Tall girls can get away with not being as warm. Hello and welcome to episode number 87 of Unrelenting Idiots. Friday the 13th Gene, the world burning down. And all of a sudden the Russians aren't the worst people in the world. I know, right? I. I had lunch with my Adam. Adam. Beer. I can't talk with my Arab neighbor yesterday and high fived them because we did switch off. See? Right, right, right. The world goes from between hating Russia slash USSR and hating Arabs in the Middle East.
And so, you know, we take turns. So the Russian restaurants are back in Austin, but at least they're shutting down again. Oh, it does. How? You know, it depends on which flag that you've got flying in front of your house or, you know, on your social media platforms who you are supporting today or not supporting today. Yeah. People are going so absolutely insane about this that Candice Swanepoel, you may know her as the South African Victoria's Secret supermodel. Awesome chick, very pointy.
Check if you want to use the Larry Blinder ism. Made a donation to the Save the Children Fund charity, whatever it is. How dare she? I know. And people took this as well. You support Hamas. It's like, wait, how how do people financially sounds like. Huh? Because Save the Children is one of those charities that you're like, oh, well, of course they're a terrorist organization. Yeah. I mean, I never really know too much. There is.
I mean, it's not a terrorist organization, but I think that's a little misnomer. But it's definitely a child trafficking organization, no question about that. They're trying to get the children out of the bad places. They're not early selling children to rich people. The traffickers seem at sur. Jean-Claude Hell, yeah, I'll stand by that one, man. I don't two ways about it. But should documentaries on traffickers, lawsuits Save the Children? They're the traffickers.
Wow. Save the Children for use by rich people. Yes. That's a longer you early think maybe you're thinking of a different organization. Pretty much same one. But the BLM folks all of a sudden. Ah, wait, wait, wait. BLM Chicago. They're not a part of us because BLM Chicago did host a whether you want to call it a meme or just a picture of one of the people hang gliding into and I'm guessing it was just a drawing, maybe it was real. I don't know.
Either way it was representing somebody hang gliding into Israel and BLM says we support Hamas, right? Well, we're BLM, Chicago, and all of a sudden, the rest of BLM went, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Because while I'm sure they probably do support Hamas, they don't want that kind of heat. They don't make it a lot of money. Spent a good grift. The rest of BLM, because literally BLM and every city put out stuff like that. So which BLM exactly is it? That's Chicago, which other BLM had.
Cause I'm not Seattle. Okay, So they have the same thing, which is, I think, the second biggest BLM. So it's everybody except the people that are in charge of the global one who are like, Well, we still want to keep grifting people. So stop, stop that. Don't let that.
Although they were the one straight up front and I'm sure we talked about that here at length, that was like, well, we're a communist slash socialist organization who want the dissolution of the American nuclear family because that's racist and bad. But yet all of these companies and I know people love when we mention big Bill O'Reilly, but he had a list of all the companies that gave money to BLM last night. And it's like, did you get what you paid for?
That's really the only question when you when you knee jerk and send money to an organization that has not been vetted, that has not been around for a long time, you send them a lot of money, did you get what you pay for it? When companies like Coca-Cola, you send millions of dollars to them and now they're like, Hey, we support terrorism. Yep. Well, there you go. Done. Coca-Cola. Well done. Big Sugar is one of the main terrorist organizations out there.
Well, yeah, they they're trying to kill us very slowly. Yeah. And they're doing pretty good things with the drug companies who sell overpriced drugs to battle diabetes. Well, you have to you have to give somebody that diabetes so you can sell the very expensive helium solution for diabetes. Yeah, but at least now the Russians. Nobody's talking about the Russians. You know, when one playing a video game like Cyberpunk 2077 feels more normal then turning on the news on something's wrong. What's?
Because the news is not the news that we had when we were growing up. You and I know know back in the 1930s was very different. Propaganda was there, I'm sure. Mm hmm. But not as prevalent. Yeah. And it's interesting that they're going after Elon, and I think it's obvious that that's just a personal thought there, because there was an article that said the EU was going to be looking into how this terrorist propaganda spreads online. I'm like, What do you mean, how it spreads online?
