Episode 2766 CWSA 03/02/25
Date: 2025-03-02 | Duration: 36:33
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go well um here's some good news from space uh the there's a private lunar lander that's carrying a drill and a vacuum and
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that's carrying a drill and a vacuum and just landed on the moon um now I think this is a good idea so it's got a drill and a vacuum so I I when I look at the Moon the first thing I think is God it's dusty up there isn't it so they put a vacuum on the moon I don't know if it's going to vacuum the entire moon or just the front side because we don't have to see the dark side so that's good finally somebody put a a vacuum on the moon wait what oh okay maybe it's the vacuum up samples and bring it back but I like mine better uh in other space news Jeff bezos's blue origin is getting ready to launch into space and all women's flight uh aboard their new Shepherd rocket it's an all women's flight and Katie Perry ktie Perry will be on the rocket now I would call that a good start if he could find a way to launch all of the
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could find a way to launch all of the Annoying celebrities into space just think how much a better world it would be uh I'd like to start a petition for let's see uh uh oh you make your own list so many annoying people but uh at least if it's in all all women's uh crew at least they won't feel shy about stopping and asking for directions am I right okay a sexist would say here's a big one black rock has announced it's going to end its Dei hiring goals now Black Rock was the big uh death star of Dei they're the ones who not only had Dei but you know they were really super committed to it like it was a main thing but they were also forcing companies that they do business with to also do Dei so this one's like this is not an ordinary company when Black Rock pulls back on Dei and they're
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Black Rock pulls back on Dei and they're pulling back hard they're they're not just tweaking it looks like they're just getting rid of it and that means all the companies that they had brow beaten into it also now are AFE to do the same so if Black Rock does it that sends a signal that everybody can do it and I think they're doing it just for purely practical reasons uh you know there's a legal liability it's literally it's it's literally illegal and always has been it's just that now we have an Administration that will follow up on it so I expect the rest of the dominoes to fall pretty quickly meanwhile over at City Group according to zero Edge uh City Group accidentally credited $81 trillion to an account that should have been
$280 but they caught it before the uh the person got to the ATM and withdrew the 81 trillion no they couldn't have withdrawn 81 trillion now if you're worried that they could have somehow you
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worried that they could have somehow you know used that money or moved it around not much of it because any large transfers are looked at pretty carefully so it's not like it's not like the person with the account could have just said you know hey I'll just take a billion I think they would have noticed right away especially if especially if they were dealing with numbers like $280 you'd notice that uh but in related news uh Vladimir zalinsky has moved all of his personal accounts to City Group just in case yeah you never know you might get that 81 trillion and you'd have something to spend it on no I've made that up that's not true uh meanwhile the House GOP is moving to REM they moving to moove moving to remove uh giant black lives matter mural uh I think I think it's on the street I'm not sure um from Washington DC
DC Plaza so this this raises some questions
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Plaza so this this raises some questions if they remove the black lives matter mural how will I know if they matter because I need written instructions on this stuff it's so it's so confusing wait they're human beings do they matter I'd better go read the street oh there it is there's the directions read in the street okay they matter but if they take that off people like me will be like H I don't know I know it's a little ambiguous without any written instructions what will I do what you will do is treat everybody as a human being and an individual anything else is Dei uh meanwhile Trump says he he plans to add a ballroom to the White House he wants to add a big old Ballroom well as you know the White House under Biden had all the ballroom I needed because Biden had tiny balls so you don't need much space but uh Trump has gigantic balls and so they're going
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has gigantic balls and so they're going to need a whole new structure just to hold his balls so he'll be build building his own
Ballroom yeah true um Trump is going to Pardon uh Major League Baseball Pete Rose who didn't get into the Hall of Fame because he was caught betting on baseball now as Trump explains he only bet on his team to win which is the least bad version of betting on your own sport but it's still not good and Trump acknowledges that it's that's not good but he was one of the best baseball players of all time and he made you know one mistake which he probably did a number of times but it was basically one thing and obviously the fact that he only bet on his team winning um suggests that it was more just for fun and you know so he I don't think he had much inside information that others didn't but maybe he did so
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that others didn't but maybe he did so if he did or there's a presumption that he did I can see why that'd be banned here's what I like about this story I like the fact that Trump has a unbroken record of forgiving people for bad behavior now you might say that's the opposite of good for a president but I don't because what what it signals to me is he's not going to judge you if you were generally a good person but you made a mistake that's kind of the standard I like now did he pay for it yes yes he paid dearly for his mistake because he would he's already dead so he died not being the Hall of Fame and uh it was a big problem so you'll see this over and over Trump will say okay if you did this one thing whatever that one thing is but you're generally a good person how about a pardon I just love that just sort of as a general way to approach the world do you remember that uh story
