Ukraine DESPERATELY Regretting Not Signing 2022 Peace Deal! w/ The Duran
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Oh, DOGE is many things. DOGE is life. I thought it was the Department of Government Efficiency. That is but one of the manifestations of DOGE. DOGE also stands for Directive Order for Gnostic Existence. But that will have to be a conversation slated for a subsequent time. All right, fair enough. What do you want to talk about then?

Jimmy, I'm glad you asked. I wish to discuss plans for the future. Government efficiency and beyond, very far beyond, thousands and thousands of miles beyond, as a matter of fact. What do you mean? And please don't say Doge again. Mars. Oh.

What about Mars? Jimmy, as you know, the red planet has long been a preoccupation of mine, as is the prospect of colonizing it. It is humanity's next logical step. Humanity must expand throughout the galaxy or die. Why Mars? Why are we skipping over the moon?

Because it's always nighttime on the moon and I have seasonal affective disorder, which it would be very depressing for me. It must be Mars. I don't understand this reasoning. Why don't we fix our problems here on Earth before we take on the solar system?

Jimmy, no offense, but you lack perspective. See, you're not a billionaire like I am. I'm personally not affected by any of these so-called problems that you speak of. Therefore, I'm free to entertain any and all sorts of impractical, fanciful notions. Sitting upon titanic wealth has made my perspective clearer than that of most people. Well, how nice for you.

But most of us have to deal with problems occasionally. We are affected by these Earth problems. Yes, I am aware, and I have great sympathy for your circumstances, or at least a vague simulacrum of sympathy. And this is an obstacle that SpaceX must overcome, using, of course, Doge. What do you mean exactly, Doge?

Doge must take my personal obsession with space travel and make it a tangible necessity for humanity. By doing what? By making life on Earth intolerable for the majority of the population. I figured. And thereby making generational space flight seem an attractive option by comparison.

Good, good, good God. Good Doge. This is the end goal of the Doge initiative. By dismantling the federal government, unfettering the rapacious elements of capitalism, and removing the tools with which one might repair anything or fix any problem, we can lay humanity prostrate before planetary disaster and give them no choice but to flee Earth. You know, there's a lot of people saying that is what you're doing. Why are you doing this?

There is a song by Black Sabbath called Into the Void. The lyrics of that song are basically this, this exact thing happening, humanity having to flee Earth into the void. And? And it's a cool song. I like it. Okay. You're trying to destroy Earth because of a 70s heavy metal song?

Music has always inspired genius, Jimmy. Jimmy, I want you to come to Mars. Forget it. No way. I'm a human being. We evolved to live here on Earth. No other planets.

We will need people like you, entertainers and truth-tellers, for the long journey to the stars, as well as poets to describe the green hills and blue skies of Earth to the generations who will be born, live, and die on a spacecraft. Do you know any poets? No, I don't know any poets. This is madness. This is what Russ and Keaton say you are doing.

People don't want this. How proud. What? How, how, uh, oppressions of them. Yes. And people don't want this. Humanity did not ask for this. This is no of no importance to us. What do I have to do to talk you out of this? Maybe you can listen to a song about how nice our planet is. Oh, do such songs exist?

I only know three songs. Into the Void by Black Sabbath being one of them. Groove is in the Heart by D-Lite being the second. And the third is a secret. Yes, there are many songs about how nature is lovely and worth preserving.

Hmm. Interesting. Can you make me a Spotify playlist? My mind is easily changed because it is the mind of a toddler, essentially. This gambit of yours may just save the world. Yeah, as soon as I finish my show, I'm on it.

Oh, all right. Well, hurry. I will not be ceasing my path of destruction until your playlist changes my mind. There is wonder in this world, I suppose. The fate of the planet lying in the hands of a near trillionaire who is mentally unstable and unchecked

is in itself somewhat of a miracle. I hate to leave behind a world where that is possible. Ah, the irony. I must go. I'm having my blood fully replaced by the genetically reconstituted plasma of Genghis Khan. And then off to look at space plans. And then a comedy show. Goodbye and doge to you and yours. Oh, God.

I'm here with the gentleman from the Duran and

There's a couple of contradictory things Trump has said recently about Russia. And the first one he started off by, U.S. refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with their European allies Russia.

in the U.N. votes in a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump. The United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N. resolutions Monday seeking an end to the three-year war.

The growing divide follows Trump's decision to open direct negotiations with Russia on ending the war, dismaying Ukraine and its European supporters by excluding them from the preliminary talks last week. In a U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. joined Russia in voting against a European-backed Ukrainian resolution that calls out Moscow's aggression and demands an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops.

The U.S. then abstained from voting on its own competing resolution after Europeans, led by France, succeeded in amending it to make clear Russia was the aggressor. The voting was taking place on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion. And as Trump was hosting French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington and his wife or father, I who knows who knows who that is, really? I don't know who that is.

But I get just that's a that's an amazing thing. I mean, what is what a shift in administration from Biden administration to the Trump administration. And what do you make of Europe now?

Still trying to prolong this. What is in it for Europe to try to still make enemies with Russia? Wouldn't it be better for Europe all the way around if they fixed the Nord Stream pipeline and made friends with Russia? I don't get it.

