Dexter White joins me again for a big talk about disinformation, lies and the inflection point in our narratives surrounding Ukraine, Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter and the Democrats’ mid-term election strategy and how it pertains to Disney’s brand destruction.
Show Notes
Disney’s Demise — This Is Not the Way
Elon Musk’s Bid Reveals Twitter is the Poison Pill to be Cured
Previous Episodes:
Podcast Episode #104 — Matt Ehret and the Proper Role of the Dissident Leader
Podcast Episode #103 — Alex Krainer and the Fracturing Collateral of Empires
Podcast Episode #102 — Dexter White and Does Stage 2 in Ukraine Lead to WWIII???
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Paraphrasing a little from Dexter “Yes we completely provoked Putin but he was wrong to do something about it.”
When you are provoked in the way the West went after Putin over the years at some point you better have a red line and be willing to follow thru. IMO doing nothing is exactly what the people doing the provocations wanted. That is what drives down popular support which could have led to his removal.
I knew next to nothing as to what was going on over there until late February (TY Tom & friends). Looking back it certainly looks like TPTB knew they couldn’t trust him and the best way for removal was to sink his approval. With Putin out of the way skids would be greased for The Great Reset. China could have never stood up to them on their own.
So my conclusion is Russia invading Ukraine had to happen. Not just for his fate but for that of all of humanity.
Said it before, will keep saying it.
JFK nearly took us to war when the Soviets put missiles into Cuba. Khrushchev had the good sense to back down.
Dozens of Clinton and Obama era officials told Biden (and have been saying for decades) that Russia would not tolerate US missiles in Ukraine. Dexter is a stupid idiot, and Tom looks rather foolish keeping company with an idiot.
Biden has been corrupt his whole life — and now he has dementia. A smarter man would have realized the cost of putting Raytheon missiles into Ukraine was too high. Obama saw that and backed down.
Zelensky is a comedian pretending to be a statesman — he got used by Biden and Raytheon. Now thousands of Ukranians are going to get killed so Biden and Raytheon can get paid.
Zelensky should resign. He was stupid to let Biden use him at Ukraine’s expense. He was elected on a platform of making peace with Russia, not to be a patsy for a corrupt dementia patient half a world away.
Americans need to pull our heads out of our backsides and recognize that Joe is bad news. He needs to go. Impeach him. Send Hunter to prison where he would be already if we had a functioning legal system.
Allegedly more Democrats voted for Joe Biden than voted for Barack Obama??? Even if one hates Trump, are we supposed to believe that Biden got more votes than Obama?
Time for the entire Biden regime to go to prison. All of them.
Put in moderate democrats. Put in moderate republicans. But stop the corruption right now.
America needs a massive perp parade in DC. Not another war to enrich Raytheon.
Biden backed down last year. Do you really think Obama isn’t running things??
What changed between this year and last. COVID burned out and The Fed fought back. Don’t dismiss Dexter’s observations, he’s sharper than you realize. He just isn’t impressed by Putin here. Time will tell if he’s right.
Obama’s foreign policy team is definitely running most foreign policy… but Biden was part of that mess before, and he still is. Biden screws up foreign policy while extorting bribes for himself and his cocaine snorting boy.
Is Obama running domestic policy too? Seems like Biden’s illegal immigrant policy is 10000x more stupid than Obama tried himself.
One of my business partners is Costa Rican — he got a work visa, then green card and finally citizenship, he followed the rules. He resents the criminals crossing the border illegally and expecting to be forgiven. If these crooks don’t need to obey the rules, then neither should anyone else. Go kill a federal employee, murder laws like other laws are completely optional in Biden-land.
If Biden is going to “forgive” student loans to social justice warriors, then he needs to write equivalent checks to engineers who paid their bills and ROTC who paid via service. Preferential treatment is illegal. Paying everyone fairly would bankrupt Washington DC. Take it out of their pensions that no one in the private sector gets.
Anyway, Fuck Obama too. He may or may not be pulling Biden’s strings, but he certainly helped mess things up. And his wife Michelle is the biggest racist the country has seen in 50 years.
