Cajun Knight Live 51

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Come join us every Wednesday night at nine pm Central and be a part of the conversation. A lot of things going on, y'all. As always, there's never a shortage of buffoonery that is happening in our world. And honestly, I kind of almost forgot that the Clintons were out and about.

I know that they're, you know, free people.

They're out here breathing the free air, and I have an issue with that, but whatever, they kind of fall into the realm of you know, irrelevance from time to time. Then out of nowhere, they just they come right back up in the headlines. And boy, oh boy, this is not a good one for them to come up while talking about. But let's get into it together, y'all. So this is from NBC News. House Republicans plan on holding Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to testify in Epstein probe.

Yeah, that's a thing. That's the thing.

So the announcement comes a day after the Oversight Committee chair James Comer said he would seek to hold former President Bill Clinton in.

Contempt for skipping his deposition.

Yeah. So essentially they have been called in for questioning and they both said, no, we're not gonna do that. We're doing something else because they know how deeply embedded they were with Epstein. We're gonna play this short little clip here, and then we're gonna read the article. But you know, every time, every time you think the Clintons might just be going to the House for good, they're irrelevant. They're retired, they're old school now here. They are out here just doing the shit. Again.

Here we go.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are facing the prospect of being held in contempt of Congress. This after failing to peer for a closed door deposition as part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

I think it's very disappointing as a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena.

The Clinton's informed the committee they had nothing material to offer the investigation, and in a letter to Chairman James Comer, they argued his subpoenas were legally invalid, writing every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles, and its people, no matter the consequences for us. Now

No one's accused of Bill Clinton of any wrong doing.

We just have questions.

Most Democrats we spoke to today either avoided the question or defended the Clinton's decision to skip the deposition. But Democrats wrote Sonna, who wrote the law to force the DOJ to release all the files, had a different take. Do you think the president should have appeared?

He should appear.

I have always said that this needs to be transparent. Everyone involved should be providing an explanation, and I have conducted this in a way that doesn't single out Republicans or Democrats.

Yo, shout out to Rocanna.

I know he's a Democrat, and I don't necessarily agree with the majority of his statements that he makes on the political scale. He just went on The Sean Ryan Show and he is very loudly proclaiming that Congress, Senate, the White House are all going out of their way to protect pedophiles and they're not even being shy about it anymore. It was a great episode just throwing that out.

Can you imagine.

Can you imagine if you were subpoena to appear before a judge in your local community and you just said, no, I have nothing to say to you, because that's that's just gonna go over so well, so well right, that's not gonna lead any bit towards And they're not even saying that they did anything wrong. They got some questions for them and that's all there is to it. Wow, But you know, rules for thee, not for me. Go ahead, Sam. Before I read this article wagh In.

I was gonna say, it's funny because they are these the same Clintons that men's the land, that no man is above the law when and trying to get Trump and when it's the both of them are stumbbags.

It's the same Clinton's with the emails, the private servers, the whole Bengati situation. What does it matter? The Lewinsky, the whole nine, The same Clinton that he's painted on a giant mural in Epstein's house in a blue dress, the whole nine.

All that keeping keep in mind.

Uh uh, Hillary, she started out as the one too.

Uh uh. The she started out as a lawyer under the Nixon things on Watergate.

Yeah, and then she also worked under a very loud and proud Klansman.

Yeah.

And she also said that, well, what are you about tending to montic Lensky about her getting caught blowing about the mess in the office.

Uh.

She said, well, what do you expect when you drag one hundred dollars through a treasure park? And I'm like, it's just a loyal cut.

She is, she is God. I'm trying to remember the Klansmen. That was that they worked under Bob's Dewey something there wasn't David Duke, it was I.

Thought it was Dewey or am I thinking about the treasurer that killed herself on lot of TV?

Look it up?

Look it up.

Because Biden and Killery both really got their start in politics working under him, and uh, that was a whole thing. His big push was to resegregate schools, and he was on that kick well into the nineties.

But yeah, somebody looked that up. I'm drawing a blank on the name here.

But anyway, Biden was it was Biden, and that said he didn't want his kids to go up in a school in a zoo.

And then I was like, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black. Yeah.

These people, these people don't have like functioning brains in my opinion.

The audacity of their caucacity.

Oh, it's it's boundless. It's boundless.

But anyway, anyway, get into the article here.

The House Oversight Committee will seek to hold former Secretary of State Killery Clinton in contempt of Congress after she did not appear for a scheduled deposition as part of the Republican led Panels investigation into Jeffrey Epstein chairman James Comer announced Wednesday. The move comes days after Comer said the committee would seek to hold former President Billium in contempt for failing to appear for his scheduled deposition Tuesday.

We have bent over.

Backwards, he said. Wow. The committee subpoenaed the Clintons last year. They were scheduled to appear in October, but that was later pushed to December because of their attendance at a funeral. Comber said the Clinton's lawyer did not provide alternate dates, so he rescheduled their depositions for mid January and larry to Comber on Tuesday. The Clinton's argued that the subpoenas were quote legally invalid end quote, because that's that's how that works, and said they did not plan to appear

It's principles and it's people's, no matter the consequences.

When of these two ever, ever, period ever fought for this country its principles or its people.

But all right for us, now is that time?

Sure?

Yeah, because that's coming in to get questioned about some connection, some ties to Epstein, just some questions, some things.

Clearly, this is your time to stand.

On principles of America. What the fuck are you talking about anyway. The letter also said the Clintons expected the Committee to vote to hold them in contempt, saying, you will say it is not your decision to make, but we have made it.

Now you have to make yours. Damn go ahead, Royce.

So even with the whole thing about them, have the integrity. Part of that integrity should be showing up in court when they're supposed to. You would sink, since since they've

Yeah, I'm with you on that. And then continuing here, it says the Clinton's lawyers, Ashley Callen David E. Kendall wrote in a separate letter to Comber on Monday that the subpoenas were and there's a direct quote here, and also listen to the amount of of just outlandish language they are you using. It's subpoenas for questioning. They're doing a deposition into Epstein. Some names are brought up, Hey, you two, your names are brought up, and we need you two to come in and talk to us a

That's literally what the deposition is about.

That's literally what these questions are is to extract pertinent information, and if there is none, then there will be nothing to say.

It will be very clear at that time, given a.

Written statement is not the same as showing the fuck up, but all right, and an unprecedented infringement on the separation of powers no, no, this is this is literally what the House Oversight Committee does. This is this is the system of checks and balances. This is within their powers. So the lawyers are basically just throwing out this flamboyant legal language to try to make it seem like this is all superferous, and it's like, no, it's not, it's not.

This is actually very pertinent. It's something needs to happen. And the fact that.

Y'all are crawl fishing this hard, this early, that's that's not playing well. But also to your point, Royce, I agree, I don't know what's actually gonna shake out from this. I hope they see their day in court. I hope they both go to jail. I don't believe it's ever gonna happened in my lifetime, but we can try to get high on hopium, you know. On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, said that the Clintons of the Clinton's rather I think it would be contempt of

But all right, cool.

The first set of files released last month included numerous pictures of Bill Clinton, who was also not accused of any wrongdoing. A bit okay. Clinton said he cut ties with Epstein, the late sex offender, before Epstein was accused of having sex with a minor in two thousand and six.

That is actually very, very inaccurate.

There's actually quite a paper trail to show that the Clintons were very close with him up until two thousand and nine, and even some might argue into the twenty teens. When the Clintons left office, they were broke, like they were broke broke, so they had to do something to make some money. Yeah, they could have wrote some books and whatever, but at the time Bill was still kind of living an infamy from the who Lewinsky situation. So

The extraordinary standoff between the Clintons and congressional Republicans. The chair of the GOP led House Oversight Committee moving forward with the unprecedented step of trying to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from an investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton skipping his scheduled testimony yesterday and Hillary Clinton expected to do the same today.

