Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton - EP:27 - The Christmas Truce of 1914

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

Darryl Cooper & Scott Horton dissect Ben Shapiro's most recent attack on Tucker Carlson and Ben's weaselly political maneuvering. They discuss the escalating tensions between the US and Venezuela, fueled by Trump’s statements, stressing the importance of fact over speculation and the need for public dissent against foreign interventions like this one. They also touch on media manipulation and the Trump administration's detachment from public sentiment. Reflecting on the Christmas Truce of World War I, they champion unity among diverse groups who oppose militarism despite differences on other issues. Widespread public dissent remains a powerful tool against the regime, which thrives on public ignorance, apathy, and docility... so join us in taking the White Pill this Christmas, realizing that we the dissidents are gaining ground, and keep on fighting the good fight with us. Chapters: 0:00 Opening Remarks & Addressing Rumors 3:19 Clarifying Misunderstandings 5:21 Hearsay and Speculation 6:58 Military Insights 8:30 Changing Media Dynamics 12:20 The Power of Public Opinion 15:33 The War in Ukraine 17:12 Exploring Historical Contexts 20:45 Ben Shapiro's "Critique" 26:50 The USS Liberty Incident 37:00 Eyewitness Accounts 44:26 The Aftermath of Secrecy 48:38 Ben Shapiro's Role in Politics 54:49 Christmas Truce Discussion (Cleaned up w/ the Podsworth app. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podsworth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) 👉 Subscribe for more honest, unfiltered conversations that push past the noise. 🔹 No safe spaces. 🔹 No corporate filters. 🔹 Just raw, informed, and fearless conversation. Provoked show website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://provoked.show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Darryl's links: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@martyrmade⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.martyrmade.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Scott's links: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@scotthortonshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthortonacademy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://libertarianinstitute.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://antiwar.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthorton.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://scotthorton.org/books⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.scotthortonshow.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4904399580430336

Tonight, where's Daryl? He'll be here in a minute. All humans break. The difference between humans and gods is that gods can break humans. Negotiate now. End this war. You're watching Provoked with Daryl Cooper and Scott Horton, debunking the propaganda lies of the past, present, and future.

This. is provoked. There we go. Ah, there he is. I just had to... I was here before. I don't know why I wasn't on the screen. No, I could...

You were down to the bottom, but I had to just page down a little of this thing-o window. Hey, buddy. How are you doing? Doing all right. Doing all right. Ben Shapiro made me famous again last night,

so that was nice. Sweet. I hope you got a bunch of clicks out of that. says you gotta monetize your haters so do promo code Shapiro and everybody gets half off of subscription to Mortar Made podcast, something like that. Juice those numbers up, man.

I don't really want to tie myself to a sinking ship like Ben Shapiro, so. Yeah, well, I don't mean it quite that way. Okay, good, yes. Let's talk about that and lots of things. This is provoked every Friday night. We go live here on the YouTube, it's usually on

Rumble, although we had a technical thing today. But we're also on X.com, of course. And I'm Scott Horton, and he is, of course, the great martyr-made, Daryl Cooper. And we do have a bunch of stuff. Before we talk about that, and I have just kind of a sort of,

not really, but kind of mea-culp a sort of deal. Yesterday, I overreacted Daryl Cooper because what happened was, well, what happened was Donald Trump jerked somebody else's chain and then therefore mine. And what it was was the White House sent people, I'm not exactly sure who said what, because it's a little bit grapevine.

But he sent people to the Congress to tell members of the House of Representatives that he was going to announce an escalation against Venezuela in his speech. And Tucker Carlson was told that by a congressional source and mentioned that on the Judge Napolitano show. And then I also had hearsay from the House of Representatives along those same lines.

And then I also had hearsay, triple hearsay. What's that worth? Not very much. But I had a source, which, again, was secondhand, but from the military, which wasn't about what Trump was going to say in his speech, but that the military was actually getting ready to go ahead and do something. So I thought that that was enough to go ahead and get on Twitter

and say, hey, man, everybody, now's the time, call the White House. Let them know that part of the story of today was the calls were going crazy and everyone was against it. And it's just a marginal thing, but it's the best that we can do. And it sometimes has made the difference in the past, like getting the war powers resolutions at least brought to a vote in the case of Yemen and in helping to stop the Syria war in 2013 and other things. And I don't have any power.

That's my only power is Twitter. So like, hey, everybody, what if we all called phone numbers at the same time? It turned out what I found out later was in the middle of the day, Fox News said, now we're going to talk with our panel about Trump's speech tonight. And it had nothing to do with Venezuela. It was all economic stuff. And I could tell, like, they obviously have early access to what it is. And I tweeted that.

You know, I don't like being alarms. I even tweeted before that. I really don't like being alarmist about the near-term future. That's not my job predicting things. I don't claim to have special access to knowledge or whatever. It's just I heard three bad things and thought, you know what? If there's a chance of that, then we need to all really raise our voice against it. And then what I found out later was, one, he gave the speech and it didn't have the word

Venezuela in anywhere, I don't think. And two, I found out later that he was also sending people to tell the Congress that he was not going to do anything. And then that sounds much more like, oh, I get it. I'm stupid. but I wish I had thought this through more carefully, which is that Thomas Massey was bringing the war power's resolution to a vote yesterday. And this was an attempt to sabotage that,

not by saying anything in the speech, but just by spreading rumors in the morning that he was going to say something in the speech. And that was enough. I'm just speculating this part, but it totally makes sense that the White House figured with some members of Congress, they would tell them, listen, the president's doing something today. You're not going to get in the way of that, all right? No. And then that would be a good argument for some members of the House. And then for others, they were told, Trump's not going to do anything. And so you doing this, you're just going to make it mad. Probably make it more likely does something. So you should just shut up and let it go. This kind of thing. In other words, they were whipping boats against the war powers resolution. That was the purpose of the rumors that they were spreading in the morning. Those were the rumors that I picked up on. I don't know what explains the rumor that I heard from the military side, but whatever. Obviously, didn't happen. Didn't happen yet anyway. And so whatever, I got to,

