Flash Drought

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Hawaii is on fire.
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And Africa is on fire too.
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But who cares?
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Megan Rapinoe choked in front of the whole world so let it burn for all I care.
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Nothing can bring me down today.
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Okay people, let's begin.
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I'm documentary filmmaker and podcaster Andrew Marcus, flying solo again today as we deconstruct
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the propaganda war being waged against the American people.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let's get to the truth.
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Yes, let's get to the truth.
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Flying solo again.
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Hey, I want to thank the people who wrote in to give me words of encouragement.
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He will be hopefully back with us as soon as he can.
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And yeah, so thank you to a number of people.
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Janice in Arizona wrote in to give me some words of encouragement.
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Big Al and Joliet wrote in.
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So did Jeff in Elkhorn.
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Hi guys.
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And Jerome, we are thinking of you and praying for you.
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And I know he appreciates that.
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Andrew, good job on holding down the fort in Jerome's absence.
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Thank you very much, Jeff.
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I appreciate that.
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Jeff goes on to say, also really appreciated the expose of Chicago's resident Marxist idiot
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Brandon.
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Let's go, Brandon.
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It's not a mob is what he was concerned with.
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That's what Brandon was concerned with.
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Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago.
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The of these teen takeovers as they're politely being called, where people are just mobs of
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people are taking over areas of Chicago, vandalizing, creating a lot of crime.
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And a reporter asked Mayor Brandon Johnson about the mob actions.
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And Brandon Johnson was quick to react against the term mob.
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Not quick to react against the mob, just the term mob to describe them.
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Jeff says, for over 50 years, Chicago was my favorite big city in the world.
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But since the tag team of Lori and Brandon, not anymore.
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Jeff in Elkhorn, parenthetically says, Wisconsin, the state that is on the edge of demonic takeover
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thanks to the change in the Supreme Court, state Supreme Court.
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Yes, Wisconsin.
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I was hoping Wisconsin was going to be a refuge and I don't know, worrying signs.
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I might not have the time to go through 40 minutes and your time code is helpful, but
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even better is your comment.
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It's, you know, it's one thing to hear me, but you are the producers of this podcast.
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That's what makes this so interesting.
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It doesn't, what I think is, you know, of course what I think is incredibly important,
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but what you think is also incredibly important.
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And as producers of this podcast, you get a voice.
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So have that voice.
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All right, let's get into it.
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Like I said, Hawaii is on fire and sorry about that.
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Hawaii is on fire and it is, the headlines that began to run on this immediately just
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made me a little bit suspicious.
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Let's see if it makes anybody else suspicious.
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We begin with the staggering losses on Maui as wildfires race across the island with a
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speed and ferocity that took everyone by surprise.
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Hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed, the death toll jumping overnight, and there
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were fears it could go even higher.
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The fire fueled by fierce winds and drought, nothing but a chimney left of this home.
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So that's, okay, that's ABC News.
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We have wildfires that were fueled by high winds and drought.
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Let us go now to ABC.
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This is another ABC report.
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Wildfires raging across Maui tonight.
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People racing to escape the flames.
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Wildfires raging.
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Here's the question.
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How do we know they're wildfires?
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Wildfires would imply a bolt of lightning or somebody careless with their matches while
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camping or somebody not putting out their campfire enough.
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Wildfire is almost a, it's a characterization that I don't understand how they can give
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it.
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It is a fire, but how do they know it's a wildfire?
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If it was committed, if it was arson, would they know that it was, would they call that
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a wildfire if somebody, if they knew somebody started it as arson?
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So that made me suspicious right away.
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Right away they've defined it.
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And that makes, like I said, that makes me suspicious.
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Let's bring in ABC's senior meteorologist, Rob Marciano.
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Rob, we're seeing this unusual weather pattern in Hawaii, driving those powerful winds.
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Unusual weather pattern.
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I don't know, but I have been lucky enough to, twice in my life, I have been able to
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go to Hawaii.
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One of those times was roughly right about now, this time of year was in late July.
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And one thing I distinctly remember was how incredibly windy it was in Hawaii this time
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of year.
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I'm not, I guess what may be unusual is that there's a hurricane going on right now.
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I don't know that it's unusual that there would be a hurricane right now.
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There's a reason why this is the off season right now in Hawaii.
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I don't know.
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You can see where this is going though.
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The unusual weather pattern, drought.
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Yeah, very unusual with the entire Pacific.
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That pattern is beginning to shift a little bit west.
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That's the good news and tomorrow will be a better day.
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But tonight we still have some issues.
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That high pressure north of the islands and that hurricane door now southwest of the islands,
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that pressure gradient has amplified those typical easterly trade winds and got into
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70, 80 miles an hour last night.
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Today, 40, 50, maybe 60 miles an hour until at least six o'clock local time.
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So red flag warnings remain up.
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Remember they're still in a drought.
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So very dry fuels and those advisories will bring winds to 50 miles an hour.
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But tomorrow should be a better day.
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Still in a drought.
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And not only that, so Big Al and Juliet sent me an article, an AP article.
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There's a line in this article that just blew me away.
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I'll read from this.
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Maui experienced a two category increase in drought severity in just three weeks from
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May to June with that rapid intensification fitting the definition of a flash drought.
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Said Jason Otkin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
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A flash drought.
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I've never heard of a flash drought.
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I've heard of a flash flood.
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You're standing somewhere, it's raining, the earth doesn't have time to absorb the
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rain that's coming down and all of a sudden you are encountering flash floods and you
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need to get out of the way because a flash flood is suddenly coming in.
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You don't have weeks to get away from a flash flood.
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You have minutes, maybe seconds, maybe no time at all.
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It's a flash flood.
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It happens in a flash.
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I don't know that you get a...
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Could you imagine...
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I mean, what other things happen in a flash that take three weeks?
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If you got flashed on the subway for three weeks.
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A camera flash that goes off for three weeks, you will be blind.
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Yeah, flash, a flash drought.
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Okay, anyway.
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Even in the past week, there's been a quick acceleration of that drought, said University
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of Virginia hydrologist, Ventcat Lakshmi.
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Flash droughts occur when the rain stops and it gets so hot that the atmosphere literally
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sucks moisture out of the ground and plants, making them more likely to catch fire.
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Quote, plants are getting really, really dry, Lakshmi said.
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It's all related to water in some ways.
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Wow.
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It's all related to water in some ways.
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That's amazing.
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What an amazing observation.
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Drought is related to water in some ways.
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Okay, we've been studying the plants.
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We've noticed that they're very dry.
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We think it has something to do with water.
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Okay, we have our best people on it.
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Here's from CBS.
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Why have things gotten so much worse?
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It's a combination of three things.
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We have increased episodes of drought.
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It's climate change, ladies and gentlemen.
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Climate change is the blame for the fires.
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And here's France 24 to also hammer the point home.
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So this is not just a national story.
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It's an international story of climate change disaster.
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So you have dry vegetation that is, when there's a spark, it's easier for that vegetation to
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ignite and for the wildfire to spread.
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Climate change in many parts of the world is increasing vegetation dryness.
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It is climate change around the world.
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This isn't just Hawaii, ladies and gentlemen.
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This could happen to you.
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Watch out, everybody.
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The entire island.
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So here's what happens.
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This is what happens to an average human being who consumes this media.
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This is a clip from TikTok.
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Some random neurotic lefty.
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The entire island is on fire.
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The entire island is on fire.
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The entire island is on fire and it looks like it got bombed.
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It's crazy.
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That's true.
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The areas that burn do look like they have been bombed.
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And it is a disaster.
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I'm not trying to downplay the disaster.
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It is an absolute unmitigated disaster that happened there.
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I just don't believe the media narrative about this unmitigated disaster, that this was a
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wildfire caused by climate change.
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The island of Hawaii, Big Island, is also on fire.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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The Big Island is also on fire.
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Remember that.
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Not as bad.
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This just goes to show you that climate change is real.
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It's destructive and we need to deal with it.
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Whether that's future planning, cutting carbon emissions, there's lots to do.
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She has downloaded the message, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is from PBS.
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The flames were fueled by dry vegetation and low humidity, along with strong winds from
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a hurricane farther south.
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In the past several decades, as agriculture kind of declined, this is across the state,
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these spaces fill in with literally tons of fuel and these grassy fuels are highly sensitive
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to quick drying out and really easy to ignite.
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You know, the thing is.
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This is where this gets interesting, this PBS report, because the truth slips out in
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this PBS report.
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Just remember up until now, everything you've heard is that these are wildfires and it's
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because of climate change.
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But here the truth comes out.
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This is a local meteorologist on this PBS NewsHour report.
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You know, the thing is that in Lahaina, what potentially even caused the fires was the
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power lines that went down.
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29 power lines went down.
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So there is no easy quick fix to this.
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The fiber optic cable was damaged over in Lahaina as well.
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So for Lahainatown, this is not, oh, in 24 hours HECO will be fixing this.
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That's not the kind of situation we're in.
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We're in years to recover.
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Everybody catch that?
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There are reports that this was from a downed power line.
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So really what I think we're looking at here is a downed power line and poor forest management.
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That's probably what we're looking at here.
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But just remember, it is definitely because of global, because of climate change.
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Just remember that previous report where there was, they were talking about, the one woman
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was talking about the fires on the Big Island.
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So the fires that have made the big news are what's happening on Maui, but the main island
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of Hawaii, the Big Island as it's called, they also had some fire.
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And I found a report about that and it's interesting.
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And let's see if you figure out why it's interesting to me and should be to you as well.
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And onto the Big Island, all fire evacuations in Kohala have been lifted and all major highways
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are back open following multiple brush fires.
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The Hawaii Fire Department will remain on scene to monitor any flare ups.
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Mayor Mitch Roth says at least one home was badly burned in Kohala.
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Hawaii police say separate brush fires in Kau this afternoon may have been intentionally
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set.
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They were quickly extinguished.
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You don't say.
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A little bit of arson going on in the Hawaiian Islands.
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And it's not even a recent phenomenon.
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This is a report from just a few months ago on KHON Channel 2.
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A portion of a Hollywood movie production site caught on fire.
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Just according to Honolulu police as investigators open an arson case, the Honolulu Fire Department
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reports the incident around 11 p.m. in Halieva at the intersection of Kamehameha Highway
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and Kane Hall Road.
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I love how they, listen to how they open up this report.
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A portion of a Hollywood movie production site caught on fire.
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Caught on fire because of arson.
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They opened up an arson investigation.
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But, so I think there's a lot of possibilities before we just immediately go to climate
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change.
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Man-made climate change.
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Evil man burning Hawaii to the ground.
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I do wish the people of Hawaii a speedy recovery from this disaster.
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It is an awful disaster.
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It does look like this historic town in Maui has been wiped off the island.
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And there are just awful stories of people fleeing the fire by going into the ocean.
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And that has spawned stories of people who were having to choose between hypothermia
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in the ocean and burning as they got closer to shore to try and mitigate the hypothermia.
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Just an absolute nightmare scenario.
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And that is what makes what the media is doing, hijacking this disaster to suit their own
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progressive narrative.
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They're disgusting.
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They're vile.
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Shameful.
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Shameful.
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So, moving on.
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Hawaii's not the only place on fire.
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Africa is also on fire.
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And I have an Africa report.
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I have music for the Africa report.
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I don't know how people are going to feel about that particular piece of music.
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I have a second one.
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Since this is the first time we're doing this, we'll audition them.
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Here's the second intro music piece potentially going forward.
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People write me at truthatruthbait.com.
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Let me know which one you like better for Africa Update.
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Africa Update.
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I like this one.
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This one sounds more like a newsroom, like an African newsroom.
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Welcome to your Africa Update.
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It's a tough choice.
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It is a tough choice.
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I'm going to need my producers to write me, please, and let me know which one you like.
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Here, we're going to do the first one again.
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It's almost like race time at Africa, like if there's a thoroughbred race, that might
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be what you'd hear before they go.
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Okay, here's number two.
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See, I like this one because now we're in the bush.
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We're with the people.
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The other one's elitist.
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It's at the racetrack.
