Mexico always sounds like a trash can. Hello and welcome to episode number 45 of unrelenting October 7th, 2022. I am Darren O'Neil coming to you from just outside of Schirach. And where are you, Jean? I'm in Mexico. City. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that sign. Say Mexico. Where does this take? Moscow. The weather's a little different. I'm guessing it's pretty much the same thing. Probably. Which one has a currency that's worth more at this point?
Well, you know, interesting, I something I didn't realize is the Mexican peso has been going up against the US dollar. Really? Yeah. So you are you investing in pesos now? Like you don't. Get as many pesos, $4 as you used to last time I was here. You're like, Wait a minute. No, no, I'm angry. White American. Give me more. Yeah, I think there's an awful lot of those I haven't run into a whole lot of people here that are not angry with Americans, really.
Because they're taking all of the people that don't want to be in Mexico. What's the problem with America now? Yeah, I don't think the population of Mexico has changed with all these people coming across the border because there's just as many people coming to Mexico. Interesting. Yeah, there's and there's a lot of people coming up from the south that Mexico tries to stop. Yeah. Or do they? Nobody knows. And then the question is why?
And then they get to the United States and then we send them to sanctuary cities now, which I think is genius. And I can't believe this hasn't happened for so long. Well, there is a cost involved. I mean, it's not like we can, but some are flying out there for free. Yeah. That's, you know, it is a beautiful thing. And they get there and they go, no, no, no, no, no. I love it. I love.
Well, the thing that that is just absolutely awesome to watch are the videos of the people, not not the elites, but like the the people that voted for the elites, the ultra libs. Literally standing there in front of the busses with their horrible Spanish, which they learned from their maids. And then welcoming these people and trying to put a brave face to it's like, yes, yeah, we're consistent.
We, you know, we want these people here, you know, when us dear and welcome to America and what that person over there will take your information to get you signed up as a Democrat vote. You know it's it is cringe. I guess cringe is the best way to say it. What's going on there is that this is an alarm. It isn't like. It was you wake up. I probably need to turn that off, shouldn't they? She needs to wake up right now. I know, I know, right? I was like, Dammit, I need to get up in the morning.
He's having a bad dream as this. Is America having a bad dream right about now? I think there's a lot of people trying to figure out whether they can wake up or not. Well, this is where. Yeah, I need to do. I silence the shit. Okay? You're not a terrorist. I get it. I'm out right. Now. So come on, give. Don't give me a goddamn worms. All right? I just want to hear the phone being thrown through a window. It's not the phone. It's. It's the laptop. That's the problem. So, yeah.
Couple of things since I am traveling. One, if I sound different, that's why I'm not on my preferred mike. Two, if you start hearing some kind of crinkly sounds or something, let me know because then I will try not to replicate whatever is creating that. But since we're going to be chatting for a while here, I may forget that I'm not on the good mike and decide to, you know, get up and for myself a drink or something. So. So the sound quality means shift. It's all good, though.
Well, we hope the Mexican vacation has let you relax a little bit, get you ready for the winter surge you're going to have from Russian apologist rations or whatever you're selling. Russian apologies. I think that's what you call it, right? Uh huh. I keep forgetting. The. Name that it's going by. Yeah. Yeah. But the elections are coming up here in the phone. Calls are starting and I can't stand that. You're making phone calls. Holy shit. No, they're. They're coming in.
Even though I have a a system through Ooma, which is a voiceover IP system where you can use all of the available lists that are out there. And it's kind of a community source thing. It's kind of like Waze for telephones, I believe, because the more people complain about the number, then it puts it on a list like, okay, this is. A blight. To you, right? It's a nuisance call.
It'll send it directly to voicemail, which is at least better because the phones not ringing all the time, but all of these political ads, it's like they're all the same. I mean, does is it really work at this point? It feels so very spam. And then we've asked that question for you and bam. Right. Why does spam continue coming? Because somebody's falling for it. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly right.
And the thing with political ads, here's the thing I've never understood is these people primarily are trying to get a hold of you to get a donation from you for their campaign. Yeah, that's what they want you to tell them. You're going to come out and vote. Yeah, well, I mean, usually that's what the calls coming out the last week before the elections. Those are all get out the vote calls, all the calls happening right now. There's another month and a half. Still want money?
I need money. Balls and and then you think about, okay, well, what are they spending money on? I mean, why do they need. Like. $10 million and. Yeah, and you think about it, what do they do with that money? Well, they have a bunch of volunteers that are unpaid sitting there making phone calls. They have some pass to print the junk mail that you're going to throw away without even looking up.