It's social media. That's what it does. Yeah, that's what it's designed to do. There's no money. They mean all like the Bill or Miss thing. Yeah, well, anything that they don't like is propaganda. Otherwise, the rest of it should be protected under free speech. If they agree with that, it should be protected. But everything else has to be silent. That is one of the hardest things for people to understand. When you talk about free speech, that is not something that comes without consequences.
That means that if somebody wants to stand up, if you want a terrorist organization, they're going to put out their message. You let them put out their message. No, you don't. But no country actually supports free speech. This is probably true. I mean, they're saying that can't say, come on. But they don't. I mean, America was the one that everybody turned to in the past, but that is now banned, completely politicized. And we have tons of banned speech.
What you get, you know, fire in a crowded theater and all that. No. Which is bullshit because you can get real people, right? This is the concept. It's like, well, you can, but there are Reaper Russians, but it's like there are repercussions for everything when it comes down to it. So you can yell fire in a crowded theater and that that's great. Kind of the point is that free speech means you're allowed to say things that other people may not like. Yes. Or there that are completely 100% untrue.
There is no law that says lying through your teeth is illegal. But unless you're selling something, there is a certain amount of that. That is true. There are laws that that you could disagree, but then there's protections for people to return it and you can get sued through your ass if you're a drug company, since that's a good example. Except drug companies have exemptions, so they don't get sued. But yes, for some things they do. I mean, for the policy. What do you mean for something?
In this town, there are no products other than vaccines being developed by drug companies. And vaccines are all exempt. There are no other drugs beyond the news. They're not developing anything that doesn't that can't be called a vaccine anymore. So you're going to have well, because it falls into the category of they can't go after you for it. Yeah, you're going to have a broken bone vaccine. You're going to have all kinds of vaccines coming out because there's zero liability there.
And if they put through any real testing our CAS vaccines now, too, I think you may be required to take a vaccine in order for the CAS tour that would go well. So I'm here to say you won't sue us. Yeah, pretty much. And that's one of those. But what's even better than that? Just not being able to sue because the courts won't take the case well or will always side with one side.
So yeah, but you have the you have the ability to sue a doctor, but if the courts come down on the side of the doctors, 99.9% of the times in suing the doctor is not going to do much for you. Yeah, but that, but that's still 99.9. But if they literally saying you cannot sue these drug companies because they have an exclusion, that's 100%, but that's the illusion that you can that's why they never want to do it 100%. They always want to make it seem like, no, no, you're safe.
So they do want to do it 100%, which is why they have immunity. Immunity lawsuits. Well, just like you had diplomatic immunity down in Costa Rica, there was like, whatever Gene does, they can't touch them. Hey, man, that diplomatic immunity cost me a pretty penny with having multiple bodyguards. But this is true because they still can't stop people from wanting to, you know, chop off your head. Yeah, exactly. That's the rub.
It's like, well, okay, legally, we can't do anything to you, but it's one of those systems that eventually everything takes care of itself. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Like the war in the Middle East. That'll be over any day now. There will be peace. I mean, it's. There's no real reason for it to be there. So probably be over in a matter of days. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Sure. It's not a distraction for anything else.
No, no, this is not a you know, you look at what happened with Ukraine and the proxy war the United States was having with Russia. Mm hmm. Well, now you just have Iran having a proxy with Israel. Yeah, except that it's not Iran. Except it's Russia and China having a proxy war with the United States through Israel. Is that how it's working now? Oh, I thought you were going there. One story here. I'm just making the connection that you have.
Yeah, this is this literally is a this this, this whole thing. And I actually texted Adam about this the day that it happened. It's like, oh, well, let's see how how much the U.S. enjoys being involved in the proxy war in Israel that the you know, they're effectively doing to Russia and Ukraine because Israel is as close as you can get to the United States without being in the United States. Yes, it is a strong ally. What's kind of surprising to be a strong ally, it's a 51st state.
