CSN EP-33 News with M (Ray Epps, "victim" visas, AI replacing non-menial jobs, Supply Chain crisis)

Crazy Strange Days Podcast resents CS and episode thirty three news with m hey m Hello, I'm tired me too, all right, So I'm over on the Gateway pundit dot com and this has been all over the last couple of days, the whole ray Epps sentence or lack of Jeez ray Epps sentence, no jail time, one year probation, five one hundred dollars fine, one hundred hours community service. Justice in America is dead loan, insurrects and insurrectionists, skates two tiers. Justice system is no justice. So it's kind of goes with what what's his name? We listened to once in a while Solonte who said it's just us, just us. They get justice but we don't. Yeah, I mean, it's such a contrast to that what's his name? Enrique Torrero who was the leader of the Proud Boys, and what did you say? He wasn't even he was in Baltimore. He was in Baltimore when the insurrection twenty two years twenty two years so, and ray Epps was coaxing people and do you know there was FBI all over their text messages and groups tech texts that infiltrated the Proud Boys. Yeah no, yeah, I know that it was all a setup. It was all bullshit because there was like three Proud Boys or something that actually have been convicted. Yeah, but I mean and there's like five hundred and you know that area or five thousand members. So but I mean, but you look at that. The leader of the Proud Boys wasn't even there. It's twenty two years. This guy was there coaxing people. Oh no, there's videos, but there's you know, he even sends a text to his nephew. There's a there's a woman I can't remember her name. I was listening to a show today and she's bringing out a book on this and she there's records of this off his telephone. He texted his nephew after it was all done and said that he orchestrated the whole thing. He was taking like bragging about it. Yeah. So if he's not an operative, I mean he made a beyond the FBI payroll or an agent. But dude is certainly an operative because I just can't get past this. I mean, there's photos of him with this giant sign, this whole he's the one picking it up and throwing it with you know, people that are holding it up because it's going over their heads. Just kind of like almost like a mog pit when somebody you know's up in the air and they're passing them around and he flings it. He's I'm looking at this one right now. You know, he's orchestrating. He's got a bunch of people around him and he's commanding them. But but what I'm saying is that I just it's just so agreed. There's people that haven't even had a day in court, that are in DC goolog for three years and haven't even seen a judge for doing that. We're part of like handling this sign and doing you know, he was leading this second barricade second you know zone that he was all the way past the first to the second doing all this shit and he walks I know, And that's the thing, but that's not a plant. I mean, they think we're stupid, I know, but that's the thing. That's what shows you. I Mean, I've been telling people for years, I'm like, you think that you have your constitutional rights, This right here shows you you do not. Because he was pushing this, He's instigated. He's telling you. The night before they were all calling him a fed. He's like, we're gonna go into the capitol. We got to go into the capitol tomorrow. We got to get in there and get into the capitol. Everybody was calling him a fed. Yeah, they're calling him out. But here we are three years later and he strug this. I know, three years he finally goes, sees his day in court, he gets nothing. And then, as you said, there are people that were in prisoned who were in the Capitol, been in prison since day one or seven days after, I think is when they first started going after people. So he was on the FBI's most wanted list for about I don't even know, but he was quickly, swiftly removed. Everybody is like what that he was like suspect one twenty Yeah, I don't know the number, but I remember that those people that have been there for three years haven't even had Some of them have never talked to a joke, I've never talked to their attorney in person. Some have never even had their day in court, and they haven't even been convicted of a crime. And yet they've been in prison for three years. So how do you say we have justice in America? I mean regardless of whether you think they really were involved in an insurrection or not insurrections. The only person that had, you know, he's deadly forced that day was Bird, Lieutenant Bird, when he shot that unarmed girl that was jumping through the damn a little five foot four. There's rules of engagement for police officers, and every police officer would tell you what the f dudes going to prison? Yeah, but I'm saying, like, but regardless it's like what they did, you know, whether you believe it was an insurrection or not, they still have legal rights. Even if a criminal who murder somebody has legal rights, he has a right to an attorney, right to go to trial, process, trial. These guys aren't getting it at all. And then then they're like arresting eighty year old grandma's Yeah, you know, well, they're expanding the parameters of this. They're going after people that weren't even past any of these barriers, that were just out in the crowd. They're expanding. So they're also probably going to go after people that were on parlor Twitter, you know, whatever the socials were at that time. Yeah, I mean, if they could go this far, they they can expand it. Yeah, they can just keep going, well, they're a corrupt kangaroo freaking banana republic doj They're showing their true colors. And it goes down to you know, people are like, oh, you got to give you know, you hear these talking heads. Oh the rint and file, FBI agent, they're just good, you know, no bullshit. They're culpable now too, because if you see beause Hunter Biden was listening to this. Hunter Biden showed up today. He was held in contempt of Congress, just like Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro was on a getting ready to get on a plane. The FBI snatched his ass up, stripped him down, put him in ankle shackles and cuffs, put him in the little holding sell and they told him, oh, yeah, this is where we kept Who's who's the guy that excuse me, that shot Reagan? John Hinckley. Yeah, you know, you're in the same type. You know, you're the same type of