And I guess for the bigger campaigns, they have some radio ads maybe, and I don't think anyone's doing television political ads these days at all. So the only thing that's left is Facebook ads. Well, the television, I think, are all basically streaming stuff. So they're doing the same kind of ads. But you're seeing. Yeah, well, but streaming stuff doesn't cost what television costs. Oh, yeah.
So my point is basically they're spending 90% of their all the money that comes in they're spending on Facebook or YouTube promoting their YouTube video. Which is wide margin. This is the. Biggest waste of money in the world because all you got to do is just get on the Tim Cash show. Is that all you have to do? Tim Kast just gives you an audience like nothing else. In the internet world. There are so many of the local politicians. It's interesting.
I want to know how many where it really matters beyond just what party you have behind you. Well, I'll tell you, when I ran for office, I one of the things I didn't realize is that of the money you raise for the two things. One is you can get matching attributions from the government, which is awesome. Totally legitimate businessmen at all. You Well, let's deal. It's it's there. It's like a standard thing, right? And then the second thing is you don't have to spend all your money buying ads.
You can buy equipment and you can pay salaries. And this is where the shadiness comes in, right? I mean, you maybe need a really good misuse for like 20 hours a day. Oh, that's a standard thing. I mean, dude, I mean, I'm not saying that we did this, but we could have done this had we wanted to express that way. I remember thinking a long ass limo to the gun range and shooting a whole bunch of fully automatic. But that was a campaign thing. I mean did you video and take a picture?
Was that the it. Was a it was a high donor event. Yeah. Oh, well there you go. Yeah. But I mean, there's all kinds of shit that people spend their money on, so. So none of it is good is the only thing they really need to do is pay for a mailing list that's literally everything else they think is extraneous. And I mean. Probably, yeah. I mean, I know the people that know them personally maybe will vote for him or not, depending on whether they like them or not.
I just don't know on almost any level, with all of this, like you said, you're getting a bunch of stuff in the mail and you kind of glance and throw it away and it's like, But I've never heard of any of these people running for office, even on the most local level. So it really comes down to besides for the amount of people who are actively engaged in politics, which is probably like 3% maybe. Yeah. Exactly.
Everybody goes in and goes it's it's it's an hour or a D, I don't know how well most people I. Mean, I really like being advocates. I think there's very few of us but an advocate of getting rid of the hours in the days. It wouldn't make sense. Because you don't know what party the person's in second vote for them. Well, I think they did that in California, believe it or not, although I don't think there are any hours left in California. So. Well, that's easy.
In California, it's a minor party state. Yeah. So you don't. Have to worry of multiple people running. They're all running on the same platform. Right? Which means none of them are really any different than the other. So. Yeah, but I do think that the part of the reason we're in the mess that we are with the administration of seeking us into a nuclear war is because of this, because of uninformed voters, people that have zero clue as to how many states there are in the US.
Yeah, I don't. Still going in and voting. But they, they'll tell you which Kardashian sister was the last one that posted an Instagram. That will be a very useful thing to remember when your face melts. It could be the last thought going through their mind. And are you really worried about a nuclear war? I mean, I know there have been people. In the South and it's happening. They're like getting their iodine tablets in. Yeah, well, that's the idiots. The smart ones. Got them a year ago.
You would is. Well, isn't this part of the Russian prepper preps package? You've got to get some iodine, couple Band-Aids, bottles, a couple. Band-Aids, and that's pretty much it. You describe the package that hasn't been sold yet. Yes, exactly. Going no, that's that's I'm really pissed that this war is not coming on schedule. It's it's ahead of schedule. So I haven't got my full line of products out yet.
But yeah, there's still an amount of people out there who won't acknowledge or even understand what a proxy war is. I guess that there's no proxy war at this point. That's there's just war between the two superpowers. Well, they're still pretending and saying it's not. But that's where Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, came out and was actually saying that. And I guess he was in the middle of it. And I don't know why. I guess maybe this affects it somehow. I don't get it.
But he was in the middle of a deal, much like Bruce Springsteen did last year or so, to sell his whole writing catalog. And it was about the same bit. It was about the same amount. It was we're talking about a half a billion dollars or so. Okay. And he started making these comments about how this is a proxy war and it's wrong. And and they're like, well, the deal might fall apart.