Well, it is not officially. If Israel gets attacked, America cannot not act. And even Joe Biden, who you know, is beholden to the radical left that seems to support Hamas on a pretty large percentage, even he couldn't come out and be like, fuck Israel. No, no, can't do it. So it's it's really tit for tat and it is it it accomplishes multiple goals.
And I have said this on well to a few folks anyway but all you have to do is evaluate the situation based on who would benefit this this situation benefit Israel at all. No, definitely not the benefit to the Palestinian people. Nope, definitely not. There's going to be a lot more of them hurt. Does this benefit Iran? Not really, because there's an actual risk of Iran getting hit with nukes. So I don't think it benefits Iran. It's too close for comfort.
But you're also assuming, though, that everybody involved here is completely logical in their decision making. And I'm not sure that's the case. But if you look at the people that instigate things, they tend to be logical and it does benefit the United States to be involved in a conflict in the Middle East. Once again, it depends on who you're trying to distract from what does this help? Does this help Joe Biden?
Because it's like all of a sudden, oh, he's a strong president because he came out well, Joe Biden was already going to have troops on the ground in Ukraine so that he was a wartime president, couldn't do anything about it. Now he's going to have troops on the ground in Israel. I don't know that there's a big difference either one of would be troops on the ground, and I don't think either one's going to be perceived by Americans as our war.
But but then you move over to the other side, which is bricks. Does this benefit Russia? Well, yeah, because it distracts America from focusing on Ukraine to focusing on somebody they have no choice but to focus on. Ukraine as an optional Ukraine is what you do when you have nothing else going on. Right. All right. Ukraine hating is not to go comes, right. Israel is a mandatory.
And so now if they want to do both, it places a much higher tax burden on the United States citizen to support two different wars in two different places, a European war in the Middle East and war. Does it benefit China, who the United States has been aggressively trying to stir the pot up with the reunification of China in Taiwan and of course it does, because now, oh, the US want to commit a bunch of troops to Taiwan now and harass China over there with their exercises.
And there's only so many troops. You're going to only only have so many places you can put your pieces on the word the lowest number of US recruits coming in this year, in over a decade. And the military has been just like the police. As with this administration, has been defunded. That was one of the reasons why you see the police that they came in when Trump came in was like, well, the military has been gutted. He needs to rebuild.
He put a lot of money into the military, helping rebuild the military. The minute Biden came in, that went back in the other direction again. Yeah. So you combine those things and this is great for China, This is great for Russia. Now, I'm not saying that they necessarily were behind it, but they sure as hell could have been because they both can manipulate Iran into doing whatever the hell they want. Now, Iran is a client state of both China and Russia.
The Wall Street Journal was the one that reported that Iran was behind this, that they were the money behind it, that they were helping train for this over the last months before that is happening. Literally just that's not reporting. That's conjecture. But yeah well that's the question of is, is there proof behind this or not? And if there is, because there's two competing things, the other the other sea and ends of the world are like, nope, nope, nope, Iran didn't have anything to do with it.
So the media is fractured here. And it's not a surprise when the media is fractured when it's a far left and far right. But The Wall Street Journal is not a far right organization. It's right ish as far as the newspapers go. Well, it's fair mostly as far as newspapers go and doesn't necessarily hold into one bias. I mean, everybody's got some time, but it'll be interesting to see if there is any proof behind that.
I'm not sure it really changes anything except for the people that want to point to. Well, Joe Biden just gave that 6 billion back to Iran and all of a sudden it's like, well, one, I think that was too quick for this to have materialized in that period of time. But I guess it is something the case can be made that you now know those funds are going to be there even though they haven't been released yet. And it's like, well, can the United States pull those back and not give them to her?