No one's accused of Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions, and that's why the Democrats voted along with Republicans to subpoenavill.

Clinton standing alongside two Republicans who themselves defied subpoenas from

For us.

Now is that time Bill Clinton was friendly with Epstein in the nineties and early two thousands. No Epstein survivor has ever accused the former president of wrongdoing, and both Clinton's have denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes, writing to the Committee, we have tried to give you the little information we have. We've done so because mister Epstein's crimes were horrific.

So I'm just going to ask a quick question here. Anybody feel free to unmute yourself if you know the answer to this. What year was Jeffrey Epstein arrested?

Anybody?

Which time?

Wasn't it two thousand and six?

Well, two thousand and six is the first time, yes, and that's when he got the lightest of sweet hard deals ever. But the time he actually got arrested for good? Anybody remember what year that was?

Twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen?

Was it?

One?

In twenty sixteen he was actually arrested, but then he was sentenced in twenty nineteen.

That sounds accurate. Sounds like yeah, it sounds it out ballpark?

Okay, So just and correct me if I'm wrong. Here?

Who was the Secretary of State in twenty sixteen? Hilly and correct me if I'm wrong. But the Virgin Islands and Little Saint James, which is Little Saint Thomas is little island is a part of the US territory. Correct, I believe, sir, So just gonna throw this out.

Who comes out bad way? John Kerry was twenty sixteen. Hillary Clinton I think exited in twenty twelve or twenty eleven, right after Libya.

She left because of Benghazi. Yeah, that's right. And then Carrie stepped in. Damn, Damn.

I was trying to draw a connection there, but Damn I was off by a few years. Fuck well, it'd be like that anyway. I still do believe that they had full knowledge of his quote unquote wrongdoings. I'm not even gonna say quote unquote him being a real motherfucker here. They fully were aware of it, They fully knew about it.

There's no way.

So yeah, them being subpoened and brought in for questioning on this, I don't even think this is a crazy point to make, honestly.

I mean, I mean, there was a portrait of Bill Clinton in a blue dress on the island, so obviously both Bill Clinton and I imagine his wife probably had a good idea what was going on, just a hunch.

Oh for sure.

And then there's also so many pictures of Bill Clinton with Epstein, Like we saw a couple of them in those clips. There's pictures of Bill with young women sitting on his lap with their faces redacted because those women are victims, confirm victims of Jeff Epstein. So again I'm having a real hard time seeing has he has one of the victims sitting on his lap in pictures like I'm there's gonna be a connection here. Yeah, and again, the House isn't even saying that they definitely were involved

Oh, I hope they see their day in court.

But anyway, this pretty much just reiterates what we already read about. So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bore everybody with another iteration of it. But yeah, anyway, moving on to another shithead politician here. California Governor Newsom says he's blocking Louisiana's push to extradite doctor accused of mailing abortion pills. Yeah. I had just found this article and I was like, you know what, this is probably going to be a decent one to talk about. Let's get there.

For the principle of it.

They're saying that, Yo, you're doing California things in Louisiana and we don't like it.

We'll see how that shakes out.

Be completely honest with you, I hope that his ass comes here and gets the justice, but I guess we'll say, we'll have to see. Moving all, let's talk about Trump, that's talking about shitead politicians. Let's talk about this, And I actually I want to hear y'all's opinions on this one, because depending on which side of the aisle you lean more towards. Some people are saying that this is an

Right, But that.

Being said, should the Fed cut interest rates to make it cheaper for the federal government to borrow? Now, they're not talking about just cutting interest rates for the federal government. They're talking about cutting interest rates for everybody, for us. Right, he is trying to cut it down to one percent, which would be dope. But the other side of that is this could lead to inflation, and some have said

Thirty five period.

Damn. This post explains why the Fed and most economists believe that making the treasury borrow cheaper should not be the FED subjective. Okay, So before we get into this, I would love to hear if anybody has an opinion on this, or if somebody understands economics a little bit better than I do. Is cutting the federal interest rates positive or negative for America as a whole?

Okay, personally, I think we need higher interest rates. I think Trump's wrong. This is short term thinking to boost and goose the economy.

All right, explain all this.

Why do interest rates need to be higher in your perspective.

I think natural interest rates should be around six percent per year. If you borrow a dollar, you should have to pay about a dollar and six cents to back after a year and most the Federal Reserve and the

I'm not disagreeing with you. My next question is, just like you said, Nixon tried doing this. I think Reagan even tried doing this to a lesser degree, but these were, like you said, to try to get everybody on their side for a re election. That's typically why presidents have done this in the past. Trump doesn't have his sites on another election cycle, or at least he hasn't made that public. If I don't know, maybe he'll try for a third time and all the legalities and things that

I think Republicans are going to have a bad midterm election, but it would be even worse if the economy really sucked. I think that's his calculation.

But okay, even with that being said, nobody actually takes the mid terms very seriously. They they talk a big game on all the mainstream media things, and the politicians are always talking about it. It's typically a wash. It's typically a pendulum swing, and then this midterm election is going to go this way, the next one goes this way. It doesn't.

It doesn't like actually account for a fart in the win, doesn't it.

Yeah? I agree. It normally just goes against whichever party controls the presidency. I think it always does. I don't think there's any exceptions to that. So he could just he should just accept that, and he should want higher interest rates. But politicians don't want to think long term. They want to think short term and just maximize the short term. I think that's just the problem here.

Fair enough, Okay, Well, let's read in a little bit here and see if what Tony is saying is what the economists are saying here. If the Fed were to set the short term interest rate, that is the primary tool, lower than necessary to achieve its congressional mandated goals of maximum employment and price stability, history suggests that the likely result would be an unwelcome inflation. Lower rates tend to stimulate borrowing and faster economic growth, and when demand grows

He was during the two thousand and eight points.

Okay, okay, fair so, Ben Bernanki said in a recent Hutchins Center video, added former FED Chair Janet Yellen in the same video, the result has almost always been high and sustained inflation.

Damn.

So that is what the math does in this.

Regard, So has the Federal Has the Fed ever explicitly suppressed interest rates to lower federal borrowing costs? Yes, the Fed put out a point three seven five ceiling on short term treasury securities and a two point five percent ceiling on thirty year bonds during World War II to maintain that rate. As the Treasury borrowed more, the FED bought more treasury securities to keep interest rates from rising. When the war ended, the FED gradually allowed rates to rise.

I wish I understood this a little better. Somebody like Bob Murphy would be perfect to talk to on this. But basically, the Federal Reserve prints a bunch of money when the government asks them to to, and that gooses the economy, keeps interest rates low so people can borrow money easily and normally. Wartime is the main excuse the government gives from why it needs the Federal Reserve to be able to do this. Well, if we go to war, we don't have to be reliant on selling war bonds.

I see, I see their talking points.

I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't inherently agree with all of them. I do believe the taxation is theft, but I also like, that's that's what happens. You're never going to live somewhere where you're not paying some sort of an extortion fee for living there. That's the law of the land, and it has been since the very beginning of time, you know what I mean. At least we're living in the superpower on Earth, and I'm good with that.

But I mean, also, yeah, the founders were really skeptical of central banking. That we got the first national bank that lasted twenty years and then it went away, and then the second National Bank from something like eighteen sixteen to eighteen thirty something. Andrew Jackson made that one go away. But and we did have a relatively free banking system where the dollar was just pegged to a quantity of gold.

We're going to be the next year to drop absolute I actually don't think they're gonna take away the nickel.

I think there's going to do away with all coinage, honestly.

