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Episode Date: September 28, 2021

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Here is the deputy premier of New South. South Wales on vaccines. The message to the unvaccinated is that you will not achieve any further freedom unless you get vaccinated. And a further and final message to regional New South Wales. There are parts of regional New South Wales that are currently open. The 70% roadmap does apply that a whole state. So there will be individuals in regional rural New South Wales who choose not to be vaccinated

who will lose their freedoms on the 11th of October. So my message to everybody in regional and rural New South Wales is to continue to get vaccinated. There's new freedoms coming for those who are vaccinated new freedoms. But if you're not vaccinated, you lose your freedom. Sayeth the Lord. Wow. It's not like we're getting militant about things here at all. Oh, speaking of that, we should probably also listen to the New Yorker,

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you can't break away because you want to have slavery. But I think it's pretty clear you can break away if you want to just live by the Constitution and the Declaration of independence because the old government started forgetting about the whole freedom thing. Well, I hate to even say that because people are going to say, he's advocating violence. He's saying we should go into a civil war, which I'm not saying at all. Oh my gosh, these people on the right, they're so dangerous. I know. Let's do something, let's do something safe, shall we?

Let's just read the New Yorker. and listen to their podcast. Because they talk about books and things like that. And they had Andreas Malm on, who is really great. I just want you to listen. Here's cut one. Andreas Malm is a professor at Lund University in Sweden. He studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism.

And he advocates for far more drastic action that we've seen so far. His recent book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, is a bit more nuanced than the title suggests, but at its core, he really does want environmental activists to rethink their commitment to nonviolence and embrace tactics of sabotage. Stop, just a second. Let me, let me get this straight. So, Stu, I believe we have to discuss this like this. I believe when he says it's more nuanced than the title really kind of leads you to believe

how to blow up a pipeline, it doesn't sound like it really does. that it is more nuanced because he then just went and said, but it's more nuanced than, you know, the title would seem. But he really does want people to think about, you know, dumping the non-violence thing. Well, Glenn, the nuance that's associated with the title, how to blow up a pipeline just, of course, indicates that there are far more things that you can blow up.

Oh, not just a pipeline. You could blow up a pipeline. Thank you. A tanker ship. I can see things more clearly now that you speak like this. You could blow up a bunch of school children who exhale CO2. All these things are options for the future of environmentalism. Thank you very much.

Back to the podcast. I spoke with Andreas Mom last week. Andreas, you've been a climate activist now for a long time. And in 2007, you were part of a Swedish group that started deflating the tires. on SUVs. Tell me about that. What was the impulse and how did it work? Yeah, so what we did was we went through rich neighborhoods and picked out SUVs. This was in the early career of SUVs when they were still remarkable on streets. Before they were 12.

Completely ubiquitous. And it's very easy to deflate the tires of a car. You just unscrew the valve and you insert a little gravel or a piece of stone or something like that, and you screw the vault back on, and then the air will be out of the tire in a couple of hours. So this was not proper destruction. It didn't damage anything. It created an inconvenience for the owners of SUVs. Okay. All right. All right. So this began his journey towards civil disobedience, cut two. What was the moment that you realized that your next book would have to be about targeted sabotage and why? That moment was very much the summer of 2018, which was unprecedented in northern Europe for the wildfires and the drought and the heat wave. And during that summer, I felt panic and desperation, as a lot of people did.

This was the summer that led Greta Thunberg to start her later very famous school strike movement. And that sort of changed the picture because in 2019, all the way up to the outbreak of the pandemic, the climate movement of the global movement, north reached its zenith of mobilization. Really, its peak of popular force out of the streets. So the book became a product of the moment of 2019, but it's also a core for escalation, a call for the movement to diversify its tactics and move away from an exclusive focus on polite, gentle and perfectly peaceful civil disobedience. Right. Okay. So here's the left now in the New Yorker and on the podcast talking about how we, you know, it's not so bad to put rocks into people's airbags with gravel, otherwise known as gravel, and let the air out. It's an inconvenient, sure, but it doesn't do any harm. but then now we really see that we really have to go away from non-violence because it's really not working.

So here he is on blowing up a pipeline. What actions are you recommending for the movement? Well, I am recommending that the movement continues with mass action and civil disobedience, but also opens up for property destruction. So I'm not saying we should stop strikes or square occupations. or demonstrations of the usual kind. I'm all in favor of that, but I do think we need to step up

because so little has changed and so many investments are still being poured into new fossil fuel projects. So I am in favor of destroying machines, property, not harming people. That's a very important distinction. Very important.

And I think property can be destroyed in all manner of ways or it can be neutralized in a very gentle fashion as when we deflated the SUVs, or in a more spectacular fashion, as in potentially blowing up a pipeline that's under construction. That's something that people have done.

So you are recommending blowing up a pipeline. You use the phrase intelligence sabotage. What does intelligence sabotage look like in this context? Well, let me give you a very concrete example. Right now, Total, the largest single private company headquartered in France, is constructing what will be the world's longest heated oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania. And displacing in that process

about 100,000 farmers all for the sake of carrying even more oil to the world market to pour fuel on the global fire. If people in that region were to attack the construction equipment, blow up

the pipeline before it's completed, I would be all in favour of that. I don't see how that property damage could be considered morally illegitimate given what we know of the consequences of such a project. So the ends justify the means is what he's saying here. Remember, you are the dangerous one. We're just a bunch of journalists at the New Yorker that are just exploring different ideas.

Today's idea, blowing things up and destroying property. Very, very, very different than killing people, of course. You know, nobody was killed in the Capitol. Well, some one person was killed, but that was by a police officer. But police officers in this case are all good and should never be questioned. But the property was destroyed there in the Capitol. And that is completely different than blowing up a pipeline. And Glenn, I will note for the listeners that

machines don't run on their own. The people who show up to work at these facilities are part of the machinery. They are basically parts of the machine. And if they are parts of the machine, they also could be destroyed. And that sounds like a machine to me, quite honestly. Yeah. Working on machines. If they are not there, then these environmental cataclysms will not occur.

So obviously killing people who work for these companies at the site. And honestly, those people wouldn't show up if they were not paid. So the executives of the company are also fair targets. And to be clear, maybe the banks. Well, they fund anyone who works at a bank, I think, would fall street. Wall Street would be a good target. Any shareholder of a company like this, absolutely. What about the companies that provide electricity and water,

to the banks, to these facilities, they are basically guilty. Yeah, they're giving aid and comfort to an enemy. What if we killed all people other than us? Well, I think, I, we don't, we didn't do just a second. We just, I've written out a plan. I've had, yeah, oh, yeah, we've had a plan for how to eliminate people for a long time. Oh, wow. I'm glad you brought this up because, oh, thank you.

I've been carrying this around for so long. And, you know, we all know, wink, wink, wink. nod, we're not going to kill people. Oh, my. That's rich. No, it's not rich. Rich, bad. Oh, I'm sorry. Rich is very, very bad.

Unless we're the ones that are rich. Then it's really, really good. You know what I mean? Here's cut four. And yet climate activist groups like 350.org and extinction rebellion have made clear that nonviolence is central to their approach. Do you think that's been a mistake or a tactical error? Yeah, so I have nothing against the tactics employed by these groups.