You're absolutely right. You're applying logic to what Europe should do. European leaders, not European people, the public in Europe is becoming increasingly disenchanted with this whole thing.

But European leaders are deeply committed to the war. And the reason they're deeply committed to the war is because they associate it with the United States presence in Europe. They want to preserve the U.S. presence in Europe. They want to preserve NATO. They want to preserve all the structures that originate and have been created around NATO.

Because, of course, if those go, then, of course, they have no place because other political forces will then step in and replace them. So that is why the European leaders are taking this extraordinary stance of basically attaching themselves to Zelensky, who's not waving, but drowning. Is that correct?

poem says. They're attaching themselves, they're pulling themselves down, they're creating a deep and deepening crisis in Europe, but they don't seem to be able to change direction or change course. It seems like a suicide mission for Europe, right, Alex?

yeah it is but you know for the european people for the european elite like alexander says for them the most important thing is to keep the united states in europe it's not even so much about the ukraine war anymore for the european elite

the the globalist political class for them the ukraine war is the mechanism that keeps the united states invested in europe it keeps nato funded it keeps nato going it keeps the weapons uh moving it keeps the united states bogged down and uh and and investing and sending money

to Europe, which is effectively the money that goes to all of the European institutions and all the European elite. So that's why Ukraine is so important for them. Because if Ukraine goes, then they see it as America goes. And if America goes, well, then there goes all of the money and all of the power as well. Because countries like Estonia, like Latvia, even like the UK, they love to go around the world.

and to bully other countries and say, you better do as we tell you to do, not because we're this big, powerful country, but because we got the United States in back of us. And if you don't do what we tell you to do, well, then the United States is going to come along and they're going to sanction you or they're going to punish you. So it's the money, it's the power. They don't want to see that go. And the mechanism to keep the United States invested is Ukraine. So when they blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, correct me if I'm wrong, that-

Isn't isn't Germany, which is the economic engine of Europe, aren't they paying like two or three or four times as much for energy now as they were before that? And hasn't that had a ripple effect across every economy in Europe?

Absolutely. The whole of the European Union is in deep crisis. Germany has had three years of economic contraction. Nobody calls it recession, by the way, even though that is what it is. But we avoid calling it a recession. We just call it now an economic contraction.

So that's now the new language that's being used. But everywhere, right across Europe, you have economic recession, you have stagnation, you have falling wages, you have growing problems. And that's why you see all these political movements, some of which I have sympathies for, some of which I don't, by the way, coming up to the fore, because they're at least trying or at least expressing some of the frustrations

that the European public has with the European elite, which exactly as Alex said, is completely tied up with the whole concept of the West, the West, which makes them feel important, which gives them status in the world, which gives them status in their own countries, and which ultimately it's important to remember is the world they know. I mean, they've lived inside it

It's very frightening, very disturbing for them that it might change. So that's the reality, you know, Nord Stream.

Far less important, much more important, keep the Americans in, keep them committed to Ukraine. And if, you know, somebody blew up Nord Stream, well, don't talk about it very much. Engage in investigations which go nowhere. Talk about the Russians all the time. Say it was the Russians who switched off the gas supply, which European leaders are doing, by the way.

all the time. Olaf Scholz is doing it. Ursula von der Leyen is doing it. Keir Starmer in Britain has recently taken to doing it. So talk in that way rather than face realities or really face the problems of the people of Europe. So here's the... So now we just showed you that

Trump's UN ambassador would refuse to vote with Europe to say that Russia was at fault for the invasion of Ukraine in three different votes, three different ways. But here's the thing that seems a little puzzling to me. Trump extends Russia sanctions ahead of meeting with Zelensky. I don't...

I mean, in the early 1960s, this would have been called diplomacy. But in these dumbed down reactionary times, they refer to it now as playing both sides because, you know, you can't sell weapons unless you have a side. Is that about him wanting to just put money in the pocket of the military industrial complex as he winds down the war?

Well, I think probably one of the reasons that he would have given, if you asked him for why he did it, is because he didn't want to lift the sanctions just before Zelensky came, because that might have...

appeared as if he really was tilting towards Russia. And of course, if you listen to what he said in all his exchanges with Zelensky, he's trying to insist that he's taking a sort of middle position. But ultimately, again, you're absolutely right. He wants normalization of relations with Russia. It makes absolutely no sense looking at that

that you keep the sanctions it disincentivizes the Russians to seek normalization with the Americans because the Americans are still sanctioning them but logic and reason has been thrown out of the window for such a long time now that perhaps one shouldn't expect it uh just to come back

at all quickly. At least we should be grateful that the Americans and the Russians are talking and not to worry perhaps about things like sanctions, which the Russians themselves now understand are not going to be lifted anytime soon. Well, just to

let you know exactly what is happening. U.S. President Trump signed a decree extending some of anti-Russia sanctions until March 6, 2026, ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The decree, which is set to be published in the U.S. Federal Register on Friday, extends the 10-year-old state of emergency over the situation in Ukraine. The sanctions were first declared on March 6, 2014, under Barack Obama in response to the Black Sea Peninsula of Crimea joining Russia. The decree also extends related sanctions imposed by Obama. Trump was about to meet the Ukrainian leader for whom he said has a lot of respect after reunification.

