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welcome to issues that matter I’m Cynthia P my guest today is Scott Ritter

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and we’re going to talk about a number of subjects plus his upcoming um uh demonstration and book so

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let’s let’s start off with the uh presidential campaign your your opinion

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of Biden let’s start with Biden well I mean

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um he’s a man who is in apparent cognitive decline physical decline um

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he violated his promise given to the American people that he would be a one-term president um by seeking the

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second term um it’s the ultimate expression of

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narcissism because his diminished capacity physically and cognitively was

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U was apparent to all well prior to um

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his decision to run again uh I think what we saw with Biden um in

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terms of his withdrawal from the presidential race is a soft coup it was

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a coup um this is a man who said I will not withdraw he had made a decision that

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despite all of his failings physically and cognitively that he was going to stay the course stay in um

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and this is this is important because KLA Harris his vice presidential

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pick um you know I might irritate a lot of people but I’m beyond caring so I don’t really care anymore um she was a

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Dei selection I know that’s a politically charged term but think about it um when she ran against Joe Biden for

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president back in 2020 she didn’t survive the primary uh system in fact

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she was one of the first to go because the American people rejected her they said she’s not qualified Tulsa gabri

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showed that she’s a horrible human being by pointing out her record as a prosecutor um and then we could get into

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other aspects that I won’t go into but she’s not a good human being she’s not a

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good leader the American people rejected her but then Joe Biden said I will select as my vice presidential candidate

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a black woman that is the very definition of a Dei

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candidate there are black women out there who could be vice president they could be president there are black women

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out there who are fully qualified to be the leaders of this country um but when

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you say I’m only going to consider black women you’re saying that I am limiting the scope that is what Dei does it

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limits the scope it says we’re going to bring in people who may not be qualified who haven’t been tested and KLA Harris

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was definitely tested because to be vice president you have to be capable of being president and the American people

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the Democrats in their in their primary said we we don’t believe you to be capable of being president but now she’s

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vice president her term so she was selected Not Elected um to be vice

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president uh her term was only about being there no she was given no

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real job the one job she was given the Border she failed egregiously um

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and you know Biden when he said he’s reelected now of course she’s her name’s going to be on the ticket but he

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wasn’t talking about her he was talking about himself he’s a narcissist that’s what he does

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um had he lived up to his promise KLA Harris even though she’s the

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vice president would have had to been primaried she would had to go through the primary selection process and they

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would have rejected her again everybody knows that she’s one of the most hated despised politicians in America today um

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maybe second only to Donald Trump but she’s you know she’s not a very popular person um Biden by staying in and by

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Biden being primary the people voted for Biden 15 million said we want him to be the the candidate and now he’s not that

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decision wasn’t made by the people that decision wasn’t made democratically that decision was made behind the scenes by a

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political Elite that are not accountable to the American people this was a coup a soft coup there was no military force

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used um that I’m aware of but a coup nonetheless and now KLA Harris is the

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candidate and the will of the people is not being represented the people didn’t get a vote they didn’t get a choice it’s

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dictated um so what do I think about Joe Biden I think he’s been proven to be one

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of the greatest threats to American democracy in in in modern history by his

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actions and the consequences of his actions well when people say that if

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Donald Trump was reelected that um democracy will end in

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America and I don’t think that democracy was served very well by Biden and

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Harris well let’s just think of the absurdity of the estate of that statement if Donald Trump now here’s the

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here’s the the important part wins the election right American democracy will

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be destroyed I thought American democracy was about an election how can American democracy

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be destroyed if Donald Trump wins an election now we take a look at what Joe

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Biden has done there is no election he has appointed someone or the powers that

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be have appointed someone who has been deliberately uh not allowed to

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participate in the Democratic process avoided the failed in one primary

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selected avoided the other one selected who’s the greater threat to American democracy is an American democracy about

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an empowered Elite selecting people independent of the will of the people that’s manifested in an election or is

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it manifested by the majority of Americans through the electoral college

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process saying that’s the guy we want we vote for him the fact that the Democrats

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don’t like the outcome doesn’t mean that American democracy wasn’t served it means the Democrats don’t have better ideas that the Democrats can’t put up a

