No BS Newshour Episode #405
The Truth Has Arrived
(15:30) Why is the guy handling Mike Duggan’s dark money slush fund in the EPSTEIN files????
(25:20) We’ve got the files!
I finally got the goods on nursing home deaths —10,000 unredacted nursing home documents on a thumb drive.
As promised.
We’re building an AI program to dig through the treasure trove of documents. What really happened to grandpa?
And I’m amending my lawsuit against Nessel and Whitmer. They sent me 600 just blank pages.
The cover-up is coming to an end.
(5:54) We’ve been saying it for years, and now the chickens—or rather, the toxic dirt—is coming home to roost.
Former Mayor Mike Duggan doesn’t belong on the campaign trail, he belongs in prison.
It’s a human catastrophe on the scale of Flint.
(28:56) PLUS- Gov. Whitmer & AOC show they have no business on the world stage.
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TRANSCRIPT:
One minute to air, Mr. LeDouf. Your cigarette, Mr. LeDouf. Your light, Mr. LeDouf.
Your beer, Mr. LeDouf. Your robe, Mr. LeDouf. Two, one.
Oh, shit. The power went out again. Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlie LeDouf.
And Gary Dubas. Let’s just break it up. No more bullshit.
No more bullshit. Mando, that’s my whole body deodorant, Ken. Right there.
Give me a little. Oh, yeah. Give me a little.
My daughter says, does it smell good on your balls? I’m like, that’s weird. But it really does. Believe me, I’ve been stretching, DeLorean.
It really does. You know, my blood pressure went up to 160. Oh, wow.
I’m jealous. Jealous? Really? I have high blood pressure, yeah. Oh, my God.
I thought I was going to die. Me too. So I got back cigarettes.
No drinking. No social media. Read books.
Went for walks. Do not call me. I mean, nutcases call me.
I had to shut it all off. And it’s back down to 110. And I got to thank Mando for that.
ShopMando.com because it keeps you smelling nice. Manly nice. ShopMando.com You smell that? So that’s why you haven’t been taking my calls? Imagine that on your balls, bro.
And by the way, if your house burns down or your pipes break, do not call the insurance company. Call Public Adjusters Midwest. Do not let them hand you a check.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I need a new roof, you know? Talking to the roof guy? I’ve laid roofs before. What are you talking bullshit? I’m going like this.
You know what I mean? You know what that part underneath your roof’s called? That soffit. Nice one. Soffit.
He’s talking soffit and I’m Googling. And I’m like, I need an expert. So, again, Public Adjusters Midwest.
Here’s how it works. They handle your entire claims process. They get you more money and then get you a contractor at 10% off the VIG.
Which is their VIG. Which means you come out even and you get more money. Again, I told you before, I’ll tell you again.
I took their card. It’s a metal card. Metallic.
So it will never burn. And I told my wife to put it in with the insurance papers. And if you don’t know if you have enough insurance for these disasters, hopefully they never come your way.
Go to CallPampers.com or call 855-975-2020. 855-975-2020. I asked them.
They’re going to do it for you. Call them up. Show them your insurance papers.
Make sure you’re covered. Free. Doesn’t cost anything.
They are your adjuster attorney. Okay. That’s it.
And Luke Nowacki, my man. 248-663-4748 for sound financial advice. Is this the hole in one? It’s a hole in one.
Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. What is 50 grand after tax? 37,750. What about state tax? Yeah, I’m throwing both in there.
What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer. Eh, we write that off.
Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. 248-663-4748 Mike Duggan. What the fuck? Okay, look.
See, my heart rate is going up again, Jay. It’s going up, dude. Look, man.
No offense. Love you guys. Love you to death.
You know it. But white dudes from the suburbs. What? Come on, man.
Get plugged in, dude. Like, you know. What about Duggan? I don’t know.
You know. I bet you if you asked Detroiters, they would say they like him pretty well. And I’m like, why don’t you talk to him? It’s time you had a black friend.
For God’s sake. Well, I know Jared Goff’s completion percentage. Yeah, but see, now you get a vote.
And it’s going to fuck me. You don’t know any. Why am I responsible for this? I’ve been doing this since 2008.
And now you want to tweet. Aha! Aha! Yeah. Here.