DC is a disaster. The best solution is to shrink government — shrink spending, and slash headcount.
We are not going to attract talented people to DC, only crooks (both parties). Its time for everyone to accept this.
That government which governs least governs best (Jefferson) and that government which has its hand in everything is going to demand kick-backs and bribes from everything.
This week: FDA approves remdesivir for small children older than 28 days (i.e. babies). According to Dr. Meryl Nass, in Glilead drug trail: 71% adverse events, 21 seriously injured, 3 dead.
Anthony Fauci is the most prolific mass murderer of all time.
He funded the creation of Covid. He sabotaged the US response with constantly flip flopping “advice”, almost all of which was bad advice in addition to being self-conflicting.
And being a government employee, of course he needs constant kick backs from the pharma companies.
Both parties in Washington DC work for Raytheon and Pfizer — not for Americans.
They always have.
Funny you mention Dr Meryl Nass. Steve Kirsch wrote a piece the other day outlining the absolute proof these vaccines are bad news. Bear in mind Kirsch was a double jabbed progressive with 2 degrees from MIT. About a year ago he saw thru the Overton Window and won’t be donating to progressive causes anymore. The auditorium at MIT is named after him and they wouldn’t let him come in there for a debate lol.
I wrote a long comment regarding Kirsch’s article. It might have taken on a black pill effect to some. I basically said ignorance from our regulatory agencies and big pharma is no longer valid. They know what these vaccines are doing to people.They know drugs like Remdesivir are killing people.
A lady responded to my comment. She really liked it but I think maybe I came across as sad. It is sad to have had a bad feeling about people lining up to participate in Op Warp Speed and now knowing my instincts were correct. I forfeited about 6 fairly high paying jobs and lost a girl friend I really liked over all this shit. She was liberal more in a classical sense and I was a dickhead about it because I couldn’t shake her awake. It’s was very frustrating sometimes.
The lady referred me to this column from Dr Nass. She also recommended I start meditating. That’s probably not gonna happen but I did read Dr Nass’s piece today. I believe she’s correct the vaccines are on their way out for a number of reasons. This is good news but Dr Nass correctly points out it ain’t over; not by a long shot. It’s Great Reset or bust for Globohomo.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/covid-persists-but-the-covid-vaccine?s=r
I was on the ground floor of putting my life back together after many shitty years at the beginning of covid and covid stalled the whole project, especially after running around for a decent amount of 2021 trying to figure out how to dodge forced vaccines. We won though.
Think of this though, and it is really possible: you lost a woman you liked over vaccines. That sucks and I feel your pain. BUT you made it through pureblooded, and as the effects of the vaccines come to light, being a pureblood might help GET you more women who are looking for serious long term relationships who don’t want to sleep with a human bio experiment.
Maybe it’s all cope me saying this, but hope dies last I guess.
I am sure Scott Ritter was set up and maybe even threatened.
Most of these comments are in the big money, Tom, yours too!
I completely agree. I will not try to stomach another podcast from him. The discussions with him are a waste of time for Tom, and lack any depth. His ego makes me ill.
Well, I lasted 3.5 minutes. Must have confused Dexter with Christie Brinkley.
I hear you, trust no one and nothing. Everyone and everything has a motive an agenda that is concealed.
The danger of this is obvious. A loss of faith in everyone and everything, leaving the individual faithless and hopeless. This is not a place anybody wants to find themselves. For a nation it is disaster.
Without a base of faith to anchor to, a drift into nihilism, nastiness, revenge and evil intent, is inevitable and that I am afraid to say, is where the west finds itself. America finds itself lying to its people and more than this, the people expect to be lied to. Truth is a liability when everyone is lying. This is not healthy and will lead to destruction.
“Everyone and everything has a motive an agenda that is concealed”. ‘Everyone’? Really? I don’t think ‘Everyone’ has an agenda. ‘Everyone’ includes people who lack the I.Q. to have an “agenda”. That said, your statement fails in its second part, ‘that is concealed’. I have an agenda and mine certainly is NOT concealed in any way at all.
I loved your comment, thank you.