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Jockey Club.
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Anyway, Africa Update.
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Africa is absolutely on fire.
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Africa is going to be more and more in the news.
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Get ready to get to know a lot more about Africa than you ever have because this is
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where the Cold War is beginning to move.
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My guess is that Ukraine is winding down.
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I've been saying for quite some time that Ukraine will be a front in the Cold War.
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It'll be like the Berlin Wall, that Napier River, I think I'm pronouncing that correctly.
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That's going to be the boundary between East and West.
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And now the fighting is moving to Africa.
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And if people have been paying attention, there have been a lot of coups in Africa,
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most of them in West Africa.
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Here is a report.
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Let's start with Voice of America because remember, Voice of America is produced by
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the United States government, administered by the State Department.
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So it's really the official word that they're putting out internationally.
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This is becoming a sadly familiar image in West Africa.
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The group of military officers unhappy over poor security and bad governance imprison
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the country's leader, take over the airwaves and declare themselves in charge.
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I feel like I've experienced that somewhere before.
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That's what happened in 2021 in Mali, later that year in Guinea, in 2022 in Burkina Faso,
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and last month in Niger.
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So pay attention again, let me play that again, because these are all the different countries
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that have had coups just in the past two years.
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And it'll become important because you're going to notice a pattern eventually.
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The country's leader take over the airwaves and declare themselves in charge.
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That's what happened in 2021 in Mali, later that year in Guinea, in 2022 in Burkina Faso,
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and last month in Niger.
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This is a proxy war.
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And there's been an ongoing proxy war in Africa for the last three to four to five years,
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at least.
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It's sort of a new scramble for Africa.
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But here the external forces are the United States, Russia and China.
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And Russia likes to conquer, if you will, through the Wagner Group.
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China likes to use economic warfare called Belt Road Initiative.
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A lot of Africans don't see United...
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And I did not cut off what he thinks America uses.
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This is the voice of America.
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They don't mention what America uses.
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So I didn't want people to think that I just cut that out.
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He talks about the Wagner Group, he talks about China, he did not talk about the United
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States.
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They don't conquer, if you will, through the Wagner Group.
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China likes to use economic warfare called Belt Road Initiative.
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We just like to use warfare.
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We don't use economic warfare, we just use warfare.
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A lot of Africans don't see United States as a committed partner.
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So I think that the opportunities for carrots and sticks from Washington are limited and
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they're frankly being challenged by Russia and China.
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The ECOWAS regional body gave the coup leaders a Sunday deadline to reinstate the president
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and a threatened force if they don't comply.
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ECOWAS is the organization of West African states that basically are aligned with Western
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interests.
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It was, I think, largely organized by the United Nations and is heavily supported by
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the United States.
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And just for context, here's a...
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I found a Voice of America report from four months ago as Anthony Blinken went to Niger
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to, I guess, to try and shore up the situation.
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Good work, Anthony.
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Terrorist organizations like Boko Haram and Islamic State and branches of Al-Qaeda continue
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to pose a threat to Niger and governments across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Amid regional security concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken chose to visit Niger.
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Blinken announced nearly $150 million in humanitarian assistance to help meet the tremendous need
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in Western and Central Africa and the Sahel created by regional instability.
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We are also supporting investments in the long-term security of Niger.
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Places that you heard the master refer to help make Niger's law enforcement more effective
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in combating terrorism, strengthening border security, enhancing counter-narcotics capacity,
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stemming trafficking, helping to investigate, prosecute, and ultimately reduce terrorism,
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violent extremism.
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And probably helping them procure more LGBTQ plus progress flags to fly over their buildings.
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Yeah, so basically Blinken came in to offer them all this support to shore them up and
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they within four months collapsed.
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Here is a report from Democracy Now.
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So Democracy Now, I don't know if anybody is familiar with it, this is a lefty outfit
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fronted by an on-air anchor, she's been there forever, I don't know if there are any other
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anchors on this network, Amy Goodman.
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And this is just my opinion, I don't have anything to present to you today to back this
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up.
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I just happen to think that Democracy Now is basically a CIA front and it's where they
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communicate to the hard left.
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I think the CIA has fronts on the hard left, fronts on the hard right, I think they're
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communicating and controlling the message to all different sections of the American
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populace.
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And so I do think that this is where they communicate to the hard left.
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ECOWAS, a bloc of West African countries, have threatened to take military action unless
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the coup is reversed by Sunday, that's August 6th.
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Meanwhile, the leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea have all warned against foreign
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intervention in Niger.
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Now, the leaders of those countries are all part of ECOWAS.
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And they've all, again, recently had military coups that ousted their governments and oriented
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much more towards a Russian-friendly government.
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And in New Jersey, we're joined by Nick Terce, investigative journalist, contributing
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writer for The Intercept, recently revealed one of the leaders of the coup in Niger, the
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brigadier general Moussa Sallou Barmou, was trained by the U.S. military, recently met
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with the head of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Lieutenant General Jonathan Braga,
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at the U.S. drone base in Niger.
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African officers trained by the U.S. military have now taken part in 11 coups in West Africa
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since 2008.
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Now, let me give you a little background on Nick Terce.
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Nick Terce, this is from his Wikipedia page.
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He's an American investigative journalist, historian, and author.
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Terce earned an MA in history from Rutgers University, Newark, in 1999, and his doctorate
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in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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As a graduate student, Terce was a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute
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for Advanced Study in 2010 and 2011, and at New York University's Center for the United
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States and the Cold War.
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Now, I'm not saying he's a spook.
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I'm just simply saying that that sounds a little spooky.
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This guy, he's a journalist and a historian, but nothing he studied would seem to be what
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you would normally study if you're becoming a journalist.
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And again, since he's appearing on Democracy Now, I just, I can't help but feel a little
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bit like this is the CIA line we're getting.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Nick Terce.
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You know, as you said, the United States has trained a number of coup leaders in West Africa
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over recent years.
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Notice he laughs about that.
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He thinks that it's kind of funny that we've been training all of these coup leaders.
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It is interesting that we've been training these coup leaders.
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You have to ask yourself the question, are we stupid or is there something else going
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on?
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I guess it could be both, but...
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You know, as you said, the United States has trained a number of coup leaders in West Africa
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over recent years.
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And this is part of the US security strategy.
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I mean, they flooded this region, the West Africans to hell, with a tremendous amount
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of security assistance really since 9-11.
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Airbase 201, it's located in Agadez, which is in the central north of the country.
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So now he's talking about the airbase that, from what I can tell, it's basically a CIA
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drone airbase run in Niger, Niger, Niger, however you like to pronounce it.
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And so he talks about our interests there.
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Airbase 201, it's located in Agadez, which is in the central north of the country.
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And this is really the linchpin of US military outposts, which have proliferated over the
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last several years in West Africa.
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This is a surveillance hub.
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It's used for anti-terrorist activities.
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As you said, drones are launched from here, including armed drones, MQ-9 Reapers.
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So this is an exceptionally important base.
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I think they'll do everything they can to keep Airbase 201 in action and as much US
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military presence there as possible.
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One thing that really stood out to me, the Washington Post yesterday...
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So we have a very strong military interest in Niger, and it looks like we're not going
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anywhere.
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It'll be interesting to see what comes of that if this new coup-led government is actually
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orienting pro-Russia and China, because Russia and China, they're going to want that drone
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base out of there.
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So what will we do to defend it?
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And then he makes this really...
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Nick makes this very interesting comment at the end of his interview.
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One thing that really stood out to me, the Washington Post yesterday published an op-ed
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by the deposed head of state in Niger.
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And does that remind you of anybody?
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Jamal Khashoggi?
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The Washington Post seems to be where CIA assets go to right when they're no longer
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a part of the government that they were embedded in.
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Again, I don't know that this guy was a CIA asset, the former leader of Niger, the deposed
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leader of Niger, but the fact that he showed up in the Washington Post makes me very suspicious
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because that's where Khashoggi ended up as well.
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President Bazum, and he talks about it being the last bastion of democracy in the Sahel.
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When I was there earlier this year, I did not find it the most democratic state.
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If you read State Department reports, you'll see that there are tremendous amounts of abuses
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of the citizenry there.
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So Nick is on Democracy Now talking down the previous president of Niger, the now deposed
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president of Niger.
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Well, that makes me very, very curious.
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Now let's add in a few more things.
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I'm going to go back here real quick to another clip from Voice of America, which I think
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begins to get at what might be going on here.
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To symbolize their seriousness, protesters in Niamey on Sunday slaughtered a rooster
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painted with a tricolor of former colonizer France.
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This poor rooster, they painted the rooster the colors of the French flag and then they
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cut its head off.
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00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,540
Peta, where are you?
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Their seriousness, protesters in Niamey on Sunday slaughtered a rooster painted with
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a tricolor of former colonizer France.
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00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,380
I love that that also demonstrates their seriousness.
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00:33:58,380 --> 00:34:02,820
We didn't think they were serious until they brought out the rooster and cut off its head.
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00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:09,220
And that really, in fact, that's what made the former president flee when he saw the
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rooster.
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00:34:10,220 --> 00:34:11,420
He didn't even wait for its head to come off.
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He saw the rooster.
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00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:13,420
He's like, ah, I resign.
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00:34:13,420 --> 00:34:14,420
I'm done.
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00:34:14,420 --> 00:34:18,700
Sunday's deadline to return President Mohammed Bazum to power came and went.
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From captivity, he managed to dictate an editorial to the Washington Post in which
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00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:28,380
he said the coup, led by the head of his presidential guard, has no justification whatsoever.
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A Monday Pentagon official said there was no change to the forced posture of the hundreds
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00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:35,860
of U.S. troops there and no plans to evacuate them.
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00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:42,900
All right, now I'm starting to see what might be the beginning of a pattern in the reporting.
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00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:51,780
The anger is at the French and the Americans aren't going anywhere.
504
00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:59,340
Here is from France 24.
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00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:05,860
What could possibly be going on here that is not what meets the eye in terms of the
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00:35:05,860 --> 00:35:09,180
reporting?
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00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:21,860
I can't help but wonder if Emmanuel Macron has made an enemy somewhere that is working
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00:35:21,860 --> 00:35:24,860
to destroy him.
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00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:30,300
I don't know if you have been paying attention, in France over the last couple of months there
510
00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:37,860
were just devastating, devastating riots taking place that from the outside looked like they
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00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:42,780
could be the kind of thing that could topple the Macron government.
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00:35:42,780 --> 00:35:56,300
And now you have all of these Western countries, Western African countries that are basically
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00:35:56,300 --> 00:36:01,220
experiencing a series of coups, throwing off all their old relationships and reorienting
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towards Russia and China.
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00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:11,980
I find it very interesting in the context, if you remember, it was just a few short months
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00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:21,420
ago that Emmanuel Macron went to China, China rolled out the red carpet for them.
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00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:28,420
France was very smug about what geniuses they were in international negotiations because
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00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:33,780
they were managing their relationship with China.
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00:36:33,780 --> 00:36:39,860
Forget America, they're going their own way.
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00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:47,420
Whereas Macron was greeted at the airport's VIP lounge by the foreign minister, a close
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00:36:47,420 --> 00:36:49,340
friend of Xi Jinping.
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00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:54,060
When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived, she got the ecology
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00:36:54,060 --> 00:37:01,700
minister at the regular passenger exit, as reported there by Politico.
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00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:07,540
And I believe Macron had a fairly large entourage of French CEOs moving with him, including
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00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:19,260
the CEO of Airbus, who I believe is working on a new order from various Chinese airlines.
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00:37:19,260 --> 00:37:25,140
They're also talking about opening a new factory in Tianjin, I think.
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00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:34,900
It sort of calls into question, whether the EU is really serious about decoupling with
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00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:35,900
China.
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00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:42,260
Or is it just a line from Washington trying to push the Europeans to take a more confrontational
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00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,500
stance?
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00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:47,400
So here's my question.
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00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:56,060
You have the United States working closely with members of the military in Niger, who
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00:37:56,060 --> 00:38:06,940
then end up being a part of the coup that tosses France out.
