The Duran Podcast - Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race. Endorses Kamala

Episode Date: July 21, 2024

Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race. Endorses Kamala ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Okay, Alexander, we are live. Yes, we are live. And Alexander will go for about 30 minutes. I believe everyone knows the topic. If you haven't heard the news, Alexander will do a quick update. Breaking news, historic news. Alexander, as I do a quick check to make sure we are live on all of of the platforms. Welcome to everybody that is joining us. What is going on in the world today? Well, Alenski's curse has now bagged its biggest victim. Joe Biden has announced that he is not
Starting point is 00:00:45 going to run for the presidency of the United States in November. I'm sure this has come as a shock to everybody. After all, we all knew what a dynamic, energetic, incisive, brilliant man he was, fully in command of his brief. But events proved otherwise. He went down to a disastrous debate with Donald Trump. The party, the Democratic Party, en masse, turned against him. It's very interesting now that we see that Barack Obama orchestrated it, and that tells us who is really running the Democratic Party now.
Starting point is 00:01:25 That's an important fact in itself. something I have not understood at all is the role of the donors, but apparently they've played a decisive role. It seems that they were able to withhold money that they had assigned or donated or allocated to the campaign. That basically left Joe without money,
Starting point is 00:01:46 and the result is that he's now had to accept very grudgingly, very angrily. He doesn't want to go, that he has to go. And he made an astonishing statement. I don't think people would understand how bizarre it actually was because he announces that he's achieved all these great things. He's led the United States through crisis. He's made it stronger than ever.
Starting point is 00:02:08 He's got the best economy in the world. He's overcome a crisis in the economy as great as that of the Great Depression, which to anybody who isn't at all familiar for the history of the Great Depression would know how bizarre that is. But then without any explanation at all, He suddenly announces over the course of this statement that he's not going to seek re-election.
Starting point is 00:02:31 He says he's going to do that for the good of the country. But he doesn't give a reason why he is standing down. He then makes it absolutely clear that he intends to remain president until January, until, in other words, the new president, the president who's elected in November is going to be inaugurated. So even though he's not standing as a candidate for the presidency, he's going to remain president until January. And then in his actual statement, he doesn't endorse anybody. He doesn't say that he backs Kamala Harris. It takes a short period of time for a completely separate statement to suddenly appear on social media saying,
Starting point is 00:03:25 that he's actually going to back Kamala Harris. And again, I'm not going to say that I know for a fact that this is so, but I suspect that the old man's, old man was told you've got to back Kamala Harris. He didn't want to do it. He didn't want to step down as a candidate. He didn't want to do any of the things that he's doing now. And he's going to provide the American people and the world with an explanation. Sometime this week, he isn't giving us an explanation now.
Starting point is 00:03:55 And it's not difficult to work out why there is this delay, because the wordsmiths, the people who are going to have to explain for the president in the statement he's going to read out, are going to have their work cut out explaining the contradiction. The contradiction between the president announcing that he is not going to run for the presidency, obviously because his health and his physical condition is not strong enough to do it. and the fact that nonetheless, he considers that he still fit and capable enough to be president of the United States. Now, on the Duran, we were pointing out several days ago when all the rumors that he would have to stand down was circulating, that this is an unsustainable position, that he can't at one and the same time say that he's not fit enough to run for the presidency, and at the same time continue to be president. But as of now, he has made no attempt to explain that contradiction. And he continues to insist that he wants to remain president.
Starting point is 00:05:06 And of course, the Republicans are homing in. Marco Rubio started it earlier today. Then J.D. Vance did. Now Josh Hawley has done. others who are not Republicans like Jonathan Turley the legal professor
Starting point is 00:05:23 he's pointing out that this makes absolutely no sense at all but there it is he didn't want to go he is furious with all of the people who pushed him out he's very very angry with Obama this is what the New York Times is telling us
Starting point is 00:05:38 because he feels that Obama has undermined him and he's absolutely right about that by the way he's furious with the entire Democratic Party. I don't think he wanted to endorse Kamala Harris, which is why he didn't endorse this statement, but he wants nonetheless, in spite of everything, to remain president. Now, this could be the death rattle of the Democratic Party. I mean, to try to explain to the American people, all of these contradictions, the contradictions of why they backed Joe Biden for so long,
Starting point is 00:06:13 pretending that he was, as I said, this great incisive leader and manager that they were saying he was, when he obviously wasn't. Why they suddenly turned on him, why they did so purely when it looked like he was about to lose the election. And how they're going to explain that they now support Kamala Harris, but Biden is still president. I really don't know how they explain all of these things, how they square the circle, but American politics is nothing, if not unusual and unpredictable. And we'll just have to see what happens. Anyway, those are my initial thoughts. They all hate each other, don't they?