I am not self-aware as you are. I find myself constantly doing what I should not and not doing what I should, (as a famous man once said.) It is almost as though there is a hidden agenda within me; one I only discover once the deed is done or the good intentions I had, left undone.
I guess I am a bit dumb… One of your people who lack the IQ to have an agenda and yet I find myself saying to myself, Now why did you do that? You could have said this instead of what I actually said… it is good to know that everyone is not like me, thank you.
Tom interjects “my partner Dexter White” many times in various interviews and podcasts, which means Dexter has a lot of input in this product. Also note that Tom is the frontman for this product. You think these guys don’t know what they are doing? That being said, it seems like these Dexter podcasts might be a little bit of trolling. We all have this desire, especially on social media…and, believe it or not, it can actually be beneficial for the product. “Oh, you don’t like this? Ok, here’s more of it.” The more you squeal about it, the more Dexter podcasts you’ll see. If it starts harming the product, then it’ll stop.
This is a very important point. Dexter and I collaborate a lot on this project. 90% of the content is me, but it is filtered and influenced by a lot of behind the scenes discussions with Dexter as to where things are and what they mean.
If you think I’m me and Dexter is him and the two don’t overlap, then you are seriously confused. That said, there are structural and fundamental differences between our worldviews… and on wedge issues like this those differences will be highlighted.
I need people to understand that there is no “Tom” without “Dexter” and there is no “Dexter” without “Tom” in that sense. So, if you like me, understand you like a part of “Dexter.”
On geopolitics, however, we have divergent views. We’ll see who is more right than the other.
So Tom what you are saying is Dexter doesn’t exist he’s your alter ego? Damn you’re like Dana Carney with the voice …..Sorry ROFLMAO
All jokes aside one thing worth mentioning that during the bread lines and the breakup of the USSR the Russians didn’t eat each other. I fear the same thing won’t happen here. After the Brandon admin was installed it’s been a circus on the border. It’s short sighted to say this floodgate is about votes or replacing the population. Those are long term strategies. This is “Katie Bar the Door” shit. My senses tell me this is has been a ploy to bring in as many people possible and pull the plug on all of them. Keep them busy fighting each other instead of looking for bunkers to snuff. And notice how the clot shots were NOT mandated. The admin was concerned about International Law. That’s as funny as our media giving a flying fuck about white Slavs killing white Slavs. I’m a cynical bastard these days.
The key difference between Dexter and I is that he’s actually much more bullish on the US as a society than I am. In my opinion, that clouds his judgments to be biased towards the status quo ante of US power projection under the right circumstances…and discounts the moves others make to circumvent this.
It’s his framework, and it’s not invalid. I’m not defending him here. I’m illustrating why I believe our differences are a good thing for the blog, the product, the platform… all of it.
the people in the comments here who are triggered by Dexter are, that… triggered. They are themselves that which they accuse him of being. It’s the first rule of the internet. Those that respectfully disagree with him or me are who we are trying to cultivate strategically.
Because healthy disagreement leads to better arguments and better analysis. That’s the process.
I think Dexter adds a lot to the podcast, as it is the prevailing view in the United States. However, like Tom, I am skeptical of that position.
I think I would warm up to Dexter’s position if it were based more upon reality:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=excavating+nazi+soldiers
Having watched a number of those videos, they become quite interesting when the excavators misidentify a site or layer and discover World War I or Napoleonic Era remains and weapons. That gives you a real idea of the history of those lands and the price the people have paid for choosing to live there.
If Dexter came out and said he was perfectly happy to add an American layer to the layers above, I could take him more seriously. However, the last time the United States faced that choice, they opted for the Atomic Bomb. It is also interesting to see, that in the era of Obama’s new progressive liberal democratic order, that those borders will be settled in the same old, time worn, traditional manner.
Here is an interesting interview with Andrei Nekrasov, maker of the film, “The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes”, that expresses current Russian public opinion:
THE MAJORITY IN RUSSIA SUPPORTS PUTIN, FOR THEM THE WAR IS A FORM OF RESISTANCE
“But the majority supports the government. Why? For them, this war is a form of resistance. And that must sound shocking to most in Europe.”
