m not so good with my Germany history, politics. Was it under Angela Merkel or was it just everybody wanted it? Okay, so it looks like that will be seen as one of the most massive mistakes of all time in terms of managing a country. So female leader, female leader bought into the climate crisis hysteria and destroyed the manufacturing base of our country, built mostly by men, by turning off their electricity because she fell for a hoax, the climate crisis. So I'm just calling out the facts anyway.

But I'm going to give a different spin on this. You know, many of us believe that the war in Ukraine doesn't have a good justification and that the story about stopping Russia from advancing may not be the whole story. And it looks more like it's a giant CIA, you know, energy company play to grab all the resources from Ukraine, keep it out of the hands of Russia, and to destroy Russia's energy business and maybe even change the leadership in Russia.

Now if you just hear me say that it sounds like the craziest, most reckless thing you ever heard in your life. I think we all agree on that. But I'd like to take you to another frame. I imagine that in some dark room somewhere the people who really are looking at the world for the next 100 years may be saying something like the following: the only way America survives is if we capture Russia's energy business. That might actually be a conversation. How are we going to pay off our national debt? Well, it would be helpful if you captured the energy business of the biggest producer or got them out of the business so our oil, we could charge more.

You know, so I wonder if this isn't just a gigantic economic play. And it would be more accurate to see Russia and the United States as two competing mafias. And our mafia is trying to rub out Putin. He would rub us out if he could but he knows he can't, so he's just playing his game as best he can. And to me it looks like the United States is just trying to overthrow Russia to take their money in the form of energy.

Now what would that do in terms of our geopolitical future for Russia and I'm sorry for China? Suppose you say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, the biggest risk is China. It's not Russia. To which I say, hmm, but how can China thrive if they don't have energy? If you denied China or if you had control of Russia's energy you would have a lot of leverage on China, wouldn't you? So China would have a lot of leverage on us, but then we would have, you know, it'd be like China grabbed us by the balls and says yeah we have so much control over your big pharma and your big industries and stuff that we got you. You better do what we want.

But if we were to control, hypothetically, Russia's entire energy infrastructure, which looks like the play, we would have them by the balls. And it would be at least mutually assured destruction because China can't live probably without Russian energy or at least they wouldn't thrive. So part of me thinks that there might be some really dark personalities in our government in the deepest, deepest spy networks who are saying, I hate to break it to you but if you don't conquer Russia we're dead. Because if we don't control their energy there's no other thing that could be a big enough thing to keep us from dying from our own debt and China becoming the dominant country in the world.

So I'm not saying that that's actually a conversation, but I wonder. I wonder if it is. Because shouldn't it be? Shouldn't there be somebody who's making the 100-year plan and says, you know what, energy is the whole play. If China, if Russia has their own energy they sell to China and we become the third country in that trifecta. But if we could capture Russia's energy, Russia would have nothing else. So Russia would be completely out of the game and China would be dependent on our allies. How convenient for us.

So anyway, I just put that out there.

There's a congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett. She's a Democrat from Texas and she's on video. And wokeness shows us this. She said it might not be the best idea to give tax breaks to Black citizens as a form of reparation. It might be better to give them checks because not all Black people pay taxes, so a tax benefit wouldn't help them all, but a check would. Check helps everybody.

Now I got to watch a video of two people I don't know casually discussing how much of my money they should take from me. It's very offensive. It's very offensive because I'm not even part of the conversation nor am I part of any slavery legacy or anything. But I'm just watching two people I don't know casually discussing taking my money because they can or they hope they can.

And let me say this as clearly as I can. I have no respect whatsoever for anyone who thinks I owe them reparations. I have no respect for you. None. Not only that, I don't have any respect for anybody who supports DEI. Now I think that's important to say because we live in a world in which being respected is actually an asset. So if you keep hammering on reparations, in all likelihood you won't get any cash but you'll be giving away the asset of any kind of resp