I have very often participated in them myself. What I have a problem with is when Extinction Rebellion and people from 350 and elsewhere say that these are the only things that our movement can ever allow itself to engage in. As in, what we are doing is as far as we will ever go. We'll never escalate beyond this. And I think that idea, this dogmatic commitment to non-violence, is based on a faulty history writing or understanding of social struggles over history, because it's based on the idea that the only thing that has ever worked for social movements

is to stay completely peaceful. And that just isn't the case. Most social movements that have struggled against overwhelming odds, against enemies that have been very powerful, have diversified and used a number of different tactics ranging into property destruction and confrontation with the police. You saw this during the uprising after the murder of George Floyd where there was tremendous property destruction

and conquering and burning down police stations in Minneapolis and things like that. That was an integral part of an uprising and brought millions of people into the streets of the U.S. than any other in American history. Wow, that is amazing. It's weird that the left seems to. know that. Wait, I was told earlier. Well, it was largely nonviolent.

Largely nonviolent. Almost, I don't think there was any. Was there violence? What I saw was people that were committed to a cause. By the way, the FCC needs to investigate its own history of racism and examine how its policy choices and actions have harmed black people and other communities of color. Now, this is coming from, uh, this is coming from. this is coming from a left-wing group that is funded by the Center for American Progress

and George Soros's Open Society Foundations. They're wonderful. They're called the free press. You might remember them. But they said, what do we have to do? Do we have to, how many, are we going to have to just shoot Republicans to reclaim our democracy? Now, you might think that that's violent, but it's not being covered in the press at all,

even though that's a letter they wrote to the FCC, are we going to have to shoot Republicans to reclaim our democracy? That is really not so important, okay, because they have a reason to do that. Things are really, really tough. And, you know, they're not just saying, let's shoot Republicans. They're saying, we have to reshape the media,

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By the way, good news, my friends, Biden got his booster shot yesterday. We were all worried about it, wondering when is he going to get it? Cut nine, here he is, getting his booster shot. We have plenty, plenty of opportunities to make sure we get everyone in the world to play our part. He just got it. But not his part in the world. Very hairy arm. How many Americans need to be vaccinated first to go back to normal?

What is the percentage total vaccinations that often is deployed? Well, I think, look. I think we get the vast majority like it's going on in some of the, some industries and some schools, 6, 97, 98%. I think we're going to close. 97 or 98% before we're close.

That's a hell of a goal. Yeah. So is there a stop? Is there an issue with that? He's just asking for 97 or 98% of all people to be vaccinated before we could go back to normal. When your plan revolves around, basically full compliance.

Usually those plants don't work. They don't tend to work. They will. People make decisions on their own. He is losing his patience with people. Yes. And we have now fully seen 50% of the increases of the last two months of vaccination rates have disappeared since he announced the mandate.

Half of the gains of the past two months have disappeared since he announced the mandate, which is a really good thing. If you were one of those people who are thinking, I'd like to get more people vaccinated, this would be the opposite of the result you desire. However, Are you blaming it on him? I don't. You know, I don't know.

Honestly, when it first started happening, I thought maybe it was a weird Labor Day data quirk. Like, you know, a lot of people, because there's a couple days there where they didn't turn in, you know, really any results from the data and the new vaccinations. But no, it's, ever since he went on television and said, I've losing my patients with you,

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General Millie is going to be testifying today, and we are going to be covering that. He's got some lozzi. You got some splainting to do. What could he possibly tell us? He's spoken to every author in America. that's written a book about the Trump administration. Why does he, what else could he possibly say? He seems to be the main source of every book that's been released in the past year.

He's incredible. He's incredible. He's incredible, too. Like, you think this is not the guy who's going to be continually leaking to the media. Yeah, he's got an answer for the call to China. And Afghanistan. Which has gone very, very well, right, Pat? Yes.

Oh, Afghanistan's gone perfect. it was a was it massively successful it was enormously successful and you couldn't see it as anything other than a success well I don't know how you do it any better you can't you can't you can't do it any better every other war has ended this way exactly exactly the same way in shame and humiliation each and every one of them usually by the losers uh not the one with the military firepower yeah right usually not in this case a little bit of a remix of that situation. Well, I liked Saki over the weekend saying that she was just really tired of Republicans blaming Afghanistan and the border on this administration.

She was just really tired of it. Yeah. I'd be tired of if I were hurt too because everyone's doing it and she has to answer for it all the time. So I'm sure she is tired of it. The problem is, it is their fault. Yeah, so that's a problem. Wow. Wow. Okay, you're just going to go there without hearing Millie. Let's listen to some more Senator Reid here.

Man, he's good. That's really good. You know, the thing about these hearings is they just, all the Senate, they're not actually interested in what the person has to say. Have you noticed that? I really do hate these hearings because it's all pre-written stuff by these senators who just do a speech

and when the person tries to answer the question they just cut them off to get to their next big moment that I guess is going to raise dollars in their next fundraising email they want to have these like little YouTube moments now occasionally we get something out of that I think we've seen like for example Rand Paul be very effective with Anthony Fauci

and these things it's not without not entirely worthless but here you're going to hear basically the Democrats say look how bad Trump was and you're going to say Republicans give their speeches about Millie and how he shouldn't have talked to China. These are both valid, you know,

you can argue whether they're valid points or not, right? But they're valid points for their own sides. The question, do we get, I want stuff from Millie. I want him to be asked questions. I want him, like Rand Paul did, specific questions where, you know, where Fauci answering them gave us something, gave us a better understanding of that situation.

It's a trial. That really was. Yeah. And that's what we want. Right? We want someone who's going to actually ask a question that's going to elicit some sort of response. And the speech itself makes no difference. Right.

And not only elicit a response, but put them on the record one way or another. You know, did you make that phone call? Yes or no? Who did you speak to about it? Who was on the phone call? Did you ever tell the president about that phone call? Yes or no? And we know we made the phone call.

I know, and he's never denied any of this. No. Well, he can't. I mean, we've got him on record. We've got him on, you know, recordings. He's argued, he has responded and said that it wasn't bad, right? He said, of course, he says he didn't do anything bad. Right.

Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. I mean, first of all, this is what they got general. Oh, yeah, yeah, you did. You should be on there. Yeah, right. I mean, this is what they got General Flynn on. Remember?

Mm-hmm. The Logan Act. because he called and said, look, there's a new administration coming in. Let's not escalate to the point where we can't ratchet things back down. Don't do anything. And he got in trouble for that. How dare him do that? Well, I personally think that one is okay.

He's calling on behalf of the incoming president and saying, let's take a breath here. Just take a breath. Don't do anything until we get into office, you know, because we're going to have a different approach. I think that was very wise of him to do. I mean, that's what they would argue they were doing. That's what Millie would argue. He called up and he said, look, when we know it's crazy right now. Not on behalf of the president. He worked for the president. That's the problem. He is the chief of staff. Right. So it would be okay for the incoming. Yeah, Blinkin to do that. To call up and say, hey, look, things are going to be better in a couple weeks. Correct. Hold on. Correct. Correct. Not for the

who is currently the advisor to the president and telling him that I'll call you if anything bad's going to happen and not telling the president he's making that phone call. Did you hear Woodward's excuse on this by any chance? No. It's interesting because I read the book, Peril, and it is the way conservatives and even in the media, I think this whole Millie China thing has been taken is not how it was presented. in the book. It was presented in the book as a way to illustrate

how bad Trump was. It was not presented in the book as a way to show that Millie was undermining Trump. Correct. It was presented as a way to say, look, Trump was so bad. His General had to call and say, we promise we won't nuke you, China. It's a totally different spin.

So Woodward is saying, like, no, what we were saying was, Trump was a national security threat. And that's why Millie had to do this. I mean, I agree with you, but that's what he's trying to say, which to me is absurd. I mean, they're just trying. It's interesting, they thought it would be taken this way by the media.

