Episode 256 – Ayman Al-Zawahiri Died from Covid

0:02
[Music]
0:13
[Applause] [Music]
0:20
and now matt wright and spike cohen
0:25
good morning good afternoon or good evening and welcome to the vanguard for
0:31
spike david copper hoarder cohen i am right and together we are traversing the
0:38
muddy waters of freedom oh man the penny pincher himself thank
0:45
you guys so much for tuning in to this penny pinching episode of muddy
0:50
waterspoon no matter which uh platform you’re watching on the sun or listening to us on we thank you and to all of you we say
0:58
lulavanaka pulavanaka and of course be sure to uh like share
1:04
subscribe comment i already said share like other people’s comments do all the stuff that boosts us
1:10
in the algorithm and if you are uh subscribing to this on youtube uh be
1:16
sure to uh not just subscribe but hit that bell next to it we want your phone to literally explode with notifications
1:23
every single time we go live or put anything up we don’t want you to miss anything we don’t even want you to have to wait we want as soon as it’s up there
1:29
for you to find out along with all the other people that have hit the bell and of course
1:34
be sure to become a subscriber to our special feed today by going to
1:40
anchor dot fm slash muddy water subscribe you get access to our uh every
1:45
weekend we have a special uh episode just for subscribers uh we also have
1:50
discounts at the muddy waters media store as well as many other really great goodies like a ad free listening and
1:56
viewing experience on spotify and anchor and every other platform if you just add
2:02
us to the rss we’ll send you how to do it but if you you uh
2:08
i don’t know how that works but he will tell you or someone else will tell you because i don’t know but anchor will set
2:13
up today anchor will tell you anchor will email you instructions exactly how to do it
2:18
yes because we don’t know but they do anchor knows anchor dot fm slash money water
2:24
subscribe it’s only ten dollars a month we’d love to have you become a part of it yes and that brings us to
2:30
that brings us to the mud water mushroom coffee replacement cacao rapid fire segment brought to you by mudwater i
2:36
know what you’re thinking folks my god i am sick of this ad well tough because if
2:42
you want to not ever drink coffee again then you could instead drink this what does it have in it well it’s got masala
2:48
chai cacao rapid fire and segment and literally nothing else
2:54
and then it’s uh if you go to moneypottersonfreedom.com you can get it today you can get a
3:00
starter pack today it tastes like like a segment it tastes like a secret it tastes like a
3:06
segment that’s the best way it tastes like a breaking news
3:12
breaking news on this segment uh i am in al zawahiri the head of the town
3:19
the head of al-qaeda has been confirmed as killed by the cia finally putting at
3:26
long last an end to the decades-long terror regime of ronald reagan go by
3:33
joe biden confirmed that uh i’m on al zawahiri
3:39
uh was killed in the drone strike from a speech from the white house on monday yesterday um and senior pagani
3:48
taliban figures were aware of zawa zawahiri how do you say this hiri
3:54
zawahiri zawahiri this is how breaking it is i didn’t even read these notes
4:02
zoe hear his presence in the area uh the official said monday in a clear
4:07
violation of the doha agreement and even took oh how dare he violate how dare they
4:16
how dare he violate the doha agreement oh well it’s all over now it’s well it
4:23
is actually it is yeah for him and even took steps to conceal his presence after saturday’s successful
4:30
strike um yeah they they uh they rapidly relocated
4:36
members of his family they didn’t want people to know that he was there uh now it is a total violation of the doha
4:43
terrorist free zone sign agreement uh they completely ignored it
4:48
interestingly enough right next to the uh no terrorist allowed in this zone sign is another one saying no cia drone
4:55
strikes allowed in this zone just blatant violations all the way around
5:00
um you know it is it but yes now the uh head of al qaeda which is kind of
5:07
the microsoft of uh of terrorist organizations with uh you know isis
5:13
being the uh the i guess the google of uh of terror of terror networks this has really been on the decline for a while
5:19
uh the taliban uh their main arcade is their name what’s that
5:28
of terror groups especially now actually now they’re the
5:34
uh uh they’re the inktomy of
5:41
the ash jeeves and the web crawler the internet explorer
5:47
the internet explorer r.i.p the net zero of uh of terror groups and uh the the