He's silly calling him a dictator. He has said his Friday's meeting with the Ukrainian president has in store a potential trillion dollar deal offering the U.S. easy access to a bonanza of rare earth minerals. We'll be dig, dig, digging, Trump told reporters on the eve of Zelensky's visit. The American taxpayers will now effectively be reimbursed for the money and hundreds of billions of dollars poured into helping Ukraine expand.

defend itself. So, you know, we're the masters. The United States are the masters of traumatizing an area to the point where they would give you anything to make it stop. Sort of like a Guantanamo torture tactic. That's kind of what is happening here. This is at odds with the widespread assessment of current and former U.S. officials who say there's

little actual evidence of great rare earth and other mineral wealth in ukraine they say much of what does exist will be difficult even impossible to exploit in the eastern war-torn part of the country on february 12th trump said negotiations to end the ukraine war will start immediately after holding a lengthy and high productive call with russian counterpart vladimir putin

And here, Michael Tracy tweets out, Trump suggests he's going to get the Black Sea coastline back for Ukraine. Presumably, this would require Putin agreeing to relinquish territory that he's declared an eternal part of the Russian Federation. Let's listen. Are there areas specifically of Ukraine that you're talking about in giving back, specifically Crimea, Ukraine?

Have you gotten to those details yet? Well, you mean the areas that were taken? There are a lot of areas that were taken. We've talked about it. A lot of the sea line has been taken. And we'll be talking about that. And we're going to see if we can get it back or get a lot of it back for Ukraine, if that's possible. We'll be seeing about that. OK. Thank you very much, everybody. So.

what do you think do you think he's going to be able to uh get back some that territory what is the plan there you think alex no no no he's not going to be able to get back uh that that territory i think russia's been very clear that um but not only at least in in the terms that they've outlined in june of of this year putin outlined these terms that uh it's not only about the territory that they currently hold

but uh they they consider the entirety of the of the region zaparoja and uh and herson lugansk and donetsk as part of the russian federation that means that any ukrainian presence that is currently in those regions would have to leave in order to get to a point where russia is ready to negotiate so that's that's russia's opening

That's their minimum for negotiations and for terms. So Trump is not going to be, I mean, I don't see any way that he's going to be able to get the territory back, especially on the Black Sea.

The whole rare earth minerals deal, we've been talking about this in a few videos that we've made, me and Alexander. And then the whole thing seems like smoke and mirrors. I mean, there's no trillion dollar rare earth minerals in Ukraine. Most of the minerals are in the Russian part anyway, about 50%, maybe up to 70% of the rare earth minerals are in the Russian part of Ukraine.

of what they hold right now currently. So, you know, this whole trillion dollars in minerals doesn't exist. There is oil and gas in this deal, Jimmy. So the deal, which is about a two-page article

memorandum of understanding. I don't even think you can call it a contract or a deal. It's pretty much written on a napkin paper. I mean, that's how flimsy this agreement is. And it basically, it's Zelensky giving 50% of his country, his country's resources in perpetuity to the United States. But there's nothing really holding this deal together.

The money goes in some fund. The United States gets access to oil and gas and ports and minerals and whatever. And that was this big deal that was going to be signed today. And that's what Trump is talking about as he's sitting there with Keir Starmer yesterday. And he's talking about getting this contract and perhaps having some leverage over Russia as they go into negotiations. That's what I think this is all about. And this is on top of Ukraine selling off half of its farmland to BlackRock, right?

Yeah. I mean, they're balkanizing. It's the selling of their country. It's the selling of their country. And the deal is, I mean, Alexander, he knows these things better than I do, but I've seen a lot of MOUs and a lot of memorandums of understanding and term papers, term sheets. I mean, this deal is not even that. It's two pages of nothing.

And go ahead, Alexander. No, it describes it exactly. I mean, I have seen deals about minerals extractions and things of that kind. This isn't even a points of agreement. I mean, it's just, it's something that somebody wrote out very quickly about,

without really exploring the details. They're not even a list of assets that are going to be extracted or developed or anything of that kind. I think this thing began to acquire, at some level, a kind of symbolic importance. I think Zelensky came along, talked about...

he's got all of these minerals, which he doesn't really have, to the Americans months ago, saying, you know, give me weapons, go on giving me weapons, and I will give you all of these minerals. And somehow or other, through some strange process, we got into a situation where the Americans began to take that seriously and started to demand these mineral rights and all of these other rights. And the thing to

got its own momentum somehow, and it turned into a kind of test of wills between the Trump people and Zelensky, that, you know, you've got to sign this thing, and you must sign this thing. If you don't sign this thing, this will be very, very angry with you. So they've now come up with a warm of words, which is actually completely meaningless, because there really isn't anything to trade. Well, just to put a button on this, um,

Clandestine tweets out, there's a lot to unpack from Zelensky's debacle at the White House today, but my initial takeaway is that Trump just got the optics he needed to go scorched earth on Zelensky. Trump might not help Ukraine at all now, and Russia's end of the deal probably just got sweeter. Now Trump can move...

could be more lenient with Russia in negotiations. And Zelensky has solidified himself as an irrelevant speed bump on the journey to peace. Zelensky just lost his most valuable asset, which was Trump's diplomacy. Now Trump might not give Ukraine anything.