And I think even the media at some level has said, you know, this doesn't feel right. You can't just have your generals calling up and doing things that are behind the president's back. Now, they've argued since, oh, there's lots of people on this call. And I talked to Esper and we, you know, not everything goes to the president, but I talk to my superiors. But I think it's pretty weak reasoning here. It's way better when the president himself says to like the president of Russia, hey, after the election, I'm going to have a lot more leeway to do whatever you guys want me to do. So just hang on.

And then that's transmitted back to Vladimir. It's way better when that happens. That's a good point. But the Democrats have this down. They've got the treason aspect down to a real science here. They do. They do. They do. It's great.

I'm wondering how someone justifies that the last president was out of control who brought peace and this one who is breaking all norms internationally in dangerous ways and getting Americans killed, how this one is not somehow or another out of control. Yeah. So it's amazing. He can get away with, and they're still, they still aren't noticing some of the most glaring things about this guy that, I don't know, he's losing his mind. There's another little aspect that they might want to pay attention to sometime in the near future because you're going to have to deal with it. I'm wondering, you know, did you hear the opening of the show today where we played the audio from the New Yorker about how to blow up? Yeah, it sounded like they were interviewing a. terrorist? No, no. He's an environmentalist. I meant an environmentalist. Yeah, yeah.

Terrorist. He just thinks that, you know, because it's so dire, we just have to start blowing up pipelines. That's all they're saying. That's all we're saying. It's very nuanced. It's very nuanced. And that's that's that's totally fine. Yeah. They are they are coming out and saying things that I never thought possible that they would ever say. However, I'm wondering now if Democrats, I mean, the kind of used to live next door to, you know what I mean, and probably still do live next door to, that aren't crazies. Do they see that you're now being spoon-fed environmental terrorism? they're now starting to embrace terrorism.

I don't know. We're so divided. We are so torn apart on every issue that I don't know if there are just normal Democrats anymore. Not very many of them anyway. I mean, they hate the other side so much that they can't see any of this stuff. Well, there has to be because there are many groups that make up the right. There are the people who are just get them. That's a small little fringe group.

Then there are the Trump supporters. Then there are the people who are reluctant Trump supporters and then non-Trump supporters. You know, the right is broken up and fragmented. Are you saying it's just one lockstep Democratic Party? It does feel like it because you never hear anybody speak out against it. It does feel like that. But I think sometimes I notice this with vaccines a lot, right? like, who are the people that get highlighted?

You get the people who are like, you have the vaccine or you go to prison on one side. And then you have the people who are like, I don't want your fancy medicine on the other. And it's like, I don't know. You talk to people about it. And people are like, yeah, you know, I don't know. I'm a little, I don't really want to get it.

I don't like getting shots. I don't want the side effects. Right. And then you talk to the other people on the other side. Like, you know, I think it's a good idea. But if you don't want to get it, you know, whatever, what are we going to do? Like, I think that's most people in reality.

on the internet in in in in the media those people never get highlighted but like I don't know when I have conversations with people about this stuff they're not insane they don't they don't sound like they tweet and I don't know if that's just a function of social media or what you know gets clicks online or what but it definitely does seem different you know I I mean there are there are definitely people I know but we live in Texas yeah no that's true but I have it different I have a lot of people friends who live around the country. And we've lived in every city, basically. We're in radio, so we've moved 46,000 times.

And when I talk to people, there are some people I know who are like, like, hate Donald Trump with such a passion that no matter what is associated with him, they will, you know, revolt against it and say he's the worst person in the world. But like, I also know people who voted for Joe Biden, who are just like, I don't know. I mean, like, you know, it just seemed like he was a better, I don't know, Trump is seems like he's out of control, but whatever. Like, there's not like, not everyone has that. I think people do live their own lives.

They do actually, like, care. And a lot of these people, by the way, are very getable on things like CRT. You know, people, they might totally hate Donald Trump. And I think the vaccine too. And Afghanistan. Yeah, in Afghanistan in particular. Afghanistan's the one that I think we're closest on. I haven't met one person who has defended what happened in Afghanistan,

including all my most liberal friends. none of them say it was acceptable, let alone incredibly successful or whatever the terminology they used was. I haven't met anybody. I don't think there's a soul. I don't think there's anybody inside the Biden administration who thinks that went well. Hang on just a second. The general is now speaking. We want to give you an opportunity to have opening statements.

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situation on the ground and an active credible and lethal terrorist threat in a span of just two days from the 13th to the 13th of August. So we're not hearing from Millie. We're hearing from Austin. We went from working alongside a democratically elected long-time partner government to coordinating warily with a long-time enemy. We operated in a deeply dangerous environment. Wow. And it proved a lesson in pragmatism and professionalism. We learned a lot of other lessons, too, about how to turn an Air Force base in Qatar to an international airport overnight. Why would you have to do that? About how to rapidly

screen, process, and manifest large numbers of people. Why? Nothing like this has ever been done before and no other military in the world could have pulled it off, and I think that is crucial. No, everywhere ends like this. Now, I know that members of this committee will have questions on many things, such as

why we turned over Bogram Airfield. Oh, yeah, yeah. How real is our over-the-horizon capability? Oh, that's another good one. And why didn't we start evacuation sooner? Oh, yes, yes. And why didn't we stay longer? to get more people out. Great questions. So let me take each in turn.

Okay, let's see. Retaining Bogram would have required putting as many as 5,000 U.S. troops in harm's way just to operate and defend it. And it would have contributed little to the mission that we've been assigned. No. And that was to protect and defend

the embassy, which was some 30 miles away. But the problem was the assignment. That's what everyone... The distance from Kabul also rendered Bogram of little value in the evacuation. Staying at Bogram, even for counterterrorism purposes, meant staying at war in Afghanistan. No.

Something that the president made clear that he would not do. Right, that's the problem. As for over the horizon operations, when we use that term, we refer to assets and target analysis that come from outside the country in which the operation occurs.

These are effective and fairly common operations. This is how you hit the people delivering water. We conducted one such strike in Syria, eliminating a senior al-Qaeda figure. Yeah, the high-value target. value targets. The kids that were delivering water. But absolutely possible.

It's possible. And the intelligence that supports them comes from a variety of sources. Okay. Are they the same sources that told you that those kids delivering water were the ones you should bomb? Yeah, because the nice thing about that one, Glenn, was that the kids were really excited to see their dad. So they all ran out to the car to greet him. And that's when the car blew up. Oh, that is so sweet.

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Here he is on the Trump revelations, I believe you say that. Issues in the media that are of deep concern to many members on the committee. And with your permission, I'd like to address those for a minute or two. Again, I've submitted memoranda for the committee to take a look at. You may proceed. Mr. Chairman, I've served this nation for 42 years. I've spent years in combat, and I've buried a lot of my troops who died while defending this country. My loyalty to this nation, its people, and the Constitution hasn't changed and will never change, as long as I have a breath to give. My loyalty is absolute, and I will not turn my back on the fallen.

With respect to the Chinese calls, I routinely. communicated with my counterpart, General Lee, with the knowledge and coordination of civilian oversight. I am specifically directed to communicate with the Chinese by Department of Defense guidance, the policy dialogue system. These military-to-military communications at the highest level are critical to the security of the United States in order to de-conflict military actions, manage crisis, and prevent war between great powers that are armed with the world. world's most deadliest weapons. The calls on 30 October and 8th January were coordinated before and after with Secretary Esper and Acting Secretary Miller's staffs and the interagency.