This is why. So, sit back, relax, and let me tell you a little story how then-Mayor Mike Duggan did the people of Detroit dirty. In 2023, the City Office of the Inspector General filed this report about alleged fraudulent backfill load tickets.
Guy Enger, who’s being investigated for using poison soil to put into demolition holes and a handful of other contractors say they got all of it from here. Way out in the country. Doesn’t look like it.
I don’t think so. Inspector General doesn’t think so. United States Treasury didn’t think so.
Duggan’s hand-picked demolition contractors got rich. Mike Duggan got something to talk about in the headlines. And the people of Detroit got it right up the ass.
It shouldn’t be a surprise. We’ve been talking about it for years. And every time we bring up the question, they explain us with a fire hose of bullshit.
Money up in flames. Playing in poison dirt. People growing vegetables in a toxic wasteland.
God damn it, Mike, what’d you do? Or maybe they got the dirt from here at the old Northland Mall site. Nobody really knows. It was an honor system.
It was probably here because the dirt’s contaminated. Definitely here. At least a little bit.
Let’s go shopping. It’s really beautiful if you imagine you’re someplace else. Mike Duggan’s Detroit.
They keep talking about 500 holes, but we’re talking tens of thousands. Question is, how poisoned is the city really? Is this something you’re looking for in a Governor Escanaba? Think about it. So how poisoned is Detroit really? Now dig, listen to me.
Stop tweeting at me and listen. The city desperately wants you to believe it’s just 500 demolition holes that have been stuffed with toxic soil containing substances like mercury, lead, cadmium, benzene at levels too dangerous for the human touch. If that’s not bad enough, consider that the true number of holes laced with carcinogens may be in the thousands, tens of thousands quite possibly, Ken.
You know this. It’s a human and environmental catastrophe on the scale of the Flint water disaster. 30,000 holes.
There are about 30,000 houses in Flint. Think about that. And it lays squarely on the narrow shoulders of former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and its current mayor, Mary Sheffield.
Over the past dozen years, Duggan has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide the crimes and incompetencies of his demolition program. It was the subject of a seven years long federal investigation. You heard that correct.
Duggan went to Washington, hat in hand, to ask Biden to make it go away, which Biden did. Duggan hired the lawyer who represented the Clinton Foundation in its racketeering lawsuit to represent the city of Detroit at $1,000 an hour. Think about that.
Duggan sued me and cajoled my employers to fire me to keep me quiet. You remember that? I do. Remember the fucker would drive up to Fox, do three deep into suburbans, pull in the news director, news director, say, hey, man, maybe we, maybe, you know, maybe we lay off on this for a while, you know, and I said, oh, sure.
And then he went on vacation, the news director, and I did another one. It was all so sick. Now comes the scandal of Brian McKinney and his demolition firm, Guyanga Company.
McKinney was the black man handpicked and nurtured by Duggan to demonstrate to Detroiters that the $500 million in federal and city demolition dollars was going into other pockets besides Duggan’s white cronies. Duggan even introduced McKinney at the state of the city speech in 2020 as a model of minority contracting, even though McKinney had no experience in the business. After the Enjoyer and the No Bullshit News Hour published an expose featuring whistleblowers, remember, Ken? Oh, I remember.
Who claimed McKinney was redirecting toxic dirt from the old Northland Mall demolition and dumping it into the neighborhoods of Detroit. McKinney was suspended by the Detroit Office of the Inspector General for fraud, forgery, breach of contract, amongst many things. Mary Sheffield, who at the time was the city council president, helped change city procurement rules to get McKinney an ex-con with ties to Kwame Kilpatrick’s former right-hand Bobby Ferguson.
Yep, partners with Bobby’s ex-wife, using Bobby’s yard, using Bobby’s employees. They caught him on that one too. That’s what we’re dealing with, Mike.
Now, McKinney got the lucrative contracts while he and Sheffield were getting to know each other but weren’t in a committed relationship while he had business before the city council, as her deputy mayor, Brian White, put it. Nevertheless, Sheffield continued to vote for tens of millions of dollars for McKinney, well past them having gotten to know each other. So now Sheffield is mayor, and now comes the revelation that McKinney was investigated back in 2022 for the very same crimes that he’s being investigated for now.