a little bit of crow about that, but I don't really care, you know, because as I said yesterday and as I said today and trying to explain, my job is not predicting things. And I don't go around pretending to predict a bunch of things and then crowing about when one of my predictions seems to kind of come true or something like that, although that does happen from time to time. That's really not my thing. In fact, I'm not even very good about complaining about what happened today and this week. I'm better complaining about what happened, you know, 40 years ago or whatever that I still got a, or 20 years ago. I still got a grudge over something like that. I don't know. But when it seems to be a potential emergency, and it seems like on the margin

we can make the difference, then I'm willing to say, and I didn't say, oh, I hereby predict a war. I just said, I'm hearing hearsay, which I said was hearsay. And it seems like enough to move me to action. So I called, and here's the phone number to call. It's quick. It's free. And so let it be known that you're against this stuff. So I barely regret it. But as I tweet, yes, hey, boy, if I'm alarmist and something doesn't happen, then I might look stupid, heaven for fend. But really, like, just because I have a fragile weak ego and I don't like looking stupid doesn't really mean that I shouldn't try to do the right thing if it seems like it's necessary or very, you know, potentially could be. So anyway, that's my mea culpa from my overreach yesterday for what it's worth. But it wasn't,

by the way, that I got it wrong. I was saying, we're hearing these rumors from the house or what it right like this is what it was and that was now i'm charlie savage reporting on rumors i heard you know i mean look i spoke not only to tucker i i spoke to tucker about it before can you hear me yeah so i spoke spoke to talk yeah you're coming out a little bit what's up i don't know my connection's good i'm wired no you're good now you're good now go ahead cool um no no no go so i spoke to tucker about it before the napolitano show and um i spoke to several other people in the media that I'm then I've become friends with who are you know not at Tucker's level because who is but people everybody watching is heard of all of them had their own sources

they were all here in the same thing so that was definitely put out there for you know on purpose and um and yeah i've got i've got contacts in the military as well that you know they didn't like you said they didn't tell me he was going to say anything in the speech that night but they did tell me that their office, I won't say any more than that, that their Christmas leave was canceled and that they're pretty much, it's just, it's just sort of like common knowledge that things are going to pop off at some point. Now, if that happens or not, who knows, you know, this isn't like, I'm not talking to, you know, an admiral or something, somebody who's in the room, but, you know, not making decisions. And so, you know, here's the thing, man, like,

There's a saying on the dissident right, always chimp, and you really have to always chimp out. You have to go crazy whenever any of these things happen, partly because sometimes they just float stuff out there. You know, hey, 50-year mortgages, hey, maybe we're going to do this, maybe we're going to do that. And they want to see how people respond, especially Trump, you know, he's very sensitive to stuff like that. He wants to see how people respond. He's A-B testing, you know. And if you just say, well, you know, it may or may not happen, like we're not really sure. or just kind of let it go.

And meanwhile, all the people who want war with Venezuela are out there like, yeah, yeah, kill him, get him, kill him. Well, that's all he's going to hear. And so you have to put that stuff out there, you know. So that's one reason. The other reason, though, we don't, you know, things aren't like they used to be even as recently as Iraq War II. You know, Iraq War II, yeah, it was already set in stone.

They didn't give a crap what any of us thought about it or whatever. But at least for months beforehand, There was like this public, quote unquote, debate. People were talking about it on the news and, you know, people were having their opportunities to sort of, you know, get their arguments in edgewise. And as everybody kind of knew it was building up. And then one day they're like, all right, this is the date.

And then we're going to war. And everybody kind of knew that was coming and turned on their TVs and watched it all. Then that happens. You know, you have like, I don't know if this started with Obama in Libya where he didn't even give a press conference for like, two weeks. He's just like, oh yeah, by the way, we toppled the Libyan government and like created chaos there by the way. And that's just kind of how they handled things now, is they just let us know who we're at war with now. And okay. And so if that's how they're going to operate,

then every time you hear a rumor, you got to go crazy. You know, you have to. You got to call them and let them know, especially since I think Trump, and I've heard this from multiple people, you know, Trump is very, very, like very much in a bubble right now. And if you look at the first Trump administration. A lot of the moves that were made against him by the deep state or, you know, whatever, like you want to call it, a lot of those things were really built or are really intended to put a bubble around him that was not there when he got elected, because he wasn't supposed to get elected. He certainly wasn't supposed to have people like Steve Bannon and so forth around him. And so, you know, they needed to build a bubble of establishment people

who were gatekeeping him and making sure that the only information that he got was stuff they wanted to hear. They've got that fairly well locked down now. Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, she controls who speaks to Trump and who doesn't, period. I've had that from an unimpeachable firsthand source, that she decides who gets to talk to Trump and who doesn't. The only person who can really go around that, who has some idea what people like us, the people are thinking, is J.D. Vance. Like, he's one of the only channels in there. Because other than the people he's meeting with directly. Trump gets his Fox News daily diet, and that's what he knows what's going on. You know, he sees, he sees Mark Levin, and he thinks that he represents the conservative people

out there and his MAGA voters or whatever, because he's on Fox News, he's not hearing any different. And so, you know, you have to raise a ruckus just to get through and to make sure that people who are around him, who are sort of paying attention to that stuff, like Vance, see that and convey it to him that like this is you know potential political issue problem for us and so um you know yeah so you can meet a call up all you want i mean it's sort of like when dave uh dave smith um when israel and iran had their little spat earlier in the year and he was out there saying look this could be a complete disaster we can get sucked into a war with iran iran could start you know bombing the crap out of our bases and then what are we going to do we're going

to like invade or saying all this stuff and people still do this day the haters still look I'm like, oh, you said it was going to be a disaster, but it wasn't. Ha, ha, ha. It's like, yeah, thank God that Iran decided to show restraint at the end of that and just do like a telegraph strike on our, you know, spot and like, thank goodness for that, that they showed that rationality and restraint. But it could have gone another way. And, you know, in pointing out that there's a very real risk of that, no mea culpa is necessary

when something like that doesn't happen, you know, we can all cross our. and thank God that it didn't, but that's it. Yeah. Well, look, the bad news is that it worked. I mean, what if we had spent all day calling our congressmen and demanding they support the war powers resolution instead of calling the White House complaining about what we don't want to hear in the speech tonight might not have made the difference anyway.