The specific purpose of the October and January calls were generated by concerning intelligence, which caused us to believe the Chinese were worried about an attack on them by the United States. I know, I am certain that President Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese, and it is my directed responsibility, and it was my directed responsibility by the Secretary to convey that intent to the Chinese. My task at that time was to de-escalate. My message again was consistent. Stay calm, steady, to de-escalate.

We are not going to attack you. At Secretary of Defense Asper's direction, I made a call to General Lee on 30 October. Eight people sat in that call with me, and I read out the call within 30 minutes of the call ending. On 31 December, the Chinese requested another call with me. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia-Pacific Policy helped coordinate my call, which was then scheduled for 8 January, and he made a preliminary call on 6th January. 11 people attended that call with me, and readouts of this call were distributed to the interagency that same day. Shortly after my call ended with General Lee, I personally informed both Secretary of State Pompeo

and White House Chief of Staff Meadows about the call, among other topics. Soon after that, I attended a meeting with Acting Secretary Miller where I briefed him on the call. Later that same day on 8 January, Speaker of the House Pelosi, called me to inquire about the President's ability to launch nuclear weapons. I sought to assure her that nuclear launch is governed by a very specific and deliberate process. She was concerned and made various personal references characterizing the President. I explained to her that the President is the sole nuclear launch authority and he doesn't launch them alone, and that I am not qualified to determine the mental health of the President of the United States.

There are processes, protocols, and procedures in place, and I repeatedly assured her that there is no chance of an illegal, unauthorized, or accidental launch. By presidential directive and Secretary of Defense Directives, the Chairman is part of the process to ensure the President is fully informed when determining the use of the world's deadliest weapons. By law, I am not in the chain of command, and I know that. However, by Presidential Directive and DoD instruction, I am in the chain of communication to fulfill my legal, statutory role as the President's primary military advisor. After the Speaker Pelosi call, I convened a short meeting in my office with key members

of my staff to refresh all of us on the procedures which we practice daily at the action officer level. Additionally, I immediately informed acting Secretary of Secretary of Speaker Pelosi's phone call. At no time, was I attempting to change or influence the process, usurp authority, or insert myself in the chain of command. But I am expected. I am required to give my advice and ensure that the President is fully informed on military matters. I'm submitting for the record a more detailed and unclassified memorander that I believe you all now have, although late. And I welcome a thorough walkthrough on every single one of these events.

All right. So, Steve, give me the, because that's not really how it's portrayed in the book, is it? Yeah, a couple different incidents here. On the China call, the book does indicate that he called China and tried to de-escalate. The impression you get for the book is that they had intelligence. that the Chinese were worried about this. So how did they acquire that, some sort of espionage or whatever,

that they thought that they were worried about us attacking because they saw the unrest here. And they don't, you know, the Chinese wouldn't necessarily understand that. And he tried to explain to them, oh, this is just the messiness of democracy. It's just the messiness of democracy. But in the book, it's portrayed as a...

They shouldn't have read it as... this is the biggest attack on democracy since the civil war? Yeah, it's odd, very different to spin than we've even heard from Millie. Now, obviously, you could excuse him for lying to the Chinese. I would have no problem with him saying whatever, but I don't know what. My guess is he's lying to us. Yes. However, the book itself portrays it much more like it's a secret call than he's saying here.

There's not all that detail about there's 11 people on and all of that. It's portrayed more as like a, he was so. distraught by the happenings here. Sure. That he had to call to make sure that this was, this, this, this a possibility of an attack was put down. At no point did they indicate, as he mentions there, that he actually believed Trump was going to attack. There's a, they, now there seems to be worried from Pelosi on that. And that's the other part of that call, Pelosi calling him. And he mentions there in his testimony, you know, talking about, how he, you know, look, I don't know.

I have no way of determining. I'm not a medical doctor. Yeah. I'm not a doctor, Jim. He has no way of determining whether the president's mental health is at stake or not. However, in the call, multiple times, he tells Nancy Pelosi that he agrees with everything she's saying and says it. And she's the one saying he's insane, he's crazy.

And they have a transcript, the full transcript in the book. and he replies I don't have the I agree with you but I agree with you on it's like he says something like I agree with you on everything that you're saying we are in 100% agreement

that's a little different than I'm not a doctor fancy I can't comment on that I can't comment on that that's that's for you to say not for me to even and weigh in on now when you read the book

you get the very very strong suspicion, especially if you know anything about Woodward's past writings, that General Millie is a big time source for the book. Many of these conversations are in detail. He's involved in them. And he comes off looking like the hero, which is always how you can tell in a Woodward book, who is the source. Correct. Because he just, you know, he gives them the most positive treatment, which is why he gets people to participate. Because if you don't participate with him, he makes you look like a criminal. So people participate all the time. I mean, even Donald Trump talked to Bob Woodward about one of his books, even though he knew it was going to be a negative book, because if you don't talk to him, they just take everyone else's lies as fact.

So you have to at least attempt to push back. It's a nice little circuitous system. Woodward's got going on with these books. But you get the strong sense that Millie is a source for almost all of this type of intrigue in the book. All right. The leaders are facing questions about the Afghan withdrawal. We want to stay with this. bit today because this is, I mean, this is the worst thing that has happened militarily. I would frame it a little bit differently. I would say you can't call it anything but a success. That's how I would frame it.

Is it? That's how you would frame it? I also have red hair and a dress on right now. You don't have either of those. If I did, if I was Jen Saki, I would say this was anything but a success. Okay. What's interesting about Millie's testimony is as he's beginning the testimonies, we were coming back to the show, he said, it's obvious. The war did not end on the terms we wanted.

Now, I thought it was, you couldn't say it was anything but a success, but now he's saying we didn't, these are not the terms that we wanted. So I don't know, I guess there's some little through way you can come through and make both of those statements make sense. or maybe they were just hoping for failure and then they got a success and that's... Can I tell you? They got a... They have a...

I believe, I actually do believe that there are those that were involved in this that did want a failure. And so this was wildly successful in accomplishing all of the goals that they wanted, which was demoralize America, make people question our our military and also drive a wedge between us and our allies.

If that was your goal, there is no other way to describe this other than a complete success. By the way, I did an interview with General Flynn yesterday, and it's going to be the podcast on Thursday for Blaze TV subscribers. If you haven't subscribed yet, you kind of want to see this one. he had a lot to say about General Millie, which was weird. Are the tight, tight buddies, would you say?

I wouldn't, I wouldn't characterize it that way. No, no, I wouldn't characterize it that way. And he had a lot to say about Afghanistan. Oh, and he had an awful lot to say about the Justice Department. And a lot to say about the media. He had generally a lot to say.

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Let's go back to General Millie. This is the recommendation of 25-00. Inhoff. What I said on my opening statement and the memoranda that I wrote back in the fall of 2020 remained consistent, and I do agree with that. This committee is unsure as whether or not General Miller's recommendation ever got to the president. You know, obviously there are conversations with the president, but I would like to ask, even though General McKenzie, I think you've all made this statement,

did you talk to the president about General Miller's recommendation? Sir, I was present when that discussion occurred, and I'm confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to him very thoughtfully. So one of the recommendations that was made by the three of you would be the recommendation that originally was made by General Miller's two weeks ago. During the August 18th interview on ABC George Stephanophilus asked President Biden, whether you, U.S. troops would stay beyond August 31st if there are still Americans to evacuate. President Biden responded, and this

is a quote, if there's American citizens left, we're going to stay to get them all out. This didn't happen. The President's Biden's decision resulted in all the troops leaving, but the American

citizens are still trying to get out. How many how many American citizens is your opinion are still there just go down the line each one of you

anyone Senator I would defer to the State Department for that for that assessment that's a dynamic process they've been contacting the civilians that are in Afghanistan and again

I would defer to them for definitive numbers Mm-hmm. Go ahead. Here comes General Millie. Just same, as Secretary just said. There were numbers at the beginning of this whole process with the F-77 report out of the embassy, and we know that we took out almost 6,000, I guess it is,

American citizens, but how many remain? Okay, do all of you agree that Secretary of State, Blinken, when he made his analysis as to how many people would be here, but would still be there. He talked about the 10 to 15,000 citizens left behind, and then evacuated some 6,000. That would mean a minimum of 4,000 would still be there now. Would anyone disagree with that by your silence? I assume you agree.