A whistleblower who worked for his firm claimed then that McKinney had forged load tickets claiming the dirt was from a legitimate source when it was actually contaminated soil diverted from other places like Northland and area landfills. Allegedly, the load tickets worked on an honor system with nothing built in to track the actual origin of the soil. No invoices, no receipts, none of it.
It was and is a take my word for it agreement. No charges were brought against McKinney then since no cooperating witness would come forward. The OIG recommended then that the ticket system be changed to include receipts verifying the origin of the dirt just like the United States Treasury Department had demanded of Duggan back in 2017.
In both cases, Duggan and Sheffield ignored them. But now whistleblowers who worked for McKinney have come forward. Since June, the OIG and the Detroit Police Department have conducted more than six dozen interviews, issued a baker’s dozen of subpoenas, and seized mounds of financial documents.
The investigation continues and it’s serious and it will blow up in your face, Mike. The city demolished nearly 30,000 derelict houses under Duggan’s crooked eye. And again, I remind you for some perspective, that’s near the equivalent of demolishing every house in Flint and we use Flint as a reminder of what the government does to you.
They don’t care about you. McKinney was responsible for 2,500 of those houses himself and 80% of those randomly tested have come back hot. So 500 holes may just be the tip of this Hindenburg.
And the poisoning scandal is widening. We have learned. It appears the bait, switch, and swindling of the city may have been standard operating procedure in Detroit’s demolition world.
Dirt from the freeways was packed into those holes. Sometimes the freeways themselves. There are whispers of a grand jury.
And through it all, Duggan and Sheffield were warned. Yet they preferred the rosy headlines and the boozy hookups rather than the mundane duty of protecting you, the public. In the end, this debacle is Duggan’s baby.
He wants to be Michigan’s governor. But he’s dug a hole so deep it will likely bury his political legacy. As for Sheffield, she too is caught in the quicksand.
The handouts are over. And the city’s broke. Too much? No.
Just enough. That Flint thing, it’s like if Flint were to happen before Rick Snyder became governor. He would never become governor.
This is worse than that. I voted for him once. I would never vote for him again.
I voted for Whitmer once. I would never vote for her again. I’m just being honest.
I go with what I think is the best thing in front of me and then I regret it. Well, you know, you do have a very compliant media. You know what I mean? They will not, they won’t publish or broadcast.
They are now. Once you find out, what did you call it, Jay? There’s a term for that again? They’re fucking. Oh, they’re fucking.
Once we found that out, then all of a sudden everybody’s interested. Right? Right. Look, man, let ICE do the work.
Stay out of the way. Everything works just fine. That’s that’s the immigration police.
That’s the way it goes. That’s the way it goes. You went out with him.
Very professional. Super professional. How you doing? How you doing, bro? How you doing? Okay.
Okay. So Mike Duggan, look here now. Look here.
I can’t do everybody’s work. You got to do your own work. But let me tell you something about Mike Duggan.
He got a dark money nonprofit 501c4. Called Put Progress First. You know, who’s on the board of directors of the Put Progress First Mike Duggan dark money is Peter Schur.
Who’s Peter Schur? Bernie, you might ask. Peter Schur is the former vice president of JP Morgan Chase. He’s the right hand of Jamie Dimon.
He’s in the Epstein files. Oh, boy. He making it so so Epstein can pull a billion dollars out of the bank.
He basically Schur’s in charge of the big wigs and the international stuff. The biggest wig of them all was Epstein. He was using JP Morgan.
This is how it worked. Epstein had his company, his shell corp in the Virgin Islands, right? Tax shelter. And he would take gun runners, dope dealers, billionaires and launder their money through his LLC.
And then he had a backdoor into JP Morgan Chase making the shit legitimate. And this is the guy. This is the guy running Duggan’s dark money.
Seems fitting. And the Democrats are so pasty namby-pamby bullshit. We’re going to put in a press release.
There’s some conflict of interest with JP Morgan Chase. No, no. Let me lay it out for you.
You pussies. Come on. JP Morgan Chase was required in a settlement for the financial meltdown to pump pump into distressed communities that they destroyed like Detroit, $13 billion.