Starting point is 00:06:59 Obama's Clinton, Biden's. Because earlier in the day, NBC News was reporting that Clinton was behind Biden. She wanted Biden to stay, the Clinton family. So, I mean, I guess you could see the power struggles. that were going on over the past couple of weeks between all the families, the clans. Well, you're absolutely right. The Democratic Party, the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, Senior, and all of these, it doesn't exist anymore. What we have is a collection of factions and clans who fight each other constantly as they struggle relentlessly for patronage
Starting point is 00:07:42 and control of the party and if it's political machinery. It has some kind of neoliberal ideology, which it promotes across the country. It has a certain ideology of identity politics, but it is no longer what it used to be the party of the working class of the United States. It abandoned the working class years ago. The working class are now shifting to supporting the Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:08:18 One of the most important events, underreported in my opinion, one of the most important events of this extraordinary week this has just passed, was the fact that the Teamsters leader, the leader of the most powerful union in America, went to the Republican Convention and addressed the Republican Convention. So the American working class, the blue collar workers, now supporting the Republicans, they have parted company with the Democrats. And what is left of the old Democratic Party is a husk consisting of various factions, all of whom exactly, as you just
Starting point is 00:08:56 said, hate each other, struggle for power, constantly fighting for power, for control of the levers of power, and for the patronage and the clientage. To put it by, to say it's simply the money that comes with it. Right. Okay, so let me ask you one more question, and then we'll get to some of the questions from everybody, and we'll wrap up this update, this breaking news. The geopolitics of this, what do you think the world is saying as this goes down? Russia, China, the European Union, what do you think is going on?
Starting point is 00:09:32 India, what are they saying? They are asking the same question that people in the United States today should be asked. asking, who is running the United States? It can't be Joe Biden. If he's not fit to be candidate for the presidency, and he clearly isn't, by the way, we've all seen the kind of person that he has become. If he is not able to run the United States at this time, who is? Who do they call if there is a crisis?
Starting point is 00:10:04 Do they speak to Obama? Because Obama apparently can make or break presidents. made Joe Biden and now he's broken him. Do they call Obama? Do they call God help us Tony Blinken or Jake Sullivan? Who do they call? So that is the question that all the major governments of the world are asking at this precise moment. Now every other government, of course, has its issues, its issues with the United States, be they friends or enemies. And they will all be trying to work out. Now, what is going to happen over the next 10 months until January? And they will be very concerned.