guy. Basically he's with them. They harassed them for scriptures. This old eighty year old dude, seventy six year old man that was an advisor to the president, former president of the United States. So I mean, we could go on and on all f and day long. And the thing is they have to if you people think you have a bill of rights out there, you do not. I mean you better you better all vote friacking Democrat or they'll come after you. These are examples. So the problem is that you know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say, right, so when the other party comes in, you know, beware because they could do the same thing to you. So then if you live in that kind of society, what kind of life would anybody have? Doesn't matter what party you have, If you're afraid to do anything because some whoever's in charge is going to come after you, what kind of life would you live? And that's like And as you're flipping parties back and forth, both sides have to worry about that this doesn't help anyone. And I think we're both on the side that this is part of the UNI Party, both sides. There's very few that are real servants of the American people. And you know, here's another thing. And here's speaking of another thing, here's a prime example of the UNI Party. Democrats in what Colorado and Maine try to kick Trump off the ballot right, Maybe that's bs right for sure. Yeah. I mean, if you don't like a candidate, just don't vote for them, but they don't have the right to run. Then these other ass hats, you know, Ron DeSantis is going to see what we can do about keeping by off the ballot, you know, and all these other you know, there's all kinds of talk for four different states going to you know, Republican states are going to try to do that. When one does it, the other one is going to go, well, I'm going to do it now too. So then you just have this whole chaos going on. You know, there's no you aren't civil anymore. Keep the old full on. You know. It's just like I had welcome, Welcome to Ohio, Welcome on our ballot. It's just it doesn't make any sense. I mean again, the person that you pick as president or whoever you don't pick, they're there for four years. There's plenty of people that one that we didn't care about, and we're like, well, I guess we just have to deal with them for the next four years until we can vote for the next person, regardless it's your president. As an American, you know, everybody, this is like team sport now and it's a damn shame. Yeah, I mean you you just you don't care as long as you win or you can't. You're so deranged because you hate the other guy that you will vote for the freaking devil because you don't like how you know this, this guy tweets, he rubs you the wrong way. Yeah, I mean again, if you don't like him, don't pay attention to him. Let him run his course, him or her or whatever. Let them run their course because they were duly elected, right then let them do their job. And then you know what, why don't you spend your time and energy trying to promote the next candidate rather than just trying to hurt and you know, defame the current one. You know, it's just like it's out of control, you know, old slick Willie Express. Yeah, but you know everybody loved him, man, he had that charisma. He's like, you know, you knew he was a playboy. He was great for SNL, sent Live, you know all this stuff. What great fodder that was, and you know everybody knew he was a little dirty. Yeah. Well yeah, it was like the hillbilly mafia. Man. When those two rolled into DC. But could you remember Hillary actually had an accent, an Arkansas accent at one time. And you know, she talks like she's been in freaking DC. She talks like a TV personality, you know, Midwestern no accent either way, unless you tried, you nobody told me this road would be hard or wouldn't be hard, that whole shit when she's trying to act like a Southerner again. Yeah, but you know, but anyway, let's go. I mean one point I wanted to make them as we went past, when you said the rank and file FBI and there's still good people and all of that. Fine and Danny, they may be, but you know what they say. But both of us come from a military family. And I can tell you one of the things my dad used to say to me that I always remember. He said, you know, I took my oath, not to the president, not to my commanding officer. I took it. I took an oath to the constitution. That's where my oath was taken. And he said, so if my commanding officer wanted me to do something that was against the constitution, he goes, I wouldn't do it. And he said, I'm I might go to the b Yeah, he goes, because I took an oath to honor the Constitution. He goes. They might put me in the brig, but he goes, So be it. I'm doing what I took my oath to do, you know. And then these these FBI agents took an oath too, so they I mean, there's no reason for them to be kicking down a door of like you know, they're going after Catholics that do Latin Mass because you know they're going after pro life people. And if you're an FBI agent, wouldn't you have to go? You know, there's just something I don't care if you're just punching the clock, dude, you just you want that paycheck. That I get it. You know, you might have a wife and kids and people depending on you. But how some freaking honor. What are you doing? What the hell are you doing twenty guys in a swat team, you know, FBI freaking assault team kicking down pro lifers doors like old late old Grandma's that protesting for pro life again, if you want, if you're not pro life, you have the right to protest to just like she has the right to protest. So that doesn't mean you go kick somebody's door down. I mean, we're beyond just obvious. It's like, I can't believe there's anyone out there that I would agree with half the crap they're getting, they're they're they're using it. It goes back to the freaking FBI. What is that. I don't remember the guy's name, but remember there's that quote from the guy that from World War Two. Yeah, the German, the Germans. I said nothing. Yeah, basically he said, he said, you know, they came for the Jews. I did I said, or didn't nothing because I wasn't a Jew. They came for the guns. I said, or did nothing because I didn't have one. But yeah, it was the guns. Order is wrong. My order is wrong. But it was like guns and the normal guy after him. Yeah, he said, you know, they came after the businessman. I wasn't a businessman. They