Supremely Frustrating Hearings, Myanmar Genocide and PeaceMaker

and nothing happened beyond it. That's right. This is all of existence convinced into a podcast for the podcasting which will continue. Cody, I watched Peacemaker. Did you have that? I have watched Peacemakers? Was all about that sky high

it was? It was, Oh boy, guys. I just have to say, before we even dived down this path of talking about it, a number of our wonderful, beloved listeners have reached out to me to say thank you, Katie, thank you for your recommendation of Patriot, and these motherfucking boys that I worked with that I work with will much respect or listen to my suggestions. Pker Peacemaker, It's pretty good. How did you enjoy it? I like you know, I really like John Cena. I like John Cena a lot.

I think he's he's charming, and I'm continually surprised at how talented he is. For example, really seen a very emotional scene where he plays the piano and I looked it up Tom and he that's actually him. He's just like I was watching my first when that scene started, I was like, no way, that's him playing. They got a body double that to play. Then there was a shot that, you know, James Gunn was like, we're going

to need a shot that like, clearly that's playing. So they do like his face panning down to his hands, and I was like, I'll be damned, that's dope. He also speaks fluent Mandarin. What he's really good in the show. He's he's a wonderful actor. Um and I was not familiar before this. I I had a lot of fun watching this. Whole cast is great. Yeah, the whole caseories. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well. Everreated this exact conversation for

like a half hour with David Bell yesterday with David Bell. Yeah, oh he was on Bastards right, Yeah he was. He was. This is just a podcast where I talked to my friends about things I've said to my other friends and I about shows that you are also recommend. Because the world's doing fine, We're not needed to cover in our work. Work here is done. Letting Google. Oh okay, yeah, small small yield nuclear weapons could make nuclear war more accessible

than ever. That seems fine. Alright, you saw that really good article. It's fine. That's not not really even worth covering in any detail. We need, we need our entertainment. I do have an awareness now that my attention span is all over the place and it's hard for me to zone out being alone. I've probably said this on the show, So I give myself permission to take two days with an episode of a show if it's like a longer episode, you know, like, don't give up, just

do it in pieces if your attention is split. But yeah, yeah, I just don't think too much about things who do things or believe things. Just don't just don't recommend not caring destructive nuclear arms will consume us all. Thank god. I have to say that this is at odds with everything we talked about last week on even More News or other show where we went deep with Danny Fernande is on white nihilism and the importance of not saying

there's nothing not white nihilism, to say everything seems fine time. Yeah, um, how y'all doing. I'm I'm I think I'm terrible in most ways. But all of the sheep on our on our on our little farm just had babies. So there's for very tiny sheep. I got to see them when they were like two hours. It's so cute because I went out and fed them, and then I came out a couple of hours later and there were babies, so I knew they had to be like maybe two or

three hours old. And they're just already up and doing sheep stuff like fine, living life, vibe and doing all of the things they will do as adults. They're already walking around. Sheeps come out walking, they come out ready to go. They're just I guess you away, it's just lams, baby, little little baby lambs. One of them is a ram. He's got a little bitty little bit of problems on his hand. Uh. Their dad. They're like, I mean, they're about the size of a cat, like sized cat. Um,

they're not big. They're a little taller than cats obviously because they're sheep, but they're about the mass of a cat man. Birthing a sheep's got to be brutal. Oh, you don't have to do any of that. Ship. Their moms take care of it. Well that's what I mean for the mom. Yeah, not you. Yeah. They seem to be doing just fine. And their dad is very proud of the fact that he made a bunch of little baby lambs. Uh. He kept trying to head butt us when we picked him up to cut their umbilical cords off.

