Unmasking the Ironies in Political Hypocrisy and Power

This episode emphasizes the critical need for accountability in government spending and the implications that arise from the mismanagement of Social Security records. The hosts dive into alarming findings about individuals listed in Social Security who may be well over 120 years old, urging reforms and audits to address potential fraud and inefficiencies in the government system.

• Discussing the implications of having living individuals listed in reports 
• Exploring the accountability failures in Social Security and federal spending 
• Highlighting the staggering $4.7 trillion in untraceable payments 
• Delving into the tension surrounding federal worker layoffs 
• Urging for collective action towards financial transparency 

Call to action: Visit our website to learn more about fiscal accountability and how you can get involved!

Chapters

• 0:00 Trump and Musk Influence Government Corruption
• 12:23 Federal Job Expectations and Hypocrisy
• 16:19 Media Influence on Political Hypocrisy
• 28:42 Government Corruption and Resignations Reaction
• 39:06 Global Concerns
• 52:10 TV Special Review and Comedic Controversies
• 57:59 Small Town Series Book Promotion

Transcript

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And now it's time for the show. Well hey, another week, another bunch of stories. I thought for sure we would run out of things to talk about by now.

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Speaker 2: 2:09

Well then, my goodness. So one of my favorite things to keep watching on a daily basis for daily updates is doge.

Speaker 3: 2:19

It keeps on doging making their full heads explode on dogging, making liberal heads explode? Yeah. And the hate and vitriol that's coming out of this by people who just they don't like who's doing it. They don't care that it's benefiting the country, they don't care that it's long overdue, they don't care, they just hate that it's being done by President Trump and by Elon Musk.

Speaker 2: 2:41

Yeah, that's literally all it is.

Speaker 3: 2:43

Yeah, they keep digging, they keep finding stuff, though I mean let's talk social security. Yeah, I mean, like you know, you're talking people 300 years old. Some of the age ranges are crazy.

Speaker 2: 2:56

It's insane. I've got a little graphic while we're talking. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3: 3:00

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I mean look at this.

Speaker 2: 3:04

This is insane. Now, for anyone who doesn't know what they're looking at here, these are people. Let's start right here. Basically, I mean, we'll go crazy and say there's somebody out there as 119. I don't really know, but people 120 plus are still on these rules. Now I don't think and you correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know if it's necessarily confirmed that these people are still receiving checks, right, I mean, they're looking into this to find out if that's the case, but they're still in the records.

Speaker 3: 3:36

Yeah, they're still in the records and and so you know, people say oh well, there's no way, there's no way they're they're receiving checks. There's no way, listen people. Well, there's no way, there's no way they're receiving checks.

Speaker 3: 3:52

No wait, listen people, if you are receiving, checks for someone you know, who is older and you know you live like you're a child, or maybe even a you know disabled person who's receiving social security for you know, on behalf of someone, whatever it is, if they're still on the rolls, there is still the eligibility for a check to be cut. So is there, you know, millions of dollars being spent and checks being sent out to these people? Probably not. Are some of them probably still getting checks sent? Yeah, and are people cashing them? Yes, by the way, folks, that's a felony. That is a federal law that you are breaking and it's a felony. So if you're receiving a Social Security check for somebody who is deceased and you're cashing it, that's a felony. You're a felon.

Speaker 2: 4:31

That's a pretty big racket too. I mean, I hear about that. I think I hear about it all the time, but I have heard of that plenty of times, people getting caught up in that and, you know, spending some prison time for it. I mean it's no joke.

Speaker 3: 4:44

Yeah, for sure, but it you know, all it does is it opens things up to say this is we need to look at what's going on at social security, right?

Speaker 2: 4:52

And you know, obviously more suspicion added to the mix when you have the. What's her name? Michelle King, who spent 30 years at social security offices there and resigned from her position as the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration because she didn't want to turn over the data, she didn't want to open up the data for them to view. So you mean to tell me that that's not suspicious? That that doesn't say you know I've done something wrong here. You know she can paint it. She's trying to paint it as she, she, uh, she resigned in protest, essentially on principle yeah, Okay, yeah, you resigned because you don't want to take the heat for your 30 years of you know, actions or leadership, failed leadership to get this under control. It's a bad look all around.

Speaker 3: 5:43

Yeah, that table you showed is. What makes that sketchy is the fact that all of those people are designated as active right. What that tells me is somewhere along the way as people were transitioned from the old paper system to a new digital system, somewhere somebody didn't want to go through and vet every one of these accounts, they didn't want to do the due diligence, they didn't want to do the manual labor and say is this person alive, are they not? And what they did was they hit the default active and they left it and nobody else ever went back and cleaned it up. And the fact that it's that lackadaisical is, again, that's reason enough to go in and start digging. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 6:26

You know. So what you're looking at, or what we're all looking at, is, you know, on the least of all, laziness, negligence, disregard and, at the other end of that spectrum, flat out criminal behavior. You know, if there are checks going out to 179 year olds, you know we have a problem, big problem. So I would say this you know yet another very warranted audit for sure. Yeah, it's like 12 million people over the age of 120. This note says we're receiving social security benefits. So we don't know that at this point and I'm guilty of automatically making that assumption too that those checks were going out because they were still on the roster, and I know that's the assumption made by a lot of people and that's not really accurate. It could be, but we don't know yet. So we'll find out.

Speaker 3: 7:21

But again, it gives reason. It gives reason for Doge to do what they're doing Right. This is, you know, and it's not just social security, so that's part of it. And then you know they found so. When you, whenever department of treasury, um, you know, sends out a payment, it's like you know when you fill out your check and you fill it out to right. I know a lot of young people, a lot of you're like what are you talking about?

Speaker 3: 7:50

I tap my phone and you sign it out as to. Well, in every disbursement that the Department of Treasury, treasury Department does, there is a two that has to be filled out. It is supposed to be filled out. I think the number was either you know or 7.4, I think it's 4.7 trillion dollars in payments.