And look, you know, as I've always said that when it comes to stuff like this, the difference is absolutely, you know, marginal at best. We don't have wealth and power. We just got lots of numbers. that is something, right? It ain't like, it's not the same thing as saying, believe in the system, young man. If you don't like it, we'll call your congressman and try to get him to introduce some new legislation like in the schoolhouse rock or whatever. It's not that. But it makes a difference if people are really complaining if the phone's

ringing off the hook or whether it's not, as I put it yesterday on Twitter. Does it make a difference if the phone is ringing? Well, it definitely doesn't if it's not. And so, you know, when Trump walks out the window and imagines America out there does he think that we're all pissed off or does he think that we don't care if he does this and maybe you don't think it's funny or right like that matters his impression of that

and whatever we can do to influence his perception of what the people out there think is to me that's all we got and of course it's crucial you know by the way and especially I just go ahead well I was just going to say because you know

Trump, he doesn't believe when the media puts out polls saying that he's losing his young voters or that he's, you know, approval rating even among his voters is starting to see. He doesn't believe any of that. You know, he sees all that as an op and he has good reasons to think that way. You know, you can totally understand why. But as, you know, like I said, they've put up a fence around him that's pretty impermeable with the exception of the leak, you know, the sort of the little. peak hole of J.D. Vance that can get through there. And he, yeah, I just think, you know,

he probably does think that, like, everything is hunky dory. You know, when he said back in 2016, whenever it was that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he wouldn't lose any of his voters, I think he kind of believes that. He's saying, it's one of the reasons he spends so much time trying to please the 2016 never Trump crowd and seems to just ignore his base. Because he thinks he's got those people unlocked. I don't have to worry about that. That's good. I have to like win, you know, the never Trump people,

all the people who hate him and were calling for his impeachment after January 6th and 2020, people like Ben Shapiro and Lindsey Graham, you know, their loyalty to him is conditional. And he knows that. And he knows that a lot of his base, the cat turd types on Twitter and, you know, just a lot of his boomer base, that their loyalty's not conditional, you know. And if that's, you can't be like that with politicians because they'll take you for granted. And that's what we've gotten so far. Yeah, totally.

Now, one thing is, I was only reminded of this the other day because someone was asking about the clip in the, I guess it's the intro to my other show. Oh, no, it's in the intro to this show too. We're on at the Lincoln Memorial saying, negotiate now in this war. And somebody asked, what is that from? And it was a speech I gave in February, 2003,

one year anniversary of the war. It was sort of a libertarian leftist coalition kind of a thing there. War in Ukraine. What did I say? just the war yeah oh sorry yeah there's a lot of wars you gotta be specific there horton yeah um and yes and so um uh what was i gonna say oh yeah in that speech i had forgotten about this and i don't even think this is in the book um i gave this speech a year and a half before the book came out yeah so whatever fact was on my mind uh about this i don't think this made it into the book there

I think I forgot it like Joe Biden, but it was in the speech that, you know, the very famous Rand Corporation study that we talk about, about Ukraine that came out in 2019 called Extending Russia, read over extending Russia, right?

In other words, how do we provoke them into over extending themselves? We give them obligations in Belarus, in Kazakhstan, in Syria, in Ukraine. And then, but with all the disclaimers of, Boy, this is what might happen, though, if we do, right? So it's a very, you know, compelling read. I urge it.

It's the McCollum memo of the Ukraine war is what it really is, you know? But in that same study, you know what they say in there over and over again? They say, however, that German people have expressed strong disapproval for this way of going about it. And public opinion in Britain won't stand for this. And public opinion of France won't stand for that. and public opinion in the United States won't tolerate this either. And I would have just guessed,

Harold, that that wasn't in there. But it is in there that for the eggheads calculating, look, none of it is about how can we best obey the will of the people and serve their needs, right? It's not that. It's what can we get away with before the people stop us. But at no point did they say, screw the American people, what are they going to do about it?

They don't say that. They go, well, a public opinion, of course, is very iffy on this proposition, and we must tread very lightly, or we could undermine our whole thing. And so, if that's the way they look at it, then that's the way we should look at it. That, like, that's right. We don't have money and power and organization, but there are a hell of a lot of us, so let's just go with that. And we don't have to ally with or work with, what that mean, to work with, say, people you don't like. I'm a libertarian. I get along with left wingers and right wingers of all stripes, but a lot of times right wingers, they don't

like left-wingers at all. That big coalition that we put together for that rally at the Lincoln Memorial, if we brought some right-wingers too, it would have not worked, right? Libertarians and leftists, sure. Even if it had been libertarians and right-wingers, sure. But right-wingers and left-wingers and libertarians all together, yeah, maybe not, right? Too much name-calling, too much difference of opinion. But who cares about that? What if we just all oppose the same horrible thing at the same time? Then we're not working with each other and left-wingers don't have to get right-wing cooties on them or vice versa. But we can all just say, like, hey, let's just forge a consensus that everyone in the country who is not in on it is against it. And we did that in 2013 after the first big fake

sarin attack in Guta in eastern Damascus. And Obama wanted to take us to war on that. And yes, it's true that Clapper, the DNI and Dempsey, the chairman of joint chiefs also weighed in against it. And that ain't nothing. But it was also true that the American people especially Republican voters of America. We're calling their congressmen. It was unanimous. We do not want to follow Barack Obama into Syria. Absolutely not.

Stomp and foots, no. And same on the Democratic side. And eventually Obama gave into that. And, you know, he called the Democratic leaders in Congress and said, let your people vote how they want. In other words, let them vote against it and kill it. And in fact, even supported putting it to a vote in the Congress in the first place. When we all know, just like with Libya, he could have just gone

if he wanted to, but he backed down because the American people were pissed. That was a huge part of it. It's not everything, but it's wrong that just because we're powerless, we're completely powerless, and especially on crucial issues like this, where they are going to stick their thumb in the wind

or their finger in the wind and see overall whether sentiment is with them or not. It's not quite the Powell doctrine of you must have American solid bipartisan support, but it's at least, something. Yeah. Let me go ahead.

