybe there is a kernel of truth to this. Let's read and y'all make your own decision on that. The head of the British Armed Forces will tell his American counterparts the UK is prepared to send troops to defend Ukraine's skies and seas, but not to the front lines with Russia.

As planning intensifies for a post war settlement exactly, Tony Radikin, the Chief of Defense Staff, will on Wednesday attend meetings at the Pentagon designed to finalize what thirty different countries are willing to commit to Ukraine's national security. I will

say this though, before we continue any deeper. If the UK was to send any type of manpower and one of these UK soldiers happened to get hit in some crossfire or something like that, I could envision a world where that is the catalyst for a very deep UK to the frontline kind of thing. I'm not saying that's a guarantee. I am saying that it is at least a greater than zero percent chance that that could be

the kickstart, if you will. Radikin is expected to confirm the UK will provide soldiers to help with logistical support and training, but not deploy them close to Russia. Officials have been talking about deploying as many as thirty thousand troops to protect Ukrainian sites, but that has been scaled back amid opposition from some European countries. One British official said Wednesday is a really important moment. Nothing happens in

Washington without the President giving the green light. So Trump giving his support to security guarantees on Monday kickstarted a lot of activity. Another said Radikin would echo the pledges made last week by John Healey, the Defense Secretary, who said Britain was willing to deploy troops to Ukraine quote to secure the sky's safeties and to build the strength of the Ukrainian forces end quote. They said ministry or ministers envisioned, envisaged. I think that's supposed to be envisioned.

They said. Ministers envisioned this as a meeting, logistical and training support, rather than sending battalions of frontline troops who could end up in combat. Let's hope that that stays that way. Wednesday's meetings are being seen in Europe as a major step towards securing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, which Keir Starmer has said will only be possible if the US is willing to provide security guarantees.

They keep going on about security guarantees, y'all. Even if security guarantees are laid down, what's to say that either side will actually abide by them? Like realistically here be We even talked about that whenever Trump tried to get a mineral deal with the eastern section of Ukraine that had a lot of these precious rare earths and things like that. Right, even if an American company was to set up shop a mining operation of some type, do we know for ef fact now we can believe things.

Do we know for a fact that that would stop the Russian war machine, that just because there's an American company doing business here, that Russia would not still try to push and take those precious rare earths for themselves. I can't say with one hundred percent certainty that I can believe that. I think that would be a massive misstep. But so is this entire military operation two weeks has turned into coming up on year four. It's been one misstep after another. So I don't know where the line

is actually going to get drawn in the sand. And even if it does get drawn in the sand, do we know that Ukraine will stop firing things? Do we know that Russia will stop firing things? I have a hard time believing it as of this moment. But anyway, Donald Trump, the US President, told Starmer and other world leaders on Monday he would be willing to provide those guarantees.

His Ukraine envoy, Steve Whitkoff, has suggested they could be Article five like reassurances, referring to the NATO clause that says that an attack on one member should be interpreted as an attack on all, even though Ukraine is not a NATO member. Starmer hosted a virtual call on Tuesday morning to brief more than thirty other world leaders on what had been discussed at the White House on Monday.

Downing Street said afterwards quote the Prime Minister outlined that coalition of the Willing planning teams would meet with their US counterparts in the coming days to further strengthen plans to deliver robust security guarantees and prepare for the deployment of a reassurance force if the hostilities ended. I guess we'll see. Wednesday's planning session at the Pentagon are being closely watched for any signs of what the US would be willing to commit. The USS committed quite a lot already.

I think that goes without saying, more so than any combination of countries. But all right. Trump insisted on Tuesday they would not involve American troops on the ground, telling Fox News you have my assurance on that, and I'm President, I'm glad you told us. We didn't know beforehand, homie. But Britain is also planning to use the meetings to spell out to the Trump administration what it is willing to do to protect the Ukraine should a piece deal

be signed. Official say British forces could be deployed to help with the logistics and protecting Ukrainian airspace imports, but not into situations that could risk combat with Russia airspace imports. These are very important for logistic purposes, but are these not very you know, hotspots as far as targeting goes.