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better candidate but saying that the election of Donald Trump is the end of American democracy is is a

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self-cancelling argument because he would be elected by the people through the processes of American democracy

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right never before in my lifetime and I’ve been interested in politics ever

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since I was fairly young I’ve never seen anything quite like the election of this

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year the process of this year I think it’s

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terrible I haven’t I haven’t been around as long as you Cynthia and I haven’t been true and

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I haven’t been politically involved like you have right you know

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I you know because when when people start talking about you know an existential threat to American democracy

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posed by either Donald Trump or Republicans are making the same argument about K

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Harris you know I am a historian uh I can go back to the the

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election of 1800 neither one of us were there back then although you were closer to it than me but right you know but the

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the the the the contest between I believe it was uh Thomas Jefferson and John Adams was about the redefinition of

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what America would be um would it continue along the

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Federalist lines or would it go into this new Democratic

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Republican uh notion that many Federalists View as a threat to American democracy so it was an election early on

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where the the the concept of the existential nature of America was on the

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ballot we survived that I think 1828 1826 maybe uh 26 Andrew Jackson

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versus John Quincy Adams another one of these existential questions the

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direction America is going to take we we we had that election we we we survived that go back and read the Press at that

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time far more inflammatory than than it is today far more inflammatory um oh man

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it was bad um 1860 but but Scott maybe the Press was

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more inflammatory at at that time but we have the cable networks now that people

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on the left watch one station the people on the right watch another station and

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the hatred Fester there’s like not no other time I believe no you’re right but

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also understand back then um we didn’t that we still had different ways of

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electing presidents I still think back then um the decisions were being made not So Much by popular vote but by um

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you know by uh senatorial by the involvement of legislative bodies Etc

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you didn’t need to impact as many people back then but I I I take what you’re saying the the the I think today it’s uh

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the the even though it’s not a popular vote that wins the direct participation of the people today is much more um much

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more an important part of this election back then you really only had to win over the empowered Elites as opposed to

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the people um but 1860 you know

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Lincoln uh running against a myriad of people including Steven Douglas and

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others um this was truly about the existential survival of the United States because this election um the

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outcome of this election led us down the path that led to a Civil War which was by definition about the existential

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survival of the Union versus the secessionists um and so I just want to

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remind people that we know what existential elections look like this doesn’t look like that at all this is

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this is just stupid politicians exaggerating um you know the the the the

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scope and scale of the problems that face America but we’re not ready we’re not on the cusp of a a civil war we’re

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on the custom of civil collapse I I I accept that but the idea that America’s going to divide into blue and gray uh

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with clearly defined uh geographical boundaries and fight a standup shooting war between these two forces we’re we’re

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we’re not there we’re we’re more into basically just Society collapsing around us similar to what happened to the

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Soviet Union uh at the latter stages of Paris stria um but we have you know we’ve had other election I when you say

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you haven’t seen things you know the behind the scenes machinations um I’d like to bring up John F Kennedy’s um

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victory in 1860 um 1960 1960 yeah 1960 um my

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understanding is that U his father bought the West Virginia

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daily mayor daily well yeah daily but it it came down to West Virginia and uh

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suitcases of cash um and the reason why I bring that up is Richard Nixon who was

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running against uh JFK was informed of this and was told we can challenge this

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we can seek to overturn this and Nixon made the decision not to he said that the good of the nation requires that we

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not destroy uh the people’s confidence in the uh processes so you know we’ve

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lived through crazy times before um and I believe we’ll live through this time I

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I I’m more worried about societal collapse than about Civil War uh Donald Trump is not the worst candidate we’ve

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ever had run for president KLA Harris is not the worst candidate we’ve ever had run for president we’ve had worse

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candidates maybe we’ve never had a situation where both parties have horrible candidates in the past there

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might have been a bad candidate and uh and a better candidate you know who was demonstrably better one here I think

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whoever wins we’re just getting a really really bad candidate but we survived four years of Donald Trump already I I

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pointed that point out we already survived him so the notion that we can’t survive this is ludicrous and we

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survived four years of Joe Biden who was a horrible president um we will survive

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four years of kamla Harris and we will survive four years of Donald Trump there’s no doubt in my mind and come