But I just had to grab onto his horns and then it was fine. Protective, what loyalty. I love him. They're going to give their kids complex. He liked it. Behind his neck he wiggles his entire back end like a dog. It's very cute. He's a good boy. I she could spend the whole hour talking about this pretty good ram. Yeah, this mammal stuff. Yeah yeah. See. How's that for positivity? I would say that is a show. We're done. Great episode today, I feel wonderful. Have a

good one to the worst year ever. A podcast where I update you about the tidy farm that I live on. Um chickens are fact. That sounds lovely, though m Hm, it does. I think we all want to live vicariously through you. It's not, it's maybe not. There's problem the best for an audio medium. Too many eggs, way too many eggs. Too many eggs. You can't eat all those eggs. It's impossible to give them away. I'll get like sixty eggs in a week. That's what That's what we gotta do.

That's what we gotta do. We gotta start doing some baking and freezing bot eggs. Yeah, freeze them, pickle them, do what you can. Anyway. What's the news. How are we doing? Oh? I want to talk about great end of sec Yeah, I don't know. With the Supreme Court. Uh yeah, that's what we're talking about. Looking for a new member. Um. Yeah, they're doing maybe too, that's the only thing. What's the what's the dear, dear deal with Clarence. He's sick with something. He'll probably be fine. Fine, He'll

be fine this time, he'll be fine. Yeah, he'll definitely be fine. Yeah. But it'd be pretty cool if he died, though he die right now, otherwise it'll be pretty frustrating if he died like after the mid terms and we are incapable of confirming anybody would just like him to get hit by a bus on his way out of the hospital. Be nice him and his wife. Yeah, sure, absolutely, that sounds fine. With a smile. It didn't feel right, though,

I'm fine with it. I have gotten over the hump of wishing death upon who else want to I just I guess I don't necessarily want them to be hit by a bus. I'd rather, um, well, I happen to support public transit Katie, Well, yeah, what do you what do you want? You want them to get hit by a tesla in a tunnel. I don't want them to die in some way that's incredibly tragic and everybody's like, oh, you know, these people are wonderful. I'd rather uh to

continue to bespitch their name, I guess. But I don't want him to be serving. I want him to die. I don't need Jinny too. She can be around to like be a goal. And yeah, I mean, obviously the ideal death for a bad person is like auto erotic asphyxiation. But how often does that get to happen? Very I mean very early. Yeah, I've got one in mind. But anyway, so beyond that confirmations, Yeah, I think it's only happened once. Yeah, and to Quentin Tarantino in eleven years strangled by a

foot shaped rope. What that's funny. Trust your feelings, you know it to be true. I mean normally I don't like when you predict things. But they'll do a Star Trek and then he'll be I'm not saying I wanted. I have nothing against Quentin Tarantino. It just seems plausible. Anyway. We've got a Supreme Court in theory. Yeah. Um, yeah, they're they're doing that. They're doing it today. They did a little bit yesterday. It's very do more tomorrow. Good

and exciting. They're doing a great job. Um. I shout out to Lindsey Graham. Shout out to Marcia Blackburn, shout out to Josh Holly, Shout out to a friend of the show. Are you shouting these also? They're just doing a really good job. They're doing a good job. Uh. We're talking a lot about critical race theory. Oh yeah, and children's books, because what else are you gonna talk about that's really important for us to talk about during

this limited period of time. Yeah, there's a really funny Lindsey Graham quote about this uh, not about this, but like basically saying, uh, people are gonna call us a racist during this Republicans, and that's not gonna fly with us because we're used to it by now. And I just think that's really really funny. Like I know what he meant. He's like, yeah, you falsely accused of racism. We're used to that. But like just saying, like we're

used to being called racist all the time. It's very funny. Cellphone, cell phone, cellphone. It's a fun time talking about critical race theory. But first we're gonna talk about George W. Bush um alleged war criminal, alleged alleged worker alleged um who today with work a middle of funny term. Sorry, just the fact like sure putin Yeah, okay, war criminal, but like war is criminal. No, no, let's wow, let

it simmer and hit y'all. War is the crime. Um. Yeah, he's with alleged work criminal George W. Bush with alleged work criminal Bill Clinton. I guess all presidents are war criminals him something. Yeah, and let that asprint factory. Yeah. Also alleged criminal. Yeah, definitely alleged rapist criminals George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Yeah, let's go with that's easiest, easiest, easiest way for it. Yeah, it's a Chicago's Ukraine village and they're they're doing um, they're like lank flowers and