So let's say that you have a bunch of British liaisons, for lack of better words, operating a Ukrainian port and that port starts getting lit up by a drone attack or whatever that mould makes sense, or an airstrip because we're trying to secure Ukrainian airspace. That's yeah, it might not be front line, but the damage, in the possibility of danger is still very present. So I don't Yeah, I don't exactly understand what they're trying to get at here.

Either go there and help or stay back. I don't know. Maybe I'm just looking at this too narrow mindedly. Who knows. Zelenski, the Ukrainian President, said on Tuesday that he expected the security guarantees to be finalized in the week or in

the next week or ten days. Some experts say that European leaders do not expect Vladimir Putin to accept even such a limited deployment of NATO troops into Ukraine, and that European leaders are floating the idea to isolate the Russian president, that it's kind of been the jam this whole time. British officials insist this is not the case, however, and that the UK and its partners are making serious preparations to send forces into the country should they be needed.

You don't get thirty chiefs of staff coming to the Pentagon if they are not serious about this, said one. Okay, fair enough, all right, Uh, just gonna throw it out here. I know, Tony, you have to have an opinion on this conversation. Please let it be heard at this time, sir.

going to sanction him more. You've already tried pretty much everything as hard as you can. It's just a little bit marginal more and more more, but there's not much more to do. Yeah, the Ukraine is the West's crash test dummy against Russia. It's sad, and this thing's got to end. But it's gonna keep going for a while, so I'm still holding out hope maybe March of twenty twenty six it'll be over. I think Russia's hoping that someday the Ukrainian lions will just collapse. That kind of

thing did happen in World War One. That's kind of what happened to Russia and the Central Powers moved in quickly. That almost happened in France. A lot of people don't remember. But this trench warfare sometimes can lead to a collapse on one side, and that's what Russia's hoping for, and they may get it, they may not. We don't know.

terms that Putin would even entertain. I don't think that they have the means to offer him what he actually wants the same way that Zelenski is not going to accept anything. He has said so many times that he's not going to accept anything without Crimea being Ukrainian at the end of it. So all of this is a lot of posturing and a lot of talking. It's this is not going to these these security guarantees are not going to do anything in the grand scope of shit.

I know that Trump is the deal maker. Say what you want about him. Is he an asshole? Is he a good guy? All yet? Fine? Whatever? And he is a businessman who literally wrote the book on the art of the deal. I don't think that this is a deal that he'll be able to broke her, at least not with the current standings.

pretty much where the lines are now. We can argue about you know, we'll give back some assumeing in Kharkoff and maybe some of the other areas we got in exchange for Nikola Iver or so. I don't know, I'm just making something up, but you know, they want it pretty much where it is now, and they want zero NATO membership for Ukraine. Uh, you know, it's got to be independent of the West. And uh that's they're not demanding Kiev. They're not demanding you know, half of Ukraine.

They're just demanding like the twenty percent they've already taken or stolen or whatever. You want to characterize it, which is pretty much. I think that's a pretty reasonable demand and Ukraine should equit back in twenty twenty three when they took his ZM back and Kharkoff back, because that was as good at bargaining position as they were going to have. And General Millie from the US he said

as much at the time. A lot of people don't like him because he also told China this is an unrelated thing, He told China that the US military isn't going to obey Trump if Trump tries to go to war with China, and a lot of people got mad at him for that.

you're one hundred percent right about that, General Milly. They should bargain then make a peace agreement now. But Boris Johnson didn't want it. Uncle Amercle didn't want it. And I think, I know this is a conspiracy theory. But there's oh good, good good night Royce. But too bad. I was about to talk about this. I think that Israel doesn't just exercise a lot of influence over the US government, they also exercised a lot of influence over

the British government and the government. I think Russia is a historical and modern day strategic enemy of Israel. Syria was still a country at the time, and Russia supports Iran, so Israel has a huge interest in damaging Russia too, And that's another big reason that the Ukraine conflict is going on right now. Israel does feel like it's in their interests to punish Russia.