No, you go. Let me ask you about Ben Shapiro's jihad. They're trying to take out Tucker Carlson, and you can tell it's so obvious what they hate about him is he's a good man. If anybody saw his speech, he got up there and for the 10,000th time this year alone, denounced anti-Semitism as bigoted racial type collectivism that is entirely contrary to basic American principle. of individual existence and liberty

as well as against his Christian religion, which also identifies people as individuals and God's children, not his to judge, et cetera, et cetera, and against collective guilt and collective responsibility and collective everything. And again, so that was the same reason why he was against what the Israelis were doing to the Palestinians.

And so it's obvious that that's what they have against him. It's because he brings common decency to anti-Zionism in a way that is quite contrary to the narrative. You're supposed to be on the right. You're supposed to be a good little Zionist until you get so far to the right that you just hate Jews and that's why you don't like Israel.

And that's the narrative that they have pushed and pushed and pushed for decades. And Tucker Carlson is the living, breathing, walking, fearless example of the untruth of that narrative. And so they're just going nuts. And including they let Ben Shapiro come out and denounce Tucker Carlson and demand his unpersoning

and deplatforming from the conservative movement at the same TPPUSA conference where Tucker was about to come out and also give a speech, I guess a few speeches later, or whatever it was. It was just incredible that... Yeah, at an event put on by an organization

founded by a martyr who literally died for the principle of we need to actually talk to all of these people, you know, not cancel people and shut people down. We need to have all conversations. I mean, it was really grotesque. Yeah, I mean, you know, Ben Shapiro was never invited to a TPUSA event when Charlie was alive and he spent all his time trashing a bunch of, you know, all the people who were.

You know, Ben Shapiro, it's kind of funny to me that he mentions my name so often because I guess it's sort of surreal to think that he's in his, you know, bed at 3 a.m., just sweating deeds like thinking about what I said about World War II today or something. something. But, you know, this is why it was really important for them to get rid of Tucker from Fox News because, again, like, Fox News is one of the few, is one of the few channels through it, and I don't mean TV channels, but just in the generic sense, one of the few channels through which Trump gets his information about what the people are thinking. And you go back to, like, the Syria example you gave. I mean, it was a big part of why that got stopped.

was, you know, that Tucker was talking about it. And then later on, when Trump went in and did those airstrikes on Syria, Tucker was talking about that in a way that nobody else was talking about, that never would have been spoken about on Fox News. I mean, he was just asking the obvious questions of like, okay, this war seems pretty much wrapped up. The only thing they cannot do is provoke the United States, give us an excuse to, like, jump into this thing.

And, oh, they did the exact thing. we said you better not do for no tax, you know, just obvious questions, things you would expect a responsible press to talk about, but they weren't, and Tucker was. And so they had to get rid of him before Trump was back in office, you know, and it became pretty evident, I think, to them that Trump was going to win a lot earlier than it became evident to most people watching, you know, the campaign. I think they knew halfway through Biden's term. There was no way they were going to stop him without military means, basically. And so, you know, the, it's funny. because Ben uh spends his his time up there lecturing the uh turning point you know

America Fest or whatever audience about how conservative if you're a conservative you call yourself a conservative which I think a lot of the people who are turning point types don't these days honestly they might call themselves right wingers I think a lot of them would hesitate to actually identify with that term but you say if you call yourself a conservative then you have to be willing to put principle, put the truth above personal relationships, loyalty to individual people or to groups and blah, blah, blah. And then he went on to just brazenly lie about the USS Liberty incident and just lie about the crew members, you know, and the stories that they've told when a kid asked him about

it. And he did that why. He's, he's, you know, casting aside the truth to defend his tribe. The thing that he's sat there excoriating, you know, other people for doing and warning, admonishing the crowd not to do. And, yeah, I mean, it's a... Pardon me for interrupting here, but can you please clarify that? Because I did not watch all of Ben Shapiro's speech. Yeah, so a kid asked him, like, they were taking questions afterwards. Yeah, so they were taking questions, and somebody asked him about the USS Liberty incident. And at first, he said, you know, well, it was so long ago, why do you care?

You know, why should we care about something that happened so long ago? And it's like, all right, but, let's, go ahead anyway, but let's, but first he said that. And then he just wanted to think about it was an accident and, you know, a friendly fire and these things happen in war. And then he just, he asked, he implied that the kid was an anti-Semite for asking. You know, he's like, why are you asking? Why do you care? Why is that a question that you would want to ask, da, da, da, da, that kind of thing. And then I'm sorry, did you say something about the crash sailors too?

Well, no, just said, look, if you are out there saying that this was an accident, you're out there saying that, you know. Okay, I just wanted to clarify. He didn't say to say it clearly that. Okay. No, he's smart enough not to do that. I understand. I understand.

I just wanted to clarify. But, you know, if Scott Horton says, I saw this guy murder a guy, and I go out saying that that guy didn't murder that guy, I'm calling Scott Horton a liar, you know. And when you go through the Liberty incident, which I know a lot of people who are fans of ours have, you know, they're familiar with it, but a lot of people aren't. Like, just go through like some of the basics of what happened there in 1967. The Egyptian Navy had already been sunk. It was sunk the day that Israel launched its surprise attack.

The Egyptians didn't have any ships that look like the USS Liberty. Oh, Homeboy. You know what? What? Hold on one second there, Darrow. Your internet is busted, buddy, so I'm going to take over for you for a second until it catches up.

Yes, the, sorry, you might be fine in a second, but just give it a second. It was in the 1967 war, and he's right, a lot of people have no idea about this. In the 1967 war, the Israeli Air Force, and then ultimately Navy attacked an American ship. It was an NSA spy ship, of course, run by the U.S. Navy

with two sets of people on there and strafed the hell out of them and eventually shot torpedoes at them and tried to sink the ship. And, geez, I'm sorry, was it 73? I forget, I'm sorry, now off the top of my head the death toll, but it was very bad and they covered it up

and there were even planes that were sent to go and rescue that were called back. And it's a sordid tale, man. And now let's see how Darrow Cooper's Bandwidth is doing here. Let's see if we can say this. Okay, you seem nice and smooth there now. Go ahead, buddy.