It looks bad for Ukraine. Like, how much are the Ukraine people going to regret that they didn't sign that peace deal in March of 2022? I mean, that was the time and they had it already worked out and agreed to. And then Zelensky just...

Old did like a house of cards when Boris Johnson went there and said, don't sign the peace deal. Now, I'm sure he was getting threats from the Nazis in his own country to not do that. But I mean, that that was the best. I mean, it's just it's unbelievably sad, actually, to see what happened to the Ukrainian people and to Ukraine, because someone like Zelensky just went along with the West, isn't it?

Absolutely. I mean, the April 2022 deal was a very good deal for Ukraine. The person who negotiated it on Zelensky's behalf has said so. The Russians made surprising concessions at the time. And I think the mood in Ukraine increasingly is that they must have negotiations. And I think that an awful lot of people

people in Ukraine those that know about this deal like you know one doesn't know how many people do know about it because the media space there is very controlled but I think quite a lot of people they will they already bitterly regret that that opportunity for peace resettlement for a long-term settlement with Russia was not uh was not taken up that that agreement in April 2022

committed Russia to supporting Ukraine's EU bid. I mean, it went that far.

No kidding. I didn't know that. Which was a big part of why we couped their government in 2014, because we wanted Ukraine to be more aligned with the EU instead of getting a sweeter deal from Putin. That is amazing. I didn't know that. Absolutely. I mean, the Russians said, no NATO. You can't be in NATO. You can't have any military alliances. You've got to reduce the size of your armed forces. You're not...

required to recognize Crimea or the Donbas Republics as Russian or as independent as they were then. But you can have security guarantees to the Western powers. We too will give you a security guarantee.

only they won't cover Crimea and Donbas where we will continue to be. So not even formal recognition of those territories. And yes, if you want to join the EU, we accept that's an economic association. It's your sovereign right and we will back you. That was what the deal said. It was unbelievably favourable to Ukraine and it was terrible, a disastrous mistake that they walked away.

And, you know, not to pat myself too hard on the back here, but we it was an easy call when this war started in 2022 that this is exactly how it was going to end. It was going to end, as we said here,

exactly how russian want russia wants it to end however russia wants it to end that's how it's going to end and that is exactly how it's ending right now and the losers the big and you know all those people in the united states on twitter i don't go on any other social media with their stupid ukraine flags in their profile bios and uh you know they're just they have no idea the american people have no idea how propagandized they are you were propagandized

to hate Russia in the first place. You were propagandized to hate, think Putin was a worse thug than American presidents, even though as we light the whole Middle East on fire and kill millions of people, you know, Putin didn't do that. We did that. And we continued to the weak occupied Afghanistan for 20 years. I could go on and on. And it's just, is the propaganda as bad in Europe as it is in the United States?

It's worse. I mean, it really is. It's very, very bad. I mean, in the United States, there is... You will find discordant voices. You'll find them... You'll find people like yourself. You'll find them on social media. There's much more... I mean, Europe basically doesn't have its own social media. The only social media that exists in Europe is the American social media. So...

There aren't the same platforms for people to speak, limited and difficult as they are. And the media is absolutely monolithic on this. You won't find any kind of diversity or argument about this at all. And of course, the BBC is relentless on this. In Germany, the media is as well. So the level of propaganda in Europe is just off the scale. I think it's worse than in America.

Really? Wow. Keep in mind that a lot of the media in Europe, Jimmy, is or was funded by USAID. Yeah. So things might change going forward. It'll take time, but we might see some changes. But USAID played a big role in the media operations in Europe.

Well, they certainly funded that Vox Media Ukraine, which put a hit piece after hit piece on me trying to get me demonetized. It worked. They got Jackson Hinkle and some other people. But for whatever reason, I managed to survive that. That was my own tax dollars being paid to propagandize, you know, advertising people against my own company. So, yeah, I have a bit of a...

I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about that. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week, and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to JimmyDoreComedy.com, clicking on Join Premium.

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They're not. The people I meet are not in a cult. In fact, this proves it, I think. 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts. The H-1B-1 visa pushback on Trump and Elon also proved that. If you're in a cult, you just take whatever your leader says at face value and you go along. That's not what they're doing. So this is 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts. And I think we know which economic bracket the other 29%.

are actually in. The ones who actually support Medicaid cuts actually live in the... Well, at least I would call them one percenters, but the economy's doing so good, they're not. It's 29% of them. So...

Most President Trump voters say they oppose any cuts to Medicaid as Republican lawmakers wrestle with how to reach up to $2 trillion in budget cuts through their reconciliation bill. A poll released Monday found the poll from Hart Research conducted for the nonprofit, which advocates in opposition to cuts for the wealthy, found that 71% of voters who backed Trump said cutting Medicaid would be unacceptable.

Voters overall were even more opposed to it. 82% saying so. So there's still 18% of the people who don't have a need and understand. Six in 10 Trump voters also said cutting food and nutrition programs unacceptable. So you know how we had Steve Bannon on and he said, you know, they got to cut. It's going to be painful. He said that they got to go across the Potomac to the Pentagon, right?