It wasn’t charity. You were required to do it. So JP Morgan has a lot of business in Detroit.
No, no, no, no. What you did is you didn’t pump any of that shit into here. You gave people low interest loans to buy houses.
You didn’t give them any money as required. This is bullshit, dude. Okay, Mike, by the way, When you start mentioning those lights, when you say you turn on the lights, you didn’t turn on the lights.
That was Dave Bing. And we had to capture the tax from the lights. Detroit’s the only city that taxes utilities is supposed to be to pay for cops.
But we took it and said light streetlights or public safety. That’s where it came from. Mike, I still got those bids, dude.
I know who actually won the bid and I know what you did with the bid. You bid rigged. I got it.
Open your mouth and I’m dropping it. I’ve been sitting on these fuckers for 12 years. Remember your lighting director? Remember? Remember? Remember Otis? Remember? Otis gave me all the stuff, Mike.
Uh-uh. No, Mike. Uh-uh.
All of it. All of it. Dude.
Okay. Here’s so Mike Duggan. Where am I? I just got to do this.
Listen up, suburban guys. Okay. Jared Goff’s completion percentage.
What was that? 70%. Amazing. They can win with golf.
Okay. You know, he’s not pocket savvy, but they can win with golf. I don’t know.
Detroit looks pretty good to me. It’s empty, dudes. It’s empty.
Gilbert bought everything, threw up some drywall. Net doesn’t have to pay tax on these buildings. That’s why Detroit collects less money today than it did on the year of bankruptcy.
That doesn’t make any sense. So Mike, Mike, I’m going to be there, dude, because I wake up and then everybody’s like lit up social media, lit up. What are you making this? I’m like, oh God.
Okay. So listen, I want you to call Luke. I want you to get Mando.
I want you to call public adjusters. I want you to eat at Coney Island. And I want you to call XG service group because it wasn’t for them.
I couldn’t do this for you. Okay, here, here’s what Duggan, I’m just going to do it. Oh, my blood pressure.
Okay. So I wake up. The phone’s going ding, ding, ding, ding.
It’s all my white homies. All my white homies got season tickets to the lions. City’s back.
Okay. Mike Duggan, he didn’t tweet this, but you know, his Nimrod’s did Mike tweeted Detroit 2014 $327 million deficit. Detroit 2025 sustained surplus.
I didn’t inherit a good situation. I delivered results anyway. Did you Mike? Did you? Did you Mike? Because here’s the answer to that.
Kevin or the emergency manager who led Detroit through its historic bankruptcy was the man who actually balanced the city’s budget in 2014, 2015, and 2016. As the neutered mayor with no real power. You simply took the credit while banking on collective amnesia.
That’s what you did. The fiscal books were balanced in large part. Folks, listen to me.
The fiscal books were balanced in large part because you the state taxpayer and the charitable foundations assumed the city’s pension obligations for a full decade. This is where the magic surpluses come from. At the same time, the federal government sent Detroit about $1.1 billion in demolition and COVID money alone.
That’s not even all the other stuff. Just that. $1.1 billion.
And you squandered it, Mike. The demolition holes are poisoned. Another grand jury is quite likely.
The homeless wander everywhere. The buses run late. This is why Orr’s boss at what was what was that? Jones Day, right? Yeah.
The managing director Jones Day wrote of Duggan calling him quote a political hack who quote puts the self-interest ahead of the truth. Yeah. The city’s revenues have actually shrunk over the last decade when adjusted for inflation.
Now that Detroit has resumed paying his pension obligations. The city is again on the fiscal brink. That’s why Sheffield is trying to pass a city-wide sales tax.
A city sales tax. Can you imagine? Wow. Okay.
That’s why you left City Hall, Mike. That’s why you left the Democratic Party, Mike. Every Detroiter who’s not on your payroll knows this.
I dare you say something about the lights. XG Service Group take me to it. Take me to Bernie.
Well, you know when it rains the power goes out and when the power goes out the internet goes out. When the internet goes out I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group. Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees giving it everything he’s got.
Look at that man crack. So busy he forgot to wear a belt. There’s Matt right there getting the board together.
That’s 734-245-4100 if you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your voice over internet your security cameras off campus access control Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business they’ll design it for you. You got restaurants they do drive-thru systems railroad cameras for public safety total wireless camera systems for your home and business. Yeah, that’s right.