“But you don’t understand the majority. The West and the Russian upper class are united by the bourgeois lifestyle and the bourgeois worldview. But the Russian majority is anti-bourgeois. It is pleased with the sanctions which have hit the upper class, the oligarchs, and also the upper middle class. That is another reason why they support the invasion.”
“Even if conditions become uncomfortable for them, they will survive because they are good at it, because they mobilize. Porsche no longer delivers cars — they laugh. The true Russians rejoice.”
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2022/03/the-majority-in-russia-supports-putin-for-them-the-war-is-a-form-of-resistance-florian-rotzer-interviews-andrei-nekrasov/
As Pepe Escobar says, Russia (and likely China, as they are next) know they have no choice but to win this conflict. So, where the war goes from here will really be up to the Dexter’s of the world to determine.
So, if this does not turn out to be the usual antiseptic war, or one that can be walked away from, will the Dexter’s of the world be willing to add an American layer of corpses to those fields for kids to discover 80 years hence? Or will they opt for the Atomic Bomb? (again)
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ~ Ayn Rand
That is very important info Tom. Thanks. I have always had, since I became aware of you via Jim Kunstler, this very background, almost subconscious perception, that there is something ‘just not exactly’ about you.
The “the tide is turning because we’re in a red state, and the people are finally fed up” narrative doesn’t fly. In this podcast, it followed the discussion about Twitter. Just the fact that Twitter is such a powerful propaganda tool, or even important at all, is evidence that humanity is irreparable. Once again, the vast majority of humanity doesn’t have the ability to think, and doesn’t have a moral center. It never did and never will. Like it or not, that’s how the evolution of the human species has worked to this point, and it’s been very successful for humans as a species. Because of this humanity will always be susceptible to an external authority (yes, even Twitter or groupthink or whatever you want to call it) telling them what to think and how to act. It’s why marketing works, ffs. Ever watch any commercial, especially the last 15 years, and think “this is disgusting, I’m not going to buy this product just because of this commercial”? Yeah, well the vast majority of people don’t think that. This authority that rules over the mass man comes in all forms, not just the obvious like government. Religion, education, medicine, any field that requires an “expert”. None of these would have any impact on society or significance if people could think for themselves and had internal moral character. They can’t and they don’t, and it will never change.
It’s 11:47 here in the West (last day of April) and so far this is the most cogent thing I’ve read or heard. Thanks my friend. Truer words were never spoken.
I remember talking to an old CIA honcho…long long time ago, maybe even before Dexter was a twinkle in his father’s eye. We had spent days discussing how the empire worked.
Finally, aghast, I reached that point of peak despair:
Me: “How can we put a stop to this evil?”
Honcho: “It can’t end (my name)…..it will only end when somebody bigger and stronger than the US comes along”
BINGO CHICKEN DINNER we have a winner
From the convo here sounds like dexter-white is a cuck, and tom needs cucks like the joker needs batman, or is it like a fish needs a bicycle, you talk tough tom, why can’t you walk in the jungle alone?
Why is it that men can never walk alone?
That’s just dumb. Do you think anyone can do what i do alone? I listen to Dexter, you guys, my patrons, what I read…. Everything.
But what to perceive of liking about me is partly because due to my having a strong sounding board for my ideas before you see them in public
If that’s cucking out to you then honestly, I don’t know what to say
We have all sorts of mainstream media from all countries telling lies all over the place. The alternative people may not be political or military experts, but they have brains. I have one too. I’m willing to listen to a variety of commentators — because — eventually what rings true rises to the surface, even given that so much information is not shared by any government around the world – information no one is privy to. If you don’t like what you’re listening to, you know the great thing about the Internet is that you can enter a new URL and go anywhere you like. They’re making an effort here and if they say something you don’t like then – BINGO – just discovered or reinforced your own perspective and that has value, IMHO.
1) I listened to most of the podcast.
While some of Dexter’s remarks on foreign policy were based on misinformation, at least he was reasonable about education, freedom of the press, and other things. No two people agree or disagree about everything. But I’ll address his foreign policy ideas.
