Trump’s Distraction Blitz： Secret Orders, Putin Meeting, Tariff War & DC Takeover - Error Code Show

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off with a clandestine move that raised eyebrows

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south of the border. Donald Trump has issued

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a secret directive. Is it really secret if everyone

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knows about it? Anyways, authorizing the Pentagon

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to use U .S. military force on foreign soil against

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Latin American drug cartels. Major names targeted

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include notorious groups such as the MS -13,

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which is Mexico. But continue. I don't know.

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which is designated as a terrorist organization.

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While details of planned operations are murky,

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the move has sparked strong pushback, especially

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from Mexico's president, who emphasized cooperation,

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not invasion, as the shared path forward. So

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Trump wants the military to take on the cartels,

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which means The next call of duty might just

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be operation taco Tuesday That I think that works.

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In fact, I think that's what they should call

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the operation. It's taco Tuesday because Reasons,

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um, this is absolutely silly and ridiculous.

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Um, I You can't beat him that way let's let's

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just start there you can't you can't beat him

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that way it's not gonna work Sorry Yeah, yeah,

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honestly, I don't think it's really with the

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goal of beating them I think there's so much

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is being thrown out there that it is to distract

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us from Jeffrey Epstein and we're gonna keep

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going. He's literally throwing everything against

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the wall to see what sticks, right? So, you know,

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yeah invading Mexico sure why not, you know In

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fact, I think you should do it next Tuesday.

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Let's go for it. Go ahead to our next one on

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on our list of things. Yeah, next. We're headed

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to Alaska, which Trump actually got mixed up

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with Russia. I mean, it's you know, it's an honest

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mistake. It's up there. Trump is slated to meet

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Putin in Anchorage on August 15th, 2025, marking

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the first presidential sit down since 2019. This,

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quote, feel out meeting is aimed at exploring

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prospects of ending the Russia -Ukraine war.

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The White House is downplaying the stakes, calling

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it more of a listening exercise. But both sides

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have already initiated diplomatic preparations,

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including pre -summit phone calls between top

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diplomats. Yeah, Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska.

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Nothing says like peace talks like two guys fighting

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over who gets the last salmon roll. And the other

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country involved is just not involved in the

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talks at all, right, which I love I love that

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any sense this This again is another one where

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I'm like, what do you and the funniest part is

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his chief negotiator Steve Witkoff has already

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screwed it up Right because he had a meeting

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with the Russians and then he went back out and

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put out and leaked all this information About

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what the Russians were willing to give up and

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the Russians came out and said that's not what

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we said So he had to go back to the Russians

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be like, all right. What was it you said again

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like it's It's the Keystone cops, right? The

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other thing we need to remember and this is where

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you have to put yourself in Russia's shoes for

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just one minute We were actively engaged in diplomatic

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talks with the Iranians when we bombed them,

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right? So if you're Russia, do you trust a single

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fucking word coming out of this administration's

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mouth? Doesn't matter. Who would it? Like, and

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they're so mercurial that one day they're like,

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tariffs. The next day, nevermind. Like he just

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signed another extension on the China tariffs

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and all this other stuff. Like I, I don't know

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what the fuck is happening day to day. And long

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time viewers of the show will note we used to

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do at least a segment a week in the early part

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of the administration about about the nutty stuff

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they were doing. They have ramped it. They've

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sped it up. It's like, let's go. We stopped covering

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it because we couldn't keep up. It's also just

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crazy and kind of depressing. I don't think our

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listeners want to hear us just rant about Trump

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all the time. I don't know. Oh, speaking of the

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war in Russian Ukraine, what's next? Oh, God.

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Well, Octokitty, there is so much content here.

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Jesus. Like, why do I have all the talking points

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on the economic front? Trump slapped a 50 percent

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tariff on Indian goods, combining with the already

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25 percent tariff. additional 25 % tariff of

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Russian oil. Trump held this as a big blow to

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Moscow's already fragile economy. India, meanwhile,

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is not backing down. Trade talks are still scheduled

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for later this month, meaning everything is probably

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going to just be undone or extended or whatever.

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But as they continue to pursue multifaceted dialogue,

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stating confident confidently that the relationship

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extends beyond trade friction. So Trump's new

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tariffs on Indian imports is now 50%. At this

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rate, curry night is going to cost more than

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a Bitcoin. Again, I can't keep up with what they're

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doing. No one can. Like, I get it. He's like,

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Hey, India you're helping prop up Russia's economy

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by buying oil from them So we're gonna slap a

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tariff on you because you keep buying oil from

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Russia Which they're using to fund their war

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in Ukraine and I almost get it but again Nobody

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believes him anymore Right. We didn't cover this

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one. There was the whole Wall Street joke the

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taco Trump always chickens out right because

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at the end of the day, I Don't think anybody

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buys his stuff anymore. They're like And as far

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as they're concerned, he's a one term president

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now. Like he's gone in three and a half years.

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Right. They don't care. They'll just wait him

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out. Right. Because even if the Republicans stay

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in charge, none of them are going to be as nutty

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as this guy. Yeah. All right. Moving on to our

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last piece of this, the Epstein distraction tour.