Starting point is 00:10:46 They will be very worried because they sense a vacuum of power at the center in Washington. Nobody, as I said, clearly in control. They will be very worried that the president, the current president, the incumbent president, assuming he states, is going to try to do something dramatic and dangerous in order to secure his legacy. they will be worried too about some of the people around him and most of the world has seen them and measured them and come to the view that Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken and all of the others are no more fit to do the job
Starting point is 00:11:22 than the president himself is. So they will be worried about that. They will be calculating that this is a very, very dangerous time indeed. And they will all be asking what the next president, the next true president of the United States, the one who's going to be elected in November is going to do. And they will now be hoping, because most of the world wants certainty,
Starting point is 00:11:52 they will be hoping that it is Donald Trump, with the exception of Europe. We'll come to Europe in a moment. But most of the world now wants Donald Trump to win, because they want somebody, in Washington, who is back in control. And they will be beating their, you know, they will be going to Donald Trump's door,
Starting point is 00:12:16 trying to work out what his policies are going to be, what he's intending to do when he is president. They'll be crossing their fingers, hoping that he is going to become president. They'll be wanting to know what he's going to do about the Ukraine, the Middle East, East Asia, Taiwan, the global economy, all of these things, all of which they're now,
Starting point is 00:12:36 worried about. The only part of the world that is going to be in crisis, in absolute meltdown at this moment, is Europe. All of the European states have tied themselves to the sinking ship that is the Biden administration. And incredible thing to do, we discussed this in program after the program on the Duran. What an idiotic thing that that might. was that they did. Now that ship is visibly sinking. In fact, it's sunk and they are going to be absolutely terrified. They're going to be absolutely spooked up and wondering what is this Trump administration, which is coming going to do. They'll be worried that the Trump administration is going to cut them off. It's going to leave them hanging out to dry over Ukraine. It's going to do
Starting point is 00:13:31 all sorts of things that they don't want. And they brought it about because they've refused. to talk to Trump. They've acted as if Trump really is the person that Joe Biden and all the people around him say he is. And now they are in very, very serious trouble. But we mustn't focus too much on Europe. The Europeans have their own set of problems brought about by their incompetent and mismanaged politics. Most of the rest of the world, Russia, China, India, all of the African states, all of the East Asian states, all of the Latin American states, they want Trump to win. Even the Chinese who have had a difficult relationship with Trump, though not as difficult as some people say. They want Trump to win because they want somebody in Washington that they can telephone and speak to and deal with in the belief that he can actually run the government of the United States and provide a coherent way.
Starting point is 00:14:35 forward for the United States. Man, the Europeans, they followed Biden straight into a war with Russia. What a mess up. Wow. Absolutely. Do you remember? I'm sure you do remember. I've seen him some other people now cited that we spoke about that Charlton.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Back in 2020, when they nominated him as a candidate, we spoke about that Charlton in which Charlton Heston plays the Spanish knight, El Cid, who is tied to the horse and sent into battle, even though he's actually dead. Well, that's just exactly what they did. They let themselves be followed by a man who, politically speaking, was essentially a course. And of course, instead of leading them into battle, he's led them off the cliff. And that's what they've done to themselves. It was astonishing. It was absolutely bizarre, but that's what they did. That's what Ursula von der Leyen, Olaf Schultz, Emmanuel Macron, the endless election of British Prime Ministers, Johnson, Truss, Sunak,
Starting point is 00:15:45 even Stama still, Starma. The last week he tells us, last week he tells us, what a brilliant and incisive and, you know, on top of the world, the master of detail, Biden is. They have brought all this upon themselves and upon Europe as well. All right. Do you have anything else to have or do we get to questions, Alexander? Well, let's go straight to questions. I mean, there's a huge amount that we can say, but no doubt we'll get to all of it as the week unfolds. We'll get to everything, yeah. Steve resurrected says Alex and Alexander, I have only one question. Are you ready to focus on what can be unburdened by what has been?
Starting point is 00:16:26 Wade says, attempted to delete Trump, but deleted the 2024 Democratic primary. results instead, two coups in the same month. So absolutely true. What has been done is is a coup. We discussed this in a recent program. Alex asked me that question. And I said, this is a coup. He had what they needed to do. I go back this. You can search it. You could probably find at one of our programs, which we did in the early autumn of last year. Alex said, what they needed to it was to resolve the problem of Biden before the primaries. But they didn't. And now we are where we are.
Starting point is 00:17:07 And as a result, they've had to remove him through what is in every respect to coup, one orchestrated by Obama, but a coup which is incomplete. Because he is no longer candidate for the presidency, but he is still the president. How does that work? Yeah. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. Absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Take a pick 1313 says, I think Democrat move wasn't to win the presidency, but more to save the House and Senate seats. Also, do you think they will crash the economy if Trump wins? Well, I think you're right on both points. I think you're absolutely right that it is now basically about saving the Democratic Party's position in Congress. Now, you know, I'm not an expert on what goes on in congressional and Senate races. I mean, this is the kind of thing where others have a much deeper understanding of it than I do. But again, talking about the kind of conventional electoral politics that I am familiar with, you know, that I used to work inside in Greece and in Britain, this is a catastrophic situation. It's the worst outcome, actually, they could have because they've got somebody as their president, who's still the leader of their party.