I have no, I don't, I personally don't believe that there are 4,000 American citizens. still left in Afghanistan, but I cannot confirm or deny that, Senator. So you think Secretary of State was probably wrong in his analysis? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. And just for the record, the Chair and the Vice-year-slash-slash-ranking member have each abided by the five-minute room. So it's fair. Good analysis there.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Secretary Austin, General Millie, and General McKenzie for being here this morning. And Secretary Austin and General Millie, thank you for your effort to put into some historical perspective what happened in Afghanistan and for recognizing the incredible service and sacrifice of the troops who served there. Democrats like the military right now. General Millie. In a hearing before the Senate appropriation subcommittee on defense, and you wonder what you're supposed to like or not like today, I explicitly raised concerns about the fight of at risked Afghans due to our withdrawal.

And I ask about the department's plans to evacuate them. Now, you indicated today that you thought we might be facing the kind of desperate situation that we saw in Kabul. But your response at that time was that, quote, lots of planning was ongoing. And this is end quote. And the State Department was leading efforts pertaining to evacuating our Afghan part. partners. And you explicitly told the committee that in your professional opinion, you did not see Saigon, 1975 in Afghanistan. So I'm just trying to figure out why we missed, or from a public perception, it appears that we didn't anticipate the rapid fall of...

Because it wasn't Saigon, 1975. Afghanistan. That was far worse. and the rise of the Taliban and the way we saw it play out on television. In Afghanistan. What did we miss? I think, Senator, we absolutely missed the rapid 11-day collapse of the Afghan military and the collapse of their government. I think there was a lot of-

Can I ask you something, Stu? Did you miss that? Did that sneak up on you? Not at all. I saw it all happening on television, actually. And before, when they just said we're just going to come out and the troops are going to be fine and everybody's going to be great, did you believe that? Or did you have some intel? I had some secret intel.

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Head over to blazTV.com slash Glenn. You get the promo code Glenn and get $10 off your subscription to Blaze TV. Hello and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're really glad that you are really glad that you're here. Thank you so much for listening. I'm going to play a rant from Joe Rogan that I just think is inspiring. Now, he's in trouble for this because somebody made a video of it and then put some images to it that include the Nazis and they're not happy. So Joe Rogan must pay.

But listen to his words. As soon as you give politicians power, any kind of power that didn't exist previously. If they can figure out a way to force you into carrying something that lets you enter business. or lets you do this or lets businesses open, historically, they are not going to give that power out. They find new reasons to me. I'll be back. We have to protect those freedoms at all cost,

whether you agree with people's choices or not, because it is the foundation that this country was founded on. Freedom. This idea of freedom, there's so many people that think it's frivolous, it's not important, it's not the main thing that we should be focused on, but it is the literal structure that a lot of allows this country to be so amazing. Every single country that's ever existed

other than the United States. Up until 1776, every country that has ever existed was brought by dictators. All of them. This is the first experiment in self-government that actually worked, and he created the greatest superpower

of the world's ever known. It created the greatest cultural machine, the greatest machine of art and creativity and innovation. Right. here. And how did it do that? It did it through freedom. And as soon as you see something, anything that comes along and inhibits your freedom, you should be very cautious about that. It should be very suspicious. Because anything that comes along that can inhibit your freedom

is, by definition, anti-American. Oh, that's horrible, isn't it? That's horrible. Now, why is he in trouble? Why is he in trouble? because he says you know that anybody's trying to take your rights away and as he's saying that images of the Holocaust and that apparently can't be done

right that's their big their big line I guess the group of people that told you that Donald Trump was Adolf Hitler for the past five years now suddenly has problem with Holocaust comparisons that is a

interesting new discovery from the left I don't know how they came across it Wow And by the way, we should point out that Joe Rogan didn't compare No, that at all He that's that's the who the filmmaker who, Who put images to his words

Used some Nazi Nazi Because and a lot of other images too Right, dictators From dictators Dictators and whenever anyone starts to say You know, certain things Those are signs that you're on the wrong path Right.

the wrong path is the best way to put this. Because at the end of the path, if the end of the path is Nazi Germany, you don't take two steps down that path. You don't take five steps down that path. You take zero steps down that path. You avoid the path at all. No one is saying that currently

we are in the middle of murdering millions of people. However, when government takes control, sometimes bad people wind up with the power behind that government and they are able to use those controls against the people. I will give you, for the left, an example of someone that might concern you

with lots and lots of power. His name's Donald Trump. Remember how much? You remember how you were saying he was Hitler? Well, what if he had all of this power? What if you gave him all of that power? What if this person that you've been saying is Adolf Hitler for five years?

what if he had all of this power? How would you feel about it? This is why it doesn't matter about the man. It doesn't matter who the person is. Doesn't matter the party. You limit the country is designed so that no matter how crappy your president is, they can't do those things. Right. No matter how crappy Congress or the Senate or the Supreme Court or anybody.

You can't do it. But it requires all of those people to stand with the Constitution. of the United States. And they're not. And they're not doing it because of their own power and their own money, et cetera, et cetera. Or their own arrogance. They think they know better. And that's where dictators usually start. They just know better than everyone else. And that's what we were designed to stop. And we're the only one designed to stop it. Now, they say, you know, just because it's like a like Hitler doesn't mean it's going to end in the Holocaust. Well, okay, but I don't really think that we should be going down the German road in any way, shape, or form.

Yeah, it may not lead to the ovens, but I don't think I want to even go down that road at all. I mean, maybe we'll have some strutal, but that's as deep into Germany as I care to go. But if you look at the, this was developed by Genocide Watch, along with the United States Department of State, the eight stages of genocide. And here they are. So would you say that we want to go down this road at all, or if we want to make sure that it never happens again, we shouldn't do any of these things? here's step one people are divided into them and us all right well that's been done

that's done okay so step one on our road to the holocaust has already been done step two symbolization when combined with hatred symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups to combat symbolization hate symbols can be legally prohibited as hate speech. Okay.

Well, I don't think that that star has been sewn on to anybody. I think the hate symbol that has been given by the left is the Make America Great Hat. Anything that identifies you as a Trump supporter, you are now part of a group that it's okay to hate. Would you agree with that? Yeah. I would say that's true. I mean, you look at, I mean, there's a, there was an episode of a curb your enthusiasm from this past year where Larry David decided he didn't want to talk to people. So he wore a MAGA hat so that people wouldn't talk to him. Because he knew no one would want to interact with him if he had it on. I mean, I think that that's obviously a comedic way of telling it. But I think that that's kind of true. I think it is large swaths of the country. Oh yeah. large swaths of the country. The other symbol that is okay to hate is not wearing a mask. If you wear a mask, you're fine.