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world do you remember that uh story about the alleged FBI Honeypot and the way it got reported was that Comey had some off the books Honeypot that was a attractive woman and some people said that she was there to sleep with members of the Trump Administration in the first term and and try to get their secrets through their sexual means uh cash patella just said nope nothing like that happened there were there were no FBI agents who tried to sleep with anybody there was a woman who seems to have been the one assigned to this so it's not good behavior because it looks like Comey did tell her to go find out some Secrets but cash is fully backing her and says Nope absolutely not a Honeypot uh so he said that on X and here's my question I told you that Honeypot didn't mean sleeping with it could have been more like the O'Keefe Undercover videos
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more like the O'Keefe Undercover videos where somebody goes on a date and just sort of suggests that you know if things went well we could be dating so did she do that probably not probably not but here's my question if you introduce I'd love to know what she looks like and obviously we won't know that for privacy reasons but if we did find out what she looked like and she was young and attractive does she need to be a Honeypot for horny lonely men to give up all their secrets so it's good to know that she wasn't giving out sex for you know the job okay I like that but if she was attractive and female and that's part of the reason she was chosen because you know people are going to open up to the attractive women a lot more than they are to somebody else so there might be a little bit of a fuzzy line there but I
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little bit of a fuzzy line there but I would agree I'm going to agree with cash uh which is a big deal because he he went against the president so the president made this claim and cash said looked into it absolutely false now do you like cash more I do I like cash more because he was uh completely transparent about that and he backed his he backed his employees so cash gets an A+ for that um president Trump is bragging that the Border crisis is basically over so February was the lowest number of Crossings now here's the big deal about that the number of border crossings was literally an existential threat to the country and he just fixed it it was an existential threat and Biden didn't fix it he caused it really but there are a number of other existential threats that Biden also didn't do anything about one
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Biden also didn't do anything about one is the debt and at least we've got Doge working on that but that might get a little uh might get a little dicey we'll talk about that in a minute but at least there's something big and important and the right person's working on it and they're putting tons of energy and personal Capital into it so at least they're addressing in a very serious way the other biggest existential threat and then there's Ukraine there was always a threat that would get into a nuclear conf confrontation I thought that was low but it was existential and now it looks like um if Putin were to Nuke the United States it wouldn't make any sense at all because the United States is saying hey Europe take care of it yourself and Europe is saying hey yeah we'll see if we can so it basically takes us out of a a war that we don't want to be in don't want to be funding and don't want Russia to attack us because maybe we did too good a job at giving Ukraine weapons I don't think it was a big risk
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weapons I don't think it was a big risk and then of course there's the inflation and energy costs um I don't know that enough is being done on that but here's here's some hints so according to Reuters uh us Drillers oil drillers um they've increased their oil and gas rigs for the fifth week in a row now don't get excited because I think they increase it by one but in the prior years like 2022 and 2023 I guess the number of oil rigs was going down but here's what you need to know it doesn't seem to be driven by policy in any way it seems entirely driven by economics so when the economics are good as in oil prices are high you get more Drilling and when the oil prices are low you get less so we're not seeing any indication of a trump policy change that's made any difference to Energy prices I hope we do but it could be that there's nothing the
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but it could be that there's nothing the government can do because the economics drive it entirely so I don't know what the government would do to change the economics of oil so we'll say maybe he's got some tricks up his leave but uh there's a company according to interesting engineering there's an aid driven robot technology that's uh there's a company that has Ai and robots and they're making them available to us power plants and apparently they've already got a $100 million deal so it's a serious thing uh in which the robots will crawl all over the power plant and they they'll have maintenance suggestions and they'll uh tell how optimize it'll predict when they need maintenance it'll do a bunch of things so they're looking at it as a way to decrease the overall cost of the power plants so that's good so let's say they could maybe decrease the cost of the power plants by 10% that's great except that AI in other
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10% that's great except that AI in other context will increase the cost of energy about 10 times because it's going to suck it all up for AI so I think AI is going to be a net negative for Energy prices because it's going to be competing with consumers so I don't know how that's going to work out so I would say that Trump does not have as far as I can tell I don't see Trump having any kind of plan for energy that would lower the cost and maybe there is none maybe there's nothing you can do it could be just pure economics and we're a capitalist place and you just can't make people do low return business that they going to do what they're going to do all right here's the funniest thing that happened now I don't know if this story is true so fact check me on this because if it's not true it's still so funny I'm going to report it but allegedly Trump signed an executive order they said that zalinsky is officially spilled with only one why remember I was complaining yesterday