Which in one regard sucks, but in another regard, my coin collection value is kind of ghost sky high, and I'm kind of here for that in my own personal selfish reasons. But yeah, I hear you a hundred percent, and I wish that we would go back to a

It's one troy ounce of pure soil.

Right now, it's over eighty five dollars for this coin and we've only been an affiliate of theirs for a year, a little over a year. I mean we're talking a few weeks here. Just in that one span of time, the dollar is going up down and doing all that shit. Silver and gold have always maintained a value. I think it's a wise investment anyway. I know that there's more aggressive investment opportunities that you could do, right, And I

Brother, I was I was gonna say about the gold did we got took off of that so that we could get put on the the Federal Reserve money situation the Greenbacks in nineteen twelve, which was why they used the Titanic.

Correct, that's that's the conspiracy for sure.

But that which was even referenced in the movie. But it's funny.

You're talking about how they're gonna get rid of the the coins. Does that Does that mean that the Rednecks that the it would be more valuable per shot if we used a porter nickel.

Rounds with segage you all.

If you're gonna melt down a quarter to make a slug to go in your twelve gage, you.

Pack the packed them into the thing. You make a quarter shot that way. It still acts like it'll spread out like bird and butt. But it's fucking coins.

I don't know. Like if you were to take the no, that's way more expensive. I haven't priced shotgun shells in a while. I just go buy a box whenever I go hunting. But if you're looking at the price per show, no, I hear you.

But you're reloading them with quarters.

So like, even if you're putting like four quarters in there, you're putting like a dollar worth of shot lead is going to be cheaper than the quarter. That's that's an expensive action.

Get rid of the coins when they get rid.

Of I know these these little nine mills that I have that are silver. These are like fucking fifteen bucks a pop. But I mean it's a silver nine mil bullet.

What I'm gonna do? I got a whole I got two mags full.

I mean I gotta. I guess a Canadian.

Nickel it's five cents, has a beaver on it.

I wonder how much it would be actually worth if you go off of the weight.

Is it actual silver?

I don't know.

It's Canada nineteen seventy nine. It has a beaver on it.

Look into it. I mean it might be.

All knows that it has a young Elizabeth the second, so she's dead. It gotta be worth something.

I mean, maybe, no doubt. Let's get into this.

What about quantitative easing, which I think is what you were talking about earlier Tony. Most of the time the FED sets very short term interest rates and lets the bond market move longer term interest rates, which depend on the market's expectations about the economy, inflation and the federal deficit, and the federal short term interest rates. But when the FED short term interest rates hit zero during the global financial crisis of eight nine and during the COVID pandemic,

Wow, yeah, I'm I hear both sides.

I see why Trump would want to lower these interest rates.

To stimulate and help boost things and all of this. I get it.

But I also hear what the Fed is saying, right, doing this with the interest rates will screw us over. Maybe not now, maybe not a year from now, but maybe five years from now, maybe ten years from now, I don't know, But that also is very subjective based off of the world economics at that time, right, and how our dollar compares to everything else, and what our debt looks like at that time.

So I hear it on both ends here.

So how much higher or how much could in higher inflation lower the cost of debt? How much could higher inflation lower the costs of debt? Okay? For many debt ors, inflation is a plus, y'all. Bet it allows them to pay back their loans with cheaper dollars. But inflation wouldn't do much to lighten the burden of the federal government's debt. Two reasons. One, much of the federal government's the debt

Okay, I own a business. I own, I own two of them.

As a matter of fact, if I was to go to my bank or my or even my accountant and tell them, hey, bro, I am gonna start running my business in a deficit and we're just gonna use that moving forward so that I can be a little more flexible when curveballs come and shit hits the fan, because we've we both know that's gonna come, you know what I'm saying. So I'm just gonna run it in a deficit and it's just gonna work out in the long run.

I understand there's some some differences here.

It's not apples stole oranges, but out loud, that makes no fucking sense to me. If we have the ability to run in a surplus, why don't we and We do have that ability, right. The last time we ran in a surplus was during the dot com bubble, and I understand the dot com bubble was the reason for the surplus, I get it. But we have the capability to do that now, especially with the amount of industry we have in this country. Why must we run in

He's talking about one percent, if.

Not lower, So be on the lookout for what that might mean on the nationwide, if not global scale, as far as debts and money and inflation and all of these things are concerned. I thought it was worth mentioning on this episode. Moving on here, I wanted to give an update on what's going down with Maduro right, So in Venezuela Live updates, multiple detained Americans have been released.

Now to the new report on a US strike against an alleged drug voat, detailing how the military may have disguised its plane as Ciciclian aircraft in a way that violated the laws of war. Chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Ratits says the story, good morning, Martha.

Good morning George. This morning. More controversy over that US strike on a suspected drug boat last September, where survivors clinging to the boat who were killed, legal experts saying that may have violated the laws of war. Now The New York Times is reporting that there may have been an additional violation of the law. According to The Times, the US military aircraft used in the stripe was painted

Okay, So I'm not one hundred percent on this. I hear what they're saying as far as perfidy, Okay, got you. If they put bombs on like a bow in seven forty seven or something like that, yeah, that's absolutely against the rules here. But to say that bombs were not attached to the wings and they were internal, most of our bombers drop ordinance in that manner. So I I'm not.

Sure one hundred percent what they mean by this.

If it is true that they were using a civilian aircraft with no identifying markers to show that it was a military aircraft. That that's the conversation, right, that they may actually have a leg to stand on on this one if it was a plane that the Venezuelans or even the boat itself couldn't identify because they don't have adequate radar systems to be able to tell what that is or something like that. And I'm not trying to

Anyway, let's talk about it here, so depose.

Venezuelan Prime President Nicholas Muduro and his wife appeared in federal court in New York last week following their capture by the US forces in a military operation Venezuela, capital of Caracas. Following the operation, President Trump said that the US would run Venezuela for an unspecified period of time. Venezuelan Vice President Delse Rodriguez has been sworn in as

Yeah, no doubt. DOJ releases legal rationale from a dureau operation. Okay.

The Department of Justice released a redacted opinion and a redacted opinion from its Office of Legal Council Interesting on Tuesday that laid out the legal justification for the US operation to arrest Nicholas Maduro and remove him from Caracas. The Justice Department document defined the operation as an active armed conflict to be found it within the president's unilateral constitutional authority.

Fairfair.

The opinion said that the DOJ was briefed and assumed that there is no contingency plan to engage in any substantial and sustained operation in Venezuela. Well, that's good. Hopefully they don't put boots on the ground and have some sort of like an actual forward offensive into Venezuela.

I don't think anybody would benefit from that, but all right.

The legal memo was transmitted to the National Security Council on December twenty second, roughly two weeks before the operation, and signed by the Assistant Attorney General. Some senators viewed the opinion behind Closed Doors earlier Tuesday, with their views of its quality split among party lines. So now let's talk about this. Multiple Americans detained of Venezuela have been released. Multiple Americans released. The State Department said on two day.

I don't know.

This could completely be out of left field and completely based in nonsense, but I could you imagine that if the Trump for instance, let's say the Democrats win the next election and they fry him alive for all of his you know.

Things that he's done that they hate. All right?

Cool?

Could you also see them arresting Millennia for what? What does she do? She was the first lady? Unless you have some sort of documented proof that she was involved in all the buffoonery here in the chicanery, why would she.

Get arrested too.

And it's not to make him a more compliant prisoner by any means. I'm just saying, I think that there was a little bit more to the story than what we're being led to believe. And then, oh, my god, the stories y'all, the stories about these energy wave attacks that uh that the security guards suffered through. They were knocked out and they all had nosebleeds and concussions and all this, And dude, I read so many of these

I don't I don't really. For instance, I'll give you a just for instance. Here the dude who was.

