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t has to be looked at on its own, nobody likes it. Well, that's an exaggeration, but it's not so popular. And that brings us to Greta Thunberg. And I tweeted yesterday that Greta Thunberg caused this mess. And by this mess I mean Ukraine. Now do you all see the connection? Because I'm not joking. Greta Thunberg, she sort of caused the Ukraine war. Does everybody see it? I can explain it if... oka…
← Previous segment →0% of the story, and that's pretty big. Yeah, I'd say it's 20% of the story. I mean climate change itself, not just Greta, right? So you know, nothing is, there's no analysis that's the whole story, right? Everything's got lots of facets.
So I don't think the woke side of the world is looking so good.
Now here's another interesting angle on Ukraine. Jonathan Turley, who's always a great read, has an article today. He's talking about, and I wasn't, I'm not sure how aware of this I was. How many of you were aware of this story? That for over two years there's been an investigation, I guess it was a stated investigation, into Hunter Biden and his tax and financial issues, specifically related to his foreign dealings.
Now were you aware that there's a two-year investigation ongoing about Hunter Biden's activities and his foreign dealings, which presumably is either all Ukraine or mostly Ukraine is what they're concerned about? And that part of that is they seem to be indicating that Hunter Biden had a lot more cash, or that that seems to be where the evidence is pointing, that he seemed to have a lot more cash than his reported income would suggest.
Now we don't — I'm going to use the same standard that I would use for Trump or anything else, right? Try to be fair about it. Hunter Biden is not charged with anything. No court has found Hunter Biden guilty of anything. I hate to say it, but unfortunately that's the standard. You know, if you're going to be like a decent citizen, you have to accept the standard. Like the standard is more important than the person, all right?
So as painful as it is to say that he hasn't been convicted of anything, that does matter. You know, unfortunately, unfortunately it matters. So, and I wouldn't want to change that. But at the same time they have been investigating for two years and probably not for nothing. I mean there must be at least some smoke. Doesn't mean they'll ever find any fire.
But here's a question which must be asked. Do you think that Zelensky, the head of Ukraine, do you think he has information about the Biden family that we haven't heard yet? What are the odds? I mean just think what the odds would be. So if we know that Hunter was mucking around in Ukrainian business, that much seems true. But we have not seen anything directly illegal about that, only that it seems deeply sketchy and unquestionable and unethical but not technically illegal as far as we know.
So do you think that maybe Ukraine has something on the Biden family at the same time that Biden is trying to manage this situation that's the most important thing going on at the moment?
Now let me do something that I hate to do because of its ordinariness, but damn it, sometimes you have to do the ordinary. And this is so uncreative that it actually hurts me to do it, but sometimes you got to do it. Imagine if this were Don Jr. I hate it. I hate it. I hate doing this. I hate doing this because it's so uncreative. Like how many times have we done that? I mean Don Jr. does it all the time, right, in his tweets. He goes, imagine if this were me. And it's unfortunately it is exactly the right thing. It's the right thought.
Can you even imagine? Just hold this thought for a moment. Imagine a world in which Trump were president and we had this problem with Ukraine and Russia, which maybe we wouldn't even have, but let's say we do. And imagine that the story had been Don Jr. doing business in Ukraine and that there were questions about it and a current ongoing investigation about it. Can you even imagine? I mean seriously, my head is going to explode imagining the difference between how the media would be talking about that and how they're just not talking about Hunter Biden at all. This doesn't even exist.
Somebody said impeachment here on YouTube in the comments. Maybe. Maybe. Would you trust, and let's be honest, would you trust Trump's judgment if Don Jr. might have some hidden secrets, you know, that would come out if you acted a different way? No, even I wouldn't, right? Like I've been pretty supportive of Trump on a number of issues, not in everything, but a lot of stuff. But I wouldn't be comfortable with that.
And by the way, I think Don Jr. is awesome. I like him. I like Trump. But if you just put those two people I like in that situation, I wouldn't like that. Oh no, no, that I would back out immediately. I'd be like, okay, I'm out. These two people can't be involved in the same situation. This i
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s too much of a conflict of interest. We're not even talking about conflict of interest, are we? Like but have you even heard the phrase conflict of interest? Can you imagine that you would never hear that phrase if this were Don Jr. and Trump, right? I mean it's just, it's mind-boggling the difference. All right, um, let's talk about some other stuff. In theory we should be seeing some massive c…
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