On the subject of Syria, Dexter has bought the conspiracy theory about the Syrian so called ‘civil war’ being the result of Europe’s and the Gulf states’ desire for a pipeline to supply Europe with Persian Gulf fossil fuels. I have never been able to find any serious discussion about such a pipeline and, if one looks at a map, you can easily see that pipelines through Iraq would not only be shorter but could also pickup more fossil fuels from Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran.
Nor did the ‘civil war’ start from a popular uprising put down by Assad’s ‘brutality’. In the first two months of the war, which started in March of 2011, up to 1/3 of those killed were Syrian soldiers – not something that happens when unarmed civilians confront soldiers. Syria was invaded by terrorists, armed and funded by the US/UK/KSA/Qatar, initially entering through Turkey. They were not ‘moderate’ rebels. Anyone who takes up arms against his government cannot be regarded as ‘moderate’. They were, literally, head-chopping jihadists. They set up Sharia law in Aleppo that featured daily street executions. I have gruesome pictures of some of them.
Bashar Assad is not his father and was not raised to replace him. He was a highly intelligent ophthalmologist. His wife, Asma, is English-born and raised, the daughter of a London cardiologist and diplomat. She attended an exclusive school in England and graduated from college with degrees in computer science and French literature. She worked as an investment banker before marrying Assad. Bashar is an Alawite; Asma is a Sunni. Some people claim that Assad was committing genocide against the Sunni majority. Ridiculous. A backward country like Syria would do well to have such people as reformers. Problem is, the West (and later Netanyahu) did not want Syria to reform and become prosperous.
2) Russia entered the war in 2015, shortly after a Syrian refugee child’s body washed up on a Turkish beach. “Do you realize what you have done?”, the Russians asked, regarding the refugee crisis. Yes, Putin watched Qaddafi’s death on video and knew this would happen in Syria. Rumors have it that it was Iran’s Solameini who asked Putin to intervene. But, whatever the reason, I consider Russia’s saving of Syria to be highly moral.
Dexter refuses to believe that Scott Ritter, who failed to find WMDs in Iraq, could possibly be a victim of a setup. But the fact is that the US military/foreign policy establishment is composed of utilitarianists who believe any atrocity, especially one used to vilify a regime-change target is good if, in some undefineable way, it serves the national interest. Dexter complained about ‘generals’ analyzing the war from their keyboards. Well, Scott Ritter has both military and diplomatic experience so his views on Ukraine are worth considering.
As part of the USSR, Russia lost about 20 million people (mostly civilians) during WWII alone. That is about 20 times what the US has lost in all wars put together. Russia certainly does not want war but, as the Romans said, “if you want peace, prepare for war”. In one of Ritter’s videos, he said that the Russians are very serious about war and would not have undertaken this one had they not known they would win. They are committed to doing so. Putin is certainly not alone in his decision making. He has competent people around him. He fired (not jailed) a bunch of FSB people who didn’t do their jobs correctly. The summer before last, Putin fired 50 generals. This is not a bad thing. It needs to be done here.
Obama fired all the good men in USA MIL long ago.
Putin is doing the opposite, he’s firing the cucks before he goes to war,
Obama made sure that only cucks remained, and that was +12 years ago;
This is a good article from the unz review on the whole debacle. https://www.unz.com/aanglin/dicks-out-for-harambe-putin-warns-zog-of-lightning-fast-missile-strikes-if-they-invade-the-ukraine/
My favorite part of the article is that he basically calls our foreign policy, grown children playing a video game, which seems to ring true.
In Scott Ritter’s defense, it is possible that he became a political target after coming out against the Iraq war, and thought that he was interacting with someone whom was of the age of consent. I am not necessarily defending what he did, if true or not true.
As for Putin’s ukraine thing, the media has literally transformed Putin into Derek Chauvin, while ignoring other boots on the ground facts. I think the best, and most sober realist analyst on this whole thing has been colonel mcgregor.