Speaker 3: 8:12

Yes 4.7, you're right, 4.7 out of treasury, where that two line was never filled out Right. So we have 4.7 trillion dollars Untraceable, billion dollars Untraceable. It is untraceable. There's no evidence of where it went to. I'm sure if they dig they can probably pull bank numbers, routing numbers and all of those things, assuming that they didn't just do a disbursement check right, or a cash disbursement. Oh, by the way, those of us that were in the global war on terror, especially in the early days, and saw literally pallets of cash being moved around the Middle East Money, especially cash. Cash, gets lost and used, consumed, very, very quickly with not a lot of accountability.

Speaker 3: 8:58

So the fact that that two line from the Treasury Department was not filled out is also suspect, and it begs the question where is the money going?

Speaker 2: 9:07

Yeah, when is it going? And we all have some pretty good guesses, but we need to have it confirmed, we need proof and we need to see the proverbial heads roll for it. And that is again and I've said this before, in similar circumstances, similar conversation. That's the biggest thing for me. I want to see the heads roll. You know they have to. There's no. You know the left will call it targeting and all of these crazy things. And and you know they're, they're reverse thing of calling this weaponization Right. That's what they're they want to call this now.

Speaker 2: 9:42

Yeah, this is called accountability. This is called, you know, transparency, accountability and, um, you know they're, they're putting the receipts out there. I think Trump just uh, spent like a uh, just a four minute monologue listing every single thing that they had at that point or at this point of um, you know questionable money, where it was going, you know the questionable things that it was going to. So, come on and you got to question the people who are mad about this, that don't want it to happen.

Speaker 3: 10:09

And. And so you know again, like we said at the beginning, there are people who are angry about who is doing this right, whether it's doge, going in, recommendation or even shutter you know, recommendation to fire people, reduce the workforce, shutter entire organizations, track down spent money, whatever. You've got people who are mad about this when in reality, you know, president Clinton did something similar, right? 377,000 federal workers were transitioned from federal workers to contractors. And everybody says, oh well, people didn't lose their jobs. You know what happens they lost their federal benefits, which were probably picked up by the contractor, but then the contractor upcharges the government oh, by the way, that's another way to launder some money.

Speaker 3: 10:54

So while he fired 400,000, they transitioned to contractors. So there was a workforce reduction there. And then you've got all of this stuff going on, with people defending USAID and all the hires there. Listen, if you were a government worker and you were overseas and you just assumed that you were going to have a job for the rest of your life and now you're mad because you got fired, that's on you, that is, you made a horrible life assumption that you were just going to be employed forever. Right, there's no such thing.

Speaker 2: 11:26

Yeah, and they like to scream about, you know, scream and cry and rant and rave that you know. All these poor federal workers. They were just fired just like that. No, they were given eight months severance pay, eight months of their bills being paid, carrying a paycheck, you know, and being able to afford all of their, their life things and look for a job and do something else eight months, you know.

Speaker 3: 11:50

Yeah, and the overseas workers are going to get brought home. You know they're going to live. They're going to live in the same conditions they've been living in and they're going to get brought home within 30 days. And you know, I nobody told them. If they're complaining because, oh well, I sold my house and I sold my car and I don't have this, and nobody told you to sell that stuff, right, if you chose to do that to save yourself some money, that's on you, okay. But you know it's just like anything else. If you get fired from a job, that job is not responsible for making sure that you have a place to live or a car to drive or anything else. Those are choices that you made. But there's folks that believe that, for some reason, if they work for USAID or a federal agency, that they were guaranteed a job forever, which is unbelievably false.

Speaker 2: 12:36

Yeah, To make that assumption, to have that expectation that you are set for life because you're a federal worker, I mean, you know, there's, there's tapes and and not tapes. While I just dated myself there, there's recordings of, uh, you know there's a there was a USA ID worker, I think she was, or somebody in that lane. Did you see that video? And she was talking about all the things that you know, that they said and that they knew to to be the case, and that was like the general message Once you're in, you're all set, you know you're good, You're golden, Don't worry about a thing. And yeah, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2: 13:11

I, you know, I don't really have sympathy. I'm trying to find some. I mean, I honestly am. I'm trying to find some. You know, I acknowledge the fact that now your life is completely different than what you thought it was going to be, but you had no right to think that and it was on all of our dimes, you know. So you're robbing us blind and now you're mad and want sympathy that you're getting cut. I don't have it, I just don't.

Speaker 3: 13:30

No again. It's like the discussion we had last week about the DOE right Department of if you were, if your organization was that terrible, you go business and then you're out of a job and you know, sorry, but if you were part of that, the only person to blame is you. If you didn't sock away some money and you weren't, you know, saving and you weren't doing all, that's not anybody's fault but your own, you know and and so there's a lot of complaining going on out there. Again, I don't have a lot of sympathy. You know you can go back to the army downsizing post Gulf war in the early nineties where you know thousands and thousands and thousands of people in the army were not retained. A bunch of officers were, you know, given a check and said go away.

Speaker 3: 14:08

You know this has happened before. It's just the fact that it's being done now, in the day of social media, and under this administration. But I've been saying it those people that have been voting for big gov since, you know, president Clinton in 1992. If you've been supporting that whole thing and large the government, make it bigger, you've supported the bloat. You're responsible for this. This is right sizing, it's downsizing and all these people who have lost their jobs. I hate it for them, but you know you're crying about it, but you voted for it. I got nothing for you, right.

Speaker 2: 14:44

This is all part of, you know, just, this whole irony of everything. You know, these same people that are screaming about, you know, crying about all of the things we just talked about, and more are also are also claiming that this federal government is trying to, you know, take over everything. They're trying to be authoritarians and they're, you know, trying to rule the world, and everything they're doing is to give power back to the states and have accountability and transparency in government All of the things that we should be expecting from our government, our federal government. It just blows my mind every single day to read these comments from people or see their idiotic posts that just reek of hypocrisy and, frankly, stupidity. It blows my mind every day and it shouldn't.

Speaker 3: 15:36

They are convinced that this is all a conspiracy, that this is. You know, it's all of those things. These are the new conspiracy theorists. You know, it's all of those things. This is. These are the new conspiracy theorists. You know, the ones who all laughed at the bulk of us, who said listen, covid's from a lab? No, it's not, it's wet market, it's bats. You know, those are the same people who are saying oh, you know, trump and Elon, they're going to take over the country, they're going to take over the world. Let me tell you something the richest man in the world doesn't care about your social security number. He really doesn't care.