I think it has a lot to do with the intent, Like I feel like it should be actually considered a hate come honestly, So I got.

America and our American freedom, identity, and strength. Over nearly two and a half centuries, many thousands of American patriots have fought, bled and died to keep the stars and stripes waving proudly. The American flag is a special symbol in our national life that should unite and represent all Americans of every background and walk of life. By secreting it is uniquely offensive and provocative. It is a statement

of contempt, hostility, and violence against our nation. The clearest possible expression of opposition to the political union that preserves our rights, liberty, and security. Burning this representation of America might incite violence and riot. American flag burning is also used by groups of foreign nationals as a calculated act to intimidate and threaten violence against Americans because of their

nationality and place of birth. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on the First Amendment protections, glad they gave that distinction. The Court has never hailed that American flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite in imminent lawless action, or that is an action amounting to quote

unquote fighting words, is constitutionally protected. Mine Administration will act to restore respect and sanctity to the American flag and prosecute those who incite violence and otherwise violate our laws while desecrating the symbol of our country to the fullest extent permissible under any available authority. Let's see number two.

Measures to combat desecration of the American Flag. The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement, to the fullest extent possible of our national, criminal and civil laws against acts of the American flag desecration that violate applicable content neutral laws while causing harm unrelated to expression consent with the First Amendment.

This may include, but is not limited to, violent crimes, hate crimes, illegal discrimination against American citizens or other violations of American civil rights, and crimes against property and the peace, as well as conspiracies and attempts to violate and aiding

and abetting others to violate such laws. In cases where the Department of Justice or other executive departments or agencies determines that an instance of American flag desecration may violate an applicable state or local law, such as open burning restrictions, disorderly conduct, or destructive destruction of property laws, the agencies shall refer the matter to the appropriate state or local authority for potential action to the maximum extent permitted by

the Constitution. Attorney General shall vigorously prosecute those who violate our laws in ways that involve desecrating the American Flag, and may pursue litigation to clarify the scope of the

First Amendment exceptions in this area. The Dendum d the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting within their respective authorities shall deny, prohibit, terminate, and revoke visas, residents, permits, naturalization proceedings, and other immigration benefits, or seek removal from the United States pursuing to federal law, whenever there is been an appropriate determination that foreign nationals

have engaged in American flag desecration activity under circumstances that permit the exercise of such remedies pursuant to federal law. You know, before I continue this, yeah, there's only a little bit left. But I'm just gonna say if I was going to try to take up residency in Germany, legal or illegal, and then I would go to a protest and burn the German flag, you know, I'm pretty sure that that would be like an extra slap in the face, like, Yo, you don't have to be here

if you're not a citizen. But I understand this goes a little bit further than just foreign nationals and things like that, So let's keep going here. Severability if any provisions of this Order or the application of any provisions to any person or circumstances held to be invalid, the remainder of this Order and the application of its provisions to any other person's or circumstances shall not be affected

thereby no Section four. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency or head thereof, or the functions of the Director of the Office Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposal. This Order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject

to available availability of appropriations. This Order is not intended to, and does not create, any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, It's departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. The cost for publication

of this Order shall be borne by the Department of Justice. Okay, So essentially they're saying that if you're at a protest and you're going to desecrate the flag, you may be convicted for this. This might be an arrestable offense, it says, to the fullest extent of the law. It brought up personal property. So like, if you're at a protest, regardless of what the reason for the protest is or your

political leanings, because it didn't specify that. If you're at a political protest and you see that there's a business with a storefront who has an American flag waving outside their door, if you take that flag down and then publicly burn it, you just stole someone's private property and then desecrate the flags. That's gonna be like a double whammy. But then what would be like the indictment would be for the cost of the flag and some I don't know.

