Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 376: Prince Rupert's Drips

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

In the business we call this one a "TB episode." At the end we finally we get to some actual analysis, by way of an article in Politico, about the Spiritual Case for Greenland Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

I just found this out the other day Heads up to the listeners This will be a misophonia podcast episode I Am sick and so I am going to be sucking on motherfucking cough drops I Don't think that's gonna help tuberculosis, but good luck Terrence has been afflicted by a

19th century scourge my nose gonna turn purple doesn't that happen with tuberculosis doesn't like your nose turn purple or something That sounds right. I don't know you turn an eye Godly color like Doc Holliday and tombstone. Yeah, I have to have like a Little a handkerchief that I can cough blood up into yeah You'll turn an ashen gray color, and you'll just be hanging out with all your friends And they'll assure you that everything is okay, but you You know I can't wait to be ashen gray That's how I got back all day was on Tuesday

He's just like gray and sweaty and like just sit there playing poker with everybody like I'm like that's your word What else are you supposed to do though when you've got TB? I mean you just hang out Yeah, you can't you sit in your room and just cough a lot at least be with your boys That's true If you're not willing to be put at risk of TB by hanging out with your boys. That's true. Yeah. If you're not willing to be put at risk of TB by hanging out with your boys, you're just not a good friend, frankly. No.

Yeah. But you gotta be ashen gray. Me and the homies, we're ashen gray this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We're the pale kings Do I found out the other day? Did you know that There was once a time Where there was no distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters

There was no distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters. Still isn't in my world. I just, everything's caps for me. Whoa, you fucking do, you do all caps? Yeah, they hadn't peed in the bed till I was 10. That probably signals some bad things about me to the public, but I assure you I'm normal. That's fucked up, dude You're not trying to You're not trying to do the opposite where you do everything lowercase No, I'm not not the ecomings

I'm bombastic I'm a wild card your DD strummings DD strummings. D.D. Strummings. All caps, baby. All caps, D.D. Strummings. That sounds like the bass player for like Van Halen or something. My handwriting, if you're in Lexington,

like if you look at the drink menu at Green Lantern, it's so identical to my handwriting that I like, every time I see it I'm like Did I like draw that up in a fugue state or something? It's like dead on my DD strumming's did that That was the other DD strumming's bang Yeah, dog they had um The Carolingian miniscule is a script which developed as a Calligraphic standard in medieval Europe

So that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized with a literate class from one region to another Dog Could you imagine like wow that would have how that would have landed the first time you would have capitalized the letter You know realize like how fire that would have been like damn dude Terrence is doing something crazy with his fucking letters. What is that? It's like yes, just this thing I came up with this is thing I came up with I'm doing my letters a little bit different now yeah Yeah, y'all stuck in that Bulgarian ways I'm sitting here just adding a little

You know oblique strategies I've never seen anybody do letters like that. Did you just imagine like you were just like getting all the women then like as you're the like all caps guy. D.D. Strummings of the 9th century. Yeah. By the time it came downstream to me, they've done, you know several times over. Oh, okay Yeah, but in the ninth century you were like you were basically like Prince

Uh-huh like the artists for sure, but but also an actual Prince probably. Yeah. Yeah. This is the Carolingian Renaissance What do you know about that? Well, not enough apparently what do you know about Prince Rupert's drops Talk about princes Prince Rupert Prince Rupert what's Prince Rupert? What's the Prince Rupert? Prince Rupert's drops are when you take molten glass and you drop it into water And it was a race Well hard glass as we know it's what becomes glass as we know it well What it does is it creates a it almost looks like a little sperm or like a tadpole and

I found out about it because my Instagram Showed me a hydraulic press video where they tried to crush a Prince Rupert's drop It's apparently been known since like ancient times But It has a weird physical property where if you cut the end off the tail the entire thing shatters and explodes It disintegrates into like five million little pieces, so it's powers and it's flagellum Yeah, it's like like Samson's hair. You know exactly Yeah, yeah, if you ever yeah, you want to take them out you got to clip the tail. You know yeah

I could tell exactly Huh, I think what happens is it creates a stress fracture within the drop And I read about it on Wikipedia it the stress fracture moves at like 4,000 miles an hour As it like speeds through the end of the good glass bead and the entire thing fucking shatters Huh? the end of the glass bead and the entire thing fucking shatters huh Prince Rupert's drops Prince Rupert's drops sounds kind of like vulgar because you and I are probably we hear Prince Rupert's drops we think Prince Albert we think about penis piercings I didn't think that at all actually what? No, I was thinking of Prince Rupert strip. I was wondering how he dressed

Prince Rupert strips Where is Rupert what's what's what was that? Whatever Germany was at the time yeah Prince Rupert. I think he was in England They called it that because he entered he brought the Prince Rupert's I think he was in England they called it that because he entered he brought the Prince Rupert's drops to England Prince Rupert's drip is when you are dripped out But you have like a coonskin cap on and like someone cuts it And it makes all the threads of all your clothes immediately unravel and drops off in your immediately butt-ass day immediately unravel and drops off in your immediately butt-ass day. That's what happened to King David when he danced before the Lord. Cutting the tail off has

ramifications is what I'm hearing here. It does have ramifications. Cutting the head off is generally you know thought to like you know in something but cutting the tail off could be quite damaging too. It ma'am. You gotta be careful. Yeah Prince Rupert's dress Prince Rupert's drop Like Prince Alpert's drop but you get a penis piercing and Someone cuts the piercing and it causes your balls to drop maybe

Huh? I'm just spitballing here. Let's stick it back in my oven for a little bit. Oh God fair enough I Really shouldn't be recording this today I really shouldn't be recording this today Fuck it's like that Kanye West song where Jay-z's like fuck you Kanye for making me do this shit I'm sick. I should not be recording this morning. I found out I have tuberculosis so I have three months to live

It's devastating news for the program for America at large most of the you know Global South you throughout is where you're revered as a you know here I sort of Bolivarian figure I am a hero in the global south yes that's true there's shirtless murals of me all over the streets of Guatemala. One of Yaakov's only, you know, it's been said that God doesn't make mistakes. Dr. Yaakov made several, but you weren't one of them. I was not one of them, no. No, I should not be recording today, but you know what?