Speaker 2: 16:04

Yeah, that's probably the most laughable part. Elon Musk is going to take our money. No, he doesn't need your money. He's got more money in his pocket than you have in your whole life savings, which, of course, really angers them too, you know, because they think capitalism is so bad. Did you watch the interview?

Speaker 3: 16:20

on Hannity last night. I caught clips of it. Did you watch the interview on Hannity last night?

Speaker 2: 16:23

I got clips of it. Did you watch the whole thing?

Speaker 3: 16:25

I watched almost all of it. It was very, you know, I think there was no surprises in there, except for the fact when both Hannity and Elon Musk were talking about how they're support of President Trump has changed their life in a negative way as far as their social circles, their social interactions, you know, and that kind of thing. You know, hannity Hannity's always been a Trump supporter, you know he, so for him it's kind of like a renewal of something that happened eight years ago. But Elon Musk, not that long ago, was a Democrat. They loved him.

Speaker 3: 16:55

You know, mr Green green vehicle guy, like they were all about you know SpaceX and all this until he started supporting president Trump. He actually talked about, if you didn't see it, um, he, he RSVP for an event sponsored by, you know, a democratic organization. Um, before he endorsed president Trump and then attended after he endorsed president Trump. So he was invited in, rsvp before and then attended after and he's like it was like it was horrible. You know, um, just that, that one thing, and it was. It wasn't even like grownups acting like grownups, like hey, man, that was a you know like I don't know why you're over there, but you know, um, it was, it was the opposite. I mean, it was less, not even close to cordial. It was, you know, very, you know he felt very defensive, he felt, you know, like he was a lone man standing there.

Speaker 2: 17:43

I mean so oh, I'm sure it had to be awful and, and you know many of us, myself included, had experienced it. You know when they know where your support lies. It's not like you said, it's not just a hey I really disagree with you about you know, we're still cool, I still love you, I still like you. It's you know you are a monster, you're a terrible person. I cannot even be in your presence. I'm, you know, unfriending you, all all of the things. And you know these are all, for the most part, people who will never apologize either, even when facts are right in their face. But that's, you know, whatever.

Speaker 2: 18:19

But for someone like him, who was so publicly, you know, admired and liked and all of those things to be turned on that viciously had to be pretty shocking and so publicly, you know it's one thing it's never nice. Obviously it never feels good when people that you know and love and believe know you, your heart, and love you and all of those things when they turn on you. But it's such a smaller scale when you compare to when you have the entire world, you know, or half of it, just being vile, like vicious and vile, and I mean I see it almost on a daily basis. Somebody is literally calling him the antichrist and they believe this. They are absolutely confident that Elon Musk is the antichrist. You know it's. I listen. None of us actually know who it is, so, and we won't until we do.

Speaker 3: 19:11

But yeah, it's, you know he's, he's. He's called a racist every day, every day you know and all you know. So, amazingly enough, you still have the people you know. Netanyahu just deemed that president.

Speaker 2: 19:33

Trump was the greatest. Every day, matter what you do, there's no appeasing that group. There is nothing you can possibly say or do, nothing that Trump could do again. You know, we see the memes all the time. You know, if Trump cured cancer and ended you know poverty and did all of this, they would still say, yeah, but he this, you know it is, it is what it is. I mean it's, it's truly mental illness. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% Trump derangement syndrome. Now we have Elon derangement syndrome and that is what it is. They are so poisoned by, you know, in my opinion, by primarily the media. You know, the mainstream media is pure toxic poison. I went off on this, I think, like last week on Facebook, kind of went on a little rant, a little foot, a little rant, a little foot stomping rant and yeah, cause it, just it. It infuriates me because these people are man, they believe what they're saying and they believe what they're hearing, which is even worse.

Speaker 3: 20:32

And it's, and it's the, the, the hypocrisy, the lack of self-awareness. I mean I I saw somebody yesterday ranting and raving about how, oh well, the, you know, the Republicans claim to be, the conservatives claim to be the party of family and this and that, and now we find out that Elon Musk has got his 14th child with his 13th woman and you know that's not very wholesome and family-like. And I'm like, really Like with with what just left the white house. You're going to. We brought, brought, we didn't bring Elon in for his morals and ethics, Sorry, folks, he's there because he's friggin smart and he's really, really good at finding stuff and he's great with computers and and all that. We don't care. Truthfully, Right, no Like. But.

Speaker 3: 21:10

But you know you're going to point that out when you just had President Biden that left and his son, who's a friggin crackhead, who married his deceased sons or had an affair or relationship with his deceased son's wife, and you know you've got the Bible or the diary entries with his daughter and like, like, really, you're going to point out that level of, you know, hatred towards Elon when you support just what just left the White House. Just show me, I'm so tired of it. This is very much the same as did you see that the Cardinal, what is it? The Congress of US Cardinals from the Catholic Church are suing the president because he stopped payments for refugee support. One he's not obligated to do that, Right. Two, Congress of Cardinals, just know, Congress, a carnal, just stop Like you're a charity organization Just stop.

Speaker 3: 22:04

You're the great, you're the largest landowner, you know free landowner in the free world. You have more money than you know what to do with. Please stop. Oh, by the way, the people that are saying oh yeah, I grew the Congress of Cardinals support. They're the same Catholics that are pro-choice Right.

Speaker 2: 22:21

When that argument comes up yeah, and that alone. That's the clincher for me. As soon as I hear that, I'm like you've just invalidated yourself. You've invalidated everything you could possibly say or contribute to the conversation. That alone invalidates you. So just shh.

Speaker 3: 22:38

And listen, folks. All things being equal, I grew up Catholic. I grew up, I went to eight years of Catholic school. I'm a failed Catholic. I have a great relationship with God, but that is an organization that I do not associate with anymore. The last time that I associated with that it was printed on my dog tag. So that tells you something, right there. Yeah, that's not where it's at, so it's not a. It's not a complaint about the Catholic Church, although whatever they're going to do, they're going to do. I don't care. It's the people who are hypocritical in the fact that they'll support the church as long as it opposes the president and then they'll go against the church for their own viewpoint.