Saying that they heard a high pitched, whining noise and then he, you know, he just collapsed and he woke up with a migraine and his noses bleed, and he's trying to claim that now he's got like cancer or something, who knows, who knows. He also said that out of nowhere, all we knew is the there was no planes in the sky. The radars went down inexplicably. And then it's like, yeah, because America has this thing called a growler, and that's what it does. It knocks out radars like out of nowhere.

Throwing that out here, but okay, whatever.

Then he's talking about the nosebleeds and the migraines and he on hundred of them got knocked out all at once, and it's like, ah, are we sure about that? Are we sure you didn't just kind of get scared and hide and now you're coming up with a story to make up for your blatant disregard of your position and abandoning your post. I don't know that sounds a little more credible to me now again, is it possible that we use some sort of a sonic weapon on these people.

It's very possible. It's possible.

I'm also not mad at that because the alternative is, Okay, you have a migreen and a nosebleed, or you took a three hundred blackout to your dome. I honestly think that this was actually the more humane way to go about it. If they really did use sonic weapons on these people, I don't know. I guess more information will come out as the week's go on, But anyway, we'll keep everybody updated on what's going on with Maduro as the things go forward. Now, let's talk Greenland, y'all. Let's

And stuff and all the shit.

I'm gonna be honest, I thought that he was joking a little bit, kind of flexing's kind of putting his dick on the table to see who noticed. It appears, as of this moment, members of the retinue that Trump was not joking, he was not bluffing, that he really really wants greenland and the day and I'm also pulling this up here because CNN is saying one thing and

Good question.

So no, just a quick question, because notoriously, CNN obviously is very left wing. Fox went well, I don't know if I would call Fox so much rightly. Are definitely not as right as what they used to be. What is your opinion about newsbacks because they obviously they claim to be more middle But I haven't done a whole lot of research, but I know that my aunt watches it like almost twenty four to seven, So I'm just kind of curious.

About that.

It depends on the talking point, and if we're talking about their literature, it depends on who wrote the article. I'm be honest with you, dude, and I wish god if ground News is listening, please give me a sponsorship. I love your product. Ground News is a website that will show you all of the articles left right, center, all the stuff, and they'll also show you this publication or this news outlet is traditionally more this way or that way, left of center, center, right of center, far right,

But I could be wrong, could be wrong.

So I'll tell you this.

As far as their political sphere, they are very, very very pro Trump, which I mean, I understand it.

But there are.

A few pundits that are like they love sucking his dick, and I'm like, I just I just get into item, like please just shut the hell up, Like just.

Am I getting them confused with another publication. To be honest with you, Newsmax might be very conservative. I'm unfamiliar as at this moment.

Okay, fine, so like then there's one American nation. I know that, but yeah, so Newsmax there are a few.

Just very yeah.

It just it's almost disgusting.

It's like I think, Uh news Max is trash. Ground News is the way to go.

Hex head on, brother, is this your first time jumping on the cage and Night Live.

It's like second or third time. Yeah, but first time I actually said anything.

Fuck Yeah, well welcome, welcome, And okay, so you said Newsmax is trash, give us the breakdown here.

I'm kind of unfamiliar with them.

News Max is just it's almost like just a knockoff of Fox News. But it's uh, it's just crappy, crappy reporting. Ground News is the way to go. Yeah, you can see everything.

There's no I don't know, there's no bias on ground News.

Well, at least they show you what the bias.

Is right, exactly exactly, and at.

Least I'll appreciate that if I know what I'm about to read is super left leaning, Okay, I know what I'm getting into, and I'll still read it at least with that that knowledge in the back pocket. But yeah, ground News they're they're putting in the lord's work in my opinion.

Oh man, yeah, yep.

And Newsmax, their their app and their website are just total crap.

And it's slow and just I mean it's dial up. It's almost dial up shit.

Well, I mean, there we have it, I suppose. And then even still as we're talking about that, Trump arrangement syndrome is a real thing on both sides of the aisle, And it sounds like the people in Newsmax have it on that side where your boy can do no wrong, everything he does is from Jesus himself. Then you also have the people like this on CNN that believe that every single thing Trump does is clearly satanically uh, you know, motivated. So take that for what it is.

Yep, he's killing kitts, He's.

Killing them all yeah. Anyway, all right, so let's get into it here. So the Danish officials say there's a fundamental disagreement with the US over Greenland. Uh, you know what, let's let's just read into it here. So what we're covering here tensions over Greenland. Leaders from Denmark and Greenland said a fundamental disagreement persists with the Trump administration over the future of the territory, following their meeting with Vice

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Sam, I see your hand, brother, go ahead.

Does that mean that instead of does that mean we're gonna get if we if they don't want to sell it and Trump's gonna be this big swinging dick of America, does that mean that we're gonna have to start issuing all.

We're gonna start fighting in the Arctic night they wanted to in World War Two.

I don't think that would be a very good idea.

I'm gonna be.

Honest say it was a good idea.

I mean, it's nice.

You don't you don't invade Russia doing fucking winter and this is winter twenty four fucking seven.

It's an icy hellskate.

Bro Their population somebody correct me on this one. It's under one hundred thousand. It's like fifty six thousand or some shit.

Fifty fifty seven thousand, fifty six fifty seven thousand.

So we're talking about there. We have more marines in the infantry then they have citizens of that nation.

See is it?

Is it Glendon or Iceland.

That has like there's this big ass vault there that has like all the virusis and shit of the Greenland.

Yeah, and this is what we're trying to buy.

Correct, Yes, but there's there's more strategic reasons for it than just that. Although that is a thing. So Historically speaking, if you look back in the Cold War, when we didn't have the satellite technology that we have now, we had a series of radar bases in basically a straight line across Greenland because we were expecting Soviet subs or Soviet ships or Soviet plans to make their way across the North Pole essentially and attack us from up top.

We rent the land.

Everybody benefits all the things, all the stuff we abandon them. If I'm not mistaken, in the mid seventies or early eighties, I forget when the last one was finally decommissioned. But my point is, yeah, so like us, having a military presence in Greenland is a thing with historical precedents.

That being said, we don't need Greenland for that anymore.

We have all the capabilities to see shit well before it ever gets to us. We don't need it for the radar outposts. I don't know what he's thinking as far as the national security is, can and I don't see it.

I think there's something more behind the scenes, something's going on.

Yeah, I agree. And then to further that point, so let's talk about Fox. So CNN is obviously saying everything Trump's saying is bad, fundamental differences. They're pissed off Trump is making Greenland doesn't fall into the.

Lapse of China and Russia. And this is what Fox is saying.

This is why he's trying to buy Greenland, because Russia's gonna buy it or China's gonna buy it once again. Denmark is not getting ready to sell this bitch to anybody. So what exactly does he mean? Let's talk about it here, let's listen in is happening.

I think it's not a matter of whether we're gonna take de facto control of Greenland, it's how and when the leaders of both Greenland and Denmark traveling all the way to the White House to meet with Vice President Vance and Secretary of Rubio today, and as expected, their leaders are digging in their heels.

We had what I will describe as a frank but also constructive discussion.

We also agreed to.

Disagree and therefore we will, however, continue to talk The big difference is whether that must lead to a situation where where US acquire Greenland, and that is absolutely not necessary.

I mean, okay, that's fine, but who do you trust more to decide what's necessary for US national security? Trump, Rubio and Vance? Are those two all right? Having Greenland under US authority? However, that's structured, it's critical given both

You know, we're doing the Golden Dome, We're doing a lot of things, and we really needed. If we don't go in, Russia is going to go in, China is going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything about it.

More here to discuss, as Carla Sans, former US Ambassador to Denmark and share for Foreign policy at the America First Policy Institute, Madam ambassador.