came after you know. So he gave like five or six examples and then he goes and then they finally came after me. So he kept his mouth shut. He saw all these atrocities, Yeah, he said, all these atrocities. He saw that they were wrong, but he wouldn't say anything. And nobody else would either. So then by the time they got too far, no one could say anything because then, you know, they had so much control the government that you, as an average person, had nothing and you could say nothing, you could do nothing. All you could do is accept it. So are we there today? Possibly? I mean if people just sit by and allow all these things to happen and say or do nothing, Yeah, and then you're gonna wake up one day go where am I living? I wake up every day not understanding the world I live in anymore. I mean, I mean, I'm only you know, I'm fifty two. Well here's the thing, Like we were looking up trying to remember the guy's name from you know, uh, Proud Boys, Right, So we did a quick search on Enrica Terrero to Rio. It's tar informant in Florida at one time. But the first thing that pops up is Wikipedia, and it says, and this is us talking about AI and looking at but I know that, but AI will look up things on the internet. Right. If this is the first thing that pops up in the search Wikipedia, it says he is an American far right terrorist and convicted fella leader of the Proud Boys. I mean, yes, he is a convicted felon now, but I don't know if I'd classify him as a terrorist, because what did he do? He wasn't even they used to fight. They'd round up all their boys and go after Antifa, but not one. You know how many Antifa, I mean they were even they were busted in and the freaking Capitol police let their busses get close to the grounds. Yeah, there were thousands of people there when Trump was still speaking, But how about them at like eleven starting shit, people are allowed to protest and burn cities down and none of them get arrested. But yet people that didn't even enter the Capitol the summer, love baby. Yeah, people who didn't even enter the Capitol at all are being arrested three years after the event. It's as bad as all those khaki blue shirt You ever see those guys, I forget they get. They jump out of U haul vans and go marching like their white supremacists, but everybody knows their feds. Oh yeah, they wear face masks and hats and they all look like theyll freaking southern like preppy boys. They jump out of the looks so realistic. Everybody knows that the psyop is happening, swirling all there's mad psyops going on everywhere, and then you've got mad gas lighting, you know, just like you read that with Wikipedia. Ya crap, that's just straight up gaslight. And like you said, AI can start taking us, but you just need one hundred people to you know, with substantial following on the interwebs and social media to put that bullshit gaslight story out and then AI is going to take that as the headline of the day. Yeah, because the NBC News store here a the NBC, you know, one of the big networks. When he was one of the Dutch Dogs. It says, you know, former Proud Boys leader Enrique gets twenty two years longst January sixth sentence. Yet and this article was as of September of twenty twenty three, and it says the Proud Boys chairman wasn't present at the Capitol Tech prosecutor said he acted as a general known as a soldier. So it's almost like and you see Ray Apps the night before on the fifth we thought police, I mean, you know you weren't there, but because you controlled the group, then you know you're just as guilty. I mean, Rio Epps is definitely acting as a field commander. Yeah, and he had some other people where there's like an unidentified woman and there's an unidentified dude that actually had a pistol. There's pictures of the dude with the pistol. He's whispering in his ears, he's talking to him all this crap, you know. Yeah, I don't know what to say. God bless America man, and you people better wake up because this could be you. Yeah, so going I guess you could be Ray Apps or you could be the innocent guy going to prison for three years for jack shit. So I guess it depends on who's in charge right which which group right on? And then it's going to keep changing. So that's that's the day you want to want to move on. But that's the slippery slope, right. It's like, don't think just because your team is in the office right now, you're everything's okay for you. Your team is not always going to be there, So be careful what you wish for, you know. Yep, it's supposed to be equal justice under the law. I mean, who's the terrorist MAGA or the government the FBI. At this point, the d O J. Who's really harming the American people. We didn't even have a war under Trump. Well it was still that there was there's always little you have to Yeah, but we we've been there for like forever. Yeah, none was going on. Nothing was going on, and until sleepy sleepy guy in there wanted to pull out. But there you go, man, I I think we should just move on. Yeah. Criminal visa scam. What is it called? I'm just like criminal visa scam? Well, another one off the Gateway pundit. It's titled police shut down immigration scam used to keep illegals in the country. This was very surprising. Mmm is it? It's probably all these immigration lawyers putting the stuff together. They have they know the laws, they know the rags. It says that basically, it says it's to the point that Texas is charging he's failing to do constitutional duty to protect the states, and the lawmakers have adopted a law allowing state authorities to arrests. I skipped some of it because I don't want to just read it from allowing state authorities to arrest individuals who enter this state illegally. But now the federal government has broken up an immigration scam that focuses on allowing illegals to remain in America. Basically, it says it's by having them become victims of a crime so they can apply with the Homeland Security for a victim visa. I didn't even know the victim visa. It shields them from deportation and lets them work in America. It's just like it freezes their status or something. Pretty much. Yeah, so they basically people like a regular work visa or a student visa that like there's a procedure, right, get this basically jumping the line, Yeah, I mean that's what I take from it. Yeah, but I didn't even know there's a victim visa. All they have to do is say they All they have to do is claim