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2028 hopefully the American people can pass the Baton off to a younger

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generation that is not empowered through Dei selection processes so um JD Vance seems to be

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getting a lot of heat from the Press what’s your opinion of JD

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Vance well first of all we just talk about getting a lot of heat from the Press understand that the mainstream

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media um is decisively pro-democrat and so the heat that he’s getting is part of

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a script being written by um these unelected Elites that admit to what they

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did in 2020 to steal the election Time Magazine wrote a big piece about it where they talk about the extra

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constitutional methodologies used to tip the scales to the advantage of Joe Biden

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that that same system is in play today working from a script written by the Democratic party and that script says to

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attack JD Vance to tear him down so a lot of what you’re hearing about JD Vance is just part of the democratic

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party’s tactic to uh to to to to take him down having said that I’m on record

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saying that JD Vance is The White Man’s Barack Obama um what I mean by that is somebody who

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is artificially uh elevated Beyond um you know their their the legitimate capacity

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to serve in that position Barack Obama was the most underqualified president in

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the history of presidents his only qualification was being according to Joe Biden clean articulate and black um but

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other than that what did he do what did he accomplish he was a social worker in uh you know social activist in Chicago

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uh he gave a speech and then he became a senator he didn’t have much time to do much as Senator but suddenly he was projected to be the most powerful man in

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America and indeed the world JD Vance is a uh a man who wrote a heck of a book

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hillbilly elgy wonderful story compelling story but he didn’t liveed that life I he lived it as a kid but

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when while he wrote that book he was a guy who had actually served in the military came out uh went to law school

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um got a law degree I think it was at Harvard um or maybe Yale I have to check on which one that was

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um and then turn that law degree into um you know becoming part of the elite he’s

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the furthest thing from a hillbilly one can imagine he is now a politician that’s beholden to U moneyed special

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interests uh Peter theel I think is the money behind his uh his his uh you know

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his rise to power uh and he’s come out of nowhere he was just elected to be a senator in Ohio he’s accomplished

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nothing and suddenly he’s the vice presidential candidate he’s the white man’s Barack Obama um which means he’s not qualified to

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hold the job that people are asking him to hold um and that’s my opinion of JD Vance wow so

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um you know the backdrop of the after all this stuff is

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the um visit by Netanyahu the other day to the United

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States what’s your opinion of to speak and do you think that uh Gaza will be a

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continuing threat well I’m gonna answer this

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question in three parts first of all just to point out that uh we shouldn’t refer to the criminal that appeared in

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the United States by his name he is a war mongerer he is a genocidal maniac

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and he is wanted on charges of genocide by the international criminal court he leads a nation that has been defined

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by the international court of justice as an aparte Nation lacking in legitimacy and so U that’s who this individual is

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I’m not going to use his name because he doesn’t deserve to be called by anything other than genocidal Maniac Okay a war

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criminal now we invited this Maniac into the people’s house um which tells you

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everything you need to know about what what what’s the state of affairs in the

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people’s house the people’s house is of course United States Congress where our elected representatives meet ostensibly

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in our name to do things that are supposed to benefit the American people by allowing this war criminal end though

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I think we um have to reflect on the fact that this war criminal this genocidal Maniac um has bragged in the

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past about buying the United States Congress using a pro-israeli Lobby to fund um you know various candidates for

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office fact is APAC one of the main players in this pro-israeli Lobby uh has bragged openly

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about investing hundred million into shaping the Congress and indeed in one election in the state of New York they

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spent $24 million to ensure that their candidate prevailed um and so people who

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poooo the idea oh it’s not really Israel doesn’t have that much influence

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uh the United States Congress just invited an Israeli war criminal

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a genocidal maniac to speak in the people’s house they did so because

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Israel owns them Israel has paid for them has bought them from the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson all the way down

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there was only one uh person who proved otherwise and that was uh Rashid Talib

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who um sat there and bravely held up a sign that said war criminal and um you

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know genoci you know genocide I don’t know what term she used but you

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know practitioner of genocide or something that nature well while this war criminal spoke um they applauded

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this man they applauded this man in record times we applauded therefore

