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any real difference or change in their electricity bill. That's fine, But if you live around somewhere that's got a AI data center, it's very possible that you're gonna see an increase in your electric bill through something that you had nothing to do with, and that's just the way it shakes out. Then we're gonna talk about the bill that was just passed in Washington, DC. And of course there's things going on around Trump right now. There always is.

There just always seems to be things going on around Trump. And I'm not even saying that that's necessarily a bad thing. Some of this he has brought on to himself full tilt. Some of it is just people talking just to talk,

and it's Trump derangement. Syndrome on both sides. I'm not a huge fan on that topic of how he mentioned that Rob Reiner Rip was suffering from Trump derangement syndrome and then refer Trump referred to Trump's self in the third person in a press conference with that, And I don't know if he thought he was being funny or what. In my opinion, it was in poor taste, you know, seeing is how he and his wife are just brutally murdered allegedly by their son or whatever. It's a mess.

It's a mess. We're gonna talk about some things with the US gov. We're gonna talk about some things of what's going down in Venezuela. Then we're probably gonna talk about the Russia Ukraine conversation because apparently Russian diplomats are making their way to Miami this weekend to discuss possible ceasefire terms. We'll see how that shakes out. There's a lot of time between now and then, but we'll see how it goes. But uh, you know, get into it here, y'all.

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let's get into it here. So this is from Bloomberg. That's basically saying AI data centers are sending power bills soaring. Wholesale electricity costs as much as two hundred and sixty seven percent more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers because of course it is. And again this is not for everybody. If you happen to live somewhere around a data center, you're you're gonna you're gonna eat some of

this cost, you know, And this works two ways. We talked about this on the cult I think a while back, actually probably two years ago. So around my area, we

have a lot of heavy industry. We have a lot of chemical plants or refineries, all these things, and a lot of these places produce their own electricity, right, they have their own cogin units, and whatever electricity they make that they don't use, they will actually sell back to the city that they have found themselves in, and that goes a long way, especially whenever you know, these types of facilities have the potential for leaks and explosions and

whatever else. It doesn't happen often, but it absolutely is a thing that does happen from time to time, and it goes over a long way to smooth over relations with the local population if you're helping them with their bills in multiple ways, or helping them with infrastructure. Right, if some new highway gets poured and it was a collection of four or five plants that compile money together to pour this new road, the local city is a lot more forgiving when things go sideways, because boy, they

will eventually go sideways. So instead of these data centers, they're actually drawing more power rather than producing their own. So this is making a lot of certain areas that have higher electricity bills. Let's get into it here. Data centers are proliferating in Virginia in a blind A blind man in Baltimore suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills, don't know where the blind guy comes from. But let's

get into it here. The Maryland city is well over an hour's drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a fifty seven year old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about eighty percent higher than they were about three years ago. They're going up and up, he said. You

wonder what is your breaking point? It's an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom, as energy hungry data centers and send power costs to records in much of the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy. The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving up electricity bills, piling onto rising food. Rising prices for food, housing,

and other essentials already straining consumers. That's starting to have economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs. Yet those same facilities are a lynchpin of US leadership in the global AI race. Yeah, that's the big thing right now. We've talked about that before. A Bloomberg News analysis of wholesale electricity prices for tens of thousands of locations across the country revealed the effect of the AI

boom on the power market with unprecedented granularity. Okay, the locations and prices were tracked and aggregated monthly by grid status. An energy data analytics platform, Bloomberg analyzes data in relation to data center locations from dc Byte and found that electricity now costs as much as two hundred and sixty seven percent more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity.

About two thirds of the power grade consumer in the US runs off of state or regional grid where the system operators manages to the trading of energy. These wholesale commodity costs are passed onto households and businesses on their utility bills, which then include other charges to maintain and expand the network that can affect even customers who aren't in close proximity to data centers, since their energy relies

on the same grid every day. Wholesale electricity prices are measured in real time by location's marginal pricing points on the power grid called nodes. LMPs are primarily made up of the cost to produce the energy and congestion. Analyzing data from twenty five thousand nodes used by seven regional transmission authorities, Bloomberg News estimated how much wholesale prices in

the lower forty eight states have changed since twenty twenty. So, I mean, looking at the graph here, you could see how it's just gone up overall in every area where you see a yellow dot. And if you're not watching this right now, you need to go to Cajun Knight

on Patreon. But essentially all of these areas are going to see rises in their electricity bill, especially as we are getting into the winter months when you're expecting to do so anyway, So I thought that was a little interesting tidbit that was worth talking about because now, as of a couple of months ago, they were talking about how AI demand is driving up energy costs for everyday Americans. Let's talk about it over here as well. Let's listen.

near those data centers. A new analysis from Bloomberg News found wholesale electricity costs more than doubled over the last five years, and the bill is being passed on to every day Americans like you and I. So let's bring in Leonardo Galletti, and investigative data and data visualization reporter at Bloomberg News. Leonardo, thank you so much for joining us. You made maps to show not only the increase, but where those price jumps are really happening across the country.

Walk us through what we're seeing here. I want to pull up one of those maps, Hi.

sometimes double what they were paying in twenty twenty. And so, you know, we spoke to people and photograph people from very different demographic and different walks of life, and they all express the same concern and frustration for the prices that they were paying every month. But what I think is interesting is that even though prices increased for everybody in that area, some of those people are more affected

than others. They're more now faced with much bigger strain and having to make significant sacrifices like, for example, choosing between buying food or basic necessities or paying their power bill.

even close to this that I have. So we got hit with a hurricane couple years ago, right Hurricane fran scene, if I'm not mistaken, and I actually put that on

the Cajun Night YouTube channel. This hurricane wrecked the area of the plant that I was working at at the time, and they had to send power company individual workers from different states to try to get in here and redo these The problem is that these power lines and these poles were set up in the middle of bayous, like legitimate bayous, and they had to get special equipment just to get out to it to make the repairs to

the poles, to get power back to these people. A buddy of mine that I worked with, who was a local his house, his personal electricity bill was eight hundred dollars a month for like six months because the power company started charging the locals extra to cover the cost of all that excess work that was done. That's an extenuating circumstance, and I get that, but that's that's still wrong, right,

that's fucked. Now cut to AI that so many people love, and so many people would say, oh, I'm willing to pay that for the AI. So many people are not. So many people are not. I know, I'm not so I yeah. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, so of course I saw that we need to bring it up. Now let's get into some politicken. Today the House passes GOP healthcare bill without ACA extensions. So here's what we

need to know about this, all right. The House has passed the GOP backed healthcare bill that does not include an extension of expiring tax credits that help millions of Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The bill faces an unclear future in the Senate, where it would need support from several Democrats to pass. GOOP leaders unveil the bill, known as the Lower Healthcare Premiums for All Americans Act. The way they name these bits

of legislation, it's a bit on the nose, you know. Anyway, Last week it would expand association health plans with lower premiums for some Affordable Care Act and rollees, and in act reforms aimed at decreasing drug costs. But the exclusion of an extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits sparked a revolt by a handful of moderate Republicans earlier in the day, none of whom ultimately voted against the bill.