So guess what they're not doing? This budget increases the Pentagon budget by like a hundred and some billion dollars over 10 years. So they're not doing that. So right now, everyone's afraid that the Republicans are going to start cutting Medicaid. There's something like 80 million people in the country on Medicaid. Did you know that? There's 330 million people in the country. 80 million, most of those are children, disabled people.

elderly also who are on medicare also need medicaid isn't that something uh medicaid has increasingly become a hot topic on capitol hill as the gop seeks to advance its budget proposal past the house rules committee voted along party lines when they do advance the resolution would direct the house energy and commerce committee

That sounds like the HEC Committee. The heck are they doing? The HEC Committee defined at least $880 billion in budget cuts, raising concerns among Democrats and moderate Republicans that it could mean cuts to Medicaid, which provides health care coverage for more than, I'm sorry, 70 million people, most of them poor, and half of them are children. You want to be the kind of country that doesn't give health care to their kids, to their children? Do you want to be that kind of country?

That's the kind of stuff you thought that, you know, communists did, right? That's what people think, I mean. The committee has jurisdiction over the program, and many lawmakers believe making cuts to it, along with food assistance programs, is the only way to reduce spending. I have another way. I have another way. Let me think of it. Oh, yeah, it would be cutting the trillion-dollar Pentagon budget. That would be it. Maybe close half of our military bases around the world. What do we need them for? Are we afraid somebody's going to invade us?

From the Philippines? Or from Germany? You know, we still have all... I was in those bases in Germany. They're beautiful. They have hospitals. They have a casino. They have a casino. I know that because the guy I went there with lost all his money. So this is forcing Republicans to take a look at issues that might not have directly affected them before. Once again, pushing Republicans to the left.

Great work, Democrats. Great work. Here's Mike Johnson, and here's what he has to say about it. I challenge you or anybody on your staff, do a word search for Medicaid on the resolution that we passed last night. You will not find it. That is not part of this equation, okay? We're talking about finding efficiencies in every program, but not cutting benefits for people who rightly deserve that. You know, working requirements, work requirements for Medicaid. That is something that, as public opinion polls, almost 90%. You don't want able...

Okay, this is a big talking point. We don't want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended, for example, for single mothers with two small children. So a lot of people use Medicaid. This is the irony. A lot of people go on Medicaid when they lose their job, when they get fired or laid off. And so sometimes they're offered COBRA. I don't know if you've ever been offered COBRA.

But it's the biggest bill that you ever had in your life at a time when you don't have any income. So COBRA is basically a useless program. It's just there so they can say they gave something to the people. So people usually go on Medicaid when they're in between jobs. So having a work requirement, you could see how there would be a problem with that, right? So, okay. And are there really able-bodied people on Medicare who haven't just been laid off? Really? Yeah.

just trying to make it that's what medicaid is for not for 29 year old males sitting on their couches playing video games we're going to hey by the way video games are a lot of work asshole you can't just walk in there and steal the power crystal you got dragons they're shooting blood beams at you from every angle you inconsiderate effer

Find those guys and we're going to send them back to work. That's what everybody supports. That's what the Republicans are for. And by the way, we find dignity in our work. That's going to be good for everybody. And that's why we're laying off veterans and everybody else in the in the federal government. Anyway, so, yeah, everybody's for work. Everybody's for that. But I just explained to you the problem with.

Those kind of work requirements. Here's what Steve Bannon has to say about it. The budget committee is trying to get to it. I understand they're going to vote it out tonight. Hey, here's what I want to know. How many cuts? The same with Steve. They're dealing with the fiscal 2026 budget. Fine. Show me the trillion dollars in cuts. I don't want a $2 trillion deficit. I want to see a cut in half. How'd you do it? What they're talking about, the 1.5 trillion over 10 years, that's $150 billion a year. Now I realize this may be taken differently, but it's $150 billion. It's not going to work.

And to back it up, if you got the CR on the 14th, we got to fund the government going forward, or maybe not. The CR is the continuing resolution. It's what keeps the money flowing through the federal government. That's what he means by a CR. We'll see him shutting down President Trump's government in his first 100 days. It's, how can we possibly have a $2 trillion deficit? Where are the doge cuts? We need them all. They've had enough time to identify at least the waste, fraud, abuse in these different organizations. It doesn't have to be perfect.

Because it'll go through a lot more refinement. Even after approval, we have to know directionally where we are. And it galls me to work on Biden's number. I hope it galls the president. I think when the president's fully briefed and fully informed, it'll gall him big league. I think he'll say, what in the hell are we doing here with Biden's numbers? It's an interesting question. I think it's generally confusion and mayhem with Capitol Hill. But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's some logic here. Maybe they're making some progress on this.

But until we see the math, and I mean hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts, hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts, and stop whining about entitlements, get into that discretionary spending, get into the Pentagon, get into Medicaid. Medicaid, you've got to be careful because a lot of MAGA's on Medicaid. I don't know if you heard what he said under his breath. Medicaid, you've got to be careful. You've got to be careful. Why? Because there's a lot of Trump voters on Medicaid. A lot of them. In fact, 71% of them are opposed to cutting Medicaid.