534
00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:10,300
And the Americans are basically saying, well, we're not going anywhere.
535
00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:11,300
We're staying.
536
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,620
We're here.
537
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:24,460
What is the possibility that the CIA is just crumbling Macron's life down around him?
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00:38:24,460 --> 00:38:34,700
What if the CIA is working with our enemies, working with Russia and China, or whomever,
539
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:40,660
to undermine the French associated governments?
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00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:47,580
It could either be that, or it's also possible that China, now that they have Macron alienated
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00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:55,140
from the United States and possibly parts of Europe, that now they're weakening Macron's
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00:38:55,140 --> 00:39:00,020
position so that he's an even more pliable partner.
543
00:39:00,020 --> 00:39:02,220
He's more desperate now.
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00:39:02,220 --> 00:39:06,480
Either way, Macron is now going to be more desperate and more beholden to whichever side
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00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,480
he partners with.
546
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,120
If he partners with the West, he's beholden to the West.
547
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,980
He's going to be beholden to the United States.
548
00:39:13,980 --> 00:39:16,820
And I've got clips that will show why.
549
00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:30,700
And if he truly does more align with China, he's going to be their poodle in a hand purse.
550
00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:36,420
Yeah, little Macron.
551
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:42,180
Here is from Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English.
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00:39:42,180 --> 00:39:46,380
Niger has seen rising anti-French sentiment since its military deposed.
553
00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:49,580
The president took power last Wednesday.
554
00:39:49,580 --> 00:39:54,380
In recent months, several countries in West Africa have moved to end their military ties
555
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:58,540
with France, demanding that French troops leave the region.
556
00:39:58,540 --> 00:40:04,120
Coincidentally, ever since he visited China, the former colonial power appears to be losing
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00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,180
its influence in the Sahel.
558
00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:11,520
That's despite President Emmanuel Macron's election promise to reset ties with the continent.
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00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,740
So what's behind the shift?
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00:40:13,740 --> 00:40:15,100
What role has Macron played?
561
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:18,220
And where do French-Africa relations go from here?
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00:40:18,220 --> 00:40:20,540
We'll get to our guests in just a moment.
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00:40:20,540 --> 00:40:22,900
Shortcut, they go into the toilet.
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00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:24,620
That's where they go.
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00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:31,340
France is basically completely marginalized in all of their former strongholds in Africa,
566
00:40:31,340 --> 00:40:35,460
which is extremely important to them.
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00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:40,500
Right now, Macron is either begging China for help or the United States for help.
568
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:43,580
Who is he begging for help?
569
00:40:43,580 --> 00:40:46,940
Whoever he's begging for help, that's probably who did this to him.
570
00:40:46,940 --> 00:40:52,660
First, a report from Felix Niwara.
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00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:57,260
Long live Putin and down with France.
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00:40:57,260 --> 00:41:00,940
They all have Russian flags and are chanting, long live Putin.
573
00:41:00,940 --> 00:41:05,620
Even more evidence to me that this is a CIA op.
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00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:10,660
Some of the chants echoed by thousands of coup supporters marching through the streets
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00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:14,080
of Niger's capital, Niamey.
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00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:21,060
The unrest follows France's suspension of all development and financial aid to Niger,
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00:41:21,060 --> 00:41:28,460
prompting some protesters to storm the French embassy and setting fire to its entrance.
578
00:41:28,460 --> 00:41:35,040
Years of colonial and neocolonial influence appear to have resulted in a decline in France's
579
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:42,780
influence in West Africa, and some now see Russia as an alternative.
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00:41:42,780 --> 00:41:51,200
China too is competing for influence, funding or lending money for large development projects.
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00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:56,660
Last year, French troops were forced to leave Mali and Burkina Faso when their military
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00:41:56,660 --> 00:42:04,180
rulers opted for a new alliance with Russia in the form of the mercenary Wagner Group.
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00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:11,140
Now, with Niger school leaders strongly speaking out against France, it's not clear where that
584
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:17,380
leaves its influence in the region or its fight against armed groups.
585
00:42:17,380 --> 00:42:23,180
And here is a report from India from first report on YouTube.
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These countries will intervene militarily.
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00:42:25,220 --> 00:42:26,220
That's what they've said.
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00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:29,660
The deadline they've said, set is of Sunday.
589
00:42:29,660 --> 00:42:32,940
But it seems that the junta has no intention of stepping down.
590
00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:37,620
They're already issuing decrees and scrapping decade old agreements.
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00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:40,820
The target of their ire seems to be France.
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00:42:40,820 --> 00:42:46,060
You see, France relies on nuclear power for 70% of its electricity production.
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00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:51,500
And Niger is one of the biggest suppliers of this nuclear fuel.
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00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:55,060
So will the coup in Niger lead to blackouts in France?
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00:42:55,060 --> 00:42:58,580
Here's a report.
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00:42:58,580 --> 00:43:03,660
The world must understand that Africa's misfortune is France, the authorities, because the French
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00:43:03,660 --> 00:43:05,100
are citizens like us.
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00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:06,100
So we can't hate them.
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00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:09,940
But we hate their authorities because they've done too much harm to our country.
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00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:13,180
And really enough is enough.
601
00:43:13,180 --> 00:43:14,300
We have uranium.
602
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:15,440
We have diamonds.
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00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:16,440
We have gold.
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00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:17,440
We have oil.
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00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,060
And we live like slaves.
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00:43:19,060 --> 00:43:20,060
Why should we?
607
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:21,060
Until when?
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00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:22,400
We can't accept it.
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00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,700
The French base in Niger must leave.
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00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,340
We don't need the French to keep us safe.
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00:43:27,340 --> 00:43:30,100
Five military deals have been revoked.
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00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:35,940
These deals were signed decades ago, between 1977 and 2020.
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00:43:35,940 --> 00:43:41,980
So to revoke them clearly sends a message that Niger's new junta considers France the
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00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:43,360
enemy.
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00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,380
This is a country rich in natural resources.
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00:43:46,380 --> 00:43:52,060
Uranium, gold and oil, like one of the demonstrators mentioned earlier.
617
00:43:52,060 --> 00:43:56,340
But it was still considered one of the poorest nations in the world.
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00:43:56,340 --> 00:44:00,980
Because it has been in a situation that most former colonies face.
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00:44:00,980 --> 00:44:05,200
An unequal power dynamic with its former colonizer.
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00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,660
Some critics call it neocolonization.
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00:44:08,660 --> 00:44:13,900
Raw materials like uranium from Niger go to a former colonizer like France.
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00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:17,140
It is used to fuel French nuclear power plants.
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00:44:17,140 --> 00:44:24,060
The French energy sector benefits, sells its electricity abroad, generates billions and
624
00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:27,980
then gives some of the money back to Niger as aid.
625
00:44:27,980 --> 00:44:30,260
This isn't a hypothetical scenario.
626
00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:32,500
This actually happens.
627
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:37,900
France generates around 3.3 billion dollars a year selling electricity.
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00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:45,020
Meanwhile Niger, which supplies about 18% of France's and 5% of the world's uranium,
629
00:44:45,020 --> 00:44:49,420
remains poor.
630
00:44:49,420 --> 00:44:56,100
And then just this last clip from France 24, they're not laughing anymore.
631
00:44:56,100 --> 00:45:00,780
Now the overthrown president Mohammed Bazoum has written in the Washington Post that he
632
00:45:00,780 --> 00:45:02,780
is a hostage.
633
00:45:02,780 --> 00:45:08,380
What do you think was his aim in choosing a US publication specifically to convey his
634
00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:09,380
message?
635
00:45:09,380 --> 00:45:12,820
Do you think that that will have actually reached out to the people he's trying to talk
636
00:45:12,820 --> 00:45:13,820
to?
637
00:45:13,820 --> 00:45:18,100
Yeah, I thought it was a very interesting development to have President Bazoum himself
638
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:23,220
sign an editorial in the Washington Post, a major newspaper obviously in the United
639
00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:26,660
States, describing himself as a hostage.
640
00:45:26,660 --> 00:45:33,860
Reading it, it looks pretty likely to me that he had some strong advice on a word, that
641
00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:35,980
editorial at the very least.
642
00:45:35,980 --> 00:45:38,860
Strong advice from his CIA handlers.
643
00:45:38,860 --> 00:45:43,420
But I think it's an intent to put, to maintain pressure in the United States or to try to
644
00:45:43,420 --> 00:45:51,420
rally the people in the United States who are more likely to maintain the pressure in
645
00:45:51,420 --> 00:45:53,940
Niger.
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00:45:53,940 --> 00:45:57,100
So yeah, I don't know.
647
00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:01,820
I don't know if it's us doing this to France or if it is China and Russia doing this to
648
00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:04,980
France or maybe it's all of us doing this to France.
649
00:46:04,980 --> 00:46:13,620
But remember, we probably have to be thinking about this through the framing that America
650
00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:18,460
is being controlled by our enemies.
651
00:46:18,460 --> 00:46:23,020
Barack Obama is basically an enemy to the West.
652
00:46:23,020 --> 00:46:27,620
He's the one who's actually in control of the United States right now.
653
00:46:27,620 --> 00:46:35,580
And so in that context, things like doing this to France, things like blowing up the
654
00:46:35,580 --> 00:46:43,700
Nord Stream pipeline, these all seem to be things that would be designed to destroy Europe.
655
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:51,700
And if you're Barack Obama, you're anti-Western, you're anti-colonial, I don't know.
656
00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:59,060
It makes me think it's very, very possible that it's Obama's CIA that is responsible
657
00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:00,060
for this.
658
00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:07,860
But like I said, it could just as easily be the CCP weakening Macron's position.
659
00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:14,940
Now that he's losing Africa, he may need to beg China for resources, resources we can't
660
00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:19,100
give him unless we can give him uranium because that's what he needs.
661
00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:22,700
He needs uranium.
662
00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:29,020
So like I said, keep an eye on whoever he goes to beg for resources because that's who
663
00:47:29,020 --> 00:47:34,820
probably did it to him.
664
00:47:34,820 --> 00:47:38,580
And that's the end of my Africa report.
665
00:47:38,580 --> 00:47:42,220
Again, I don't know which one of these to use.
666
00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:45,220
That's the end of my Africa report.
667
00:47:45,220 --> 00:47:48,220
I'll use them both.
668
00:47:48,220 --> 00:47:51,220
Very good.
669
00:47:51,220 --> 00:48:05,540
Oh, I guess it's not part of the Africa report.
670
00:48:05,540 --> 00:48:07,100
It's pretty close.
671
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:12,140
So it's sort of Africa related.
672
00:48:12,140 --> 00:48:22,820
I received an email from, this was a story tip from Alan, Big Al in Joliet.
673
00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:28,700
And here we go.
674
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:31,180
It's a link to a Red State article.
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00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:42,700
Los Angeles 7-Eleven proprietor uses Toto's Africa to keep homeless encampments away from
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00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:43,700
the store.
677
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:44,700
And there's video here.
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00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:45,700
I'll play the video.
679
00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:46,700
Here's the video.
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00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:54,620
Proof that the 7-Eleven is still playing Toto's Africa 24 hours a day.
681
00:48:54,620 --> 00:48:57,180
He's walking up to the 7-Eleven.
682
00:48:57,180 --> 00:49:00,180
Here it is.
683
00:49:00,180 --> 00:49:02,200
See?
684
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:06,860
No sound manipulation.
685
00:49:06,860 --> 00:49:16,700
And I can tell you in the video, there are zero homeless.
686
00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:21,140
Everyone is trying to get away from Africa.
687
00:49:21,140 --> 00:49:24,840
This is not, actually, this is not a new story.
688
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:30,580
It's a new story from that particular 7-Eleven, but this has been going on for quite some
689
00:49:30,580 --> 00:49:31,580
time.
690
00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:34,680
This is the first time I've heard anybody using Africa.
691
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:40,220
But here, this is an ABC report.
692
00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:42,340
No, no, no.
693
00:49:42,340 --> 00:49:43,340
Let's see.
694
00:49:43,340 --> 00:49:49,540
I don't know what, who this is.