I don't know to what extent of the law they're trying to turn this, but I gotta say, and I know that I'm very biased on this. I'm not necessarily against this. I understand First Amendment, right, I understand freedom of self expression. I'm all in favor of this too. Even if I disagree with somebody's point, I will fight to the death for them to have the ability to say that point.

to which you're supposed to do it. I've actually done flag burnings in my backyard with my children in the appropriate, respectful way and how you're supposed to do this right, to teach them to respect this flag and what it represents. So I don't know. Maybe I'm too much of a patriot for the conversation, but I'm not necessarily against this.

I don't think anybody should be burning the American flag if you're an American citizen, for sure, if you hate America that much and you're burning the flag because you don't like it here like, no one is stopping you from leaving. We have gates to keep people out, we have you know, or we have fences to keep people out. We have gates to you know, let people go there. You can get a passport and fly wherever you want

and start a new life somewhere. Best of luck to you, and no hard feelings, I don't know, and especially if you are a foreign national and you come to America and you are in the middle of a protest and you're burning an American flag to protest, like you can leave, like you really don't have to be here. I don't know. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intent behind this, but I mean, what are your thoughts on this?

lawless action or inciting lawless action or not. So I really don't see this execut the order is having the ability to make any difference for an American citizen if it comes to somebody who's not a citizen, somebody who especially doesn't have a green card, like these Arab students who were writing anti Israel articles a while ago and

then getting kicked out of the country. Yeah, you already aren't very protected if you have that status, right, And they probably would be kicked out for doing this too, But they would have been kicked out even without this executive order. I just don't say this executive order is making any difference except just grabbing a bunch of attention. So you know, I had a third thought and I just don't remember it right now. But spirit animal, what do you think?

have already been buried under that flag. And when I see people Stone bought it spit on it and burn it. I'm not gonna lie. Violent thoughts go run through my mind.

am all in favor of freedom of speech. But there's you know, there's a level of respect that I also think that we should be using that most people, regardless again of race or political background or socioeconomic status, whatever, there's a level of decorum and respect that our culture has lost, like absolutely thrown out the window in the last twenty years. I think another twa.

you would be severely punished and maybe killed. And some Protestant Reformers actually they they took on this more an iconic view of the way things ought to be, and they would destroy statues, and you know, the American flag and the Israeli flag and the Pride flag. They're all very powerful symbols that people love so much they want to punish anyone who desecrates them these days.

And that's how I've always seen flagged. I don't take that to be a icon of America. I believe that to be the symbol, like the family name, almost of the America as a whole. And I know that I might be crazy for that assertion. I know there's tons of people that say, you know, when everybody was like make America great, there was tons of people that were saying America is never great, and they are disgusted by the side of the American flag, and they have the rights of that opinion.

And by a few, I don't mean like ten, I mean like maybe two out of nowhere Venezuelan. I don't even think it was the President, although it might have been Maduro himself who basically said that if America wants to try to invade Venezuela, they better be ready for a fight. And it was like, who is talking about invading Venezuela. Like, no one in America was even suggesting such a thing, even the deepest realms of military you know, movements and all these things, Like we were worried about

other shit around the world. No one was concerned with some sort of a military action in Venezuela. Then Venezuela started gearing up like they were about to invade Guyana, right their neighbor to the east, to the southeast technically, and America decided to let it be known that they sided with Guyana on this one. And that was after the fact, that was after Maduau had already made these

crazy statements. But now America has deployed a couple of warships and about four thousand marines off the coast of Venezuela. Why are they doing this, I don't really know, but the article might give us a little bit of an indication on this one. And in response, Venezuela has deployed their own warships quote unquote, I'm using the term warship in reference to Venezuela very loosely and very liberally. But

let's continue warships drones to the coast. As US naval squadron nears Venezuelan Defense ministry orders naval patrols as US warships sent to waters off country's coast tackle Latin American drug cartels. So the going narrative as of this moment is that the US military, with a couple battalions of Marines on board, are being deployed to this air of the world to battle the cartels because our president has

listed all cartels to be terrorist organizations. Therefore you can use military might to fight them now, not just border patrol and homeland security things. That being said, the Venezuelan president is not happy about it and is trying to

like posture in response. But let's read in here. Venezuela's defense minister says military vessels and drones will be sent to patrol the country's coastline amid simmering tension with the United States after Washington deployed warships to waters off Venezuela to fight drug trafficking. In a video on social media on Tuesday, Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino announced a significant drone deployment, as well as naval patrols along the country's