Because I guess they're in some bank in the other cut or how do you say gutter or Qatar? I've heard both. Qatar, Qatar. Well, that's where the money is. And it could allegedly still be held back. But I don't really see that happening. But there's a lot of moving pieces with this, which is the Russia Ukraine thing, way simpler, which is why a lot of people, I think, jumped behind it because the story was, well, Russia bad, Ukraine good.
There were very few people telling the other side of that story where this man, the world is split on who's the good guy and who's the bad guy here. Yeah, absolutely. And there are no good get well, there's never any there's never any clean guys, that's for sure. Everybody thinks they're righteous, especially when it gets down to religious states. Exactly.
And that's essentially what you have is now we always like to say Israel's the only democracy in the Middle East, except that Israel is a theocracy. It's going to be fun to watch. I mean, this is anybody can say and they did going into the Donald Trump presidency, I would love to get a supercut of all of the media talking heads. Oh, my God, Donald Trump, a president. He's going to get us into wars all around the world. It was the most peaceful four years the world has had in my lifetime.
Absolutely. And the minute the Biden administration came in, wow. It's amazing that Putin waited for that to go into Ukraine. And now the Middle East. Well, why is that happening now? Yeah, and I would say the case could be made that for all of his boisterous business, Donald Trump, from some of the stories that I've read, was very much a a mafia don, if we can use the Don when he's don. But he has that mentality that these stories are. When it came to ISIS, how did he keep ISIS in check?
Well, he met with them and said, if you fuck around, I'm going after your families. I'm not even going to wait. I'm not going to if anything happens here, I'm going after your families very much like got away Mob story. But that works.
That works if you go after what people hold the most dear, which is why the kind of stuff, the kind of comment you're getting out of asshole Bernie Sanders now about what's going on in Israel, which is, well, you know, anybody that target civilians, that's that's terrorism. You can't do that. Well, how do you not target civilians in a case like this where the one side just came in and you know what they did? They absolutely targeted civilians.
This is so disingenuous when these side and I would, you know, guess that Bernie Sanders would support Israel since he's Jewish, but I guess he's a Democrat. So that means he's more liberal, which maybe he's a Hamas guy. Yeah, I'm probably is. I'm okay. I think that they're this is where the squirming starts is that which makes this he want to lose. And there are a lot of people like him.
Does he want to lose his ultra left wing base that totally supports Hamas or does he want to lose his liberal Jewish base, which supports all the socialist causes up until it deals with Israel? Right. And then they support Israel. So he's got to pick pick one. And I'm sure that he's trying to straddle like all of them do.
But ultimately somebody gets pissed off or both sides get pissed off, which has happened in the past with politicians as well when they try to straddle the oil industry, but also the the activists against, you know, damaging the environment. Right. And it's like, no, dude, you got to pick one. You can't pretend that you're on both sides at the same time. Well, you don't get to go well, okay, So these Hamas folks, they just went after a bunch of citizens. But you retaliating?
No, no, you can't do that. Well, that how that's not how war works. That's why war has never been just armies killing armies. That's why civilians get killed, because that is what stops people from continuing the madness. Yeah. And and I think also, I think people are kind of they don't understand what the word terrorism means. Terrorism is exactly what happened in this instance with from US actions, because what they're trying to achieve is not a military victory.
What they're trying to achieve is to gain support of other nations by making Israel do an overreaction. Right. And that's that is the keyword we're hearing with a lot of these talking heads talking about this. Now, that was that was a great grammarly guys talking heads talking. It's the proportionality is the keyword that I'm hearing over and over again. Well, Israel has to respond, but they have to do it proportionally to what happened to them. And it's like, well, what is that? What is that?
Bernie Goldberg? It's not 1 to 1, I'll tell you that. No. Well, if you look at what happened on 911 to the United States and people are making that comparison, I'm not sure if that's a good one or not, but the comparison being the amount of people that were killed at 911 people died in the United States or however many it was, I can't remember, like was like 3000 or 3000. And then we kill 3 million.