695
00:49:49,540 --> 00:49:51,300
Morning Fix.
696
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:52,300
Here's Morning Fix.
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00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:57,060
Toto's Africa is going to bless the rains for the rest of time.
698
00:49:57,060 --> 00:50:08,660
Oh, wait, hang on a second.
699
00:50:08,660 --> 00:50:09,660
Wrong clip.
700
00:50:09,660 --> 00:50:11,540
Here it is.
701
00:50:11,540 --> 00:50:14,900
This is from Fox 7.
702
00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:23,420
And it is in, this is also in California, but it's not the same 7-Eleven.
703
00:50:23,420 --> 00:50:26,660
Patel says he started playing the music about 10 days ago.
704
00:50:26,660 --> 00:50:30,140
Oh, no, wait, this is out of Austin, Texas.
705
00:50:30,140 --> 00:50:33,460
7-Eleven out of Austin, Texas.
706
00:50:33,460 --> 00:50:41,700
Let me re-T that up.
707
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:47,860
And so here is a clip out of Austin, Texas, Fox 7 in Austin, Texas.
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00:50:47,860 --> 00:50:50,820
This was a number of months ago.
709
00:50:50,820 --> 00:50:55,480
Patel says he started playing the music about 10 days ago and got the idea because other
710
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,100
store owners have done it.
711
00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:01,620
Studies have shown that the classical music is annoying, probably annoying.
712
00:51:01,620 --> 00:51:05,780
I'm assuming they're correct because it's working.
713
00:51:05,780 --> 00:51:07,660
Some people think it's a good thing.
714
00:51:07,660 --> 00:51:08,660
It's helping out.
715
00:51:08,660 --> 00:51:10,140
It's not annoying to us because they don't bother us.
716
00:51:10,140 --> 00:51:13,580
But it bothers probably them because they're doing the drugs.
717
00:51:13,580 --> 00:51:14,780
It's the right solution.
718
00:51:14,780 --> 00:51:16,700
But others think the opposite.
719
00:51:16,700 --> 00:51:18,020
Guess who the others are.
720
00:51:18,020 --> 00:51:23,780
I believe just talk to them and ask them not to hang around or not to live around or whatever.
721
00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:27,260
I think that's the best solution.
722
00:51:27,260 --> 00:51:32,220
Frederick Carter says he started going to a different 7-Eleven that doesn't have music.
723
00:51:32,220 --> 00:51:34,220
This music is not really good.
724
00:51:34,220 --> 00:51:35,660
I mean, it's loud.
725
00:51:35,660 --> 00:51:40,620
So he is one of these people that they're actually trying to drive away.
726
00:51:40,620 --> 00:51:42,860
He's hanging out in front of 7-Elevens.
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00:51:42,860 --> 00:51:46,100
He decided to go to a different one that isn't playing this music.
728
00:51:46,100 --> 00:51:48,100
This music is not really good.
729
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:49,100
I mean, it's loud.
730
00:51:49,100 --> 00:51:50,100
It's obnoxious to me.
731
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:51,100
I don't like it.
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00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:54,100
You can hear it a long ways off.
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00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:56,420
It's very disturbing.
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00:51:56,420 --> 00:51:58,620
Mission accomplished.
735
00:51:58,620 --> 00:52:02,540
And here's another one from California also a few months ago.
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00:52:02,540 --> 00:52:05,900
The sounds of 7 a.m.
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00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:14,860
Vehicles, vendors, and Verdi?
738
00:52:14,860 --> 00:52:20,180
We had to do a little homework, but that's Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's 19th century
739
00:52:20,180 --> 00:52:24,060
opera Simone Bocca Negra.
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00:52:24,060 --> 00:52:29,820
Blasting from the speakers of a 7-Eleven convenience store along Modesto, California's McHenry
741
00:52:29,820 --> 00:52:30,820
Avenue.
742
00:52:30,820 --> 00:52:37,060
The store's owner told the local paper it's quote, a win-win situation.
743
00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:38,060
The goal?
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00:52:38,060 --> 00:52:42,660
To cut down on the number of loiterers and homeless outside the store.
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00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:46,980
Customer Tim Gomes, who comes for the blueberry coffee, says it's working.
746
00:52:46,980 --> 00:52:52,380
It's pleasant now because for the past two years, it was almost like a mini tent city
747
00:52:52,380 --> 00:52:53,380
here.
748
00:52:53,380 --> 00:52:57,420
And the music has gotten rid of that.
749
00:52:57,420 --> 00:52:58,420
Very clever.
750
00:52:58,420 --> 00:52:59,860
Good for them.
751
00:52:59,860 --> 00:53:04,180
Here is a clip from the Morning Fix.
752
00:53:04,180 --> 00:53:08,860
I guess this will wrap out the Africa segment.
753
00:53:08,860 --> 00:53:16,940
That song, Toto's Africa, somebody is torturing Africans with it.
754
00:53:16,940 --> 00:53:31,780
Toto's Africa is going to bless the rains for the rest of time.
755
00:53:31,780 --> 00:53:36,940
An artist has created a sound installation that's going to be playing the 1982 hit On
756
00:53:36,940 --> 00:53:39,260
a Loop forever.
757
00:53:39,260 --> 00:53:43,700
The art piece uses speakers and an mp3 player powered by solar batteries to play the song
758
00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:45,540
on a continuous loop.
759
00:53:45,540 --> 00:53:49,500
The installation is located in the desert in Namibia.
760
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:53,460
And the artist wouldn't tell anybody we're in Namibia.
761
00:53:53,460 --> 00:53:59,860
It is located, but I can tell you just visually, it is surrounded by just empty, empty desert
762
00:53:59,860 --> 00:54:05,020
and sand dunes and not a single homeless person to be found.
763
00:54:05,020 --> 00:54:08,380
And that is the end of our Africa update.
764
00:54:08,380 --> 00:54:15,980
You know, I don't know, I like the song Africa.
765
00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:19,140
Maybe I'm weird.
766
00:54:19,140 --> 00:54:22,380
I just have fond memories of that song.
767
00:54:22,380 --> 00:54:24,180
Okay.
768
00:54:24,180 --> 00:54:29,680
Oh, this is one of my favorite stories.
769
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:37,440
Like I said in the opening, okay, yeah, Hawaii's burning, Africa's burning, but who cares because
770
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:42,980
Megan Rapinoe choked in front of the entire world.
771
00:54:42,980 --> 00:54:46,500
But before we talk about that, let's talk about this.
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00:54:46,500 --> 00:54:54,940
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we've reached that point in the podcast where I
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00:54:54,940 --> 00:55:00,380
break in to my own podcast to tell you how it is we take care of business.
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00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:05,640
Here on the Truth Made Podcast, you may have noticed not a single corporate sponsor, no
775
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:06,980
sponsors at all.
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00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:16,500
You've just been listening to almost an hour of original content, originally produced content,
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00:55:16,500 --> 00:55:22,900
analysis and deconstruction of our propaganda war that is being waged against us for free.
778
00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:24,420
You don't have to pay anything.
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00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:29,620
We do this using what's called the value for value model.
780
00:55:29,620 --> 00:55:31,200
Can't even say it.
781
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,460
The value for value model.
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00:55:33,460 --> 00:55:35,660
And we do this so that we don't have to take corporate sponsorship.
783
00:55:35,660 --> 00:55:41,820
There is no way that we could honestly deconstruct the propaganda war being perpetrated against
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00:55:41,820 --> 00:55:47,540
us if we were to take corporate sponsorship because that propaganda war is being sponsored
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00:55:47,540 --> 00:55:50,100
by the corporations.
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00:55:50,100 --> 00:55:55,900
So they don't really want any content out there that is deconstructing what is actually
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00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:57,620
going on.
788
00:55:57,620 --> 00:56:01,820
We would just have to produce content that they approve of and that would be not what
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00:56:01,820 --> 00:56:08,860
you like listening to and what you enjoy taking part in and having a voice in and producing.
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00:56:08,860 --> 00:56:10,300
It's the value for value model.
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00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:14,820
If you like the way we're doing this, we ask you to return value to the podcast so that
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00:56:14,820 --> 00:56:16,580
we can keep this going.
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00:56:16,580 --> 00:56:22,660
And the way that you can do that is to write us at truthbate.com with content.
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00:56:22,660 --> 00:56:28,140
Send us video, send us stories, send us your opinion as to what you think is important
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00:56:28,140 --> 00:56:29,620
about these stories.
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00:56:29,620 --> 00:56:32,260
Send me your criticism, your feedback.
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00:56:32,260 --> 00:56:38,260
This is incredible value that you can give back to me and to this podcast to help us
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00:56:38,260 --> 00:56:40,620
keep going strong.
799
00:56:40,620 --> 00:56:41,780
And share the show.
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00:56:41,780 --> 00:56:44,420
This is absolutely critical.
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00:56:44,420 --> 00:56:49,860
Share the show, rate the show, leave a comment for the show, up on Apple podcasts.
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00:56:49,860 --> 00:56:52,340
Very important.
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00:56:52,340 --> 00:56:55,060
Those are just key ways that you can give back.
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00:56:55,060 --> 00:56:59,740
So write at truthatruthbate.com and join our mail list.
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00:56:59,740 --> 00:57:05,220
Have in the subject, subscribe, and we will add you to the mail list that will eventually
806
00:57:05,220 --> 00:57:06,220
kick off.
807
00:57:06,220 --> 00:57:11,940
And that'll be, hopefully, that'll be an interesting newsletter that will let you know what's coming
808
00:57:11,940 --> 00:57:12,940
up on the podcast.
809
00:57:12,940 --> 00:57:15,860
It'll remind you that there's a podcast happening.
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00:57:15,860 --> 00:57:21,820
I think that'll be important in terms of really spreading the word.
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00:57:21,820 --> 00:57:25,460
A newsletter is something that you might be able to share a little bit more easily.
812
00:57:25,460 --> 00:57:28,940
It's one thing when I say share the show, but what does that exactly mean?
813
00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:30,460
Are you going to pull over to the side of the road?
814
00:57:30,460 --> 00:57:35,260
You're going to click, you're going to find the link to wherever you're listening to this
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00:57:35,260 --> 00:57:37,780
podcast and you're going to share that with somebody?
816
00:57:37,780 --> 00:57:44,740
That's a bit cumbersome, but if we send you an email, maybe that'll be a little bit easier
817
00:57:44,740 --> 00:57:45,740
to share.
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00:57:45,740 --> 00:57:48,780
All right, that's the end of that.
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00:57:48,780 --> 00:57:49,780
That's it.
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00:57:49,780 --> 00:57:50,780
Let's move on from there.
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00:57:50,780 --> 00:57:51,780
I'm done with that segment.
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00:57:51,780 --> 00:57:54,820
I don't know if anybody's noticing.
823
00:57:54,820 --> 00:57:56,540
All my sound cues are delayed today.
824
00:57:56,540 --> 00:58:01,660
I hit the sound cue and it takes a good two seconds almost, it seems, for the sound cue
825
00:58:01,660 --> 00:58:02,660
to kick up.
826
00:58:02,660 --> 00:58:07,780
I don't know why, but I'll probably go through and adjust that in post anyway so you won't
827
00:58:07,780 --> 00:58:08,780
even hear it.
828
00:58:08,780 --> 00:58:10,820
You'll think I'm insane right now.
829
00:58:10,820 --> 00:58:13,940
Yeah, Megan Rapinoe.
830
00:58:13,940 --> 00:58:18,180
I could not be more excited about this story.
831
00:58:18,180 --> 00:58:25,340
I apparently am not one to shy away from indulging in schadenfreude, taking pleasure in somebody
832
00:58:25,340 --> 00:58:26,340
else's misery.
833
00:58:26,340 --> 00:58:27,340
I know it is wrong.
834
00:58:27,340 --> 00:58:30,100
I should be a better person than that.
835
00:58:30,100 --> 00:58:39,180
Megan Rapinoe choked in front of the entire world as she led her team of strong progressive
836
00:58:39,180 --> 00:58:45,460
women to utter failure, bombing out of the Women's World Cup.
