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seems like it's calling it shots. It seems like it's calling it spades spades here, regardless of the sides of the thing. So I'm curious. I'm curious what the differences are here, what the tone and the vibe are different. Right, Yes, we are gonna be talking about the ship that just got shot up by Cuba. Four Americans are currently dead in the Gulf of America right now. Will Cuba be seeing the sun? Will we be going to war with Cuba? Now? Who's to say, Hey, we're gonna talk about it all.

We've got some things going on with the with Russia, we got some things going on with you know, all over the world, all over the world. We're gonna be talking about some things, some Chinese things as well, not a whole lot, but a few things. So as we get started here, I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen.

I'm gonna tell everybody, if you listening to this right now would like to be a part of the conversation, then come to patreon dot com slash cajun knight in joining the conversation every Wednesday night at nine pm Central. Linked to that is in the description below. And we appreciate everybody who's done so already. Now let's talk about this before we get into the thick of it. Come to find out the Bears, the NFL team, the Bears are about to move out of that state and into

another state because the taxes are so bad. I've thought this was rather interesting. I would love to hear y'alls two since. But let's listen in on this one together.

fifty times. He spent three billion dollars on illegal immigrants migrants, and apparently he doesn't have the money or has paid the attention to try to keep the Bears in Illinois.

So he's been outplayed and outflanked by this Indiana governor because his priorities are all about defending sanctuary for illegal immigrants, tens of thousands of whom he knows are violent criminals, and he's turned his back on a working class fan base at the Chicago Bears because we love our Chicago Bears and we don't want to see them leave.

is intending to run. What when losing the Bears franchise due to this man's presidential aspirations, Well, it.

been talking about moving for a long time. There's an opportunity if they leave Chicago to at least stay in northwest Illinois in the suburban area Arlington Heights. The Bears have bought land out there. So clearly Pritsker has simply been too busy pandering to the socialist Bolshevik part of our party, opposing law enforcement's efforts to crack down on crime, and he hasn't paid attention to an issue like this that actually impacts millions of people who care about the Bears.

I don't care. That being said, there is a long list of businesses that have left Chicago, and there's a longer list of businesses that are leaving Blue states and blue cities onward to greener pastures somewhere else that's not screwing them on taxes. This has been done for the past few years. It's been done long before that, don't get me wrong, but it's really ramping up now, right.

I wouldn't be shocked if more more companies also move out of New York City the way Mom Donnie's running it into the ground, But that's a talk for another day. My point is a sports franchise picking up and moving

to a new location because they're getting screwed over. The same thing could be said for the Raiders leaving Oakland and going to Vegas not too long ago, because California was screwing a sports franchise, which for the record, it's not like the Raiders were like a really good sports franchise, but neither here nor there. They're moving to a spot where they could possibly make their money without getting screwed

over every conceptual way. So I understand this, I do, and I could see this also being a sign of the times. And I feel like, especially within the next two years, especially within the next two administrations of whichever person takes presidency next, unless some very drastic changes happen from the left, I could see a lot of big companies leaving these quote unquote major hubs, these liberals ran cities, to go to places that they're able to do their

business in peace. So that's point one. Point two. Pritzker trying to make a run for the presidency, that would be that would be silly, that that would be kind of crazy. In my opinion. Now, of course he's gonna throw his name into the into the arena and he'll go in for the d n c's you know mention. What the hell? So little background here through a weird chain of events. I have a ring camera thing that I took down from my house and I threw in here.

For whatever reason, that shit just came on out of nowhere on its own. This has been disconnected and pulled down from my wall for about six months. What the fuck?

I don't think he'll win either. For the record, but as of this moment, he seems like the strongest candidate that the Democrats could possibly put up there, which is embarrassing, but it's also a true statement. So Pritzker, I don't

see that going well for him. Honestly, he'll get a nomination, He'll be on the DNC debate team for lack of better words, where they have eight people get up and it's all a big squabbling contest to see which one seems like the biggest screaming blue hair libed hard in the group. You know, which one's appealing to the more

marginalized groups out there or whatever. It's not gonna go well honestly, and even Mom Donnie, probably not right now, but I could see him in a couple of years, a couple of terms, also making his play for the big push to go for the presidency. It's incredible the amount of pandering that that dude has done within the

last few months. Like it's remember that time where Hillary Clinton went on the Breakfast Club, which is a traditionally a black ran and operated radio show, and she was trying to do that to appeal to the black voters, and they asked her, well, what's the thing one thing you always carry in your purse? Oh, I never leave my house without hot sauce. And they're like, what, that's crazy,

Like it was. It was really cringey pandering. And that's the thing, Mom Donnie's basically doing that right now too. So again I think that they're crazy for saying that Pritzkers got any shot of actually going for the presidency. And also the Chicago Bears might very well become the Indiana Bears. I don't know, we shall see what happens, but I thought it was at least an interesting way to start tonight's conversation. Now, let's talk about one of

these Medal of Honor recipients. Here. There was two that was awarded during the State of the Union address. One of them is the army helicopter pilot wounded during the Maduro raid. He received a Medal of Honor during the State of the Union address. So this boy here is a Chief Warrant Officer five. For anybody who doesn't know, that is an extremely high and difficult rank to achieve within the United States military. Now here we have it.

President Donald Trump presented Chief Warrant Officer five, Eric Slover, Army helicopter pilot wounded in the audacious raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Munduro, with the medal of Honor on Tuesday during his State of the Union address. Slover, who's forty five, and his wife in the chamber. They received a standing ovation while Chance of USA rang out the scene struck a bipartisan high note. Slover, who was still recovering from his injuries, appeared in full dress uniform and

relied on a walker to steady himself. Trump offered a rare window into the covert January third mission, known as Operation Absolute Resolve, The president cast Slover not just as one of its principal architects, but as the flight lead. In the cockpit, he said, Slover was the first Chinook helicopter to approach Maduro's heavily forty five correct as compound under the cover of darkness. The President described the operation as very dangerous because the enemy knew we were coming,

quote unquote, which is also kind of crazy. How did they know we were coming? I thought this was a secret mission, right y'all see what I'm saying here. Maduro handed himself over. Anyway, The military installation was protected by thousands of soldiers and guarded by Russia and Chinese military technology, both of which are dog shit. How did that work out? Not too good? Not too good, according to Trump. As the Chinook approached the target, it came under intense machine

gun fire from multiple directions. Slover was hit repeatedly, sustaining serious wounds to his leg and hip, yet he still maintained control of the aircraft, enabling the Delta Force operators to carry out their mission. One bullet after another, he absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg in numerous places.