Caribbean coast, including larger vessels. Further North in our territorial waters. The move comes after Washington last week deployed an amphibious squadron of three warships towards Venezuela's coast in what it

said was an operation against latinum American drug cartels. New Agencies reported on Monday that two more US ships, a guided missile cruiser and a nuclear powered fast attack submarine, had also been dispatched to the Caribbean, and that some forty five hundred US service members, including twenty two hundred Marines, were part of the deployment. Okay, I said, four thousand marines, my bad, forty five hundred service members including twenty two

hundred marines. The other ones would probably be the naval, you know, the navy guys that are and women that are, you know, piloting the ships to bring them there. But anyway, the US naval build up comes after the administration of President Trump last week accused Venezuela's left wing president Nicholas Maduro of being involved in cocaine trafficking and working with

drug cartels. Okay. Washington also announced that it had doubled a reward for the capture of prosecution or capture or prosecution of Maduro on drug charges from twenty five million to fifty million US. The US is also offering a reward of twenty five million for the arrest or prosecution of Venezuelan Minister of the Popular Power for Interior, Diastado Cabello, the Popular Power for Interior. Okay, so right now, there's bounties on two of these people's heads, the president and

one of his top ministers. That's interesting. US officials have accused me Dureau and members of his government of heading the Venezuelan cocaine trafficking cartel Cartel de los Soles Solas, which Washington has designated a terrorist organization. Okay, now we're cook him. Merdureau has dismissed the accusations and accused the US of attempting to instigate regime change in his country. For the record, every person in Venezuela wants a regime change.

We could look at their living conditions in two thousand and four or two thousand and five. I want to say they had the world's fourth best economy because they have oil there and cost of living is relatively cheap. They were killing it. Then Maduro and people like him turn the country socialist, and they plummeted. They have been in starvation mode, full on survival mode for the better part of two decades now, with no sign of that getting better. So, for the record, most people in Venezuela,

most regular people, would love a regime change. But okay, now, let's talk about the military build up. On Monday, Maduro insisted during a weekly television show that his country, unlike neighboring Colombia, is free of coca leaf crops and free of cocaine production. Mardua, who was also criticized the US government for not addressing the drug consumption within its borders, has mobilized hundreds of thousands of local militia members to

strengthen the national security amid the threat from Washington. Fifteen thousand Venezuelan troops have also been dispatched to the country's border with Colombia to crack down on criminal groups, including those involved in drug trafficking. I find that very, very, very funny because trend de Arawa, which is one of the most brutal groups currently operating, is a Venezuelan group. If you've seen any of these things about the apartments

in Texas being taken over by these Venezuelan thugs. That's trend de Arawa, that's a Venezuelan cartel group. So for them to say that they are cracking down on all these things and that they don't have this in their country all evidence to the contrary. They are currently the most dangerous criminal element in the United States as of

time of recording. So anyway, Bold claims there Maduro. In a separate announcement on Tuesday, Defense Minister Petrino said an ongoing operation in Venezuela's northeastern corner had resulted in the dismantling of shipyards where criminals intended to manufacture semi submersibles and boats to transport drugs by sea to the markets in Europe and North America. Yeah, the semi submersibles are basically submarines that only go a few feet below the water.