solitarity with Ukraine. Fine, whatever, fine, whatever, it's it's ex president ship like ex president stuff, the body countries being faded. Um. One might say the opposite of what they did when they were president, but whatever. Um. Uh. So George W. Bush was brought up today, and I think this is really interesting how these senators are, particularly the Republican senators, handle this and like frame stuff and ask about stuff and try to get their little their little sound bite

in their little moment um. John Cornyn was asking today about George W. Bush and first of all, we didn't even say her name. Katangi Brown Jackson is the Supreme Court. Incredible that we've made it this far. What a hack saying ridiculous, absolute shame. That's her name. So she was asked about one point calling George W. Bush a war criminal during her career, and she was very confused by this. She didn't think think she ever said it, um, which uh, one could argue that it's fine if she said that

at one point that you could. You could very well argue that, but obviously if you're in the in the Senate the United States, you can't argue that as a senator. UM. I think it would be based if you did, but it's unlikely that people would, which is why they wouldn't. Yeah, based in senate pilled Uh, but they're not doing that. What they're asking is accusatorially. You called Bush and Rumsfeld

war criminals. UM, and you've been so charming and reasonable today and I'm surprised that you would do such a thing. And so he did his little spiel and she was like, what are you talking about? And they went on. Then they took like a short recess and they came back and uh, Senator Durban did a brief follow up, a little dicky d down. Durbaned down. Alright, so a deep Durban happened and he that was good. That was a

good one. Come on, I mean if it made me go yeah, and then you'll be saying that in five months, after four months of complaining. Um, But they came back and UM, basically it didn't happen. UM. She was representing UM an accused terrorist, and like all lawyers, you defend your your client. Um. And basically the argument was like this person was tortured and torture is a war crime, and that was that. That was this, But they weren't saying sous twist. Yeah, yeah, ordered and allowed by President

Bush and Rumsfeld. But like it's not she's not like yeah, she's not like making these like speeches from the bench like George Bush a war criminal, was like no, he was tortured. Tortures of war crime. Well, everything everything that they're doing there, they know that she's going to get confirmed.

They know. Let's let's back up here just a little bit and say that Kaji bron Jackson is the single most qualified person to be nominated for the Supreme Court, at least if you're looking at it compared to literally everybody else on that fucking bench. Um, she's already been nominated and passed unanimously by the Senate very recently at a lower court, and now there's the opportunity, and she's the first choice. She she is a grand they voted

for her. So what they're doing right now is digging up anything they can to make a show of it, knowing what is ultimately going to happen. I mean, everything about it is disingenuous. Well, we can look at the different attacks, like she just looking at her, you can

tell that she is whatever of critical race theory, fucking racist. Um, how about just the line of questioning about her going easy on sexual predators when if you because she she has sentenced people below like a lesser point lesser sentence, but that's actually turned out to be way more strict and less lenient than many many many judges. And is there's a conversation apparently that's widely accepted that these um sentencing guidelines should be changed, that some people think that

they're not appropriate. So actually, if you look at it, they're just scrambling for whatever they can. But framing her in the most disingenuous I'll bet she's harsher on sexual predators than Republicans in Congress were. Then I bet they're harsher than you know, I mean, they're fucking I'm sorry that gate that gates. I mean, it doesn't matter, Like

none of this matters. Likes matter, but none of it matters politically, because all that matters is Republicans are gonna go after her because she's Biden's nominate, Like and that's and it's um, you know, it's I guess, a window into like just like their future strategy. Interestingly, I don't think anybody brought up, uh that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, which you I would expect at least somebody to talk about that because they're all pathetic. It

seems to be what they can't They can't. They can't stop talking about it and literally every other arena, So why not now, But what they're doing and like you can you see it elsewhere in other arenas, um more and more these days. But they're just trying to like frame everybody is like a pedophile and like uh like