This is dedication to the motherfucking medium to the art is true you can't succumb to tuberculosis it's the worst thing you can do yep we just gotta keep keep on keeping on you gotta hang out with the boys you gotta play cards with the boys visit saloons that's you know so the whole the whole movie he's just like deteriorating and they're like he's just at a certain point He's just like hanging out Deteriorating in real time and you won't think anybody was just like We probably should just put doctor bad. I

Mean he was it was he a doctor or was that just a name nickname that they had for him Let's see. Let's go the tape on that that they had for him. Let's see, let's go with the tape on that. Cause that's just the prescription he made for himself. He's like, I'm gonna make, I'm gonna go ahead and say that I can play. He's a dentist. 24 card draw, Texas hold him.

He was a dentist? He was a dentist, a gamb gambler and a gunslinger yet I guess you had to wear many hats in the old west what if you're about to Pull your gun for a duel when you started coughing with your tuberculosis Well apparently he was very good at it But like you think the tuberculosis threw him off or maybe like the coughing moved him just a centimeter away from a bullet Maybe it saved him you know maybe he was Trump. Just like kind of had stupid look uh-huh He's like neo, but every time he dodges a bullet. He's coughing

Just there's a spatter of blood that just kind of like stay suspended in the air It's like it's like a smoke bomb, but it's blood. Yeah. I'm Diagnosing myself with tuberculosis and the only... I guess that's what you had to do in those days. The course of action is to play poker. Your sentence to a life of the good times. Enjoy doc. Okay, you hear sentence to a life of the good times Enjoy that Wow

Didn't they used to put people with tuberculosis in like sanitariums and stuff. I think they did. Yeah They deal with tuberculosis. They're I want to see if there's I'm learning all about it because I have it and I'm gonna die from it so I'm learning all about it because I have it and I'm gonna die from it. Also known as the white death, okay. The white death? Yeah. The white death? Usually caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Let's see, around 10% latent infections progress to active disease of left untreated kill about half of those affected. Typical symptoms of active TB are chronic cough with blood containing mucus fever night sweats and weight loss infection of other organs can cause a wide range of Cystic symptoms wait you can cure it with antibiotics, huh?

Let's say well. Let's see treatment antibiotics. Yeah Huh Wow Let's see treatment antibiotics. Yeah Huh Wow, let's see treatment poker Not out with the boys Prevention management prognosis Say the blackjack treatment is blackjack Let's see the blackjack treatment is blackjack Bone to be a fighter damn Damn Well, man, this is scary. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be reading stuff like this honestly

It might help with your poker game because if you get in like a coughing fit Nobody can really know if you're bluffing or not. You know what I mean? Yeah Let's say Damn You freaked yourself out that you have it well. Yeah, I'm just gonna sit this down. Why don't you just why don't you go ahead and I'm just gonna sit this down. Why don't you just why don't you go ahead and Sympathize with a real TB haver over here Yeah, I'm sorry. I should be empathetic here and instead. I'm just making it about myself making it about yourself

Frankly it's offensive Well bad news is those antibiotics. I brought you earlier not gonna do fuck off What kind of antibiotics do you need like? The whole sponge the like the whole mold the whole mushroom Fungi patch I think what you're gonna have to do is Go down to a creek in Eastern, Kentucky and just dip your head under 16 times. That's like the only antimicrobial recourse all right I can do that I can do that I can do that I can do that in 2023 tuberculosis overtook

COVID-19 is the reason cause of infectious disease related deaths globally so I guess the problem yeah we're talking about it like it's a thing of the past is actually just You know it's back Better than ever bigger than ever. Well. I told you that You know there was a tuberculosis scare at Eastern, Kentucky in 2002 Uh-huh, so I saw a mononucleosis scare in 2003. We had we had a we had a bad, listen to what we had back to back to back. Tuberculosis, monomeningitis. Whoa.

Boom, boom, boom. And I'm not talking viral meningitis, I'm talking about the bad one. Did some like rambler come to town with his sick children? Cart full of maladies. Cart full of maladies Careful social infections. Yeah, what happened? What was going on? Is it like a belly because back then back in the day they thought diseases were carried on the wind

Or they thought it was Jews they either thought it was carried on the wind or they thought it like because they thought they let you lose this cosmopolitans that were bringing it down yeah yeah medicine back then was wild they were like they were like it's we've, it's because we were nice to Jewish people. What are like, in the era before lab diagnosis, what did you do? Is that when you just had humors and caught the vapors? I don't know, did they even have lab diagnosis in the 80s? I think they just started doing lab diagnosis like

ten years ago So like what did you do like in the Wild West before they used eyeball it you eyeball? Yeah? It's like well if you're not dead in three months. It's probably not tuberculosis. Yeah Well like you know In the old west It all came down to like if your doctor was enterprising or not Yeah Yeah, like you could have one that was just a drunk who drank laudanum and played blackjack all day

but or you could have one that was like Like the doctor in that movie, The Terror. Yeah. What was it that made the doctors such a slave to the good times in those days? Everybody was drinking, gambling, and womanizing. Well, you had absolute power. You could dissect bodies.

The person who- So doctors confuse themselves with deities frequently. Yeah, that's the most powerful person in society. If you get to dissect a person, like think about it, could me or you dissect a person without going to jail? Well, question though. Where did you go to med school in those days?

Harvard. Yale. Yeah, Harvard, and then you moved to places named in those days? Harvard. Yeah Harvard and then you move to places named Tombstone and like Death Valley. Yeah. Try your fortune at gold panning for gold. And you don't even all you had to do is show up and show a piece of paper that you were the doctor and they were like all right here are the dead bodies feel free to cut them open if you want, and if you like to do that type of thing, you got to do that, you got to cut open bodies. You really could just be anything in those days, you know?

You could be. I'm gonna see where Wyatt Earp went to dental school. Or I mean, Doc Holliday. I wanna see where his credentials are from. That's fucking dumb. He was doing like root canals and shit Let's see You met born in Georgia in 1852 if Doc Holliday is your dentist, and he has tuberculosis Do you have to hold your breath the entire time? He's operating on you. You know I'm saying

36 is that crazy open you're gonna have to wide. Now don't breathe in because I'm breathing out my tuberculosis spore. We gotta be syncopated here. Every time I breathe out, you breathe out. And when I breathe in, it's gotta be yin and yang here. You're gonna get the white death. At age 20, Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. He set up practice in Griffin, Georgia, but he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis, as you have been.