And I'm like, why do you think Pink Floyd listeners who are going to be the ones buying this anyway are going to be angry that Roger Waters said this, but this is the world, the Pink. Floyd listeners that are paying the money right? The people paying the money, absolutely. Yeah. But it's like you're still going to make the money off the Pink Floyd listeners who don't care what. It's not about that some people keep thinking that it's. About canceling. It's about hurting somebody.
It's about power. It's it's not about the money. The money's worthless. Everybody knows that about power. If they think they can probably get them to shut up because, hey, you want us to you want us to buy this. Now, the buying it was a again buying his catalog wasn't about making money off of it. I mean, they're certainly not going to lose money off it. But buying the catalog was about flexing. It was about showing, oh, yeah, you know what I bought last weekend?
Yeah. The Michael Jackson catalog. What do you buy? You know. It's a bet for Brett. It's a competitive thing. It's a competitive thing. It has nothing to do with them liking his music either. No, it's. It's because they believe they can make money on it. No, it's not. That's why I'm telling you right now that. You think it has. Nothing to do with making money. That's no different than buying a Rolls Royce. Dude, I don't buy a catalog like that.
You're buying something you can brag about having that is unique. Well, I could buy a Rolls Royce, and I would still think that might make your money as well. But if you want to believe things will make your money, that's fine. But they don't have to. My point is there's a level of amount of money that you get to and this is best experience.
If anybody has a friend that is on Wall Street, if anybody has a friend that you know from college took their crappiest finance degree and turned it into a $3 million a year salary. These are the folks and the personality is what I'm talking about, the personality of that type that you very quickly realize that they've already made all the money they're going to need for the rest of their lives. At this point, it's not about the money.
It's about flexing your abilities, what you're able to do, and whether it's silencing somebody, whether it's buying somebody's music catalog it, whether it's buying Twitter. It's not about the money. It's about that action and how people will perceive you as a result of doing that action. And speaking of the Twitter thing, has that been hilarious? Well, I'm getting kind of bored with it, honestly. Well, it's coming to an end now, so it is going to be boring.
Well, I'm hoping it's coming to an end because it sounds like that, you know, he was and he was out trying to go out and then he flip flopped and these are the men. And then the board said, nope, we're not going to sell it. You know, that's not how it went at all. Well, how do you think. He went that he wanted to buy it? Yeah. They at first did not want to accept it. Then they accepted his offer and everybody went nuts. You know.
Because Ellen's going to change Twitter, which, I mean, let's hope somebody does. But then everybody went nuts and then everybody was elated that Ellen questioned the amount of bots or whatever. So the deal was pulled. And. Then all the people that were so upset. Now all of a sudden Twitter's like, We're going to sue you if you don't buy us. Which is. Exactly right. It's just very strange to me.
And, you know, the end result seems to be now that whether he wants it or whether he's stuck with it, he's getting it. And I do believe that means there's speculation. We'll see how fast all this stuff goes down. But there's speculation that Donald Trump could be back on Twitter before the midterms, which that would be interesting. Yeah. And Trump Tory said he's not rejoining Twitter, so that's not going to happen.
Well, I can understand that because now he's got his own social media and he wants people to come over to his own social media, which is failing like the worst little piece of crap ever. But I have no idea. Again, this is an indicator why Trump shouldn't be present day. He got the good idea of saying, Well, screw you, I'm going to take my two boys, go home and start my own damn service. That was good.
But then he manages to get together with people just like he did when he was president that do not have his best interests at heart and they're just trying to make money off them. And that's exactly what happened here.
It could have joined, you know, I'm a a mastodon server and had a huge installation that he could have joined GAB, which was really like the they're a little too religious for my taste, but they're basically the guys that were the initial alternative platform when Purbeck started getting kicked off everything. There's a lot of different things that he could have done, but starting a service with company that no one's ever heard of like this was not one of them.
But we've learned, we've learned through history that the first company that is successful with something. Yeah. Is the one that holds a ton of power. Well, the first. Absolutely. But Newry have second and third and fourth that exist. You don't come in as the fifth, you get a deal done, especially when you're a billionaire or you get a deal done with the second or third. Well, somebody is brought up yesterday. Everyone's always known. And I haven't seen anything like this in the media.
But what if Musk offers Trump ID be a part of Twitter? Oh, a partner. Twitter with me. Let's all be Kumbaya. I think. I think Trump's got too many bad advisors and he's too stupid to realize they're not good for him. That's possible. That is possible. Yeah. If it sounds like him talking funny, man, the the the new crown, you know, I bit the side of my mouth like in the first day. Oh, no, it's hard to talk without biting the cheek. And then Denver dental work is not fun. Oh, it's not. It's not.