You can scream at the person. You can scream at the person that's not wearing a mask. Remember we had that whole, you know, punch a Nazi movement for a while there. It's, you know, related to the Antifa stuff where, you know, you see someone who you, quote, unquote, think is a fascist. It's okay to punch them, right? It's okay to attack them because we're anti-fascists. So there is definitely a movement. And a powerful one.

So we're on that road. Yeah, but we're not there. We're not officially assigning a symbol, but the symbols exist. Discrimination is the third one. Law or cultural power. Law or cultural power excludes groups from full civil rights, segregation, or apartheid laws, denial of voting rights. Okay.

Well, law or cultural power. We have that. denying groups full civil rights or segregation. We are now in our colleges segregating. We're segregating instead of black people out. We're now segregating white people

out. New York City is most most younger African Americans are not allowed to go into restaurants. Yes. You got it on that direction. So you have multiple places there. I mean, certainly not full civil rights have eroded to that level. But again, do you want to go down

this road? You're being told that their patients is running thin and you will not be able to do things if you don't have the vaccine. They are, that's definitely, again, that's not full civil rights, but there are problems. Right.

Step four, we're halfway to the ovens. We're halfway to the ovens. No. Well, you're saying this is half of this list. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we haven't done all the things so far on the list. We've done some of them.

We're on the road. Yeah. We're on the road on all of, all of them so far. Right. Four, dehumanization. One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals,

vermin, insects, or diseases. Already done. That's done. I don't know that that's... Well, it's done. By some. By some. Like, for example, you watch Jimmy Kimmel the other night saying, like, let the people who are unvaccinated die in the hospitals. Yeah, it's not just Jimmy Kimmel. You have

doctors saying that. You have some. But, I mean, I don't know that that's the entire society. or the entire apparatus of the government saying that, but it is, it's becoming all too popular. Yes. Becoming more popular. Organization.

This is where it, this is where the metal meets the road or the, the, the, uh, the rubber meets the road. Uh, you have terrible tires. Yeah,

you have the first four. And those can be done culturally. Mm-hmm. Or through official means. The four of these have been done culturally. Now you get into organization. Genocide is always organized. Special army units or militias are often trained and armed.

I think we're going through that now with our military being trained on CRT. And, you know, they're out searching for people who are Trump supporters because they're radicals, etc., etc. It's the beginning of it or what could be the beginning of it. Do you disagree with that? I mean, I see what you're saying. I mean, the idea that the emphasis on domestic terrorism is a problem. I mean, does that mean, we have organized militias going after? No, no, no.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying this is the beginning. The training is beginning to see things as parts of the country, however you vote, or if you won't play along with a woke game, you're a problem. You're an extremist. That's the beginning of the training. Then polarization, hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. But we're already doing that right now in this program.

That's what we do every day. No, remember, I mean, I think this is coming from, this is aimed at the victim group. And I think that propaganda is coming out already. Preparation, mass killing is planned. Thank God, I don't think that's happening. persecution. That's when people are rounded up and put into ghettos or concentration camps and then extermination. By the way, the 10th step, the perpetrators deny they committed any crime. How hard that must be. You know, we've always seen this and we saw this in Germany.

And we still see this in Germany. There are, you know, people like, well, I didn't have anything. I well no we didn't do anything wrong that was just that was what was going on we didn't know how hard it must be for the people who lived through that and know their new their neighbors did know I mean how many times do we have people denying things like for instance right now the Democrats not anywhere in the scale but the Democrats denying that they were the ones that were holding kids out of school but they were the ones they now claim they were fighting for the schools to be open. It was the evil Republicans that were trying to keep the schools closed. I mean, how do you survive that? How do you, I mean, how do you make that so your brain just

doesn't explode? And I'll say, like, as important it is to warn about these roads, it's also important to note, you know, like, it doesn't. Big things. It does. Things are standing in the way still. Big things. We have a constitutional structure that stops this. We have great people in the military and our police that stopped this. And like, look, I'll be honest, you know, everyday life, that's not, it seems normal. I mean, like, these things escalate slowly, but these problems are problems that you, you get rid of now. Now.

So you don't worry about these bigger problems. Correct. Correct. And as Edwin Black told me, um, these problems we have, this means the Holocaust may never, ever come to America. But it also means that we've done a lot of the work where it could happen tomorrow.

We just have to be aware of when you're polarizing, when you're dividing, when you are excluding people, when you're denying the humanity of people, you are on the same road. And once enough people are convinced of those things,

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if you were asking them 16 days out, not five days out. Again, my time is limited. I want to move on to another matter. President Biden's botched evacuation screwed things up coming and going as it relates to Afghan evacuees. We left behind thousands of Afghans who served along the side of us

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And then he figured out that regulation causes more problems and decided to report on how the government is really screwing things up. And that's when things went bad for John, but went great for America. John Stossel joins us now. Hi, John. How are you? Oh, I wish I had that much power. I think you have had a massive impact, John.

I think you've had a massive impact on America. You know, I've watched you for years and years, and the things that you exposed, I think, changed a lot of people open their eyes. Not, you know, not all of the, you know, party people in New York and all the people that, you know, are fashionable, but I think a lot of regular Americans. Why are you suing Facebook now? Now, some of what we complain about, they can do legally, but a big fact.

climate feedback. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They just don't change it. So how are you planning on going up against? I mean, Facebook has more money than God. You have good attorneys. I mean, what are the chances of one guy standing up against them that you win?

Yeah. Well, thank you for doing that. Tell me a little bit about what your thoughts are on the virus and the vaccine. and all of this. America is so strangely split on this because it became all about politics. So what are your thoughts on that, John? Maybe doesn't get vaccinated.

It doesn't kill most of them and people will acquire natural immunity. And that's the only way to move on. What do you think about how Americans and the world have reacted to this? I mean, I remember when it was breaking out in Beijing, and if you remember right, there were times that they were welding people into their homes, they were sealing these iron doors so people couldn't leave their homes.

And I remember saying on the air, this would never have, we would never put up with this kind of stuff here in America. We're two years into this and we're still putting up with it. What happened to us, John? Locking. No. Yeah, but I mean, if you want to use that logic, then we should take every car off. the road. We should take every pool out of every backyard. We should take every steak knife out of every dishwasher.

John Stossel, always good to talk to you, sir. When do you go to court? Do you know? That's our legal system. Good to talk to you, John. Thanks a lot. You too. Yeah, John Stossel suing Facebook over defamation. And he's absolutely right. And that climate group has been responsible for getting us banned or having our hands. Slapped or whatever it actually turned out to be remember there was something they were claiming that we said something that we never said we never said but we quoted Something that was accurate that came out of a study where in that study They said in that study this particular quote we didn't even know it was in the study we had nothing to do with that quote We weren't quoting it we weren't even holding up the study we were just using

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It's Roughgreens.com slash back. 10 seconds, station ID. Can we go to the audio from, I believe it was General Austin, for answering a question from Tom Cotton. Here it is. I understand that you're the principal military advisor, that you advise, you don't decide, the President decides. But if all this is true, General Millie,

why haven't you resigned? Listen to this. Senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing. It's a political act if I'm resigning in protest. My job is to provide advice. My statutory responsibility is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the President,

and that's my legal requirement. That's what the law is. the president doesn't have to agree with that advice. He doesn't have to make those decisions just because we're generals. And it would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken. This country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That's not our job.