The same disease that acclaimed his mother when he was 15 and his sister before his birth. Damn. Having acquired it while tending to his mother's needs. Hoping the climate in the American Southwest would ease his symptoms, he moved to that region and became a prodigious gambler and a reputable profession in Arizona in that day.

Over the next few years, he reportedly had several confrontations. Confrontations of what type? Well, he was most famous for his participation in the gun fight the okay corral Which is might be like one of those things like where it's like you know I always hear about that is like the January 6th of its day But like was it what if it was overblown? What if it was like four dickheads just like you know drinking out of a yeti cooler and shooting their guns in the air It was like the Hobbs Street brawl of 07

That was the gunfight at the okay corral of its time Do you think that like that same spirit that existed in the West at that time is what possessed the brawlers of Hobbs? 100% we were all momentarily possessed by the demons at the gunfight okay girl go wait what did you say second ago he had several confrontations that's all he says he had several confrontations that reminds me of um on Amazon Prime the other day it showed me a preview for this new Nicole Kidman show called expats and the description of the show is Set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong

expats delves into the complex dynamics of it of Intercommunic, I'm sorry the complex dynamics of a interconnected community grappling with consequences That's it. We got a community that's finally grappling with consequence Rendered on film finally an example of how we should build community and protect it exactly Well Exactly. Exactly. Well, I'll be tuning in for sure. Who was involved in the gunfight at the OK crew?

Did Doc Holliday live? Yeah. How the fuck do you, how the fuck do you have TB and you're in a gunfight and you live? Also, didn't TB probably impede your ability to get it in a little bit? Probably didn't do you any favors, I'd imagine. There's a guy named Bill Clanton.

Ike Clanton, chicken shit Ike Clanton. Ike Clanton and Billy Clanton. Ike Clanton was the chicken shit. Man, I can't wait to die at the end of this episode. Okay, hold on a second. So the shootout at OK Corral was... Nine guys. I'm thinking this is like a melee.

I mean, the mouse at the palace had way more participants than that. Let's think of history as great melees. Okay. Okay, you got the shootout of the OK Corral. That happened on October 26th of 1881. Nine guys involved in that. Three wounded and three dead, which is... Who died? Let's see who the casualties were.

Among the lawmen were three brothers, Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp, as well as Wyatt's close friend, Doc Holliday. As Deputy U.S. Marshal and Town Marshal, Virgil was in charge and it was his decision to enforce the ordinance that led to the shootout. So, the shootout was just something that was on the books in those days.

Wait, so yes, it was like, because they tried to pass an income tax or something? I think what it was is Ike Clanton and the boys had decided that they would not be assessed. Yeah. Let's see, the trigger for the event was the local marshal's decision to enforce

a city ordinance that prohibited the carrying of weapons into town. Oh my God. So really and truly what they were doing is they were like right to bear arms guys early on. They really were? You know. That's so tight.

They said that, you know, you won't take that from us. Law dog, law don't go around here. Damn. So that was one, even though it was nine guys. How many more were there in the, how many were wounded and dead in the Hobbs street brawl? Anybody left unheard from?

There were multiple wounded. Multiple wounded, no dead? No dead. Well, so far anyways I mean you never know these things have rippling effects throughout his time in history I mean someone could be harboring some deep-seated guilt or shame or regret from the Hobbs Street brawl and You never know what if the Hobbs Street brawl created an American jihadi?

What if the Hobb Street brawl created an American jihadi? Like the the lingering effects of that incident, you know It's sometimes say we can never know the long-term effects of any of our actions or whatever Uh-huh, but what if one of the people from the Hobb Street brawl came out of that hardened and said you know what? death to America death to Ramos and the boys I'm gonna be I'm joining ISIS. Yeah Possible it's possible one of those guys did join the IDF for sure I forgot mention that yeah one of them definitely joined the idea

And at that time he told me he was gonna go to Israel, and I was like are you Jewish I had no idea What he said He was like yeah turns out. I'm like 1 16th and They're in Israel take anybody no one else in his family was Jewish, but him he kind of just like popped up But he just joined Jews for Jesus or something and say that was good enough to Yeah, I think maybe maybe everyone else in his family was too embarrassed to admit the Judaism link Maybe that was it. Maybe he was just the first one brave enough to admit it Hmm, and then and then he came and visited me in Austin was not me

Specifically, but I came. That's it, well he got some explaining to do here. Oh I know. And he told me he was going to go to Israel and join the IDF and I was like, I wouldn't do that man, but that's your life I guess. That's your life to live. I wouldn't do it, but. I would not do that personally. What did he say? No, man. It's a sweet deal actually yeah No, he said we got a fight for the for the Holy Land for the for the for our homelands

And by that point I was thoroughly and then you're and you're thinking what the Permian Basin. What are you talking? Uh-huh That's the thing someone someone who participated in the Hob Street brawl of 07 not gonna say his name not gonna dox him Went on to join the IDF, and I never heard from him again, so who the fuck knows maybe he He could be still there he could have gotten blah-blah-oh Taken he could have got red triangle who knows There's a just got Doc Holliday man Well

Like we can't scry we can't skirt around it anymore. Oh history's great melees. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah I was trying to remember other history great history's great melees The only coming to mind for me is malice at the palace which all started with somebody throwing a coca-cola on Ron our test that was tight and turned into a Melee. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah, yeah, hold on let's see We got the gunfight the okay corral we've got the Hobbs Street bra well actually the mouse of the palace predates the Hobbs Street bra about four years, but

Does it really dog that is crazy? I could have sworn I was oh for I could have sworn I was in college and that happened god damn I'll never forget that image of Jermaine O'Neal all six foot nine 265 pounds of him sliding into that punch and just level that guy. I think that was so tight That guy might be dead. Yeah, that's that was so tight. He at least had some sort of minor stroke from that I just don't know how you survived that before he was going by Metta world peace, huh? I Think that was the inciting incident where he had to rebrand You know after that, yeah

It's like I got changed my image. I started a melee Well, there was the famous Paintsville basketball The famous basketball of Paintsville, Kentucky, which was around I think it was the late 90s Yeah, it was late 90s. That was definitely under the administration of Bill Mike Runyon RIP to the legend Kind of the Ralph Tasker of Eastern Kentucky if you will. Uh-huh, the infamous Basket Brawl. Was John Pelfrey part of that? Former UK legend?