Four GOP members signed a Democratic Discharge petition to force a vote on extending the subsidies for three years, seeing up a final vote early in the new year. The moderates have argued that letting the subsidies expire on January first will lead to price hikes for millions of Americans and give Democrats a potential political issue heading into next year's midterm elections. Yeah, the midterms. I keep going back and forth. If I actually care about the mid terms,

they seem nominal rights. It's the pendulum swinging to whatever opposite and sometimes the same direction as whatever the executive branch has going on. I don't think that it's as big of a deal as the politicians always make it out to be. It is for them, some of them might get primaried and lose their seats, but like other than that, it's not a big deal at least not from what I can tell. But sure it's gonna give

some party leverage in the midterms. Sure anyway, The successful discharge petition was a direct rebuke of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has refused to bring an extension up for a vote. He insisted earlier in the day that he has not lost control of the House. Yeah, he's he's holding on to that as of this moment. As of this moment, Johnson says Democrats a discharge petition will get a vote

in January. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it's inevitable that the Democrats discharge petition on three year extension will be considered on the floor when lawmakers return in January. It will be on the floor that first week of January when we returned. Johnson's a report Wednesday night a bit repetitive here. We also said Republicans plan to hold additional votes on their health care policies when they return, and then he literally just said that again. House cancels Friday votes.

House Republican leadership announced that Friday's votes have been canceled. Thursday is the House's last day in session for the year. Okay, so they're all taking a little Christmas break. How about that House passes GP healthcare plan. We already talked about this.

In a two sixteen to two eleven vote, the House approved to build that the Republicans say, well, lower health insurance premiums for one hundred of Americans, but will not include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits. I'm on board with this as of this moments, as of the way I'm reading this, YO, lower premiums for everybody. That sounds dope. I mean, it doesn't take somebody with a lot of wherewithal to know that our healthcare system

is drastically overpriced. So lower premiums, hopefully lower costs in the medical field overall, sounds guccy. Sounds good on the surface. However, I'm sure there's a drawback to it that we're just not seeing yet. You know. Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky was the sole Republican to vote against it. YO, Massy just be out here. Massey is just out there doing his damn thing. I'm not calling him a rhino a lot of I've seen a lot of people start to

call Massi a rhino. I think he's more libertarian than a rhino, and sometimes libertarians can take the form of something a little more liberal. Than people feel comfortable with, and in some cases a little more conservative than people are comfortable with. And I get that. But Massey is

just out here doing his own thing, inn't he. GOP leadership unveiled the plan less than a week ago as they've faced increasing pressure for moderates in their party to hold a vote on extending the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits,

which lapse on December thirty. First, the tax credits help eligible people cover premiums for their health insurance purchases through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, but House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to put their bipartisan legislation on the floor to extend the subsidies with reforms like income limits, and Republicans on the House Rules Committee blocked their last ditch effort to amend the bill. In response, for modern Republicans signed

onto a Democratic discharge petition. All right, we already kind of talked about that, So now let's hear from old Mike Johnson himself to give us a little bit more insight into the situation.

do not want a solution. They just demonstrated because they voted against this bill. They want an issue for the election. It is based on a false narrative. The Democrats broke America's health care system when they gave us the ACA, the Unaffordable Care Act, fifteen years ago. They promised that premiums would come down, that access would increase, in quality of health care would increase.

narrative that the Democrats have tried to create. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the other Democrats are going to try to say, by some stretch of the imagination, that the Republicans are responsible for the failed healthcare system when Republicans have not voted for that system for fifteen years.

You know there, you've you've heard all the machinations of how it came about. There's no ill will here, there's not. This is not a challenge to the Speaker's leadership. It's a uh it's they're they're using the rules. Here's the reality, everybody. We have a small majority. We have a razor thin majority, a record small majority, and so things operate differently when you have a small majority.

You're going to see that demonstrator. You're going to see that we'll continue and everybody will be working together.

know if they're so connected with the American people. So if it would be nice if we get into something to where all right, well, these people who are in politics and power need to for one month out of the year try to survive off of the lowest income. That way, Hey, maybe we are screw over the people. Maybe we need to give people more money or better benefits or better medical you know, they're just they have

no skin in the game. Like they can talk all they want about Okay, well we're gonna do this for you guys, what we're to do for you guys. Well, I mean, since it doesn't affect them one way or the other, they can do what they did before and you know, and have like the Democrats that they'll walk out and then do their job for a number of weeks because they've gotten no skin in the game, like they give put some skin in the game, Like, let's circumcise this fuckers like you know.

word go. They are completely detached from anything that any you know, random citizen in Anywheresville, USA, actually is dealing with. So for them, it's all about the policy itself. It's all about who's back you're scratching, and what they can do to make the next election cycle better for them, and what kickbacks they're gonna get. It's yeah, I agree. I don't know if if this is true and the premiums go down for everybody, cool, I'm in favor of that.

Don't really know what that's gonna do. As far as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare or whatever else. I don't know what that's gonna do in regard to people that are in that kind of a situation. But yeah, I don't necessarily see this going positively for everybody overall. I might be wrong. I might be wrong, and this is the blessing in disguise to undo, like he said, fifteen years worth of damage that we have been dealing

with this whole time. It's possible, But again, like he just heard him say, if the Democrats are so hardcore against and the Republicans are so hardcore for it, then at the end of the vote, everybody was cool with each other. Everybody was very like he said, there was collegiate you know, all everybody was cool. Everybody was having good time here. Whatever, it's all in act. It's all in act. There's a few of them that really are as shitty as they portray. Hakeem Jefferies is one of them.

He is a shit human being that calls for the murder of his colleagues and has openly done so. But aside from like the ones in two and there's Republicans that are just as bad. Dan Crenshaw as one of them. Can't stand him, you know, for many reasons, but whatever. But aside from the ones that are more prolific in the dumb shit, the majority of them, it's a stage, it's an act, you know it. That's how this goes down. So I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait

and see how this shakes out. And again, what is this going to do for the situation in January? Because the government shut down, all that went away until January, So it's very possible We're gonna see yet another government shut down take place in the middle of January, and that one might last some new record length and whatever. I don't know. Maybe this will be the lynchpin on that one. Maybe this will cool some of the tensions on that one. I who's to say? Anyway, Sam, I

am glad to see you in here. Bro. How you feeling.

I thought that was that's the kind of guy you want in these positions. It's dope cut two. Eddie Gallagher is a sailor, a Navy seal, who fell into a situation where they were trying to fry him for war crimes, even though all of the evidence was stacked showing he did nothing wrong. He played everything by the book. He didn't even step outside of the line of what could be considered acceptable behavior in a war zone, nothing like that.