Speaker 2: 23:12

Yeah, it's so typical they bend everything to fit what they want it to, and when this doesn't fit anymore, well, we're just going to bend over this way a little bit. And yeah, yeah, uh, I'm in the same same boat. I ha, I have zero tolerance for any of it, for any of it, as soon as I see it. I don't. I never and I've said this before, but I, I reiterate it, I never respond to those types of comments in my comment sections, because they're always there. I could post a picture of a blade of grass and somebody will will say something hostile, hostile about Trump in the comment section, like it's unrelated, I don't even say anything, it just pretty blade of grass, I don't know, and it's like yeah, well, trump is blah, blah, blah, blah blah and it's like he's ruining the environment.

Speaker 3: 24:03

Like stop the new green deal. We won't have grass because of Trump. That's exactly what you'll get. You're a hundred percent.

Speaker 2: 24:08

It's so true. So you know I don't, I don't entertain it at all. I you know personally I say go ahead, comment away, have have a blast there, sp your opinions as long as you're not insulting or being threatening to any of the other commenters in there. Like I really care what you say to or about me, but you're not going to harass people in my comments section, people who come over here because they're like-minded and they feel the same way and they just want to have a conversation in there. If you attack them, then the gloves are off.

Speaker 3: 24:35

So the latest from the latest from Doge is the potential right. So this was brought up and you know it was brought up for a potential refund right. And what did you know Elon say? I'll talk to the president. So now there's a discussion of a check right, a rebate. But what you're starting to see, you can see the, you know the new banner at the bottom States, at the state level. This is happening in all places in Illinois, which is very blue because of Chicago, but Republicans in the state legislature are. They're trying to get a bill to the floor and get it voted on to establish an in-state doge.

Speaker 3: 25:14

Yes, which is exactly what Elon Musk is doing at the state level to get rid of the you know the excess, get rid of the corruption, provide some oversight, you know those kinds of things.

Speaker 2: 25:26

Yeah, and there's a lot of traction for that too. You've got Illinois, of course. You said Michigan, texas, north Carolina, kentucky. All these state legislators are calling for a state doge. I mean it's it's feels like such a like a well duh moment, like of course that's what should be happening and this was a great incentive. And whoever was first? I don't know who was first. I don't know who was first, but give that man or woman a medal for starting that rolling. I actually I'm really curious now who the first one was. I don't even know how we could find out Illinois was the first one I heard.

Speaker 3: 26:00

Illinois was the first one I heard. I don't know about the rest and I don't know who came first, but you know, internally here's my only thought on this that's challenging is that the president has Elon Musk and the hundred geniuses in t-shirts and flip flops doing all the work. States don't necessarily, they don't necessarily have the capacity, and that you know what I mean. For those, that type of team, they certainly are not going to get it for free, like the president is getting it out of Elon Musk and his team. So while it's a great idea at the state level and I think that they should or at least they should, you know, propose it find a way to get it done. I don't think it's going to be as fruitful at the state level as it is at the federal level, but if they can get it done, good on them.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Yeah, absolutely yeah, and it's. You know, you're right. It does open up some challenges and questions. You know of well, who. Who's going to be doing that, you know, and what are your. It has a lot of questions. Where are your ties? Are you? You ideally want somebody that's entirely independent. Good, I don't. How do you even find that? Who does not have any party affiliation? I don't know. Maybe Elon will catch well, I'm sure he's caught wind of all this. But maybe they can lend out their. Well, they're not gonna lend them out, we know that. But maybe they can create like a task force that goes and does that Right and with all the money they'll be saving, you know they'll be able to pay them.

Speaker 3: 27:27

I mean it's, it's an exceptional idea. I, you know, in my head I was like, well, I wonder if they could do an exchange program where, like you know, new York does Texas, texas does New York, florida does Illinois, illinois. You know what I mean. So you have a truly, you know, reciprocal, you know, inspector general type, you know system where states review each other's books, they keep each other honest. And you know, I don't, there's probably not, there's about a zero chance, percent chance of that happening. But I think, you know, in all honesty, um, that's probably one of the better ways to do things.

Speaker 3: 28:04

I know, when I was in the army we did have inspector generals, but it was all very, very often Would you have one unit evaluate another unit, right Sister units, and you were only there because you wanted to make sure, you know, that unit was trained before they deployed, or you wanted to help them get better, or something to that effect. It was never, you know, it was never about I gotcha, or it was never intended to be an I gotcha. It was always to make things better. So I think if we could get, you know, that kind of spirit going back and forth one, it would galvanize the nation a little bit. But two, you know, I think it would clean up a lot of books at the state level. And oh, by the way, again, you know, you do me, I do you, we pay for it, and it's really not that big of a deal.

Speaker 2: 28:42

Yeah, and you know again, just just as in the federal level, we all should be keeping an eye on the people who resist this idea the most you know. If you're fighting it, I got a problem with you. What are you trying to hide? And the the rapidness at which these people are resigning is crazy. Right, yeah, immediate, like what? You're coming in here, you're going to come here and clean, okay, I'm out. Bye, and I can't imagine that that protects them from criminal charges. Right, like I don't know what they're thinking.

Speaker 3: 29:17

No, and you know. To go back to the federal level, um, they are about to go. Everybody thinks that, like you know, trump's team is going to be protected, and all this. They're getting ready to walk department of defense right, like they're going into DOD here in a minute, Um, and and they're next on the list. And you know, there's, there's all these. You know I saw outcries the other day of, you know well, they thousand, they fired a thousand workers at the VA and now that's cutting care from veterans. You know, I haven't heard of it. Oh, by the way, I was at the VA today. Like there's no panic at the VA, there's no one freaking out at the VA, there's no lack of care, there's no nothing.

Speaker 2: 29:57

So that's, that's exactly like them saying, you know, blaming these plane crashes that have been like the plane crashes, blaming it on the Trump administration and blaming it on the, the firings of all these FAA workers. Well, guess what? It was like 450 people out of thousands of workers and none of them were essential workers, that none of them were um air traffic controllers or you know non-essential people who operate in the most important areas. It was 400 people, 450 people who were not critical workers.

Speaker 2: 30:32

So shut up you know, shut up and just get your facts like, get your facts, like, stop trusting. You know, that's always the thing where you ask them. You're like, well, where did you hear that?

