Ian Smith
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all access news news news cycle entertainment cycle that it's also the product of dramatic financial hardship intentionally imposed on society because when people are too worried about how they're going to eat it's hard to pay attention to anything else yeah i mean i think the number one response i posted on twitter a couple weeks ago i said uh whatever happened to that trip to fort knox yeah and the number one response was oh i forgot about that yeah
Like, oh, you mean all of the treasury gold you forgot about how they said they were going to go check and then they didn't. And then they literally have never mentioned it again. Yeah. You know, that's just one example where things just get memory hold. You know, let me ask you this, dude.
Like, oh, you mean all of the treasury gold you forgot about how they said they were going to go check and then they didn't. And then they literally have never mentioned it again. Yeah. You know, that's just one example where things just get memory hold. You know, let me ask you this, dude.
Like, oh, you mean all of the treasury gold you forgot about how they said they were going to go check and then they didn't. And then they literally have never mentioned it again. Yeah. You know, that's just one example where things just get memory hold. You know, let me ask you this, dude.
It's no different than criticizing your own country. I know. Nobody has a problem when you talk shit about the Republicans or the Democrats, but all of a sudden you criticize Israel's...
It's no different than criticizing your own country. I know. Nobody has a problem when you talk shit about the Republicans or the Democrats, but all of a sudden you criticize Israel's...
It's no different than criticizing your own country. I know. Nobody has a problem when you talk shit about the Republicans or the Democrats, but all of a sudden you criticize Israel's...
call it what it is, blowing up women and children as a method of warfare and say, hey, you know, because my whole thing when I first started it was, you know, we always hear about how America, we have the moral high ground. You know, we're the peacekeepers of the world. So why are we killing women and children? That's not traditional warfare. That came from World War I and World War II.
call it what it is, blowing up women and children as a method of warfare and say, hey, you know, because my whole thing when I first started it was, you know, we always hear about how America, we have the moral high ground. You know, we're the peacekeepers of the world. So why are we killing women and children? That's not traditional warfare. That came from World War I and World War II.
call it what it is, blowing up women and children as a method of warfare and say, hey, you know, because my whole thing when I first started it was, you know, we always hear about how America, we have the moral high ground. You know, we're the peacekeepers of the world. So why are we killing women and children? That's not traditional warfare. That came from World War I and World War II.
That was essentially unheard of in most Western wars. civilians were. And now it's just, oh, well, you know, we flattened entire areas, entire cities.
That was essentially unheard of in most Western wars. civilians were. And now it's just, oh, well, you know, we flattened entire areas, entire cities.
That was essentially unheard of in most Western wars. civilians were. And now it's just, oh, well, you know, we flattened entire areas, entire cities.
And then finally, when the rubble pile is too big to ignore, we'll say the terrorists were hiding there. And I just, for me, a big thing is ideological consistency. I've always been anti-war. I was turned on to the issues with government during 9-11. I was pretty young. I think I was a sophomore or junior in high school at that time. But I wanted to understand how does something like this happen?
And then finally, when the rubble pile is too big to ignore, we'll say the terrorists were hiding there. And I just, for me, a big thing is ideological consistency. I've always been anti-war. I was turned on to the issues with government during 9-11. I was pretty young. I think I was a sophomore or junior in high school at that time. But I wanted to understand how does something like this happen?
And then finally, when the rubble pile is too big to ignore, we'll say the terrorists were hiding there. And I just, for me, a big thing is ideological consistency. I've always been anti-war. I was turned on to the issues with government during 9-11. I was pretty young. I think I was a sophomore or junior in high school at that time. But I wanted to understand how does something like this happen?
know and uh i started to learn you know and and learned little by little and you know i i saw the horrors of the iraq war and at the afghanistan war and a lot of kids i grew up with either never came home or they never came home the same uh physically mentally spiritually or otherwise you know so i've always been very anti-war you know i i i didn't support the ukraine war nobody called me anti-ukrainian
know and uh i started to learn you know and and learned little by little and you know i i saw the horrors of the iraq war and at the afghanistan war and a lot of kids i grew up with either never came home or they never came home the same uh physically mentally spiritually or otherwise you know so i've always been very anti-war you know i i i didn't support the ukraine war nobody called me anti-ukrainian
know and uh i started to learn you know and and learned little by little and you know i i saw the horrors of the iraq war and at the afghanistan war and a lot of kids i grew up with either never came home or they never came home the same uh physically mentally spiritually or otherwise you know so i've always been very anti-war you know i i i didn't support the ukraine war nobody called me anti-ukrainian
So I just learned to accept it for what it is, really. I was also called a grandma killer during COVID. All of us were. I was called racist during BLM.