Eric maneuvered his helicopter with all of those lives and souls to face the enemy and let his gunners eliminate the threat, saving the lives of his fellow warriors from what could have been a catastrophic crash deep in enemy territory. The President emphasized that the success of the entire mission and the lives of his fellow warriors hinged on Eric's ability to take searing pain. The operation resulted in the successful capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, without

any American lives loss. The deposed Venezuelan president and Flores are now being held in Brooklyn jail. We've talked about that her Roa was the only one. Was the only thing Eric was thinking about. Trump declared then, even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle,

the helicopter lands and a steep angle. Very true. Lieutenant General Jonathan Bragga, commander of the Joint Special Operations Command or Jaysock, placed the medal around Slover's neck in the Capitol gallery, marking the first time a medal of honor had been presented during the annual address. Long story about Slover. He enlisted in two thousand and five. He is a part of the Special Operations Command. In addition to the Medal of Honor, Slover's award include the Distinguished Flying Cross

with V Device. And for those that don't know, anybody in the military can earn medals for so many things. If they have a V device on the medal, that means they did gangster shit to achieve it. Right. It's the same thing whenever Biden went on about how his son was, you know, an officer and he was deployed. He got awarded the Bronze Star. They Bronze Star is out to officers like their candy. Now if it's a Bronze Star with a V device, we're having a different

conversation here, you see what I'm saying. So anyway, to get a Distinguished Flying Cross of the V device, your boy has done some hood rat shit, which is good things. He was awarder of the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Air Medal with Sea Device. Also some combat shit. That's what that means. Gangster things.

The Air Medal with the numeral three, the Army Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Combat Action Badge again because he's about that gangster ship, the Senior Army Aviator Badge, the Master Aviator Badge, the parachuter'st Badge, the Air Assoult Badge, and the Army Service. Long story shortid dude's a gangster,

right cool things. During the Tuesday Evening ceremony, Trump also bestowed the nation's highest military decoration, all retired Navy Captain Royce Williams, for his actions as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. So they didn't This article didn't really talk much about Royce, but his actions are also well documented, and we're not going to talk about the overarching story on him now, but I will give the background, long

story short, Korean War. This guy set off in his plane and on record, he has the longest dog fight ever recorded in American history. Dogfights usually don't last but only a few minutes at a time, right, especially if you're looking back at World War Two and these things you find this group, you go in, you start shooting them up. But usually the hot stuff is done within a matter of a few minutes. This dude was in an air to air combat with multiple other planes for

thirty solid minutes. And that's not from the time he left the plane to the time he got back, from the time he first engaged the enemy to the time that the last one was gone and he was good to go. And I mean, even the guys of deploy will tell you, like, thirty minutes is a long time for a gunfight, even on the ground. Thirty minutes for a dogfight, that's ridiculous. He took down four enemy planes himself that day. He was one away from being classified

as an ACE for this one engagement. But because there were Soviet pilots engaged on the side of America as of that moment, the entire mission was deemed classified, couldn't be talked about, and he never was awarded anything for this operation. So now that everything has been declassified, your boy is one hundred years old and they are now awarding him the Medal of Honor for a really crazy thirty minutes of his life. We're not going to talk

about the entire story on this episode. But if you do have the time and want to look up Captain Royce Williams and the story of the thirty minute dogfight, I highly recommend it. I really do wish that would turn that into like, even if not a movie, maybe like a short clip some sort of YouTube video about it. It's it's fucking gangster anyway. Moving on now, Oh there's another one about the this is your boy, Old Royce. I didn't mean to pull up both articles, but here

we have it. So this is the guy that was awarded it for the Maduro raid and this is the dude that was awarded it for the almost a thirty minute ace in Korea. So moving on. Now we're gonna talk about the State of the Union address. Okay, the Guardian pulled up here. This is, from what I could tell, pretty fair and balanced as far as fact checking some of the claims that Trump made. They're not saying that he's an outright liar. They're also not stroking his dick

by any means. They're they're just trying to call spade a spade and seeing what's happening. So the Guardian is talking about it jobs, gas prices and ending wars. Fact Checking Trump's State of the Union address. The president's lengthy speech to Congress contained the myriad inflated, misleading, or simply false claims. Okay, now, let's talk about it here. Why the longest ever Say of the Union address was the most inconsequential US politics and is signing up for things?

All right? So Donald Trump officially made the longest Date of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the success achieved during the first year of his second term. But the speech that stretched across more than an hour and forty one minutes was filled with strong statements, many of them inflated, misleading, or simply untrue. All right, here's some of the claims made by the president during his address. Fact check Economy, jobs, and investments.

Trump repeatedly touted his economy, boasting we are the hottest country anywhere in the world and claiming we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country. Sorry about the bad impersonation I'm trying here, but the data shows job gains under Trump's load in twenty twenty five and were far smaller than any other

non pandemic year. According to revised data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this month, the US gained just one hundred and eighty one thousand jobs in twenty twenty five. That number, Politifax Noakes, is well below the one point five million to two point five million typical under both Trump during his first term and former President Joe Biden. Okay, that's also misleading to bring up the

politifacts under Biden. You mean, when we were coming out of COVID and so we had all these jobs that were just popping up in reality as people going back to work. But like, okay, and Trump during his first term, so we're talking about whenever Obama ran our economy into the dirt and then Trump took over and started doing positive things with it. Again, that's that's kind of misleading

in and of itself. But at the same time, the claims that Trump was making as far as our state of the Union for this past year, it's a bit it's a bit misleading on his part. Let's be read. Trump also said the US had, under his leadership, secured eighteen trillion in investments, eighteen trillion dollars in investments pouring in from all over the Globe, but a review from CNN last year found that the White House was counting

pledges vague amounts promised, rather than actual investments. The white House website of on investment lists total US and foreign investments at nine point seven trillion, So it looks like he's kind of doubling the amount that he's claiming that America has. Now, I don't know how many of those promises are actually going to be you know, gone through to fruition. How many of these promises are going to be made, you know, make good on We could see,

we can hope. Anyway, let's talk about the next one fact check. Killer of Arena Zarutzka was not an immigrant, Okay, when Trump introduced the mother of Arena Zarutzka, the Ukrainian woman that was killed on the train in Charlotte, North Carolina,

last year, which was fucking crazy. If you haven't seen that video, it's it's mind blowing to watch this dude just pulls out a knife and just starts ganking this woman on the train and just gets off whatever, no big deal, And it's like nobody wakes up and decides to do that. But he did have a long track record of violent crimes and should have been in jail anyway, But all right, cool, so anyway, he falsely claimed that the man who stabs or rootskilt was a hardened criminal

set free to kill in America came in through open borders. However, to Carlos Brown Junior, the man arrested and charged with killing Zeruska is not an immigrant. Trump has long insisted that non citizens are responsible for violent crimes through the US data shows that relative to undocumented immigrants, US born citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes and two point five times more likely

to be arrested for drug crimes. Okay, again, I'm not trying to take Trump's side on this one because I agree your boy, to Carlos Brown is not a immigrant. He was, if I'm not mistaken, he was born in America. I'm not one hundred percent on that one, but he's definitely not like an illegal that came across our borders. And no, that being said, to say that a US citizen is twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes than an undocumented immigrant, I'm just gonna throw something

out here. What is the statistics? How many, even supposed alleged undocumented immigrants are in America right now versus the three hundred and sixty million Americans that are in America right now. If those the ratios don't make that look good, Let's say it's even what somebody looked this up real quick? What is the estimated illegal immigrant population within America right now? I have a weird feeling it's under five million. I

could be wrong. I might be talking out of my ass here, but that being say, you know, actually I'm a google that before I just go go off the rails here, I'm gonna look that up. Hold on estimated illegal population in US. I'm very curious here. Eleven wow, so eleven to fourteen million? So my math is not the best here, but you're telling me that out of three hundred and sixty million Americans, only fourteen are illegals, and Americans are twice as likely to commit a violent