I mean, all you got to do is remember back to childhood with the frickin braces. I never had them. I should have gotten them because I could have used them, but I never want to go through the hassle. Well, you were like the unicorn in my school. Everybody, really. I think it was mandatory. He had to have good teeth. I mean, you were in Venezuela. I don't get this because young boys in Minnesota, they are usually losing most of their front teeth anyway as well.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I mean, that's why you have braces. So when you play hockey. You keep your teeth in. Your teeth, Stan. They don't fall out like everybody is. Yeah, no. I had my share of hockey events. A few pucks in the mouth. Yeah, I mean, like a lot of bloody noses. Were you more of the finesse player or more of the enforcer? I would not say finesse, but I wasn't really an enforcer either. I mean, I just generally just did not I didn't really, like, slow down much.
So you just ran into people. So if I'm going in a particular direction, then and then you're in front of me, I'm not going to be trying to avoid you. I'm going to go through you. Nice. So but, you know, that's that also made for a lot of the stuff players that decided to throw down the sticks and get into a little fisticuffs. Yeah, but hockey is so different. It is still a gentlemen's game. Even when fighting most of the time. Well, yeah, yeah. I mean, you take your gloves off.
And you ask nicely. I think we talked about that once. Yeah, yeah. There's videos out there of like polite hockey fights. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck to you. Thank you. And then they go just beat the hell out of each other. I don't know about the good luck to your part. I think they're exaggerating a little. No, there was one of the after to find it on YouTube. It was actually, you know, good luck to you like that. It was odd. And it's like, okay, sure, it wasn't all good luck to you. Yeah, baby.
It all depends how you say that. How you said exactly. But yeah, but all the all the weasels are now dumping on their their home. Boy, Ellen, I just saw a tweet from Derek Kasparov, the ex chess player. Yeah. Beat by a computer. Yeah, well, he was using anal beads. That's the problem. Yeah, that's probably the problem. Yeah. For you to reward years of Putin's war crimes with Ukrainian blood and land. It's amazing. It's. It's truly amazing that all these Nazis are coming out of the woodwork now.
Well, most people seem to believe that the amount of money that Zuckerberg put in to the last election made a big difference. And he wants got that kind of money. Why can't Elon just offset all that? Elon is not a conservative and this is why he's been the darling of these people for so long as Elon is a socialist libertarian. But it's all about power, so maybe he just wants to go with the other people.
Well, he's starting to realize, I mean, he's finally at that age where he's starting to realize power is more important than money. And maybe that the people that are spewing the. Here's the interesting thing about politics when it comes down to just idea has a lot of the stuff the radical left says sounds really good until you go well how are you going to pay for that. What is the human toll of this? But the concept on its own was like, we have to save the planet.
Well, yeah, who doesn't want to save the planet? I don't want to save the planet through that. But why are you selling prepper? Oh, wait, that makes sense. You're selling the prepper goods for the planet goes poorly. So the plan is going to be just fine. It's the humans that are going to be out of luck. But that is the the thing where if you don't really pay much attention, you're like, Oh, of course we want women's rights. You know, of course we want, you know, let's frame everything.
So yeah, apparently there is pushback on Twitter. And which part the buying of. The yeah they don't want to sell. Weight. This is just the latest thing. Yeah this is I read that last night. They just double checked this morning. Yeah, it's in now because the, the twitterers that don't want to see the musk anymore. I don't understand. They were suing him to take it. Yes. And they would like to get the money from him for not buying it, but they don't want him to buy it.
Don't you understand that there is daylight? We just don't want him to control it. But we'd like his money. Uh huh, uh huh. I don't understand. That is correct. But of course, if they prevent him from buying it, then he gets to sue them as a stockholder on behalf of stockholders for issuing their fiduciary responsibility on behalf of the stockholders, which is a brilliant thing about him already being a part owner when he wants to buy it. Yes. Is that part of that board? Is a part of that then?
So he gets to sue them, which I've done once before too, and it is very pleasurable to sue the guys that are working with you or well, I guess I have the other way around. I had a company that was suing me, but I was on their board of directors or their board, and so I get to ask all the fun questions at the annual meeting, like, why are you spending all this money on a frivolous lawsuit? Because we don't like, you. Know, they had a little problem apparently with me.