that they were a victim, and then they can apply with Homeland Security get a victim visa. It keeps them from being deported and then allows them to work here. They get their phone. Yeah, they get their what two to four thousand whatever, I've heard different numbers, maybe four thousand for a couple. It says here quote the fraudsters charged ten thousand per roberty robbery and gave the store owners a heads up and a cut of the money to use their businesses in the scam. The report explained. The supported victims would then report the crimes to the police, filed the necessary paperwork deemed as part of the investigation, and then they would use that paperwork to file applications with Homeland Security. That's amazing, Emilio Gonzalez, the former chief of US Citizen and Immigration Services, told The Times. This is a new level of immigration fraud, it says, reports said. So far eight robberies have been linked to the scheme, and another eleven are being investigated. And so this says the sandwich shop in Kentuckucky, smoke shop in Pennsylvania, three liquor stores in Massachusetts. I'm sure it's coming to an area near you, or it's already happening, the report said. Rim Bahi Patel thirty six and Balwind. They're saying thirty nine. We're under arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud. And one participant has become a collaborating witness. So here you go, new ways to circumvent the law. Right victims, claim your victim, get a victim visa. That's amazing. These people are smart man. Criminals are so innovative and the things like even like prisoners are the stuff they can build in prison. It's nuts. I just listened to a podcast where it was an ex guard and an ex inmate that they both were in the same prison at the same time and they're actually friends now, and it's just crazy. The stories they were telling. People are very innovative. If they have no it's like Stalog thirteen, it's like Hogan's Heroes. Man. Well, it's just like, you know, they keep trying to put together. The government puts all these things together because they want to stop you know, like one of the reasons they want bitcoin is because they think cash is dirty and only criminals use cash and all this other stuff. Then they you know, pretty much want that so they people can't cheat and be under the table and they can collect all their fare taxes, you know, because so many people are hiding. But people just come up with new ways to sound well here here, here's The Eden Prairie Police Department in Minnesota grew suspicious after finding a pattern of reports of Smali men approaching and attacking Hispanic people from behind. A common link was your Aida hernandez Lenaires that sounded like a white guy for sure, an I legal immigrant from Mexico who first reported an arm robbery by Smali men in twenty fifteen. The report said she applied for a U for a U visa and then went to work selling her how to guide to others. So that's how they found out. Sometimes shit just happens and you figure, you know, you figure away there might have been a small loophole for some situation. And if it was, if it was twenty fifteen, it wasn't that we didn't have that many people coming across the border. So she just happened to find a loophole and like, oh crap. She could have been directed to a civil rights attorney, she could have been directed to an immigration attorney to help her out because she was a victim. And then hey, we have these I heard about you know whatever, And then popped there the seal is broken. Yeah, and now she's like, now she's selling how to guides to all these illegals the whole What do we have the state of New Jersey coming in seven eight million? I think it's I think it's closer to twenty. Yeah, but that's wild, man. We better move on because we sound like we sound like we're a fan of one party. I guess I don't think either party should be upset about this. You know, yeah, well they should, but they don't care AI. Let's see, so we're getting back to AI. We've done a couple in our short little series. And yeah, we found an article that says already, I mean, we just talked about how AI was growing and important. Everybody knows that. But so now, you know, in the past, a lot of people worried about robots replacing kind of you know, manual kind of labor jobs. Now they're saying AI is going to replace non menial jobs, so things that you would, I guess be more like white collar jobs that you know, things of that nature. So, and here's an example. One company, it's called do Lingo, which apparently makes like language software, the maker of language learning software Babble or you know. And they said, I'm not sure if it's that bad, but they're cutting ten percent ten percent of their contracted workers because they said they can be replaced with AI generative artificial intelligence, because they said they can actually create more content than the human counterparts can. And Goldman Sachs is estimating that some three hundred million non medial highly paid workers could be made redundant thanks to AI. So I guess nobody's job is safe, you know, surprisingly, Yeah, like number one was a clerical support workers for about forty six percent of their those jobs could go away because of AI. Well, they let the contractors go first, right, yeah, but they have an entire listen, rather like we just no longer need as many people to do the type of work. Well, contractors are easier to get rid of because it's there, they're not you don't have to h out of country too. Well, yeah, but you also you don't have all the hr issues of letting people go. But they go down the line legal, architecture, engineering, you know, life, physical science, finance, business, community and social services management. How I just still when we were through that social social services, I don't I don't know. You can't make house visits. You can't unless you're thinking of something totally different. Well, I guess if it's all done online and calls, they can just like how are you feeling today, and just don't bring up Chinese avatar broadcaster and then just pick up keywords and then putting on what somebody says, look up phrases on the internet and answer back, you know what, like an answer that might calm the person. Basically, it's gonna be like community organizers cut, it's gonna be AI. It's gonna be like congressman, there's no need for congressmen, excuse me, your congress people any anymore. But