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the commission the commissioning of crimes the practition of genocide um we

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made by our actions we prove the point that we are complicit in the crime of

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this war Maniac this warmonger this genocidal idiot um we applauded him we

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America our representatives in higher office um I I just I know that you know

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we we hope that this uh broadcast goes out locally but um I mean uh internationally but we have a a local

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audience as well Paul tono applauded this how how do the people of New York

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feel about this Paul tonko applauding the genocide Maniac Elise stonic applauded

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this you know Gill brand applauded this Schumer applauded this now but here’s

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here’s the thing okay so maybe all of you are okay with genocide and okay with

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uh you know war mongering and criminal actions this

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genocidal leader of an apartheid state speaking in the people’s house to

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the people’s Representatives criticized American citizens who outside

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were executing their first amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly now you don’t have to

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approve of that I can tell you right now that probably nine out of ten demonstrations

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that take place in America today I don’t approve of I would not participate in

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but I would lay my life down defending their right to carry out these demonstrations because that is what

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America is about I don’t have to agree with you but I do have to defend your

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right to say what you have to say that’s freedom of speech that’s freedom of assembly and this war criminal this

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Maniac this genocidal monster stood there in the people’s house and condemned them and it was applauded by

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our Senators and representatives if you think for one second Paul tono Elite

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stonic Schumer and gilbran are here for you that proved that they’re not that

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that proved that they’re not because to be for you means they have to be for the Constitution and they are not for the

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Constitution they are for supporting a genocidal maniac and they applauded him

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for what he said why don’t you start mincing

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words SC look I’m I’m furious about this we invited a war criminal but of course

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we did it before we invited aov members into the people’s house we them to auction off Nazi memorabilia to raise

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money for their sick cause it’s not the first time that we’ve disgraced the people’s house it probably won’t be the

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last time but it’s the most current time and it’s the one that just happened and I am enraged by it this Maniac should

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never have been allowed to land in our country and if he did land he should have been arrested on site and put in

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Chains and dragged off to the ha where he could be held accountable for his genocidal Behavior but instead we

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welcome him and he insulted us further how many Americans know that Benjamin Nyo and his wonderful wife Sarah who’s

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likewise a criminal bring their dirty laundry to America so that Americans will clean it for

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them can you explain that it’s just a state department practice that says that

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uh when when when diplomatic delegations come we will clean their laundry but the

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idea is that you come with clean clothes and that during your stay you get dirty clothes and we will wash your ref fold

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it take care of it so you can leave with clean clothes it’s a it’s it’s a it’s a courtesy Netanyahu abuses that by

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bringing sacks of dirty laundry to prove the point that America kneels at him

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kisses his feet I just said his name and I didn’t want to say his name that genocidal Thug

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that ex sad excuse of a human being so let’s talk about something that

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might make you a little more happy how is your uh how’s your how’s your book coming along

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oh it’s doing great um when you say my book I I think you mean this

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one yes the Scot wrer interviews Through The Eyes of Ana k um published by

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Clarity press and I believe now it was doing quite well on Amazon it had risen to number one in the um in the Russia

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Soviet um uh category which is a big category so there’s a lot of books it’s

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competing with it was number one and that’s before the book was actually available on Amazon so it was done only

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through advanced sales you could buy it on Clarity press clar press.com you could still get it there and I think

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it’s moving along very well but now it’s actually in the possession of Amazon so I think books will be moving uh there

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but you know sales as an author you always want the book to sell but what you really want is people to read it and

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um and appreciate it and uh be empowered by it and I can say that um Everybody

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I’ve met who has read the the book and um I got to get a copy to you so you can read the

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book have have come back and said it’s just an amazing book uh that it it actually empowers them with knowledge

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and information about a very complicated subject the conflict in Ukraine um it’s a compelling book and U very much worth

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the price of admission which of course means you have to buy the book you won’t have to buy it Cynthia I’ll guarantee

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but uh but the book’s doing well I’ve got some events coming up um one on August 4th in New York City

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um that’s By Invitation Only and because of our past history of attracting uh

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crowds that try to disrupt things we’re not um we’re not broadcasting the

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location um but Randy kredo is uh running that if you go on Randy credo’s

