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just pure gambling, right? But the play would be this and again don't follow my advice. Do not follow my financial advice on this or anything else unless I tell you to diversify your portfolio. If I tell you to diversify, listen to that. If I tell you to buy or sell a specific stock, do not listen to that or anybody else. But I'll tell you the thinking. Investing makes most sense when you think…

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usations I'll just say — he's making these accusations that the war in Ukraine was largely Victoria Nuland, American Victoria Nuland being a bully and having bad motivation. I have no independent knowledge of what she did or didn't do but that was his accusation. And a lot of people said this by the way. Tucker Carlson often says Victoria Nuland is the center of the war machine that likes to profit from war. The neocons, the neocons as they say.

Now I don't know about any of that but that's his accusation and a lot of other people's accusations. But he went on — I saw a video of Gonzalo before he died because the videos of him after he died are less interesting really. But before he died he had the following theory that for some reason I didn't know. Now I don't know if it's true but I certainly should have heard about it.

And here's what he said about Ukraine. He said there's this billionaire who funded and he was sort of behind the production company that created a TV show about a Ukrainian guy who became president. And he hired Zelensky and Zelensky was the star of the show. What was the name of the show? Servant of the People. Was that the name of the TV show? Give me confirmation on that. So Servant of the People.

All right so the TV show was called Servant of the People and Zelensky was the star. And part of what Gonzalo Lira reports is that for reasons that are mysterious it was a gigantic hit. Now what makes that mysterious is it wasn't really that good a show but it had massive advertising, some kind of massive support. So it looked like it was sort of artificially pushed to the top of the market by powerful forces.

Now here's the interesting part. Then the same billionaire who funded the TV show allegedly — again none of this is from me, this is from allegations — allegedly created a political party and he called it the same name as the TV show, Servant of the People. And then they needed a candidate so he picked Zelensky who had no political experience but he had made him super popular as an actor pretending to be a president. And then you know nobody believes that elections in Ukraine are true so then Zelensky becomes president.

Did the US help? Probably. What was that, their intention? Were they working with this billionaire? Well I don't know if they were colluding with him but they might have been. They might have had compatible interests at one point. It's unclear. But it gets better. If you think that's the good part of the story you haven't heard the good part.

Now again these are only accusations. The same billionaire owned either a lot of or most of another company you might have heard of. It's called Burisma. That's right. The same billionaire who owned Burisma that was paying Hunter Biden and 10% of that theoretically was going to the big guy was putting Zelensky as a puppet in charge of the Ukrainian government. And maybe the entire operation was a coordinated effort to use Ukraine as a piggy bank, destroy the country, suck its resources out, launder money and also maybe give Putin a hard time which would be just a bonus.

Now is any of that true? I don't know. All I know for sure is that the guy saying it just got killed by Ukraine and America didn't complain. So the suggestion is everything seems to be compatible with it being true. What would be incompatible with this being true? Is there any counterfactual to it? I mean it's hard to prove a negative of course so it doesn't mean it's true just because you don't have an argument against it. But it's feeling really true, right?

Yeah I'm very biased by the fact that everything that we've imagined as a conspiracy theory ends up being pretty close to true. So probably I'll tell you what I believe to be true based on not just this story but the totality of information. It does seem to me that Ukraine was always a piggy bank for the billionaires and the political class. It does seem that American politicians have been wetting their beaks in Ukraine possibly for decades. And it's exactly what it looks like. And that the war was optional. And that killing people to make money is the business of America. And killing our own citizens to make money is a critical part of that. That's what it looks like.

It looks like the Bidens are deeply involved in that part of the world. So I don't know what's true but that's what it looks like. And it looks like that American government and the Ukrainian government conspired to kill an American. So let me say that directly. I don't know that it's true but the evidence strongly suggests that the Biden administration killed an American to keep him quiet. Now killed him by not freeing him which could have been easily done because obviously America can get Zelensky to free anybody we want. Would you agree?

If the president said to Zelensky all right here's the deal I don't care what he's charged with, he's an American, let him go, Zelensky would have put the key in the door five minutes later. Zelensky isn't going to ruin Ukraine over one reporter in jail. Nobody would make that tradeoff, right? So you can know for sure that America wasn't interested in his life or wanted him to die in jail. So I would say it's a case of murder. The evidence suggests that the Biden administration and Joe Biden specifically because he would be the boss, the evidence suggests that Biden was part of a plot to murder an American citizen.

Yeah now maybe murder by statistics. Now what I say by murder by statistics is you put him in a situation where he's probably going to die. A Ukrainian prison, probably going to die. Now you could say well that's not technically murder because you didn't cause that, you just put him in a situation where he's probably going to die. No I call that murder. That's called murder. We got Brittney Griner out of Russia. You don't think we could get an American out of Ukraine?

All right yeah so I would say that the official stories are ridiculous. The accusations are wild but they fit the facts that we know.

All right so let me ask you this. Do you see a lot of news today about the war in Ukraine? Anybody? Did you see the news is just covered with no, no there's a big old war over there and suddenly the news isn't interested? Huh weird isn't it? It's like they're all coordinated or something. Suddenly it just got uninteresting, didn't it?

Yeah how about all the coverage on Gaza today? Gaza it's just wall to wall. What? Nothing? Oh nothing about Gaza, the other war we're in? Yeah how about the war in Yemen? We know that we attacked Yemen and I guess it happened again two days in a row but massive coverage with lots of details, right? Nope, nope.

Why would there be so little media coverage of the United States being in three different wars? Well it might have something to do with some comments that Donald Trump recently made on Truth Social that got promulgated on X. And Trump said that Joe Biden got us into three different wars — Ukraine, Gaza situation, Yemen — and that he's the worst president in the history of the United States.

So Trump is pushing the idea that Joe Biden is a war starter and the news just went silent on three wars right in front of you. Right in front of you, right? It's not like I'm coming up with some conspiracy theory. You know there are three wars and you can look at the news and you can see that they're clearly intentionally underplaying them because it would not work to their narrative.

Now I like Trump's persuasion when he says that Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States. What's he doing there? What persuasion trick is that that I've taught you many times? Yeah he's making you pass the sale. That he's a terrible president. If you're thinking whether he's the worst you've already accepted that he's in the bottom 10% or something and that would be enough.

Right now in my opinion he actually is the worst president in the history of the United States. I do think he surpassed Jimmy Carter. Would you agree? Because Jimmy Carter kind of classically was considered the worst president but I think Biden has now surpassed him.

Now to be fair Biden has some successes. He has some successes but probably Jimmy Carter did too. So it's not about the fact he had some successes. It's also about what you got wrong. And starting three wars plus one on our southern border which you're ignoring, the only one that affects the homeland, the only one that affects the homeland he's ignoring. That is worst president in the history of the United States.

If the only thing I told you was he got us involved in three foreign wars and didn't protect us from the active invasion on the southern border, would you need to know anything about his economic policy to decide who is the worst president? No you would not. Would you need to know his views on LGBTQ to know he's the worst president in the history of the United States? No you would not. You wouldn't need to know that. It wouldn't be rele

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vant to the overall obvious characterization of his presidency which is basically starting wars that probably didn't need to be started, getting us involved, using up our weapons, shipping, using up all our oil and our strategic reserves, giving away all our artillery shells. It just goes on and on. The worst president in the history of the Republic. I think that's just obvious. Now you know no m…

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