Dexter seems like light weight. In regards Ritter his “convictions” are irrelevant to the topic at hand. Weak joke btw Dexter. When will your transition be complete? Or have you just not gone through puberty yet? See two can play the irrelevant game. Are you still faking up your point of view for eyeballs? You just seem like such an intellectual feather weight to me.
His tiresome ABC’s of price to earning of stocks shows this. All stocks are wildly beyond this now it is irrelevant to the Twitter question. Lightweight is correct.
He seems like a guy who doesn’t really know what he is talking about, but still has to say something. It is a common occurrence on the internet. People make entire careers out of it.
I don’t really ever agree with Dexter White position and his old school liberal ideology, however, I think it is interesting that Tom keeps doing interviews with him. Two friends with differences going at each other dialectically, is rare in these days of tribalism and echo chambers. This is how discussions should be done and more of them need to happen elsewhere. When was the last time we heard debate and discussion between diametrically opposite positions to bring about some truth to the audience, and reconfirm positions held with the audience?
Thank you Pete. That is our goal with this. We decided a long time ago that our regular conversations needed to become podcasts. And we don’t agree about a lot of things. But we respect the work the other puts into their positions.
It’s the basis, frankly, of our friendship.
I wonder if there are any “old” or “new” liberals who work (full or part-time; professionally or as a hobbyist) for a living doing manual or productive labor? In his superlative book The Secret Knowledge, David Mamet masterfully analyzes the liberal mind set/philosophy, contending that such is divorced from “the real world”. How many farmers do you know, for instance, who are liberals? (Note: I was unable to find any pertinent info on Dexter White in a brief search, so I guess my questions might be answered to the contrary?)
LOL, but seriously…I have yet to bring myself to listen to him and our esteemed goat farmer. My mind keeps asking, “What does a liberal of any stripe have to say that is in touch with reality?
Dexter is not a liberal, dood, he’s more blackpilled than I am. I think your radar is really off.
My biggest problem with Dexter White’s commentary is that it had to devolve into ad hominem attacks. Both against you (Russiabot) and Scott Ritter (pedophile so everything he says is junk). I ask an honest question. If his points were valid, why wasn’t he making them instead of just dropping the personal attacks? Personal attacks are what you use when you know your argument is weak and you’re losing the debate. Then after the ad hominem attacks he devolved into jokes. Maybe he thought being funny would make him more likeable, but it didn’t add to the debate nor does it stir people to his side or his argument.
Mostly though it shows that he doesn’t have a strong argument and he’s probably wrong.
Ritter was entrapped by a male police officer posing as a 15 year old girl. It is typical of this type person. What does that have do with Ritter’s ability to figure things out? This guy is biased don’t put him on again please.
This is dull. I don’t need a light weight lefty to ruin my morning. I didn’t subscribe to you for this. All stocks are wildly beyond traditional Price to Earnings. It also completely misses the forest for the trees with Twitter. David Stockman (Reagan’s OMB wonder boy) does intelligent analyses of this and other topics. His on line newsletter is $40 a month.
why would anyone listen to this clueless fool
Dexter is an Original Sin kind of guy (everyone is flawed – trust nobody), whereas you Tom, factor in that which he never takes into consideration, that not everyone has bad intention. I did find it hilarious how he contradicted himself over Musk and Twitter: Hoping Musk would fuck over the Twitterati Establishment, while telling everyone not to hope for Putin fucking over the WEF et al. Now, to a majority of the world’s population, one of the aforementioned is actually far more important to hope for as an outcome than the other, and would likely lead to the other eventually. Which would it be, Dex?
An aside (but related) about Gonzalo Lira, which you yourself can verify through Alex Mercouris,Tom. The day Lira re-appeared, the other Alex said on locals that GL had shown him the arrest/investigation paperwork (and I think constraints placed on Lira by the SBU) in private chat/zoom (publishing publically would have sent GL straight back to the slammer). And as to his motivations? Pure or maligned? Noble or mercenary? Why the fuck is he still there? Not for me to say (from what I picked up on during his disappearance from those connected to him, I’m not going there), but I give him as much credibility as I give you, Tom. And that is a pretty high bar not many reach.