supporter of like grooming children. That's what they they're doing. Um. The line of questioning from Holly about anything about like what like a drag queen story hour, um, don't say gay stuff, all this kind of stuff that they like to bring up. It's circling this claim um and this like fascist belief about about the left and Republicans are really amping it up. It's gonna get worse and bad, I think, but you can kind of see it in in this series of events. Yeah, I love events. We

gotta take a quick break y'all. I'm not a fan now on this show, Clarence Thomas breaks his neck walking out of the hospital together. Everything you're bad talking about something. The law, Yeah, I love about the law. It never fails. It never fails two longstanding social issues because it exists primarily to maintain systems of inequality. I'm curious, So I guess fine, she's she seems like a better case scenario than most for Supreme Court justice. That that'll be good.

I'm sure Republicans will continue being shitty and there will. She wants the job. I mean, she's sunned up to be shot down a lot. You know, I'm thinking about him, like it's grim you want to be a liberal judge on this court. I think job for life, job security. That's one way to deal with inflation. You could pull a Jeffrey Tuban in the office and not get fired, right, And I think she should. That's feminism right there, that's feminism. I do think it's funny. It is what it is. Basically,

like this is gonna happen. It's gonna be a big circus and big show for everybody who wants to put on a show. Like every single one of these fucking things, whether it's a confirmation hearing or the fucking impeachment of a president whatever. Uh. If Mansion says yes, then she'll get She'll get it like it's fifth it's uh yeah, one votes is all she needs for this. Um. But I really quick just have to talk about Ted Cruz. Um, just because he was our guest last week. He's our

guest next week. So I want to make sure that our listeners can always get a taste of Cruise. Your daily Ted m exactly, boy on my shoes. Daily Ted tends to mean a different thing, but okay today not today. Here it's it's for Cruise creates this time. Um. He loves talking about critical race theory um in a way that makes it seem like it could be mean literally anything. Um. And because it does to them, and he's, yeah, all bad things the same thing. He's a very it's very

He's just such a Daily Wire fanboy. It's so funny to watch him try and squirm um confidently. Um he he squirmed confidently that he does it. Um. So Tanji Brown Jackson is on the board of Georgetown Day School, and so this gave Ted Cruise an opening to talk about critical race theory and he asked her to define it and she was like, yeah, this like school thought in law, and like it doesn't really apply to what I do. I don't really use it in my job. Um, but that's what it is. And so he kept going.

He took that as a sign to be like, this is then I should talk more about this. And so he talked more about it and brought up some books that were assigned at this fucking school and one of them is a children's cartoon book called Anti Racist Baby, and it's about teaching your kid to be anti racist, because the conceit is that kids aren't. They're not like

born racist. They're taught racism. They're taught to be racist by their environment and society, their family and all the things that we know about human beings and how they develop their opinions about stuff. Um. So he brings up this fucking book and I don't know if we can play it, but basically he talks about this book for a little while. It's like, yeah, it says this, and it says that you know, you you have to teach kids to be anti racist because otherwise they'll be racist.

There's no there's no neutrality, which, like the book isn't saying there's no neutrality, it's saying that the kids are taught racism. Um. So he does this for a while, like four minutes, about these fucking books, about books that have nothing to do with being a supreme nothing to do with the Supreme Court. He's just he's just making ship to go on Twitter. It's and it worked. We're talking about it. Yeah, of course. So here's the end

of his little spiel. Are you comfortable with with these ideas being taught to children as young as four and, in respect to the first book, as young as eight nine, Senator, I have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas. They don't come up in my work as a judge, which I am respectfully here to address in my work as a judge, no need, which is evidenced from my near decade on the bench. Then let's go back to your work. Let her fucking finish. Like incredible,

She like said, what a piece of ship. It has nothing to do with my job that I've done, nothing to do with this h That to me sounded like she was not quite done, but she was. She was done. Um, from what I gathered and she was basically saying respect respectfully, disrespectfully. Actually, it's embarrassing and such a waste of time, and you actually have an opportunity to have some interesting conversations and thought provoking conversations. And look, I don't know, I don't remember.