But because we so wait, wait, wait, wait, so because of somebody getting word that they didn't necessarily get the whole context to and ran with this story, Eddie Gallagher was about to get fried for war crimes that he did not commit. He reached out to Dan Crenshaw, his seal brother. Right, the seals are a very very small community. I think at any given time there might only be

ten thousand of them period in the United States. Right, and so he reached out to Dan offline and was like, hey, bro, I know we've never really met each other whatever, but I am a seal in need. Here's the situation, here's the truth of the matter. They're trying to fry me. You go into bat for me would help me a lot right now. Instead of having his boys back, Dan Crenshaw led the charge to fry Eddie Gallagher alive, knowing

the entire context. Yeah, so he had all the full story, He had all the context and still decided, you know what, Nah, screw that dude for no reason whatsoever. It didn't help him politically whatever. Cut two. Sean Ryan made a comment just a couple of weeks ago about how, you know, you have these politicians that get super rich out of nowhere, and it's because of their dealings with stock trading and

all these things. And you know, they'll all invest in a certain company right before there's new legislation pass to help a certain industry, and so all those investments they just made just skyrocket, almost like they knew something was up. That's nothing new. Well, Pelosi has been the most prolific, but all the.

right whatever. So Sean Ryan, who was a Seal at one time then became a CIA asset for a bit cool cool, he had made this comment and he didn't name drop Dan Crenshaw outright, but he did say, you know, then you'll have these guys that are dropping like four hundred million dollars on these extravagant birthday parties and all

these things. And it's like, how can you justify that when there's so many Americans that are in need, Like there's there's nonprofits for veterans that you could be given this money, especially you know, these types of politicians and our veterans. Whatever. So he didn't name Dan Crenshaw, but it's pretty obvious he was talking about Crenshaw. So Crenshaw then decides to DM Sean Ryan and said, hey, man, I've got some of my boys in Sealed Team six

that said, you've been talking shit. I would appreciate if you kept my name out of your mouth and it wasn't threatening, but it also was a bit ominous, I'll give you that. So then they slapped Sean Ryan with legal paperwork, basically giving him a cease and assist to stop talking about this shit. So last week, Sean Ryan led out a statement to YouTube. It's like an eight minute monologue where he's basically, here's what happens, start to finish,

here's my response, here's what Dan said. So basically, what I'm gonna tell you is, fuck you. I have the freedom of speech and I'm gonna continue saying whatever the hell I'm gonna say. And if you feel some type of way about that, then, like I guess I'll see you in court because I don't think you really want to go to court whenever. These things that I'm talking about are really damn against you. So yeah, anyway, yeah, I'm not a big fan of Crenshaw for multiple reasons.

And then Crenshaw released a statement after that which made him look like a bitch. It's not that he released the statement. What up, Royce. I'm sorry, all good dude, But anyway, so I'm not a I'm not a massive fan of Dan Crenshaw anymore. But yeah, yeah, that's that's that's that one anyway. Yeah, weird tangent on that, And like I said, I want to make the whole episode about it, although we really could. Just that's the the over under on it. All right, So let's see, uh

get into the chat here. Before we get to the next topic of discussion. Tony says he can't stay long early flight Tomorrow's kids are watching Harry Potter, so I'm muted. Yeah, that sucks. He also talked about he got his finger crush. Yeah, Royce, uh got his finger crush. For anybody who wasn't there for the pre show conversation anyway. Uh oh, that's another good one. I forgot to bring up. Bongino has stepped down. All right, all right, we're gonna bring that. We are

absolutely gonna talk about that one. Hold on, continue bepep you and you know what, as a matter of fact, we're gonna talk about that one. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that one next as a matter of fact, because the next one that have after that is talking about how fentanyl is now classified as weapon of mass destruction, and that's gonna take into a whole other side tangent. But anyway, all right, So we're gonna talk about Bongino next. Trump wants to say in character, even when that character

is repulsive. Yeah, he really does. Tony said it, and I have to agree. Like, listen, I understand that we all voted him in because he's an asshole and that made us feel good. You know, in a certain regard. We like the pettiness and we like that he is so like, what you see is what you get, and if you don't like it, then tough titty. It is what it is. And there's something to be said for that. I get it. However, there's a part where committing to

the bit can work to your detriment. And especially when we're talking about Rob Reiner and his wife, rip to both of them. And granted maybe they weren't the biggest fans of Trump. Ooh ah, somebody in Hollywood that's not a fan of Trump. That color me shocked, right, And then in a press he made some statement, he put a post on X or on truth social or whatever. It was basically saying that you know, yeah, he died, but he was also suffering from a long standing mental

illness of Trump derangement syndrome. And it's like that's that's there's a time and place for you to make dark, humorous jokes. Maybe not the week that these individuals were brutally murdered allegedly by their son. Maybe now's not the time, right cut too. In a press conference, Trump basically just tripled down on the assholeness. And it's like, again, I

see what you're trying to do here. There's a time and place and you're making yourself look atrocious right now, and it's it's yeah, it's not a good look, Sam, go ahead.

realize this dude has your address. You've been mailing with him correspondence for a while, Like how first of all, how the fuck did you meet this guy? Yeah?

manufacturing facility in the parish that I live. And it's like, you know, on the surface, Oh, it's a green entity and it does this and this, it's so good for us. I'm like, have any of you ever looked at what a battery manufacturing facility does to the local environment. I'm not even a big hippie by any means, but like, it's a quick Google search away to see that that's a really bad idea. Data centers are the same way.

It doesn't it's not bad for the environment, but it draws power it believe or not draws water for cooling and gives nothing back, nothing that's actually tangible or usable. It's so dumb. So yeah, at least people like you said in Indiana are actually thinking critically good things. Uh. Moving on, Daryl Cooper believes a quid pro quote between the US and Russia has already been reached. US gets regime change in Venezuela, Russia gets victory and possibly regime

change in Ukraine. Okay, we're gonna be talking about the Russia Ukraine situation near and Venezuela here in a moment as well. Tony says, I've been opting out of getting photographed at the airport. It's super easy and totally works, just so you know. Okay, so everybody keep that in your toolbox. Absolutely yellow on the West coast, welcome. I don't know what that was about. Yellow on the West coast. I don't exactly know what that was about. But all right,

oh oh the yellow for the map on the west coast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, data centers are big on the west coast. Absolutely. So you saw that map, you saw it was the upper the northeast.

I still feel the same way about Musk. I don't see him as an inherent evil or an inherent good. I see him as a chaotic neutral that's one step away from becoming a superhero and also equally one step away from becoming a super villain. Massy, as far as the political spectrum is concerned, he's listed as a Republican. He's just as liable to vote for a Democratic policy as hardcore as he is to vote for a Republican policy, Like there's really nothing standing in the way of him

just doing whatever the hell he wants. But I think that that's the people of Kentucky love him is because he at least he seems to be very authentic, and I think the people are like craving authenticity in their politicians right now. So yeah, I'll take I'll take Massy for being what he is. Let's see female anime characters. What in the hell did Samson that Dwang and him?