the one I find is like, yeah, healthcare practitioners and technical I mean gonna replaced with AI. It's gonna be one cold finger when I get my prostate checked. But so it's beginning, it's beginning. So just the beginning. I'm like, I'm really not I'm not cool with taking the human element out of the arts or you know, the just talking. Well they're in saying now podcasts are being just have AI. One of the podcasts I listened to, the dude had it copy his voice and then you know, would just type some script or copy and it it almost it was. It was I would say, eighty six percent accurate, like inflections and sound sounded sound yeah, man, But you have to be careful because I remember somebody at work was saying they were using AI to respond to their emails, like some of the ones that were more you know, just like hey, thanks for the email. Whatever like that didn't require a you know, real written response, just more of a cordial thank you or something. And he said he was letting AI do it. But over time he started to see that it was getting mean. He had to stop using it, and people are like, why are you so rude when you respond to me? Does he use it at the text that or email his mom or some family members? I think these were worky thing. I didn't even know we had that option, but it's like yeah, and he said, so they're starting to get real mean. So he just stopped using it. I can't use it. That's insane, it really is. I'm afraid. I don't like it. It's terrifying. I mean, there's definitely things that can help you on but you know, it's just when we talked about yeah, but we don't do anything cautiously, but we go a million mile when we discover something new. It's just like, yeah, I mean, you see all the art that I was created, it's pretty pretty cool stuff, right, But then you think about all the people that were the artists. No human arts better, yeah, but do you think all the people that are artists? It takes a lot longer, obviously, for sure, art, but then you're gonna put them all out of Like, none of those people are gonna be able to get a job anymore because AI is just basically taking portions of all real artists work and blending them together. It's just gonna be like serial too. It's just gonna be like just standard you know, standard crap, and all these artists are gonna get put out of it. There might be a like for good artists, might be a premium man. Well, yeah, for those that are really out of a thousand bucks. Yeah, those that are really good, their work's gonna be probably more valued. But like I said, they basically take. They take they take pictures off the internet. Now all this, all the images that me and you and everybody else is put out there, and they blend them all together. So they're stealing everybody's work and just blending it together and making a new image. You know. So, like, what feature on my beautiful face? Do you think they would make an average like the appealing like averages the features of people? Do I have any Is it my big nose, my classic handsome big news guy? Look? Oh yeah, I mean I don't know. It's not as bad as that. Adrian Brodie. He had a big schnoz boys all knows. Yeah, that's right. It's probably my buns buns of ste the boom boom, all right, Next, I hate you. Hey, I So is this a supply we're getting into the supply chain crisis? Yeah, we'll talk about it. I mean, this is a pretty quick article. It comes from Armstrong Economics. I'm going to read a little bit of it just because it's relative. Is his program AI. He has created a form of AI, but it's a little different. It's not to replace people. It's just because he looks at things global, and he looks at information from all over the world, and it takes so much time for it. No personal possibly it's a program called Socrates. Yes, And it's just the amount of time it would take individuals to go through all like the newspaper articles, different things from all over the world. People couldn't get it done in a day to gather enough information to kind of show you well, it works so well that he has counseled governments around the world. Yeah, people know he's kind of a yeah so but so his art. But he writes, I don't think we've given anybody. Yeah, he wat a lot of blogs too, So the really his his software kind of helps determine trends. So it kind of looks at trends and we watch a lot of trend people, not just him, other people as well. But it's just really giving you trends. It can't give you like anything else generally, it can't give you what's going to happen. It's just telling you, like, this is the trend and just kind of be aware of it because something is probably going to happen. The one guy, Gerald Solante, he's another you guys have to, yeah, check this dude out when you can find him. The prostitutes, the prestitute. I was just going to say that the prestitutes. This guy's off the hook man. He's got the I think it's called the trend Trends Journal, the Trends Journal. Yeah, and he's a he's a hot shot too, but he is a one in a million type character. He is fricking hilarious with the New York accent. Yeah, he's an Italian New York Italian for sure, and he definitely throws out some yeah yeah, man, he's the best. I'm sorry I had to throw that out there. Maybe some maybe we can, maybe we'll. But so the article basically says, the kids Obama attempted to bomb in y Yemen all those years ago, grew up fast and now they're forming. Now they've formed surprisingly efficient militias who hate the West and have become powerful enough to impact global trade. The yem Well, let's stop there for a minute, because we're latinum. We're just straight up latinum. Oh yeah we are. But but it just shows you how actions you take, how many years ago, decades ago, can come back to haunt you. Well, so, but it says the Yemen hooty rebels are blocking carriers from crossing Zeus Canal and Canal and have created near pandemic level disruptions to the supply chain. So this is disruption. So they have to go around the Horn of Africa in Yeah, that's a long, long, long one. So what it's doing is creating disruptions just like COVID did. So when you saw inflation and you saw shortages because of COVID, you're gonna see them because of this. Never let a what is it, never let a crisis go to waste? Yeah, testa. So the militia is currently enroute to the Canal via the Red Sea, and there's been a twenty five percent drop in commercial traffic through the canal since November. And