That was 1992 between Painesville and Prestonsburg High Schools. See if John Pelfrey was a part of that. Google basket brawl John Pelfrey. How do you spell it? P-E-L-P-H-R-E-Y. John Pelfrey. He was born in Paintsville, Kentucky in 1968. I don't, I think he must have just missed it.

Yeah, I guess that would have been right, because he was part of the unforgettable. I guess he would have gotten to UK in like 88 or something. 80s, yeah, something like that. Late 80s, Latino era. Well, famous Melees, we'll keep thinking on this this will be an ongoing series in our January 6 obviously I think qualifies as a melee what's the tipping point where a melee becomes a war or a battle a revolution

yeah battle yeah a full-on skirm. I would say that was a melee for sure Yeah, where things just kind of get a little out of hand. They get away from you a little bit Melee Is a confused hand-to-hand fight among several people The English term melee originally originated circa 1648 from the French word melee, derived from the old French m'lair, mess-lair, I don't know how to say that, from which medley and metal were also derived. The 1812 tabletop war game Kriegspiel and H.G. Wells's 1913 Little Wars referred to the hand combat stage

of the game as a melee or a melee respectively. The term was brought over to tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and in turn to role-playing video games to describe any close combat encounter, so Interesting. Anyway. Well David Lynch died died yeah, well and on that note Can't put it off anymore David Lynch is not with us anymore. I always knew what happened and people were like People were like shut up. He's talking about and I'd be like it's gonna happen someday. He's gonna die someday people are like shut up Nobody wanted to hear it and they said you turn shut up. You're probably gonna dive like tuberculosis in your 30s And I was like what a silly what a silly prospect dying of tuberculosis at 37

Come on. What is that? Wildest yeah, what is this? What do I look like Doc Holliday? What you think I'm gonna turn sweaty and ashen? Man, I do feel so sweaty and ashen Man losing Lynch was It is one of those things I would compare it to I mean I did compare it to like It's kind of the way out. You know, I don't really get overly sentimental about like celebrity deaths But with him and Prince I did it's just you know well you always you always wished he had one more left in him you know and and he did and he

couldn't find funding because you know and probably you know thankfully for that like if imagine if David Lynch would have caught fire inside the studio system and You know we'd been deprived of a lot of good stuff You mean like if he would have become an actual commercial director like Yeah, like if imagine if dune would have been like his dune would have been like a massive hit uh-huh you know what I mean And then he just kind of got funneled into making like you know Thor movies and stuff His Dune would have been like a massive hit. You know what I mean? And then he just kinda got funneled into making like, you know, Thor movies and stuff. Yeah, dude.

He probably wouldn't have done it, I don't know. He wouldn't have done it, you don't think? I mean, maybe, but. What, you know him or something? You know David Lund or something? I was on a Zoom call with him once. Did I ever tell you about that? Yeah, you did.

Yeah, they made us all think we were gonna have some one-on-one FaceTime with David Lynch, and they muted all of us and made us turn our camera off while he addressed us. Dog, that's fucked up. I was like, hell yeah, I'm gonna get to ask David Lynch a question, hell no. I was on a Zoom call with Marsh onwn Lynch one time beast mode. Yeah, yeah

What'd y'all talk about we talked about? Transcendental meditation and talk about Prince Rupert's drops French Rupert's drops the gunfight at the okay corral Where did beast mode land on? Prince Rupert's drops he said that he said it's an effrontery against God in man Okay, he said that they shouldn't exist. He said it's objects that are that Durable and solid but can also break that easily Affinity I hate that day

It's like the human body. You know I mean is it right people We have people have fallen out of airplanes at 38,000 feet and survived But like a little germ from fucking wading in the creek can like take you out in a millisecond Well, you're learning that firsthand right now. I'm learning that firsthand, right? They can't you cannot crush a Prince Rupert's drop with a hydraulic press But you do one little nick on its tail and the entire thing explodes into millions of pieces. I think this is What's referred to as a chink in the armor? Mm-hmm, you know an Achilles heel. Yes. Yeah, you know

Like what is like the one weak point that brings this otherwise solid thing down, you know? And that's what we as the left need to be thinking of What's the Achilles Hill of Empire what is the Achilles Hill It's Joe may be the Achilles Hill of Donald Trump shoot him to the Achilles Hill next time speaking of This is ostensibly a political program on some days when I'm not battling TB when I'm not having a TV flare-up Yeah, this is a TV episode you got to grade this one on a curve But I guess I guess going forward they'll all be TV episodes Until I die

Which will be fun. I'm looking forward to it But Until I die Which will be fun. I'm looking forward to it But Apparently they got a ceasefire done. It's not complete. I don't think it's fully completed yet But I think it's supposed to go if if all parties agree it'll go into effect on Sunday the last day of Joe Biden's tenure as president One thing Joe Biden said that has stuck with me was that this is the deal that he proposed last spring, like last March.

That couple. And somehow could only get it done a handful of days before he leaves office. The 11th hour. There was a report in the Washington Post where a diplomat said that a big reason this happened is that Trump actually brought pressure to bear on Netanyahu, something that's not happened so far

in the process. That coupled with the clip I saw going around of Joe Biden today saying that he told Netanyahu That he can't be carpet bombing Just kind of like well and then plus another another thing to consider here I think it was Sam Husseini the reporter was like dragged out of the press briefing room when he asked Anthony Blinken why he wasn't in the Hague and

Question honestly, I mean yes, it's like they have flouted multiple the broken multiple international laws and treaties They have literally done ethnic cleansing and genocide by the definitions of the term They have even acknowledged that they have done these things they have acknowledged these things they have acknowledged them Therefore it is a perfectly reasonable a perfectly reasonable Question as to why Anthony Blinken is not in the Hague In my opinion. And this question should not get a man dragged out of the room.