I don't know. With that oh, with that dog in him, I'm sorry, made the glass make to where I can't be reading the female anime Catchers with that dog in him.

some people. Anime as a source, I'm in the middle. I'm not like a super huge anime nerd, but I know enough about enough of them to where I can, like semi speak intelligently on it. So there's that anyway. All right, now, let's get back to the conversation at large, shall we. So Dan Bongino is leaving his post as FBI Deputy Director next month. This dropped just today. We were we were talking about it earlier today. Apparently there was some things about Dan Bongino's staff all quitting from

out from under him or something along those lines. We didn't really know. I was doing research for the Kwansa episode that we're gonna shooting tomorrow, and like cool cool, cool cut too, Nah, dan Bongino quit and he apparently, according to what Trump said, he wants to go back to podcasting. He wants to go back to his show. I got a hard believing unless he starts talking about all the ill shit that they were doing. I got a hard time believing that he's gonna have a loyal

listener base. But hey, I could be wrong. Let's read into it here. CBS News. Dan Bongino leaving his post as FBI Deputy Director next month. He will be leaving his role in January. He announced it on a social media post on Wednesday and direct quote, I want to thank President Trump, ag Bondi, and Director Portel for the opportunity to serve with purpose, he wrote on a post on x Most importantly, I want to thank you, my

fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. Nobody asked you to take that position, None of the American people like although I will say whenever he and Cash Pttell took that spot like or they were offered it, and then when they were appointed to this position. I was one of the ones that was very excited about that right because both of them were conspiracy theorists. Both of them were very hard chargers as far as releasing the files,

complete transparency, the government corruptions got to stop. And it wasn't just Epstein. They talked about a lot of different things on the conspiratorial take that I was hoping that they would push through with their positions in the FBI. To watch them turncoat as hard as they did, as fast as they did, was a slap in the face

to the American people, honestly. But sure, yeah, Dan, You're welcome on behalf of the American people for the position that none of us actually asked you to take, but had a lot of high hopes, and you dashed them all against the rock. Anyway. President Trump appeared to confirm Bongino's exit earlier Wednesday, telling reporters Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to a show.

FBI director Cash Hotel called Dan Bongino the best partner I could have asked for in helping restore the FBI. You didn't restore the FBI. Neither of you restored the FBI like at all. If anything, you showed how incompetent y'all are, and also how incompetent the FBI as a whole is. So I guess thank you for that. Sure writing on X not only completed his mission, he far exceeded it, Yo, What metrics are you using to make

these statements? Cash, mister Patel, director Patel, whatever the fuck monikers you want to put on him with, what standard and metrics are you using to say that he completed his mission one year, not even one full year after taking that position, but also exceeded it. I would love to know.

safer because of a service? Again, in what realm do you believe that Americans are safer now than they were last year? I would love to know, because what we haven't had a car careening down Bourbon Street since we didn't have the Trump Tower shooting and car bombing situation. But we've had shootings, we've had fraud, we've had terrorist plots,

we've had all these things. I just heard recently that they foiled a alleged terrorist plot that was supposed to go down New Year's Eve or New Year's time frame or something like that, and everybody's saying, see Candae, soone said there'd be a nine to eleven style event, and then the event that they're talking about is the thing in Australia, which I'm just gonna be the one to say it. Comparing the shooting on Bondai Beach to nine to eleven, I don't understand the actual logic is being

applied to somebody who's making those connections. Gonna be honest, two gunmen that killed eleven people versus allegedly we all know nine to eleven was an inside job. I get that, but per the official narrative versus what was like five seven terrorists that killed thousands, I don't. I personally don't see the connection at all, But all right, sure, totally. So, yeah, apparently there was another terrorist attack that was supposed to

take place, super alleged, super up in the air. If you start taking the sources away and start looking at it critically, I'm not really sure if it's exactly what they're making it out to be. But thank god we had Dan Bongino and cash betelling the FBI to foil this heinous plot. I don't know. I don't know, Royce, go ahead.

a conspiratorial take. I understand that let me take off my Cajun Knight hat and put on my kid cult to conspiracy have for just a second here, It would shock me if Dan Bongino is dead within six months from some plane crash or or a random car accident or whatever the case would be, or oh, my goodness, he randomly suffered a heart attack the stress of the job was too much for him and he couldn't hack

it or whatever. I could see that going down very heavily, especially if he's trying to go back to being a podcaster calling out government corruption when he was the former underboss to the FBI, Like, that's that's gonna be a hard transition. It's gonna be a very hard transition if this is true. If he did all of a sudden redevelop a backbone and decide that he can't be a

part of this this malarkey anymore. I got a hard time seeing him making it back to the civilian sector and picking up where he left off.

is with a bullet and cement shoes. I can only tell you two people that I know of that gut away from the mafia and still alive. That Sammy and Michael.

I just can't place it. He actually tortured, beaten and killed two of the k K members and took the third one, and it had the third guy lead him to the bodies.

get it. Like the twin towers go down, everybody, the army, the Marine Corps, everybody deploys and gets up in arm to find one guy. One guy. Nah, dude, if a Sicilian would have been in office, two Sicilians from Jersey would have been there and back in twenty four hours they had done just like a hit found him in his cave with a baseball bat. That would have been it.

by the day. I'll say that much.

He could paint ooh he still failed out. Still was a corporal in the in the you know, the the World War War, So.

it back into the civilian sector again. It's very possible that he gets scot here in the next few months. Continuing on, it says from Bongino, the biggest lifestyle change is family wise. It was a lot and it's been tough on the family. People ask all the time, do you like it? No, I don't. At another time during the interview, Bongino said, I gave up everything for this. Yeah you did. You lost your entire show, your listener base, your fandom, your everything, and you've lost all credibility by

the masses. So yeah. Over the summer, Bongino clashed with other Trump administration staffers over a Justice Department and FBI

review of the Epstein investigation. As a political pundit, Bongino had pushed the government to release more evidence on Epstein and suggested to cover up was afoot, but during this time atop the FBI, the agency's review found that Epstein had quote no client list, and there was no evidence to support changes or charges against others, finding that frustrated some Trump allies, y'all think, sources told CBS News at

the time. Bongino attended a White House meeting in July with Attorney General Bondi and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, which god Susie Wiles is also in hot water right now, basically saying today, I've seen so many reports saying that she claims that Trump speaks with the arrogance of a drunkard. I might be paraphrasing a bit, but you know, I don't disagree with her. But also if you're working in the White House in that regard, maybe don't shit on your boss. You know, I don't know,

I don't know Susie Wiles is. She's a person. She is a person. Focusing on the fallout of the review, That discussion resulted in a confrontation with Bondi. At the time, fan Gino was weighing whether to resign from his role. Weeks later, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was tapped by mister Trump to share the role of co deputy director

with Bongino. Typically, the FBI Deputy director role has been a career staffer at the bureau, but neither of the Trump administration's selections for the role had a history with the FBI before being appointed, which was the point. Right. In his role at the FBI, I bon Gino led a charge to re examine unsolved high profile cases, including the twenty twenty one DC pipe bombings, which, come to

find out, was placed by a cop. But of course it was because of the jan sixers, and it was the violent insurrection, and except for the only person that was killed was a horrible, horrible accident and the pipe bomb that was found was actually planted by a badged DC police officer. What that's crazy, Like I said, moving

on here. Earlier this month, the FBI arrested the man suspected of planting the pipe bombs outside of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on January fifth, twenty twenty one. Investigators have not revealed a potential motive yet, and core proceedings in the case have just begun. Could it be because it was an inside job and it was only put there to be found to further a

