The Problem with Trump’s Greenland Mission

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Yeah, man, why shouldn’t we take Greenland? We should just take it, man. Yeah, it’s in our hemisphere. It’s all right. Why? Because we’re supposed to be the good guys. We’re not. We’re not orcs. Yeah, we’re not that that those disgusting orcs. Invading the Shire like in Lord of the Rings, that’s why.

We’re not, shouldn’t take Greenland. That’s not the United States of America. I woke up earlier than usual this morning and ever since this, Stephen Miller with Jake Tapper, guy honestly scared the crap out of me. Really, I mean, honest.

Okay. that’s Stephen Miller. He probably can’t even bench press the bar for crying out loud, but I’m watching him on Jake Tapper, you know, talking about, nobody’s going to stop the United States militarily over Greenland. And I just can’t get it out of my head. Can’t get out of my head. And then, then you get that, that other orc, Carolyn Levet there yesterday, president president reserves the right to use the military.

What he wants, and talking about Greenland again. Why? Why we don’t wanna take Greenland? I’m not supposed to be orcs. And let’s do this this way. I’m gonna be, this is selfish. How about this? From a completely selfish perspective. I want my kids.

I want, God willing, my grandkids someday. want…

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I want your kids and maybe your grandkids someday to live in a world where, again, people are doing business with one another. My belief in capitalism, two people sitting down at a table, both being able to walk away happy, people not at each other’s throats. Cooperation, peace, where the United States is…

looked up to that shining city on the hill that Reagan talked about. We’re at a really interesting point. I mean, I sat down, I got up early, on the coffee machine and just sat and thought about it and prayed over it. Because that’s, yeah, I do on this program. I asked for

you know, for guidance in these shows and trying to be again coherent and ask for guidance when talking about these topics. And again, I’m watching you watching what’s going on in this country in regards to the type of wealth that is being created by again, the watchdog on Wall Street, Axis of Evil, big business.

politicians in the media working hand in hand to further their needs. And it got me thinking in a million different directions that we’ve gotten to this point in time. This says, again, it’s like you’re saying Venezuela is about drugs and Venezuela is about freeing the people down there from a dictator. No, it’s about

oil, it’s about money. This screen having greenless it’s about national security. No, no, we have troops there already. And if we wanted to station more, they’re going to be more than happy to do that. And Europe does it all the time. They fight over Hey, Americans want to put a base? Sure, come on in. Sure. Troops there spend money do various different things great for business. They don’t want that.

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go away more than happy. It’s not about that.

Wealth, building wealth is something that is supposed to be hard. It is supposed to be difficult. You’re not supposed to look for shortcuts. Our line that I use all the time, more often than not on the weekend program, everything in life that has meaning, value, and worth involves work, time, and effort. There is a difference.

It matters. It matters how you make money. It matters how you make money. I am gonna contradict Vito Corleone when he’s talking to Salazzo. It no difference to me how a man makes a living. It makes a difference to me. It makes a difference to me. And again, I’m self-interested. You should be self-interested too. It makes a difference to me.

You don’t want your kids making millions of dollars on OnlyFans. Okay? It makes a difference. I don’t want my kids making a living, making $10 million a year as a Fox News or MSNBC anchor where they lie for a living. Good money versus bad money. I actually made the…

I made the suggestion to people, it was the latest Spike Lee movie that came out and Denzel Washington played a part and he talked about that. Talked about that, difference between good money and bad money. The beginning of one of my favorite financial films, small market film, Boiler Room. There’s a long rant being made talking about how people don’t wanna work for it.

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Anymore you’re either he said something like you’re either got a great jump shot or you’re slinging crack rocker You know, I became a stockbroker and it was all about all of the boiler room Operations that existed back in the 80s and they still exist today I Understand I you know, I understand the temptations were constantly being tempted all the time I’m constantly every day getting offered bad money

to buy my firm or we’ll give you another example. We’ll go for bad money for us to start an online trading platform. This is 10 plus years ago. I know, could have made a fortune on that. How many opportunities, make a lot of money for the Markowski family. Line our pockets, but it’s bad money. And it’s wrong. It was that song by…

Was it Glenn Fry there from back in the Miami Vice days, smugglers blues? The lure of easy money, it’s the smugglers blues.