Exactly. This tuberculosis sufferer has one question, which is why is Anthony Blinken not in The Hague? Why am I meeting my end early? Why am I being struck down in my prime by ostensibly a bug that I shouldn't be struck down by in this day and age, you know? But Anthony Blanken gets to live free.

Look, I also wanna say this. Hell no, I say, oh no, hell no, you don't, Anthony. Oh, hell no, you don't. I don't wanna shame anybody for their life choices and I know that there are exceptional situations and blah blah blah, but like Having a kid. I just found this out like a week ago that Anthony Blinken had kids when he was like 60 That's pretty weird right right man. Is that pretty weird? well, I Kind of treat that in the same way. I treat your your buddy going to the IDF

I wouldn't have done it I Want to point out he was not my buddy He was just a guy I knew from my high school Who I would drink with on the times in in the Hobstreet brawl Who I would drink with on the times in in the Hob Street brawl He was not on the side that I would have taken if I wasn't a coward who was trying to get some pussy that night so He was on the other side. He wasn't with Ramos and the boys right exactly All right got it. I this is I mean the funny thing is this Hob Street bra bra took place like almost 21 years ago at this point

and almost 21 years ago is more like um 15 16 years ago, I think Something like that right? Yes. I can't do math, but anyways It is two years away from its 20th anniversary. Yeah that we know that that's whatever that is It is two years away from its 20th anniversary. Yeah that we know that that's whatever that is 18 years ago And it's just funny that i'm just like it's still an ever-evolving situation. Oh, yeah I mean that's how melees are tom Yeah, they

They cast a long shadow they cast a long shadow They there is something called the fog of war my friend. Have you ever experienced it? I did in the hob street brawl of 07. something called the fog of war my friend have you ever experienced it? I did in the Hobbs Street brawl of 07. I experienced the fog of war I experienced that during the war on coal But I have that in retrospect him. I just been somebody rolling coal on me That's like oh, this must be the fog of war everybody's referencing Uh-huh And that's how I got black lung disease as a 27 year old Joe Biden you dumb bitch

David Lynch died today. He walked out of one of my shows once That's fine. I walked out of lost highway twice Did you see did you see that didn't get it didn't want to get it? Oh, that's another thing. I went to bring up The banning of tik-tok Democrats are now scrambling to prevent the banning of tik-tok That they themselves went along with I mean dude. It is a master class. I mean, okay in 2016 we were like ha ha ha funny the Democrats are feckless and dumb whatever in 2010 we were like ha ha it's funny the Democrats are feckless and dumb whatever in

2004 we were like okay funny in 2010 I was more like well Bill Clinton's got some interesting things to say about micro loans Okay for a point but at this point You get you kind of like this this administration has completely Allowed a genocide to occur Right they tanked their own prospects in the election because they're so race That's how racist they are against Palestinians right like they they're so racist against Palestinians. They allowed themselves to lose

in this election now You see all this other stuff coming out dude. Did you see the what is that woman's name like Katanya Brown the the? Did you see the what is that woman's name like Katanya Brown the the? Katanya Jackson Brown is that her name? She's like the oh the press secretary. Yeah Where she mentioned she did not let John Kirby come out and talk about the ceasefire And then she I wanted to see that whack bitch one more time before he goes to hell and yeah, and then she mentioned Then she did mention the ceasefire at all and then she was, I hope my tenure here has been an inspiration to young girls everywhere.

It's just like, and now like the TikTok stuff, like these people, there's nothing holding it together. It's just a bunch of people in a room. Dude, it's so funny how easily they get there so like disoriented they just get baited into the dumbest positions and have to like hold those positions that like Then the Republicans just switch up and just act like oh, no, this was the Democrats the whole time. Yeah This whole generation is probably gonna be like young Republicans or something, but like young base Republicans, you know Is that where it's going my friend? Maybe I don't know. I think you're probably right. I mean the

There was a tweet that was going around that was like it's not cool to be liberal anymore It's not cool to be progressive anymore. I'll go ahead and tell you it never was. Bob tweeted that, it was like, it's not cool. If I don't see you on dime square, then you're a square. Then you yourself are the square in question. You yourself are the square, my friend. Having tuberculosis makes the Bob impersonation a little easier it's essentially the same effect as eating a bunch of biscoff so yeah

that's true are you drinking there tea yeah it's elderberry tea with just can't accept it can you I'm trying I'm trying to fight look Some of us are fighters, okay Some of us will not go quietly into that good night We will not just roll over and succumb to our TB diagnosis. We're gonna fight it So admire I'm fighting it with elderberry tea with honey Bitch bitch Which are they fighting with traditional medicine fighting with traditional medicine is a trap fighting with folk magic and traditional medicine

Is exactly right That's exactly right. Hey, um, hey Steve jobs bravely confronted his diagnosis Did that also happen with I never mind I'm not gonna say it that sounds fucked up I Don't actually know what happened there I Was gonna say with the Beastie Boys guy Didn't something similar happen with him. Oh, I don't know You backed off of that one fast. Yeah, you were like oh All right, I want to talk about that. I can't I can't speak ill of that rock. You know

That's not the one that died. I don't know yeah, I think there's been many people. Yeah, I tried well You know I'm not going to died I Don't think Adam Yelk No, I don't think it's the one that died right I Was an MCA that MCA was yeah MCA's the one that I Yeah Yeah, I'd rock and who is Adam. Yeah, that is the same guy dude. I don't know. I'm gonna tell you something, dude I don't think I could tell you one single Beastie Boy song maybe the sabotage. I don't think you can I don't think I could tell you one single Beastie Boy song. Maybe the sabotage song?

You don't think you can name one Beastie song? Okay, sabotage. What about intergalactic? Planetary. I have no idea what the fuck that one is. Maybe if you sung it for me, I'd recognize it. Yeah, I'll pass. I don't fucking listen to the Beastie Boys, dude. Fuck that shit. That's for people who don't get TB people who get TB or baller you know you're not you're not you're not a beast you're not a which says you're not a beastie man no when are the big winded the beastie boys become the beastie man you know all right yeah that's a good question you can't stay boys forever no you. Boys to men kind of baked it into their name. That's true. You know what I mean?