Speaker 3: 30:40

Oh, the news oh okay, yeah, I mean, the best example ever is the Rachel Maddow Tesla cyber truck, right? She? You know she came out and was blazing guns, that Trump gave Elon this contract. You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know all these armored cyber trucks, and you know Trump just gave it to Elon, and you know, and it's favoritism and nepotism, whatever. And the reality is is that contract was signed on the 1st of October of last year, when President Biden was still in office. Oh, by the way, for those that understand how budgeting works, the 1st of October is the first day of the fiscal year for the federal government. So all of that contract paperwork was all pre-done, waiting for the new budget to come in so they could sign it on the first. That was all last year, but she didn't do anything. She didn't do any back-checking, she didn't do any research, but that's what you got out of the mainstream media.

Speaker 1: 31:32

Yes.

Speaker 2: 31:33

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 31:35

This stuff is absolutely ridiculous. The blaming of the plane crash in Canada, the fact that they were, like you know, president Trump's been in office. You know, if you look at what was it? One of the one of the facts in January, one of the economic figures, I don't remember if it was unemployed, it was inflation. I think inflation in January went up. He was president for 11 days in January Exactly 11 days of the month. Like get a grip people.

Speaker 2: 32:03

Well, look at the whole egg thing. You know the egg prices thing. Oh, I thought Trump was going to bring down the price of eggs. That didn't happen. Hope you guys are happy. Biden killed millions of chickens Like. This has to do with the fact that they killed so many chickens for something that is transported by ducks more than chickens like.

Speaker 3: 32:28

But okay, blame trump listen, it's you know we're a little off the doge's contagion. But the reality is is that at the state level, if they start doing this, if, if they do, you're going to get the same reaction.

Speaker 3: 32:41

You're going to get the same reaction out of the blue city mayors right, you know, mayor Chicago, probably not Mayor Adams, right, mayor Adams is, you know he's doing pretty good, holding himself. You know, very squarely in the middle, I think he's doing a pretty good job. You know you're going to get it out of the mayor of LA and Detroit and Minneapolis and places like that, and you're going to get it. The blue governors are going to be the same way Pritzker and Opal and all the rest of these. They're going to fight tooth and nail against this kind of stuff from inside of their own state because they're trying to hide and protect the corruption that they're a part of. And that's what all of this is about. And people, you know, conspiracy theorists and all that they refuse to believe that there's an honest effort behind any of this. They think it's all corrupt.

Speaker 3: 33:28

And the one I'm waiting for. Everybody keeps talking about Fort Knox. I don't even think they're going to go to Fort Knox. I think that's all a ruse. They're never going to walk in there. I hope they do, I in there. I hope they do, I really do. I think it'd be great. But you know the fact that Elon's going to go to Fort Knox and count gold bars. We're not even on the gold standard anymore. People like just get a grip.

Speaker 2: 33:48

Yeah, Is that the one he was going to? What was the one he's? He's talking about live streaming going in. Where is he talking about? That was the one, Okay.

Speaker 3: 33:56

I saw people like make sure that they cut every bar open because there's this tungsten or something like that that you can paint and it's the same weight as gold and you'd never know the difference. But like you people are, you're off.

Speaker 3: 34:09

Yeah you're way out there, but yeah, it's. This is all a reaction to the pot stirring that's going on. I mean the shake up that President Trump and Elon are doing to the government. I mean the shakeup that President Trump and Elon are doing to the whole government, and I know that we're going to do this as an add-on. But the next big shakeup is coming, because Kosh is going to get confirmed tomorrow.

Speaker 2: 34:29

Yes, which will be today for you guys watching right Thursday.

Speaker 3: 34:33

Yes, Thursday is the day, and you know he's going to come in.

Speaker 2: 34:38

They stalled it as much as they could.

Speaker 3: 34:40

Yep and Mitch McConnell said today so Kosh is out of committee, he's, and they did the the early vote and McConnell said he's going to vote for him and that's plenty and he's going to get. He's going to get confirmed and you can expect on.

Speaker 2: 34:55

Friday he's going to start breaking some stuff. Yes, yes, so excited, Like I'm giddy. I'm so excited for all of this. You know, the only thing that to me is a bummer, as a mild statement. Um, the bummer is is that there I feel like, like the States, for example, and and a lot of these federal workers now who have not yet experienced the audit experience there Um, I feel like they're just getting this extra time to hide things and destroy things and, like you know what I mean Like this is what they've been doing up until this point. You know, burning it, shredding it, moving it, doing all of the things. So, to me, that's such a disappointment. I mean, there's nothing you can do about it, it is what it is, but it just sucks to know that that's what they're doing, you know. So, whatever we do catch them with, we like I'm part of this, whatever they do get caught with, it's not even all of it. You know what I mean. It's not even. I don't even know if it'll be half of it, but yeah.

Speaker 3: 35:50

I Kash Patel, like on. Literally the first four hours should be like I want to see every dime that was spent on a paper shredder or shredding services in the last four months. I want to know every and then I want to know the three years before that because I can guarantee you it went like this and then it went like this you know, and that's all they've been doing is, you know, getting rid of stuff, cleaning house, covering tracks.

Speaker 3: 36:13

all of those things are being done, I can promise you. Maybe not on a grand scale, but there's definitely some of it going on and it's probably going on. It happened in the intelligence community and then it's going to happen at the FBI as well, Guaranteed.

Speaker 2: 36:27

Yeah, yeah. No matter what all of the things that are coming to light, it's just it is rocking the country. I don't care what side you're on, everybody is rocked by it and all of us who, you know in our hearts, knew to a degree that this stuff was going on. I don't think anyone on on the common people level, which I include myself in had any idea of the scope of how truly bad it is. It's shocking. I think I saw something the other day. I don't remember what department it was, but you know, in the list of crazy spending it was like there was like $6,000 for a chair, you know. And it's like what? And you know, if the chair wasn't $6,000, the chair was maybe I'll go crazy and say the chair was $600. Where the rest of that money go? Well, we'll probably never know.

Speaker 3: 37:17

Yeah, it's the old military spent, you know, $3,000 on a toilet seat kind of thing, and you know, really you know there's an explanation for all of it. We just need to know what it is, you know. And if it's, you know this very, very you know, if it's the toilet seat that goes on the stealth bomber, that specific R&D to develop, and if they break it it costs $3,000 to replace because it's got to be custom made. Oh, by the way, they've never broken one before. You know what I mean. Like there's a lot of stuff out there. The problem is is there's no transparency and there's no explanation, and that's we're getting out of all this and that's all the rest of us can hope for.