The watchdog on Wall Street, it’s becoming more powerful than ever before. You can take a look at the net worth of all of these members of Congress when they come in. And in a very short period of time, they become enormously wealthy. Enormously wealthy. The guy we’ve been talking about was made, well, again, it’s

Off the headlines now outside the fact that Tim Walls is not running for reelection You know talk about the welfare fraud that’s out there if you have kind of interesting though you got Republicans pushing spending bills right now that doesn’t change any of the money allocated to all of these welfare relocation programs you wonder why Well, they’ve got buddies. They’ve got friends. They’re invested in some way money is coming back

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to them. You don’t have to in this life. You don’t have to screw people over to become wealthy. You don’t. Okay, there’s no doubt about it. It’s the road less traveled. It’s a hell of a lot more difficult. There’s no doubt about that. The line by Martin Sheen.

in the movie Wall Street. He tells Bud Fox, don’t know how you do it, buddy. I don’t know how you do what you do. He says, I don’t go to bed with no whore. I don’t wake up with no whore. That’s how I live with myself. To watch our country right now, and again, is things going through my head. It’s getting, I’m gonna go.

reminders of when I was a kid and playing with the kids in the neighborhood. Playing with the kids in a neighborhood, you had good guys and bad guys. My dad built us this cool fort. had a sandbox underneath it and was like a platform. And we had an American flag that was flying from that thing. And I was in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts a little bit, saluting that thing and being taught how to

you know, respect for this country. We were the good guy. were the people with the white hats.

We’re the people with the white hats for crying out loud.

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What are we doing? Here.

What are we doing here, people? I can’t help but think that we’ve broken bad.

Like the television show, there’s that.

There’s that scene where Walter White, his wife is saying something about, aren’t you worried about, I forget exactly, I go, aren’t you worried about someone knocking on the door and shooting you? And he just looks at her, he’s like, do you have any idea who you’re talking to? And he goes off about his operation, his meth operation, what?

what he’s doing and whatnot. And he basically has his line. He says, I’m the one that knocks.

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Is that who, is that what you want us to be? Is that okay? You’re gonna cheerlead this type of conduct by the United States? It was actually, it was an interesting column that was actually written, who’s this, is Arnard Bertrand, and it was actually talking about.

Venezuela and saying how Venezuela, he said, actually killed the United States or revealed that we were already dead. But one of the things that he talks about is the fact that

Well, he says, he says, never before in the history, entire history of the United States has been so nakedly bad.

And then the argument that he’s making and he’s saying that, you know, so what if they admit that they’re bad, at least we’re not being hypocritical anymore. And again, I can argue against him that I’ve talked about our various different interventions around the world. I do think that deep down, George W. Bush thought he was doing the right thing and actually thought that he could go into these countries. And all of a sudden, I do think he believes that.

Now he had a naive belief that all of a sudden all these countries were gonna turn into Jeffersonian democracy. He did that. What’s happening right now is different. Now the reality is that we’re all, each and every one of us is broken. Each and every one of us is a hypocrite in some way, shape, matter, or form. You wake up, at least I wake up every day and you go to bed and you try to evaluate

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your conduct over the course of the day and where you have fallen short of the ideal. The ideal is you want to try to become a saint, right? You want to do the right thing as best you possibly can. And we all fall short. Now every week, the line they have at confession at church, there’s a reason for that. We fall short all the time.

The difference is right now is that, again, that’s the hypocrisy. And it’s OK, because we all are going to make mistakes. It’s the fact that we’re not even, it doesn’t seem like we’re even sorry for it, are the mistakes that we’re making right now. That this is, you actually have people cheerleading this. Like this is some sort of good thing.

that we’re doing, threatening to use the military, alluding to using the military to taking a landmass, massive landmass from one of our allies, also happens to spend over 3 % of their, one of the NATO countries that are actually spending money on their military.

And that’s somehow justified because of this Don Roe doctrine. I’m asking questions right here, okay? And hey, I welcome, you’re welcome, I’m gonna challenge any of my thought process here. So I, go ahead.

Go ahead. You honestly believe that, I I actually had some flack on CNN yesterday, actually, he China’s got bases there already. I’m like, just making crap up. I mean, not even trying, I it just doesn’t matter, just making stuff up. So you think that China and Russia are going to invade?

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Greenland and take it is that what you think? China hasn’t done that to Taiwan and that’s a breakaway Breakaway province that most the world doesn’t even recognize as an independent country They haven’t done that and they’re come all the way over there to Greenland

And again, if they did that, would, again, if they’re attacking a NATO country, everyone has to react to that, Again, I would suggest some of you people that are still rah-rahing this might wanna look at St. Augustine’s theories when it comes to war and just war theory. really, take a good hard look at the mirror and say, this is what you,

want us to be.

This is when you were a kid. This is what when you were, you know playing good guys and bad guys And remember when I you know thinking back that again I did again when you had divvy up who the good guys and the bad guys were playing as I hated Did not want to be the bad guy never wanted to be the bad guy never want to be ever again some kids like I just didn’t want to do it

Is that how you looked at the United States when you were younger? Oh, I was just a kid. Well, you know, there’s something to be said.

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for the innocence of a child. I just invite everyone to really take a couple steps back. Take a couple steps back and think about what kind of…

What kind of country you want this to be?

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