That was kind of smart of them. If they would just been the Motown Philly boys, that might have been tough to hold on into middle age. I miss how like in the 70s and 80s, you'd be like the Gap Band or something, you know? Yeah. There's none of that anymore. What's a good naming convention for a band in your opinion like what should bands be going by I like just one word just one word yeah like Chonic Chonic it's a mix between chronic and tonic. It's Chonic

TB episode Fox TV Chonica If you're looking for band there's a freebie I'm gonna be honest with you, that might be the worst. Not only is that the worst bit, I think we've ever done a show, it might be the worst word I've ever. I can't make you laugh too hard.

That'll hasten your demise. Yeah, I'm not doing well. One time I came up with a band name called the lintel option the lintel option Here's a band names. I have terrific tongue Canoe tank suicides not very killer The lintel option Suicide's not very killer The little option The literal ease

We think about these I will go ahead and tell you You're one of the best drummers. I've ever heard period any caliber If I were in a project with there's no way in hell in hell I'm handing you the name, name him a thing. You don't like suicides not very killer? Maybe for like a you know a Bootleg EP with like, you know, two deep cuts on it or something. Damn. The band name? I don't know about that. Not a fan of that. No.

Wait a second, the literalies? Yeah, what do you think about that? Sounds like a folk band or some shit. Peter Yarrow died. I never knew that creep. I just want to take this opportunity to say I never knew the guy. Never interacted knew the guy Never interact with the guy definitely didn't go to any of his freak ops. Oh Man um

Peter y'all rest apreciate freak bitch Rest apiece you freak bitch Bobby don't condone none of that. Jimmy Carter pardoned me in 1978 for being too swaggy. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I Sent you an article do you want to read it you have to read it you have to read it though Let's say here. I can't read it Spirit it's called this is appeared in politico Folks this is the spiritual case for Greenland. I mean I personally Okay, so like The they're talking about taking Canada they're talking about taking Greenland

Panama Are they gonna build sanitariums in in? Greenland can I go heal for my TV there well to be honest with you the way it looks It wouldn't be the worst place to heal from TB. Okay. Just based on this little picture here. Yeah. The big idea from Politico,

the spiritual case for Greenland. Some in the conservative movement see the country as the next American frontier. Ooh, nice. As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his proposal to expand US control over Greenland, many of his allies in the MAGA movement have defended the move in conventional foreign policy terms.

According to a common variation of this argument, gaining a greater degree of control over Greenland, either by buying it, annexing it, or striking a new deal with its government, would serve America's immediate geopolitical and economic interests. Given the island nation's proximity to key shipping routes its Geostrategic importance for controlling the Arctic and its extensive reserves of critical minerals now. I have a question that tants, okay What I Know it's called the Jackson purchase, you know, we got Louisiana and all that shit. Yeah, yeah Yeah, can you just go around buying countries these days like could Elon Musk just say hey

seashells You know I'm saying like is that an option like Yeah, se se why see H e l yes, that's a tight name for a country. I'm from seashells. I Sell we sell she sells down down by the seashore Sorry when's the last time you just acquired some land that was like Previously autonomously ran by the people democratically

ran by the people democratically. Hawaii and Alaska, was it the last time America did it? Moving right along. Suppose you're gonna say the Philippines and Cuba next. But in the corner of the conservative movement known as the New Right, where Trump's hardline American nationalism coexists alongside a strong strain of strong strength strong strength strong strength of techno utopianism Trump's defenders are making a less conventional though no less influential case for taking Greenland in the eyes of many of the new right taking

Greenland isn't just America's material and just in America's material and strategic interest, it's also key to its spiritual well-being. That's... I'm all ears here. Okay. Versions of this argument vary from the wild westie to the genuinely wacky. Some of the New Right argue that acquiring Greenland would represent the opening of a new American frontier, Reviving the frontier mentality and the settler spirit that imbued the American pioneers largely the 19th century. Let's go so like that's that's um If that's true are people in Greenland going to kill

American settlers if they go there It's uh, it's an honest question. Cause they're talking about... this is the thing that fucking... they're talking about just buying it. Like that's fucking lame. You're just gonna buy it? You're gonna go Trump into declaring war on this place? Buy it.

Come on. Well, come on, go make war on those people, you fucking pussy. I'm just saying. Go destroy their little Hooga, Daner style homes by the sea. I need a place to take the waters. I'm just saying, you can't get on some frontier settler shit if you're just gonna buy it

and just be like, all right, you're part of us now. That's not frontier mentality. No, that's not frontier mentality. Settler shit if you're just gonna buy it and just be like all right you're part of us now That's not frontier. That's not frontier mentality. No. That's not frontier mentality You know that's passive mentality you take it you don't buy it Others argue that Greenland could serve sort of as a sort of spiritual and technological staging ground for more ambitious feats of American expansion Including the eventual settlement of Mars, okay, all right. Excuse me, this is planet Earth.

Greenland's not on Mars and it looks nothing like it. Can you imagine, who's sitting around in these like, you know, fucking meetings with the Joint Chiefs and Trump and everybody else and it's like, you know, listen, I Know this sounds wild But Greenland could be a good proving ground for taking Mars. The climates are very similar Okay, there's little green men in both places. It's right there in the name. I

Mean, honestly not that far off you got Martians on you know Little men on Mars, and then you got giant green piss sharks floating around on the coast here. That have been around 600 years. The piss sharks definitely, they definitely make things a little more interesting. What would you say? Would you say, okay, we'll buy Greenland, but first of all, what we're asking

is you take care of the piss shark problem Yeah, that that that would freak me out I'm not trying all the I want all these old freaks eradicating before we annex this place What kind of an investment is this like for me personally? I'm not a real estate mogul I'm not worth million so my advice and expertise should be taken with a grain of salt However, how are you gonna buy something with piss sharks? That's all I gotta ask Piss sharks bring property values down we're named we're named be spent about piss sharks

Um, da da da da da. Despite differences in emphasis and scope, many of these arguments start from the premise that Trump's re-election has brought America to the threshold of a spiritual revival. If that is the case, God help us. Well, okay. The man's already- What do you think? We're talking about spiritual in terms of like the American spirit. I'm guessing we're not talking about a Pentecostal tent revival here. I think we're talking about spiritual in terms of like the American spirit. I'm guessing we're not talking about a