And in this case, that 3000, that percentage of the population with what just happened in Israel, now it's like 300,000. Now it would be. Well, I think the number that Bernie Goldberg used was like 40,000. But that's still a lot of people compared to, well, the United States. This is equal to 3000. That's you know, if you do the math, 40,000, the same percentage of the base of people in Israel. And well, what is a proper response?
And it would seem that the response that Israel is having is the better leave Gaza because we are going to level on its down. Yeah, exactly. And this this is historically appropriate. Whenever there is a an attack, you can't have an equivalent response because all that does is create a forever war. It's the Hatfields and McCoys, right? They're just shooting targets of opportunity one at a time. And it never out.
We go back to that movie on again, The Mob with Sean Connery, where you said what a mind of the hospitalized until years to the morgue or whatever that quote is. Yeah, that's how it works in war. There was a back in the seventies, there was a period in time where the Italian mafia provided some protection and their response was a three, two, one. So if if one of our guys gets hurt, then three of your guys end up being dead. And that that type of ratio tends to discourage attack.
Yes. Because if you know, you're just getting a slap on the wrist, it's like crime in the United States right now. If you know you're not going to be prosecuted or you're going to be have a slap on the wrist and you're going to get to walk out like, well, what? See, I just stole a new iPad and they're going to make me go down to the jail and I get to keep the iPad and I'm out in 24 minutes. Well, bread means a pretty good deal. Yeah, that's a similar thing. Remotely kill it, but yeah, right.
Yeah. Well, if this is true what I like the TVs and stuff that had to build that in because so many were being stolen. I'm like, well, this is why you don't steal our product, because it's not going to work anyway. Because thieves are so smart, they'll be able to tell which TVs have that and which don't. Oh, they all do. They're like, Oh, this has the this has a LoJack for TVs. I don't want that logic. Exactly. Forgot about logic. Uh huh.
Now, well, that's there were stories of how San Francisco's not even looking for stolen cars anymore. People are doing it themselves. Yeah, it's great. Do you take the. And just the ingenuity that you can go find your own car? Don't understand what keeps people living there. I really don't. With the stories I would agree because it seems like besides the fact that you have some nice weather, it is otherwise hell on earth that in San Francisco that's not nice weather. It's too fucking cold.
Or the San Diego that's nice weather. You came from Minneapolis or that area. How do you think that's cold? It's the I don't want to live there like this is true. Ridiculously cold. You move down to Texas. Oh yeah. My way better here. A.K.A Moscow. Yeah, Moscow, Texas. Moscow on the Gulf of Mexico, baby. Odessa, Texas. Is that Moscow? Odessa? We do have No, that's not here. Yeah, I have heard that when a Charlie Robinson song, God bless his soul that was kind of bum when he died. Was it good?
The Austin based singer songwriter? Yeah. Let's talk about more people, because either they're dead or they will be. Soon they're dead. They will be. Well, this is this is what unrelenting is all about. That sooner or later, if you're listening to this show, you would be Dead podcast. Uh huh. We did. We talk about people and then things happen to them sometimes. Good. Yeah, sometimes bad. That's why we should only talk about people after they're dead. That way we don't put the curse on them.
Exactly. Exactly. But you, they're going after Musk because they don't like. Yeah, the stuff that's being posted. And this is very interesting to me because this is still a relatively new technology that's around illegal information, I think is what they refer to this stuff as well. This the EU is gets to decide what they think is legal and what's not.
They don't get to decide that that's what all these countries want to join so badly, is to have a non-elected government that gets to decide what is legal thought and what is illegal thought. Yeah, that sounds like an awesome thing to join, doesn't it? And then if it cannot be removed fast enough, then we're going to go after the people that own these. And it's interesting that they're really just talking about Ireland right now, and they're not talking about Zuck.