But the imagine well, you know, most companies that I've worked for have gone out of business. Is is that on your consulting business cards. Yeah. Well, that yes. Or if we go out of business, I mean companies that I actually think would be. So you're working hard to put them out of business. Well, I just I think that I'm trying to keep them alive on their last throes, the way I would look at it. But it's like one of those things where the patient is already gone.
There's not much you can do with the Twitter thing. Do you think that Twitter as a whole has the kind of influence that everybody is kind of inferring that it does? Meaning, okay, let's just assume Ellen takes over or any crazy conservative takes over and plays the exact opposite game that has been going on on Twitter.
So rather than all of the conservatives, which it seems, again, my point of view from what I've seen, if all of a sudden all of the conservative voices are lifted and the liberal voices are quieted. It's going to happen. But for. The sake of argument, let's just. Pretend that did does that change anything when it comes to the political climate, the voting results and anything at all in the United States? Does that have an effect? I mean.
Yeah, probably gives it gives all the news media one less source to say on Twitter today. Bloody bloody block is that Twitter's going to be no one's going to mention Twitter anymore. Twitter will disappear.
It'll effect it'll be really good for Facebook if MySpace Twitter because every ref burns to Twitter and they're happening literally every minute right now in traditional news media or even online media, they'll all change back to Facebook like it'll be awesome for Facebook if must buy this thing because they're going to mute Twitter. No one will say a damn thing about Twitter. It'll be as though it doesn't exist. So this is why I think it's stupid.
Move for Musk. I think his net worth is going down by buying this thing, but again, it's not about the money for him, so he doesn't really care that it's net worth or that because he'll make up for it on the rocket side or whatever side, the satellite side, car side. But, but yeah, I think that as soon as that deal is final, there'll be a like it doesn't even have to be a formal agreement, it's just going to be a taken for granted.
The agreement from all mainstream news that you do not mention the word Twitter or any comments of anybody on Twitter ever again. Well, then, how long before Jack Dorsey or somebody just spawns another version of Twitter? That's for the liberals? Well, Jack Dorsey is really not a liberal either. I mean, he's just gay. So he kind of, I think, feels like he wouldn't be accepted into conservative circles. But Dorsey is another is very similar to Musk is like a left wing libertarian.
But will somebody create that. Righetti elixir called Gab Gab? For years the liberals aren't going to gab. How often do you see Gab mentioned in mainstream media? Never exact, actually. That's what Twitter is going to become. But if Twitter disappears and they need the new Twitter and I don't think it's Facebook because nobody really uses Facebook is not a friend. Anybody really ever used Twitter? No, I think a lot of people use nobody. Uses Twitter now. It's all fake bots.
Well, there's a lot. Of them get on Twitter. I shut down my account four years ago. Well, you're not average. No, I'm a hell of average. That's what I'm saying. In the last four years. I think everyone's down there. And you're right. About being on Twitter. Not only does the media reference Twitter, Twitter has become the media.
There's been multiple times where it doesn't even matter the news source anymore, whether it is an aggregator like Drudge or Off the Press or whether it's Fox News or CNN, by. The way, you know, Drudge is not conservative. No, of course not. Yeah. I don't even know if he still owns that site. Reports if it's been taken over. Yeah, but there have been a bunch. I think it's some Chinese company. It's quite possible.
But there's a bunch of stories where you click on it like just takes you to a Twitter thread. Like that is the news. It's very it's very bizarre that that's the point we've gotten to where the major news aggregators and sites point to conversations on Twitter like they're a news article. But it's not it's anybody can say anything they want. I mean, granted, okay.
Maybe there's somebody that there's a journalist or an independent journalist that you trust their opinion or whatever, and that's why you're linking to it. But it seems very strange to me for that to be treated as news. But I don't know if that really affects anybody who doesn't have their mind made up, because let's just pretend for a minute that elections are fair and realize that the people on the left are always going to vote for the left.
The people on the right are always going to vote for the people on the right. There's only a small group of people, or maybe the largest group of people. It's the largest group. That's the thing is the people that always vote the same way that both sides are small. It's the middle group that are just usually people that don't know how many states there are in the US. This is what everybody's trying to go for because that's who determines elections. And where are they being convinced?
That's that's what we're going to find out I think. Yeah. Yeah. I think mostly by Cardi B. Really? This is who we're listening to, huh? That's good. That's good. Yeah. I don't think Cardi B is in the center of anything, I think. But, you know. Tesla is down 4% this morning. Oh, wow. I hope you don't have to worry. What do you have? Like a military. Down the 1%? Just under 1%, yeah.