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uh uhh Twitter or Etc or even go on mine Scot r.com uh you’ll see his email

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address just reach out to Randy and say if you want to attend um if he can be convinced that you’re not a Ukrainian

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flag waving uh Israeli flag waving um disruptor of uh of the event um I think

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you get there the other one is on August 10th in pipy at farmers and Chef it’s similar to an event that I did LA two

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years ago I guess um with my disarm in the time of par strika book very successful event um um farmers and chefs

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is a wonderful restaurant they uh the the owner John leic is going to be preparing a fantastic meal uh but you

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can go to the farmers and Chef’s website or to Scot r.com and you can find the link there you’ll you you’ll get more

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about the venue and you can um you know you can purchase a ticket a ticket gives you the meal gives you a book

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autographed by me afterwards if you want it to be autographed and it gives you um access to um to a conversation um and

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the ability to ask questions if uh if you so choose um this is all so the

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book’s doing well um and then I have another project that I’m working yes and this is this is

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Operation Dawn Don stands for basically a series of questions that I asked the American people what would you do to

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save democracy what would you do to save America what would you do to save the world through your vote in November da

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WN um and it’s a fair question what would you do and and and I’d like to ask your audience here I know they can’t

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answer but reflect on your answer honestly um when it comes to the coming

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election in November have you already decided who you’re going to vote for because the Maga crowd pretty much says

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it’s Trump and the Democrat crowd pretty much says it’s kamla there’s a handful of Independents Jill Stein RFK Jr

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Cornell West are out there but the bottom line is the person who’s going to be president is GNA either have an

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r or a d next to their name um and most of the people who are going to vote for

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him have already made that decision so what I’m going to say is that you have given your vote away

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giving it away okay what does that say about you as a person that in July with several

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months left in the electoral process lead up to the election you’ve given

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your vote away means you’re useless you’re useless to them you’re useless to me you’re useless as an American you

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already gave your vote away how about making these people earn your vote how about leveraging that vote up until the

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very day you vote vote to ensure because if you gave it away now they don’t care about you they put you in the safe

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category you’re voting for me no matter what so I can say and do anything I want to do going forward but you’re here

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you’re committed you gave your vote away you’re useless from now on out the candidates

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are going to be trying to earn the vote of the people who have kept the vote to themselves

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um we are looking at an election that is going to be very close no matter what

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it’s going to be a close election look at the polls within the margin of error 48 46 either way um which means just

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like in 2016 and 2020 it’s going to come down to uh states where the margin of

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Victory deciding whether or not those electoral votes go to D or R is going to be measured in tens of thousands this is

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an opportunity this is why I tell people don’t give your vote away make them earn it imagine if you could convert the

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issue you care about into something that could determine which way a state goes imagine

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if on Election Day neither candidate knew how a state was going to go because it was so close and then you gave him an

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option prior to that to say I’ve got if if the margin of H ER of

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of vote is going to be say 20,000 votes in the state of Michigan but you could say I’ve got 880,000 locked up with one

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issue and the candidate that best articulates a policy that deals with

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this issue wins these 880,000 votes they’re committed to that you suddenly made that issue relevant especially if

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they want to win that state um and that’s what operation Don’s about now

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let me set up the premise of operation Don in 2026 the summer of

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2026 I believe that there’s a very good chance we will have a General nuclear war between Russia and the United States

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those people say Scott how did you reach that conclusion well it’s sort of not that hard to reach um you see right now

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as we speak there’s no candidate that’s articulating a vision of reducing the

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threat of nuclear war of promoting disarmament or improving relations with Russia indeed what we’re doing instead

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is the exact opposite we’re lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear war the United States is proposed osing that we

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operationalize 24 of the 100 b61 bombs that are currently uh deployed in Europe

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operationalized means take them out of the nuclear bunkers put them on strip alert so that in a moment’s notice they

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could be loaded on a NATO nuclear capable aircraft and deployed 24 that

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means that every time an f-35a or an F-16 takes off from a NATO Airfield

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Russia has to assume there’s a nuclear weapon on board because they’re not sitting in their bunker they’re

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operationalized so there’s that so Russia now has to respond ha trigger has to say we got a monitor aircraft and if