certain narrative. I know, I'm just conspiracy theorist, but all right, Well, for years Bongino spread a conspiracy theory that the act may have been an inside job and that the bombs are planted by federal law enforcement, and that was later confirmed. Again, It's very possible that Bongino has just gotten sickened by the whole order of the day and has decided to go back and re establish his morals and re establish his backbone, and he's leaving because he sees this operation

for what it is. It's possible, but the fact that you lean so heavily into it for months and months and months months, and now you're developing a spine like no, the time to be forthright and honest has passed. I don't know. It's who knows. He might have an insane comeback arc that's about to start for him. We can

only hope him pray. You know, we will keep everybody posted as the Dan Bongino thing plays out here soon and hey, I'll be on the lookout to see what his career, what kind of turns his career takes next. But anyway, all right, the next course of action, just one pill, all it takes. Columbus Recovery Community praises Trump's order classifying fentanyl or fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That is a thing, that is the thing that just happened here. Trump has now declared a certain drug to

be a weapon of mass destruction. Depending on who you ask, this could be because he is trying to come after Maduro in Venezuela, and he is saying that fentanyl is coming into our country from China via Venezuela. I gotta be honest with you, that doesn't seem to be accurate from my layman's perspective. Most of the drugs that are

leaving Venezuela are actually headed to Africa and Europe. Yes, there are some boats that are absolutely on their way to America, and those have been getting the shit blown out of them, for sure, for sure. But Maduro himself, especially now that Trump has gone at it in this way, most of his shipments were supposed to be going to Africa and Europe. And if we're looking at where the fentanyl is coming from, we need to look at the

JNNGC cartel or the Sinaloa cartel. They're the ones that are getting these shipments from China and cutting drugs with them to get better bang for buck on their profit margins. I can't really find much about Venezuela in this, but we're gonna talk about how fentanyl could could be used

as a weapon of mass destruction. There was an incident where Russian special forces pumped an entire theater full of fentanyl powder or fentanyl gas for lack of better words, not exactly gas, but like powdered form, drop of point. It's not like saying sarin gas. It's not actually a gas. It's the same thing with the fentanyl thing. And instead of trying to negotiate with the terrorists that were holding these people hostage in the theater. They just said, we'll

kill everybody with fentanyl. We'll talk about that here in a minute. So I don't know, but uh yeah, Trump has now classified fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Before we play this clip and read the article, Sam, what you got a lot.

mass destruction. So we're gonna read about this now. This is from a local news station here, and we're gonna play this little clip about it first, and we're gonna read about it. Let's learn together. And Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. This is an unprecedented move here. It's designed to treat the synthetic opioid crisis as a national security threat rather than a public health issue.

reiterates what was just said. But let's let in the world to remove. Okay, that just went that scared the Jesus out of me. I didn't know that was going to play. So now let's read into the White House presidential press release. Here. This is the Presidential Action Executive Order Designate Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction by the authority invested in me a President, by the Constitution. In the Laws of the United States of America. It

is hereby ordered Section one, Purpose and Policy elicit. Fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic Two milligrams an almost undetectable trace amount is equivalent to ten to fifteen grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentonyl overdoses. Yeah, I saw was something saying it was like four hundred thousand just in the last few years. It's it's pretty insane. And I don't even know if that was a verified source.

I just do you hear these crazy stories? How. I have a buddy I served with who died from an accidental fentanyl overdose very similar to the story we just heard, and that was in Ohio. My boys in Indiana, like it's a thing. I went to his funeral. It was. It was horrible. And his parents were cops. Like his funeral, the reception was hailed at the local Fraternal Order of Police you know house in Indiana. His dad was a cop,

his mom had worked for the police department. It wasn't like, you know, these were there's a family that was all broken up about like, no, these are good people, and he was a good person. I don't know if he started like experimenting with drugs recreationally. I don't know if he was out one night and just decided to take like a little hit off a joint and didn't know what was I don't know the full extent, but I do know that it was an accidental o d from fentanyl.

So yeah, I absolutely can resonate with this one. The manufacturing distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized crime networks, threatens our national security and fuel when in the world is this red thing on my screen and fuels lawlessness

in our hemisphere and at our borders. The production and sale of fentanyl by foreign terrorists, organizations, and cartels fund these entities operations which include assassinations, terrorist attacks, and insurgencies around the world, and allow these entities to erode our domestic security and the well being of our nation. The two cartels that are predominantly responsible for the distribution of fentanyl in the United States engage in armed conflicts over

territory and to protect their operations. Further, the potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for the concentrated, large scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States. As President of the United States, my highest duty is the defense of our country and its citizens. Accordingly, I hereby designate illicit fentanyl and its core pre cursors chemicals as weapons of mass destruction. Section two the implementation.

The heads of relevant executive or executive departments and agencies shall take appropriate actions to implement this order and eliminate the threat of illicit fitanyl and its core precursor chemicals to the United States. This includes the following actions. Attorney General shall immediately pursue investigations and prosecutions into fentanyl trafficking, including through criminal charges, as appropriate, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances.

The Secretary of State and the State Treasury shall pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions in accordance with applicable laws. For those involved in or supporting the manufacturer, distribution, and sale of illicit fitnyl and its corporate cursor chemicals.

The Secretary of War and Attorney General shall determine whether the threats posed by illicit fentanyl and its impact on the United States warrant the provision of resources from the Department of War and the Department of Justice to aid in the enforcement of Title eighteen by the United States Code.

As consistent with ten USC two eight two. The Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall update all directives regarding armed Forces response to chemical indict or incidents in the homeland to include the threat of illicit fentanyl and to ensure the United States use

the full array of appropriate counter fentanyl tools. The Secretary of Homeland Security, as consistent with applicable laws, and in coordination with the head of relevant Agencies as appropriate, shall identify threat networks related to fentanyl smuggling, using weapons of mass destruction and non proliferation related threats intelligence to support the full spectrum of counter fentanyl operations. Okay, so it goes into some of the definitions of what it means

by elici fentanyl. It means fentanyl that is manufactured, distributed, or dispensed, or possessed with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense in violation with Section four oh one and four oh six of the Controlled Substance Act. The core precursor chemicals means the core chemicals that create alica finnyl in its analogs such as pie peradone or the other PI

paradon based substances. General provisions is Section four doesn't really The general provisions is pretty much give the backstory to all of the other kind of conversational pieces here, go ahead, raven So.

those things that killing off people. I think it was introduced for the sole reason to kill off the drug population. That way, it just lowers numbers and just be like, oh, well, just is kind of happening.

manage the population. And it's a big issue. I mean, it's killing people off left and right. Kids are the ones that it's getting the most of. Yeah, children are

the ones that are experimenting. I don't know if you ever heard a couple of those stories that came out the last few years of the girls that one of her friends gave her a pill and she thought it was like a tunnel or something like that, and I think it was like a half of a oxyar or an adderall or ecstasy or something like that, and it was laced with fentanyl and it killed her pretty much right then and there. Yeah, lots of children have died from it.

Russian law enforcement authorities stored a Moscow theater October twenty sixth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is This was posted November one, two thousand and two. So October twenty sixth, two thousand and two. After pumping gas into the building where Chessian militants were holding more than seven hundred people hostage, many hostages rescued, but one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and seventeen hostages died from the effects of the gas, according to the media reports.