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why remember I was complaining yesterday that zinsky there's at least three different spellings I've seen there's two y's on the end or one there's an in the middle or in E and it was driving me crazy so if it's true that Trump didn't an executive order redefining zelinsky's name that's just about the funniest thing he's ever done because it puts zedy in his place where no it's Gulf of America Mexico there's nothing you can do about it no we're going to call you zalinsky with one y and there's nothing you can do about it we didn't consult you it's an executive order that's your name now now that is just pure funny if you don't understand that as hilarious you you probably have serious TDS that is just flat out hilarious if it's true if it's not true is also hilarious so I don't care if it's true um so one of the reasons that we know that zalinsky rejected I'll say
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know that zalinsky rejected I'll say rejected gotten a little tiff with JD van and Trump in the White House is apparently Democrats had this breakfast with zinski and according to Senator Chris Murphy who's a Democrat and one of the worst people in the world as far as I can tell um he actually said this so this is right from Murphy so this is from a US senator and he said a Democrat said just finished a meeting with President zalinsky here in Washington he confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine uh and that was posted just before or maybe just during the meeting with zinski now have I ever have I ever mentioned that Democrats are bad at giving
advice so this is what I imagine what the advice sounded like I wasn't there but it's like all right zilinski go in
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but it's like all right zilinski go in there and sabotage Trump in front of the world that'll get you a better deal and don't wear a suit like I just imagine that was the advice now I've heard it said that zalinsky said he wouldn't wear a suit until the war was over well smarten up idiot if you're going to try to get something major out of trump you better wear a freaking suit and that should be your exception you should say no this is important to the future of Ukraine I'm not going to get this wrong I'm not going to insult my Host this is really really important uh do you think a republican would have ever given that advice now the real problem is why did he accept it in the first place like what was going on that he thought it was a good idea and then one one breakfast with Democrats turned it into a bad idea I don't know but Lindsey Graham as you know is completely lost so he's just totally done with Ukraine and you know
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totally done with Ukraine and you know you could argue that it's too little too late because he was big on Ukraine but I don't mind when people adjust I don't mind when they correct course um so I'm I'm more likely to judge him by the course correction than from the being you know you could argue not so right before but here's what he said he said in a post to the hand ringing Europeans who felt offended by President Trump's rejecting being lectured by zinsky be my guest to defend Ukraine from from Putin it is long past time for the Europeans to show that they are capable capable of defending their own continent and then he
he says this is a take I had really heard before but I guess I could have intuited it uh they've allowed meaning Europe they've allowed their militaries to be hollowed out and when Europe speaks no bad guys listen I say this with great Sadness the last group of people that I would count on to defend Freedom are the Europeans wow
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Europeans wow uh so let let me tell you where I got off the bus now I was never a fan of the funding that war but where I got off the bus on defending Europe is when they turned on us for free speech and that was Europe well let's say Great Britain seems to be the the biggest one but the rest of them seem to go long now you know the story they Europe created this fake watchdog censorship um structure whose main point and they say it directly was to destroy the xplatform the primary source of free speech in the United States so let me say it again if you just if you attempt and you put real effort into it like a lot of effort and it's an actual policy that you're going to try to destroy free speech in the United States I'm on Putin's side sorry Putin didn't do that so I'm not really on Putin's side you know what I mean I I'm being hyperbolic um but I'm not going to
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hyperbolic um but I'm not going to defend with one bullet or one anything if they're trying and and they're still trying they're still trying to destroy free speech in the United States so no you don't get anything um I would pull completely out of any defense with them because that's a they cross the line that's a line you do not cross if you're an ally that makes you an enemy let's be clear if you're going after free spee spe probably our most valued right in the United States you don't get to be our friend ever while the while the same people are alive you and you can never there's nothing you can do to make up to it you can't make up for that as long as the same people are you know in office and stuff there's nothing you can do that's that's game over you're on your own in my
my opinion well meanwhile zinski is over in Europe trying to pass that and get them to to step up and defend Europe and uh
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to to step up and defend Europe and uh prime minister K Stormer of the UK says that his country in France and Ukraine have agreed to work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States why are they presenting it to us why do you need to show us a a a ceasefire plan we're out we're out so yeah just go out go make your own whatever make a deal don't make a deal I don't care I have no interest in you whatsoever so you're all bad anyway so here here's what I think is funny they're acting like the only thing that's um the only thing that's preventing a ceasefire is that they didn't have a good plan do you think that's the case you know if we just had a better plan you know if if the UK and France work together with Ukraine and we came up with a plan then there' be a ceasefire I don't think it's a problem