Call XG Services at 734-245-4100. So my kid was at Costco. Yeah.
In the coffee aisle coffee cream or whatever. Heard your voice bro. Mine? It’s like Mark’s here.
She’s talking to me? She’s looking around for you. Oh. It was some dude listening to the Drew podcast.
Oh, that guy’s cool. Without headphones on! Yeah, good. He’s got to spread the word.
He wants other people to hear it. Dude, like the whole day’s ruined because they got to hear you. She’s like, oh, like enough of Mark already.
What’s wrong? That sounds like my wife. What’s up with these suburban white guys of yours? I know. Put some earphones in.
Or no. I don’t think it’s a suburban white guy problem to be honest with you. That’s true, yeah.
I don’t think it’s just limited to suburban white guys. I see a lot of people. Yeah.
You know, it’s not just listening to, it’s talking on the phone too. That is the worst. That’s like, I cannot imagine going into a crowded place and putting someone on speakerphone and then yelling, yeah, yeah, hold on.
It’s a little noisy in here. Let me turn you up a little. I don’t, I don’t understand that.
People do that on. So what’s the difference though? I mean, let’s say I’m sitting there with you. Yeah.
And we’re having a conversation. It’s the same as somebody being on the phone. No, not really.
Because the phone is so much louder. Is it really? Yes. Is it? Yes.
And the person who’s talking in the phone talks louder because they’re on speakerphone. If they had headphones in and they were just talking on there, you wouldn’t even know. But it’s really, I don’t know.
I don’t understand it. I wouldn’t want people listening to my conversation. No.
I wouldn’t want people knowing which podcasts or which whatever I listen to. That’s just me. What do you listen to? Oh, just this one.
Conspiracy Kid. This and Alex Jones. But I’m the first guy to tell you about Peter Shearer, right? Yeah, dude.
I didn’t know that. That’s crazy. Interesting.
He’s all over. Oh, by the way. Gretchen Wimper.
Say her name. Say it. Gretchen Wimper.
When I got Gretch. Breaking news. Uh, breaking news.
Give me some Dumb Dumb Dana. Oh man, you’re really challenging. Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb.
Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dana. What is that? Right there. Thumb drive.
Right there. Burn. Oh, I don’t know what a man.
Not in Detroit. You guys know him. You know, he pops in and out, right? Flamethrower online.
I said, I’m suing Dana Nessel for those nursing home documents. He said, you’ll never get them. And I said, bro, not my first rodeo.
So as you remember from last week, I got 600 blank pages. Right, Bernie. Did you watch last week’s episode? Look what I got this week.
You know, it’s on there. This thumb drive here. 10,000 unredacted nursing home documents.
Not my first rodeo. So Ken and I are developing an AI program with AI. We’re developing it.
We’ve uploaded these clouds to no funny business. And we’re working out a program where we’re going to be able to go through this. Compartmentalize them and find out what happened to grandpa.
Oh, by the way, Dana, look at that. See that there? I’m amending my lawsuit because I told you everybody go, they’re not going to give him to you. I said, it ain’t the Duff’s first rodeo.
This is the ace card right here. Right in the pocket. Right there.
Bang. Now, you only sent me 600 documents, Dana. What happened to the other 9,400? I’m amending my lawsuit.
You broke the law. Oh. Oh.
You should take a pen. You should take a pen on the back. They fucked it with.
It’s like Duff. Say my name. We got the goods, man.
L-E capital D. Capital D as in dum-da-dum-dum. Claudette, did you hear Mark in the coffee aisle at Costco? Yes, sir. Was it unnerving? I thought he was right behind me.
Wait, that would be unnerving? Kind of. I guess depending on what I was talking about on the show. He was calling Peter.
Sure. Are you in the Epstein files? I feel like everyone is at this point. Mark.
Yes. On our new state of the art LED global positioning system. Matt, take us to Munich.
Munich? Take me to Munich. As in Germany? Yeah. Am I close? Oh, almost.
You’re the Galapagos. There you go. Right there.
Where is Munich? What state? Bavaria. Very, very good. Very well done.