Starting point is 00:18:30 way, who is Joe Biden, who they now say is incapable. They're running someone else who is unpopular and who didn't win a single primary vote, either in 2020, as I understand it, or in this election. How do you explain it? How do you justify it? How do you turn around and tell the American people the people who are voting for you for Congress? Well, I supported this man because I thought he was brilliant, but actually I've now suddenly discovered that he is, and my loyalty is now effortly transferred to Kamala Harris. It hardly makes any sort of sense. So I think, you know, applying the kind of election logic that I am familiar with, which might not apply in the US, this is a disaster. It's more likely to lead to a collapse in support for the Republican Party and Congress.
Starting point is 00:19:29 But I agree. I think that is the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party in Congress. But I think that exactly like you that this is ultimately what this is all about. They understand that they can't hold on to the presidency. They want to retain whatever they can in Congress. So that's why they got rid of Joe. As we're crashing the economy, I'm afraid that is a real possibility. I don't know how they will do it or if they can do it or what they might do. But probably, they will want to conduct a scorched earth policy, give Trump as difficult a legacy as they possibly can. And that will be cynical and terrible,
Starting point is 00:20:10 but, well, we've seen how cynical and terrible these people are. Yeah, they're going to spin it. They're going to spit it and say Biden's a man of integrity. They're already saying it. He loves his country more than himself. We're all going to line up behind Kamala. They're going to spin it. They're not going to talk about.
Starting point is 00:20:29 the uncomfortable truths and they're just going to focus on spinning the narrative and they're going to hope that people believe them and there will be people who believe them. They have the whole media. They have the whole media behind them to help. There will be people who will believe it and there will be people who will want
Starting point is 00:20:45 to believe it. But to be absolutely clear, if Biden was a man of integrity and he made this decision on his own, he would have pulled out before the primaries. He would have told the American people then, look, I'm getting old. This isn't something I'm able to do. I'm going to stand aside as president
Starting point is 00:21:04 as candidate. I'm going to leave the door open for whoever emerges from the primary process to lead the Democratic Party. That person will have my full support. That would have been the honourable and proper thing to do. Instead, until just a few hours ago, he was still insisting that he was going to be the candidate for the party in the election. This is not an honorable exit, not by any conceivable stretch. And I don't really think the American people will be fooled. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Let's move along. We've got about 10 minutes, so let's wrap it up. The amazing Blumpkin says, hour long national nightmare is over. Time for a new one. Thank you for that. Radio, Constantinopley says, may the force be with you, holy caboli. Thank you for that. Baalke says, habeas corpus, Americans should immediately
Starting point is 00:21:53 demand proof of Biden's compass meant this when signing his letter if he did by the way of a presidential address to the nation yeah i agree with the letter most likely well he didn't nor nor did he drop the message endorsing harris that appeared shortly after that tells i mean that the fact that they had to do two statements tells you everything not a bad account says will president Biden standing down in bold and putin you answered that no I mean, he won't embolding him, but everyone, all the leaders want to see a strong president in the United States who can lead the country and provide certainty going forward. Yeah. Torontonian says, great breaking update, guys, and on a Sunday.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Thank you for that. Sparky says President Kamala can use her Wallace Simpson level oral talent when negotiating with foreign leaders. Thank you for that. Sparky, Sparky says, break it off in Black Rock, make Ukraine, Russia again. Thank you for that. Bunny Ripley says, hello, Alexander. Trivial question. What is a Duran or is it a definite article required in the capital letter?