837
00:58:45,460 --> 00:58:47,560
Let's just remember, this is a flashback.
838
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:53,300
This clip came from the Gateway Pundit prior to the running of the World Cup and it was
839
00:58:53,300 --> 00:59:01,900
the Soccer Federation begging people to buy tickets to the games in the Netherlands because
840
00:59:01,900 --> 00:59:03,620
nobody was buying tickets.
841
00:59:03,620 --> 00:59:06,220
My question just relates to the ticket sales.
842
00:59:06,220 --> 00:59:09,700
There's been a lot of talk about the ticket sales in New Zealand.
843
00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:13,820
I'd just like to know what your thoughts are as FIFA concerned about some of the ticket
844
00:59:13,820 --> 00:59:14,820
sales.
845
00:59:14,820 --> 00:59:17,340
New Zealand, we want you.
846
00:59:17,340 --> 00:59:20,540
It's never too late to do the right thing.
847
00:59:20,540 --> 00:59:21,980
Come to watch the matches.
848
00:59:21,980 --> 00:59:24,540
We need full stadiums to warm us all up.
849
00:59:24,540 --> 00:59:26,400
Sorry, in New Zealand.
850
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:31,660
They were having trouble selling tickets.
851
00:59:31,660 --> 00:59:35,260
This is the best thing that could have happened to the Megan Rapinoe choking this way because
852
00:59:35,260 --> 00:59:41,500
now everyone is tuned in and says, oh wait, the World Cup is happening?
853
00:59:41,500 --> 00:59:43,620
This is actually going on?
854
00:59:43,620 --> 00:59:46,380
These are the best numbers they've ever had.
855
00:59:46,380 --> 00:59:47,380
Here's a mashup.
856
00:59:47,380 --> 00:59:51,060
I went and looked at the...
857
00:59:51,060 --> 00:59:56,380
I went to go look for the Rapinoe clip and what I discovered was it actually is not just
858
00:59:56,380 --> 00:59:57,940
Rapinoe.
859
00:59:57,940 --> 00:59:59,980
It's the entire squad almost.
860
00:59:59,980 --> 01:00:01,580
This was a group failure.
861
01:00:01,580 --> 01:00:11,380
She was just the most famous failure, but this was a group effort at absolute failure.
862
01:00:11,380 --> 01:00:17,180
That's appropriate too because really it was a group effort at generating outrage going
863
01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:19,040
through these games.
864
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:26,900
People were getting very upset because the American women's soccer team refused to, not
865
01:00:26,900 --> 01:00:34,300
everybody, but most of them refused to take part in the singing of the national anthem.
866
01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:42,600
Every country had their national anthem played and every country, their teams were patriotic
867
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,660
for their own countries except for the United States.
868
01:00:45,660 --> 01:00:51,940
These women very publicly took a giant dump on the United States of America.
869
01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:58,300
They were publicly disparaging it by basically saying, America is not even worthy of its
870
01:00:58,300 --> 01:01:00,460
national anthem.
871
01:01:00,460 --> 01:01:04,460
They're not worthy of us taking part in the national anthem.
872
01:01:04,460 --> 01:01:07,540
America isn't worthy.
873
01:01:07,540 --> 01:01:14,020
Then they displayed this epic failure.
874
01:01:14,020 --> 01:01:18,140
Also it happened in a way that really highlights how boring soccer is.
875
01:01:18,140 --> 01:01:21,380
Soccer is a terrible, terrible, terrible spectator sport.
876
01:01:21,380 --> 01:01:25,120
I know plenty of people enjoy playing it and that's great.
877
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,780
Lots of kids enjoy playing it.
878
01:01:26,780 --> 01:01:29,440
It's a wonderful kids' game.
879
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:35,660
To watch it as an adult, no wonder people have to be drunk to be into this game because
880
01:01:35,660 --> 01:01:38,020
this game is awful.
881
01:01:38,020 --> 01:01:44,340
These women played for whatever, I don't know what it is, an hour and a half, two hours,
882
01:01:44,340 --> 01:01:50,180
eternity and the final score was 0-0.
883
01:01:50,180 --> 01:01:58,020
They have to figure out who is going to win this game so they go to penalty kicks.
884
01:01:58,020 --> 01:02:02,620
We've had overtime, nobody scored in overtime, it's still 0-0.
885
01:02:02,620 --> 01:02:03,620
That's exciting everybody.
886
01:02:03,620 --> 01:02:07,860
You get to see the ball going back and forth up and down the field all day long and not
887
01:02:07,860 --> 01:02:10,540
see a single goal scored.
888
01:02:10,540 --> 01:02:18,660
So finally, the way that they do it is each team picks five kickers who each kick at the
889
01:02:18,660 --> 01:02:27,220
goal against the goalie and the first team that gets to five wins.
890
01:02:27,220 --> 01:02:31,580
And it looks like that's the way they did it here.
891
01:02:31,580 --> 01:02:37,660
In some places, you have your five, if you're tied after each team has their five kicks,
892
01:02:37,660 --> 01:02:40,700
then it goes to sudden death and it's whoever scores next.
893
01:02:40,700 --> 01:02:42,820
But this doesn't look like they went to sudden death.
894
01:02:42,820 --> 01:02:45,340
This looks like they did the five kickers.
895
01:02:45,340 --> 01:02:49,180
They were still tied after five kickers each.
896
01:02:49,180 --> 01:02:54,380
And then after that, they went into another round of kicking and it seems to be Sweden
897
01:02:54,380 --> 01:02:57,460
was the first team that got to five and so they won.
898
01:02:57,460 --> 01:03:05,700
Does that not sound like the most insane sport at a professional level on a global stage?
899
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:08,380
To me, that sounds like on a playground.
900
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:10,780
Oh, we're at the end of recess.
901
01:03:10,780 --> 01:03:12,980
We have to figure out who's going to win.
902
01:03:12,980 --> 01:03:16,380
So okay, whoever scores next wins.
903
01:03:16,380 --> 01:03:25,340
This is ridiculous that this is how you would finish out a championship level game in any
904
01:03:25,340 --> 01:03:26,700
sport.
905
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:32,820
But here is the American team one after another losing like giant losers.
906
01:03:32,820 --> 01:03:35,620
That's Rapinoe's kick.
907
01:03:35,620 --> 01:03:37,620
Oh, loser.
908
01:03:37,620 --> 01:03:41,300
Buczewicz, she goes to shoot.
909
01:03:41,300 --> 01:03:43,300
Oh no, loser.
910
01:03:43,300 --> 01:03:46,300
She missed two.
911
01:03:46,300 --> 01:03:49,500
Oh no, she missed two.
912
01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:53,980
This was a team effort of losing.
913
01:03:53,980 --> 01:03:57,220
Losing losers and the losers who love losing.
914
01:03:57,220 --> 01:04:05,540
And now they have an interview with the loser, Megan Rapinoe, the lead loser.
915
01:04:05,540 --> 01:04:10,020
Here she is immediately after the match talking to the press about what a wonderful job she's
916
01:04:10,020 --> 01:04:11,020
done.
917
01:04:11,020 --> 01:04:14,420
Yeah, I thought we played really well.
918
01:04:14,420 --> 01:04:15,820
I thought we played really well.
919
01:04:15,820 --> 01:04:22,660
I'm so happy for us that we went out like that, playing the way that we did and having
920
01:04:22,660 --> 01:04:23,660
a ton of joy on the ball.
921
01:04:23,660 --> 01:04:26,740
They had a ton of joy on the ball.
922
01:04:26,740 --> 01:04:29,940
To know that this is really the only time I've been in one of these.
923
01:04:29,940 --> 01:04:35,500
When she talked about one of these, she's saying a post-match interview, a wrap out
924
01:04:35,500 --> 01:04:38,500
interview, an interview where you're done.
925
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:41,260
This is the last interview you're getting.
926
01:04:41,260 --> 01:04:44,100
You may get some other little ones, but this is your last big one.
927
01:04:44,100 --> 01:04:45,940
Now go home.
928
01:04:45,940 --> 01:04:52,140
To know that this is really the only time I've been in one of these this early says
929
01:04:52,140 --> 01:04:56,140
so much about how much success I've been able to have.
930
01:04:56,140 --> 01:04:58,860
What an ego on this woman.
931
01:04:58,860 --> 01:05:01,080
She has just humiliated herself.
932
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:05,260
She just led a team wide humiliation.
933
01:05:05,260 --> 01:05:12,780
Everyone shared the humiliation and it's really just a testament to how great she's been.
934
01:05:12,780 --> 01:05:17,300
Just how much I've loved playing for this team and playing for this country.
935
01:05:17,300 --> 01:05:19,740
It's been an honor.
936
01:05:19,740 --> 01:05:21,380
It's been an honor to play for the country.
937
01:05:21,380 --> 01:05:22,380
I hate.
938
01:05:22,380 --> 01:05:25,020
I mean, I love some of the country.
939
01:05:25,020 --> 01:05:27,740
I love the part of the country that agrees with me.
940
01:05:27,740 --> 01:05:29,740
The rest of the country I don't love.
941
01:05:29,740 --> 01:05:31,500
I'm on my knee against them.
942
01:05:31,500 --> 01:05:35,780
I have my knee on their necks.
943
01:05:35,780 --> 01:05:37,180
She goes on.
944
01:05:37,180 --> 01:05:41,980
Is there a memory that stands out to you right now in this moment?
945
01:05:41,980 --> 01:05:47,420
She's had this career of top level play.
946
01:05:47,420 --> 01:05:50,900
She's the pinnacle of excellence in her field.
947
01:05:50,900 --> 01:06:01,780
What about the sport will she be taking with her?
948
01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:09,020
I mean, probably equal pay chance after the final.
949
01:06:09,020 --> 01:06:14,900
Her activism is the most meaningful thing about her career on the field.
950
01:06:14,900 --> 01:06:18,860
I think they were saying equal pay, but could have been saying a lot of things.
951
01:06:18,860 --> 01:06:25,900
I think this team has always fought for so much more and that's been the most rewarding
952
01:06:25,900 --> 01:06:27,580
part for me, of course.
953
01:06:27,580 --> 01:06:32,640
Maybe if you had fought for some goals, that might have been rewarding too.
954
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:36,100
Maybe you wouldn't be doing this interview right now.
955
01:06:36,100 --> 01:06:43,180
To know that we've used our really special talent to do something that's really changed
956
01:06:43,180 --> 01:06:44,180
the world forever.
957
01:06:44,180 --> 01:06:46,500
I think that means the most to me.
958
01:06:46,500 --> 01:06:48,420
She thinks she's changed the world forever.
959
01:06:48,420 --> 01:06:52,340
This is a complete egomaniac.
960
01:06:52,340 --> 01:06:54,140
She is a total egomaniac.
961
01:06:54,140 --> 01:06:59,380
I'm terrified of whatever she's going to move on to to fill the hole of her ego.
962
01:06:59,380 --> 01:07:01,980
She's going into politics.
963
01:07:01,980 --> 01:07:06,380
And let's just talk about their incredibly special talent for a moment, shall we?
964
01:07:06,380 --> 01:07:10,820
Watch what a bunch of teenage boys did to the U.S. women's soccer team.
965
01:07:10,820 --> 01:07:17,340
These are youth 15 boys that's under the age of 15 playing an exhibition match with none
966
01:07:17,340 --> 01:07:20,340
other than the U.S. professional women's soccer team.
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01:07:20,340 --> 01:07:24,780
The women were reportedly preparing for a match with Russia when they agreed to play
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01:07:24,780 --> 01:07:27,380
the D.C. Dallas under 15 boys team.
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01:07:27,380 --> 01:07:34,820
And they were crushed five to two, the U.S. women's soccer team was crushed by a bunch
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01:07:34,820 --> 01:07:36,780
of adolescent boys.
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01:07:36,780 --> 01:07:42,820
Wow, what a special talent.
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01:07:42,820 --> 01:07:49,780
You know, I don't want you to think, I understand the optics of me, a white male and balding
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01:07:49,780 --> 01:07:51,940
at that.