basically it goes on to say that the longer trips elevate the shipping costs. Of course, right because more gas, you got to pay the people that are on it, so on and so forth. So it says the cost to move a forty foot container from Asia to northern Europe has went up one hundred and seventy three percent. So guess what that cost is going to be passed on to you as a consumer. They're better off going from the Pacific side. The route from Asia to the US has there been fifty five percent since December, so you know, and I think I heard it takes an extra two weeks or something. Yeah, so that's the thing, so warn to Africa by So those are those are goods that have not yet reached US, So that means you don't see the prices yet, but as soon as they hit the store shelf, they're going to go up because anyone that's buying those products to put on their shelves, their class is going to go up from the person that's shipping it, which means is going to be passed to you. You know, it's just always something. And like you said, I mean, was this the article Israeli Canal? Yeah, and you got to that part right because I was reading something else. Yeah, to talk about the Israeli canal. Yeah, why they're not attacking the hooties. I mean essentially, Oh, look we've got to go around there with Cape or the Horn Africa or whatever. But they're talking about now now we've got to build a canal through Israel. Yeah. Now they're saying that that's giving the West a valid reason to create a new canal. I wonder if Halliburton will be handling that. Yeah. Yes, but but our note really takes you. Our note to you really is more. Hey, beware, you know prices are going to rise and don't be surprised. So you might want to stock up a little bit now if you can to just kind of less than your allocate you know what is it weighted average cost? You can average a cost down, so by today, use tomorrow and you can save a little. Right, get a cannon. Don't buy the cat food like the old pensioners in Scotland. Do you buy some beans or something. It's like you know it's cat food. And our last one is the Russian textbooks, yeah, which is a trip. Yeah. So also from Armstrong Economics. So god. Some people have posted online this is not I mean, not Armstrong Economics, but just online in general, that Russian textbooks have been revised, and basically, in the Russian textbooks they say the US twenty twenty election was rigged. So it says that Russian schools are teaching the youth that America rigged its own election. In twenty twenty, students in the eleventh grade have posted excerpts from their revised textbooks to the internet, and Newsweek actually requested a copy from the publisher, Sonan, who declared that everything public published is factual and improved by the Russian Minister of Education. The rough translation of the excerpt says, quote Donald Trump, American statesman and political figure, businessman born in nineteen forty six, the forty fifth president of the US from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one, the first president of the US who had not previously held any public office, the richest, Yeah, the richest man of all American presidents. In the twenty twenty two presidential election, he again nominated himself as a indidate. Wait a minute, how much are the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bush Bush They already had cash, They got family cash. A lot of them got money, more money after. That's what I'm saying. Isn't it funny this dude went in with as much money as they come out with. Yeah. So because he remember he didn't barely raise any money. He used his money. You didn't even take a damn they took yeah, because they said he had to take something for when he got paid when he was president. He didn't take a paycheck. He took a penny and he donated the rest of his salary to charities. So such a bad man, I guess, But it says. But the result of so, it says, he again nominated himself as a candidate, but as a result of obvious fraud on the part of the Democratic Party, he lost the election to Joe Biden. Now some will say, oh, this is Russia, it's our enemy. They're bad. This is just about to say the Pinkas have probably done this all the way. You know, from the beginning of the Cold War, after World War Two, they're like, oh yeah, talking shit about Truman talking. You know, I don't know, Truman was great, but this guy is okay, okay, the devil's advocate here. So if that's if you're saying Russia just made that up because they're trying to make America look bad, then what if we said in our textbooks about Russia to make them look bad? You know, Oh, well they were always bad. Ussr was terrible, it was pretty. Communism is evil. Yeah, Communism is bad, but I'm sure there were. It's because with anything they're not everybody in a country is bad just because the leadership is bad, you know. Yeah. The people are always people usually haunt it. Yeah, they're just man. And it says here's another little picture. It says on mask Biden from the same Russian school textbook quote. His entire political career has been accompanied by corruption scandals, and he and his family have commercial interests in the Ukraine. Yeah, why didn't they talk crap about China? And uh the heck the Russian mayor, the three million from the mayor Russia or from Moscow. I'm tired, Yeah, jesuz, you can tell now. But I mean, this is just the vicious cycle, like we were saying here, me. The article goes on to say, the next generation of Russians will be raised to believe that America is the enemy, as their parents before them are also led to believe this, And American textbooks will paint Putin as the enemy and a dictator, and American students will learn that Russia is an enemy as their parents were to believe the USSR was the enemy. So histily is constantly rewritten by the victor, those sons of guns. I'd have to sit under a damn your your desk, right, the bomb drills, able to do the bomb drills. Yeah, it's like, go under your desk, like that would have done anything if you were going to be bombed. Go, well, my desk saved me. Yeah, you know, and I what are they saying about us in the Ukraine? In the West and the Ukraine. I'm sure they're talking shit about that as well. I actually agree with everything they said that. Yeah, so you'll never see that in any any of our textbooks. Yeah, but then you go back to what you'll learn about. You know, when you're a four year old, you'll