Pentecostal tent revival. I think we're talking about both brother. I think we're talking about all the above I think if that's the case like you Trump Trump's already been president before Like how is this a triumph of anything other than like that? What is that thing? You sent me the other day? anything other than like that what is that thing you sent me the other day Biden's approval numbers leaving office is Second to last of all presidents in the last like hundred years or something with one exception Donald Trump These were the two most unpopular men In America and yeah, we've not we've not been able to escape their shadow for 12 years now

So like what what how is this a spiritual revival this is not like anything it's not new anyways. You know what's kind of interesting about it is like how that like people are just like people have spent the last eight years calling Trump literally Hitler the literalese called him that was their first song. That was their first song? Literally Hitler by the literal is called him that was their first song that was their first song literally Hitler by the literalist And now everybody's just like you know let's give him a fair shot round two is gonna be like you know But people are kind of taking a weird pride in it and honestly it's like I mean the thing that we've not talked about yet that's been buzzing on

the internet this week is like Trump kind of taking a bit of a victory lap for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. And that feels like, you know, like we were talking earlier, like if Trump's the peace candidate, right, and he was the lesser evil in this, like, I don't know, it just speaks very poorly candidate right and he was the lesser evil in this like I

Don't know it's just it just speaks very poorly about like any sort of like spiritual revival like enhancing our spiritual condition We have a goddamn drunk That's trying to go through confirmation to be the head of the military who said if you let me run the Pentagon I'll quit drinking That's amazing The most alcoholic thing anybody's ever said they've ever said period ever said that you just let me run the Pentagon I hang it up I'll drive there's been a lot of alcoholic things said in the history of alcoholism but that is the that that's number one that takes the damn cake so it's just weird it's's like, but really and truly, if

we're just talking about a match based on aesthetics and character and principles, like we just really truly need to go ahead and name Trump president for life in the same way the CCP named Xi president for life. We just need to get this out of the way. We just need to quit pretending to have elections. We just need to get this out of the way. We just need to quit pretending to have elections We just need to let Trump run things for here on out. Yeah. Oh, it's coming in See here I Think having a frontier is very healthy said Joe Lansdale a Trump mega donor and Peter Tills co-founder at Palantir

In a recent interview with the BBC. It's a frontier mindset. It's taking new possibilities. It's creating new things. Frontier mindset, brother. So far these arguments have been ricocheting around a small and very online cadre of conservatives, many of whom have ties to Silicon Valley's emerging tech rat. But they could find a powerful and potentially sympathetic audience in the new Trump administration. Chief among those potential allies is Ken Howary, Trump's pick for ambassador to Denmark, which currently controls Greenland and will be instrumental in deciding its fate. An original member of Silicon Valley's PayPal mafia and Trump's former ambassador to Sweden,

Howary is close to both Elon Musk and Till, who is a seminal figure on the new ride. I think any society that produces something called the PayPal mafia should be wiped off the face of the planet. PayPal mafia? I mean. It's not good. It's not good.

And I'll just use the words of, the Murphy brothers in this to describe what Elon and Till's thing is. They should never gave those guys money. Mm-hmm. Or else that could have happened to them. They should have gave them TB. Should have gave them tuberculosis instead. In many cases, conservatives are taking their cues from a concept that Americans may be familiar with from their high school history

classes. Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. Ah yes, I remember that, yeah. That's seminal text. First outlined by Turner in 1893, the theory argues that the settling of America's western frontier played a major role in shaping the country's emerging cultural and political ethic.

And that the subsequent closing of the frontier in the 1890s posed a major threat to the country's self-conception Do you think these you think this is just an extension of the? shared in ization of America Yeah, I think it's It made so much sense to me actually once Trump started taking talking about Greenland like an actual thing America is not Look look at the history of Europe. A lot of those like political...

A lot to look at there. A lot to look at there. Been around a long time. A lot of its political Origins go really far back, right? America only been around for 250 years as of next year. It is literally constructed on an idea, not any kind of like ethnic or cultural or geographic or even religious Idea even though those were used at various times to consolidate hegemony and pass laws and other stuff Now he's like literally based off of Philosophical ideas. It's one of the most idealistic Political projects in human history. It's literally the exact same thing as the Soviet Union, you know what I mean?

It's like, it's just created off of a set of ideals. And as a result, yeah, it's gonna have to renew itself, replenish itself from time to time. So it makes sense that we're doing more geographical expansion. Well, and also if this is an inspiration to all you young kids out there, all you gotta do is have a raggedy set of ideals and you too can become a global superpower.

That's right. I mean, there's a little more involved than that, but essentially you start with the ideals and you build out from there. That's exactly right. More contemporary historians have challenged Turner's thesis, but Trump's allies have nevertheless sounded distinctly Turnerian. Have nevertheless sounded distinctly Turnerian notes in their, but Trump's allies have nevertheless sounded distinctly Turnerian.

No, it's a weird sentence. Notes. Turnerian notes in their defenses. It doesn't make a lot of sense. That's just bad editing, I'm sorry. In December, the magazine IM 1776, which has become something of a mouthpiece for the most assertively nationalistic flank

of the new right, published an article by an anonymous writer arguing that settling Greenland would represent the opening up of a new territory for Western men to enter, a frontier that would forge in time a new people conditioned by the cold climate and the harsh terrain." Okay, this is where we got to like sort of pause on things, okay? Okay. I have one major ethos in life. I've seen a lot of hardship in my days, okay? I've been through a lot of

things. One thing I will tell you is that there is no glory in suffering. And there's something about a movement being spearheaded by Elon Musk and Peter Till, harkening to men being conditioned and forged by cold climate and harsh terrain that makes me want to do unspeakable things. There's like, there was this like, I'll give you an example and it's something, this is one of my pet peeves about you know, left-splainers on you know the former Twitter that like are just really stuck and mired in 2018 style arguments. Yeah. But this one guy, it's like a professor somewhere, I can't remember where, was talking about how like,

it was funny because this came like the day before David Lynch died, but like his tweet was like, I'm sick of like all the people on the left being like anti-social weirdos and showing up in like, you know, in public spaces and you know, drinking fancy coffees and beers and like talking about twin peaks and all that stuff. Basically saying that the working class