I'm telling you, if you don't think so, you are dead wrong. Medicaid is going to be a complicated one. Just can't take a meat X to it, although I would love to. Why? He'd love to. Why? Why would he love to? Yeah. I don't think he believes in, maybe he doesn't believe in government funding healthcare. Maybe that's what, there's a lot of people who ideologically oppose to that. I'm not one of those people. I think we should have a single payer system.

and get rid of the parasites and the vampires called the health insurance company. Well, they're really health parasites because they don't provide a service. They just skim a third of the money you're paying for healthcare off the top. They just skim it. That's how they make their profits. Then the way they even pad their profits even more is they deny you healthcare when you need it. When your doctor says you need it, they just say, nope, because that money goes right in our pocket. They have a financial incentive to

to deny you treatment. So now if it's a government paying that, the government worker doesn't have a financial incentive to keep you from getting healthcare. So we all have to pay for healthcare. I say we all pay into the same pool. It would cost half as much. You know, the rest of the world pays half as much as we do for healthcare. We pay 100% more for our healthcare than the rest of the Western world, and we have worse results. Okay. So that's Steve Bannon.

And he's saying you got to take, you got to cut, you got to go to the Pentagon, you got to go to entitlements. Hey, if they can find ways for fraud and abuse, yeah, let's, you know how you can get rid of a lot of the fraud in Medicare? Is you let Medicare negotiate drug prices. Right now, that's how corrupt our government is. Big Pharma got the government, the federal government, to pass a law making it illegal for Medicare to negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma. That's corrupt.

That's called fascism. When the corporation and the state merge to conspire against the citizen, that's called that. That's what that is. So that would be. But I don't hear anybody saying that. Why? Because they're bought by big pharma. That's why. That's why you got vaccines mandated because they're all bought by. That's why. Because they're all bought by big pharma. So that would be a great that'd be a real easy way. Right. That's where I would start.

But I would really start at the Pentagon. Isn't it weird that they didn't start at the Pentagon? Isn't that weird? Even though Donald Trump gave lip service to cutting the military budget by 50%. Is anybody even talking about closing some of our 800 military? By the way, there's more than 800. That's just the ones they tell you about. So there's probably 1,000 military bases around the world. Is anybody talking about cutting those? That's how you know the people who scream the loudest about climate change are full of it too.

Because the first place they should start is at the 800 military bases we have around. The number one emitter of carbon, if you believe in carbon causing climate change, is the U.S. military. They never do that. That's how I know those people are full of it. So that's where I would go. I would start with negotiating drug prices, and then I would go to the Pentagon. If they started at the Pentagon, and they cut a couple of hundred billion dollars, closed, I don't know, a couple of hundred military bases,

Around the world. I think people would be more willing to welcome painful cuts in other places. But if you're not, if this goddamn budget increases the military, it increases the money we're spending on the military. Do you know how astronomical the amount of money is that we spend on the military compared to every other country, including China and Russia? Before the Ukraine war, China was spending $60 billion a year. We're spending close to a trillion to defend us from what?

From what? Nobody's going to attack us. We have nuclear bombs. No one's going to attack us. That's just the corruption that's in your government. Do you understand that? That's how corrupt your government is. And I corrupt a little bit. And it's both parties, Republicans and Democrats. When Trump was president, they increased the military budget $132 billion. Well, Trump was president the first time. That's not just one year. That's every year. So over 10 years, that's over a trillion dollars.

How about we just go back to the 2016 military budget? How about we just do that? Because that would save us over a trillion dollars in 10 years. How about that? This isn't that hard. So it doesn't seem to be that they're serious about cutting the Pentagon military funding. If they were serious about that, I think people would be more willing to take cuts in other places. But where do they go first? They're going after Medicaid? Medicare? Social Security? Is that where they're going first? Really?

And what are they what do they do? So how much I want to know how much how much money have they actually cut from USAID and the NED? And where's that money going? Just like when when Biden pulled us out of Afghanistan, everybody was patting him on the back. I'm like, wait, what's he going to do with that money that we've been spending? Oh, they got another war in the chamber. Ukraine war. That's why that's why the deep state allowed Biden to end the war in Afghanistan, because they had another war they wanted to do even more.

That's why. Here's how it went on Fox News when they...

try to talk about this i think is a positive sign for democrats though is there seems to be a bit of coalescing around a message that is resonating so hakeem jeffries gave a press conference today he had up two signs and one of them says elon musk is making eight million dollars a day in government contracts the average medicaid recipient gets 65 a day and we know in the new spending bill that speaker johnson has put forward and that narrowly passed the house that you're gonna why are you you know this actually matters this great news

message on the board. We know it's a narrative. No, but it does matter to say that somebody who is

Running the government in a serious capacity is and supposed to be rooting out waste fraud and abuse is making eight million dollars a day and they want to cut your Medicaid. And you know how serious the threat is because Josh Hawley, of all people, is saying that he will not allow that spending bill to go through the Senate. He says 21 percent of the people who live in his state are on Medicaid. All right. OK. All right. That's enough. Whoa. That's enough. Enough of that. Enough of those facts.