Yeah, I got you. So the important thing for people to understand about the incident is that the crew members, ever since they started speaking out decades ago, they've been absolutely consistent about what happened that day. There's not a he said, she said, and this, and that does not exist in this instance. You have, I mean, you have to believe that the entire crew, I mean, okay, let's steal man the most generous interpretation of what the, you know, the rationalizers of the Liberty incidents say. Like, the most generous interpretation of their view is that, well, these men,

look, yeah, they were there and they saw these things, but, you know, in a given incident like that, everybody only sees like a little part of it. It's like if you're in the engineering compartment, then, you know, you're not top side. And if you're top side, you're not seeing what's going on here on the bridge and all that kind of stuff. So maybe they're just confused. Maybe that, but again, they all tell the same story. they all sell the same the same timeline of events and when you look at you know the lies the exposed lies that have come out over the years like the fact that they tried to say there was no flag flying it's like well we got the signalman who was on the bridge on watch at the time

the guy literally in charge of running the flags up and down the poles who was there who put it up himself who was looking up at it as all this was going on and then it gets burned up in that initial attack, and what did they do? The same guy, the guy on watch, in charge of the flags, runs the holiday ensign up, which is a great big giant flag that we only fly on federal holidays. And so they tried to say that, you know, it was a misty, cloudy day. No, it was a perfectly clear day, actually. And so, you know, in court, they say when you lie about things like that, it shows consciousness of guilt. You know, you're lying about it for a reason. You're not just, you're doing it just because you kind of compulsively do it or something, you know, there's a reason behind it. And so,

So I'm not displaying the life wrap all of bullet holes in their Navy museum in Tel Aviv. I've seen it. I've seen it. No, it's in Haifa. Sorry. Yeah, I've seen it. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah, but I used to, when I would work in Israel, when I was with the DoD, most of the time I would be based out of Haifa because that's where their main port is that are ships and, you know, pulling to and stuff. And so, yeah, I've seen it. I went there. I looked at it. And a lot of people, you know, they'll try to tell you, if you like, go on. online and mention it and someone wants to defend the Zionists, they'll, you know, they'll say,

well, you know, yeah, look, this was a significant incident. And, you know, it was just, it's a part of history. And so, yeah, it's going to be, no, go, go to Haifa. Go look at the thing. Go look at the way it's displayed. This is not something that is like, here's a tragic example of, like, something that happened with one of our best allies and, like, something we always need to keep in mind. No, that is not how the thing is displayed at all. That thing is a trophy. I mean, a hundred percent. And I mean, and when you think of, you know, there's like so many things about the attack that if you don't have a certain amount of familiarity with like how the military works, especially the Navy and Air Force, how they work, that will just sort of go past people where, you know, like they say that they didn't know it was an American ship, misidentification of the ship. And it's like, okay, well, we know that Israeli jets were buzzing that ship all morning long.

like back and forth, buzzing that ship. And the guys on the ship remembered thinking to themselves and telling each other, oh, we're safe. The Israelis are up there watching over us, you know, so everything's cool. And nobody's going to come bother us. The Egyptians or all the bad people, you know, who might attack us.

Why, we're safe for that. The Israelis admit that, by the way. The Israelis admit what you should have said. And so as part of my job when I was in the military, and I was not somebody who, you know, I wasn't a tactical commander or a pilot or anything like that, but it was still like it was tangential to my job, but I still had to go through training. Literally every single year, I'd have to go through a training evolution where they would make us, like, memorize and be

able to identify ship's silhouettes, you know, plain silhouettes of just, of, of platforms that allies and enemies had. You have to be able to identify that. Pilots, that is drilled into them nonstop, being able to identify, like, a ship platform based on silhouette. I mean, the idea, again, you know, that's something that, like, you don't really need that when you consider the fact that, you know, it was a clear day with a big American flag flying on the ship and they spent hours going back and forth and looking at it. But it's just, it's one of those things that, like, it's so galling when people try to come, like, when, like, the things that that.

Oh, wait. To finish the thought, Darrell, what you're trying to say is, the ship looked nothing like an Egyptian trawler, and specifically the Egyptian trawler, they say they thought it was. Give us all a break. It even had a very oddly shaped bow and all this stuff. The Egyptian boat did. And so definitely, there's no way even I would be. And the liberty was absolutely brimming with, you know, radar and communications antenna everywhere because of its mission. Like, this is the idea that it was. was misidentified is, I mean, you know, a lot. It's so ridiculous that it honestly doesn't merit discussion, you know, and it's really just galling when people try to, you know, they use the fact that like the public doesn't know a lot of the details about the thing. And it's why it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to Jocko for doing that episode that I set up for them with the survivors, you know, because that is the largest platform by far that they'd ever had up to that point. And millions and millions of people, thank

to him, thanks to him, heard the real story from the people, including the signalman, the guy in charge of the flags, who was there on that show. And you listen to them, go through the entire story. And I challenge anybody, I mean, we're not going to have a whole lot of people who doubt us on this, I guess, like watching this show, especially live. But, you know, anybody who comes across this later, if you have any doubt, go watch Jock's episode, Jock willing Jocko podcast episode with the USS Liberty Survivors. They go through the entire day in detail, and there is absolutely no room for doubt

that the Israelis carried out an attack on an American ship on purpose. Now, one of my favorite responses that the rationalizers are always throw out there is they'll ask, okay, well, what was the motive? Why would they do that? What possibly was the motive? Never fall into that trap.

Okay, when people do that to you, they're, it's not on you to speculate what the motive was. We have dozens and dozens and dozens of eyewitnesses who were there at the time and went through the entire attack for the entire, it lasted over an hour, by the way. This was not like, you know, in 1983 with the USS Star where an Iraqi, you know, jet fired a couple errant missiles and was like, oh no, and now they're gone, you can't do anything. Like, that's not what happened. This lasted over an hour. It came, the attack came in waves. You know, they came first and blew up the communications antenna so that they couldn't send a distress signal.