Speaker 2: 37:53

I tell you, I think for a moment, about the actual job, like the actual work of doing this work of doing this, like being the people doing this. It is so huge. Like how do you not get a little bit overwhelmed when you see how huge this is and how much you have to go through? I mean, I give you know so many kudos to um Elon and all of the people doing this that you know what are the. Were you the one that said that like sleeping on the floor in the office and like just working basically 24 hours and without taking a paycheck?

Speaker 3: 38:26

Yeah, they're super smart. They're a bunch of kids. This is probably the coolest thing they've ever done. Honestly, they're probably most of them are going to have to be under some sort of protective custody for probably a significant portion of their life because of the things that they are going to know and the hatred that's going to come their way, which is horrible. It's not their fault, but what most of these kids are doing is they're running algorithms they're not really looking at, they're just looking for the anomalies and then they hand it off. It's like numbers. It's like, okay, well, this one sticks out and they hand it to somebody more important than them and that person figures out what that is. This is data analysis and they're doing a fantastic job and God love them for doing it.

Speaker 2: 39:02

Yeah, absolutely. Oh, my goodness, we have so many places we could go.

Speaker 3: 39:06

Next, let's talk about this one chief in London threatened American citizens that if they posted things that you know that they weren't safe. If they posted things and it was found to be on the social media in England that the police from London were going to come after Americans, the response to that was hilarious Like hey man, you said the same thing back in 1775 and we decided otherwise.

Speaker 2: 39:40

Yeah, he set himself up for that big time.

Speaker 3: 39:42

But the reality is is that in England, and now we're seeing in Germany, people are in fact being arrested for social media posts. There's been raids in Germany on people's houses. Yeah Right, Kick your door in kind of stuff because of things that are being posted on the Internet. Right, and listen. This is not somebody posting a swastika. This is. This is lower level stuff and all like a meme or a joke or sharing a meme.

Speaker 3: 40:09

Yeah, Literally raiding houses and arresting people. Freedom of speech in Europe is dying, and it's dying very, very quickly, and it's something that we all need to be very, very conscious of.

Speaker 2: 40:21

Yeah, very quickly, and it's something that we all need to be very, very conscious of. Yeah, yeah, I tell you it's. It's scary. Like how is history repeating itself in such a bold way? And I don't make those Hitler type comments, I'm not a leftist, I don't make those Hitler comments lightly. And this is showing knocking on you where are your papers? Basically, you know, I mean, this is, this is where they're headed.

Speaker 2: 40:44

And you know, I am and I've said it before, I am the daughter and granddaughter of legal immigrants from Germany and Cuba. But obviously we're talking about Germany right now. To hear that it's crazy and I know my grandparents' stories, I know what my grandfather went through, I know what my grandmother went through and to see this happening all over again and people to be On that side, not on this side, to just say, oh well, that's good, that's, show them, you show them. Never mind the the illegal migrants that have overrun your country and raised your crime to astronomical levels, and women getting raped and killed in the streets, and never mind all that, but make sure you go bang on that door of the guy that posted some stupid meme. You know that means nothing crazy to me. It breaks my heart. Actually it makes me angry.

Speaker 3: 41:36

Yeah, it's uh. Things are. You know, perspectives are changing. I think you know there's a lot of European leadership that are looking across the ocean at us. Um, and I, I want to say it was the president of Romania, or maybe Hungary, who was like president Trump. Do you see what he's doing over there? That's what we need to do. This stuff's got to stop. So you've got some pendulum swing. I think it's capping out. I hope it's capping out and it's going to swing its way back right and we're going to get a little bit more common sense and a little bit more you know.

Speaker 3: 42:11

I guess common sense is the only way to really describe it, and a little bit more you know. I guess common sense is the only way to really describe it. Like all this is you know, like when you prioritize in any, any single asset I don't care what it is If you're a law enforcement organization and you prioritize anything over rape and or murder, but especially when you prioritize police officers to raid houses because of internet postings over assault, rapes and murders, you are upside down and backwards. Like that is just completely.

Speaker 2: 42:39

Yeah, it's just shocking. It's shocking what's going on over there, and you know, I hope you're right, I hope the pendulum swings as hard and as fast as it did here, and I agree with you. I think they are watching and, and that is going to be the only way I mean they essentially have to revolt, basically, and take back their, their country, just as as we did. So I hope that's, I hope they have the same. It's so insane to me that it's gotten to this point when history is still readable, watchable learnable.

Speaker 6: 43:15

Actually in memory like there are still people. Yes, yes, great point, yeah that can tell you.

Speaker 2: 43:19

Yeah, yes, yeah, oh, yeah, it's um, it's just wow, and we do have that, the video too of of those people put up there.

Speaker 6: 43:27

But, yeah, to watch those videos, and it's so literal of them banging on the door, you know, know, and then you have, oh, and I have this too, country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it, and you know that.

Speaker 5: 43:54

That the censorship was specifically about the right. No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.

Speaker 3: 44:12

Margaret Brennan continues to show she's an idiot. She continues to show that, you know, the mainstream media bends history to their, to what fits their narrative, but you know, it's, it's that. And now you've got that in in relation to what we're talking about, which is free speech is being taken away under the guise of protecting people.

Speaker 2: 44:34

Right and her premise is free speech was weaponized and should essentially be silenced. Like I do, even hear what you're saying, and kudos to Marco Rubio. Great response. I love his calm. He's really good. He's really good. I like him a lot for what he's doing.

Speaker 3: 44:54

Probably the best sex state since Condi Rice.

Speaker 2: 44:57

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 44:57

Yeah, I think you're right. He's got the capability. I think so, yeah.

Speaker 1: 45:01

My opinion Unflappable.

Speaker 3: 45:03

Yeah let's stick to Eastern Europe though, right? Yes, let's. So we've got some peace talks happening in and around Russia, ukraine, yeah, specifically happening in and around you know, russia, Ukraine, yeah, specifically. You've got a US delegation talking to a Russian delegation, excluding the Ukrainians and listen, before everybody gets worked up. They're going to get worked up, all the people who support Ukraine. Let me do just a real, real quick history lesson for folks.