Okay. Now. Oh, Gritsch, you forgot to bring this to Bavaria.
Did you do anything with it? I just couldn’t believe this. I did not do anything with it. Way to go, Mark.
What the fuck? Well, because the other one pretty much. Because all the other shows you do where you actually do pay attention. Fuck it, I’m done.
My blood pressure. Do you want me to play the clip over? Yeah. I mean, it’s hard.
And in all seriousness, it’s hard to really make this look any dumber than what it is on its surface. Yeah. Okay.
Gretchen, you’re an idiot. Yeah. I know that.
You know that. Everybody in Michigan knows. What? These suburban people.
What is this 50 percent approval rating?
We’re broke. We’re stupid. The roads are fucked up.
Right? Well, she’s winning by not doing anything, right? Nobody sees her. No, you’re right. She kind of just secretes herself away.
No one sees her. No, it’s just a lot of social media videos. That’s her.
I think that’s her primary job these days is social media videos. Probably put. Yeah.
Thirst trap social media where she puts out a couple of days. Not everyone’s on there. Not everyone follows her.
You know, look, I love it. It’s like a must stop like her and dating in essence, social media back during COVID, they were getting all the applause like you’re saving us. And now we know that you killed everybody and you’re ripping off old people and 10,000.
Now it’s a must like follow because it’s so funny. They just get fucking ripped. It’s hilarious.
Okay. So you’re going to go to Munich and look, here’s the thing about, about people that run stuff. They’re soft.
They’re weak. They’re overly educated. They’ve never been in the real world.
You know what I mean? You never been to a Russian wedding. I went to a Russian wedding once in Russia. And, uh, I was kind of a hippie at the time.
I only had one pair of pants was the cargo pants. And I’m at this Russian wedding. It’s like in Gorky or some shit.
And a band’s up there doing rock around the clock, but they don’t know rock around the clock. So it’s a gigantic wedding. And I’d go up there and my hippie stuff and sing rock around the clock.
It was great. And they loved me in this great big Russian bear, right? And he hugs me like this pins. My shit lifts me off the ground and his partner’s going through my pocket.
I’m like, if you find anything in there, let me know. But that’s the real world and they don’t know anything. And they’re overly educated.
And here’s like AOC and numbskull Whitmer. You’re, you’re going to answer a foreign policy question and, and you didn’t even take a policy paper. You couldn’t fashion an answer.
Do you have that? Charlie, I just want to say too, this is the most softball question you should expect. Well, you should expect, I don’t remember it. So let’s hear it on Ukraine.
What does victory look like? Ambassador? No, please. I’d love to hear your answer. It is, the two that I am on the panel with are much more steeped in foreign policy than a governor is.
But you know, I do think that Ukraine’s independence, keeping their land mass and having, um, the support of, of all the allies I think is, is the goal for my vantage point and rainbows and unicorns and uh, world peace and ice cream for everybody. Well, how do you answer that? Mark? I’m not a governor. I’m not a diplomat.
You just pulled a Whitmer. I did. How about like this? How about, you know, I really don’t know.
Yeah. All the easy stuff’s been done, right? And what’s the sticking point? Well, the land mass, right? So are we going to let the Russians sit on Dombus in perpetuity? Does this turn into some kind of West Berlin, East Berlin kind of thing? Is that, is that what’s going on? Because here’s how it started. This is the problem.
This is the sticking point. The Russians like they speak Russian in Ukraine. Okay.
That’s why it used to be called Keeve. Keeve is older than Moscow. Okay.
So NATO’s beaten on the door of the Kremlin. You’re going to, you’re going to bring Ukraine into NATO. That’s a non-starter, right? So now we’re at the point, Ukrainians won’t deal unless we give them security assurances.
It’s fucking NATO. So what is the answer? I don’t know the answer, but I would have said this Gretchen decent steps have been taken. So for once, the Europeans will pay for their security.
You’ll buy our hardware and you will purchase it from us. And then you can give it to the Ukrainians if you want. But all I know is Whitmer and my neighbor with the start to spill a lot like fascism yard signs, I’m going to get it done.
This is ancient. This goes back to Peter, the great, right? Yeah. Ivan, the terrible.