And then they came and hit it with torpedoes. And the torpedoes are incredibly powerful weapons. Like if you, I've been out on demonstrations where we're testing some of our weapons and we'll do it on like decommissioned ships and stuff, you know, just to, you know, you only get so many chances to see what kind of damage. these things really do to actual holes. And so where we're hitting a ship with cruise missiles, we're hitting all kinds of gunfire,

and the thing just won't sink. And you hit it with a torpedo, and the thing just cracks in half and goes to the bottom. Like, it's an incredibly powerful weapon. And it's a complete miracle that the ship didn't sink when that torpedo, the one that actually hit, you know, made contact. It hit a very specific part of the ship's hull that was reinforced, distributed the force enough to like keep them afloat. It's a miracle though. It was just,

you probably couldn't replicate it if you tried. And so, you know, after that happens and the guys are up on the deck trying to fight fires, then the Israelis come in with gunboats and they start engaging them with their 50 caliber crew served weapons. Okay. So people on the gun going If you're doing that, you're a quarter mile away, you know, half mile away, maybe at most. And after they had already disarmed the ship and they knew that, you know, the Liberty hadn't fired back yet, and it wasn't likely to, in any case, these guys were a quarter to a half mile away, shooting at our guys on the deck of the USS Liberty as they were trying to fight fires, shooting up the lifeboats so that they couldn't escape, shooting at people who were in the lifeboats,

which, by the way, is a international, you know, it's a war crime under any international agreement or custom. And so, like, again, just to repeat one point, don't ever let them try to put you in the trap of, like, it's on you to explain what the Israelis motives, like, were. That's not on you.

We have the eyewitnesses. We know what actually happened that day. Don't fall into that trap because, you know, because you're just going to be speculating. And then they're just going to say you're spec, don't ever do that, you know. In fact, what you do is you ask them, you say, I don't know what their motive was. What was their motive in 1954 when they blew up a bunch of British and American theaters and community centers in Cairo?

You know, Israeli intelligence did that. It's called the LaVan Affair. Go look it up. It's like, you know, it's not even denied anymore. Like, the Israelis themselves in London. Go back to 1950. Why were the Zionists bombing Jewish synagogues and community centers in Baghdad? in 1950-51.

I don't know. We know they were doing it, though. We know they did do the things associated with the La Vaughan affair. We do know that the people who did those things were all still in charge in 1967. So, you know, it's not on you to explain their motives.

Yeah. And look, there are different theories floated about it. I won't even mention them if you don't want me to, but there are much, there are, you know, sort of more fanciful ones and there are much more reasonable ones

and much more limited type explanations for why they did it too. So this is not like the realm of Coot Territory for speculating that kind of thing. So tag me in here, though, for just a minute because I want to talk about how it must have just been in preparation for interviewing some of these guys a few years ago, Darrell, that I did a deep dive on this thing. I read a couple of books about it, two or three, and I watched a bunch of documentaries. And, of course, I don't know if you know this, but over the time, I have interviewed many of these guys. I've interviewed Joe Meadors a couple of times.

I've interviewed him and Larry Bowen. I interviewed Ron Kukal. And, you know, Google just sucks so bad now, man. And it hates my website. I know I have a lot of interviews of these guys if you want to go back. And then let me share this screen again here real quick and show people. This is a tweet that I put out back whenever that I. And you can find it real easily.

Just search my name, Scott Horton's show, all one word, and Liberty, USS Liberty, argument from authority. Now, of course, that's famously a logical fallacy argument from authority. That's why I called it that. But in this case, look at who I got, and I won't read you the quotes, but look, I got Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State, George Ball, Undersecretary State, Admiral Thomas H. Moore, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NSA Director, Marshall Carter, Captain William McGonigal, the captain of the Liberty, finally admitted it,

NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella, Major General John Morrison, Walter Dealey, the senior NSA official who conducted the internal NSA investigation, former CIA Director Richard Helms, who told this to Bampard, your chapter on Liberty was exactly right, Rufus Taylor, Deputy Director of CIA, Paul C. Warnke, the Undersecretary of the Navy, David G. Ness, the deputy head of the American mission in Cairo. Oh, and I'll just skip that for space here.

Senior leadership of the NSA was, quote, virtually unanimous that it was deliberate. Dealey concluded, quote, there's no way they didn't know the Liberty was American. NSA Director Carter, Deputy Director Louis Tordell. Oh, these are the quotes here, John Morrison, Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, Tom Hughes, Director of INR, that is, the State Department's CIA,

their own the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at State. Bobby Ray Inman, Deputy Director of CIA, NSA Deputy Director for Operations Oliver Kirby, General Johnny Morrison, General William Odom, famously former head of NSA under Ronald Reagan, and he's the guy who said that Iraq was the greatest strategic disaster in America in his you might remember back 20 years ago. And a CIA official quoting an Israeli source admitting that they did it. Okay. And so that is, and I compiled that from a bunch of different sources,

but all of it ought to be easy to Google and check me on if you would like. And so call that a logical fallacy, you know, that all those guys are bluffing? Yeah, no, I don't think so. What they are is they're mad as hell, and they're not mistaken. Give me a break. You know, and then let me show real quick here. This book is the great James Bamford. He is the greatest American journalistic chronicler

of the National Security Agency. He wrote The Puzzle Palace. This one is called Body of Secrets. And then he wrote a pretext for war about Rock War II. And then the Shadow Factory about the National Security Agency after September 11th. And anyway, this one is called Body of Secrets. And this has, for my money, Daryl,

and I've done a lot of work on this over the years. For my money, this chapter, on the USS Liberty is the definitive take, or at least the most reliable take. And, you know, when subjects are, and whatever, if someone wants to say, that's a limited hangout and go with blood in the water, be my guest.

I just think some of the more far out explanations for what happened, they don't seem to fit the bill to me nor really be necessary to explain what went on there. And the Bamford chapter is absolutely bad enough, believe me. but there's just you want to talk about any question whether this was an accident there's no way in the world that everybody at CIA and NSA and state and all of these people are all saying this the whole time and all through the military and Richard freaking Helms you should see the interview of Helms I believe it's in the Al Jazeera documentary or no it can't be the Al Jazeera what the hell I'm sorry man there's so much but there you can see the video of the interview of Helms about this and he is adamant and so you know that's If that ain't authoritative enough for you, I don't know what it is. And then so what's ultimately the motive?