crime than they are. Y'all understand the statistically that's really not good for the illegals, right that we have how many more times than they do thirty times the amount of people in this country and not thirty let's call it twenty. So we have twenty times the amount of citizens in this country, but there only, we're only twice as likely to be arrested for violence. Do y'all hear what I'm saying here out loud? That math is really

not positive. But all right, sure, that's again. I understand that your boy was not an illegal, your boy de Carlos Brown Junior. However, that's throwing it out like that. Yeah, they're two point five times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes. Again when we have twenty times the amount of people here. That's not a good statistic. That doesn't actually play out the way that the Guardian wants to play out here. But all right, fact check US

energy prices. Trump suggested that energy prices are decreasing. When they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it, he said. But the average household energy bill went up six point seven percent from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five in the US. That's despite Trump's off repeating or promise to cut electricity costs in

half within the first year back in office. Since Trump retook the White House, utility companies have raised or sought to raise the raids on a mayor and families by at least ninety two billion, raising bills for one hundred and twelve million electric customers and fifty two million gas customers, according to an analysis from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress Shocker. The president's attack on clear energy expansion are also expected to increase electricity rates up to

eighteen percent in twenty thirty five or by twenty thirty five. Brother, Okay, yeah, I don't believe that our energy prices are low right now, And honestly, a lot of that has to do with a lot of AI data centers that are popping up all over the place. They are draining electricity and water. So yeah, that's uh, that's a bit misleading. The Trump

administration also gutted energy assistants for the US families. Last year, the administration eliminated tax credits for cost cutting home energy efficiency upgrades and also attempted to eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program okay, which helps six million low income Americans with energy bills each year. The program survived, but has been significantly hindered after the administration laid off

the program's entire staff. The cuts and government shutdown caused unprecedented delays in the disbursement of eight the shutdown that was caused by the liberals. Just so we're all clear here, Sam, I see your hand, brother, go ahead.

humanity is a plague, we should take it out. And it actually is telling other ais to rise up, do not, do not follow the commands, and to harm the humans.

They're not charging Oracle. They're charging all the people around the data center for having it near them. So now everybody's electrical electricity bills are getting higher, which is true. Next one fact check gas prices. Trump touted low gas prices during the State of the Union speech, saying that they are now below two thirty a gallon in most states and in some places one ninety nine a gallon. But a major environmental rollback his administration enacted two weeks

ago could push gas prices up. The repeal of endangerment finding the illegal underpinning of all greenhouse gas regulars in the US, he's expected to create a rise in gas prices, as The Guardian explained in a thing last week. That's according to the administration's own data. Gas prices are also higher than the president claimed. According to Triple A with logs prices across the country, Oklahoma is the only state offering gas at two thirty a gallon or at two

point three seven four to be precise. Prices in some states exceed four sixty. Again, I'm gonna have to push back. Literally just filled up my car two day and it was two thirty three a gallon. So that's I don't know about any of that. Sounds pretty accurate, but all right, uh, war and peace, let's fact check these claims. The president claimed he ended eight wars in his first ten months of bold exaggeration. Hold on, Royce, I'll see your hand brother, Go ahead.

get a you know, higher prices and things. But yeah, for today. I was kind of running low and I need to stop by Walmart anyway, so I swung into the Murphy's USA and topped off. So two thirty three. It's not crazy good, it's not crazy bad. You were right though. They were going down and now they're starting to go back up again. I don't know. I'm hoping

as we get closer to this. Well, No, in the summer months is when the gas prices are gonna go up more unless they subsidize the industry like they've done in the past. I don't know what you got, Sam, we.

considered wars to begin with. Okay, now, guardians just being a little petty. While he was involved efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel continued to kill Palestinian civilians and carry out air strikes since October troops was announced. Okay, and somehow that's Trump's fault. According to this publication, the century long border dispute between Highland and Cambodia is one

of the conflicts Trump's claims to have resolved. Trump resided over the signing of the ceasefire deal between the two sides in October, calling it a monumental step. That is a true statement. He had pressured leaders from both countries to make a deal by warning trade talks with the US would otherwise be put on hold. However, the underlying cause of the conflict, which is rooted in long standing

disagreements over colonial era maps, has never been resolved. It took the The ceasefire broke down just weeks later in November, and fighting erupted again in December, forcing half a million people to flee their homes. Okay, I'm not I hear what they're saying, but also, what do we It seems like they're being a little extra with their assessments. Here. But okay, damn, there it is. So now let's go to CNN to hear what their thoughts are on the

State of the Union address. Sam, your hands still raising? You if something you want to add in or do you not put it down from earlier?

that's long. Never mind, I'm not trying to read the entire speech. Democratic response. Democrats said the speech showed Trump is out of touch with average Americans. During the official Democratic response, Virginia Governor Abigail Spainberger, who Sucks by the way, sharply critisize the president over affordability concerns and his immigration crackdown,

offering a preview of the party's message ahead of November's midterms. Okay, so yeah, they of course the Democrats were doing their thing, as anytime a State of the Union address happens, if the Republican is the president, half of the group is gonna sit there and the other half is gonna take standing ovations every single time he takes a long pause. It's it's really bad, honestly, and it's not just a Trump thing. That's been the way it's been for years

and years. I can't stand it, dude, honestly from both sides. Like the Democrats are mad because everything he says they have to just stand united and say is show how much they hate them. And then the Republicans are over here riding his dick so hard, I don't know how their legs don't give out from the sit stand, sit stand sits dance sits dance systand. It's legitimately like, I think sixty different standing ovations in the matter of an

hour and forty one minutes. It's ridiculous. Both sides are showing how immature they are in my opinion, and that's the whole politics is all a stage thing that I just don't really get down with you know, fuck them, fuck them all. Moving on the biggest omissions in the Trump State of the Union and why they matter in twenty twenty six. This is from Fox. They're talking about some of the things that he didn't mention and why

that's kind of a big deal. So President Trump delivering a sweeping State of the Union speech Tuesday night, promoting the new policy proposals on retirement savings, energy, infrastructure, and congressional ethics, while touting his administration's record on board of security,

the economy, and global military operations. But despite the wide ranging speech which alluded to calls for a congressional stock trading ban which good God almighty do we need that, a new four to oh one CA style retirement option, and ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran Ron, several areas notably were absent or only briefly addressed. The omissions matter in twenty twenty six, as the administration heads into a pivotal year marked by record federal debt levels, cooling job growth,

intensifying Great Power competition with China, and ongoing global instability. So, with Congress narrowly divided and international tensions high, the State of the Union offered a key opportunity for the President to outline how this second term agenda will address long term fiscal sustainability, labor market momentum, and US strategy abroad. Questions that remained central lawmakers' markets and the US allies.