Great, real quick, real quick, before we listen to the former ambassador, but what the fuck is he talking about? Did I miss something. China and Russia. I understand they have ambitions for so many things, China more than Russia as far as like ambitions for business things and things like that. Russia's got their hands full right now. And fine, cool,

There's got to be something there that we don't know about.

Did they just find oil.

Or the rare earth minerals.

There's got to be a positive something, a huge depositive rare earth minerals that.

I think is the goal.

But I really don't know. I mean, I'm speculating.

I think you might be right here, because I mean I haven't heard of Greenland's booming, you know, hydrocarbons industry, although they may have one. I'm not very familiar with it, but with that being a very mountainous and cold terrain like that, it would.

It would stand to reason that there may be some.

Proven, rare earths somewhere on the island that they're not being very public about right now for their own national security. That Trump may have gotten a memo and he's like, hey, guess what look sounds like Greenland needs some freedom from those oppressive.

Danes that have been over them for so long. It sounds very crazy in the rhetoric. But here we are, Okay, yeah, this bitch is behind basically all.

Right, let's hear from the former ambassador, and I have a weird feeling she's gonna be like, Yep, Greenland just wants America to take over.

I just have a weird feeling.

But let's see.

To see you tonight. You heard what the foreign officials were saying. But the Danish foreign minister says, the US has quote wide military access already to Greenland, and we can ask to increase our presence there. So why wouldn't that be enough?

Why wouldn't American taxpayers pay more for Europe's defense or Greenland, which is a possession of Denmark? Right, I don't think so. President Trump is looking at this with clear eyes. Greenlanders will go independent in the twenty first century. Just like Iceland left the Kingdom of Denmark in the twentieth century, Greenland will leave. President Trump's making sure they don't fall into the lap of China or Russia. That's a good thing.

And you know what she did.

She put two million and it wasn't into security at all, so one percent of what she committed to, and that wasn't even real security. So you can't trust what she says. She and Denmark will never be able to afford to defend or secure Greenland.

Greenland would be gone right now if we weren't gonna we weren't defending it. I mean, I mean, I'm sorry.

But that's just a fact.

I mean it.

Ditto with Canada. So not to say we don't love our Canadian military counterparts.

We do.

We love them.

But without the United States might and all the billions and billions we put into our military, they'd already have fallen to China.

Okay, I don't inherently disagree with what she just said. I I wouldn't. Wow, all right, a lot.

Of TI unpacking that one. Without America defending Greenland, it would have already fallen. That is an inaccurate statement. I believe without America defending Canada, which I mean, it would have fallen into China. Man maybe not maybe again, but yeah, no, Canada has US protecting it, so it doesn't need much of a military. So like, I'm good with that. That

Was all, well, that's not true.

There's never been Chinese troops cut to the local town outside of where the Chinese troops were encamped. Were pissed off when the Chinese troops left because they were spending money in this small town and they actually their economy boomed because of it. So there's actual boots on the ground, well civilian boots on the ground that are saying no, no,

But the NATO allies and BESSA are getting involved as well. According to reports, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, are sending troops to Greenland. I've been continuing threats.

Okay, what is that gonna do?

I'm sorry, I'm laughing.

That's just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. They're not even willing to send troops to, you know, protect Ukraine. They're going to send troops to Greenland.

Okay, okay, a couple things there. One Greenland and Denmark or NATO that the NATO people, that's our homies. So they're sending troops to a NATO country, but they're not willing to send to you because Ukraine is not a NATO country.

That's not within their wheelhouse.

That's not they could they could be generous and send Ukraine troops if they so chose, but all these countries have been sending them armaments and funding and resources to help them defend themselves. So yeah, this is why, this is why I wanted to show both the CNN and the Fox's opinion on the Trump Greenland situation. Y'all see how the narratives are very different and they're being spun very extremely in very very opposing ways. So yeah, that's this is where we're at.

I guess hex head, what's your thought bro, I think.

I don't know.

I I think Ukraine we're sending our moldy bread. It's not moldy yet, but we're sending our munitions out there. It's not moldy yet.

But we we're getting new stuff going.

Yeah.

Yeah, we're clearing out our old inventory.

God.

Yeah, I don't know. On the other side, I really.

Don't Tony way In on this, brother, you have a You've got a really interesting take on a lot of geopolitics. What do you think is the overall goal here or the reason behind it?

In Greenland? I've heard it might be minerals. I've also heard it might be to get more military up there. But did you know we'd already have a small military presence there. It's called the Thuley Air Base, and it's really really small. Calling it a base isn't really even the right word for it. It's like a strip.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't really have a strong opinion about Greenland. There's fifty thousand people there. They probably wouldn't mind if America formally took over, And yeah, I don't have a strong opinion about it, really.

I mean I agree that people there probably would be They probably would actually be happy, And I'm not saying that because I'm a patriot. Like realistically, like our economy is doing better than Denmark. We're not a socialist nation or borderline socialist nation. They probably wouldn't really notice much of a difference, to be completely honest with you, as far as their day to day lives are concerned.

But even so, yeah, we have a base up there.

If a matter of fact, I'm trying to remember, the first country to build an airstrip was England.

They built an air airport for.

Lack of better words, I'm not even gonna call it like a base, and then a few years later America decided to build one there too, and then we started to operate it as a if you want to call it a military installation or an international airport or what I guess both could be used. An interchangeable dialogue on this one, But even still, I don't see the purpose. Like you said, it might be minerals, it might be, But what would be the purpose of us having a

I'm gonna have to go.

And yeah, there could be a lot of oil under the Arctic Ocean too, and Rush is the closest to it. But like everyone's kind of tried to agree not to drill yet, but everyone wants to be in a position where they could.

Okay, I could see that being a possibility, But hell, didn't we just quote unquote takeover Venezuela. They got more oil than Saudi Arabia, and we have all the refineries to refine the sour crude or.

Whatever the fuck they want to call it.

I mean, if that's what it is, if it's oil.

I think the idea is to use up everybody else's oil first, the first, and then we have ours for the rest of them, you know, for eternity or whatever however long oil lasts. And I've heard that they're offering each resident one hundred thousand dollars for to join the States.

They're offering the inhabitants of Greenland.

One hundred thousand dollars apiece to become a US citizen.

I think so. I think I've read a couple of articles.

And I think so that they are like, yeah, just throw money at them.

Now the tinfoil hat comes on as far as I'm concerned. Uh, whenever the government is willing to offer large sums of money to people just for the fuck of it, there is always I actually can't think of one time where there wasn't.

Some serious fuckery afoot. So now I'm gonna have to do a whole deep dive on this.

I'm probably gonna make a fucking cult to Conspiracy episode about this one.

I'm ready.

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There are two quick thoughts, the first of which, so, h the minerals could be one thing. Also, doesn't Greenland have.

A ship ton of bunkers that are filled like with all these the foods and seeds for the for the.

Star pile of the world, So that could be power to have access to that as a hey, you know, like it doesn't matter what you guys do we have means to survive.

And there there is a seed bunker that has I think every seed that is available is stored.

There, right.

So the so the fact that that's there and Trump is so adamant on being there, there could be a connection at the very least as far as that and you and then the only other thing as far as even though people aren't going to attack Greenland directly, it's almost an intermediary between America and Europe or you know, you know, it's a nice it's a nice barrier.

It could be used as a staging ground.

It absolutely could be used as staging ground if somebody was to try to attack mainland USA. I hear this and I'm that's absolutely a possibility. The bunkers absolutely also possibility. Minerals oil all that could be. And I will say to the point that you and Hexhead are making here,

Greenland seems to be the one spot.