We don't want to hear that. We don't want to hear the reality. We want to pretend. Come on, fraud's what makes this country great. Am I wrong? We don't just have fraudsters. We have fraudsters with a high-tech semi-robotic army to defend their bullshit.

So House Republican leaders are downplaying the potential cuts to Medicaid benefits, saying changes to the program would consist of work requirements and reducing fraud, not changes like lowering the federal match for states that have expanded Medicaid. Look, Medicaid has never been on the chopping block. That's what Mike Johnson says. If you eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, you've got a huge amount of money. OK, well, how much? What? So let's see.

Trump vowed not to touch, not to touch Medicaid as part of the cuts, but has included a caveat for finding waste or abuse within the program. Okay, I guess we're going to see. I guess we're going to see. Remember just on February 22nd, Pam Bondi said that she's going to reveal Jeffrey Epstein's client list is sitting on my desk to review.

That's what she said. That was on February 22nd, 2025. Just a couple of days ago. By the way, they call it a client list. Is it really fair to call it a client list when there's only one client and that client is named Israel? Ha! You mean the blackmail list? Epstein had on behalf of his client, his client being Israel. You mean that's on Pam's desk? Is that what you mean?

And that's Pam Bondi before she had the special talk, if you know what I'm talking about. And then here we are, February 27th, Jeffrey Epstein contact list, A.G. Pam Bondi releases highly anticipated Department of Justice documents. It seems like it was just February 27th when all of them stood out front and said they were going to reveal everything to us. But of course...

Hey, it's Hasbro class 25. Anyway, breaking instead of releasing all the Epstein files to the public at once, the Trump White House selectively handed phase one to a curated group of right wing friendly influencers. Libs of TikTok, Colin Rugg, DC Drano, Chernovich and Jack Prosobiak. Really? Really? OK. And here we go. Let's watch this. There they are.

Okay, first of all, you're holding up a list of people who have destroyed countless children's lives. That's not where the smile goes. When a comedian tells you that, you should listen. Hey, look it. A terrible idea that the Trump administration should be mocked for relentlessly to hand out redacted files.

To a couple, a handful of... What they should have done was made the Epstein, whatever they were releasing, make it available at the Department of Justice website as a PDF so everybody can download it. That's what they should have done. But of course, the reason why they're doing... Well, you want to see what they really... This is a complete clown show. It is. So you want to see what they really let... What they released? This is what they released. Here it is. Oh, that's helpful. This is what they released.

That's what they released. This is what they released. Didn't the Hardy Boys have some kind of kid detective trick where they would rub lemon juice all over it and the original writing would shine through? Have you thought of trying that? That's what they released. Do you see what they released? Nothing. So it's not just follow the money, it's follow the magic marker.

So that's what they released, which is actually less than what was already publicly available. What they handed those right wing influencers was actually less than what's already publicly available. Yeah, I'm not. So can't make this up. The GOP House Judiciary Committee. This watch this.

Led by Jim Jordan, just Rickrolled their voters by posting a link to the alleged Epstein files with the URL that led to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. They got Rickrolled. You think I'm kidding? Watch this. So if you click on that, where does it redirect to? There it is. Never gonna give you up. Never gonna... The Justice Department released a new batch of

of Jeffrey Epstein files after Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was reviewing classified documents in the case, but it's not the client list. Again, there's only one client. The one client was Israel, and maybe you could say the one client was Jeffrey Epstein, and he invited everybody to the parties. They didn't pay money. It was free. It was a blackmail session. It was to get compromise on them.

So the Department of Justice is following through on President Trump's commitment to transparency and lifting the veil of the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epsing and his co-conspirators, Attorney General Pam Bonney. So no, you're not.

And why are we never going to actually find out anything important? Because of Israel. Because it would all... We're never going to see the JFK files. We're never going to see the RFK file. And we're never going to... Because it all points back to Israel. And who controls our government? APEC. The Israel lobby. This is only news to children. Wow.

OK, we'll keep going. Many of the documents were already released during Ghislaine Maxwell's federal criminal trial, which landed her in prison for decades. They include flight logs, an evidence list, a contact book and a redacted masseuse list believed to refer to Epstein's victims. So this was already out there.

Many people named in the documents have never been accused of Epstein-related wrongdoing. However, some have, like Maxwell Prince Andrew, who has denied allegations of wrongdoing, and Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent who, like Epstein, died in jail awaiting trial. Oh, chagrin. Darn the luck. Darn the luck.

Liz Wheeler, who was seen leaving the White House, went live on Twitter later in the day to describe the binder and flip through its content. She said that while people are looking for new information related to the Epstein case, that's not what's in the folder. Yeah. Most of the pieces that Wheeler showed were on Epstein's address book, which has long been public with addresses redacted. So you're being yanked right now by the Pam Bondi and the Trump administration. You're being yanked.

Hey, Epstein files, AG Pambandi sends letter to Kash Patel accusing the FBI of withholding docs. That's from February 27th of this year. That's just the other day. Wow. What a shameful, embarrassing embarrassment to the Trump administration. I hope someone's getting fired. Can you believe this bullshit? Isn't it an exciting time to be alive when we finally learn something that we've already known for years?