could never form common cause with downwardly mobile hipsters or whatever. Or that we need to stop dressing in, I don't know what you say, Disney hoodies. Basically stop, it was just this big screen and anyway it's just funny to me that the a lot of people on the left's whole entire project has been this sort of like fictional rough-hewn working class straw man that can't get along with anybody else that is just off put

by anything that like smacks a little bit of like culture or whatever you want to call it. Not that like you know watching Twin Peaks I would call that necessarily like you know. It was on ABC in its original run like during like modern family's time. It's not like just the domain of hipsters or whatever and I I don't know, I feel like that sentiment and that chasing that and that like the lack of any analysis that is just like, oh we can't run afoul of the rough-hewn working man and his like aesthetic interests, otherwise the left's not going to get any traction, is like, is what gives birth to this like goofy shit where fucking Elon Musk is like, you know wearing a cowboy hat and jumping up and down like a Kansas City Wow

TV sufferer TV sufferer can't yeah like a calm like a TV sufferer. I Think what you're saying. I think these things are connected. I don't know what I'm saying. These things are connected. These like, it is part and parcel of what you've been talking about with Land Man with the Sheridan universe

and also just the cowboy-ization of America and also too, America is like fucking obsession with like Western expansion. I don't know. Always getting more land. need more land land acquisition That's what you're saying here is the reason that musk and them support it is because to them Terraforming and colonizing Mars will literally never happen like also that's that's not cowboy shit either Also, it's not cowboy shit either.

Also, it's not cowboy shit either. You think you're gonna get a bunch of roughnecks from fucking Montana to go terraform Mars? Yeah. Reckon that's not one for me, partner. I'm just a humble dentist. I like to keep my feet on the ground and my lungs saturated in my TB bacterium.

Um, Mars, that'll never happen, but like they can like, a lot of this is just like, they can get more Pentagon funding and that kind of shit if they can like convince them that like, the same basic process will be done in a place like Greenland. And that it will serve as the kind of cultural and ideological catalyst for the new century. Where we are turning this world into Mars. That's the thing, dawg.

No one's going to Mars. We're just going to turn Earth into Mars. That's the thing, dog. Like, that's what we're, no one's going to Mars. We're just gonna turn Earth into Mars. And then, like, with the hard-bitten cynical worldviews we've developed in the early 21st century, then we can walk into the brave new world, this brave new world that we've created, which is just a fucking wasteland of, you know, scarredred fired, you know fire scarred landscapes and like Destroyed hollers from floods and feet. You know what I mean? Like that's that's really what it is, man. Yeah Yeah Anyways TV ain't terraforming the ain't terraforming shit while Bobby's here That's right

Skip down skip down to Unsurprisingly some of the tech right see Trump's plans for Greenland I'm only saying that because I think I am about to die. I think I'm about to actually die so like okay. I got you I think I'm about to actually die so like okay. I got you Unsurprisingly some of the tech rights see Trump's plans for Greenland as a potential opportunity to exit for mainstream American society Greenland represents the reopening of the frontier. There's a little place called, Kentucky that once represented that that's right Wrote Derden Brown the founder of a company called praxis that is trying to build an autonomous network state supported by cryptocurrency. The project has secured the backing of a number of investors in Till Circle. Earlier this year Brown has said he visited Greenland as a possible site for a new privatized charter state.

The project has not come to fruition which he hypothesized could serve as a prototype for a self-sustaining colony on Mars. In his post explaining his proposal, he tagged Elon Musk. There are signs, though, that the MAGA Vanguard isn't uniformly behind the TechRats' grandiose plans for a new supercolony in Greenland. On a recent episode of the Hock Tooa podcast, Steve Bannon, who has broadly endorsed Trump's plan to acquire Greenland, distanced himself from what he called the TechRats' transhumanist vision for Greenland, distance himself from what he called the TechRat's transhumanist vision for Greenland, opening up a new frontier,

or opening up a new front in his ongoing feud with Musk and the TechRat. I certainly hope Greenland is not what's being proposed by these guys, Bannon said. Intellectual quibbling aside, Trump's plans for Greenland, as well as his proposal to regain control over the Panama Canal, and potentially claim parts of Canada for the US

are responding to what many on the populist nationalist right see as a real geostrategic challenge for the US. With the rise of China and the decline of American military and economic hegemony, many conservatives believe the post-Cold War unipolar moment is coming to a close and Imperial jockeying between major powers is ramping up imperial jockeying God damn it god damn it We've already seen that and that we are in an era of new imperialism said the conservative foreign policy analysts who mantra matra pointing to Russia's moves in Ukraine China's designs in in Sri Lanka and Africa, and Israeli and Turkish maneuvering in Syria. With the collapse of the multipolar global order

well underway, he said, the US is starting to act like a normal great power, which is used to defending its own set of interests. Nevertheless, Matra said he remains somewhat skeptical of the spiritual case for expansion, given that the structural and material justifications for claiming Greenland are strong enough on their own, but he sees the utility of the argument.

Quote, if it leads to more competition and more innovation, then by God, that's fine with me, as long as they get rid of the piss sharks, end quote. I tend to agree, I can't disagree with the piss shark. Bottom line is, whether Greenland stays Danish or American Gotta get rid of me. We gotta get rid of the goddamn fish. I don't care. They've let they've had a good run Gotta get them out who wants a six hundred year old fucking shark floating around Well, it's it's interesting

Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, it's like, you know, Trump for, and I don't believe this is true, but I think the electorate believed it and I think that in the, compared to Biden, it was. But Trump appeared and ran as the peace candidate. And whether he's going to actually create world peace like my buddy on the airplane thought he was or not, I mean, I don't think you really take parts of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal without pissing off a few people,

making a few enemies, and perhaps starting a few wars. So I don't know, man. I just, it makes total sense to me perhaps starting a few wars so I Don't know man. I just It makes total sense to me that the United States is trying to expand once again geographically It meets and it makes even more sense that like the singularly Unique figure of Trump would be the one under which we're doing it right And it's a throwback. You know tariffs and Western expansion Yep, it is the spiritual case. Yeah, that is our head. It's our national character. It is

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