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they come this way we have to be ready to launch and return so Russia has exercised its own tactical Nuclear

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forces it’s deployed nuclear capable missiles and bombs uh into buus and they

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have exercised these These are on hair trigger alert so that if NATO responds

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they can preempt through their actions that’s what exists today that’s pretty

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scary in and of itself but now we roll in some differences the

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United States has a policy and Europe has backed it of seeking the Strategic

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defeat of Russia and we seek to do this through the vehicle of the Ukraine conflict so when all these Americans

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applaud madly at Trump or kamla Harris saying we will hold Russia accountable we will seek a Ukrainian Victory

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understand a Ukrainian Victory is predicated on the ability to push Russia

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out of Crimea out of keron Zaria DS lugans the territories that used to be part of Ukraine after 1991 but in 2014

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Russia took Crimea in 2022 they took these four other territories they are now part of the Russian Federation we’re

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predicating the defeat of Russia on Ukraine being able to physically recover

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these territories with the assistance of NATO people say well that Scott that’s it’s not a bad thing is it it is if

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Russia has a nuclear doctrine that says it will use it nuclear weapons if either

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attacked by nuclear weapons or an enemy through an adversary through

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the use of conventional forces has an outcome that threatens the existential survival of Russia do you you do know

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that losing Crimea is an existential threat to the survival of Russia because Crimea is in the minds of the Russians

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Russia losing koson Zaria Donar lugans one or all is likewise losing Russia

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which it’s an existential threat just like losing Texas would be an existential threat to America losing Florida losing California losing New

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York you strip away a state from America you’ve threatened its existential survival so we have a policy today that

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if it’s to succeed automatically triggers a nuclear war automatically triggers a nuclear war automatically

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triggers a nuclear war and yet no one’s talking about avoiding that consequence right now so you think this if nothing

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changes your saying this is gonna happen by but gets worse it gets worse okay and

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2026 February the new start treaty expires the new start treaty although

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we’re not doing the verification element now because we’re not talking with the Russians the new start treaty puts caps

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on the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons in each nation’s arsenals once it expires to the United States the

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United States has said we will increase our nuclear weapons without any

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limitations which means we’re going to be involved in a nuclear arms race with Russia February 20126 but it gets even

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better than that Cynthia because you’re going to compound stupidity with stupidity we just agreed with the

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Germans to redeploy intermediate range missiles back into Germany in what year

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2026 bing ring a bell that’s the year that the world’s going to end we’re redeploying back into Europe the weapons

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that almost destroyed us all the 1980s again you and I were around you remember

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the anti-nuclear demonstrations I’ve talked to an American audience about the demonstration that took place in Central

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Park in uh June of 1982 at the same time that demonstration having millions of

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Europeans were out in the streets out in the streets protesting what the deployment of intermediate range nuclear

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forces into Europe by the United States protesting against the deployment of Persian two missiles and ground launch

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cruise missiles why because they were inherently destabilizing why because now they made any potential conflict be one

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where all of Europe would be destroyed they weren’t happy with that outcome so they protested against this and this led

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to the signing of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in December of 1987 which led to the disarmament of

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these weapon systems by people like me that’s the treaty that I participated in the implementation of and by removing

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these weapons from Europe we raised the threshold of the potential nuclear conflict first of all because

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intermediate nuclear weapons ranged weapons in Europe reduce the pro you’ve

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heard about the nuclear suitcase right you know the one that is carried around with the president all the time and a

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lot of people think that’s the button that he pushes the button there ain’t no button in the nuclear suitcase what

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there is is there’s a communication device and there’s a series of laminated sheets these laminated sheets are

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protocols that the president will use given different scenarios and he’ll read through the protocol and coordinate with

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the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with commander of strategic forces with members of Congress Etc the

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protocols are designed based upon the threat coming there’s two basic threat models from a Time standpoint one is a

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submarine launch ballistic missile threat that is a 15minute protocol there is a intercontinental ballistic missile

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threat which is a 30 minute protocol which means that the president has 15 minutes to make a life or death decision

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about whether or not the threat that’s manifested needs to be responded to with a launch 15 to 30 minutes but when you