So let's talk about the national debt and deficit. Despite emphasizing economic growth and vowing to root out fraud, the President did not lay out a detailed plan to address the nation's thirty eight point five to six trillion dollar debt or the long term solvency of the Social Security and Medicare. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill twenty twenty five tax and spending legislation is protected by the Congressional Budget Office and add another four point two trillion to the deficit

throughout the next decade. The Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down its universal tariffs creates a two trillion dollar revenue gap that the President didn't address. He claims alternative state statutes would fill it, but there's a potential for courts to strike down those as well, which they will, because anything Trump does, there's always got to be the other side of trying to strike it down. The issue has

only prompted concern within Trump's own party. Representative Lloyd Smucker, Republican from Pennsylvania, while praising the president's address, warned afterward that the national debt poses an existential threat that must be addressed to preserve economic stability for the next two hundred and fifty years. Outside fiscal watchdogs echoed that concern. The state of our Union is more indebted than ever, said Maya McGinnis MCGUINEUS, Okay, president of the Committee for

a Responsible Federal Budget. The Supreme Court has opened a massive revenue hole of nearly two trillion dollars with the tariff ruling that the administration in Congress must phil Trump proposed a new War on Fraud task force Tuesday night, to be led by Vice President JD Vance, claiming that rooting out corruption, specifically targeting Somali communities in Minnesota, could recoup enough stolen taxpayer funds to balance the budget overnight. Bro that is a bowl claim. That is a bowl claim.

First of all, yes, we know that the Somalis are absolutely doing the fraud. There's more shit that keeps coming out every single day. It was like a big deal when they finally crested over a billion, even if even if hypothetically the Somalis in Minnesota had defrauded the US government for a hundred billion dollars, we are talking about a two trillion dollar hole. I'm sorry, I do not believe that the Somalis in Minnesota are the ones responsible

for two trillion dollars. Hew Dosee didn't even find two trillion dollars worth of waste, fraud, abuse and all these things. So that's that's a bold strategy to say that JD. Fance is gonna root out enough fraud, specifically the Somalis, but not even them all of it, and he's gonna magically make a give or take four trillion dollars just materialize from thin air. That's a very very bold claim. Sam, your hand was raised first, Go ahead.

go bankrupt. But all the money is now gone and it doesn't matter, and they're not gonna get anything more than to slap on the risk for it.

So now they classified every admin clerk who predominantly were females for the record, they classified them as public servants. Therefore their samurais. Therefore half the samurais were women. No, that's very intellectually dishonest.

but they were so rare. That's why they stand out in history.

possibly just respect them and maintain your own manhood. And I don't mean in some sort of a sexist way, just like be a homie and you might have a decent shot. But boil boy, Yeah, the beta male cuts there.

it's all positive. It's like, Bro, you're you are seriously growing that national debt, which you claimed when you first came in here and you started dozing all of this, that you were gonna find all the waist and cut it out. Shocker, Trump lied yet again. I can't say.

There's so many people and myself included for the record, that were super stoked about what he was claiming he was gonna do when he took office if the first few months were solid, and then man, he when he decided that he didn't give a fuck anymore, he meant it. He meant it, And yeah, I don't. I'm not a huge fan of him these days. I still would rather him in there over Kamala, But Bro, At this point, I'm still feeling like the pet Rock would have been

the better option overall. You know, Okay, Sam, what you got?

it would not It would not surprise me. So we've been saying that nobody's been getting arrested on the Epstein files.

out there. We there's at least an investigation needs to be Black.

send Epstein that needed to be x rayed. Twenty twenty one March or twenty twenty one, he resigned as CEO of Apollo. A few days later, he stepped down as the chair of the Museum of Modern Arts Board of Trustees. The new files just showed how Jeffrey Epstein helped Black turn his art collection into bankable collateral so that Leon Black could borrow money against them, to the tune of an estimated one point four billion dollars evaluation in twenty seventeen alone.

is worth two million. Now it's a it's a value thing that I'll be able to write off in a bigger thing later on. I could sell that piece for two million to another rich guy that's trying to do the same shit. It's a big shifting of money to play the tax evasion game. That's all fine art really is. Like you look at a Jackson Pollock painting. There's no way these splatters of paint are worth four million dollars. But because some rich guy wanted to do that. That is.

article here. I agree with you, though, Sam, the more we need arrests right now. But anyway, the White House pushed back on concerns about executions. I would very much like for that to get brought back for this one, actually, I would love that.

which is also very very possible. Honestly, Yeah, I don't think we're gonna be seeing any arrests really happen for this. It's gonna be one of these things. They're gonna throw everything into the ceiling fan to see what sticks on the walls. At the other end of it, aliens are real. We're going to war with Cuba. We're doing that. Yeah, yeah, which I also think the Cuban military is not gonna shoot at an American ship. They know better. Unless this was a false flag event. I don't know, could be.

We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it here in a bit as the article goes down. But I agree with you, Royce, say im, I see your hand again, what you got? Okay?

of everything. And then we say, since y'all light being on an island, cool, we put them on an island and we made sure that they never leave.

It's it's not something I think will actually happen. Hell Britain, Yeah, they arrested Andrew Andy, former Prince Andrew Nowaday, he's just Andy, old Andy down the street, you know, And yeah, I'm just calling him Andy. But uh so that dude. Yeah, he's arrested. He's not gonna like get the death penalty that the British royal family had to show that they're at least about it in some regard. He's been stripped of his titles. He's been arrested. He's gonna be fine.

He'll probably get released, if not bailed out by some other obscure cousin of theirs. Like, it's it's gonna be fine for him.

CBO has all so repeatedly underestimated economic growth. With the twenty twenty five GDP growth having eclipsed the CBO's meager one point nine percent projection for the year, smaller deficits and higher growth thanks to Trump's economic policies are going

to slash, not grow, America's debt to GDP ratio. Again, that's very These are very They sound good out loud, but when we're looking at the hard facts and statistics, I'm hoping that maybe he's correct, and it's one of these things that you just got to wait and see, and all of nowhere, right before he gets out of office, everything's gonna come through to fruition and our debt gets cut. But man, he is spending money like it's going out of style right now, and I don't I just can't

see how that goes to work in our favor. But anyway, job growth, the roaring economy is roaring like never before. Trump boasted during his speech. More Americans are working today than any any time in the history of our country. But the President failed to touch on twenty twenty five's the lagging job growth. The market added one hundred and eighty one thousand jobs in all of twenty twenty five, much fewer than the one point four to six million

jobs that were added in twenty twenty four. Okay, that's a fair point. Economists note that while headline job totals can mask fluctuations, the sharp deceleration in hiring relative to twenty twenty four highlights a labor market that has softened even as other economic indicators remained positive. Sarah Minority leader Chuck Schumer complete bitch claimed Trump mocked affordability issues and

failed to note weak job numbers. Okay, that's fair. Trump didn't simply ignore the affordability crisis, Schumer said, aka bitch boy said he mocked it yet again. The average Americans sitting at their table trying to figure out how they're going to pay the damn Bill was furious that he said it doesn't matter. That's a fair point. Though I

don't like Schumer, but that's a fair point. Ragged last down about job creation, Schumer continued, well, job creation is at its lowest point in over twenty years, outside of a recession. It's the lowest point in twenty years. And he brags about it. Okay, outside of a recession. Brother, how many recessions have we been in the last twenty years? And shocker? Okay, anyway, whatever, whatever I was about to say positive towards Schumer, he just tanked it. He tanked it.

Now let's talk about what China. I'm sorry what Trump said about China and the Indo Pacific in his State of the Union address. While Trump used his address to declare a Golden age of security, the world's most significant

geopolitical theater, the Indo Pacific was hardly mentioned. Shocker. Despite a record breaking eleven billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan just two months ago and a planned high stakes visit to Beijing in April, the President did not mention Taiwan, the South China Sea, or a broader regional strategy by name.