I don't know, but I can tell you what's partially the motive. Treachery on the part of this measly little nation, that's no good of the United States whatsoever and ought to be kissing our ass all day every day instead of attacking our ships and making demands and using their agents in this country to lie people and sending their sons off to war like happening at Rock War II, barking demands that the American people and other nations,

I'm sure you saw Netanyahu, we demand that you crack down on what he calls anti-Semitism, which means any opposition to Israeli, you know, so-called policy of mass murder there. But anyway, let's get you back on track of putting this back in the context of Ben Shapiro's merciless attack on the great Tucker Carlson by way of his merciless attack on you. and the same way that he brings up, you know, or any of these things, the same way he attacks you, he attacks even the story of, you know, people paying attention to the USS Liberty,

the narrative that it even matters at all, even though, as you know, I know these guys like, Phil Tierney, he still is having a hard time with this, man. Like, you know, they got straped and they still take it extremely personally as much as anything. Not only that, but over the years, Ever since they started speaking out, they have been harassed, they've been intimidated. Oh, wait, and first, they were sworn to total secrecy.

They were not even allowed to talk to their wives, their priests, nobody. They were threatened, they were threatened, quote, with jail or worse, by John McCain's father, who was in admiral. You know, I think he was Sixth Fleet at the time. And so, I mean, you know, which, you know, whatever, that's fine. As a military guy, like, you can kind of understand. understand something like that. Like you guys are not going to go talking to the press or whatever, blah, blah, blah, like that part's fine. But then to go out and just see them brazenly lie about what happened to your dead friends. And then when you start speaking out about it, finally,

you know, you get, I mean, these guys have crazy stories, man, like being in random places and having people they don't know come up and should be like, you know, like out of nowhere, not like at a liberty event or something. Like they're out to dinner with their wives. And somebody comes up and says, hey, you know, you should really stop talking about that Liberty thing. He says, who are you? I won't say which one of the guys like this was, but who are you? He's like, don't worry about it. Just bad things can happen. That's what he got told by some random dude who like came up to him, you know? So these guys have been going through that. And they still have to listen to like Ben Shapiro. Call them liars by implication, you know, not, I wouldn't say it

directly. That would annoy too many people. But, you know, he's not as brazen as the Israelis themselves, you know, you know how we found out or got, I mean, we knew about it anyway, but how we got Israeli confirmation finally of the Levant Affair. That's the one in 1954 for everybody where they tried to bomb a bunch of British and American community centers and theaters in Cairo to blame it on the Egyptians. And they denied it for years until the early 2000s, and we found out about it because they did a public ceremony to honor the guys who participated in. They just get up themselves.

I mean, they don't tear, dude. do you not care like when you when you talk about what happened in like the 1940s a lot of the atrocities that took place that they'll love to be like oh well look yeah that was lehi you know that was the stern gang and irgun they were enemies of the mainstream Zionist movement like you know these weren't like this wasn't like the actual like hagana the mainstream you know that became the labor government that yeah okay except that like two like the leaders of the two main terrorist organizations you're talking about, both became prime ministers of Israel later. And the Israeli military still to this day has two medals to honor the Stern gang

and the Ergun. I mean, and so like they don't care, man. They just don't care. The only good news that we have on this, I mean, this is really good news, though. It kind of makes up for everything else, is that their brazenness and the way that they, like, and it's brazenness that they can't help. You know, people, individual people who have the same mentality, like, they can't help themselves either. Like, they always are, you know, they push it as far as they possibly can until people start to push back and then they, you know, maybe try to retreat and wait until next time. But they can't help themselves. And the only way they've gotten away with that for so long is that they had a complete and total media monopoly.

You only had to control three channels and a few newspaper corporations and you were good to go, no problem. And now that they don't have it, they're never going to get it back. They can buy TikTok all they want. They can make Elon go to Auschwitz and go kiss the wall all they want. But the internet, especially, you know, here in America, like they can do all they want, try to control it. It adapts.

Life finds a way and it moves around. The internet does not like that kind of. control and they're never going to be able to centralize it. So they've lost that monopoly forever. And they know it and they're scrambling and try to get it back. But they're panicking because the people who are smart know that they can. And that is very heartening. Now let me just say here, dude, because with an eye on the clock, now another major best part of this is that Ben Shapiro is the face of the Zionist Amen Corner in America. He's going to be the enforcer. He is going to take the mantle of leader of the conservative movement

and tell you who you're allowed to listen to and who not. And I just can't think of anyone less credible at this point than maybe his counterpart, Bari Weiss. Good luck with this, you cooks, but it is just over. And just like with the terrorist attacks, as we saw, and I say plural,

because we saw them here too, in Boulder and in Washington, and you had this one in Australia. And what do the Hawks do? They go on there and they blame Islam, and they'll go on and on, do a 10-minute segment, and not mention the war in Gaza

that happened for the last two years and just pretend that anti-Semitism fell out of the sky. Somehow, I guess people around the world were inspired by October the 7th to just now they want to be terrorists to and just forget your own lion eyes and your own lion memory

about what just happened for two years and the tens of thousands of innocent people killed and the people even now starving and freezing in the mud in the Gaza Strip and all of this. And they think that they can just make it go away by not mentioning it when they denounce all their opposition or any of these phenomenon out in society,

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And including, giving you a run for your money, Cooper, is Ramsey Baroud and his history of Israel Palestine from his Palestinian perspective is really great stuff. The reality of the Israel-Palstine conflict. Anyway, I'm rambling and salesmen. Actually, really, like that, I encourage everybody to go, I have familiar with a little bit of his work. I haven't done that course yet. but I definitely encourage people to check that one out, even if they've listened, I would say even especially if they've listened to Fear and Loathing, because that'll give you a good sort of baseline understanding what happened.

But one of the problems I ran into when I was making that, and I did the best I could to sort of correct for it and account for it, is just that there's not a lot of Arab sources that are translated into English. Like we got some stuff and, like, you know, the Institute for Palestine Studies and some of the others are very, very helpful. They got a lot of good stuff out there. but in terms of like volume, stuff from the Zionist perspective, some of which is good like, you know, new historian stuff

where they really do a good job to try to talk about a lot of things that happened. But it's still from that side, you know, and to get the perspective of a Palestinian, somebody who really does understand the mentality of the people that are involved in this conflict on that side, it's really invaluable. And it's not something you're going to necessarily get, as much as I did try to try to do that with,

with my series, you're not necessarily going to get as well. So, yeah. But listen. Yeah, look, different perspective. But yeah, go ahead. So we had talked about doing this, doing the Christmas truce episode today and then taking next week the 26th off. I told my wife I would keep this show to an hour.