learn that maybe you don't want a penis and you want a vagina. But let's talk about like what when okay, when Trump was running, remember Russian collusion. Russian collusion, that was all a hoax. They said Russia was for Trump, and you know he was bad, bad Trump because he's a friend of Russia. You know that was all fake. So that what do you So it's kind of funny. You can't even believe what's coming from our own new and you're reading, you know, in another country. They're telling all the things it used to be, like the Economist in the nineties and two thousands. You can read that and see what the world really thought of us. Then it went to shit. You know, it's just another rag. But the BBC, you know, we used to listen to BBC all the time, like the two thousands, and we I mean, because a lot of Americans have a lot of different stories that you wouldn't, but a lot of Americans have this, you know, belief that what we're kind of liked by the world and we're like the savior to the world. Everybody looks up to us that you know, we're going to come save them. Most of the world does not like us because we've been the bully and they don't like that. And even though we have gone around and we have tried to you know, we have basically helped, you know, win World War one, world War two. You know, we didn't want to be in those wars over there. It gets money because of the proxy wars and all that. We're like the regime assassins and regime we set up. You put out a pro American regimes and countries. We really were only there because Russia was there and now we were so the CIA is so good at it, and that's what they've done and probably toppled two hundred countries in the last forty to fifty sixty years. That's why they hate our guts. Well, I mean, but going there and trying to help you liberate a people who are oppressed is different than staying there after you've helped supposedly liberate them and then put certain people in power that actually were worse than the ones that were there before, you know. I mean, that's that's a totally different thing, right. I Mean, if if you want to go liberate, then do that, and then then wipe your hands and get out, you know, and let them let the people run their own country and pick their own you know, there's always bleeding hearts there's oh you're not. You have no sympathy towards the illegal immigrant that's you know, stealing your health care, stealing basically stealing your tax dollars. It could be going to vets, could be going to the elderly that have to retire at fifty nine and a half sixty two, but before sixty two, and they get crappy healthcare, Medicaid part whatever they make. Hey, you know, like two grand a month is really going to cut it. But how many times do we go to the store and we see older people working. I mean, I'm sure they've already retired and they've come out of retirement, and there's a reason why, well that you can make up to I forget what it is. I just listened today, maybe up to sixty thousand, depending on and pay a dollar back to the government every three dollars you make or something. It's some kind of weird at you know, it's just all stupid. They should be allowed to keep all their money. But I mean, you know, but like you said, we have so many people in this country that I mean, people are starting to get weary and tired of the Ukraine War and all the money we're sending there. I mean forty last the last one was like like forty billion that we sent there. You said, if you put forty billion and put it in our own country, look at the benefits you would have, Like you said, helping vets, helping the elderly, Helping the people that are you know, low income, not illegals, but American Americans, man, are low income. I mean you go travel this country and you look at the roads. I mean, there's plenty of money. We could spend that money very easily in our own country, but we're sending it to everybody else. Yeah. But yeah, I went into town to drop your mom off and the city is beating the crap out of my little four by four truck. It's built for that. I was like, Holy, I'm only man. Yeah. What people don't understand, though, is that, you know, government is just so big and bloated that we just can't afford to pay for it anymore, you know. And you know the difference between the federal government and state and local government is is federal government can print money, your state and local cannot. So that's why every year you keep seeing your taxes go up, property taxes, income taxes, all these things, but they can only go up for so long because they get you get to a point where people are like, well, it's not worth working. It's stall. You know, when we were on the Council of Government. So I'm not going to say which you know, just some of the stuff that they we would vote for, and it was just about wasting the money to get that budget next year or even increase it. Because if you don't spend all the money, you're not going to get money. You don't get that. So even if you didn't need it, like if we didn't need to work on our roads over here, but the town next to us needed their roads, why didn't the money go to the town next to you? But they didn't want to not use it because then I mean the following year I might need it and I'm not going to get it, So it's like total inefficient. You need to take some of them, I rs agents of the sixty thousand, maybe take a handful of them and start you know, figuring out shit like that. Yeah, okay, you don't need the extra three million. You know the town next does you know they have water purification issues, road issues, they have homeless issues. What's her name? Catherine Austin Fitz who said that she built that entire database where she kind of when she was assistant, Well she was, but when she left there, she worked on a database and it wasn't I don't think she got the whole country in there, but she'd like worked on certain areas and she was reallocating federal moneys and then using like a computer simulation to say, okay, well if we if we redid this money, implied it here, here, and here, you know, then it kind of forecasted what the economy would look like, and things were significantly better because it was efficient use of money. It was reinvestment into certain things that actually want you know, an empty investment, like it's just not sunk money, you know, kind of like what the Jesus says, right, Jesus, what does say? What's what's