5:53
taliban’s main fight is with uh is with isis uh obviously and uh and they were i
5:58
think probably were hoping that they could uh get the band back together and try to fight against isis uh the cia
6:04
said no you’re not to stop our new terror group we’re sponsoring so they they killed zawahiri so you know big ups
6:10
uh and uh speaking of uh death
6:16
the u.s has had two consecutive quarters of negative growth after the gdp report convert what
6:23
we said here we said this would happen we’ve been saying this for months you’ve been saying this since last
6:29
quarter yes but it’s not a recession and karine
6:34
jean-pierre uh has explained that to us right man yeah she and uh the amount of
6:40
mental gymnastics that she had to go through in order to explain this is
6:45
just absolutely unbelievable so here is uh everybody’s favorite fox news
6:51
reporter pete ducey asking karine john pierre over whether or not this is a recession peace said in
6:58
2008 of course economists have a technical definition
7:03
which is of a recession which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth
7:09
i can tell you this they said two consec two negative quarters of gdp growth is not the technical definition of
7:16
recession it is not it is not why did he say that it is not i can i can speak to
7:21
i can speak to you to what he said yesterday in front of all of you which is the last thing that you just repeated
7:27
there are many factors there are many factors economic factors and indicators to consider
7:33
and i will say that the textbook definition of recession is not is not two negative
7:40
quarters of gdp we have a strong labor market we have business that’s investing we have consumers uh that are also uh
7:48
very much uh you know in investing and purchasing that is incredibly important
7:53
we have 3.6 unemployment you do not see that in a pre-recession and you do not
7:58
see that in a recession so the factors that we are seeing right now the economic indicators
8:05
does not does not show that we’re a recession and i’ll read since you gave me some quotes i’ll give you some as
8:11
well in 2009 the st louis fed said while the popular definition of recession is
8:16
two consecutive quarters of negative real gross domestic product gdp growth the nber which we have mentioned many
8:23
times in this room does not strictly abide by this designation instead the committee broadly defines a
8:30
recession as a significant decline in economic activity spreading across the economy lasting more than a few months
8:37
nber has been around since 1920 i’m going to move on okay i wonder why she stopped herself there
8:44
[Laughter] the mental gymnastics that she has to go through every day
8:50
is unbelievable and the mber for anybody who doesn’t know is the eight economists that we have referenced
8:56
on this show that keep saying that we aren’t in a recession and they are the only eight economists who are saying we
9:02
are not in a recession yeah everyone all uh underwriters all banks every institution
9:10
right now is gearing up for a recession which is why we’re seeing a
9:17
new round of bailouts in the form of the chips act and the inflation reduction
9:22
act and the uh what was the other one the science act it’s it’s bailouts for
9:27
companies that know that their bottom line is about to get crushed and that’s it’s because they know a recession we
9:33
are in they know that a recession is here and that the other lagging indicators uh and to answer a question
9:40
yes we do see uh high levels of employment in some recessions at the beginning because the malinvestment is
9:48
still there and we’re just starting to see the effects and especially what’s driving that up is
9:54
that the inflation has been so high which has kept profits high which has allowed for uh you know for the the job
10:00
market to be as competitive as it has that’s all going to begin to crumble uh wow inflation will still remain somewhat
10:06
high especially as the fed has been increasing rates you’re going to see that
10:12
a lot of things across the board because of this a lot banks aren’t going to be lending as much you’re not going to be seeing you’re not going to be seeing as
10:18
much money going out to your average investor so they’re going to stop purchasing as
10:24
much prices will have to come down that means that people will start losing
10:29
their jobs and we will feel the brunt of the recession
10:34
yes now speaking of jobs i think karine jean-pierre
10:41
may need a new one she might need a nuke if she doesn’t she’s sure her mental
10:46
health she needs a new job
10:51
so after the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas
11:01
authorized customs and border protection on thursday to seal the openings near
11:07
the morelos dam just west of downtown yuma the democratic party relied
11:15
on kjp to answer questions about it live
11:21
on the air why is the biden administration building
11:27
a border wall in arizona so um we are not uh we’re not finishing the
11:34
wall uh we are cleaning up the mess yes the prior administration uh left behind in their in their failed attempt
11:41
to build a wall and i just want to be very very clear here on day one we returned the money
11:48
the eight billion dollars the prior administration took from our military we gave that back
11:53
to the military for military families for schools for bases that’s what that money was being used
11:59
that’s what it was taken away from and so again what we’re doing is cleaning up the mess that the prime administration
12:06
has done but president biden when he was a candidate said there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my
12:12
administration so what changed we are not finishing the wall if
12:18
walls work in that part of arizona is this the administration trying to get
12:25
migrants to cross somewhere else like in texas what what is the point we are not finishing a wall
12:31
we are cleaning up the mess that the prior administration made we are trying to save lives this is what is this is
12:38
what the prior administration left behind that we are now cleaning up they left behind it
12:45
is this we are not finishing it by filling in finishing we are not
12:50
finishing you by filling in uh is this racist
12:57
because in 2019 when the former guy was proposing a wall you said
13:03
uh that it was his racist wall so how is this any different i’m just having a hard time understanding how this is anything i’m not even sure
13:09
how you get to your first question to this question that you just asked me i will say this
13:14
i’m i’m answering your question a border wall is ineffective use of taxpayer dollars
13:20
so it’s ineffective what they’re building on dollars that they’re building into the military that the last
13:26
administration the prior president took from the military which took away from schools which took away from military
13:33
bases that’s what that money that he pulled away from uh to build uh this wall that
13:39
he wanted that is ineffective by the way which i just said
13:45
holy crap i kind of feel bad for her even though
13:51
she did sign up like she chooses to do this job yeah she she applied she knew
13:56
she believes that walls are racist and ineffective like that’s her belief and
14:01
that’s what the administration was saying now they’re in charge
14:07
or that’s what candidate joe biden was saying president joe biden is doing what
14:13
president obama and president trump and president bush and everyone before doing to continue building this wall
14:21
and so she has to say they’re building the wall it’s one of
14:26
ineffective by the way it’s they’re cleaning up the mess
14:31
left by the previous administration but they’re not finishing the wall
14:37
they’re saving lives by cleaning up the mess and hey did you know that donald trump
14:44
spent money on a wall not us though we’re just cleaning up the like it was
14:49
[Laughter] i like i legitimately feel bad for her
14:57
because you can see her mentally wrestling like she does so many mental gymnastics up
15:03
there that it like i could have used that gymnastics clip at any point but um yeah i know that whole thing yeah
15:11
but yeah she’s saying walls are ineffective and a waste of taxpayers dollars
15:17
but we’re going to finish off this area of the wall but the wall is ineffective
15:24
so we shouldn’t have the wall but we’re finishing off this area of the wall so it’ll save lives it was it was the
15:31
real the was we’re not finishing the wall yeah you are
15:36
i know he was just trying to get her to answer something but i would have been like yes you are this is literally finishing that part of the wall that
15:43
part yeah and it’s her argument would be to that her argument would be yeah but we’re not finishing the entire wall
15:49
we’re just closing in that one part it’s not finishing the wall why if they’re not effective right it’s
15:55
just racist and she’s like i don’t know how you got to that because you call walls
16:00
racist and so did your your candidate who’s now president that’s why and by the way we’re not fans
16:06
of walls like we do believe that they’re ineffective and we do think that they’re a bad use of money and we do think that
16:12
the government is creating the crisis on the border with this kind of nonsense so say that and then do it