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ceasefire I don't think it's a problem of the plan I think it goes a little deeper than that but we'll see meanwhile uh Norway has this big company that's a major marine fuel provider and the US uses them for a lot of their refueling in that part of the world but the big company called halt back bunkers um they're uh they decided they won't sell fuel to US Naval vessels so they don't want protection cuz aren't they better off if fully fueled American naval ships are sort of in the area is this the dumbest thing you've ever heard so they're going to they're going to vastly decrease their profits and make their own country less safe because they didn't like what somebody said to zalinsky in a meeting that's the dumbest thing I've heard since sending Katy Perry into space anyway so I saw a video uh Elon
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space anyway so I saw a video uh Elon Musk was boosting this so I don't know when it happened this this might have been an older video but it was tulsey gabard doing a little video just you know with her her phone um and she was talking about how zilinsky is a dictator and rence was he's taken assets from his critics he took over I guess a TV station you know the main TV station and he canceled elections and that sounds pretty dictator likee yeah and she says it might be a precedent if if Ukraine can do it through martial law and just say oh it's a war so democracy is over doesn't that allow the United States to do it at some point like not in this Administration but in another Administration don't you think that somebody's going to say well Ukraine Got Away With It so we're sort of at War a little bit it's in Europe but it's sort of us so maybe we need some some uh anyway so that could be a
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some some uh anyway so that could be a problem I guess Moscow has as asked the United States to reopen us airspace to Russian aircraft I didn't realize that we had blocked direct flights imagine what a pain in the ass that was to Russian diplomats who had to take a connecting flight to get the United States it must have been just such a pain in the ass so I assume this is more for the diplomats I don't know if this is going to happen but they've request it um the scariest thing today by far is Elon Musk on Joe Rogan and I saw a clip where musk said that the the I don't know if you would call it the Scandal because it's not illegal the fact that Congress can do trading including insider trading in it's legal if you're in Congress uh you can supplement your income now he suggested musz that maybe we should increase their salary so that they have at least some disincentive to steal but I don't know if you could
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steal but I don't know if you could increase it enough because the amount that they're stealing is generational wealth you know it'd be great if they could afford to pay for school and you know a nice place to live for their family I think that's appropriate so I do think they're underpaid by quite a bit but I don't know if you could stop corruption by just making sure they could pay for their you know their kids private school um but then he goes on he said the real problem is more than insider trading the real corruption and then of course Joe wanted to know what are you talking about and then musk completely locked up and he said they will kill me if I push too hard on this that means that musk does know with certainty how the bad guys are stealing massive amounts of money and he believes that if he Ed them they would literally kill him now he wasn't joking it wasn't hyperbole he said he literally thinks that if he
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he said he literally thinks that if he ounce these powerful people that he would be killed do you think that's going too far I don't I don't think it's going too far and he and uh apparently Tim burette you know in Congress he's Dem he's a republican um he had said in a video a while ago that if anybody ever leaked where the money goes in the Pentagon because they they fail all the audits they never passed an audit so we don't know where the money goes he said if anybody leaked where the money goes um they'd be murdered that's Tim brette saying directly if anybody told you where the money was going really they'd be murdered and now musle is saying the same thing and he wouldn't give an example even though he knows it now I hope musk is smart enough and obviously he would be that he's got some kind of a uh a file that nobody could ever find that would basically activate if he got
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would basically activate if he got killed so that all it would all be released if they actually killed him now if he doesn't have that he ought to he needs to get that going he needs to make sure there's somebody else who knows the exact story or or it's in a file or it's in a vault so deep Bel beneath the world that you could never know maybe in multiple places in CA in case they torture him and say tell us all the places and he'll give him like five of the places but they're really six I mean he's I hope he's smart enough and every indication is that he is that uh he's done something so that we can definitely find that out someday hope so so that's the scariest thing we've heard so there's some thinking that cutting the the Pentagon budget is actually not possible because the people trying to cut it will be murdered like literally murdered now I believe that completely I completely believe that that's a risk anyway um I assum some people
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risk anyway um I assum some people online are agitating that it's time to leave NATO and leave the UN and uh musk actually agreed with that in a post on X uh Europe probably doesn't need to defend itself that just makes sense you know it it made sense to have NATO for a while but it never made sense that we'd always have it so maybe this is time to make sure Europe can defend itself and then the UN just seems like an anti-American institution that we're funding doesn't it how often does the UN agree with us or do something useful versus thwart us and embarrass us so I I will listen to an argument on the UN and NATO too there might be a counterargument that's pretty good but I think they're both on the table I don't think it's crazy to think that we could get rid of both of them I just don't I know I have a firm opinion on that according to just the news um we have evidence that Epstein had uh about $20,000 in cash some of it in small