Starting point is 00:23:09 I did, I did do some internet search engine, but didn't get the bingo moment I was after. We'll explain it to Duran. We'll explain it one day. One day, one thing. Yeah. Sparky says, Niko House said that Kamala's. sister used to work for Hillary. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:27 I didn't know that, yeah. I don't know. Sparky says, just to reiterate, break it off at BlackRock, make Ukraine Russia again. Thank you, Sparky for that. And from Matthew, how does this affect the Ukraine war? Will Biden try something knowing he is leaving? Will the Russians react to long-range weapon strikes? There is a real, this is a very dangerous, this is the most dangerous thing of all,
Starting point is 00:23:48 because Biden has visceral feelings about Putin, and Russia and it's entirely possible that you could now do something very desperate to try as he sees it to secure his legacy before he finally goes. And there are people around him who might help him. Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, but it is very dangerous and we shouldn't overlook that possibility. It's another reason, by the way, why he should go. he shouldn't be president at this time making important decisions about Ukraine or any other conflict at this time
Starting point is 00:24:29 not when he's leaving the White House when he's admitting that he's not a candidate to be in the White House in the first place. Yeah, Tabernak says full board, mask off and the machine assumes full control. Well said, Tabernak. El Loco says, I will only vote for Big Mike. Ricardo Alfonso says Whitney Webb would be a great guest to interview.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Yeah, she would be great. We should get in touch with her. Mr. Tom Flann says with Zelensky's peace overtures and Biden out, Project Ukraine is crumbling. I agree, actually. This is a big topic. We'll need to discuss in more detail, but I agree, actually. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Alexa Zatazalo says, Can't believe it took three and a half years for Biden to step down. Gonzalo predicted it in 2020. We just thought we'd pick someone smarter than Kamala. He'd pick someone smarter than Kamala. Well, absolutely. Yeah. Well, said.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Soapy Ark says, it's going to be Kamala Budigieg. It's the ultimate diversity ticket. And then when they don't get elected, they can blame it on racism and homophobia. The DNC will be a shot of the Kamala problem. I agree completely. I think you have a very strong probability of being proved completely right.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Just so. Hayden clogs, welcome to the drag community. Elza says Putin must be devastated because his favorite cat, has dropped out. Wonder how the mood is in Kiev. Very good. Yeah, Nicola is a new member. Welcome, Nicola. Boch says, thanks for all you do. This is quite the gamble. Yes, it is. Life of Brides says Obama controls the ballot harvesting operation that gave him the high card. Withhold the harvest and the Dems are a rump party. Very smart. Boch says, Boch is the new member. Hatten Klaug says, thank you for your work, gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Christian think of that super sticker. Life of Brian says the assassination attempt makes more sense, knowing the plan all along was to install Kamala, who could only beat Nikki Haley. Interesting. It's interesting. Yeah, very interesting thought. Nicola, think of that super sticker.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Alexa says, I think if you just did the opposite of what Biden and Kamala did, you'd do well. True. True. Sparky says, post-assination attempt, there's even more of a can't beat him, join him dynamic around Trump. he needs to realize he hasn't won them over.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Instead, they surround him as evil influencers. I hope he understands that too. There are all kinds of people now going to be moving towards Trump, and they're not necessarily his true friends. But, you know, we'll see what he does. I think he's more savvy about all of this now, this time. Yeah, I agree. Sparky says, not long after the attempted assassination,
Starting point is 00:27:13 YouTube clamped down on superchats, which didn't match the establishment's narrative, so I switched to rumble for the time. All right. Well, great to have you on Rumble. Sparky. Kratos says, buckle up for the DNC. It'll be 1968 all over again on the chaos level. Predictions on who the nominee choices will be predictions on who nominee choices out there. I'm not going to make any predictions.
Starting point is 00:27:36 I mean, I haven't had time to think about that, it's a hard one. But, well, I mean, Kamala Harris, I think is a shoe-in now for the candidate. I mean, how can they get around her? I mean, she's the only person who's in a position to do it now, and she won't. Yeah. Chris John says, Olensky curse strikes again. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.
Starting point is 00:27:59 That's what we called it a while ago. The Aleksky curse and never fails. Matthew says, we are talking about the passage of time here, the passage of time. Think about that, the passage of time. Thank you, Matthew, for that. Hath and clogs says, thanks for all your info. about the world from the US. Thank you for that.
Starting point is 00:28:20 Raphael says the curse of Z. Alex was right. Thank you, Raphael, for that. Constantine says, color revolutions for two elections in a row. Welcome to the 21st century America. Yes, you're completely right. You are completely right.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Yeah. Yeah. Kostick says they wanted Ailey versus Harris, but the bullet missed. I agree. I think that was the original plan. I think quite apart from anything else, putting aside the question of the bullet, I think they thought the illegal cases would knock him out and that that would open the way for Haley.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Yeah. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. Momfield, Pirokov says the Biden House of Courage is collapsing fast. Will the Republicans approve anything from Biden if he has done? That is an excellent question. I would have thought not. I think you're going to see a major push from the Republican.