16:20
like don’t say that and then continue building doing what trump did right
16:27
or i’m sorry cleaning up his mess cleaning up his mess this what this was
16:33
john kerry explaining how the war in iraq that he voted for was a
16:40
unprecedented unmitigated failure and needed to end and that’s why when he
16:45
gets into office he’s going to stay the course because we have to complete the
16:50
job that’s been done which is terrible and ineffective and failing um i wish i
16:56
mean korean john pierro was probably 12 when that happened i don’t know
17:02
dirk yeah but i mean i haven’t i would have liked to have seen her try to square that circle so thankfully though
17:10
there are much better speakers in this administration and no i’m not talking about joe biden a well-known
17:17
classical orator who has only gotten better if anything over time no
17:23
matt we are of course talking about the vice president of the united states of america
17:29
who fair and square beat me after a series of debates
17:34
with me kamala harris
17:42
deep thoughts by kamala harris
17:50
and you know listen women are getting pregnant every day in america and this is a real issue and we need to act with
17:56
a sense of haste i mean you got nine months to do something about it
18:01
people are gonna say that i edited that out of context and i will respond with
18:06
she took a four second pause after that after that word i don’t think i edited it wrong
18:12
was this what was in this was this in relation to abortion or yes people will say that i edited that
18:19
out of context but she’s the one that made the pause four seconds long um
18:26
and it was it was like we need to act with haste two three four
18:33
when the supreme court overturned roe v wade okay
18:39
you know i’ve i’ve made videos and we’ve talked on this show and i’ve talked on i’ve
18:45
interviewed i mean we’re very clear like government is going to make the issue of abortion
18:51
worse if they get the more involved they are the worse it’s going to get we’ve talked about that ad nauseam
18:57
if you are trying to sell a pro-choice or keep government out of
19:03
you know out of our decisions type of argument one of the worst ways to do it is to say
19:09
we must act with haste because women are getting pregnant
19:17
like that is like you’re basically saying a bunch of babies are gonna get born
19:24
if we don’t act now like it’s really just a bad way
19:29
of framing an issue it’s a terrible way of framing an issue it’s like the worst way
19:35
of framing it’s like a caricature of how you would frame that wow yeah that
19:41
i honestly so initially i was going to use a completely different video for this week’s deep thoughts with kamala
19:47
harris and then i saw that one and i felt that
19:52
that was a much better video to use over her giving her pronouns and
19:57
saying that she is a woman sitting at the head of the table in a blue suit wow
20:03
that was so i want to say something about that so supposedly that was for a uh and because she didn’t
20:10
it wasn’t just her it was like a bunch of people and they were all saying i am also a woman and i am in a gray blazer
20:15
and sensible shoes and the the reason that they were doing this was it
20:21
was a council for the hard of hearing or something like that or not hard of hearing that’s what they were yelling i’m wearing a blazer no it was it was
20:30
it was the um it was something related to uh uh blind people or people that have uh
20:36
heart of vision whatever it is where you’re not blind but i guess like me have really bad videos and visually
20:41
impaired in some way a visually impaired there it is visually impaired um and uh
20:48
90s yeah no i visually impaired but my whole thing and i’ve still not been had this
20:55
answered i’ve had a lot of people angrily tweet at me when i’ve asked how does this help them
21:01
like okay let’s say someone’s completely blind and i say hi my name is spike cohen i am
21:08
a man my pronouns are he and him and i am currently wearing a white button-down
21:13
shirt oh yeah i don’t like what happens
21:19
well then now that’s the that means something they like i mean someone who’s especially if someone’s been
21:25
born blind they don’t even know what that mean like what’s white like the the the and someone who used to have vision
21:32
and now doesn’t it’s not relevant to the so like i’ve i’ve i i
21:38
posed this when it first came out i said what why is this and they went oh it’s because it’s for blind people and i said
21:44
well that makes sense but why and they’re like oh i guess you don’t care about blind people it’s like no no