that? Show Kim's convenience? Yeah, they call him the Jesus. But what you know, you feed, give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish, feed him for life. So it's kind of like that. You know, you just keep throwing money at somebody and they're like, they'll i ate my meal for today, give me more money, for tomorrow. Give me more money. Why don't you spend the money training them to find a job so they can feed themselves. Man, we're handing in our rabbis and we're getting shit on a shingle. The economy, inflation, it's the cost, and they just pissed money away. It's we're not poor people, we're not rich. But I mean, it's it's ridiculous anymore. I can't imagine being young again. When we were combined, we were making thirty forty grand, you know a year. When we were young, we would we'd be on food stamps. Well, and that's why a lot of kids are complaining, we'd be on government assistants. Man, Well that's why a lot of the young you and I didn't have parents' basements to live in. Yeah, but I mean, but that's why a lot of young people are complaining. They're like, you know, I'm never going to own a home or anything like that. That's why they're saying the new trend is they've pretty much give up on the idea that they're going to own a home, so now that now they're basically looking for luxury rentals because they still want a certain standard of living. They want to live well, they want to have a nice house, they want to travel, they want to do all these things. So they're like, I'm just going to get a nice apartment. Well, did you see that there's a new a bank account or product. It's just for And they didn't say the percentage if you're even They said, you're going to get slightly more. Your interest rates will be slightly more than the average savings account, but you can only spend it on the down payment or closing costs or towards buying a house. And I was like, Okay, what's the interest rate? They wouldn't They didn't say, so nobody has an interest rate zero zero, Yeah, because then it's just ridiculous and you're you might as well just keep that money just in case your years out, unless that's what you're doing, full speed ahead and dumping you know, two thousand a paycheck and that thing. Yeah, but with the well you can do that yourself. But with the cost of the current homes and I mean, you know, the down payment, you're you're easily looking twenty thirty, forty fifty thousand dollars depending on the price of your house. Even I haven't even been paying attention. Is it up to ten percent yet for down payments? Because it stole for faha, you know a lot of times they are requiring a down payment. It was like sixty six percent back in the day, wasn't it. No, historic the historic average was to put twenty percent down. What was it when we first bought our first house? Remember? But then it was yeah. But but over time, as the interest rates started commercial, as interest rates started to drop to almost zero, the down payment requirements right, So that's why so many people were able to get a home that weren't able to get one before, because you had low interest rates, which made your payments lower, and you had no requirement for down payment. So it opened up houses for so many people. You know. But now, but that's not the historical norm. Norm was twenty percent down and about seven percent average interest rate. So we're kind of going back to what the historical norm is. But yeah, because we've lived so long with this low interest rate environment, people are like, that's unreasonable, it's unreasonable. It's like, well, no, it's kind of historically accurate thousands of years, but we've never had these you know, people who you know are trying to find a home when then they talk to their friends or whatever, Oh I just bought a house and it was this and this, you know, so that's what they think it should be, and it's not that way. And frankly, it's not going to go down back to that way probably in our lifetime. I remember in the nineties when people were getting down to six percent, they were like, oh my god, they're refinancing to get that this is the best ever. But again talking about economics and his history, that the rates that we had were a thousand year lows. So that's the last time that were they were that low or a thousand years ago. So guess what we like the Roman Empire probably was so, but they debased, their debase their coins. Yeah, when everything crashed. So when they got too much debt, which is where where we're at, gold gets mixed with copper. Man it's never good. So you know where we're at now. So you know, so if you follow that same historic trend, you got a thousand years before you to see them that low again. So just put in your mind that that's probably not gonna happen. So if you want to get a house, you're just gonna so you'll have to save longer for that down payment and just budget in a higher interest rate. So frustrating. I feel for you, peeps, But I mean again, it's not anything that people haven't done before. When we bought our first house, it was twenty percent down and about seven percent interest was the average. So if you know people did before, you can do it now. It's just you have to plan better, that's all. Yeah. And that wasn't enormyre, right, I was second. That was commercial and it was ten. I mean commercial was ten. It did it didn't fluctuate. Yeah, dependent if it's f h A. If it's just a straight traditional loan, you had to you had to have more. Well, you might have been able to skip a down payment or less in your down payment if it was FHA the gifts, but the interest rates are driven by the market, So fah A might give you a little bit better rates than a conventional but you still have generally were given market interest rates. And then you know the credit. Your credit determines the rate that you receive. So yeah, but that's the new normal. I guess the way of the world. Hey, I've got an idea, folks. You can hit us up at crazy strange Days d A Z E not d A Y S d A Z Crazy Strange Days at gmail dot com. If there's a subject you'd like M to check out and us to kind of discuss. I know, more heard less me is better, we'd be happy to do it. I think that would be pretty cool, not stupid stuff like you know, I'm we're going to say what I was going to say, some economics, some global you know, geopolitics, you know stuff like that. 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