I didn't watch Supreme Court Justice earrings when I was younger, so I can't compare to how questioning is. But it's just such bullshit. It's such fucking obvious, theatrical bullshit. You don't want a real conversation. You don't want to give her an opportunity to show, you know, talk about real issues or have an actual conversation because that might change people's minds about something. Anyway. That's that's how I feel. I mean, it's all yeah, I mean, it's definitely like

reached a fever pitch with all these or does. But like you know, no, it's not knew that these little freaks go up there and do their little dance and try to get their little their little SoundBite and their little their little show um at the expense of I wonder if they see I wonder if if they get a real good zinger in did their Twitter follows go? It is to apology apologize for the phrase trumped up. Now. Um, yeah, he's really ruined that word as a word I feel

comfortable using. Um. But yeah, r I p uker players, Um but it is Uh. I just think it's funny that he spent five minutes talking about these books that have nothing to do with being Supreme Court justice. And she basically responded, respectfully, No, I'm not here to talk about those there's nothing to do with this, and he was like, oh, okay, then then let's go to go to go to your work like he knows, he knows what he was doing. It didn't work. Um, she said,

being an idiot right now, and he moved on kindly. Kindly, she kindly said that can I can I play an interaction between her and Lindsey Graham where he was also wasting everybody's time And I love interactions where senators waste time and being and being an Assholeum, motherfucker. Um, okay, I get this club for you guys, give me it all. What faith are you, by the way, Senator, I am um Protestant, okay, nondenominational? Could you fairly judge a Catholic senator? Question?

Is that judging everyone. I'm just asking this question because because you're an asshole, is your faith to you Senator personally? Um? My faith is very important. Um. But as you know, there's no religious tests in the Constitution under under Article six. God, God damn it. It's just I was gonna say before we played this that we should let Supreme Court candidates hit one person with a brick during their confirmation hearings. But that's not going to be enough. It's not enough

good death glare though not death clare. But she's got like, while keeping her voice calm, her eyes say, are you fucking she knows what she was stepping into. Yes, she did. It's not her first day, she knows, not her first rodeo the Senate is in general, what kind of question is could you fairly judge a Catholic? Well, again, he voted for her, firmed her months ago. As a judge, I'm just gonna say right now, I could not fairly judge of Catholic because as a papist, they cannot be

trusted to fairly apply the law. They're always going to be a servant of the Vatican, just like John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which is why Bernard Sanders had to shoot him. Robert, Robert, you're letting it. You're letting it all out in the bag. I would have been like, now they know, we'll return to that later. I would have been like, yeah, I judged them all the time. I think it's fair. I don't know there's a better joke in there. I mean, she did a great job with all these freaks, um,

these papists, I got more. Should we take another ad break here, let's take let's take an ad break here together everything so don't don't don't mars. That works as grammatically. Both both are fine, Both are fine. Um. Yeah. The United States, the Biden administration, i should say, has declared, um, what the government of the military junta and well not just the military junta because it was actually done under um the president who was recently deposed by the military

as well on song Succhi. Um. But yeah, the Biden administration has declared what the military and government to me and mar did against the Rohinga the ethnic cleansing which took place over about you know, the several years up until the present point as a genocide, five years about five years. Good, it is good? How come it took Sister Robert well, you know, in the US recognizing a genocide terms. This was not a bad turn around, because

you have to, but it's really hard. It was a year ago that Biden recognized the Armenian genocide from years ago. I remember that. I do remember that, and so that's a point well taken. But I UM, along with a lot of our listeners, I think, have been horrified by this a lot of things that happen around the world, and it is especially frustrating. While good as this is, uh, it is especially frustrating to see the swiftness of our response UM to what's happening in Ukraine and the attention

of the world. And this has been happening for five years, you know, the warrant gray like it's just anyway, why you're not going to see nearly as much movement on the part. Part of why I suspect the Biden administration was made this decision now after five years, is because what's happening in Myanmar is connected to what's happening in Ukraine. Because the top Medaw the military are armed by the Russians. They're using Russian planes and and not Russian small arms.