Isn't that basically what he was doing with China? It's absolute. It's critical to this republic. In addition to that, just from a person, standpoint, you know, my dad didn't get a choice to resign at Iwojima. And those kids that are at Abbey Gate, they don't get a choice to resign. And I'm not going to turn my back on them. I'm not going to resign. They can't resign, so I'm not going to resign. There's no way. If the orders are illegal, we're in a... Hold it. Hold it. Just a second. Stu,

Stu. Just because the president won't listen to you, doesn't mean you resign. I agree with that. We don't need, we don't have a country where the country doesn't want a general that resigns every time the president disagrees with him. I agree with that. However, when the, when the president is making decisions that put our troops and our country in danger, real danger, an unnecessary danger, you should resign. You should go, you should lay your stars down on the desk and say, Mr. President, I can't be a part of this. This is too dangerous for our troops. It's not going to work out the way you think it will. And all of us have advised you of that. And you continue to say that you're going to do it. Well, that's fine. I just won't put those kids' lives in jeopardy for

something this foolhardy because it won't work, sir. And if it does, I apologize. But all my experience shows, no, it won't. You do that for two reasons, in hopes that the president would change his mind. And if he doesn't, to be able to warn the people, the president is, is making foolhardy decisions. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of in a way what General Mattis did. Yes.

Right. I mean, he did not agree with what was going on and the decision making be made around Syria. And he decided he didn't want to be part of it. Right. I don't think there was a lot of criticism of Mattis for doing that. I mean, you might disagree with his analysis of the situation. but the fact is that if he didn't want to stand by

what was going on and the decisions, he didn't want to stand behind those decisions, then removing yourself as a very realistic idea and possibility for a military official. And again, he's right into say that he can't, if it's a legal order, he does need to follow it. Correct.

Or resign. Right. And that what, which also goes to, then why didn't you tell the president that you were making a phone call to China and saying, hey, listen,

He's not going to do anything. And if he does, I'll call you first. You work directly for the president. You are the chief military advisor. Did you as the chief military advisor go into the Oval Office and said, hey, China is freaking out. They think you're going to bomb him. Did you? Did you go in?

He says he went to Esper. But we'll see. I mean, we don't know. Isn't he the chief advisor for the president? I mean, you should go to the president. That's kind of important. Mr. President, China thinks you're going to bomb. I mean, I know there's no chance of you.

May I just call them and tell them that's not in the cards? Of course call them. Yeah, and I think the bigger part of that call, too, was what you just mentioned, which was, if we're going to attack you, I will warn you. Now, he could, of course, if he actually did that, there's no doubt it's treason. If he calls up underhandedly and warns the Chinese government that we're about to attack them when we're about to attack them, that's absolutely open and shut treason. Now, he didn't actually do it, of course, because we weren't going to attack China. And so we're in hypothetical land.

But really, the answer needs to be that he was lying to China. I was telling China whatever I felt like telling them, even though obviously in that real circumstances. I wouldn't call them is the only acceptable answer there. Right. It's the only thing like it's totally fine for one of our people to call up and say, look, we're never going to spy on you when we are spying on them. Right. That stuff happens all the time.

Honesty is not exactly always the hallmark of foreign affairs. But actually doing it would be, I think, unquestionably treason. Honesty, I think, is the hallmark. You don't make a phone. call to lie to somebody. But you make it, you can make a phone call. You know, look, if he makes a phone call and say, look, I'll absolutely call you if that's going to happen.

Now, if we're actually attacking and he calls, that's treason. If we actually are attacking and he doesn't call, that would not be a surprise. No, it wouldn't be. But it would be also, I could see that being something very, very important for the

president to know. The president, if he's negotiating with a country, he has to know what all of his people are saying. Yeah. This is not the Congress. It's not the Senate. These are his people. It's funny you say that because a large portion of this book,

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, is talking about one of the main issues they found with the Trump administration is that there were so many warring factions inside of it, there would be one group saying one thing to China and another group saying something else to China. And Donald Trump, you know, again, this is their announcement. of the situation was he liked some of them on one day and he liked the other group on another day. So one group would get priority. They would say something to a foreign country. And then the next group would go in there having no idea what group one said and disagree with them.

And so there was all these mixed messages. And this is one of the things they claim was frustrating to other countries we were dealing with. You can go through whether you believe that or not. But that's their criticism. They're saying that that's a bad thing. They're saying that's a bad thing. So if a president said to a group of people that burned the country to almost to the ground, that that's okay and that's part of democracy.

But then went and claimed that somebody who came in and did some damage to some windows, wasn't trying to burn it down, and did some damage in the capital. Those people should be solitary confinement. Those would be mixed messages.

Totally. And that would be bad, I thought. That's what I was told as well. But you're right. That's exactly what they did about January 6th. In the call, Millie says to the Chinese, hey, I know. You guys, you know, basically,

you guys got your dictatorship over there. We know you would never allow any of this stuff. But when you got a democracy, you have to understand these things happen. Sometimes there's going to be riots at the Capitol. That's essentially what they told, what Millie told the Chinese to make them calm down about January 6th. You guys don't understand culturally this isn't that abnormal.

But then it even says in the book. But in reality, General Millie thought this was the worst thing ever. Okay, so he was lying to China twice. And they can verify that he's a liar now because he said it's no big deal. And now, you know, they have TVs and satellite over there. They're going to know now. They're going to know. They're going to know that he was lying to them.

And that's why I think the back and forth of this at some level is immaterial to whether General Millie should continue in his role. And the answer to that, I think, is absolutely he needs to leave. Leave. He can't, even if the best case scenario is true here that he told Robert Costa and Bob Woodward about all of this behavior, which shows him to be a liar to China. only. That's the worst thing he did was he's not a reliable source to our adversaries. Anyone. If that's true, then he can't be trusted for foreign affairs going forward. Correct. He's either lying to China, Bob Woodward, the American people, the press, Donald Trump, or the current administration, or today, Congress. No one can rely on the guy. And that guy can't be in that role.

Correct. Correct. Back in just a second. Wow. Did you see Time magazine last week? Of course you didn't know what he reads that piece of crap. But they laid out the potential death of the dollar in kind of a fascinating and terrifying piece last week. China opened up its digital currency to foreigners. Next year when they host the Winter Olympic Games, they expect the whole visiting world to utilize their new digital dollar, if you will. China estimated to be about 10 years ahead of the United States. Mark my words, we're not 10 years away from digital money.

When this happens, this is what the article says, other countries. are sincerely interested in finding ways to decrease their dependence on the dollar, the U.S. facing a world in which it may not control or even the lead the world's payment systems. When that happens, your lifestyle is completely different overnight. That's Time Magazine, not crazy Glenn Beck. I know, crazy. Don't listen to me. Goldline, call them right now. Find out if gold or silver is right for you.

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center right at the edge of the dead sea. And we know from the Bible that God destroyed it with fire, right? Just incinerated the place. Right. Okay. Well, the Bible is so stupid. Scientists have been looking now at their 15 years worth of excavation. And they have found a roughly five foot thick jumbled layer of,

charcoal, ash, melted mud bricks, and melted pottery. They call it the destruction layer. As they've been looking into it and what caused it, they believe that it was hit by a meteor, a space rock that was coming in at 38,000 miles an hour to Sodom. And kind of did some damage. They, to, to make this ash and this destruction layer as is, they knew that it had to, whatever happened was had to hit at least 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. Kind of hot.

So we know it wasn't a, you know, like a candle fire. Right. And what they, what they believe now is that a rock exploded about 2.5 miles above ground. listen to this, creating a blast around a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A thousand times more powerful. They say the massive shock wave would have followed moving at roughly 740 miles an hour faster than any tornado ever on record. It would have demolished every building and killed all inhabitants. Which is kind of what the Bible story says.