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01:07:51,940 --> 01:07:56,820
For me to be looking down on these women, who in the world am I to be looking down on
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01:07:56,820 --> 01:07:58,100
these women?
976
01:07:58,100 --> 01:08:00,100
Well, you're right.
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01:08:00,100 --> 01:08:01,100
Who am I?
978
01:08:01,100 --> 01:08:02,620
Let's turn to other women.
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01:08:02,620 --> 01:08:04,120
Here is from Sky News.
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01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:08,220
If you're still a winner, people will kind of maybe tolerate the political activism.
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01:08:08,220 --> 01:08:12,780
But if you are politically activated and a loser, it's not a good recipe.
982
01:08:12,780 --> 01:08:14,980
It is a bad mixture indeed.
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01:08:14,980 --> 01:08:19,460
But I've got to say, I think Megan was even as a winner, she was rubbing up people the
984
01:08:19,460 --> 01:08:26,940
wrong way, just this mad activism, taking a knee, having no respect for the anthem,
985
01:08:26,940 --> 01:08:29,260
no respect for the flag.
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01:08:29,260 --> 01:08:31,140
And also some of the.
987
01:08:31,140 --> 01:08:37,060
This is people of other countries noticing that she is terrible to America.
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01:08:37,060 --> 01:08:42,780
Advocacy for equal pay that just was not grounded in logic or data.
989
01:08:42,780 --> 01:08:48,020
Where, you know, if you don't generate the income, you can't expect to get the income.
990
01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:50,860
Oh, wow.
991
01:08:50,860 --> 01:08:54,540
She's being savaged by other women.
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01:08:54,540 --> 01:08:56,300
You don't need you don't need a white male.
993
01:08:56,300 --> 01:08:58,340
You don't need a white guy like me to tell you.
994
01:08:58,340 --> 01:09:01,460
Here here's here is Tommy Lahren.
995
01:09:01,460 --> 01:09:06,320
This woman is the epitome of selfish and she made it really hard to root for the United
996
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,140
States and we all root for the USA.
997
01:09:08,140 --> 01:09:09,140
Don't get me wrong.
998
01:09:09,140 --> 01:09:13,920
Even if it is Megan Rapinoe and others that decided to kneel for the national anthem,
999
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:15,920
we still root for this country.
1000
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,840
It would be nice, though, if those women who wear the USA on their jerseys could love the
1001
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,100
country as much as we do.
1002
01:09:23,100 --> 01:09:25,860
I don't think that's too much to ask for, Sean.
1003
01:09:25,860 --> 01:09:27,360
But here's another thing to this.
1004
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:28,700
You can be an activist.
1005
01:09:28,700 --> 01:09:30,380
You can be an athlete activist.
1006
01:09:30,380 --> 01:09:35,260
We see it with LeBron and we see it with many others across the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, you
1007
01:09:35,260 --> 01:09:36,260
name it.
1008
01:09:36,260 --> 01:09:37,260
There are activists.
1009
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:39,020
But you have to be good.
1010
01:09:39,020 --> 01:09:44,260
And that's where Megan lost and she fell on her face.
1011
01:09:44,260 --> 01:09:51,580
Wow, Megan, you would have a lot more leeway to do what you're doing if you were any good.
1012
01:09:51,580 --> 01:09:54,540
Here's Megan Kelly now tears into her.
1013
01:09:54,540 --> 01:09:55,980
They didn't have their eye on the ball.
1014
01:09:55,980 --> 01:10:01,100
They had their eye on their woke activism, which has been this way for a while.
1015
01:10:01,100 --> 01:10:05,740
But Megan Rapinoe and her imprint on the team has now really made its mark.
1016
01:10:05,740 --> 01:10:07,100
And I'm thrilled she's gone.
1017
01:10:07,100 --> 01:10:11,020
I feel like this is there's a future now for this team potentially without this woman at
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01:10:11,020 --> 01:10:12,020
the helm.
1019
01:10:12,020 --> 01:10:16,540
And that's when they got more about their wokeism and their social values.
1020
01:10:16,540 --> 01:10:17,540
Just play the damn soccer.
1021
01:10:17,540 --> 01:10:18,540
All right.
1022
01:10:18,540 --> 01:10:19,540
Shut the F up.
1023
01:10:19,540 --> 01:10:20,540
Wow.
1024
01:10:20,540 --> 01:10:21,540
Okay.
1025
01:10:21,540 --> 01:10:28,640
So and here.
1026
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:32,900
So Megan Rapinoe, this was another thing that she did that got people upset when she won
1027
01:10:32,900 --> 01:10:37,780
the World Cup years ago when Trump was president.
1028
01:10:37,780 --> 01:10:43,980
She made this comment, which upset a lot of people and hang on before I play it, I'm going
1029
01:10:43,980 --> 01:10:46,980
to go in and I forgot to.
1030
01:10:46,980 --> 01:10:49,060
I'm just going to do it now.
1031
01:10:49,060 --> 01:10:53,380
An interviewer asked Rapinoe if she's excited to visit the White House pending a fourth
1032
01:10:53,380 --> 01:10:58,780
World Cup victory for the women's team.
1033
01:10:58,780 --> 01:11:04,140
On Wednesday, the president responded on Twitter by saying, quote, Megan should win first before
1034
01:11:04,140 --> 01:11:06,420
she talks, finish the job.
1035
01:11:06,420 --> 01:11:10,940
Rapinoe has long used her status as an athlete to support issues she believes in, including
1036
01:11:10,940 --> 01:11:13,220
LGBTQ and minority rights.
1037
01:11:13,220 --> 01:11:15,180
And her tangles with Trump go way back.
1038
01:11:15,180 --> 01:11:19,900
In 2016, she became the first white athlete to kneel during the national anthem supporting
1039
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:24,680
football player Colin Kaepernick's protest of police brutality against racial minorities.
1040
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:29,180
After Trump said NFL protesters should be fired for, quote, disrespect of our heritage,
1041
01:11:29,180 --> 01:11:32,680
Rapinoe told the BBC, quote, His comments are disgusting.
1042
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:34,740
They're un-American to say the very least.
1043
01:11:34,740 --> 01:11:35,860
It's totally inappropriate.
1044
01:11:35,860 --> 01:11:36,940
It's un-presidential.
1045
01:11:36,940 --> 01:11:37,940
It's embarrassing.
1046
01:11:37,940 --> 01:11:39,160
Thanks for watching.
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01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,380
For more on this story and all your culture news, visit RollingStone.com.
1048
01:11:42,380 --> 01:11:44,700
Here's my advice.
1049
01:11:44,700 --> 01:11:50,220
Don't visit RollingStone.com for your culture news.
1050
01:11:50,220 --> 01:11:56,260
Here is Megan talking about, I'm just going to play this so you can see how disgusting
1051
01:11:56,260 --> 01:11:59,620
she is politically.
1052
01:11:59,620 --> 01:12:03,340
She's the captain of the US women's team, but she's not.
1053
01:12:03,340 --> 01:12:08,900
She's really only the captain of the US progressive women's team.
1054
01:12:08,900 --> 01:12:14,420
And she displays that in her hatred for Trump, but the way that she frames this, listen to
1055
01:12:14,420 --> 01:12:16,220
what she says at the very end of this clip.
1056
01:12:16,220 --> 01:12:20,140
We don't want to go to the White House, but I think we will at some point be going to
1057
01:12:20,140 --> 01:12:21,140
Washington.
1058
01:12:21,140 --> 01:12:25,780
We've had so much support from so many politicians, from so many people there.
1059
01:12:25,780 --> 01:12:27,700
You know, just part of the movement.
1060
01:12:27,700 --> 01:12:31,420
I feel like we're all sort of part of the same movement.
1061
01:12:31,420 --> 01:12:34,580
I think we're all part of the same movement.
1062
01:12:34,580 --> 01:12:38,980
Again, that was back when Trump was president, so she's not going to go to the White House,
1063
01:12:38,980 --> 01:12:44,040
but she will go to, she's talking about Congress, she's talking about AOC and Nancy Pelosi,
1064
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:45,980
that they're all part of the same movement.
1065
01:12:45,980 --> 01:12:54,980
So this disgusting, vile person basically hijacked what should be not political and
1066
01:12:54,980 --> 01:12:56,200
made it political.
1067
01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:00,120
She completely made her sport toxic.
1068
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,380
She set women back.
1069
01:13:03,380 --> 01:13:07,820
The only people that don't realize that are the women who are too close to it to realize.
1070
01:13:07,820 --> 01:13:12,320
But she has set you back.
1071
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:15,340
Here is one of her teammates, Ali Krieger.
1072
01:13:15,340 --> 01:13:19,460
This was back when, we're going to do a little before and after.
1073
01:13:19,460 --> 01:13:26,180
Here's before when the US women's soccer team had won the World Cup, they were champions.
1074
01:13:26,180 --> 01:13:28,180
And this is CNN.
1075
01:13:28,180 --> 01:13:33,660
And you tweeted in regards to the president's tweet today, I know women who you cannot control
1076
01:13:33,660 --> 01:13:39,420
or grope anger you, but I stand with Megan Rapinoe, who will sit this one out as well.
1077
01:13:39,420 --> 01:13:44,980
I don't support this administration nor their fight against LGBTQ plus citizens, immigrants
1078
01:13:44,980 --> 01:13:45,980
and our most vulnerable.
1079
01:13:45,980 --> 01:13:50,380
So when you say sit this one out, you meant that you would not go to the White House if
1080
01:13:50,380 --> 01:13:51,780
invited?
1081
01:13:51,780 --> 01:13:55,420
No, absolutely not.
1082
01:13:55,420 --> 01:13:58,220
I refuse to respect a man that warns no respect.
1083
01:13:58,220 --> 01:14:03,420
And I feel like staying silent at times can side with the oppressor.
1084
01:14:03,420 --> 01:14:04,420
And I didn't.
1085
01:14:04,420 --> 01:14:07,380
Can side with the oppressor.
1086
01:14:07,380 --> 01:14:08,940
Trump is the oppressor.
1087
01:14:08,940 --> 01:14:12,460
Again, we've covered this many times on this program.
1088
01:14:12,460 --> 01:14:18,180
The entire world, the entire worldview of the left is defined through oppressor, oppressed.
1089
01:14:18,180 --> 01:14:22,500
And in every single narrative, there is an oppressor, there is the oppressed.
1090
01:14:22,500 --> 01:14:30,920
And these women who are living a total life of privilege, earning way more than they deserve
1091
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:38,100
based on the revenue they generate, they demand equal pay, but they do not generate equal
1092
01:14:38,100 --> 01:14:40,360
revenue at all.
1093
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:45,940
So they're overpaid, overprivileged, mostly all white women.
1094
01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:48,940
But they're the oppressed.
1095
01:14:48,940 --> 01:14:54,940
And I didn't want her to feel that she was, you know, kind of having to process this all
1096
01:14:54,940 --> 01:14:57,380
alone because a lot of us do have those similar feelings.
1097
01:14:57,380 --> 01:15:01,020
So do you, I mean, I know how you feel, you've been quite clear, Megan Rapinoe has as well.
1098
01:15:01,020 --> 01:15:05,780
Do you think that your whole team would rather accept an invitation from Congress and go
1099
01:15:05,780 --> 01:15:08,180
to the House of Representatives than the White House?
1100
01:15:08,180 --> 01:15:09,180
Absolutely.
1101
01:15:09,180 --> 01:15:16,100
Yeah, I could say after this game, we could pack our bags and we'd be on our way.
1102
01:15:16,100 --> 01:15:19,140
On our way to Congress.
1103
01:15:19,140 --> 01:15:21,780
Well here's Ali after the humiliating loss.
1104
01:15:21,780 --> 01:15:22,920
She's not on the team anymore.
1105
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:32,960
She had to watch from home her teammates humiliatingly choke in front of the entire world.
1106
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:35,380
And apparently she felt like she choked too.
1107
01:15:35,380 --> 01:15:41,780
Ali, just on the onset, your initial reaction from what we just saw.
1108
01:15:41,780 --> 01:15:42,980
I'm so gutted.