On Thursday, Associated Press reported that Musk Ford said they wouldn't accept that the company that Twitter would not accept Musk's offer. Wait a minute. I just want to understand this. The last volleying back and forth was Twitter after Musk backed out using the reason that they wouldn't give him real numbers. There were too many bots, so he didn't feel it was valued fairly. That was Musk saying, I'm pulling out because of this. Yeah. And then Twitter went, Wait, wait, wait, fuck you.
We want you to buy it. You have to buy it. We're going to sue you because you pulled out that musk. Well. It's not about they have to buy it. It's like you have to pay the penalty. No, but this and his arguments, his lawyers saying we're going to pull out, but we're not going to pay the penalty, which is $1,000,000,000, because the deal was structured based on lies. Therefore, we don't owe you any money.
But rather than deal with this in court, then he said, Well, okay, I'll pay you the full price. Well, I think here's what I think happened. I have no inside knowledge here, but this is my suspicion is, you know how he posted his little hey, guys, we're getting to that post nuclear war and all my stuff can disappear. If that happens, I will no longer be the richest dude anymore. So I don't want to be the richest dude. Yeah, exactly. So how about we get Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table?
Obviously, you know, there's a few concessions that have to be made here, and that got him a fuck. You must message from the the ambassador of Ukraine got him the Garry Kasparov of like who the fuck do you think you are methods. Well yeah because Ukraine is rolling in the money. Yeah. And exactly. And it got to Zelensky who is himself a billionaire. Amazing for an actor in his late forties that he's already a billionaire, especially of. Actor. Not to no one's ever heard of five years ago.
Yeah, exactly. And anyway, so the back and forth with him, I think Musk this I think the buying off trigger thing was the buying of Twitter. It was triggered by this exchange. What's the landscape? Because what happened is I'm sure you heard the story. I'm sure everybody else was, too. Is that when Musk sent his original message, proposing that there's some negotiations that happened, they that was based on the poll that he put up.
And the results of the poll were basically that should that should Ukraine and Russia sign and negotiate, or does Ukraine need to. Keep on fighting? No better fighting till the end. Right. Right. And when Musk sent his message, the results were 6040 in favor of negotiate and it was over of millions. The logical answer. That that is based on people that have Musk as a somebody they follow on Twitter.
Once the Zelensky crowd got that, they called the State Department, which kicked in the bots, which is incidentally, why I have always been suspicious of this deal happening at all is because one of the biggest users and one of the ways that Twitter generates money is from the condoned bot farms run by the State Department and, which represents probably 30% of Twitter.
So once that happened, Zelensky bitched and replied, and the poll instantly flipped around and of like the elections, you know, you know what your actions. When you went to. Election monitored by international monitoring agents that should have been. Yeah yeah. And so it turned into a 4159 on the opposite side where most people are saying, of course, Ukraine should be fighting. Back and there were elections in these areas. Is that true? Which areas in Ukraine that voter is elections?
Yeah, well, that was the whole deal that there were elections where the people in the questioned areas. Yeah. Said they would rather be a part of Russia they want to be annexed by. Well yeah exactly. But they don't apparently they don't matter. Well no don't you know the elections were false that they were rigged. We bet they were rigged. Never be because the US didn't run them, the Democratic Party to run these elections.
Therefore they. Won. I believe even Putin came out and said, well, let's, let's do another election with oversight. And if that's how the people vote, that's what happens. And then the Ukraine's like, No, no, no. It's like, well, wait, but then how yeah. I mean, this is the this is the irony. So the the saving of the Ukraine that Ukraine is talking about is literally the areas they've been bombing and killing children in for eight years straight.
Like what exactly is Ukrainian about the area that you've been bombing for eight years? Incidentally, the first elections were held in 2015 in Donbass, where overwhelmingly over 90% of the population said they want to join Russia.
So what happened right now in 2022 just reaffirmed what the original elections demonstrated back seven years ago, that, yes, they they think that their country was stolen by pretty and obviously the United States, but by these elites that are very pro-Nazi, pro-social, pro Ukrainian, anti-Russia. And and so they were they've been fighting them for eight years straight before Russia ever joined them.
And they they held their referendums back seven years ago and decided that given the choice, they would much rather be part of Russia. And the only part here that Ukraine doesn't like, the only part Zelensky has a problem with is they're taking their property with them, their land right. Because that's where they left for.