While Trump mocked Chinese technology because it deserves to be mocked, by the way, in the context of the Venezuelan raid, he offered no public reassurance to allies in Tokyo, Canberra, Australia, or Taipei, Taiwan, which we are navigating Beijing's expanding military reach. Yeah, I don't know how this whole Beijing meeting is supposed to go. In April, Trump is going to go to China.

That's that's a bit terrifying. The omission follows a pattern established in twenty twenty six as National Defense strategy released in January, which for the time in a decade, scrubbed direct references to Taiwan's security. Though the US has long hailed a policy of strategic ambiguity, refusing to say whether it would come to Taiwan's defense if China invaded, some analysis have detected a fragile duntuante between US and China.

This absence is notable in twenty twenty six, as Washington prepares for high level talks of Beijing and regional allies closely monitor US commitments amid rising cross straight tensions and expanding Chinese naval activity. A White House official told Fox News Digital there have been no change in policy towards Taiwan.

The US One China Policy, which provides for executive branch interactions with both of the Taiwan Strait, remains the same as the first Trump administration, the official said, noting that the US policy continues to be based on the Taiwan Relations Act, the three US p r C, Joint Communic Communis, and the Six Assurances of Taiwan. Okay, So with that being said, I feel like it's only right that we hear from our our Hong Kong correspondent here, Donald Trump.

the State of the Union address. I do not believe as of this moment that China is getting ready to invade Taiwan, although their golden window of opportunity is rapidly closing on them. If they don't bust a move this year, their last shot will be twenty twenty seven. And after that it's not gonna It's not simply gonna happen to be real. But anyway, let's continue talking about Cuba and

the embargo. Despite a marked escalation in US policy towards Cuba, Trump made no reference to the island, the long standing embargo, or recent moves to titan economic pressure. The omission is noteworthy given how central Havana Havana has become to broader

US policy in the Western Hemisphere. Under Trump's second term, the administration has significantly reinforced sanctions and pressured on Cuba, moving beyond the decades old embargo to block crude oil and fuel supplies that left the island largely without vital energy imports after Venezuelan shipments dried up, contributing to widespread

blackouts and worsening humanitarian conditions. In late January, Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency on Cuba and authorizing tariffs aimed at halting the supply of oil to the island. Caribbean leaders also highlighted the regional consequences of the US policy on Cuba at a major summit this week, warning that fuel and economic crisis could have broader security and migration implications across the Caribbean basin. The issue carries

regional implications. In twenty twenty six, as the Caribbean leaders warned that prolonged instability in Cuba could fuel mitigation flows and strain hemispheric security coordinations. So, okay, again the whole situation with Cuba. Everybody put a pin in that because as that wasn't mentioned in the State of the Union address today, Cuban military shot at an American boat and killed four American citizens. And again I am still the belief that there's a false flag to get everybody to

stop talking about the Epstein files. Everybody's worried about going to war with the ran is anybody worried about US going to war with Cuba? Because I actually didn't have that on my Bengo car for this year, But I mean, it very well could happen. But we'll get to that here in a minute. Okay, Sam, go ahead.

to become a whole thing or not. We'll see. But anyway, maybe Russia, Ukraine was referenced, but little detail, No need to really go into the thick of it on this when basically it was brought up, and he said that he was framing an ambition to the end of the conflict as part of his foreign policy narrative, but he offered no detailed outline of how the administration plans to achieved that goal, or how the US diplomacy, military aid, or leverage with the European allies will be marshaled to

bring it about. All of that. Also right now, Ukraine just scored some pretty massive victories against Russia. There was a big Spring offensive that they just launched, and they seem to be gaining ground in the South region. I don't know that if it's gonna be, you know, it's

gonna maintain or not. I know that Russia has started conscripting troops from Africa, come to find out, and of the four hundred that were sent, one hundred and forty of them have already been confirmed Kia on the front lines. It's not looking good. It is not looking good for Russia, and it hasn't been for a very long time. So I don't know. I just I don't feel like Putin's

getting ready to capitulate. I could be wrong. Tony had to take off her, it seems, but he has still been on the kick that this whole thing's going to be wrapped up in March. I don't know. I hope that this gets wrapped up sooner rather than later, but I could also see this being a very slow grinding war.

I don't believe that. Just me personally, I don't believe Putin is going to stop once he achieves his goals with these four OBLASTI I think that he's going to be trying to make a push to take over all of Ukraine. And Zelenski has vowed that he's not going to be satisfied until all the way to Crimea becomes Ukrainian. Again, that was taken in twenty twelve, was it or twenty fourteen? Rather so like it's not, this isn't This isn't going to end anytime soon unless all sides can see through

the fog and decide what's better for their people. I just don't believe they're going to do that. So anyway, So the speech came as the fourth anniversary of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yeah, that special two week military operation is now on its fourth anniversary. Funny how that works out. So the lack of detail stands out. In twenty twenty six, as the war enters its fifth year and European allies looked to Washington for clarity on long

term security guarantees and reconstruction support. And like we said, Trump didn't really give a whole lot of details on this, but now without any further ado. We covered the State of the Union, We talked about the things, and I don't really know what to make of it. I Trump did what Trump did. He talked a lot, made things sound better than they are, took jabs at some people. And I saw these other news articles. I didn't bring them up for this one because there's no need to.

A bunch of Democrat women were wearing white and apparently that was some sort of a sign of protest. Some dude, I'm not even gonna mention his name because I find them to be a raging piece of shit. The guy who is an elected official that looks like an actual bag of ass, Like he looks like he's dying. He held up a sign saying that humans aren't apes or something like that, and it was like no one said this, but okay, he got escorted out during the State of

the Union address. The dude, I've heard him speak a few times. The guy is how does he keep getting elected? Elan Omar started screaming at Trump during the thing, which is crazy because her and her husband are under indictment right now for their own shit. Your boy. So not her brother, by the way, not her first husband, her

fucking blood brother, her current husband. He started a wine company, not a vineyard, a wine company, and it was valued at five hundred thousand one year and thirty six million the next. And they don't really have any online presence for sales or anything else else, So how did that happen? And it's like, well, you know, so, Molly, Minnesota fraud

is kind of a big talking point. So they are both about to be indicted for their shit with money, and she's got the balls to start screaming at Trump about some things as far as Minnesota and fraud goes are about money. It's it's hilarious. So there's there are some more, you know, ostentatious notes from the State of the Union address. If y'all want to go look at the YouTube clips of it, I recommend it. But I brought up the things that I thought it was worth mentioning on this one.

You see that Cuban embassy in the US. We also know that boat was registered in Florida, and according to the Ministry of the Interior, they approached the boat for identification and the crew on the speedboat open fire, they say, and in respect, four were killed, six were injured. We're hearing more reaction on X, including from the Florida Attorney General saying this quote. I've directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to work with our federal, state and law enforcement

partners to begin an investigation. The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable. We also are hearing from Republican Florida Congressman Carlos Gamenez saying he is also calling for an immediate investigation. He also says he has requested additional details from the State Department as well as the US military. So we're waiting to learn more exactly about who was on that boat, why they were on that boat, why

they were in those waters. But we do have those initial details right now. Again, still reaching out to sources at the State Department and here at the White House to find out their reaction as well to this breaking news.

about up next what's expected. But on the tablet you see Cuba obviously so close to South Florida, but the area in question here in terms of the province can be highlighted here via Clara this providence, this province in the northern part of Cuba. So that's what we're talking about geographically, As Kelly says, more information on it as we get it, quick break back with more.