1109
01:15:42,980 --> 01:15:46,420
I was, I'm actually kind of surprised.
1110
01:15:46,420 --> 01:15:53,580
I am a little overwhelmed because I just never, I never thought that we would, you know, this
1111
01:15:53,580 --> 01:15:55,380
would happen today, especially in the PKs.
1112
01:15:55,380 --> 01:15:56,860
I think we dominated really well.
1113
01:15:56,860 --> 01:15:57,860
We came out.
1114
01:15:57,860 --> 01:15:59,100
The PKs are the penalty kicks.
1115
01:15:59,100 --> 01:16:00,100
I had to look that up.
1116
01:16:00,100 --> 01:16:01,300
I didn't know what she was talking about.
1117
01:16:01,300 --> 01:16:02,300
The PKs.
1118
01:16:02,300 --> 01:16:04,300
The PKs, I think we dominated really well.
1119
01:16:04,300 --> 01:16:08,500
We came out and this was probably our best start the whole tournament.
1120
01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:11,260
Their best start, zero, zero.
1121
01:16:11,260 --> 01:16:16,020
And so it's a bit shocking for me as one of my best friends.
1122
01:16:16,020 --> 01:16:17,220
You know, I feel for her.
1123
01:16:17,220 --> 01:16:18,500
I am so sad for her.
1124
01:16:18,500 --> 01:16:19,500
Talking about Megan.
1125
01:16:19,500 --> 01:16:23,140
As one of my best friends, you know, I feel for her.
1126
01:16:23,140 --> 01:16:27,780
I am so sad for her to go out like that is really unfortunate.
1127
01:16:27,780 --> 01:16:32,740
I know the team and herself, they wanted to obviously win, not just because of, you know,
1128
01:16:32,740 --> 01:16:38,980
her retirement, but she deserves all the good things because she's given this game so much.
1129
01:16:38,980 --> 01:16:44,020
She's given this team so much and, you know, those are obviously choices.
1130
01:16:44,020 --> 01:16:48,880
So much that the entire world is rooting against them.
1131
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,460
Most of the United States is laughing right now.
1132
01:16:52,460 --> 01:16:55,540
I couldn't be happier.
1133
01:16:55,540 --> 01:16:57,620
No, I take that back.
1134
01:16:57,620 --> 01:17:05,460
I would be happier if you were not anti-American social justice warrior Marxists that you loved
1135
01:17:05,460 --> 01:17:10,300
the country and the Constitution, most importantly, that you loved the Constitution, that you
1136
01:17:10,300 --> 01:17:18,780
didn't just look at this country as some sort of eternally flawed, condemnable place that
1137
01:17:18,780 --> 01:17:21,280
you would rather not be from.
1138
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:22,780
That would be my first hope.
1139
01:17:22,780 --> 01:17:26,300
Short of that, this has been perfect.
1140
01:17:26,300 --> 01:17:31,740
Yeah, here's a clip of how arrogant.
1141
01:17:31,740 --> 01:17:37,580
This was Megan Rapinoe partying with the trophy after she won.
1142
01:17:37,580 --> 01:17:38,580
Just listen to the arrogance.
1143
01:17:38,580 --> 01:17:39,580
What do you have to say?
1144
01:17:39,580 --> 01:17:40,580
I deserve this.
1145
01:17:40,580 --> 01:17:41,580
I deserve this.
1146
01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:42,580
What do you deserve?
1147
01:17:42,580 --> 01:17:43,580
I deserve this.
1148
01:17:43,580 --> 01:17:46,020
You deserve all of it.
1149
01:17:46,020 --> 01:17:47,020
I deserve all of it.
1150
01:17:47,020 --> 01:17:51,180
She's holding the trophy in her hand and a bottle of champagne as well.
1151
01:17:51,180 --> 01:17:52,180
What do you have to say?
1152
01:17:52,180 --> 01:17:53,180
I deserve this.
1153
01:17:53,180 --> 01:17:54,180
What do you deserve?
1154
01:17:54,180 --> 01:17:55,180
I deserve this.
1155
01:17:55,180 --> 01:17:58,180
You deserve all of it.
1156
01:17:58,180 --> 01:17:59,180
Everything.
1157
01:17:59,180 --> 01:18:01,980
Look, there's a lot of egomaniacs in sports.
1158
01:18:01,980 --> 01:18:07,420
I think it actually comes with that championship level of play a lot of times.
1159
01:18:07,420 --> 01:18:14,140
You have to believe in yourself at a level most of us mere mortals never experience in
1160
01:18:14,140 --> 01:18:16,820
order to have the confidence to go do what you're doing.
1161
01:18:16,820 --> 01:18:19,380
I get that.
1162
01:18:19,380 --> 01:18:24,980
It's just when you mix it with this condescending and hateful rhetoric that she would spout
1163
01:18:24,980 --> 01:18:27,060
and inspire others to spout.
1164
01:18:27,060 --> 01:18:31,740
It just looks history is not going to be kind to her.
1165
01:18:31,740 --> 01:18:32,980
That's a fact.
1166
01:18:32,980 --> 01:18:43,700
Here is, oh geez, I need to look, I'm going to have to look up the, it's black conservative
1167
01:18:43,700 --> 01:18:45,340
perspective on YouTube.
1168
01:18:45,340 --> 01:18:46,980
So again, this is an embarrassment, right?
1169
01:18:46,980 --> 01:18:48,260
They have embarrassed this country.
1170
01:18:48,260 --> 01:18:49,260
Okay.
1171
01:18:49,260 --> 01:18:53,340
They embarrassed the country when the tournament first started because they wouldn't sing for
1172
01:18:53,340 --> 01:18:54,600
the national anthem, right?
1173
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:58,820
You had the other side, okay, their opponents, I believe they're playing Vietnam.
1174
01:18:58,820 --> 01:19:01,140
They were out there singing loudly and proudly.
1175
01:19:01,140 --> 01:19:02,140
Okay.
1176
01:19:02,140 --> 01:19:03,140
They had no issues.
1177
01:19:03,140 --> 01:19:07,840
Open their mouth, putting their hands over their hearts and singing and showing pride
1178
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:08,840
in their country.
1179
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:11,840
The U S women's soccer team though, they seem dead, right?
1180
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:12,840
They say dead.
1181
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,420
They seem to me like they wanted to protest the anthem, right?
1182
01:19:16,420 --> 01:19:21,900
And you know, Hey, this seems to be a fitting outcome as again, now again, they've been
1183
01:19:21,900 --> 01:19:22,900
sent home, right?
1184
01:19:22,900 --> 01:19:26,620
It seems like they didn't want to be there now they're not there, right?
1185
01:19:26,620 --> 01:19:29,540
These women, they deserve this, right?
1186
01:19:29,540 --> 01:19:32,340
Like Megan Rapinoe said, we deserve this.
1187
01:19:32,340 --> 01:19:33,340
I deserve this.
1188
01:19:33,340 --> 01:19:34,340
Yeah.
1189
01:19:34,340 --> 01:19:35,340
You deserve this, right?
1190
01:19:35,340 --> 01:19:36,340
You deserve to lose.
1191
01:19:36,340 --> 01:19:38,980
You're an embarrassment to this country.
1192
01:19:38,980 --> 01:19:44,580
And you know, I think it's just something bittersweet about seeing Megan Rapinoe retire
1193
01:19:44,580 --> 01:19:46,460
in the most embarrassing way possible, right?
1194
01:19:46,460 --> 01:19:49,300
We'll never see her, you know, play again.
1195
01:19:49,300 --> 01:19:50,300
Okay.
1196
01:19:50,300 --> 01:19:58,340
So again, she went out in the most fitting way with a choke job, right?
1197
01:19:58,340 --> 01:20:01,820
Everyone is taking a piece of her.
1198
01:20:01,820 --> 01:20:06,900
Everyone except white liberal women.
1199
01:20:06,900 --> 01:20:07,900
Here is Megan.
1200
01:20:07,900 --> 01:20:09,340
This is the last clip I'll play of this.
1201
01:20:09,340 --> 01:20:12,480
This was her speech in New York.
1202
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:20,020
She went to New York and was with the Blasio and the soccer federation and they did a celebration
1203
01:20:20,020 --> 01:20:26,180
there and she gave, she, I think she thinks she's Hillary Clinton.
1204
01:20:26,180 --> 01:20:34,100
She thinks she's had some kind of political accomplishment and she's at the podium giving
1205
01:20:34,100 --> 01:20:37,340
a what I think is a political speech.
1206
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We'll play a segment of it.
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01:20:39,620 --> 01:20:41,580
This is my charge to everyone.
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01:20:41,580 --> 01:20:47,900
And I don't know, you know, I saw her holding the bottle of champagne and I think this might
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01:20:47,900 --> 01:20:49,020
be at the same event.
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01:20:49,020 --> 01:20:54,620
She sounds like she's like maybe been imbibing.
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01:20:54,620 --> 01:20:56,340
I don't know.
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01:20:56,340 --> 01:20:58,720
She sounds a little bit like she's slurring her words.
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01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:00,580
This may just be an affect of hers.
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01:21:00,580 --> 01:21:05,440
But when I saw her holding the bottle, I thought, oh, maybe she has been drinking.
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01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:08,200
This is my charge to everyone.
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01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:10,420
We have to be better.
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01:21:10,420 --> 01:21:13,180
We have to love more, hate less.
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01:21:13,180 --> 01:21:16,500
We got to listen more and talk less.
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01:21:16,500 --> 01:21:20,260
She really needs to be introduced to herself.
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01:21:20,260 --> 01:21:21,260
She's right.
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01:21:21,260 --> 01:21:22,500
She just needs to take her own advice.
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01:21:22,500 --> 01:21:24,100
She needs to love more, hate less.
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01:21:24,100 --> 01:21:25,620
She needs to listen more and talk less.
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01:21:25,620 --> 01:21:27,820
We have to be better.
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01:21:27,820 --> 01:21:30,580
We have to love more, hate less.
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01:21:30,580 --> 01:21:33,080
We got to listen more and talk less.
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01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,540
We got to know that this is everybody's responsibility.
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01:21:36,540 --> 01:21:41,260
Every single person here, every single person who's not here, every single person who doesn't
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01:21:41,260 --> 01:21:45,380
want to be here, every single person who agrees and doesn't agree.
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01:21:45,380 --> 01:21:49,220
It's our responsibility to make this world a better place.
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01:21:49,220 --> 01:21:57,060
I think this team does an incredible job of taking that on our shoulders and understanding
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01:21:57,060 --> 01:22:00,660
the position that we have and the platform that we have within this world.
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01:22:00,660 --> 01:22:01,660
Yes, we play sports.
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01:22:01,660 --> 01:22:02,660
Yes, we play soccer.
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01:22:02,660 --> 01:22:06,900
Yes, we're female athletes, but we're so much more than that.
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01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:09,300
You're so much more than that.
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01:22:09,300 --> 01:22:11,420
You're more than a fan.
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01:22:11,420 --> 01:22:13,620
You're more than someone who just supports sports.
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01:22:13,620 --> 01:22:15,500
Okay, I can't take it anymore.
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01:22:15,500 --> 01:22:16,700
I'm done with her.
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01:22:16,700 --> 01:22:18,300
I only got about halfway through the clip.
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01:22:18,300 --> 01:22:19,540
I'm not playing anymore of her.
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01:22:19,540 --> 01:22:20,900
I can't stand it.
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01:22:20,900 --> 01:22:21,900
That's enough.
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01:22:21,900 --> 01:22:25,100
I'm sparing all of us anymore, Megan Rapinoe.
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01:22:25,100 --> 01:22:30,180
Megan, thank you for failing so incredibly spectacularly.
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01:22:30,180 --> 01:22:33,660
That was wonderful.
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01:22:33,660 --> 01:22:36,340
Moving on, I saw this clip.
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01:22:36,340 --> 01:22:38,380
This clip went viral.
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01:22:38,380 --> 01:22:46,140
I think it was on Libs of TikTok.
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01:22:46,140 --> 01:22:54,780
This was on Clown World on Twitter or X.
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01:22:54,780 --> 01:22:56,780
Here listen.