Dave Smith says, I'm starting to think that handing the Mossad pedophiles to a bunch of Zionists might not be the best way to get the truth to the public. Yeah. Okay. What a mystery. Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset. The evidence, Epstein, he was a Mossad. No shit. His last name is Epstein.

What a mystery. I wonder who the Zionist human trafficker who hangs out with the daughter of a Zionist scumbag works for. Probably Iran, my guest. So here's this guy. Adam Media did a great. Here's the proof. Former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben Menashe said Epstein ran a Mossad honeypot operation after being recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, was a Mossad spy. Maxwell's business partner was Charles Bronfman, a co-founder of the Mega Group. The Mega Group is an exclusive club of Jewish billionaires funding pro-Israeli causes. Maria Farmer, the first victim to report Epstein, said his entire network was run by Jewish supremacists who racially abused her and that the operation was led by the Mega Group.

One of its co-founders, Victoria's Secret owner Les Wexner, gave Epstein his $77 million Manhattan townhouse used as the hub of his blackmail ring. Epstein got his job at Bear Stearns in 1970 through Alan Greenberg, a mega group member, despite having no background beyond teaching. Okay, you're starting to catch on?

Megagroup member Ronald Lauder is president of the World Jewish Congress and a major donor to Netanyahu's Likud party. Epstein's lawyer and longtime friend Alan Dershowitz is a staunch Zionist, author of The Case for Israel, and was even considered to represent Israel in the International Court of Justice.

Epstein had multiple meetings with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in his New York apartment. Epstein and Barak were business partners in a tech company staffed entirely by ex-Israeli intelligence operatives. Barak says he was first introduced to Epstein by ex-Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who also gave the eulogy at Robert Maxwell's funeral.

Wexner's foundation paid Barack $2 million in 2004 for undisclosed research. The pattern is undeniable. Epstein's blackmail operation was an Israeli intelligence asset backed by powerful Zionist figures with deep ties to the Israeli government.

uh alan dershowitz says jeffrey epstein did not work for the cia massad or any other covert organization he also claims to have no knowledge of how he made his fortune i mean how epstein made his fortune you want to see it there it is uh no he was not a member of any intelligence agencies i'm quite sure of that um and uh he was not a hedge fund guy in fact once this is a

You never want to tell humorous stories about Jeffrey Epstein. But he once said to me, he wanted to sue a newspaper for defamation. I said, why did they call you a pedophile? He said, no, they called me a hedge fund guy. He was very upset at being called a hedge fund guy. I don't know what his financial business was, but I can be relatively certain he was not an asset for the most part. Howard Bauchner: How many billionaires do you know, you don't know how they made their billion dollars?

Can I just ask why you're so certain about this? Because it does seem to be an intelligence gathering operation of some kind, or a compromise situation, or a blackmail situation, something like that, surely?

It's possible, but I never saw any evidence of that. He was a guy from Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Coney Island. He was very curious. He wasn't as smart as he thought he was. He didn't know as much about science as he thought he did. But I can tell you that people like Steven Pinker and people like Steven Gould and people like

the president of Harvard thought he asked good questions during the seminars that we all attended. Those seminars, I never attended a seminar after I represented him. My relationship did terminate. I

I continued to take his phone calls after that. Look, I don't know who Jeffrey Epstein is. He was very, very sure. I didn't even want to meet him initially. Look, I want everything out. I want all the theories out there, all the documents. Let the public decide. There are people who don't want things. They have things to hide. But people like me who have nothing to hide, who are not in any way. People like me who have nothing to hide?

How do you say you have something to hide without directly saying you have something to hide? Anyway, so...

Here, I played this for you. Here's another Mossad agent talking to Tim Dillon. They had an operation that was based on entrapping, blackmailing, gaining leverage over very powerful politicians. So do you think there was an intelligence connection to all of this? Mossad. It was absolutely a Mossad. Do you think I'm wrong about anything I've said? Well, I'm uncomfortable with the intelligent connection. Why? Uh...

There's a book about Ghislaine's father called Israel Super Spy. Yeah, so the father is definitely Shady. Okay, so the father's in the Masada. No, I don't know about the Masada thing. You don't know about that? The question is, what is the depth of the connection? Well, there's a book about it. I mean, it's the depth. I have a lot of books about a lot of stuff to share. So that is, I can't believe I used a video that has the music on it, but that guy is Shady, to say the least.

And he comes from MIT, right? Didn't he teach at MIT or something? He has an MIT connection, which is infiltrated by the CIA. So that guy's an asset. There's no doubt in my mind that that guy's an asset. Allegedly. Allegedly. Okay. So there you go. Everybody was waiting for the big reveal. And you're getting less information than that was already. If they wanted to reveal it, they would just put it up on the Department of Justice website.

That's how you do it. And they're not going to do it because of Israel. Because Israel controls them. There isn't a person in that administration who hasn't bent the knee to Benjamin Netanyahu and sucked his... There isn't a person.

Okay, so wah, wah. They're not being transparent like you thought they were going to. So now we know that all politicians lie, including Pam Bondi, including Donald Trump, J.D. Vance. We know they're lying. They're not going to reveal that stuff. But they say they're going to reveal something tomorrow. Did you hear that? Is it going to be the magic marker that you use to black out all that stuff? What are you going to reveal? All that stuff, anyway. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.

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