That will probably be okay more or less than anywhere else on Earth, and there's reasons for that. On the plate tectonic scale, there's reasons for that. As far as their distance from the equator, there's reasons for that. As far as they're low population, there's a reason for that. For their because they're mountainous and those are pretty fucking stable. There's tons of reasons for this. So perhaps that is

That's right around the corner, and Trump is society.

He's pulling out all the stops to get to as many Americans to the actual bunker as possible.

That's there's a greater than zero percent chance of that for sure.

Wow wow wow wow. Okay, let's continue on with the conversation here. So Trump issues a stern warning to NATO ahead of vance's high stakes Greenland meeting. Okay, so, uh, let's see. Should we hit play the headlines? Should we read the article? What would y'all prefer?

I'll throw the headlines out.

Let's do it. Let's see what's up. Number one Ice agents struck renee Goods vehicle.

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, wait wait wait, hold on I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let me let me read that one again.

Let me lower the wine. So the ICE agent that struck miss Goods car suffered from internal bleeding to the torso because yes, she did in fact hit him with her car, and you could see that from his bodycam footage.

And so yeah, she hit the dude and she got got.

The federal agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding to his torso when he was struck and her vehicle. Department Homeland Security Assistant Secretarya Tricia McLoughlin confirmed on Fox News on Wednesday, Yep, no doubt. And keep in mind also this same ICE agent was drug underneath a car six months prior. The same dude who was making a stop got ran over and drug under a car just a few months prior

So yeah, did she That is what happens.

And also there's people that are saying that she was there, you know, she was peaceful, she was protesting. No, she was literally sent there and was successful in uh, basically, what's the word uh something in uh something in investigation or something in a rest about Yeah, her and a group of people in their cars went there to obstruct ICE agents in doing their duty, which is against the law. So yeah, she wasn't just like an innocent Biastand and they kept using the video where she backed up a

There is not, So let's just read it here.

The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa's processing for seventy five countries in an effort to crack down on what was that, to crack down becoming a citizen. The State Department memo, seen first by Fox News Digital Directors, consiler officers to refuse visas. Jesus, they're rolling fast at this and I am not reading fast enough. The countries include Samalia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, Yemen,

Who cares anyway?

To the article itself here, President Trump sent a warning to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO ahead of jd Vance's high stakes meeting with the Danish and Greenlandic officials. The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security, he wrote on a truth social post on Wednesday. He added that the acquisition was vital for the Golden Dome that we are building. The Golden Dome is the cutting edge missile defense system meant to intercept threats targeting the

Anything less than that is unacceptable, he added.

Keep in mind he just mandated and actually got the thumbs up for all NATO members to start spending five percent of their GDP on their military, which is impressive. I am happy about that also, but a lot of these countries are spending somewhere between two and three percent, and help the thing, it was like a little under half of the countries couldn't even make the two percent minimum. Trump just strong on them into making five percent GDP their minimum.

I'm here for it.

But also, if that's the case and NATO is going to be stronger overall very soon, I don't see why Greenland is such an asset. But again, we may just have more things that are going to be coming out about this here soon, I don't know. Follow up posts on truth social On Wednesday morning, Trump shared a report by just the News stating that the day Defense Intelligence Service issued a warning regarding Russian and Chinese military ambitions

That's interesting.

NATO tell Denmark to get them out of here now. Two dog sleds won't do it. Only the USA can trump. Oh my god, two dog sleds. This fucking dude. Danish intel warren last year about Russia and Chinese military goals towards Greenland and the Arctic. In recent years of the United States has significantly increased its security policy focused on the Arctic, while Russia continues its military build up and China continues to develop its capacity to operate both submarines

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That's fucking great and a really good way to get off of that topic and onto the next one. Here as we were talking about Trump, as we're talking about Russia and all this silliness, and Tony, I'm hoping that you're gonna weigh in on this one here, brother, because I found this article. I don't know how verified it is, but this was posted December thirty first of last year, just a few weeks ago.

Ten thousand in counting Russian soldiers are surrendering in record numbers. Okay, now let's read in.

Here more than ten thousand Russian soldiers have been taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces since the start of the Russian full scale invasion in February of twenty twenty two. Now I find that interesting, and there's gonna be people that are gonna say some crazy things here, like so you're telling me more Russians have surrendered than the entire American forces lost in twenty two years of combat in two countries.

Misled into military service.

Forty percent have prior criminal records, most commonly for theft, drug offenses, assault, or homicide, which I'm also not really mad about. If you have a war going on, you're gonna want your your savages at the front.

So like, all right, I mean, hell, America did that same thing.

By the way, I know legitimately five people that in the early stages of operation name your thing, from like four to eight, they were basically given the choice of jail or the army. Like that was that was a thing that judges used to do in this country. So it's not like this is unprecedented. But honestly, it wouldn't be for like serial rapists and shit. It would usually

That I mean, okay.

Ukrainian officials say hundreds of those captured also suffer from chronic health issues, including HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, diabetes, and mental illness. Yeah, the AIDS outbreak on the front with the Russians is crazy, and there's multiple reasons for that. Some are saying it's because they're sharing needles. Some are saying because it's like a lot of rape soldier to soldier rape on the Russian side. I honestly don't know how much of that is rhetoric, how much of that

But take that for what it's worth. Excuse me.

Ukrainian officials say hundreds of those captures also suffer.

Are you right that? I'm sorry?

According to the coordinated coordination efforts, Excuse me. According to the Coordination Headquarters, over six thousand Russian POWs have been repatriated to Russia as part of prisoner exchanges. More than half of these exchanges occurred in twenty twenty five. However, not all returned soldiers survive long after release.

Yeah you'll have that in Russia.

Ukrainian officials say at least two hundred and thirty seven former POWs were either killed or went missing after being sent back to the front lines. At least four Russian soldiers have been captured a second time. They are really bad at their jobs with those four, not the whole thing, just those four, Like bro, you play you missed and sucked at hide and seek to this level twice, but

In terms of it happening more than usual? I think it's happened at consistent rate throughout the war. And I just went ahead and asked, ROC you know about this whole issue.

Crock estimates, AI do be lying, A, I do be lying.

It's a reasonable member. And before I even asked it about this particular article, it said, well, maybe five thousand to eight thousand Russians have been taken prisoner, and I'd say that's within this ballpark. That's very reasonable. And it even listed out a lot of the previous prisoner exchanges that have happened. There's been like twenty of them normally in the you know, Doubler triple digits. Uh, yeah, I think this is basically true. United twenty four Media though

I had heard about this somewhere I forget where. Probably one of the other podcasts I listened to was talking about how there's like record numbers of Russians surrendering, and there was a few cases where it was legitimately they were like surrounded and it was like a legitimate surrender. It wasn't they It wasn't like these conscripts that basically got to the front line, put down their weapon and put their hands up and said fuck it, I'll be

So I don't know how much of this is true.

Information on both sides of this is so skewed, So I mean, who's to say, right.

Yeah, I've seen too much information from the pro Russian side that says, oh, look, we've got more captains, we've got more prisoners of war. Oh man, they're about to collapse any day now. And I just posted a stupid little meme looking photo here of NPC characters from both sides. In March twenty twenty two, Ukraine is about to win on one side, and then on the other side, it's an identical looking guy saying Russia is about to win, and then September twenty twenty four, exact same two guys

Yeah, it's uh. They had their their successes in their first initial push. At the rate they're going right now, it would if this doesn't up, you're still holding true to the belief that this is all going to be wrapped up by March of this year.

Uh yeah, I'll just I don't know how to put money on it or whatever. There's probably a polymarket, Oh yes, there is.