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have intermediate nuclear forces in Europe that number drops down to below five there is no protocol for a five

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minute decision-making which means that the president in an intermediate Force driven conflict will automatically have

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to opt to launch and it’s not just the American president but the Russian president and people say well that just

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limits the war to Europe no when we strike Russia we guess what trigger the Russian nuclear Doctrine which says one

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nuclear strike against Russia Russia launches everything against the United States we got rid of those weapons in

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1980s because they’re inherently destabilizing in 2026 we’re going to redeploy them to Europe including a new

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missile called the dark Eagle it’s a Hypersonic missile which means we don’t even get five minutes Cynthia we get

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three minutes which means here’s the important part any kick up any accident

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any deployment that’s misunderstood people say well how could it be misunderstood history that’s the beauty

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of History Abel Archer 83 was a NATO command post ex exercise carried out in

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the Autumn of 83 testing our nuclear launch release uh authorities the

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Russians thought that it was cover for a preemptive Nuclear Strike Russia put its nuclear forces on alert those ss20

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missiles that I helped get rid of were put on alert bombs were taken out of storage put underneath aircraft Park on

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airfields ready to launch one mistake one misjudgment they would have launched and it’s all over Cynthia at that point

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in time it’s a general nuclear war if we have a hiccup with the dark Eagle if the Russians say oh God maybe they launched

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they have to assume if we launch three aircraft scrambling to the borderers that are f-35as Russia says maybe

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there’s nuclear weapons on board now dark eagle has a hiccup Russia has to launch and when they launch it’s not

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going to be limited nuclear war it’s GNA be everything this is 2026 Cynthia two

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years from now this is the situation we will face we are all gonna die we are sleepwalking in that direction so now

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the question I have for your audience is what would you do to stop that what are you willing to do to stop that because I

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can tell you right now that while abortion is a very important issue it’s not going to lead to the destruction of

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the United States and the end of the world I can tell you right now any one of the issues that the candidates are talking about right now taxation this

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and America Will Survive that whichever way it goes the world will survive that

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um we won’t survive a nuclear war nobody’s talking about a nuclear war that’s the direction we’re going with a

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nuclear or so what are you willing to do to prevent that and on SE 20 September

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28th I’m giving you an opportunity to commit your vote to say this is the only issue that

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matters to me in this election not giving my vote away you have to earn my vote and if you don’t earn my vote then

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you don’t get my vote okay my question to you is you’re gonna gather all these

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people on September 28th you know you you said that the uh it’ll be focused in

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Kingston but then you say that there’ll be other demonstrations in other parts

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of the country okay let let’s let’s to talk about Kingston so these people are

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gonna come to your rally and then what who’ll be speaking

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and you know will you want them to go away with

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a certain plan of action how are you going to do that first of all it’s not a

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rally okay there will be a rally aspect we’ll be inviting people to come um but

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uh this is see we we’re we’re inventing a new paradigm um for people to be interested

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in what you think Cynthia do you have to host a party and invite them in or can you have a podcast and the answer is of

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course you can have a podcast right um uh and so we know that you know in the

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past for instance we we have we have what was Farm Aid about helping Farmers

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how did they help farmers they held a concert uh what was Live Aid about what was all it was a concert people tuned in

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but you had mainstream um media attached to that so you could sit at home watch the concert

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and phone in your support phone in your money it was all about the money um but you didn’t have to be there there were a

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lot of people there but you attended remotely on TV while watching this event

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is going to be based built around a podcast that will be hosted in

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Kingston on that day broadcast live um the podcast will be broadcast within

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um a facility owned by Gerald Cante we’re inviting people to

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participate in this podcast we’re bringing in people who will physically be there we will be broadcasting this

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podcast to all of America we will be opening up uh the the podcast to

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satellite groups around the country for instance we may at one point in time kick off to North Carolina which is a

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swing state by the way and uh we may bring in a panel that includes Matthew ho Ray McGovern Larry Wilkerson if they

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commit so for 30 minutes to an hour they will be talking about the dangers of nuclear warfare this will be a day of

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podcasts backed up by entertainment we will have people hopefully entertaining

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we will we’re inviting musicians to submit a a a a song on video