They're not talking about Dorsey, who has his new blue sky. Whatever it is. They're not talking they're not even talking about Donald Trump, who still owns WI. Right? He still has truth. So whatever it is, Yeah, I'm surprised they're not going after Trump because that would be an interesting thing. But why with the EU? I think the EU is more afraid of Trump than US's because they realize that if he actually gets elected, he can literally cut their funding overnight.
And at this point the EU is already basically bankrupt. If if our funding was cut, that's it there. There's people starving literally on the street. They're like, Yes, sir, Mr. Trump, we like your social media. No, there's nobody posting things. We don't like their. But Ellen, they think they can get his maybe that's out there. They just want his money. They do want his money.
And I think that they're miscalculating this like a lot of countries because you remember when when Australia decided that Google needs to pay the newspapers, too, because, you know, they're basically stealing the news. And they said, well, response was, yes, we will not do it by no longer being excessive in your country. And Australia was like, if you don't pull us out and all our all our people blame us, every politician will be replaced all at once.
Yeah. And so I think Europe is going to have to come to that same realization is that Trump Trump is a must, will have no qualms about shutting down Twitter or act for Europe. So, yeah, you guys, you know, you can go on Yandex, go use that instead of Europe. But do you think the EU wants to get rid of all social media because the EU wants to control shit. They don't want to get rid of things, they want to control shit and get money out of them.
And by control it's like, well, now it's just 100% propaganda because there is no ability for people to post anything they don't like because they just label that as illegal and then go after them. Yeah, well again, this concept of we need to investigate how things spread online, it's like what the fuck are you talking about? Any third grader can tell you how to spread online. It's not hard to figure out.
Post something to Tik Tok or X or whatever, and then people reposting reddit not been banned in Europe. That's what I'd like to know. Well, there's a lot of questions about how things are flying under the radar and why Reddit is huge. That that is the right mission under the radar of people complaining about it. For some reason, I think it's maybe because it's not as public as Twitter is. Reddit has way crazier opinions and what post self post people post on Twitter.
There's a lot of things like that. Yeah. You know, when it came down to all the piracy and stuff as well, everybody forgot about Usenet and Usenet now is not what it once was. There's still a lot of piracy on it and nobody kind of even talks about it because they don't even know it exists. They just like complicated. Yeah, like how does this work? We don't know. So let's just go to the easier. Right? You go to the easier thing that you can understand and try to shut down.
And the fact that Twitter is owned by a guy now that can be the new bad guy, Boogeyman. Well, we'll go after them. That would make sense. But this is the first time, you know, not absolute first time, but you think about this when a lot of these flare ups happen, go back in our lifetime to the 1977 hostage crisis. You didn't have the Internet. You didn't have social media, you didn't have live photos, live video coming out of these areas.
In 77, the hostage crisis, the Iranian hostage crisis, 1979. It was 70, wasn't it? 77, like through 79. There was. I Well, you're right. 79 was the hostage crisis. Yeah. Now 77 was Star Wars. That was a different thing entirely. But was it? But you're right, because it was Reagan coming in 1980 that all of a sudden they were like, Oh, no, here, have your hostages. I'm sorry. Jimmy Carter. We loved him. But no, Reagan came in. Here's your hostages. Got to go.
But you didn't have the ability for live video to come out. Now, what we have the most interesting thing to me is now the way people will believe anything they see. Do you know how easy it is to fake, quote, live video coming out of a terror attack? And it be not real at all, but people will believe it.
It's it's interesting to see the effect that this has on the world as a whole, because there were some very quick news stories coming out saying that the Hamas folks were beheading children, raping children, all sorts of things. And I think most of that turned out to be propaganda. Not true. And it's because we have the Internet, we have this immediate knee jerk reaction and anybody can create. And I'm sure there were videos waiting to go.
And you're referring, of course, to the Israeli videos that are showing whether it was the Israelis putting out or whether it was a Russian bought farm that says they're Israelis or, you know, you don't know where it's coming from. That is the one thing that is true on social media is that you don't really know the source of this stuff, especially because with the way things do spread the original poster of the thing is usually long gone by the time you see it, because.