So that's kind of weird. By the way, the last thing in the story, just to make your day, make you feel a little better. Scientists tell us there are currently more than 26,000 near-ear-Earth asteroids and 100 short-period near-Earth comets that could cause an impact like this on Earth. they added one will inevitably crash into the earth but don't worry about the 26,000 because millions more remain undetected and some may be headed towards the earth right now.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. What could possibly go wrong? Let me ask you something. Let me ask you something. If I gave you a choice, you could live through the rest of your life going through all the stuff that we know is coming.

Right. Okay. Or a giant space rock could come and blow up two and a half miles above your head and you'd be vaporized immediately. I think I take it immediately. Immediately. So no pain. No, no pain at all. You're like, if you're inside, maybe you hear the, maybe, maybe you hear the, you know, emergency broadcast.

system go off. Maybe. And it's like, stations, a giant space, and that's all you hear. And then you're all vaporized. Okay. But probably not going to get the EBS system. You know, if you're outside, you might look up and go, what the hell is? And then you're dead. Or you could live the rest of your life on the road we're on right now. Because there was an interesting movement behind a presidential candidate recently called sweet meteor of death. And the idea was that kind of this. Like would you vote for a sweet meteor of death just come and take us all out and take us out of our never-ending excruciating pain?

I think I would. Well, I don't want to speak for other people. I wouldn't want to vote for that because, you know, other people would be involved. So if I choose the meteor and I knew it was coming, I would say, hey, by the way, you should all leave the area maybe about 25 miles around me because it's coming. Now, I don't know if more people would leave

or would flock to me. They run toward you. Yeah, they might run toward me. There was a, in the documentary film, Real Genius from 1985, there was a defense system created that would bounce lasers off of mirrors in space. And then it would come down and it could vaporize a target, a human target from space in seconds. Oh, that's the Jewish, that's the Jewish laser.

Yes, Jewish space laser, right? You know, in the film, they didn't talk about it being Jewish. Yeah, well. But the Jewish space laser is real. Right. You know what I mean? That's a great point. Right.

Right. Or maybe not. Yeah. Jewish space laser. So that's a way of doing that, instead of wiping out an entire community with the sweet meteor meteor of death. You could do it in an individual laser way and just, just evaporate yourself from society.

No, I don't want to know it's coming. Well, let's just say, well, you said you were going to vote for the sweet meteor of death. Or I said I wouldn't because then it would involve other people. Right. So what is the solution I'm presenting? One that will not affect other people. This would just be you being vaporized as you sit your chair. Maybe we could just give this to like Amazon and say,

So if you're ever talking and you didn't say Siri, you know, it's still listening to you. And you'd be like, man, would I just love to be vaporized today? Then Siri could have that. And they would report back to, you know, whomever, probably right to the head guy there. And he'd say, oh, I got the space laser, the Jewish space laser. And Siri would say, he wants to be. vaporized and then you're just vaporized. It wouldn't simplify things.

I will say. It would. I will say we would avoid a lot of dumb commentary from AOC if we were hit with a space laser and didn't have to hear her speaking. That would be one positive of being hit with a Jewish space laser. You know, I never thought of it this way before, but maybe they're not the problem. Maybe me being alive and hearing it is the problem. The funny thing is they have thought about that before.

You may not have. Yeah, yeah. But they have realized that you are the problem. Damn it, Stu. Could we please talk about science for a second? Of course. Okay, let me talk about science. This is from the Scientific American.

The acronym Jedi has become a popular term for branding academic committees and labeling STEM science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine initiatives focused on social justice issues. used in this context Jedi stands for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This is again from Scientific American. Okay.

In recent years it has been used and been employed by a growing number of prominent institutions and organizations including the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. At first glance, Jedday might simply appear

to be an elegant way to explicitly build justice into the more common formula of DEI, an abbreviation for diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, it shares the name with super heroic protagonist of the science fiction Star Wars franchise. Wait, it does? It does. I had only heard it in the scientific context. No.

And thus, it is inappropriate. Wait. So DEI is something that existed in science. Apparently. Diversity, equity and inclusion. Yes, yes. And they have now changed it to Jedi because people will actually remember it. Correct.

And it's justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. And we can't use Jedi. Not because I thought you were going to say it was a copyright reason. No. You're saying it's because why? What? Well, through its connections to Star Wars, Wars, the name Jedi can inadvertently associate our justice work with stories and stereotypes

that are a galaxy far, far away from the values of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. So we have to ask ourselves a few questions. These connections are, are they ones that we want to have? For instance, the Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice. They're ostensily heroes in Star Wars. Jedi are inappropriate symbols, however, for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic

police monks. This can't be real. This is a real article? This is a real article from Scientific American. Oh, it only gets better from here. Does it? Prone to white saviorism and toxic, masculine approaches to conflict resolution.

Princess Leia was toxic masculinity personified. She's in here. Oh, good. Oh, she's in here. The Jedi are also an exclusionary cult, membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities. Strikingly,

force-wielding talents are narratively explained in Star Wars. They're not merely in spiritual terms, also in abelist and eugenic terms. These supernatural powers are naturalized as biological hereditary attributes. So it is that force potential is framed as a dynastic property of noble bloodlines. For instance, the Skywalker dynasty. This, I'm not making this up. I can't. I can't believe this is real. Look it up.

It's in Scientific American. Here, here it is. Why the term Jedi is problematic for describing programs that promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Let me take a break while you look it up, verify that it's real. Because it's a lot better than this. It gets a lot better than this. So we'll see, look, it has one, two, three, four, five different scientists weighing in on this. Okay. I have an announcement.

Okay. No, no, wait, wait, wait for you now. Can we, should we wait for your announcement? Well, I think I can at least give you this part of it. I am praying now for the sweet meteor of death. You just found out that it was real. I have a challenge for you. It's going to take a little bit of your time.

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their intergalactic police monks. And they also gaslight people by means of Jedi mind tricks. I'm quoting, Jedies are also an exclusionary cult membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities, force sensitivity. And these are not just merely spiritual terms, but also biological and hereditary attributes. The Skywalker Dynasty is part of that.

How? But, hmm? How could anyone write this? Star Wars, oh, it took five scientists to write this. Star Wars also has a problematic cultural legacy. The space opera franchise has been critiqued for trafficking in injustices such as sexism, racism, and abelism. Think for example of the so-called slave Leah costume, infamous for stripping down and chaining up the movie series

first leading woman as part of an Oriolenta, orientalist subplot. I didn't know it was an Orientalist subplot. I had no idea. But the Leia thing is presented negatively. No one thinks that it's a good idea to chain people up in the movie. He's the evil villain. They're making it like an Orientalist subplot, so...

So, wait, it's bad because Oriental populations chain their women up, and therefore we shouldn't criticize Oriental populations? I am shocked that you would even use that word. I was talking about an Oriontist subplot. Luckily, you can't say it. Exactly right. I'm not getting in trouble. You're not guilty. I'm not guilty.

Yeah, I can't say it. And he's just throwing around these Oriental people. I don't even know what you mean, Stu. You did just say it. So I guess, quoting you, I guess, I guess so because it is trying to make this look like something that would have happened in Asia. Right. Thank you. And that's true.

The problem is not that they change her up. The problem is that we're criticizing a foreign culture. I think that's what it means. I think we haven't even gotten to the good stuff. We'll have to start the show with this tomorrow. We should. The best stuff is that, yes, even though I feared in the middle of that segment you were reading from the Babylon B, this is an actual real article from five scientists in Scientific American. Scientific America. Remember when they used to talk about scientific stuff?

Yeah, and not Jedi Knights?