So there was give or take like twenty I'm I don't remember all the details on this one, but later there was like twenty gunmen that were holding these people hostage, seven hundred of them, and it killed a seventh of the people that were there. One out of every seven people died from some sort of a fentanyl overdose. Oopsie, Daisy. I mean, Russia's never been like one to really care about their civilian population. Look what's going on in Ukraine.

But we'll get to that in a bit. Anyway. Despite Russia's early reluctance to name the gas, help Minister Yuri Schevchenko, I think I killed that one set in a press conference on October thirtieth, that it was based on the opiate fentanyl. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed fentanyl as an incapacitating chemical agent. The death toll in Russia's early reluctance to identify the gas have raised concerns that the use of the substance might violate the

Chemical Weapons Convention. So even if you're using this chemical that is just all up and down the streets in America right now, if you're using it as a weapon, it very well might go against international war crime law, same as like using mustard gas that's fun, which Russia ratified in nineteen ninety seven. Chevchenko said, no chemical substances that could fall within the International Weapons Convention were used in the course of this operation. It wasn't like a

horrible weapon. It was fentanyl. So now come around twenty four years later, twenty three give or take, we now are listing fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and I'm all for it. The CWC does not prohibit riot control agents define as chemicals that can produce rapid excuse me this, I'm direct quote this one. A riot control agent is defined as chemicals that quote can produce rapidly inhuman sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within

a short time following termination of exposure end quote. Although so it bans the use of such agents in warfare. Some analysis expressed concern that the gas used in the theater might violate the CWC because of the fatalities it caused. Yeah, I would agree if this gas that is seen as non lethal killed one out of every seven exposed more than yeah, Yeah, I'd say it's a it's probably a

little more detrimental than what they led on to. It is unclear whether the CWC member states, including the United States, which has its own non lethal chemical agent program, will decide to challenge Russell's use of the gas under the convention. Now that was again, this is back in two thousand and two, right, this is right after nine to eleven took place. We had bigger fish to fry at that moment.

But when we talk about fentanyl being a weapon of mass destruction, we yes, we do need to talk about it in the street drug sense a one hundred percent. But even as a chemical agent itself, there is precedence for it being used as a weapon. And yeah, I would argue to say that if it's able to kill over one out of every seven people exposed to it in this way, I don't think it's a crazy thing

to classify it as a WMD. I support this even further now, all right, So with all of that, it's said, releases being it's being spun in the narrative of trying to hurt Venezuela because that's the situation here. It's about hurting the Venezuelan cartels because that's where the fentanyl's coming from. Again, that's not exactly accurate, but it depends on which new source you're going to. There is such a push towards what I still as of this moment and very subject

to change. As of this moment, I believe that American military is gearing up for a full scale invasion, if not some sort of a kinetic war in Venezuela. We have bob multiple boats, we commandeered an oil tanker, and now we had an almost outrageous mid air collision between Jet Blue plane and a military jet. Let's talk about it here, so the key points here. A Jet Blue flight reported a near mid air collision with a US

military tanker over the Caribbean Sea. The Jet Blue pilot stated the military aircraft did not have its transponder turned on, which you only do that if you're flying some sort of a combat mission. That goes against a lot of international aviation laws. For you to not have your that's basically driving without a license plate. That's against the law everywhere, unless you're on like your own private land or something

like that. In the air, nah, if you don't have your transponder on, pretty much every country with a standing air force is going to declare you a threat. So to say that a US military tanker didn't have their transponder on, that would lead some myself included, to say that it was probably flying some sort of a covert military operation. The US Air Force has confirmed it is aware of the report and is reviewing the matter. Oh

I'll bet they are. The Jet Blue flight nearly collided with the US military tanker over the Caribbean c on Friday. According to air traffic control audio from the incident, the plane had just taken off from willem Stead, Carassal, which is the capital city of Venezuela, en route to JFK International Airport in New York when pilots reported that an Air Force tanker jet headed off into Venezuelan airspace, passed directly in front of the commercial flight, possibly at a

distance as close as two miles. That may not sound like it's that crazy as far as a midair collision goes, but you got to keep in mind how fast these planes are moving. That's pretty damn close. That's not full on plane chicken with a plane, but that's close enough to get your hackles raised, for sure. The Air Force said it was investigating. We are aware of the recent reports regarding US military aircraft operations in the Caribbean and

are currently reviewing the matter. Military aircrews are highly trained professionals who operate in accordance with established procedures and applicable airspace requirements. Colonel Emanuel l Ortiz, the public affairs chief at the US Southern Command, told USA Today in a statement. Safety remains a top priority and we are working through the appropriate channels to access the facts surrounding the situation. Jet Blue confirmed its reports to or It reported the

incident to the government. Safety is our top priority. Our crew members are trained on proper procedures of various flight situations and We appreciate our crew for promptly reporting the situation to our leadership team. We have reported this incident to federal authorities and will participate in any investigation. As with Jet Blue told their government and the statement to

USA today. Communication between the military and the civilian aircraft has been a central issue in aviation safety since the start of the year. A mid air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhaw helicopter has been blamed in part on the helicopter flying without broadcasting its location to surrounding aircraft. That was the one that

took place in DC. Everybody remembers that right right around Reagan International Apparently they were flying some night mission in and around DC is a training operation, and they just so happened to hit the plane that was about to come down. It was a mess. It was a whole mess. And it's also we played a video of this on the Cult of Conspiracy to say that that black Hawk there was really nothing they could do. They couldn't evade

it too. There are air shows where black Hawks are cutting triple backflips and all these things that Blackhawk pilot seeing this plane coming could have dropped, could have barrel roll, could have done anything to get out of there, and didn't because the pilot, in my opinion, was lacking But whatever. So, yeah, it's not a good look. This whole situation with the plane almost hitting. Yeah, this is the one in DC. There's a picture of it on the screen right now.

This situation of a military fuel tanker almost hitting a plane going in around Venezuela and airspace ties in I think to the situation of fentanyl being classified as a WMD. So with that, this is from Al Jazeera. I understand you have to test your source. I get that, but let's talk about this now. Venezuela a not so covert CIA disaster in the making. A few weeks ago slash months ago, Trump acknowledged that there are now CIA assets

in Venezuela doing something. He didn't exactly acknowledge what. But if we're going to go off of the track record of what it looks like whenever a coup takes place in South America, it's pretty obvious what the CIA is trying to do there right now. They're absolutely trying to start a rebellion against Maduro in various ways. I don't know if that's gonna go over that well, because Maduro

has been at least strategic in a few regards. One of them would be any civilian that is capable of carrying a weapon is now a member of for lack of better words, let's call it, the Venezuela National Guard. And they're not like you know, the weekend warrior types that we we have with the American National Guard. It's more like they get two weeks of training in a uniform and a weapon, and like they're now a part

of it, and that's it. And you will see these parades of people walking down these streets for Maduro and it's, uh, it's not good. It's if these if again, I said this, I think last night on The Cult Live, if we were to get into an actual boots on the ground kinetic war in Venezuela, this would be an absolute blood bath. And I don't mean that it's like a cool thing, like yeah, we go fuck them up. No, no, no,

that wouldn't be good at all. This would be to try to put it into a fair comparison here, this would be an NFL team playing a junior flag football league. There's there's no way this is gonna go well for them, and it's gonna be bad for all involved, honestly, so I'm yeah. But as we get closer, let's read into it here. Venezuela doesn't even produce fentanyl, but Washington is still going forward with a regime change efforts in Caracas

as part of its war on drugs. Yes, they don't produce fentanyl, but the reports are basically saying that it's being used as a hub to ship fentanyl. But let's go. On Saturday, the Routers news agency published an exclusive report claiming that the United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuelan related operations in the coming days. The report cited four US officials who spoke on condition

of anonymity. Two of the officials said covert operations would likely be the first step in this new action against Venezuelan President Maduro. This was less shocking than news, given that more than a month ago, US President Trump himself announced that he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, a rather unique approach, since one does not normally broadcast actions that are supposed to be secret.