But anyway, the move to deploy US warships and personnel off Venezuela comes as Trump pushes for using the military to thwart cartels he blames for the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs into US communities and for perpetuating violence in some US cities. I can't disagree Venezuela's mission to the United Nations denounced the US's escalation of hostile

actions and threats in a letter. Local media outlet YEP Noticias Venice Vision I don't speak, I don't speak Spanish reported on Tuesday, referring to the imminent arrival of US ships off the coast. Venezuela told the UN that Washington's actions were quote a serious threat to regional peace and security, while the presence of a nuclear powered attack submarine was quote a clear act of intimidation. I believe that would be the point, right. And again, they're only supposed to

be attacking the cartel and the movement of drugs. If the government has nothing to hide, and they are so loud and proud about the fact that they have no cartel operations in their country, and they have no cocaine industry and all these things, they should have nothing to worry about. Gonna leave that little food for thought referring to the imminent sorry, excuse me. The letter also demanded guarantees that the US would not deploy or threaten to use nuclear weapons in the region. Bro No one is

using nukes. That is not being talked about. A nuclear attack. Sub isn't carrying nukes. It's powered by nuclear reactors. That's yes, yep. That is one of the most things that has ever been said, one of the most things that has ever been said. Despite the military build up, analysis have downplayed the possibility of a US invasion or US strikes on Venezuela, while many Venezuelan people have shrugged off the US threat as posturing. Yeah, no doubt, and Venezuela's posturing back is

about as big. Maduro, who claimed a third term in office following an election in July of twenty twenty four, which was described as deeply flawed, has been in Trump's sites ever since the US president's first term from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. But the US policy of maximum pressure on Venezuela, including an ongoing oil embargo, failed to dislodge Mondureau from power. That is because they're subsidizing

that through bricks right now and funding Russia. But anyone and China, I should mention this is a quote here. I think what we're seeing represents an attempt to create anxiety in government circles and force Madureau to negotiate. We ate something that was from International Crisis Group analyst Phil Gunson. He told AFP regarding the building tension. Okay, so that's currently the standings. There's nothing popping off off the Venezuelan coast.

But it is worth mentioning that Venezuela is not happy about seeing the US military off its shores, and I understand that, but it's also worth mentioning that if they have nothing to worry about, then they should have nothing to worry about. They claim they have no cartels, even

though Trende Orrawa would disagree with that statement. And if they're only there to look for submersibles or semi submersibles and to stop the flow of drugs through the Caribbean, that all intelligence would show does come out of Venezuela. There's other countries that comes out of as well, but Venezuela is absolutely a launching platform for this.

carriers are not carrying nuclear warheads. They're aircraft carriers. They are being powered by nuclear reactors.

have had to have failed. But even in that case, if the ship was hit and was going to be going down, they have procedures in place to try to either cool the nuclear reactor before it goes into a cataclysmic state or something like this, or you know, seal it in some way to where it wouldn't affect the sea life and stuff like that. But yeah, so the nuclear powered aircraft carriers and stuff, they stay out. The only thing that goes bad on them quote unquote is

the people operating it. Like that ship could stay out at sea pretty much indefinitely. They only have to make ports so that they could resupply the people running the ship. Like it's the nuclear powered conversation is beyond the direction that I think we should go to for all power,

not just military, but even electricity here. But I know so many people are scared of it because there have been a few instances of things going wrong in countries that do not have the same standards that America has.

That being said, the way that that reactor was built and the chain of events that let it go to the level it did, that wouldn't happen in America for a list of reasons.

but we kind of already covered all that. Also, I thought this was interesting. The Republicans are pushing to split California into amid redistricting feud. So we were talking about this over the past few weeks, the Texas redistricting conversation that took place and all of this. Apparently there is now a push to split California for the same purpose. Listen to this.

that will go nowhere. And Nick Miller, spokesperson for Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves, told ABC ten in a statement, Assembly Republicans say they opposed jerrymandering, but just drew this joke of a map a true James Galamander I asked Chris mckayley, adjunct professor with the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, what it would take to split the state in two like this.

not intending to make a connection. That just describes what he's aiming to do here in California.

than showing enough to work to vote. Is this something that could actually take place? I don't really see it happening right And I'm not saying because the Republicans run DC right now or anything like that. What I could see is they might start the process now, but not push it to DC until the Democrats hold the positions where they can finally pass the legislation and then make this happen. I could see it as far as like securing this for good, but I as of this moment.