Speaker 3: 45:26

The reason that this is happening is because the US and NATO violated an agreement that they made with the Russians, right? The agreement was that there would never be NATO nations bordering Russia. That was agreed upon right during the Clinton administration. Now, what has happened since then? Nato has expanded and they've expanded into countries that touch Russia. So we violated an agreement that we set up that the Russians agreed to hey, listen, as long as NATO doesn't touch our borders, everything's fine, right. And then we violated it, nato violated it. We had countries like Romania and some others, and now they're touching Russia's borders.

Speaker 3: 46:01

And oh, by the way, that's the singular biggest point of contention right now over all of this. But there is, you know, and Zelensky's been firing back because he knows his days are numbered. Oh, by the way, he's been firing back because he knows his days are numbered. Oh, by the way, he suspended elections again in his democratic nation, you know, to keep himself in power, because he's you know. He says well, you know, I keep things under martial law because if I don't, then people are going to leave and we're going to lose our army. Well, listen, man, suspend part of it, make sure there's an election, don't you know like? We had elections, listen, I was a part of it. Make sure there's an election. We had elections, listen, I was a part of elections in both Iraq and Afghanistan, while a frigging war was going on. It can be done, but Zelensky is the one who likes to portray himself and he had four years of free press to do it with the previous administration.

Speaker 3: 46:46

And now President Trump and his team are bypassing all that and they're talking to Putin. And listen, secdef said it. You know, ukraine is not going to be part of NATO, right, it's not going to happen. They're not going to get, they're probably not going to get their original borders back, right? And? And the U? S is going to have to back away from Russia, and it's just the way it's going to have to work. The new point today was the Russian bargaining chip is they want all US troops out of every nation that has joined NATO since 1990. That's not NATO troops, that's US troops. Nato can still be there and I've said this from the beginning. This entire thing is a NATO problem. It's not a US problem. So NATO can pony up, they can put as many troops in those countries as they feel they need to, but US problem. So NATO can pony up, they can put as many troops in those countries as they feel they need to, but US troops have got to be out of there. You know what? I'm all for it.

Speaker 2: 47:39

Let them do it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3: 47:43

Absolutely. You know, we spent four years supporting the Ukrainians and supporting this war truthfully, because of funding, bunch of funding. It basically Right, I mean come on because of a bunch of warmongers, war hawks, Um, and president Trump's been in office for four and a half weeks now and we've already got peace talks going on.

Speaker 2: 48:05

Yeah, yeah, new day dawning here. Definitely a new day. Did Trump just call him a dictator today? I feel like I just read that he called him a dictator. Well, again like I just read that he called him a dictator, yeah, he did Well again. I mean clearly, you're denying your people the right to elections free and fair elections. Dictator.

Speaker 3: 48:23

Yeah, when you're the man in power and you get three elections to keep yourself in power, even if you say it's for the good of the country, that is every dictator's playbook Listen, I'm the guy. If it's for the good of the country, that is every dictator's playbook Listen, I'm the guy. If it's not me, then this place is going to be anarchy. So I'm just for your own good.

Speaker 2: 48:41

Yeah, it's right up there with you. Know, this hurts me more than it hurts you. Like I don't really want this, you know, but I got to do it for you.

Speaker 3: 48:49

Yeah, exactly right, but yeah, he did. He called him a dictator today. And listen, the argument could be made. I personally believe that he is. I think that you know Zelensky has done this and he keeps this war going, has wanted to keep this war going to keep himself in power. That's all there is to it.

Speaker 2: 49:05

Wasn't this guy's original role an actor? Yeah, I mean, like this is a stage for him. He's just got a bigger stage for his performance. That's all it is. He's got little man syndrome, all of the things.

Speaker 3: 49:16

Yeah, they need to aim doge at all the money that went to Ukraine, all of it. And oh, by the way, we already know that, like $100 million or $100 billion was a B right, yeah, $107 billion, and they've lost track of $100 billion of it.

Speaker 2: 49:33

Yeah, Like where is it?

Speaker 3: 49:34

I don't know yeah it's in Zelensky's Swiss bank account. That's where that's at, yeah.

Speaker 2: 49:39

Yep, exactly. Well, it may have a dictator, but we have presidents. And you know what else we have President's Day. It's not going anywhere. Suckers Cry more, cry more. Yes, I feel like this is going to have to be said every single week from now on, because you know they're always crying about something.

Speaker 3: 50:02

You might cancel President's Day. Ok, not happening, Not happening, Just shut up. This is the lead I think she's the lead historian at the Washington Library, Like really, yeah, she's the one who said, listen, we, you know she's clearly a Democrat. Yeah, she's the one who said, listen we, you know she's clearly a Democrat. She, you know we've had some. This is what did she say? She likened this to celebrating the birthday of a king, or we used to have Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, yes, Right.

Speaker 3: 50:39

And then they were like and then, and then they added Martin Luther King, Right. So we had like a rapid fire of a bunch of of uh, you know, school days off it was great back in the day, right. And then they were like, okay, well, we can't have Washington and Lincoln both. So then they combined them and they had President's Day to celebrate both. And they just said now we're celebrating all presidents, and now this lady wants to get rid of it because there's a president that she doesn't like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 51:03

So that's our response to that and I think that's the collective response to that. You know, are you going to bring it back? And you know, hopefully not four years, hopefully not eight years, hopefully, you know, not ever. But yeah, when it's a president you like, that's when you want to bring it back. Oh, what a surprise. What a surprise. Yeah, I, you know.

Speaker 2: 51:20

Just another great example of the just the cry baby stupidity, like the petty stupidness that they regularly throw out there. It's what else can you do but laugh? I mean, that one makes me laugh. I got another one that makes me laugh. We got time. Yeah, we're gonna squeeze this real quick. So let me go on record and people who follow my page already know this and we'll have already seen the little clip I'm going to show you in just a moment. So I apologize if you've seen it already, but I don't watch SNL. I haven't since the old days we're going back many, many years. I catch whatever I catch from SNL. I catch like little clips of it on. You know whatever, tiktok or Reels or this or that, and there's, you know, occasionally there's something funny. Definitely I'll give them that, but it's few and far between man, and that's the consensus I heard about this one. You have a little more. You watched a little more before we get to Tom Hanks. You watch parts of it.