21:50
i care enough to ask why we’re doing this yeah has this been asked for
21:55
and if so why by whom and why by whom
22:00
and for what purpose maybe i’m wrong maybe that you know a blind person’s gonna say oh no it’s because it does this now okay great but if i i’ve not
22:08
i’ve just gotten a bunch of anger which usually means i don’t know either but i’m not happy you’re asking and uh and
22:16
that’s that’s what it feels like um yeah but yes uh i would have to i would have
22:22
to speak to somebody who is visually impaired on the visual impairment spectrum
22:28
uh from worse than us wow to completely blind
22:33
somewhere in between us and blind yeah yeah like because you you and i you and i i think you and i i
22:40
think uh uh in addition to being the exact same height and our hands being the exact
22:45
same size i’m pretty certain our eyesight’s the exact same it’s so weird because we don’t look a thing alike but
22:50
then on those two metrics we’re like identical and then we both
22:56
i i wear glasses or contacts uh usually on the show i wear contacts and then but i think our vision’s like basically the
23:02
exact same too probably yeah and uh so
23:07
like with me and him yeah i’d we can tell if somebody’s wearing a blue suit from 20
23:12
yeah yeah yeah but um so i would want to ask somebody who has vision much worse than we do to
23:18
completely blind uh on does that is that something you want do you care about is that something you
23:25
need because if so i’m wearing a black shirt i’m wearing the same black t-shirt i
23:31
wear every day just about i want to i want to go up to
23:36
people and say hey how many fingers am i holding up and if they’re like
23:42
four i’ll be like okay great listen i am a man and
23:48
now hear me out my pronouns are he and him and uh i’m wearing a uh whatever i’m
23:54
wearing at that day right and if they say oh thank you so much then i’ll know that
23:59
this was a good thing if they go who the hell why are you why i don’t get the hell out of my face then i’ll know that
24:05
this was a virtue signal now thankfully the government rarely if ever virtue signals and really
24:13
recently i’m doing good on the segways you recently the government approved that the house
24:20
of representatives proved that they don’t virtue signal right matt well or
24:25
they prove that’s all they do um oh crap so the house virtue signaled uh to their
24:34
bases today that they are not just there to deliver tater tots and right pairs
24:39
after tragic incidents when guns and
24:45
tragic incidents with guns and passed the first official weapons ban in the united states since 1994.
24:55
the very close vote was 217 217-213 with
25:00
five democrats voting uh against the bill and two republicans guaranteeing
25:05
that they will probably lose their primaries this means that the bill will now move on to the senate where
25:13
well yeah nothing’s nothing’s gonna happen i
25:19
didn’t so i didn’t read that it’s not yeah i didn’t even read this bill like a lot of my friend
25:25
obviously we we lean libertarian
25:32
someone’s lean l’s yeah we lean out we lean o uh so many of our friends are very big
25:38
on um the second amendment in uh gun rights as as are we
25:44
but uh they kind of stressed out about this and i explained to many of them
25:50
that you would need 10 republicans and all 50 dems to vote for this thing
25:56
in the senate in order to get past this filibuster and you won’t get that if buying this prize
26:02
if if a republican’s president you get it
26:07
you absolutely get it because we all know republicans win in power pass gun control legislation yep
26:15
but with a democrat in power you’re you’re not going to get 10 republicans to switch over and say yeah let’s vote
26:21
for this weapons ban not happening typically not always but typically a
26:27
democrat president and a republican either split or republican congress is
26:32
usually the best recipe for usually worst case scenario gridlock and
26:38
sometimes best case scenario like during the clinton years them trying to outdo each other on who’s the you know the the
26:43
most lean with government that’s become less so over time uh where
26:49
now it’s they’re all just big government cronies but when it comes to this specific issue
26:55
um yeah if if if thankfully for on this issue there’s a
27:01
democrat president and it’s likely the republicans are going to retake at least one of the houses if not both
27:07
of them and uh which means that this isn’t going to pass and any real meaningful uh uh gun control isn’t going
27:13
to pass now they did pass that nonsense earlier that uh that frankly uh they’re
27:18