So what does it look like? Will there ever be victory? Victory? What we need to do is stop the killing. Yeah. That would, that would look like a victory to me.
And the only, only entity in the world, even making any progress there is the United States. And you want to be, you want to be the president? Can you name one of the occupied County States, you know, like car Keeve. Yeah.
Crimea. I don’t think she could, unless it was how I’m going to, I’m going to, I’m going to Luhansk. Yeah.
Your son, you know, come on, man. Yeah. I just, I mean, what’s she doing to her face by the way? Is that plastic surgery or fillers? We might as well.
It’s probably a little bit of both. I don’t think they just do one or the other. I think they try to do a little both.
It just reeks of inauthenticity. Yeah. Yeah.
It looks like she has a mat, a Whitmer mask on. It looks like she has a Whitmer mask on Ukraine. What does victory look like to AOC ask AOC? Well, let’s ask AOC.
We got that clip. Yep. Would, and should the U S actually commit us troops to defend Taiwan? If China were to move? Um, you know, I think that, uh, this is such a, uh, you know, a, a huge concern for the United States.
Uh, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point. And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation. And for that question to even arise.
Wow. Okay. Did she just start that answer with a, Oh, for like 10 seconds Or was that? Yes, she did.
I mean, all right. She’s done with the both of them. OK, both.
Aren’t you supposed this is a international security conference. Aren’t you supposed to have something to offer on international security? The whole world’s giving you a sniff. What do we got here? This is supposed to be this is this is the chance to go out on the world stage and impress people.
And I just don’t know what the hell they studied. Before this, because it looks like they didn’t open a crack a book. No, they didn’t prepare for.
Look, I didn’t I didn’t prepare for this. OK, but I tell you, I’ve been around. I’ve been to China.
You know what I’m saying? I studied a little bit. We don’t have a. Military arrangement with Taiwan. We did have one, if I recall, it was in 1979 and we pulled out of it when we normalized relations with China.
So would we defend Japan to the end of time? Yeah, we have a treaty. South Korea. Yeah, we sell a lot of weapons to Taiwan.
Now, here’s the smart answer. We have a real problem because what are you doing? What are you doing over there? All right, already. What are you doing? I’m in the middle of a roll here.
Pay attention. Don’t Google me. Don’t don’t text me later.
What did you say? Here’s the situation with Taiwan. We invented the semiconductor. We don’t make any semiconductors.
Who makes all the semiconductors? The Taiwanese. OK, let’s say China does roll in there. We’re so fucked.
There wouldn’t be a computer we could we could use. So what’s smart being done? We’ve invited Taiwan. Taiwan’s doing it.
They’re building semiconductor plants here in the United States. So in case there’s a global emergency, we’re not out on our ass. Now, if I was AOC, I’d look at the woman, say, are you serious? You’re asking me to commit or not commit my country to war at this at some point, you know.
How on edge that place is. So why don’t we worry about it when we get to it instead of doing suppositions and easy questions like, what does that look like? What’s the end look like? Would you commit troops? Like, don’t know. Going to depend on the day of the week.
But you could also talk forceful like we cannot allow them to control the South China Sea. I mean, you could show some anything better than, you know. Well, let’s say like Taiwan sinks.
A Chinese aircraft carrier. So we go in it. We go in it.
How about Germany go in? Yeah. How about Canada going? How about pay for your shit? Mm hmm. Am I wrong here? No.
Yeah. No. Like, you know what? It’s our sphere of influence.
They’re our friends. They can count on us. Yeah.
Or maybe Democrats don’t talk that way anymore. One global world order. No borders.
I mean, this is a very important part of the world. I’m not even close. Where? Yeah, yeah.
You’re getting there. Philippines. Yeah.
Oh, you had it. You had New Guinea. Little North.
You’re a Singapore. That’s not that’s not bad for doing a blind. That is a very important part.
It’s the most populated part of the world, especially because if China ever did invade, the backup plan for Taiwan is they blow that factory rather than trying to get their hands on it because it’s rigged. It’s rigged with explosives. And China knows that.
What would that that wouldn’t go well? No, I would encourage the Chinese. That’s like the last in 100 years of guerrilla warfare. The Taiwanese are very clever.
And there are a lot of people very successful. I’m not sure what the population. There are a lot of people in Taiwan.