Oh yes, okay, I mean, and I really have no reason to believe one way or another on this. I will say that if if this does not come to a conclusion relatively soon, and if Russia does decide to just dig their heels in and just fight it out until the entire western coast, I should say border rather of Ukraine. Dude. Going by the math of what they've been able to accomplish in the last couple of years, it would take them like two hundred years to get there.

I don't know.

We kept hearing things that de Lensky was ready to come to the negotiating table. We heard that the Russian ambassadors but some sort of Russian officials were going to Miami and they were ready to.

Make a deal. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. I don't even know if any real talk was had.

Yeah, I haven't heard of it. I don't keep as much tabs on this as I used to. But I predict Russia's still gonna just take small amounts of territory

Yeah, it was a war of attrition, which is what this is now. Yeah, I don't know, We'll see how it goes.

I don't have anything else to say.

I feel you go ahead, Sam.

I could see sorry, I could see this easily becoming a DMZ like.

Uh that it is in Korea.

Uh, just a the military as I could see it becoming a ceasefire, not really a fool on.

Hey you want to quit? No, not really. I can see it like eventually they'll just like ease up.

But I still figured anow that like twenty thousand is gonna die before that happens.

No, I oh, twenty thousand for sure. Oh my god, I've I've lost what the chore statistics are. But yeah, it's that's for sure. But yeah, I agree, I've been saying.

That otistic, right, Yeah.

I've a I've been saying it for a while that I could see a DMZ forming as a result of this.

Uh.

But again, there's so much that has to happen between now and whenever they finally decide that they've had enough. I don't Zelenski's not going to back down. He's he is digging as he was as much as he can because he's fighting for his home turf Russia. It really is dependent on Russia. Zelenski and Ukraine have been willing to come to the negotiating table multiple times. Putin has

I I don't know who's to say one way or another.

Honestly, anyway, while we are talking about foreign things, let's talk about this one. Iran or Iran or Iran, however the fuck you want to pronounce it briefly closes airspace as US tensions rise, flights rerouted across the regions, So let's just read straight into it here. Iran temporarily closed its airspace last Wednesday to most incoming and outgoing flights

Around it at that point.

The order exempted international flights to and from Tehran provided they received prior approval from Iran's Civil Aviation authority. The airspace closure comes ascensions escalated after the US President threatened intervention following a deadly crackdown on anti government protests in Iran. Trump later appeared to soften his tone. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday night, Trump said that he has been assured that the killing of protesters in Iran has stopped,

That's also interesting.

Katar, Turkey, and the UAE have all canceled flights going over Iran's That's pretty interesting to me, especially because that ties into well, well, we're gonna talk about the UAE and their lack of funding to their students in the UK.

I think it's hilarious. But anyway, let's go here.

So the next thing I wanted to talk about while we're still on the topic of Iran here, there's been a lot of talk about the protests. There's a lot of talk about possible regime change in the country. Feel how you want to feel about that. Fine, However, there's been a lot of media that has come out of Iran that shows that the videos are actually AI and their dated photos to mislead about what the pro regime

That's simply just not the case.

Right here, we actually have a video that we're going to play to learn a little bit more about the propaganda on this one.

Let's learn together.

I've seen massive social unrest continue in Iran as protesters demonstrate against the theocratic government amidst an internet blackout and a wave of crackdowns. Now, amidst those protests, the government has also called on its supporters to take to the streets as well in a show of loyalty. But online false images by social media users are misleading those numbers. So let's take a first look at what the state

This user on x.

Shared another photo saying that it shows the size and scale of pro government support. Again, a reverse image search shows us that this is also from Cassam Solimani's funeral dated back to twenty twenty, so we can see here how images are being distorted out of context in order to talk up pro government support and rallies in support of the Iranian government. Of course, this is at a time where the government itself is trying to downplay descent

There we have it.

So the article is very short, no real reason to read it because she kind of did a great job of explaining it all herself. So with that being said, what does this regime change look like hypothetically if it is successful, if the Ayatola is ousted and they bring back Reza Pahlavi probably mispronouncing his name, my apologies. The exiled prints urging Iranians to seize cities. Now, this is an article from al Jazeero, which is a Katari publication,

But I want to learn more about the guy.

So for decades, Raza Polavi was the polite face of the Iranian opposition in exile, a former fighter pilot who spoke of nonviolent resistance and secular democracy from his home in the United States. But this weekend, the tone of the sixty five year old heir to the Peacock throne

But all right.

A report by the conservative Vatan e m rouse Yeah newspaper, cited by Taznin news agency describe Pavlov's call at pa Lavi's call as cover for terrorism Nuclei Wow to attack police and besiege forces.

Not to be mistaken, this is not merely a riot.

These were all armed terrorist attacks, or reports stated, claiming that dozens of security personnel have been killed. Officials have linked Pallavi's escalation to foreign interference, specifically accusing the US and Israel. Well, of course, they claimed the unrest is a plan b by President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu following the conclusion of the twelve day war between Israel and Iran in May of last year. So opposition

Okay.

Despite these internal riffs, Polavi remains the most visible figurehead for the current wave of unrest, with the Trump administration maintaining a hands off approach, asserting it is up to Iranians to choose their own leaders. In the streets of Tehran burning, the exiled prince appears to be making his final gamble for the throne he lost forty seven years ago. Okay, I mean again, I'm not necessarily against the regime change.

I know a lot of people are.

If it's done truly and purely by the Iranian people and this is what they want.

I'm here for it.

If this is being influenced by foreign actors or something like that, then yeah, I think we need to mind our own business. But that's also how regime changes go worldwide. You know, it's never really clean anyway. Yeah, go ahead.

I don't think that.

I don't think Rezapalavi Junior is going to end up in charge of Iran if they have a regime change. It's just going to be somebody else already there. Kind of like everyone thought Maria Karina Machado was going to be in charge of Venezuela because she was the US favorite and she was making the media circuit all around the Western world. And she's not going to be in charge of Venezuela.

No, they don't know who she is.

She was the one that just won the Nobel Peace Prize, if not mistaken, but it was for humanitarian efforts, and no one in Venezuela knows that she just was the award of the Nobel Peace Prize because the state media suppressed at all.

I think they know, but they still regard it as the Maduro and Chavista people regarded as a complete like fraudulent or a publicity stunt more than anything. That's how they regard it.

They don't I read into her, dude. That priest prize was well deserved from what I read anyway.

But even still they give it to Obama and stuff before he even did anything. So a lot of that's a fair point. Prize is just political.

Depends on what it's for.

I'll give you that.

I actually know someone who was nominated for humanitarian efforts and it was a legitimate like this woman deserved in my opinion, But it depends on what it's for. Evidences in the way of science or technology or something. You have to have something behind it. But then they gave it to al Gore to lie to us about global warming, and you're right, they gave it to Obama two weeks after he was elected for nothing, So I see what you're going here.

Yeah, we're getting lots of numbers out of how many people have died any run and they cut off their their internet obviously, right, But I've seen anything from like one to twenty thousand. Nothing's really backed up yet, and I'm curious to know what the final number is actually going to be. And I don't know how much of this is AI. I don't think I saw that one particular AI video of the flag outstretched, but there's there's

Maybe yes, Maybe no, though, because if Iran goes into full on chaos, that's going to be a breeding ground for the exact thing that they're trying to get rid of, because now all you're going to have is some local warlord or some terrorist group take over, and that's the opposite of what anybody, including the other Muslim countries, and they at least want, I don't see to your point.

I think Israel would want that. I think that would be less of a threat to Israel than the Iranian government currently is.

Break this down for me because, like, for instance, Syria is a fragmented nation that is currently being led by an al Qaeda leader, right I don't think Israel's like super stoked about that. I don't think they're also super worried about that right now. But I think that they had a pretty good working relationship with Ala Sad at least for a good bit. Now he was sucking up his own people, that's fair, but they didn't have to worry about much out of a Syria for a good bit there.