Starting point is 00:29:16 now to get Biden to stand down. And when he does stand down, which by the way, I think there's a fair chance that he will, then the Republicans will, of course, take credit for him. Yeah. Zola Richards, welcome to the drag community. TR says this is a coup. Biden's letter had no presidential seal letterhead or title.
Starting point is 00:29:35 This is unheard of for a sitting president. Kamala to power pretends not to have been sworn in while she consolidates her power. That's interesting. You're completely, I mean, we haven't gone into the whole details of this. But those two statements, as I said, were absolutely bizarre by themselves. I mean, I'm not even sure to what extent the president himself, Biden, was, you know, fully involved
Starting point is 00:29:59 in drafting them. Certainly the second statement, which mentions Kamala, whereas the first statement doesn't. I mean, why do you need two statements in that way? The whole thing is most all. That's a great, yeah, great observation there. Yeah, TR. Mike Gaye says, will Biden become more reckless in Ukraine, not that he is, knowing that he's not running? I think he is. Yeah, I'm afraid he might. I'm afraid he may. And this is where, as I said, the political situation in the United States now becomes very important. This is a very dangerous moment, actually, in my opinion. Ribu says, thinking about the timing, they intended to assassinate Trump before the VP and RNC convention. Now that failed, they have a real insurrection against a candidate that won all them primaries, straight coup. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Raphael says, my prediction, both Biden and Trump will be replaced. I'm difficult to see how I can see. I mean, Biden has been replaced. Trump? No, I don't think so. Not now. Catherine Gillen says, here, guys, have a nip of whiskey. Do you think they showed their hand when they said Iran will try and assassinate Trump?
Starting point is 00:31:17 Don't get taken out in World War III on the table. I hope I am wrong. All of these scenarios now are becoming possible and very dangerous. And we should be very alert for them. We're actually entering a very dangerous time. We don't have a president of the Oval Office. The first time in his history, the United States is without a precedent. I mean, Biden at this moment in time, isn't a lame duck. He is far worse than that. He holds the office. He holds the title. But he has no effective power except the people around him do. And to the extent that he is able to do anything, viscerally, he's likely to want to, you know, do something dramatic to secure his position and his legacy as he sees it.
Starting point is 00:32:16 This is a very, very dangerous moment in the history of the United States. And by the way, given how important the United States is in the world. Alexa, Sattazal, welcome to the drag community. Kratos 2022 says, Alexander, do you expect an acceleration in the Russian offensive in Ukraine to shore up its position ahead of next year due to all the chaos here? The Russian offensive is already accelerating. It doesn't need that impetus. And I think the Russians have made a decision, made a decision,
Starting point is 00:32:45 made a decision a long time ago, that they were going to conduct their operation, their military operations in Ukraine, according to the military, the military objectives, and not let themselves become distracted by the politics and the United States. And I think they're going to stick to that. Comrade Curtis says, gentlemen, the timing of this is highly suspicious. Do you think the failed Trump assassination was Biden's last chance? I don't know, actually. I think that the momentum to get him to step down was already intensifying.
Starting point is 00:33:26 What would have happened if that assassination had succeeded? And thank God it didn't, by the way. But what would have happened? I really can't say, if, I suppose, thinking about it, if it had succeeded, well, maybe Biden would have been in a stronger position. But let's sort of explore those dark possibilities. let's focus on what we know and what is and analyze it and take it forward from there.
Starting point is 00:33:52 Golden Sun says, had an anti-war booth at the Ann Arbor Art Fair this week and got to recommend the Duran Channel to people who had questions about where to get conjugal political information. Keep up the good work. Thank you, Golden Sun. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:34:04 That's very, very kind. Alexa says, I wish Gonzalo was around to laugh about the failed assassination attempt in Biden. Oh, absolutely. I agree. I mean, he would have been wonderful at this time. Yeah. Gleska News says, Hi, guys, is there any truth to the news that the Pentagon has given Ukraine permission to use the Dragons GN?
Starting point is 00:34:27 I'm sure those are. Sorry. I think it's a weapon. You know, maybe. I mean, has the Pentagon given permission to Ukraine to use any long-range missiles or anything? Oh, not yet. No, that's been consistently opposed, I think, by the Pentagon. But now, you know, he's not running for re-election anymore. So you could, you know, it may be that all those constraints are off.