We actually got something that I got to get going to do. And I spoke so long about Bench's here and all that. Yeah. So, I mean, are you available next week on the 26th? Or why, it doesn't even have to be on a, yeah, man. Like, our people, yeah, okay, let's just not, let's not skip that day after all. Let's do that. We'll talk about the Christmas truce then.

To close this one, I just like, here's a taste. For people to share with their family in the meantime here real quick before we go, this is the Christmas truce of World War I by Will Grigg, otherwise known as William Norman Grig, my good friend and co-founder of the Libertarian Institute with me. and this is his very wonderful article that he wrote about it quite a few years ago

that we republished at the Institute in his archive. We have his full archive at the Institute and every year Darrell at antiwar.com we publish a whole mess of articles six or eight articles about the Christmas truce from all different people

and including diary entries about it and all kinds of stuff. We do that. That's a tradition at antiwar.com every year. So the people want to stop by there beginning probably like on the 23rd, 24th around there. We'll have all that stuff up for you. Great. Just to close this discussion out, though,

I want to just go back to like a sort of, you know, I made the point we were talking about the liberty of just not getting trapped, trying to speculate and explain things that you don't know for certain. Don't let people do that. If you watch Ben Shapiro's speech at TPSA last night and then you watch Tucker's,

you will understand why, like, Tucker is so good at what he does. and why he's so effective is because he sticks to things that you cannot argue against. You know, he goes and says, American Christian ministers, and I'm kind of quoting him, he's like, you know, don't look, I'm not like a great Christian. I'm the farthest thing from that. Like, I'm not trying to preach to anybody. But I'm pretty sure you shouldn't have, like, Christian ministers coming and trying to rationalize and justify the bombing of children, right?

I mean, you can't argue with it. you know, I'm pretty sure that like, you know, if we're going to give billions of dollars to a foreign country and we're going to co-sign and put our names on every foreign policy action that they decide to carry out with or without our knowledge or approval, that just doesn't sound like America First, does it? And he just sort of puts it in this way that like, what are you going to say? You know, and that's really important. You stick to the things that are really like the core of the issue. And don't let them turn you around and get you to start explaining yourself and speculating and all that. Stick to those things and drive it right through their freaking skull every time. And it works. It works. Everybody that watched that last night except for like the people who, you know, just already hate Tucker and love Benchapel, whatever, like the people, the hardcore Zionist type. This is another thing that's like related to what we were saying is like really like a white pill for this period of time.

is it back, you know, until a few years ago, you'd have people who watch Ben Shapiro, read Barry Wise and the free press or whatever, and they thought, oh, okay, they care about all of these things. And Israel also, you know, obviously that's a big deal. Now everybody knows, no, all of that is just to draw you in. There is only one thing I'm glad you mentioned that. And everybody, you know, I saw their, every day.

You know, their audiences now, it's just people who, that's it. That's their single issue. That's all they care about. So let them play around in their corner over there while the rest of us actually talk about politics and what's going on. That is a beautiful white film. I saw one the other day where it was gays against groomers.

Remember that? I never followed it very closely. But it was like, oh, that seems reasonable, you know. And then I found out, nah, it's just another Zionist has bar a rag with just another pretext for being out there. It's just like we talked about. And that everybody should really watch this. It's just wonderful.

The Al Jazeera documentaries, where they went undercover inside the Israel lobby in Britain and the United States and they have this one section about the website kittens and donuts where it's all cutesy stuff for housewives and then once every six or eight weeks they go support Israel

they let women be fighter pilots or whatever you know and just smuggle that in there and that's exactly what you're saying right is Ben Shapiro, Barri Weiss gays against groomers they're just kittens and donuts man it's not about the kittens

it's not about the donuts it's about making you think oh, here are people who are good on this thing, like opposing trans and kids or whatever it is. And then, nah, all it really is is securing your support for these ways to say. And as you say, it's so transparent now. It's obvious to everyone now, dude. And it's distilled their audience down to that little hardcore of people who are right there with them with that, you know,

only caring about that issue. And so it's great. And, you know, let me ask you real quick. I can't be the only one who noticed. I'm sure someone else has pointed this out before. But Ben Shapiro, he is not. not charming at all, right? Like, he's just a sniveling little, like something, right?

Finish that however you want. But like, what's the redeeming quality in this kid? Really? I never understood it. His redeeming quality is that if you put them up against an inferior opponent, like a blue-haired college student who's going to tell you that men can get pregnant by somebody who identifies as a unicorn, then he's going to make them look really stupid and just hammer them with, you know, his fast talk.

style. That's what he's good at. And that got you by for a while. I mean, look, man, like Dave, what's his name? Dave Rubin was like one of the, he was part of the intellectual dark web. Like, the idea that intellectual would be attached to that dude's name in any way, shape, or fine, he's just like a plain moron, forget everything else about him. And like, you could get by with that for a while because you were arguing with people that said men could get pregnant. So it's easy. It was just easy, you know. You're arguing with people who were saying sensitive. people and you were saying, no, censorship is bad, and that's something that just resonates with Americans. It's easy. And, you know, they're not doing that anymore. Now they're trying to

convince good Americans that people should be censored for saying maybe Israel shouldn't be massacring children by the hundred every single day of the last two years, you know? And so they're, they betrayed their fan base. The only ones they're left with are the people who knew all along what the whole game was. But the game is up. And look, there's enough of those people out there. Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire, they're going to keep making money or whatever, because there's millions of people out there, Christian and Jew as Zionists, who, that is their issue. That is what they care about. And so they're right there with them.

And they want to hear them slander Tucker and talk about me. And so that's fine. They'll make their money, but they are going to be increasingly irrelevant as time goes on. And there's nothing they can do to stop it. And so that's everybody's Christmas present this year. Yep, absolutely. All right. Well, and speaking of which, have a Merry Christmas, Daryl, and thank you, buddy.

You too, brother. Good night, everybody. This has been Provoked with Daryl Cooper and Scott Horton. Be sure to like and subscribe to help us beat the propaganda algorithm. Go follow at Provoked underscore show on X and YouTube. And tune in next time for more Provoked. Thank you.