It’s not like some small little island with like 50000 people. And there’s do you know the history of that? Well, how Taiwan comes to be? No, actually, this is during World War Two and the communist guerrillas led by Mao. Oh, they went there.
Yeah, they were the. Yeah, that’s right. Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party were ineffective.
Pretty bad puppets of us. And when Mao came into Beijing, they all jumped to Taiwan. So it’s sort of like the Shaw.
Yeah. Being deposed. And you’ve got that group of Shaw supporters.
And then you have what you have. So that’s what it is. It’s been a division for a long time.
Twenty three million. Twenty three point six. You just right off the top of your head.
He just counted them all. Oh, he Googled it. XG service group.
They can Google anything you need. We’re forgetting one major reason why Whitmer and AOC stumbled. What do you reckon, Michelle? You don’t have a microphone.
There’s just I mean, there’s a big. OK, what is it? What is it quickly? They are American Democrats. Establishment Democrats aren’t used to answering questions over here by the media because they only take canned stuff.
That’s why. Not particularly. It goes more like this.
I think they don’t know what to say because the answers are pretty simple. But this new Democratic Party, the Democratic Socialists, we haven’t run it by the Central Committee yet. What what you can and cannot say they haven’t settled on foreign policy yet.
Right. They know the answer. They’ve been saying it their whole lives, but something just flipped.
Right. My Democrats don’t know what to say. They’re not my Democrats anymore.
Now I get this bullshit online. Oh, you’re right. Wake fascism like fucker.
I never moved. Never moved. No, I went to, you know, you’re pretty good.
Your town hall in Livonia was pretty good. It’s like it was really good to see. Well, you know, I mean, they’re my age, but God, they look older.
They had to try my blood pressure recipe. But it’s just good to see normal fucking people. Normal.
Mm hmm. Like, you know what I grew up with? They’re not they didn’t they didn’t change. They weren’t being political.
They were just this is my neighborhood. Right. Mm hmm.
Of course. Well, there’s a lot of nimbyism going on in my backyard. And I’m like, yeah, because it ain’t your backyard.
When some fucker actually does it in your backyard, you get pissed. Right. I don’t need a gigantic truck stop in my backyard.
I moved here because it was quiet. I really wouldn’t mind some senior housing. Like Livonia’s got a problem, apparently with townhouses, which would be great for seniors.
But I understand why. Because once the first seniors die off, they turn into a dump, man. You know, I lived in a townhouse.
You know, it’s like cheap rent, people tearing the pipes out of it and shit. I get why you want people attached to the city. I get why.
But I still think it will be lovely. Some senior development. We need that because Whitmer killed them all right there.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Bernie, how long I’ve been working on this? Oh, very long since 2020. Yeah.
Is someone right? These demo holes ain’t right, man. It’s poison, bro. You’re now in it.
Yeah, I saw, dude, when we went out, it was a few weeks ago. Maybe it was last year. But man, when we went through that neighborhood and we just saw like the tarps over just the piles of crap that they threw in those holes, the asbestos, I just saw it just wouldn’t.
I mean, this is no business being anywhere near the ground. It’s like they just demolished the house and put it right in the ground almost. And there’s hundreds of these.
All right. I mean, when we just the neighborhood we went through dozens of them kids playing kids toys out 20 feet from this stuff. Yeah, it’s like this is horrible.
This is guys got. This is this is not America. This is this is this is crazy, right? Like we’re supposed to be in together.
I bet Detroiters will have a difference. But Mike Duggan, why do you think he’s not running? Yeah, because he can’t be Benson in Detroit. Exactly.
That’s right. Not running as a Democrat. Exactly right.
Ask Detroit. You you guys came to the the debate. You guys worked it.
Did Detroit look happy to you? Nope. No. All you got to do is talk to him.
You know, they’re our cousins or our family. Fuck sake. And when when are they going to charge Dana Nessel up there in Lansing in the House of Representatives with contempt? Yeah, we proved she covered up alleged abuse.
Now we got this when there are no difference. Democrats, Republicans, whatever, man. Talk, talk, talk.
I don’t know. Ask her. Ask her about Greenland.
Come on, man. OK, I’m done. Bye.