PS: Brian Berletic (The New Atlas on YouTube) and Jacob Dreizin – thoughts?
Please correct me if I am not getting your question right…
What I was getting at regarding Putin was not that no one should fight the WEF types, it’s that I don’t buy that Putin is out to save the world. Do I think Elon is? Of course not. But sometimes, the right amount of disorder (like buying Twitter) can really disrupt things. I don’t think that launching a war falls in that category.
I think you are implying what the WEF is trying to build is a greater threat than propaganda ops on Twitter and if someone would take out the WEF we wouldn’t have to deal with Twitter. I definitely respect that POV.
But I just don’t view Putin as that type of actor, at all. And I think that is where the difference is between me and most of the commenters.
Dexter does the “I see this idea morphing into [child organ harvesting] and [state wrest child control from parents in total]” so we should draft laws to preempt such steps while the supporters are willing to say “that would never be the end goal.”
I have serious [apparently libertarian] blanching at using legislature to write such laws. Language is hard. Laws are hard. Things get twisted. blah blah blah. And that’s BEFORE getting into the Soros-purchased judiciary which ignores whatever laws it wants anyway.
My parallel would be immigration: to faithfully hold to the laws on immigration already on the books would solve 90% of the supposed “border wall solution” problems.
Where’s the constitutionally supported laws that already exist?
My comments on the organ harvesting angle is purely a response to what Democrats are doing in California.
One take is they did this as a response to the right chiseling away at abortion rights. The left then responded by pushing overt legalization of abortion through all three trimesters and into early life. Some say this was an oversight and poorly constructed language. I don’t buy that explanation as there are too many biotech companies in Cali who would love the differentiated stem cells.
Calling for a correction that obviates a vivisection loophole should work for any libertarian. Or don’t pass the bill at all.
For the wresting of control of children, this is a reference to things communists have done in the past and at this point, we need to be aware of the goal structure.
One of many examples:
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-Greek-Civil-War-Paidomazoma-of-1948-1949?share=1
You made it longer than me…. I was out at 7:57. When the character assassination of Ritter started I lost interest in anything the guest had to say.
This was EXACTLY the same way Hannity and the neocons attacked Ritter back during the WMD debacle…. and who was correct? Seems to me Ritter was the only one who was right… against a public and humiliating onslaught most people couldn’t endure, yet he stuck to his assertions and was eventually proved to be the one telling the truth.
To me, that is someone who’s analysis should be taken seriously despite his sins. And if the guest doesn’t have the depth and breadth of knowledge to understand that then he has no credibility.
Tom, has it occurred to you yet that whatever money Dexter has bought to your “business partnership” most likely has Deep State origins, with the sole purpose of impeding your wonderfully insightful analysis and move you away from the target??
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen written on this blog. Period. If you knew the history between us (which I’ve alluded to many times) you would know that that is truly moronic.
And it’s sad that you cannot separate his differences from mine. If anything these ‘blow smoke up Tom’s ass while denigrating Dexter’ comments speak to his thesis that crude Russian propaganda is everywhere.
Do you see how much more likely it is that you’re the deep state agent than him?
That’s the problem with achieving a larger audience. More likely than not, it just means more morons are checking out your content. I’m sure nothing will shake your faith in humanity, which is good for people like me who enjoy your content. After all, a cynical misanthrope doesn’t put out any content at all. The Remnant has to be reached somehow.
I don’t take what anybody says as gospel, and I if you take my compliment of your analysis as “blowing smoke up Tom’s ass” then that’s your interpretation alone.
I’ve learned over the years not to allow emotions to cloud my judgement… one day you will see the benefit of this, and of taking a less combative attitude also.
Tom,
I just saw you on the MelK show, where you guys were talking about how to interest “normies” in world politics and finance.
A couple of months ago I shared one of your podcasts with a twenty-something, and he said: “I stopped listening when Tom said, ‘the FED printed too much money’ and that the ‘world is Biblically short of dollars’. He can’t even figure out his own narrative.”
I replied: “Try going to your bank and ask them to accept something other than US dollars for your student loan debt and see what happens.”