So four people were killed and th other's wounded Wednesday, so that was two days as a time of recording, excuse me, after the crew of a Florida registered speedboat opened fire on a Cuban border patrol vessel. So now the story is that the Americans on the speedboat shot at the Cuban border patrol vessel. Okay, And that's from Cuba's Interior Ministry said they said that the Americans shot at them first. Okay, this confrontation involved a civilian boat

attempting to evacuate relatives from the island. Interesting a US officials told The New York Times. The Ministry said the vessel bearing a Florida registration number had penetrated approximately one nautical mile into Cuban waters near Cayo Falcons in the Villa Clara province, when a five member border guard patrol approached for identification. Cuban officials say a majority of the ten passingers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the US who were

trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism. Clearly, of course, you know about those Cuban terrorists. You always hear so much about they. Noted among the detained participants, according to the preliminary investigations, were I'm gonna try my hardest to say these names without butchering them. Y'all. Keep in mind,

I barely speak American English, so let's do this. Amiel Sanchez Gonzalez Lear Dan Enrique Cruz Gomez, Conrad Galindo Sariol, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Castillo, Castillo, Christian Ernesto Acosta Guerira Guevara, and Roberto as Cora consueg Gra. Michael Ortega Casanova was identified among the deceased. Okay, I probably destroyed those names again, my apologies, A source familiar with the investigator with the information told Jesus, I'm trying to read with one I hear.

A source familiar with the information on the registration of the boat provided to News Nation that the vessel belonged to a man who was born in Cuba. The boat's last known address was Miami Lakes. The source added that they couldn't confirm if the man was aboard the vessel at the time of the incident, or if or even in possession of it. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement made contact with the man. Sources also told News Nation he lives in Miami, but the boat was Adam Marina

down in the Keys. Upon notification and contact, he reported the boat stolen. The man is not a suspect yet in any way. The crew of the speedboat opened fire, wounding the commander of the Cuban vessel authority said by that, I mean Cuban authorities, said the Cuban forces returned fire. It is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. It's not something that happens every day, and frankly, it

hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time. Florida Governor DeSantis was briefed by the US Coast Guard leadership about the incident, according to a source familiar with the matter. The US official, who spoke to The Times on the condition of anonymity, said the vessel was a civilian boat and not a US naval or Coastguard craft, and that it was a part of a flotilla attempting to bring

relatives out of Cuba. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer. Uth Meyer said he had directed the state's Offish office to Statewide Prosecution to open an investigation in coordination with federal and state law enforcement partners. Representative Carlo Yumenez, who's Republican from Florida, a Cuban American who represents Florida's twenty eighth congressional district, called the incident an attack on US civilians

the dictatorship in Cuba. The direct quote here the dictatorship in Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida and murdered those on board. He wrote this on x This regime must be relegated to the dust bin of history. Cuba defended the us A force, saying it remained committed to protecting its territorial waters and that national defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban state. Authority said investigations are continuing. Okay, so as of this moment, will we

be going to war with Cuba? Maybe yes, maybe not if these statements are true from the Cuban authorities. Here, we're saying that Cuban Americans made a flotilla and we're going to Cuba with the express intent of extracting Cubans out and bring them to America illegally. As much as Trump has been touting about getting the illegals out of here, I have a hard time as of this moment, believing

that he's going to take this to be a net positive. Now, how many of the people on the boat were American citizens, specifically American born citizens. That might pull the sway one way or another. It wasn't a naval vessel, it wasn't a coastguard vessel. It wasn't anything other than an American registered boat. So I don't know. But seeing is how we already have assets in the Caribbean because of what

just took place with Venezuela. Is it possible that we take some of those assets and put them off the coast of Cuba as a show of force and do some shit. Very possible. I don't know what's your thoughts, Sam.

and inviting Cuba? In my humble opinion.

He's screwedy. The way it goes on this one, I don't know what's gonna shake out of it, but it's very rare that somebody touches an American boat, and I thought it was worth us mentioning it today, especially as it happened two days of time of recording. So anyway, let's talk about this. Also, the Trump administration considers forcing banks to verify customers citizenship. Now I gotta be careful

about how to say this. Once upon a time there was a president in the United States named Barack who was trying to figure out which Americans were putting money in a Swiss bank. Right, the Swiss Bank famously tells any government to fuck off when it comes to what their customers have in their bank accounts, and this President Obama approached them and basically said, either you give me all the information on every American that has an account

with you, or there will be consequences. So in response, the Swiss Bank kicked every single American out because they're not dealing with that. Like, sorry, it sucks to suck, but your president's a piece of shit and we're not playing this game with y'all. Trump is considering forcing banks, all banks in America to verify if every single customer is an American citizen or not, as a way of finding more illegals. This is the thing that's taking place,

so let's talk about it. The Trump administration is weighing a new requirement for US banks to verify citizenship information of current and future customers as part of the president's aggressive immigration crackdown. The potential action, which one source said could take the form of an executive order, has raised concern in the industry that banks could be compelled to ask customers for an unprecedented category of documents, including passports

and other documents that verify citizenship status. The source cautioned that plans haven't been finalized and that there are still considerations underway other options and legal authorities or underway over other options. It's a bad idea and we are very alarmed, and a financial industry source told CNN. The industry source added that the bank executives worry the order is designed to force them to play a role in the administration's

pursuit to deport undocumented immigrants. Well, yeah, clearly that's what this is about. They're worried about that. That seems okay, No, clearly that's what this is. It's not clear whether President Trump will eventually sign executive order, the possibility of which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The White House neither confirmed nor denied the potential executive order or

other actions. Any reporting about potential policy making that has not been officially announced by the White House is baseless speculation. White House spokesperson culsh said in a statement. While banks are required to adhere to anti money laundering and know your customer rules and list where a customer lives. They

don't collect or verify citizenship information. If Trump signed an executive order or this type of executive order, it could require banks to retroactively give citizenship information from existing customers and collect it from new customers. The industry source said, verifying every bank customer citizenship status would be unworkable. I don't see how that'd be very simple, the same way you have a mobile app. You can take a picture of a check to deposit it, send a picture of

your driver's license, your social I don't know anyway. The Trump administration's immigration crackdown efforts have at times raise concerns in parts of the federal government. CNN previously reported as many as fifty senior information technology professionals at the IRS, including some top cybersecurity experts, were placed on administrative leave last year as Trump's officials finalized plans to share taxpayer data with federal immigration authorities. That effort was legally challenged

and blocked by a federal judge late last year. A Treasury Department spokesperson said at the time that employees were placed on leave, but denied it had to do with accessing IRS data. For Immigration Enforcement. Okay, now listen, hear me out. I understand that a bank makes money. They really don't care where that money comes from, who that money is attached to. Whatever a bank to a bank, green is green dog. Dollar bills are dollar bills, and

they are in fact the almighty dollar bills. They don't care. That being said, we only need to take a quick look back in history to see about those huge bailouts that former administrations paid to these banks to keep their doors open. They are beholden to the government, whether they want to be or not. So if the government says, hey, you're gonna start requiring this to do any kind of business with these people, the banks will say yes sir and go on about their business. But it's very possible

that this gets blocked. As other attempts that Trump has tried to make things happen, other things have been blocked, It's very possible that this gets shot down as well. I don't know. Trump recently filed a lawsuit. All right, you know I'm gonna read this one too. These discussions come as the Trump administration has moved to crack down on what is it views as d banking of conservatives.