Don't think that California is at any risk of actually breaking off into two separate states. That would be phenomenal because the vast majority of people that I know that live in California are staunch Republicans and staunchly conservative. It is only the big cities in the big hubs of mass populations, which is systemic across any anywhere you live, a big city is going to be full of liberally minded people. And so yeah, the vast majority of the

state does not feel represented. I would have to personally agree with that. But anyway, last item on the docket odd that this is a BBC article to talk about this, but I'm happy about it, and I figure we should end this one on a light note. We covered a bevy of more serious topics on this episode. US restaurant chain Cracker Barrel scraps new logo after backlash. For anybody

that missed it, Cracker Barrel changed their logo. They took away the old man and the barrel and tried to go for this new modern look for some reason, and they got so much backlash they decided to uh, go ahead and change it back. So let's read about it here. US restaurant chained Cracker Barrel has abandoned plans to adopt a new logo following fears backlash direct quote here. We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have.

Our new logo is going away and our old Timer will remain, the company said in a social media posts. Cracker Barrel received criticism after it unveiled a modern version of its logo which scrapped the old Timer figure. President Trump, who was among those slamming the rebrand, applauded the reversal by saying, congratulations Cracker Barrel on changing your logo back to what it was. All of your fans very much appreciated. I have a hard time believing Trump's even eating at

one of these establishments. That could be wrong. The new version of the logo, which was unveiled along with a new menu on the nineteenth of August, removed the image of a man sitting in a chair and leaning against the barrel known as the old Timer, and replaced with an emblem featuring only the chain's name. That sparked accusations that the company, known for its Southern style comfort food

and nostalgic atmosphere was abandoning its roots. Trump urged the brand to return to its old logo and quote, admit a mistake based on customer response the Ultimate Poll, and manage the company better than ever before. End quote. He said that the chain has got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right, make

Cracker Barrel a winner again. That's a direct quote from old Donnie T. David Johnson's CEO of branding agency Strategic Vision PR Group, told the BBC US partner CBS that the rebrand was a flop direct quote on that word. What they did wrong is they went against their brand story, which was the old logo that reflected the southern whimsical atmosphere of the stores. Shares in the company nosedived by

about seven percent following the announce wow. In its statement on X announcing the reversal on Thursday evening, the company said, at Cracker Barrel, It's always been and always will be, about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our seventy thousand hardworking employees look forward to

welcoming you to our table soon. Found in nineteen sixty nine in Lebanon, Tennessee, there are now more than six hundred Cracker Barrel restaurants across the US. Stores typically have a front porch with rocking chairs and a gift shop. Restaurants. Yeah, we talked about the Southern style food such as mass potatoes, hash brown casserole, and macaroni and cheese. So whoever was in charge of this rebrand instantly regretted this decision. Their

stock prices plummeted. And I'm also curious what the difference was in the old menu versus the new menu. I don't know what they took off or added. I don't know, but I for one, am happy that they're going back to their original logo. I personally love Cracker Barrel. But anyway, Yes, Sam.

Why why would you change anything? But they just they for some reason, when they go to the open market, they get this new border directors, a new CEO, whatever the case is. They get all these quote unquote business experts who are probably fresh out of college and have never actually accomplished anything on their own to come in and tell them all the things that they're doing wrong, even though they got to their level of success by

doing exactly what they know how to do right. And it never works out, It always is a net negative. But for some reason they keep trying. So perhaps Cracker Barrel saw the error of their ways and will not make such a ridiculous mistake again. We can only hope, yes. See anyway, all right, like I said, I wanted to end this episode on a lighter note once again, for anybody who would like to join in the conversation next week, the link is in the description below. Go to the

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