Speaker 3: 52:13

You said I've watched half of the special right. I think it's without commercials. It's two and a half hours or maybe with two and a half hours. I've watched an hour and a half of it. Um, I would give it like a two and a half out of five stars overall. Um, and but I didn't know about this skit going in and I will tell you this it started out very funny and he was on playing. Actually he was playing, um, oh god, what's? He was playing another snl comedian who was standing right next to him, so he was imitating a guy standing next to him who was playing a character, and this shit was going well and I was watching. I was like this is it's black jeopardy. It was very, very funny, right. And and then all of a sudden, eddie murphy was gone and tom hanks is there and he's in a MAGA hat and he's this like old white guy with a beard and you know, and I guess, I guess I didn't know this he's that's a reoccurring character on.

Speaker 2: 53:02

Is it Okay? Oh yeah, I think somebody did say that commented on the video. Like you do know that it's a reoccurring character and it's very funny and you just took a few seconds of it. Yeah, well it took the seconds that counted, so they weren't funny, like there was nothing.

Speaker 3: 53:14

There's nothing funny about what he said, about what he did? No, not at all.

Speaker 2: 53:18

And if you haven't seen it, I'm going to show you right now, begging your pardon, guys, it's me in the video as well. It's me reacting to the video. It is what it is. Here you go.

Speaker 3: 53:26

Church. Can I say something? If more folks went to church, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now. You know what?

Speaker 1: 53:31

I agree with you, doug, I'd like to shake your hand. Sir, here we go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's just a handshake. It's just a handshake. Yeah, all right, you're welcome to back All right.

Speaker 3: 53:38

Well, thank you no-transcript.

Speaker 2: 54:20

So for anybody to get mad about it, like I'm not mad about it, I find it disgusting. Obviously Not funny even remotely. But for anyone to be caring what they say and do at this point you're just wasting, you're wasting your time. There's so much more and better programming you can watch that you know isn't going to insult your existence the way that they have.

Speaker 3: 54:43

So as long as it doesn't escalate, right. And and this you know, and Bill Burr, I wrote a blog about this, right Bill Burr is, I wrote a blog about this, right, bill Burr has escalated beyond comedy. He decided the other day in one of his rants and if you're not familiar with Bill Burr, that's his style of comedy he's angry at everybody about he's not, he's bipartisan Like he hates everybody. He's angry at everybody all the time, although he is very much a liberal, he, you know. He decided that all billionaires these are his words, and I'll cut out the F-bombs because there was a lot of them that all billionaires are the cause of all economic distress for families and people in this country and that they should all be put down like rabid dogs. He's talking about killing people. This is not comedy, folks.

Speaker 2: 55:28

That's not comedy, that's pure rage. That's pure rage and hysteria.

Speaker 3: 55:33

There's nothing funny about it. We just had, you know, luigi Mangione killed, you know, a former executive on the street in New York, like this is not out of the realm people, and he's making jokes about it, or he thinks he is, and really, you know, the thing that you also need to know about Bill Burr is as much as he's, you know, railing on billionaires. The guy's worth $20 million himself. Yeah Right, so kill the billionaires, but the multimillionaires they're cool, they're, okay, they're okay, don't be mad at me.

Speaker 3: 56:00

I have a helicopter pilot's license that I don't have helicopter business, I just have the license. I'm cool. It's it's them that they're the problem, like you know again. So he's off the rails. It's not comedy. Very much like this Tom Hanks thing. You know it's not comedy. Oh, by the way, when the Epstein list comes out, you may or may not see Tom Hanks again. That's a different discussion.

Speaker 2: 56:18

Yes exactly.

Speaker 3: 56:20

But regardless, like is you know, as stupid as that was, you know it is mostly harmless. The Bill Burr thing is not.

Speaker 2: 56:27

No, that's that is a, that's a, basically a call to violence. And you know, the already unhinged people out there, yep, it just basically it's like a dog whistle right For them. That like, oh, he said, you know this is what we're dealing with and um, it's. I just I can't believe that this is the world we live in but it is, and these are the people that we're dealing with right now, but that this is the world we live in.

Speaker 2: 57:00

But it is, and these are the people that we're dealing with right now. But the pushback now on all of it is epic. It is just epic and it brings me tremendous joy. We're back to the joy, guys. We're back to joy. Nevermind these guys Listen, they, they, like I said, they've told us for many years now what they think of us and that should not have come as a as a surprise not worth getting angry about. Like you said, there's a list that's going to be coming out and I think we'll be able to sit back with our popcorn and enjoy that and probably not a lot of surprises I don't think it's not for anybody who's been paying attention. I don't think there's going to be a lot of, but there's going to be a lot of people who are surprised, shocked to the core, but many of us are just going to sit there and go. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me, you know right.

Speaker 2: 57:38

We did it, we got through all of our topics today. Hey us Yay.

Speaker 3: 57:43

All right, there'll be more next week.

Speaker 2: 57:44

I know, I know. What are we going to talk about next week. I can't even imagine.

Speaker 3: 57:49

There'll be plenty. There'll be plenty. They're always it.

Speaker 2: 57:52

Yeah, absolutely Well, guys, we thank you, as always, for joining us and hanging out with us and, uh, and joining in on the conversation. As we like to remind you, clay is always better about it. This time, I remember to remind you that, for us, we're recording on Wednesday, you are watching this on Thursday and hopefully, while you are, you and I and we are watching this, we'll be celebrating Kasha's confirmation. Right, that's the plan, the hope, the expectations. So looking forward to it and looking forward to chat with you, guys. You know the drill, clay.

Speaker 3: 58:24

We're always in the comment section. Usually I'm bouncing between Facebook and YouTube. Right, I pop into X every now and again, but we're always out there. We're there every week. We love watching with you guys and we appreciate your support. And, as always from me keep moving, keep shooting.

Speaker 1: 58:37

Combat veteran Terry Davis left a life of violence for the quiet Midwest prairie, but a terror threat pulls him back into action In Tampa. He makes allies and enemies as the danger unfolds. Relying on his combat-honed skills, terry faces a threat far bigger than he imagined.

Speaker 4: 58:55

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