Starting point is 00:34:54 And I can easily imagine he's still the commander-in-chief. He could still make that decision if he chooses to, to allow them to start launching strikes deep inside Russia. So that's a possibility. I'd say it's a greater possibility now than it was a week ago. Tisham says remedial math bunkeys. Thank you for that. Tisham.
Starting point is 00:35:14 G.L. 1416. says my girlfriend was very impressed because I predicted Biden dropping out on Sunday because of your videos. So thank you. Thank you, J.L. Max D. says Harris has to be president to run effectively. She will lose to Trump. Trump will be killed.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Vance becomes president for presidents in one year. Well, Vance, of course, let's not speculate about that. But I have people already say that Vance is now Donald Trump's insurance policy. I mean, I've already read this. I mean, people say, you know, if you're, you really don't want to get rid of Trump and make Vance, you're the president, given the positions Vance has on foreign policy, which, by the way, I think are going to be increasingly popular with more and more people in the United States. Arcane Eclectic says, please do an interview with Whitney Webb, yes.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Tabernak says Trump Biden was bad, wait for Kamala and Haley. St. Max says, Deep State may be enter stage rights. We must have discernment. Yeah. Yep. Jumongous shift says, Gift Kamala some.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Elenski number five. Love the show. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. Super chats. I can't make out the writing, but thank you for the five SAR. Life of Bride says,
Starting point is 00:36:36 Kamala always being non-negotiable, explains why they waited until after the primaries to turn on Biden, despite the risk. Kamala was unelectable in a real primary. Well, maybe so, but look what kind of a mess it's landed them in. And purging everybody in the Democratic Party to clear the way for Joe has left them with a desert. And in this desert, the only tree left, you know, withered, hopeless, nobody wants it. But the only tree left is Kamala Harris.
Starting point is 00:37:09 And that's why they've had to turn there. Turn to her. Sancho Relaxo says Carmala Camelian, she comes, he goes. Yeah, true enough. Well said. And the last couple more. Tristan G. says, dystopic reality is now. Our present world is in the most unique state of change.
Starting point is 00:37:26 Looking to SCO, bricks, and ineffectual NATO-U.S. is an indicator of this. Change is present and indicates danger. Yes. Yes. I agree. Matthew says, I don't think you two know how important this channel is in times like this where we get no information from anywhere else. Thank you. Well, thank you very much for that.
Starting point is 00:37:47 And Tony T. says, are presidential pardons incoming? That is something that Robert Burns has anticipated. It might indeed happen. We might indeed start to see presidential partners coming. And it be interesting to see who will be receiving them, by the way. Sparky says, hoping it gets hope that J.D. Vance and Trump's warmongering rhetoric about China and Iran is just to keep the mega donors happy until they're at office. Well, about Iran, I would to some extent agree, but on China, Trump's actual comments to Bloomberg, I thought were very conciliatory, actually. Yeah. And Evans, thank you for that super sticker. Thank you so much. And Caspian Lake, thank you for that super chat. And Alex,
Starting point is 00:38:39 Do you final thoughts before we wrap up? Extraordinary times. Now, if, of course, Project Ukraine had been successful, if there'd been regime change in Russia and all that, we would be in a different situation and we wouldn't be looking at the news that we are looking today. So just to repeat again,
Starting point is 00:38:56 this is the Olensky curse. It's played a huge role in bringing this about. Obviously, he's not fit to be president and wouldn't have been fit to be president anyway, way, but he is going down as the most unsuccessful president the United States has had in modern times the most disastrous presidency. I think anyone can remember since perhaps Buchanan on the eve of the Civil War. Just saying. Yeah. Yep. And we'll finish it off with Josh Woods, who says, do you think Biden will be allowed to finish his term, even if he has now dropped out of the race?
Starting point is 00:39:30 I think in the end, the pressure will be too great, and he will have to step down. But it's going to be very mercy and it will take a very long time and we'll see how it plays out. Sanjeva, thank you for that. Super chat. Great to have you with us. Alexander, we will wrap it up on this breaking news live stream. Thank you everybody for joining us and we will have more videos and lives on this topic in the week. Take care.

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