He was stunned by that reply …and then it hit him: he is “Biblically short of dollars” too. Now he is even sending me your columns in DMs occasionally.
PS: Thanks for letting that “anonymous” comment through. Dexter is a a FED !!!
Absolutely hilarious!!! Time to put his name through the anagram solver and figure out his codename! (hehehe)
Well done, sir! That’s how you get through to them. Printing money that doesn’t circulate or is soaked up as loans then creates a synthetic short position where you’re the guy who needs dollars.
Brilliantly done, actually. Thank you!
I did find Dexter’s comments interesting, however Tom as a newish listner I may have failed to pick up on whether he has opined on what Putin could have done differently in response to continual NATO expansion and its negative impact on Russian security and the US State’s desire for regime change in Russia. If he has dealt with this in an earlier podcast could you pleae provide the episode number,if he has not could you please ask for his take on this question in a future episode?
Regards,
Clint
Listening to The Duran now. He’s got Gonzalo on there which is surprising. I assumed he was still busted. He’s on there with Andrei Martyanov; Smoothie I think they call him. It really gets on a roll at the 30min mark. Smoothie gets pretty excited at times. Wondered if any of you guys had an opinion on Andrei (Smoothie). This crew seems to respect his thoughts they’re letting go off lol.
Guys I am going to go ahead and like my own comment. You can put me in the stockade if necessary. This was 2 hours of some pretty interesting shit. Andrei seems to really know his biz from a military perspective. It was uploaded to YouTube several hours ago so I assume Gonzalo is somehow back in the game. This guy Andrei (Smoothie I think) kind of gave me hope. Like I said its long but a couple interesting dialogues start at 30min and 1hr30min.This is more military type analysis but I assume he knows WTF he’s talking about. Would not be offended to learn otherwise so don’t hold anything back.
@Luke
Andrei has also written several books that are well worth reading. His blog Reminiscence of the Future is excellent. Powerhouse of information.
Many commentators are also very knowledgeable and add to the discussion
Andrei {smoothie) is one of my go to sources along with The Saker.
Highly recommend you check out his blog.!!
Andrei Martyanov is former USSR Navy. He is also the author of several books on international relations and military doctrine and stuff. Most importantly, he does not try to reach an audience or fake knowledge or opinion about stuff he has no idea about.
This was great. Thanks, Luke
The first half hour I couldn’t take it but it was definitely worth following through to the end. Tom I was with the first 20 or so posters for the first half of the podcast then by the end I completely see where you are coming from by having Dexter on. Dexter you might want to figure out how not to just piss people off the bat, then losing them for the best part which really got interesting later. A lot of the folks that left the podcast early left because you need to be a little less harsh with your ego timing. Great discussion though. Man you guys really push it.
Thank you for this podcast: it was an eye opener..
There are two things you do with bass players. You either listen to them, or you pay them for your pizza delivery, and Tom doesn’t have any pizza.
@TheHistoryLass…..thanks for the info. Saved the page in my browser. I learned a lot in that 2 + hours. There’s little doubt both Putin & Xi have been preparing for a showdown with a West for a good many years. They seem quite prepared between their people and weapons systems. Smoothie seemed pretty confident the West would not attack Russia but Gonzalo was a bit more concerned.
It was a great discussion. I wasn’t too sure about Dexter at first, still don’t agree with some of his conclusions but that’s OK because he made me think about why I see things a certain way. I have a new appreciation for people with differing viewpoints- they help me clarify my ideas.
Gonzalo Lira isn’t always my favorite personality, but he did mention in a discussion with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris on their channels that he showed them the documentation of his arrest. I was satisfied with that because I think Alex and and Alexander wouldn’t stand for being used for a lie. He never claimed anything other than being detained and that his lawyer has told him what he can and cannot say. Still, today he doesn’t have a laptop or filming capabilities, so I have to think that something did indeed happen. He never said he was a journalist, just a guy who happened to be there, and he’s had his own issues. If we wait for someone who is squeaky clean — we’re all going to be waiting for a long time.