not gonna be banning guns but what they are going to be doing is ramping up the criminal justice system to deal with
27:25
existing gun crimes and strengthening those gun crimes like we talked about in previous episodes that’s the real threat
27:32
because it doesn’t matter what gun they ban if they ban you from having one right and put you in jail for 15 years
27:38
for it this is kind of yeah it’s a virtue signal but it’s kind of a two-way virtue signal the democrats virtue
27:44
signal that they’re gonna fight for you know against gun nonsense and and fight for gun safety not gun control we don’t
27:51
call it that anymore but gun safety uh and then the uh the republicans are gonna virtue signal we’re protecting
27:56
your second amendment rights even as we work with democrats to uh make it increasingly illegal for you to own a
28:03
firearm because as we discussed last last week uh with the bipartisan safety
28:09
i don’t remember the name the bipartisan bill that had to do with gun safety um
28:15
community safer exactly the bipartisan community safer yeah uh that was introduced by marco
28:20
rubio it made it where you as a
28:25
as a legal gun owner could potentially go to a state where you aren’t allowed to have a gun and
28:31
then you will get charged with gun trafficking yep that’s a 15-year prison sentence
28:38
federally yep for breaking a state in some cases
28:43
misdemeanor yes it becomes a federal felony that’s the real problem not this
28:49
nonsense this isn’t going to pass this is not going to pass nobody needs to worry about this one i wanted to put it in
28:55
just because a lot of people were stressing about it but there is nothing to worry about with this
29:00
uh there are passed with a four vote it passed with a four vote margin in the
29:05
house with nancy pelosi in charge this thing is not getting through the senate you will be that this is not gonna
29:10
happen worry about the things that are actually going to happen you know what else is really going to happen tomorrow night
29:16
you’re going to get another brand spanking new episode of the muddied waters of freedom and that you can bank
29:22
on that is both a warm tater tot and a delicious ripe pear i’ve been wanting pears and
29:27
tater tots ever since you said that all i want right you’ve been wanting to you’ve been wanting tater tots for like
29:33
10 years for several years yeah i can have i’m not sure a tater tot but i got potatoes
29:39
i’ve been wanting potatoes and pears ever since you said that yeah and i’m literally going think you could
29:45
it depends on how they’re cooked but yeah okay so i know what’s about to happen i’m gonna
29:51
go get some potatoes and peppers i’m literally gonna eat potatoes and bears after i’m gonna go do that
29:58
and you guys are going to uh tomorrow you’re gonna get another amazing episode
30:03
of the muddied waters of freedom where we’re gonna be talking about something that could be nothing or possibly
30:11
end the act the world and all what the owl life on it and it’s really
30:17
one or the other but kind of no matter which one no matter which one it is
30:22
it will affect it will affect how much you have to how
30:28
much money you have to spend on certain goods no matter which one it is true
30:35
that is true whichever one of those happens well you’re kind of screwed but you uh
30:40
tune in tomorrow night uh for another episode of the muddy waters of freedom and of course don’t forget in the
30:45
meantime uh because we’re doing our episode tomorrow but then we’re doing another episode on saturday and we can’t even tell you what
30:52
that one’s about because we don’t well anyway we don’t we’re not going to
30:57
tell you even if we didn’t know we’re not going to tell because it’s only for subscribers it’s going to be fantastic
31:03
we’d love to have you be a part of it if you go to anchor dot fm slash money water slash subscribe for only ten dollars a month you get to be a part of
31:09
that you get to get our uh exclusive subscriber only episodes all sorts of other subscriber only content uh coming
31:15
up are gonna be uh my panels that i did on freedomfest including uh my panel on gun rights with maj turay
31:22
where i called a bunch republicans and cops a bunch of slaves so that’s that’ll be fun but uh and you
31:28
only get that if you’re a subscriber you only get a fear subscriber and you also get ad-free viewing and listening
31:34
experience on all the various podcasts by the magic of the rss whatever that is so anchor dot fm slash muddy waters
31:42
subscribe folks we love you so much we will see you tomorrow and where we’re going we don’t need roads
31:53
[Music]
32:11
you