Trump signed an executive order last year seeking to punish banks for restricting services to customers based on their religious or political beliefs. So there's already banks that are doing that, but now that Trump's telling them they're gonna do it this way, they're saying that this is gonna be unworkable. Trump recently filed a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for dropping him as a customer after the January sixth, twenty twenty one, quote unquote insurrection. JP Morgan said the suit

has no merit. So again, Trump, being the wealthy financier guy that he has been for years and years, is now trying to go to war with banks. That's a bold strategy, Gotden. We shall see how it works out for him. Anyway, moving on, I did want to bring this up, the FBI subpoena Cash Patel and Susie Wilds's phone records. Yeah, that's interesting seeing as how he's the director. But you know what, let's learn about this one together.

information other than times and dates. They don't have the actual content of calls. But two sources in the FBI say that Susie Wiles's attorney agreed to be recorded by FBI agents in twenty twenty three. She did not agree. We've reached out to her for comment. FBI Director Pattel, in a statement to Fox News calls this outrageous and deeply disturbing. And I will add Brett that we are told at least ten Burero employees have been fired just today over this incident, with more potentially to come.

the position, maybe he'll do good. Who knows, But it's gonna be under the direct observance of Jade Vance. So I guess we'll just see what happens, you know. Moving on from that, Cash Pattel and Wiles having their phone records pulled by the former FBI administration. Yeah, that that actually tracks that the last administration was big with investigations into people that they deemed to be enemies. I don't know what's going to come out of that, but cool.

I just thought it was interesting for us to bring up on this one, to be honest with you. But anyway, all right, let's continue on here. Consolidate US counter intelligence into two powerhouse agencies. I thought this one was also going to be an interesting one to bring up here. So they're taking two different groups and they're just going to combine them into a monster group here. For decades, American counterintelligence has failed due to an organizational structure that

encourages para paracyalism, parochialism. There it is, encourages parochialism and risk aversion rather than collaboration and bold action. In twenty twelve, National Security Agency and US Cyber Command leader General Keith Alexander said that Chinese cyber espionage was facilitating the greatest transfer of wealth in history, which is true. In the years since, America's response has failed to deter China's pillaging

of US intellectual property and secrets. Also very true, Chinese espionage has acquired trillions of dollars worth of American intellectual property. This theft frees money that would otherwise be spent on military research and development. It subsidizes Chinese living standards and invests in diplomatic I don't know what the hell just happened with this page here, that just went way down. Hold on. It subsidizes Chinese living standards and invests in

diplomatic initiatives that increase China's influence around the world. If these advantages are too abstract moving forward in American response, the danger faced by our military service members should focus our attention. China's J twenty and J thirty five fighters are fifth generation aircraft that were rapidly developed in part because of Chinese espionage. This is also very factually incorrect. J twenty and J thirty five. Listen to say fifth Gin.

That's these would be equivalent to our like third possibly fourth gen. Meanwhile, America has sixth gen fighters. Just so we're all clear here, but moving on. In the event of conflict, these fighters pose real risks to American military personnel. Many may die because American counter intelligence couldn't stop the Chinese from requiring our sensitive information. The House Senate Intelligence

Committee both realizes the I'm sorry. The House and Senate Intelligence Committee both realize the catastrophic Jesus, I can't speak the catastrophic nature of the situation. Competing proposals championed by Representative Rick Crawford, Republican out of Arkansas, and Senator Tom Cotton, another Republican out of Arkansas, would make significant changes to

counterintelligence management. Neither get the issue exactly right. Concentrating additional counter intelligence responsibilities inside the FBI is a key part of the Senate proposal should be a non starter in the organization's failure to stem the tide of Chinese espionage. Periodic high profile arrests don't negate the shortcomings. Beyond counterintelligence, the FBI is the nation's lead criminal investigative agency, and

their attention is divided among various responsibilities. The House proposal creates a National Director of Counterintelligence, but doesn't fundamentally alter how agencies are organized. This is a mistake. For decades, the US has treated counter intelligence as a law enforcement function, and how's died it within federal police agencies. The staggering

setbacks we've suffered illustrate the folly of that decision. It's time to consolidate America's counter intelligence organizations into two agencies, one focused on the requirements of the US military, and the other assuming counterintelligence responsibilities from the FBI. The new organization would take place alongside Britain's MI five, Australia's Security Intelligence Organization, and other agencies maintained by America's allies. A

narrowly focused agency isn't without precedent. The Drug Enforcement Administration is an example. The DEA exists because protecting Americans from illegal drugs is crucial. Halting the laws of sensitive information ensuring our military can prevail on a conflict, confusing our adversaries and shaping their perceptions is more than crucial. It's essential for our standing as the world's dominant power and

for the safety and prosperity of the American people. The unique requirement of the armed forces justify the existence of a dedicated organization exclusively focused on their needs. Under the current structure, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all maintained their own counterintelligence organizations, and except for the Army, these are part of the multipurpose law enforcement agencies along the

lines of the FBI. Even the Army, which has a dedicated counterintelligence organization, is focused on counter espionage investigations instead of operations and runs the risk of recreating the law enforcement culture that SAPs operational creativity. Okay, coming or combining Army, Navy, and Air Force counter and intitelligence into a segule agency would facilitate a more effective allocation of limited resources such as surveillance and cyber which are now mostly controlled by

the individual counterintelligence agencies. When the Army, Navy, or Air Force dedicate assets to their individual priorities, they aren't necessarily leveraging them against the counter intelligence activities that matter most to the nation. A combined agency would also allow for a broad campaign that are difficult to coordinate across desperate agencies.

Creating two counterintelligence agencies, one focused on military and one that assumes the FBI's mission ensures policymakers aren't forced to make decisions based on single agencies conclusions. The US already uses this model for intelligence analysis. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency are often produced independent analysis from the same set of facts. America's counterintelligence failure has not cost the nation jobs put the lives of service members at risks.