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$20,000 in cash some of it in small bills and the thinking is that maybe this is evidence of black man cuz he had $20,000 in cash I would like to add some context if you're as rich as Epstein $20,000 is just it's just Petty it's just pocket change so probably that was the money he was using to pay girls so it'd be off the books probably tipping so I think that was the money he was giving to people I don't think that's the money he was collecting CU if he was doing this International blackmail and and all he could get was $20,000 I don't think that would have kept his lifestyle up so if they had found $10 million then I'd say whoa whoa that looks like blackmail but if you find 20,000 it seems far more likely that that's related to what he's spending than than what he's collecting just my take on that um here's something that's no
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that um here's something that's no surprise at all how many times have I told you that every city is corrupt everyone well also according to justtin news uh a majority of the 75 largest cities are in financial trouble according to a new report so a majority of the 75 largest but here's the interesting thing apparently they have uh uh rules or laws that they have to balance the budget so how can it be that they have to balance the budget which means on paper it's balanced but that they're also in financial trouble how can both of those be true corruption apparently they're just taking out of their costs a whole bunch of things that should be in their costs so they've Not Included the full cost of the government in their budget calculations and it pushed costs into the future taxpayers so basically most of them are underwater but they're doing accounting tricks to look like they're not now what do you expect when
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not now what do you expect when professional Liars politicians are the ones handling your money what do you expect to happen on paper if you were to say on paper um how do you win an election well the most corrupt person lots of times uh because they can get the most support and money and stuff if they're corrupt and the so so basically the people who are the best liers often become the leaders because they did a better job of lying about their opponent than their opponent did so I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that profession that uh uh at least City officials are professional Liars is that too far when you say they're professional Liars because that's how they get elected and then they lie about everything and we can watch it we can watch them lying in real time so if you take the most lingest people in the whole country and you say all right the most lingest corrupt people manage my
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most lingest corrupt people manage my money and there's going to be a lot of it how could this go any other way so I'm going to say again we need to completely revise the who gets to determine where money goes that's just got to be taken out of the hands of Mayors and politicians in the city the the city can vote what they want to do but when it comes to actually writing the checks and auditing that's just got to be taken away from the city that cannot be you you can't the city auditing itself you just can't do that there's no way that works so we need something that I don't know if he can do that with an executive order seems like a little overreach but I don't know prime minister of Israel just posted this on X um with the conclusion of the first stage of the hos deal and in light of hamas's refusal to accept the witkoff framework uh for the continuation of talks to which Israel has agreed uh nanah who is deed Ed as of this morning the entry of all goods and
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this morning the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted so that means he's starving the civilians out I think that's what that means right because the goods and services going in would be mostly food and
and medicine so it looks like the the last stage of depopulating uh Gaza is in effect and one of the things I've noticed is that whenever Hamas acts it's really bad for is Israelis citizens obviously so if Hamas does a terror attack like October 7th it's terrible for the citizens you know they they're traumatized or killed or captured or tortured so if you're looking at from the civilian point of view Hamas is just all bad all the time but here's the ironic thing every time Hamas does something big Israel as a country gets stronger because it it Works to their narrative and then they can capture more land it's not the first time that
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land it's not the first time that they've that it's allowed them to just control territory that they wouldn't naturally control so Hamas has this weird kind of thing going on which is the more they ATT they attack individuals that are Israelis the stronger Israel as a nation gets it's very consistent and this will be another example so it does look like my guess is that they'll get rid of all the civilians presumably they'll say if you leave you can get food and medicine I assume but if you stay the big bombs the bunker Busters are the next phase I think they're going to have to Bunker bust the tunnels before they can do anything serious and I think at this point they might bunker bust them with the hostages in them because they're just running out of options so all the options are horrific so I'm not saying I'm in favor of it um because it's all horrific I'm just predicting where it's going and I think Kamas has created the situation where Israel just has a free
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pass all right so that's all I got for now and uh since I usually stay and talk to the uh locals people privately but we're only doing locals right now um I think this broadcast will be put on the other it'll be uploaded to the other platforms a little bit later today um so I think that's all I need to say for now how'd you like the show