I didn't get that impression. I thought Asad was allowing arms traffic to go from Iran to Lebanon and that's been cut off. Now, I think that was Israel's main goal, and they won. Okay, that's fair time, and that's for the straight of horror moves. I think that. You know, it's very Arab territory. Yeah, and even inside Iran, both

I could see the potential of the prince to not regain power, right, but maybe a regime change in some by a local, maybe more of a democratically elected individual. Maybe the Ayahtola loses a bit of his power and becomes more of a religious figurehead than the combination of religious and political.

I could see something like that shaking out too.

But you also keep in mind your boy, the prince, he's hadn't been back to that country since he was seventeen, Like he's nobody in that country really remembers the good old days of his dad. Like that's a far that's a far gone, antiquated look at things. So don't I don't know. I could be so wrong here, and the Iranian people are begging to bring back the monarchy.

I could be I could be wrong. I'd say it's like a one percent chance I would give it. Fragmentation is more like a twenty thirty percent chance, and seventy percent chance I toold is going to keep power. I'm more concerned, I think, with what's going to happen in the next week. I think the US might launch some missiles against Iran, a small number, and then Iran's going to have a proportionate response like they did after Sole Money, or like they did kind of to Israel this past June.

Now, I also am of the belief at this time that this although yes, Israel has you know, their their they want Iran to go through a regime change for sure, America does too, but again so does all the other Muslim countries. Could this be a Muslim on Muslim situation hypothetically.

Like the Saudis probably do?

I think, I know, the Qataris, the UAE, Saudi's, Jordanians, none of them get down with the current way Iran.

Is being ran.

Well.

I think the Sunnis have the biggest opposition to Iran, but Qatar historically has been sort of more favorable to Iran than the Saudis. For sure, the Saudis really hate Iran. I think the Hasher Mights hate Iran. The Iraqis, I think, are more cool with Iran. The Iraqis are mostly Shia. Saddam Hussein was a Sunni. The Kuwaitis are Shia, but I think they hate Iran too.

It's not even about the religious From what I can tell, it's not has to do with the religious affiliations.

It has to do with the fact that they are bad for business.

Iran could shut down the straight or horror moves, so the Kuwaitis don't like him.

No, how could I put this?

So you remember when you were in school, when you were a kid in class and you had that one kid in that class that was always an asshole, And when he wasn't there that day, you were stoked because you knew the day was just gonna go smoothly. But every time that he was there, he would just cause trouble and make the day go on longer, and he and the teacher would just get into it, and then

This, Well, Yeah, Iran's support for Hezbla is probably the one thing that all the other countries that hate Iran hate most about them, and it's the thing that the most anti Israeli people love the most about Iran. It's their support for Hezbalah and that's probably what it all revolves around. As for the whole Saudi Iranian I guess Saudi Arabia is pretty far south a Lebanon. Maybe they don't care about it quite as much, but they've been

Try versus tribe, clan versus clan.

Who knows, dude, Yeah, I can't really speak authoritatively on that, but everybody knows. They just don't like each other. And the Saudis also tend not to like the Shia Arabs. Within Saudi Arabia, there's a few Shia Arabs next to Kuwait, and Saudi government doesn't really like them very much either, And I also chalk that up to general sectarian division. As for deeper history, I don't know, So that's the end. That's a limit of my knowledge.

Dude, to look into the deeper history of the Middle East as a whole, to figure out who hates who and why takeaway Israel just just for the sake of this conversation, put Israel off to the side. There is no clear cut way to decide why this group hates this group, why this group is boys with this group, why this one is enemy and my enemy he is my friend. It's it's messy. The deeper you look into it, the messier it gets. Honestly, I've tried for years, and

Honestly, well, I just asked Grock. It said pretty much everything we already said, Sunni versus Shia. It also mentions the Hohoth East who I forgot who sure Yemen. Other proxy wars Syria, Yemen, Iraq, other flash points nineteen eighty to eighty eight Iran Iraq war Saudi back to Iraq, twenty sixteen execution of Shia cleric Nimmer. I'll Nimmer Iran protested the heck out of that he was a Saudi Shia Muslim, and Saudi Arabia executed him for some reason.

Mm let's see.

There's a few other things. That's That's pretty much it.

Actually, who knows, But yeah, I don't know what the regime change will look like if it is successful. I am hoping that it would make Aron a better ballplayer, so to speak. But I mean, who's to really say it won't just get replaced by somebody who is equal to what they currently have. I you know, who knows.

So let's get into it here. Radicalization alarm.

Why the UAE is losing faith in UK universities For everybody who hasn't heard the UAE, who very well to do nation and they send people from their country all over the world to go to higher levels of education all over the world. But the way that the UK has done business for the past few years and let so many I don't want to just use the word terrorists, but people into their country that are dismantling the UK as a whole. It has gotten so bad, and the

That's their response.

They're losing funding for a certain demographic of students because of the other demographic of students they have, and they're just telling people that, well, we just.

Need economic we just need educational freedom.

BRAH officials with knowledge of the policy also told The Times UK that federal funding was being limited for citizens hoping to study in the UK, but that the government was not imposing a blanket ban on enrollments. Wealthier families can still send their children to British universities if they cover the costs themselves, while state funding continues to be available for students studying in other countries. The decision comes after federal funding for emmorties pursuing UK studies had already

Wow, this is from David Collier on X.

The UAE has cut funding for students who want to study in the UK. It is worried they will be radicalized on campus.

Let me say that again.

An Arab state will not send its kids to the UK because it's worried we will turn them into Islamic terrorists.

Let that sink in. I couldn't have said that better myself, honestly.

So yeah, the radicalization concerns in the Muslim Brotherhood. The UAE's move is closely tied to its long standing concerns about Islamist movements, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the Arab uprising in twenty eleven, Abu Dhabi has imposed strict controls on domestic Islamist activities and sought to limit political Islam regionally. Under President Shikh Muhammad bin Zaid al Nayan.

I may have gotten that right.

The UAE has repeated question the UK's decision not to proscribe the Brotherhood. Official UK data shows that during the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four academic year, seventy students in UK universities were referred for possible participation in government's Prevent Deradicalization program for signs of Islamist radical radicalization.

Good Lord nearly double the.

Previous year out of a total higher education population of almost three million students. While one UK academic downplayed the scale of the Islamist activity on campus, they noted that events such as the Israel Gaza conflict have contributed to heightened tensions and protests on campus. The UK government's twenty fifteen review concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood had not been

Muslims don't want their kids going.

To school with those Muslims, and whatever you thought whenever I just said those Muslims, it's probably right, and that's something that really needs to sink in. Britain has been They're basically a country in free fall from what I can tell.

And it's not just because of that, it's because of so many things.

But this might be the final catalyst to really bring down the last bit of whatever might remain of the British Empire.

I don't know. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

I hope Britain gets there, puts their testicles back on, and like reasserts their dominance and their own country.

I hope.

I just don't see it happening anyway. Oh good, members of the retinue. As we wrap this episode up, I want to thank you all for joining me this evening and talking with me about all the things and all the stuff going on around the world. Oh go ahead, Sam.

I was just I was just gonna say that.

Everything, because you always do a good job and whatever.

You're cutting out a good bit. But I think I got what you were trying to say, and I appreciate you. Sam. You are the spirit animal. Not only have the cult of Conspiracy, you are the spirit animal of the Cajun Night as well. Clearly obviously so anyway, all good members of the retinue, I want to thank you all for coming out here this evening. Again. For anybody who would like to join the conversation next week, you go to link in the description below to patreon dot com slash Cajun Night.

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