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What are we doing right here at home, Jay? Yeah.

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Right here at home, we're trying to stay cool

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because it is hot in Washington. Oh, I'm sorry.

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You mean like the country wise? Yes, there is

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more. As of August 12th, 2025, President Donald

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Trump has deployed 800 National Guard troops

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to Washington, D .C., filing his declaration

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as a crime emergency in the city. This is insane.

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And it also includes federal federalizing the

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Metro Police Department. placing it under the

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control of the attorney general and directing

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the National Guard to assist in law enforcement

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efforts. Trump's administration just justifies

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this action by citing a need to address rising

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crime and homelessness. However, official crime

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statistics indicate that violent crime in D .C.

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has actually decreased to a 30 year low. Critics

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argue that the move is political. um and may

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violate the 1973 home rule act which limits federal

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investigation and local governance yeah and that

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was the thing that let dc become really its own

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city right was the home rule act right they said

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okay you can have a mayor and you can have a

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city council and you can rule yourselves and

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not have congress just run the city um again

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we're not sure where this would violate it because

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technically he does have the right to do this

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this is actually one of the areas where he actually

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is standing on fairly firm legal ground except

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we're not sure what the emergency is right and

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it's only going to last seven weeks or 60 days

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or something like that before congress has to

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get involved they're required to right to authorize

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any further action and this is all lest we forget

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because uh former doge staffer big balls got

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his ass whooped in D .C. over the weekend. Right?

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Again, this is actually what pushed into the

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weird Twitter interaction I had this morning.

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I don't know. Congratulations, you're paying

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too much money for a bunch of National Guardsmen

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to stand around and be mad that they're there.

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Because it sucks These guys don't want to be

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standing out full kit in the middle of the DC

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heat in August. They don't want to do it, right?

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What are you doing? I Know the National Guard's

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capability. This is what this is the thing that

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gets me I understand the National Guard's capabilities

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and there are like the National Guard is trained

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for riot control, right? They're trained for

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that. They're trained for certain things that

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they do domestically, right? fires rescue operations

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riots civil unrest none of that's happening right

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the national guard is not a law enforcement agent

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what are you having them do precisely and they

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have no arresting powers they can't do anything

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right hey look that guy's still in that car sucks

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like I don't know what they're supposed to do,

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right? Some of the Twitch chats like, National

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Guard, do you ever wonder why we're here? They

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will constantly, and so here's what's going to

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happen. The first couple of weeks, they'll be

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like, all right, sure, it's a mission and we'll

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do some stuff. And then they're going to get

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about two weeks in and they're going to be like,

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can we go home now? Because the other thing that

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the Army does in these situations for various

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reasons is these guys will be on deep levels

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of restriction. They will be in the city and

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won't be allowed to go out anywhere. Right. They'll

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be stuck in rooms and like sitting and they will

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hate their lives. I don't know. What do you think,

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Jay? Like, what was your first thought on this

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one? It's just like so clearly a. Either like

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a distraction or just. prepping for something

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else that's coming. I don't really know. But

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like, it's like, oh, crime is so bad. And I was

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like, wait, what? Why is crime that bad? And

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then it's like, no, it's not. It's at a record

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30 year low. And I was like, what? What are we

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doing? Like, I don't know. Well, now we certainly

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need to do it in Chicago, Baltimore. You know

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other cities the funny thing is they were talking

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about ones that have really high crime rates

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that are in red states that he's completely ignoring

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like st louis and memphis which have much higher

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crime rates than washington dc But you're not

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deploying the national guard there right Because

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it's not about that. It's it's entirely political

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which is what's Like completely unsurprising

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about it You know anyway Thus ends this short

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version of the Epstein distraction list, which

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I'm convinced this is what they're doing. They're

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just trying to keep the news cycle was so focused

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on the Epstein thing for so long there for that

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block. They want to talk about anything else.

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So they are just doing everything else to make

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sure that The news cycle cannot swing back. And

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more importantly, not so much the mainstream

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media, the social media cycle. Because even when

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they were not doing it, there was a bunch of

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Republican people who were like, yo, dude, we

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voted for you for transparency. You're supposed

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to be releasing this shit. And they didn't do

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it. And they were starting to get irritated.

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And so they want any other thing to talk about.

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Put anything else into the cultural zeitgeist

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that is not the Epstein List. Right? Not the

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fact that we moved Kalei Maxwell to a minimum

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security prison and oh, by the way, she can get

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out on furloughs now to go work in town. Oh,

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and guess what? Everybody dropped the story about,

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hey, because there was a bunch of reporters digging

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into who actually signed the order to move her.

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They were trying to figure it out. And then all

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this crap happened. And now that story's disappeared

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for now. For now, I mean, I think eventually

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they're going to run out of distractions. There's

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only so much shit you can do. Never mind, I take

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that back. There's always, yeah, shit you can

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do. Yeah, my yeah, my my favorite, like literature,

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I don't know, category is dystopian future. So

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like. I don't know, like you read 1984 Fahrenheit,

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451, all these books. there there's still a lot

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more that they could do but it's not pretty yeah

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so all right let us know what you think down

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in the comments below