Dave Smith (38:08)
Right? And. And listen, I know this just from reading a lot about, like, the colored revolution stuff a lot of times. And it's. It's one of the interesting dynamics in politics, right, is like, so if you, you know, if you. You could buy a politician for, like, you know, a couple million bucks, but the policy that they enact could move hundreds of Billions of dollars, you know what I mean? So like, but someone like, let's say there, you know, there's a young congressman or something like that who's coming up and he's making 200 grand a year or whatever. The congressional salary is now a little higher than that. There's like in less than 300 grand a year. And like, you know, this is a guy who maybe just started making a low six figure salary. He could be bought for a few million dollars, but his vote is worth so much more than that. But you don't have to spend $10 billion to bribe one guy. You could just give him a couple million and they'll be happy with that. And likewise with a lot of these, you know, with a lot of these policies, it's for, you know, if you think about that, where you go, it's in the billions of dollars or something like that. Think about how much money that is to get a caravan going and get some people over here. It's just like, it's not that much money in the grand scheme of a central government that spends $7 trillion. But like in, so for the Maidan revolution in Ukraine, for example, right? This was the big thing is they got, I think at one point it was close to like a million people were in the streets and they had a lot of people in the streets. Now it wasn't, at least if I'm remembering this correctly, it's been a little while since I read about this. It. But it never broke 50% like approval rating with the country. So it wasn't, you know what I'm saying? Like, if you think about these things, like, you know, it's easy, on January six, there were like thousands of people protesting, right? But if I were to ever say to one of you guys, like, that's the American people, that's the will of the American people, you'd immediately be like, well, no, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on. There's like a whole huge portion of Americans who completely reject all of this stuff. And in fact, Donald Trump's approval rating at the time was like in the 30s. It wasn't like he was like this enormously popular president, right? So likewise. So in the Maidan revolution, what Happens is the NGOs start the protest in late 2013. Okay, so they start the protest now they're protesting over Yanukovych pulling out of the EU deal. He was making a. He was. At first he wanted to do the deal. Then ultimately he got seduced by Putin, slash turned off by the eu and he pulls out of the deal and goes to make a deal with Putin, an economic deal. And so then they're protesting that. Now the NGOs start the protest. It's George Soros and his guys and the. What's his name? I always blank on his name. But the guy who owns the Intercept, Otomie or something like that, it's, it's. These guys start it and they brag about it, they talk openly about how they started. They kicked off the Maidan protest. So then they go down there and you get a little bit of a protest going. And then Yanukovych starts like brutally putting down the protest. And then more people start protesting that. But here's a big problem they have now. It's December 2013 in Ukraine. So you're going into the Ukrainian winter. Okay, how do you keep a protest movement going through the brutal Ukrainian winter? Well, tens of millions of dollars start pouring in from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID and all these NGOs. They also. So they bring out heat lamps for everybody and they put on like a rock concert. They get all these Ukrainian celebrities to come down there. So now it's a carnival. It's a carnival with heat and with everything. And if you think about it, right, like imagine, imagine any protest. Imagine like we try to start a protest and let's say even, like we bring a few, we get a few thousand people together, you know, we promote it on the podcast and we start protesting, you know, the Federal Reserve or something like that. I mean, imagine someone just gave us $50 million. Like, hey, here's $50 million for your protest movement. You'd be like, whoa, we got a lot of possibilities now. We could do all. So this is how they keep the thing going all through the winter and keeps putting more and more and more pressure on Yanukovych until ultimately he. He flees for his life. But then people will look at that and go, well, what are you talking about, Dave? That was just the will of the Ukrainian people. That's not a US backed coup. But like, yes, it fucking totally is, because if you didn't put that money in, there's no way this movement would have. First of probably when I started to begin with, but second off, you could. So anyway, the point is just that even. Just with what, relatively speaking, are little bits of money, like $50 million. And it was, it was probably more than that in the Maid on Revolution, I think it was closer to 100 million. But even $100 million, when you're talking about governments that spend $7 trillion. Not much money. You know, like if you, if you cut or added $100 million from the US federal budget, you wouldn't even notice that. But. But dude, it can move trillions of dollars when you, when you put it in right at the right spot, you know, and that's what this like whole, that's what the whole soft power, as they call it, the whole game is. It's like putting your thumb on the scale just enough to get the result that you want while having some level of plausible deniability. But I think there's no question that that's what was happening with the immigration here. You could just kind of look at it and be like, this isn't organic. This doesn't just organically happen. You know, just organically have Chinese nationals crossing the US Southern border. Like, what's going on here? And then of course that is what's going on. This show is sponsored by Better Help. Guys. As I've told you many times before, I have benefited tremendously from therapy in my life. I know a lot of people who have as well. So if you feel like there's something getting in your way or an obstacle to a achieving your goals in life and you're considering therapy, if you're even considering it, you gotta check out BetterHelp. And the reason you have to check out BetterHelp is because it's the easiest way to do therapy. It's entirely online. So it's designed to be convenient and flexible and suited to your schedule. All you have to do is fill out a brief questionnaire and you get matched with a licensed therapist. And you can switch therapists at any time for no additional charge. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give Better Help a try. 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Nvidia and what. I know this, but what is. Oh, that's the AI, the Chinese AI thing. I'm sorry, excuse me.