Yet I have to agree with that one hundred percent usually don't like tell the world old that you're doing secret spy shit in a country. While you're doing secret spy shit in a country. I thought that was very odd. Anyway, It's no secret that the US has been overseeing a massive military build up in the region, with about fifteen thousand US troops currently stationed there under the guise of

fighting narco terrorism. I don't necessarily think it's a guy's but I think they're also gear enough for what happens next. They're kind of using the narco terrorism as a it's to get everybody where it needs to be, you know, it's the reason for the stage. Since early September, Trump has also presided over wanton extra judicial executions in the Caribbean, c repeatedly ordering the bombing of what he claims are drug trafficking boats. Again, I wouldn't call these executions, but

you know, you have to look at the source. Is it confirmed that these boats were carrying drugs in the first place. Jacob doesn't know this. I don't know that for a fact. I'm going off with the reports of other people here. But you know, every one of these boats, none of the families of these poor fishermen, if they are fishing boats, have come forward in some sort of a big press release to show how evil America is.

If anyway, if anything, trende' Irawa and Cartel de Soul have both mentioned that, like damn it, we've lost a shipmentt so like yeah, yeah, I would say these are drug boats. But all right, in addition to violating both air national and US law, that's not true. The strikes have produced little to show them for themselves beyond terrorizing

local fishermen. That's the very incorrect statement. Start to finish again, we have to test the source, and this is Al Jazeera, a Katari news outlet owned by the Qatar royal family. Take that with the grand of salt. To be sure. The US has never met a quote war on drugs. It didn't love. That's accurate, given the convenient opportunities the whole drug war narrative offers for wreaking havoc world wide, the militarization in the Western hemisphere, the criminalization are criminalizing

poor Americans and all sorts of other good stuff. That's accurate. That's accurate. Never mind that US financial institutions have for decades reap profits from the international drug trade, or that the CIA drug connection is as old as the agency. As an article on the New York Times website puts it, again, very accurate, very accurate. It come as no surprise by now that the president, who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran, has now

found another conflict in which to embroil the country. And as is part of the course in the US imperial but belligerents, the rational for aggression against Venezuela doesn't hold water kind of but not really, not really.

have a boogeyman. Nevertheless, one November thirteenth, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Pardon, they fucked up, and they're trying to make it pithy. The US Secretary of Defense Pardon. US Secretary of War, as per administration rebranding, which I support, took two x to assure his audience that the massive US military build up off the Venezuelan coast is a mission that defends our homeland, removes narco terrorists from our hemisphere, and secures our homeland from the drugs that are killing

our people. Again, I'm not saying that's an incorrect statement from Hegseeth. What I am saying is that there's been nothing done towards the other cartels that are moving way more product into our country. And if it has been on, it's been so negligible that it hasn't even made headlines. You see what I'm saying here, And I understand they're

pushing a narrative. Mainstream media is spinning this up to get people very invested in freeing the poor Venezuelan people from this evil dictator that's trying to kill American civilians. I get it. I get their plan. But also if it's the war on drugs and the cartels are all listed as terrorist groups. The Texas border has had multiple gunfights. We're not even talking about those anymore because it's all

about Venezuela. Anyway. This is the same administration, of course, that was just threatening to starve improverished Americans by withholding essential food assistance. That's yeah, that wasn't the Trump administration. That was. That was the government shut down, and that's oh, we're not gonna start pointing the finger at which side of the aisle did that, because everybody just needed to collectively pull their head out of their ass on that one.

But anyway, consider also the fact that Trump slash federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in a country where mass shootings have become a way of life. I don't think that's accurate, and if anything, I think we should be carrying more guns. That's how you stop a mass shooting. Look at Australia. If the civilian population was armed, how bad do you think that Bondai Beach situation would have been.

I don't know this for a fact, but I got a hard time believing that it would have been made worse by more people armed and ready for something to take place. Food for thought, hard pillal swallow for some Poverty itself is a major killer in America, as is the domestic pharmaceutical industry speaking of opioids. However, none of these full blown crisis has merited a remotely gung ho

response from the valiant defenders of the homeland. According to Rory's report on impending Venezuela related operations, two of the US officials consulting or consulted told the news agency that the options under considered included attempting to overthrow Maduro. That would be why the CIA is there right now. I'm fully in belief of this. If the plan succeeds, Rubio would join the leafy roster of US politicians who have propagated deadly havoc abroad in the interest of political gains

at home. Yeah. Absolutely, and I honestly think that that's what's going down here. I don't know this for a fact, but they got to use something to be the false flag, and it's who knows. They may even have some sort of a false flag terrorist attack happened here where quote unquote Venezuelan nationals were found to be the perpetrators of these heinous acts on the American citizenry. That's very possible that that is coming down the pipe here in the

next few months. I think it's a lot more likely that the CIA is going to try to overthrow a Dua by some means or assassinate him, either way that goes. If they don't do this right, then there will be a color color revolution on our hands of Venezuela, which military industrial complex will be happy about. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the American military will get involved. It doesn't not mean that either. I don't know's there's like four or five options of what might happen next. None

of them are really positive. Some are less shitty than others, but it's yeah. So anyway, we are going to move on, but I am going to continue to report on the Venezuelan situation as time goes on. But again, with fentanyl being declared a weapon of mass destruction, I could see this also being a key thing. Or keep in mind, we invaded Iraq because they clearly had weapons of mass destruction.

They didn't they didn't know they had seren gas bombs that America sold them sh but we won't to talk about that, right So, now that they keep saying that Venezuela producing fentanyl, which they're not shit. We don't talk about that. We're gonna say that they have manufacturing facilities making weapons of mass destruction in the way of fentanyl, and that might be the push that's needed to actually

get some boots on the ground of Venezuela. I don't know this for a fact, but I could see the writing on the walls and it doesn't exactly look good anyway. Talking about writing on the walls here, let's talk about the UN reporting on the aid agencies warn Gaza response at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions. So this is a fairly recent report. It's from the seventeenth of December, actually from today as a time of recording.