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that we will be broadcasting intermittently to entertain people later we’ll be using this music as a vehicle

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to raise money because operation Dawn doesn’t end on September 28th it begins

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on September 28th because once we gather the votes together the commitments you

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say what are they committing to trust me we’ll be publishing the statement that they’ll be committing to well in advance

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we’ll be broadcasting this out people will know but on September 28th we will be collecting these commitments the P

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the the panel above us isn’t about money being raised you remember the Jerry Lewis ton yep I love the Jerry Lewis ton

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as a kid I used to sit around the table with popcorn and TV dinners and watch Jerry Lewis entertain us for the purpose

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of raising money for muscular distrophy and at the end they had the big board did they meet their thing that Jerry

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Lewis sang his song You’ll Never Walk Alone and it was over one day well

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actually the 24 hours he went a lot longer but uh that’s what we’re doing we’re doing

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an equivalent of the Jerry Lewis ton but going to be a podcast to inform people about the dangers of nuclear war to have

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a conversation about this to have panels that will put that out there we’ll entertain people we’ll put music out

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there we’re going to get uh you know hopefully musicians to to participate in this we get the commitments and the

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commitments will be categorized by state and what I can do now with that if I can

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let’s say I could get 880,000 commitments in the state of Michigan I can now run targeted ads in Michigan

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that said Donald Trump KLA Harris you want to win Michigan you want to win it last time it was 5,000 vote differential

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20,000 vote differential I got 880,000 votes you want to win Michigan you got

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to go through me which means you got to talk about nuclear war you got to say how you’re going to prevent nuclear war

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how you’re going to pursue peace how you’re going to pursue arms control and I can if I can do that in a number of states they can’t ignore it Cynthia I

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just made them earn the votes but you’re gonna be up against it’s GNA going to be

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Scott Ritter versus the military industrial complex that’s a lot to carry

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on your shoulders is it really aren’t I and Scott Ritter it’ll be everybody

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who comes on this thing I’m just one we are lining people up Andrew napalitano has a podcast that has over 400,000

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subscribers come up to 500,000 I’ll be bringing on other people that have millions of followers I by the time I

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line up this the commitment to this we’re going to have a podcast that’s going to reach five 10 15 million people

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just through the subscribers and we get more mebe we get 30 million people to view and of that 30 million I get

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100,000 commitments in the right States I just crushed the military-industrial complex CIA I just crushed them so you

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know what Bring it on I don’t care this is too important this is literally life

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and death literally life and death there’s no other issue more important than this issue right now so yeah it’s a

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lot to put on the shoulders but if I don’t then what then we just sit back and watch for the big barbecue and in uh

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in in July of 2026 uh because I’ll host a Fourth of July party I’ll say bring it on guys just keep looking up in the sky

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let me know when the flip your burger you know oh flash too late we’re all dead I’m not willing to do that Cynthia

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I’m not willing to wait and pray that somebody does the right thing I’m an American who believes in the power of

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the vote who believes in the processes of election and I’m going to empower my vote and I’m going to ask other

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Americans to empower their vote so that we can literally avoid dying in a nuclear Holocaust in

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2026 so Scott a as as your project

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evolves I’d like to have you back on to talk about you know how it’s going for

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you so you’ve been listening to Scott Ritter I’m Cynthia poer can I just ask I

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inject one thing of course not how it’s going for me Cynthia how it’s going for you how it’s going for all of America

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this isn’t an exercise of narcissism this isn’t about empowering me this is about saving us all and we all have to

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become involved in this this isn’t a Scott Ritter project this should be a Cynthia poer project this should be an

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American project because this is a real threat this threat exists I just articulated and I challenge anybody to

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come back to me and contradict anything I laid out in the threat that will exist in 2026 you can’t because it’s all

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fact-based and It All Leads to an inevitable outcome so we need everybody to wake up to the fact this threat is

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real and if we don’t do anything to stop this Threat by changing the policies that serve as the foundation of this

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threat the outcome is inescapable so I hope to have you back on so you could

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talk about the evolution of how this is going so Scott thank you again for

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taking the time to be on issues that matter thank you everybody for listening

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have a great day