Them to leave because they you know, as soon as he was in office, he effectively told them that if you're not going to be part of this new Ukraine, then why don't you go back to Russia? I mean, like I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but effectively that was the message. And they are. Well on the line. They're going to. Move the logical thing in almost all cases like this would be some negotiation is going to be needed.
The fact that it's like, well, no, we have to keep fighting no matter what is very much like mush brain. Biden saying if China goes does anything with Taiwan, that we're going to have American boots on the ground there. No, no, no. You can't. You can't. Oh, and that's that was the other revelation, of course, yesterday, is that we do have American boots on the ground in Ukraine. Oh, there's no question. Yeah. I mean there were that slipped out yesterday that absolutely we do.
And even if you didn't have official troops from the United States, the mercenaries have already been there. And you could make the case that, you know, a gun for hire. It doesn't really matter where they come from, but it kind of does that. Well, there's a couple of things there. One is there's no prohibition on Americans going and fighting in Ukraine. So you're not. You're not breaking the law. Disallowed from doing that at all.
Now, in some countries, they're starting to realize, oh, yeah, we need to put these into laws that people are. But this is it'll make Russia burn or get us right. Well, with their next tsunami bomb. Well, and rightfully so. When it's American missiles that are coming over, who does it matter who's firing them? I think the whole boots on the ground thing is kind of going to become less and less of an issue because we're getting closer and closer to the conflicts.
And we've been like this has been a continuous journey. The conflicts where there are almost no people involved on one side and only people involved in other side. So the U.S. has already been doing this, the Middle East for a long time, where most of the fighting is done with drones, which make where we're just bombing shit selectively. We're not actually sending a unit in to clean that up later.
Like we consider it enough to just bomber a cafe with some kid sitting there and drink coffee and and leave it at that. And I think this is going to be happening more and more in the future for everybody. The US is technologically advanced, so we're leading the way. Plus it's harder in the US to convince the population that the the deaths of the population are worth it, to have that problem. China doesn't have to convince anybody that it's worth spending a million people to take over Taiwan.
The US is going to have trouble convincing 100,000 are worth thinking over Taiwan. Well, when does the U.S. start getting hit with drone strikes? I don't know when the U.S. starts getting hit with drone strikes, but I have heard again, you know, I'm sitting here in Mexico this here. They keep throwing you out of the United States and you keep getting back in. I appreciate. That. Sneaking across the border and then back into Texas. I, I don't understand.
How do you sneak back in in a bright white Adidas tracksuit? You'd be surprised how many white districts there are. Some are crossing the border. Oh, is that why you bought a thousand of those? You just kind of give them away that mixed in with the population. You're giving Adidas tracksuits the long like Z top beards from like a Halloween costume to be followed. You're like. That's a it's a Halloween costume. See, that's what it is. Exactly right. It's phenomenal.
Oh, I got my I had the mariachi band playing for me yesterday. It was great. Just for you were were there for other people as well. They just come to your room. Well, I mean, I guess there were other people there too, but I was the one telling him what took place. So that was nice. I thought maybe you were getting a nice massage in your room and the mariachi band just kind of wandered out in the triple double. Hey, I don't know. You know how things are in Mexico. It could be like that.
It's just like that. They have wandering mariachi bands just walking into your room, correct? Yeah. Sounds relaxing. Now, have you had any Mexican food while you've been in Mexico? I've had tons of Mexican food lab in Mexico and I haven't felt at all bad about it. Well, why would you? It's excellent. Well, I don't like Mexican food. Really? One and two. It has a history of giving me heartburn. Oh, that's right. We've talked about that. Yeah.
But not to. The. And so far in Mexico, nothing I've eaten of Mexican variety has given me heartburn. Maybe people aren't trying to poison you on this trip. Maybe that's what it is. It's possible. Well, I know. I mean, I'm. I'm immune to a lot of poisons, so I'm not sure what the what people are trying to give me. I don't know. I had some I don't remember the brand, but it was a refrigerated soup. I was like, Oh, that looks good, was a broccoli cheddar soup. And that was. That's like good.
You know, it was a mistake, though. I mean, I just I had a very bad reaction to I don't know if there was, you know, a chemical or some idealism. Weird. Yeah, you know, in the soup because, I mean, I didn't get nauseous, but the the heart rate went up to like a hundred beats per minute then was just a little sweaty. And I'm like, Ooh, Bay having a heart attack or something.