In a sharply worded statement issued on Tuesday, the Humanitarian Country Team, which brings together senior UN officials in more than two hundred local and international aid groups, called on the international community to press Israeli authorities to reverse measures that are choking humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza strip. At the center of concern is a new registration system

for international non governmental organizations introduced earlier this year. So eight groups say that the process is vague politicized and impossible to meet without breaching humanitarian principles. Under the current rules, dozens of organizations face de registration by the end of December, followed by the forced closure of their operations within a week. These organizations are not optional extras, the statement said. If they are pushed out, the humanitarian response will not survive.

International NGOs, working alongside UN agencies and Palestinian partners, deliver around one billion dollars worth of assistance each year across the territory. Yet millions of dollars worth of food, medicines, hygiene supplies and shelter materials are now stuck outside of Gaza, unable to reach families in need. So I gotta tell you all, when I found this publication, I was actually looking for an update on what was going on in the Gaza situation. And of course there's a few skirmishes

here and there. There's still some some strikes that are happening, not major though. I think it was like, I saw one report saying two people killed in Gaza from IDF. I saw something saying that eleven IDF soldiers were killed from Gaza fighters. I don't know. I don't know what to believe because the narrative has been spun to such a level where you honestly don't even know what source

is credible anymore. So that's fair. But what I am saying is that for the civilian population in Gaza that have been struggling for this long, they are now saying that they need to lift the restrictions on the aid that can get to them. Otherwise these people, it's they are going to starve, they are going to be They're gonna die from exposure, whatever the case is. And I think that's always been net Yahu's plan in one way or another. And I don't think that's like a hot

take either. But it's still the point where even the UN is recognizing the situation and telling Israel that they need to like let up a bit, they need it, they need to calm down. So as we're going on, I didn't want to give at least somewhat of an update on the Israel Goaza situation. Now, as we talked about earlier, US and Russia are supposed to hold talks on Ukraine war in Miami this weekend. In Miami. Let's

get into it here. US and Russian officials are expected to meet in Miami this weekend as part of Trump's administration's pushed to bring an into nearly four years of war between Kiev and Moscow. According to two people familiar with the matter, as President Trump's efforts to end the fighting have faltered, the US has ratchet up pressure on

Ukraine to make concessions that would end the war. The plan remains in flux, but if they go ahead this weekend, the administration will present the outcome of most recent round of discussion to Russian officials, who have not shifted much on their demands. Yeah, every time that Trump has made some sort of a deal that he said, this is gonna be the one, it's gonna be great. We're gonna make Russia come to the table, Zelenski has conceded more and more and more and more and more. And feel

whatever way you want about Zelensky, I get it. But at first he was as stubborn and hard headed as Russia was like, no, we're not gonna make a concession. It's gonna be you're gonna leave Ukraine or we're gonna keep fighting. Then it was okay, fine, we will give you somewhat of the lamb, but not all that you've taken, you're given some of it back. It's gone on and on, and Zelensky has finally been like, look, whatever the fuck it takes to end this shit, Like, okay, can can

we stop fighting now? Russia, on the other hand, has been like, nah, we're not gonna stop until we decide we're done. And depending on who you ask, some make it seem like they want the entirety of Ukraine. Some make it seem like they pretty much just want to take the territories they've taken and put up a DMZ type of situation. I don't know, let's read in here. The Russian delegation is expected to include the head of Russia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, kill Dmitriev. I don't know if

that's how you pronounce it or not. According to one of the people familiar with the matter, both people were granted anonymity to discuss plans for next rounds of sensitive talks. Trump Administration Special Envoy Steve Witkoff there's a guy you need to pay attention to, and Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner are expected to represent the US side. That's that's a bit of a red flag on the play for me personally. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are gonna

be the let's call them mediators. Okay, sure, right. The White House did not immediately respond to your request for comment. Shocker. Wikoff and Kushner earlier this week held marathon talks in Berlin with Ukrainian and European officials to agree on US security guarantees for Kiev, territorial concessions and other matters. As Washington continued to pressure Kiev in it's pushed to in the war, the US has offered a mutual defense promise

similar to the pledge it made to NAY members. While Ukraine had backed off its demand to immediately join the Transatlantic Alliance, Trump administration officials believe Russia will accept Western security guarantees and Ukraine's EU membership in a final deal. I don't know how they think that that's gonna go down, but okay. But Russian President Putin on Wednesday gave no signs that he had backed away from his desire to all but in Ukraine's existence as a sovereign state. There

it is, there's the Vladimir we love there. He is just going at it because Ukraine is obviously Russian. This is a that we are forced into this. They made us invade them and attack them and killed them and all these they did this to us. We Yeah, sure, bro sure. Speaking of senior defense officials in Moscow, he said Russia would not back down from its mission to liberate its historic lens and predicted the European swine back

in Kiev would ultimately lose power. Yeah, you're liberating the people of a country that clearly did not want to be Russian by all metrics and standards. I know people that live in Ukraine. None of them wanted to be Russian.

None of them have ever wanted to be Russian. Hell, half of them remember what happened or what it looked like before the Soviet Union fell, when they would have to wait in line all day for half of a loaf of moldy bread and that was the only food that the government was going to be given them for the week, and they had to bring that to their families and say this is what we got. We got to make it work. And I understand that Russia right now is not the Soviet Union. I get that, but

people who lived through communism don't forget it very quickly. See, Americans have a very short memory. The people in Ukraine do not. They do not anyway. And I understand the government's super corrupt, and yes, I'm not denying that at all, but the people would rather live in a corrupt Ukrainian government rather than a Russian dystopian government. That's like not

even a hot take, but anyway. The US has said it expects to soon convene a group of Ukraine supporting military officials in the US to further hammer out technical details on security and territory. The US Russia talks in Miami appeared to be a separate effort. Ukrainian National Security Advisor rustam Umarov Sure is also expected to meet with the American delegation in advance of the US Russia sit down, said the first person familiar with the matter, added or

adding that plans remained fluid. Yeah, they better be. European leaders have spent much of the past two weeks huddling to try and iron out specific plans for security guarantees for Kiev, including a demilitarized zone along the current front lines and troop pledges for training Ukrainian forces and monitoring any ceasefire. Yeah, I'm expecting a DMZ realistically even that, or they're just gonna keep going until one side finally decides enough's enough. And I don't think either side's gonna

decide that anytime soon. One European official, also granted ananemity to discuss sensitive plomacy, said that the coalition troops would likely be tasked with operating aircraft and drones to survey the front lines, while some troops would be stationed in western Ukraine to help rebuild Ukrainian forces, not to serve on the front line. Okay, there it is. So that was from Politico, And again it's a lot to take in,

and I get that. What is really to be said about the Ukraine Russia conversation as of now, same thing that they've been saying for the past year two three. This two week special military operation is about to hit its four year anniversary. Both sides have lost way more men in resources than they actually wanted. But again, I am at least grateful for the fact that Russia got seen as the paper tiger that it is, so the world could stop thinking that Russia's like the big bad

guy of the world. It's not. It's not, and also China's military ain't neither. But you know anyway, all right, before we wrap up, go ahead and get to the chat and see if there was anything that I missed here. Anyway, I'm off to bed the year he took off, Love you, Royce, thanks for coming in here. Trump threw hands on Vince. I don't know what that means? Do you tell me? In the WWE Sam.

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