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e Washington Post let somebody who's on the board of directors of a military drone company — they make military drones — writes an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying that to avoid wider war, Iran must be deterred with limited U.S. military strikes. Do you know how you do a limited U.S. military strike? What would make it limited? What kind of military assets would you likely employ if yo…

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ne maker, saying we should do some more war that just happens to use some drones he might own some stock in that company.

What do you think? Do you think somebody on the board of directors owns some stock in the company? Yeah, yeah. And did the Washington Post say, beware of this opinion because it's coming from somebody who would make a lot of money if you bought into this opinion? I don't believe they did. I think that Alan happened to look into the person who wrote the article and made that discovery, or somebody did. So how about that for your news business?

Michael Flynn raised some eyebrows. Was it yesterday? He made the comments at some event in Dallas which is reported to be a, you know, QAnon conspiracy event. I don't know if it was. But Flynn was asked this question on stage. Somebody said, I want to know what happened. I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can't happen here, meaning a military coup.

And so this is a member of the audience asked Michael Flynn when Flynn was on stage. Here was Flynn's answer: no reason. I mean it should happen here. No reason. That's right. What? Wait, did Michael Flynn just say that there should be a military coup in the United States? Now that's how the news is handling it. Is that what he said?

Now this is all we know, and as far as I know this is not a Rupar video, meaning I don't think it's selectively edited. It looks like he actually said that. If I'm wrong about that, as selectively edited, somebody let me know in the comments, but I don't think it was. So what do you make of that? A military person from this country, retired but a general who had lots of access at the highest levels of intel at least at one point, and he says that there's no reason we shouldn't go the way of Myanmar. I can't pronounce it. Should happen here.

What do you make of that? All right, here's what I make of it. First of all, I don't think too many people are taking this seriously, and I'm not worried that this will form some kind of violent revolution. But if you were to take, let's say, all of the 370 million people in America, whatever the number is, if you round up all the Americans that there are, and then I ask you this question: out of all the Americans, is there one — is there one American who has a right to call for a violent revolution in the United States? And of all of them and of all the Americans, who's the one person you say to yourself, okay, if he said it, all right, I can get that. Michael Flynn.

Now I'm not going to say that he said something that was good or smart or beneficial to the country, so I'm not going to back him in his opinion. I rebuke his opinion. We do not need violence in this country. We certainly don't need a violent revolution. But this is just me, and I don't ask you to do the same thing. All right? This is just me. You make your own decisions.

Michael Flynn gets a pass. Do you know who else I would give a pass? Out of all the people in the country, do you know who else would get a pass for saying something as provocati

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ve as this? Nobody. Nobody else. Nope. Michael Flynn was a victim of our government. He was a victim of our government like a big victim, a big conspicuous victim of the government. He wasn't a victim of a crime. He wasn't a victim of bad luck. He wasn't a victim of natural disasters. He was a victim targeted specifically by the government of the United States. If Michael Flynn says they should a…

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