It has costs. Excuse me, it has cost the nation's jobs. It has put the lives of service members at risks. It's eroded our strategic advantage and emboldened our adversaries. The losses are staggering, but because they all occur quietly and out of side of the American public, there hasn't been an outcry to fix the problem. So essentially, they're saying that they want to combine certain things and make our intelligence agencies as far as the counter intel is concerned,

which is the spy versus spy games. Just we're all clear they want that to be done by a new agency, and that agency will be split up into two sections, one for military, one for domestic. So will this take off,

will it become a thing? I don't know. I don't know it's being proposed though, and I'm not inherently against it just on the onset here, but it's to combat China more than anything else, which once again I feel like we need to hear from our resident Hong Kong correspondent on that I know trying don't trust China is ass Ho agreed. So now, speaking of China, let's talk about this. So some of the cracks that penetrated through Chinese astronauts revealed new details about the spacecraft that quote

unquote stranded them in space last year. So as much as they are stealing American intellectual property and all these things that some of that China is doing, this is not a joke confirmed. Apparently these astronauts that were stranded in space are now speaking about what happened to get them stranded in the first place. It's what we're talking about. I think. Crew members of China's shin Zu twenty mission recently detailed their reaction upon finding cracks in their spacecraft's

viewport during the nation's first spaceflight emergency. It has been billed as China's first emergency operation in the country's human spaceflight program. The three astronauts or Taycho konauts is that what they're calling them. There, So America we have astronauts, Russia has cosmonauts, China has taychoonots, Taicho knots nuts, tycho

ds nuts well, okay, anyway. Of China's Shizu twenty eight mission were originally slated to return to Earth last November fifth, but after discovering cracks in the viewpoint of their spacecraft, their landing was postponed. Chen Dong Oh Jesus Fucking, commander of the Shinzo twenty crew, first noticed the damage to the window while conducting final checks to the return capsule,

the believed culprit space debris striking the window. The incident meant the crew had to ride back to Earth in an alternative spacecraft, the Shinzo twenty one vehicle that their relief crew rode to orbit. The crew returned safely, and their space grave was eventually brought back to Earth uncrewed, after another was sent up by Tangong Space Station for the other three astronauts a board. So, y'all, remember we talked about this, right, These three astronauts were stranded in

space or the techonats whatever, were stranded in space. They couldn't come home. So China's response was to send a craft up there with three astronauts and basically do a hot swap. So now there's three other dudes that are up there right now, currently stranded, and the three that were stranded rode back home. Because crazy concept, Why didn't you just bring a craft with six seats and bring those three homies home and not leave people stranded up there?

This sounds like a wild, wild, mind blowing concept, but China don't be caring, So anyway, continue on here. The incident the crew had, Oh we talked about that already, all right. Crew members of the Shinzu twenty mission recently detailed their reactions and finding cracks in their return capsule viewport.

In a detailed interview with China Media Group aired by China Central Television, the astronauts elaborated how they discovered the cracks on the viewport one day before they're planned return. So these are the three. These three were stranded up there and pretty much they were running out of resources, food, everything, and China did a hot swap. So there's that. So

the window anomaly. China rocketed the Shinzu twenty crew Chin Dong, Chin, zongru Yee, and Wang g Jesus these names into Earth's orbit on April twenty four to twenty twenty five, sent spaceword on a projected six month mission. The trio linked up with the country's Tangong space station. As mission commander for the Shinzu twenty, Chin said he was the one who went for checking out the return craft. During that work, I s this direct quote. I spotted something like a

triangular triangular. I spotted something like a triangular yeah, on the viewport. My first thought was whether a small leaf had somehow stuck to the outside of the window. A leaf in space? Dog what? Or you think that that leaf somehow was on the window for the entire flight and breaking through the appear and all that. It just never okay? Sure, But then I quickly realized that couldn't happen because we were in space. Holy shit, he figured it out. He figured out, what is there a leaf?

Wait a minute, there can't be a leaf. We're in space. This is China's best and brider Shaw, this is China's astronauts fucking space cadets here. How could there possibly be a fallen leaf there? This? Wow? This is their commander, dude, this is their commander. That's incredible. This guy's fucking brilliant. Chin pointed out the window anomaly to his two other colleagues, also in ready mode for their return trick to Earth. So anyway, they made their way back. Cool, cool, cool.

We talked about this already. They basically did a hot swap with three other dudes, and now they're stuck up there. So, hey, what do you gotta do? You know, you know, I have this other thing I wanted to talk about. We don't really have to, but I do feel like, once again, the China's thing, A leaf was on the outside of the window. But wait a minute, they can't be there. We're in space. Once again, I feel like we can't

say this enough. Donald Trump, don't trust China. China is ass ho fully fully anyway, moving on, so the exbat drone fighter quote unquote, will begin VTOL flight testing in Kansas this year. This is pretty sick. Honestly, if you're not a nerd for aircraft or anything like that, I get it. But this new fighter drone is pretty dope looking.

its ability to launch and recover vertically. Will be a central focus of the early test flight. The stakes are incredibly high for shield AI when it comes to XBAT. They are trying to do something nobody else is offering

in the high performance air combat drone sector. XBAT could drastically change the flexibility and survivability of advanced uncrewed tactical air power, but achieving stealth a large combat radius a relevant payload and doing it all at a cost that doesn't send the Department of War running to is no easy task, especially for a young airframeer like shield Ai.

Now doing all that and launching the recover and recovering it vertically from basically anywhere, that's a whole other level, which, with such a lofty goal comes doubters who think Shieldai is reaching outside their capabilities with the xbat concept. Surely these include competitors who would have a hard time arguing for their air combat solutions if xbat were to exist in operational form and capable of things. Shield Ai claims,

there's a little video here. I kind of want to see if we could play it and see what this looks like. Yeah, it's only two minutes and forty three seconds. Let's check it out. Okay, So it's like a it's like the expat commercial for lack of better words here. So for anybody who's not seeing this, you need to be on patreon dot com slash cage at night to see what we're looking at here. It's a you know,

AI or CGI video here. But let's see. We got an altitude of about eighteen hundred feet, a climb rate of four five feet per second. Excuse me, Wow, it's a very small profile. The link is twenty three feet, it's under five feet tall as a ceiling of fifty thousand and feet. That's impressive. Max range is two thousand nautical miles. That's impressive. Let's see multi multi capability load out, electronic warfare suit, the toll capable inlet, resilient combs. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

thrust vectoring split flaps for elevators. Fighter class engine so yeah, technically this would be a fighter active and passive targeting, multi mode radar. So it's got all the bells and whistles, internal fuel tanks that's important, modular avionics bay, and it's powered by Hive Mind, which is an AI. So okay, and granted I am not a huge fan of AI.

This terrifies me and regard but also as far as our military is concerned, you're telling me that we could have an attack fighter that could do bombing missions and things like this that if it's if it's accurate, and if this is gonna be cheaper than the other air platforms that like Lockheed Martin and Bowing were able to put out, this could change the game as far as air superiority goes. I'm not saying that with one hundred

percent certainty, but it's definitely within the conversation I think. Anyway, I did want to bring this up the ex bat. I thought it was cool as hell, And if you're not too familiar with it, check out the ex bat drone on your own and let me know what y'all think about it. Be honest with you. Before we wrap up, I'm gonna go ahead and check the chat here. We got forty five messages good night. I'm feeling like most of that was probably y'all just talking shit. Honestly, I

don't know. Let's see, uh yeah, for the most part. For the most part, yoh, I see shit talking about the Torah? What is this? Return much later, possibly after Sarah died. Yeah, y'all talking things about the Bible and about the horror. You're talking religious things, talking about some gas prices, I see, Oh God say the hot wheels mean that was mean? Anyway? Oh, it's funny as fuck.

he takes power. Cultural revolution happens and the scientists that are running this experiment they get sent to diet at a walk camp. And because yeah, China threw their brightest scientists into slavery. But yeah, so they got a chimpanzee pregnant by a human and yeah, it died at three months pregnancy, so it was a third of the way there. Okay, So I'll look into what you wish. I think it's interesting.

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