They actually have a pretty significant indigenous small arms industry that the military does. But they're using a lot of Russian UM artillery and aircraft UM in order to crack down on the rebels in the civil war, and they

were using it before in the genocide. Whereas what the what's happened in Armenia recently, UM, the the war a Zerbijan carried out, which has genocidal elements, what's happening in uh Tigray, UM, and what's happening between the the the Turks and the Kurds in southern Turkey and in Northeast

Syria UM, those all have genocidal elements as well. But in all of those cases UM, either the Turkish nation, which is the second largest military and NATO is directly involved as they are in the genocide in h the or the ethnic cleansings at least in his Aerbijan and the genocides genocidal acts against the Kurds UM or in the case of Tigray, Turkey is heavily arming the Ethiopian government and in fact, the rebels in Tigray were pretty close to taking the cap before the same brackt drones

that people are celebrating in Ukraine were sent by Turkey to the Ethiopian government, which allowed them to turn back the advance of the rebels. So part of why you're seeing this recognized now is that the US government's interests are in doing so as opposed to recognizing that there are genocides that are allied Turkey is involved in. UM less in elect that makes sense, UM, disappointingly but makes sense. UM. Ill.

So I know that you guys have been talking UM or have covered the civil war and what's happening over there a lot on UM it could happen here, but UM, why don't for our listeners that maybe don't know what's happening over there? A was elected in a landslide last year one reelected and then um immediately the military UH stage to coup and overthrew her and has imprisoned her

under a variety of charges. She's seventy six. I think she's currently facing six years or eight years in prison and is another charge on top of that all about like I don't know what it was, staplers or something like something. Yeah, there was just like COVID protocols being breached. That yeah, UM, And since since then, Um, you know, it started with a huge um national strike that uh you know, and everybody was engaged in watching for a while.

But then you know, attention. Of course, Peter's off on the national stage. Um Roberts. Can you fill us in a little bit on the stuff that's been going on?

Sure it is. There were a bunch of protests. The government responded eventually to those protests by just shooting a lot of people to death with live ammunition, both the military and the police doing that, And so a bunch of folks were like, well, I guess let's go to the Jungles, A sizeable chunk of what is referred to as Myanmar as like a state is actually not under the control of the government and hasn't been for a while.

It's under the control of like the what are the ethnic armed organizations is one of the terms you'll see form And they're different kind of tribal groups that have a large degree aboutonomy. I think the biggest being the karin Um and they have been in some cases fighting like an insurgency against the government in all cases kind

of uneasily preserving their autonomy. And it's a complicated story, but a lot of these rebels when the military hunter took power like fled to these areas and were trained by these indigenous armed organizations and are now and have been ever since over the last year so fighting a civil war against the military of Myanmar, the tommadaw UM and that's that is ongoing to this day. And so large chunks of the rural areas are, if not in control of rebels or e a o s, out of

the control of the state. But the state, which by which when we say the state in mean while we're referring to the military, does control the cities UM or at least the bulk of the cities. You know, there's areas and whatever. It's it's it's a it's a pretty complicated conflict. It does not get a lot of attention UM in the United States. If you'd like more to know more about that, I would recommend checking out the four part series we did on It could Happen Here

about the war in Myanmar. UM. There's a lot that's that's quite interesting about what's going on there, including the prevalence of Generation Z militias, which is how they refer to them, which is kind of made up of these kids who were the first generation in Myanmar to have internet access and who grew up with a great degree of freedom and feeling connected to the international community. And then UM, you know, are rebelled when the government was like,