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01:22:56,780 --> 01:23:02,760
This is a black guy interviewing a, I think she's an Asian woman in a pink wig or with
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01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:04,260
pink hair.
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01:23:04,260 --> 01:23:08,780
It would seem to be on a college campus or she's a college student or something like
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01:23:08,780 --> 01:23:09,780
that.
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01:23:09,780 --> 01:23:12,060
You'll get the sense of this.
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01:23:12,060 --> 01:23:13,940
What do you think about white men?
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01:23:13,940 --> 01:23:17,620
I think it's just the term white man, just immediate turn off.
1260
01:23:17,620 --> 01:23:19,220
What do you think of black men?
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01:23:19,220 --> 01:23:20,220
Love.
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01:23:20,220 --> 01:23:24,500
Do you think it's racist to by default not like white men?
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01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:31,460
I mean, I don't think so because I think there's a difference between racism and...
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01:23:31,460 --> 01:23:35,100
That's an interesting question.
1265
01:23:35,100 --> 01:23:37,060
It is an interesting question.
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01:23:37,060 --> 01:23:38,060
Yeah.
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01:23:38,060 --> 01:23:46,380
Because I mean, I don't dislike, but there is a nervous feeling.
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01:23:46,380 --> 01:23:47,820
I don't know.
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01:23:47,820 --> 01:23:51,260
So if you met someone who said that they get nervous around black men and that they've
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01:23:51,260 --> 01:23:55,060
had bad experiences with black men, would you still consider that racist?
1271
01:23:55,060 --> 01:23:59,500
Yeah, I see your point.
1272
01:23:59,500 --> 01:24:05,020
Okay, interesting little video, but that's not...
1273
01:24:05,020 --> 01:24:06,300
I didn't clip it because of that.
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01:24:06,300 --> 01:24:08,880
I clipped it because of this.
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01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:10,580
This was at the very end of it.
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01:24:10,580 --> 01:24:14,100
If you want to escape all the woke media, then check out the new movie Nefarious.
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01:24:14,100 --> 01:24:17,620
You can watch it on Voodoo, Roku, Apple, and Google.
1278
01:24:17,620 --> 01:24:18,900
Wow.
1279
01:24:18,900 --> 01:24:21,620
So this was an ad.
1280
01:24:21,620 --> 01:24:24,140
This was an ad.
1281
01:24:24,140 --> 01:24:27,980
And for a movie that basically doesn't have anything to do with this, I had forgotten
1282
01:24:27,980 --> 01:24:29,380
about this movie Nefarious.
1283
01:24:29,380 --> 01:24:31,620
I don't know if any of you remember this movie.
1284
01:24:31,620 --> 01:24:35,900
Here, listen, I pulled a clip from Nefarious.
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01:24:35,900 --> 01:24:42,740
The entire human race, all of us against all of you.
1286
01:24:42,740 --> 01:24:50,140
Well, you know, if that's the case, your side's not doing too well.
1287
01:24:50,140 --> 01:24:51,940
So this is a...
1288
01:24:51,940 --> 01:24:54,380
It's two guys in a prison cell.
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01:24:54,380 --> 01:25:01,180
The first guy who was talking is the prisoner, he is claiming to be possessed by demons.
1290
01:25:01,180 --> 01:25:07,260
And this is the other guy at the table is an atheist who's brought in to basically analyze
1291
01:25:07,260 --> 01:25:08,260
them, I guess, and break them down.
1292
01:25:08,260 --> 01:25:09,260
I don't really know.
1293
01:25:09,260 --> 01:25:10,260
I've never seen the film.
1294
01:25:10,260 --> 01:25:13,380
Now I might actually go see the film.
1295
01:25:13,380 --> 01:25:18,780
This very sneaky ad may have gotten me to want to go see the film.
1296
01:25:18,780 --> 01:25:20,660
Here, let me play a little more of this clip.
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01:25:20,660 --> 01:25:25,220
Do you really believe that, James?
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01:25:25,220 --> 01:25:26,980
Yeah.
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01:25:26,980 --> 01:25:28,900
We've never been freer.
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01:25:28,900 --> 01:25:31,340
Literacy is at an all time high.
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01:25:31,340 --> 01:25:37,260
We're working to eliminate racism, intolerance, gender inequality.
1302
01:25:37,260 --> 01:25:41,620
People can love who they want, be who they want, do what they want.
1303
01:25:41,620 --> 01:25:43,740
Diversity is no longer a dream.
1304
01:25:43,740 --> 01:25:46,500
Hate speech is no longer tolerated.
1305
01:25:46,500 --> 01:25:50,900
And politically, we're reclaiming the moral high ground.
1306
01:25:50,900 --> 01:25:56,020
James, I think I love you.
1307
01:25:56,020 --> 01:25:57,020
Literacy, James.
1308
01:25:57,020 --> 01:26:01,460
James, the average high school graduate reads at a sixth grade level.
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01:26:01,460 --> 01:26:05,860
You have basketball players making 30 million a year to cry in racism, all while wearing
1310
01:26:05,860 --> 01:26:07,900
sneakers made from slave labor.
1311
01:26:07,900 --> 01:26:10,420
Here's something for you.
1312
01:26:10,420 --> 01:26:13,380
Right now your world currently has 40 million slaves.
1313
01:26:13,380 --> 01:26:16,700
More than the Romans had at the height of their empire.
1314
01:26:16,700 --> 01:26:18,740
You want to know the best part though?
1315
01:26:18,740 --> 01:26:25,260
Half of those, half, are sex slaves, James.
1316
01:26:25,260 --> 01:26:30,620
As for hate speech, you want to hear some irony?
1317
01:26:30,620 --> 01:26:32,760
We didn't even come up with that one.
1318
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:37,460
You did it all by yourself.
1319
01:26:37,460 --> 01:26:39,260
Sometimes you amaze even us.
1320
01:26:39,260 --> 01:26:43,420
I failed to see the humor.
1321
01:26:43,420 --> 01:26:44,780
Bottom line is you're done.
1322
01:26:44,780 --> 01:26:46,380
It's over, that's it.
1323
01:26:46,380 --> 01:26:50,140
And we did it all right to your face, James.
1324
01:26:50,140 --> 01:26:52,740
And now there's evil everywhere.
1325
01:26:52,740 --> 01:26:54,540
And no one even cares.
1326
01:26:54,540 --> 01:26:57,860
Yeah, I don't, I don't agree.
1327
01:26:57,860 --> 01:27:00,380
Proving that we achieved our goal.
1328
01:27:00,380 --> 01:27:05,980
Slowly, with your movies, your TV, and your media, we desensitized you.
1329
01:27:05,980 --> 01:27:09,660
We redirected your worldview to the point that you can't even recognize evil when it's
1330
01:27:09,660 --> 01:27:10,660
right in front of your face.
1331
01:27:10,660 --> 01:27:14,220
More to the point, James, you can't even feel it when you're doing it.
1332
01:27:14,220 --> 01:27:19,140
Yeah, I remember wanting to go see that film when it came out, but for some reason, I guess
1333
01:27:19,140 --> 01:27:22,460
I never made it to the theater.
1334
01:27:22,460 --> 01:27:26,180
I think I am going to make a point to see it now.
1335
01:27:26,180 --> 01:27:27,180
Good marketing.
1336
01:27:27,180 --> 01:27:31,580
And the reason that I pulled this at all is because I just want to highlight whether it's
1337
01:27:31,580 --> 01:27:40,900
Barbie marketing their, you know, using social justice marketing to push their film, although
1338
01:27:40,900 --> 01:27:46,340
they didn't do it in the initial marketing, they certainly encouraged it in the follow-up
1339
01:27:46,340 --> 01:27:50,660
campaign.
1340
01:27:50,660 --> 01:27:52,500
They love the controversy of it.
1341
01:27:52,500 --> 01:28:02,620
There's a lot of marketing opportunity for using woke on both sides of it.
1342
01:28:02,620 --> 01:28:06,580
Using woke to market nefarious may have actually worked on me.
1343
01:28:06,580 --> 01:28:07,580
I don't know.
1344
01:28:07,580 --> 01:28:08,580
I'll let you know.
1345
01:28:08,580 --> 01:28:15,780
Maybe I'll, maybe I will see it before the next episode.
1346
01:28:15,780 --> 01:28:22,380
And last thing here, this is from, this is from Libs of TikTok.
1347
01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:26,700
I just want to let you know that the, I'm just going to paint a picture for you.
1348
01:28:26,700 --> 01:28:36,300
The voice you're going to hear is a, this person is in a pink tank top and denim short
1349
01:28:36,300 --> 01:28:45,300
shorts and wearing red lipstick and has their hair up and curls.
1350
01:28:45,300 --> 01:28:48,620
Gender is like the inside filling of a donut.
1351
01:28:48,620 --> 01:28:50,820
Gender just for people who can't hear that music.
1352
01:28:50,820 --> 01:28:54,260
Gender is like the inside filling of a donut.
1353
01:28:54,260 --> 01:28:56,460
Gender is like the inside filling of a donut.
1354
01:28:56,460 --> 01:28:59,900
You can't tell what's on the inside just by looking at the outside.
1355
01:28:59,900 --> 01:29:03,420
I can, I can, in this case, I can tell.
1356
01:29:03,420 --> 01:29:06,380
Let's take this jelly filled donut, for example.
1357
01:29:06,380 --> 01:29:10,580
Usually donuts that look like this are filled with raspberry jam, but it could be strawberry
1358
01:29:10,580 --> 01:29:11,580
or rhubarb.
1359
01:29:11,580 --> 01:29:12,580
We just don't know.
1360
01:29:12,580 --> 01:29:14,700
The same logic applies to babies.
1361
01:29:14,700 --> 01:29:18,980
You can't know a baby's gender until they're old enough to tell you themselves.
1362
01:29:18,980 --> 01:29:22,480
Sure you can make an educated guess, but why risk being wrong?
1363
01:29:22,480 --> 01:29:26,780
This is exactly why gender reveal parties are so silly.
1364
01:29:26,780 --> 01:29:30,940
It's like celebrating this chocolate donut for having vanilla cream filling when it could
1365
01:29:30,940 --> 01:29:32,660
have banana pudding inside.
1366
01:29:32,660 --> 01:29:37,140
In a perfect world, we just celebrate the donut, not the filling inside.
1367
01:29:37,140 --> 01:29:42,620
Maybe we even give babies gender neutral names to start so that there's no expectation of
1368
01:29:42,620 --> 01:29:45,060
a gender they're supposed to live up to.
1369
01:29:45,060 --> 01:29:48,960
Maybe we give them choices along the way so that they can figure it out for themselves.
1370
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:52,980
Like what kind of clothes do you want to wear or what kind of toys do you want to play with?
1371
01:29:52,980 --> 01:29:59,060
Maybe kids get to have their own gender reveal parties so that they can tell the world themselves.
1372
01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:02,940
Wow.
1373
01:30:02,940 --> 01:30:06,660
I think I know what's in his donuts.
1374
01:30:06,660 --> 01:30:08,380
It's semen.
1375
01:30:08,380 --> 01:30:13,020
That's hot.
1376
01:30:13,020 --> 01:30:20,860
Anybody who takes parenting advice from that dude needs to have their head examined.
1377
01:30:20,860 --> 01:30:23,100
Maybe we all need to have our heads examined.
1378
01:30:23,100 --> 01:30:27,580
Thank you very much to everybody for tuning in to another episode of the Truthbait Podcast.
1379
01:30:27,580 --> 01:30:32,620
I do appreciate that you give of your time, which you cannot get back.
1380
01:30:32,620 --> 01:30:38,280
I hope you found it worth it to spend your time listening to the Truthbait Podcast.
1381
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:45,180
We come to you twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays generally without fail to the best
1382
01:30:45,180 --> 01:30:47,460
of our ability.
1383
01:30:47,460 --> 01:30:57,620
And hopefully Jeremy Siegel will be able to join us again soon to deliver his truth.
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01:30:57,620 --> 01:31:12,780
But until then, it is back to the sea of clickbait with us all.