But then that went away and you know, for the next day or so, I didn't really want to eat much because you know, the stomach was just a little off, but it was it was kind of weird. Was a well, I mean, it could be that it was became thought at some point, didn't bacteria get in there? Yeah, it's possible. You know, it's not actually the bacteria that generally is harmful. It's it's the bacterial waste product. The bacteria that's made from the bacteria.
Well, it's not the bacteria that's made for the bacteria. It's it's that as part of their metabolism, they're their poop and they're Yeah. Bacteria poop. Now there's a shelter. You poop generally has. Well it's not, it's not always bad either but it can have a, a poisonous effect on you because these are things your body generally does not, you know, have to deal with. Right.
In fact, one of the big dangers is if you have a bacterial infection, as if you kill off the bacteria too quickly, then you might actually have a secondary toxic shock infection happening because your body's not able to flush out all the bacteria that's floating around that leaking all kinds of substances. We are interesting creatures. What? We are interesting creatures.
Well, we're just bags of mostly water, but yeah, you know, we're just basically we're just little, little self-contained swamps. It is. Okay. That's pretty accurate. It's technically accurate. Lead me some good Mexican food. I went the other day for a nice Mexican steak tacos. Oh, yeah. I had some really good. I smoked tacos yesterday, but I had some really good tacos the day before. I went to the Mexican nights here at the resort. Yeah. Those are nice that aren't Mexican, do they.
What else do they do there. They're Mexican. What do you mean? Well, you like it was Mexican night, but it's like you're in Mexico. Yeah, it may have, like. Themed food night. Do they have, like, Ukrainian food night, too? They definitely do not have Ukrainian themed. They do like why not Russian food? They got borscht and vodka. They might. But the the Mexican they the tacos were absolutely fantastic. I've never had tacos like this. They were like pork with cilantro.
Oh, and yeah, and pineapple. Oh, yeah. I've never had pineapple and tacos. I'm going to start doing that in the future, I think, because the pineapple has just the right amount of best city and sweetness to the pork. And it was just great. Why have I never done this? I have a fresh pineapple in the fridge right now. You're not supposed to keep those in the fridge. Yeah, that'll help you keep them a couple extra days.
You don't want to keep them over, like four days, though, even refrigerated, which is this was always my question too. Yeah, because a fresh pineapple. I was surprised at the short shelf life of these things. I'm like, well, yeah, if you're unrefrigerated, which is where they sit in almost every grocery store. Yeah, unrefrigerated. They last like 2 to 3 days. I'm like, are they really just going through and throwing away? If yours last 2 to 3 days, you're buying some shitty cheap pineapple.
Do you mean that's what they say? I like that should last. I'm not saying what I've had less that. They'd last longer than that. They're just like bananas. If you if you get one and you eat it instantly in a store and he didn't, like, squish it to make sure it's soft, it's going to be unpleasant and that sweet, you have to let it kind of ripen when you get it home so that it gets a little softer and it starts to become a little sweeter. Which makes. Sense. It's like a banana.
Which makes absolute sense. But everything that I've read and I get because I'm like, Well, how long does this? Because I had one that was, you know, sat around for like a week. It was like, well, how long the pineapples? Well, I always assumed the same thing that, like you're saying here, that's like a banana. But every fucking website was like, Oh yeah, after like three days, it could start to get it could start to go. Yeah, that's bullshit.
So you can't believe anything you find on the Internet. I have one of the. Why would you? It's written by Chinese, but all. Of it it on Twitter. The whole internet is Chinese bots. That's all it is. It should have gone to Twitter to find out. Twitter is American bucks. But I've got the little $10 device that just you put out. You cut the top of the pineapple off, you put this thing through the Internet. Oh, beautiful.
It just comes out with your nice pineapple rinds round whatever you want to call them. Yeah, it does. Suck it out. Here is my problem with that. I've got one of those devices is my problem with it is it's made for a standard sized pineapple. Well, that was my other question was like, there are every fucking pineapple we've had is pretty much exactly the same size. How does. That I, I get ones that are bigger than that. So you like really simple.
The leaves way too much on the skin. Yeah, that's no good. The other thing about it is, I don't like the hair. I don't know. I use the old fashioned method, man. I just. Yeah. Shop cleaver, the sides. Yeah. Yep. I think a cleaver and I start trimming the sides to get all the actual little barbs out of it. And then I just slice it up into long slices. Now if you you could do like an oversize apple for and take the core out of it and then just have the pineapple bit left over.
But again, I just don't like the standardization aspect of that because every pineapple is going to be a little different size. And you know, sometimes if it's.