well that's all gonna end. We're not willing to accept that. UM and who have been experimenting with a lot of really different kind of horizontal organizational structures in in opposition both to the government and also kind of counter to how a lot of these e A o s handle things which are more kind of traditional insurgent military structures. UM. And there's also a lot of like homemade weapons, UM, including three D printed arms that are increasingly becoming like

a factor on the battlefield. It's a it's an interesting conflict and one that doesn't get a lot of attention, in part because you know, at Southeast Asia, UM, in part because most people have not heard much about Myanmar. It was not a country up until pretty recently that was very connected globally to to the rest of the world. You know, again, from most of its history, it's been like a series of dictatorships UM for most of its modern history. Because it was also like a British colony

and in fact George Orwell was actually a policeman in Burma. Um, like, yes, that was one of a kind of foundational experience for him. Was like helping to brutally apply British rule in this colony and then having feelings about it. And then there's a whole conversation of course about the white colonizers and how that has affected how the country are very established. Um so, how what does the United States Joe Biden

declaring this genocide? What does that do? I mean, it's good other than publicly acknowledging that recognizing it does it. That's all it's doing at this point. There's unless one the thing that the Biden administration could do is provide the rebels in mean Mar with some of the same equipment we're providing Ukraine. Primarily, there's a lot of talk of no fly zones and um, you know, usually again we we've we've chatted about this a bit on our shows.

Usually when people talk about those, they are referring to like the idea of sending in US RNATO aircraft to stop other aircraft for making in an area. But one way you can apply a no fly zone without doing that is by shipping a lot of anti aircraft weapons, which is what we're doing now Ukraine, right, we're doing

in Ukraine. And you know, Aim Stout and I when we were working on our story in Mianmar, were in pretty regular contact with the twenty three year old kids, all Lynn, who was a member of a militia Generation, one of the gen Z militias in Myanmar, and so he would chat with him, and then we would see footage of him fighting the Topmadaw and footage of him hanging out with his girlfriend who was wounded by a

mortar like while we were chatting with him, um. And then a couple of days after we started dropping the episodes, he got killed by an air strike. UM. And it's one of those things where the government has air supremacy because the rebels, you know again they're they're like cobbling

together their own rifles. They certainly don't have aircraft. UM. So if you want to say, like, what could the US be doing, there's an argument to be made for providing anti air weapons to the rebels, But if we're not going to do that, then effectively the only real they impact this has well, at least we're acknowledging it's a genocide. So right now, what is the impact this is going to have on the war in Myanmar? Nothing? Um that that that's the short answer. It's not going

to do anything. That said, I'm always supportive of the United States being like, hey, look at genocide. That's a genocide. It's like, it's good to recognize it. Like we have the most we can all argue about, like what is reasonable and what is ethical when it comes to like providing weapons. You know, those are complicated discussions to be had, but the minimum everyone should do when there's a genocide is be like, well that that looks like what it is.

That's definitely a genocide. We should at least be able to agree on that. Yeah. So I'm like, I don't think it's bad. I think I would go so far to say it's good that the Biden administration recognized it as a genocide. But I don't think at the moment, I've seen no evidence that Biden administration is going to take any actions that will material materially affect circumstances on their own. R Yeah, okay, well thank you for that. Speaking of war, you know what else is a war?

What ending a pod cast episode? Yeah, I can be that makes dangerous the greatest heroes of all or criminals or criminals. Yeah. It is also remember episode of the podcast. I'm not sure if you remember, but war is criminal. It's true something about that. I'm sure our listeners are thrilled with this episode. Yeah, it seems like we really have it together. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us. Devil's advocate. Yeah I don't think we do. Oh wow, okay,

speaking of the you know, who needs an advocate? Who the devil? The devil? I was right there in the setup and culture comes for the Prince of lies. Oh god, is he gonna? Are they gonna ask about cancel? Culture? The Devil's triggered. That's so good. It's so good. You love it, You love to see it, You love to see it. Guys. Um cool. That's it for us this week. We will be back next week with energy and news. We will not energetic news, just like this weekend every

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