to stay with us. no nonsense natural. as rick sanchez is up next, that are active. the the. hi everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and this is what we're going to be talking about the to see, we have an excuse me, i bill 5 these boom wow. that is from the irish parliament. and before that you watch, thousands of people were cheering for donald trump after he's found guilty on 34 of

34 criminal accounts. what does that say about the us upcoming election? i'm rick sanchez, and this is direct impact the . all right, so here we go. so donald trump is found guilty on all $34.00 accounts that he was accused of. that means he's now a convicted criminal, the 1st president in the history of the united states to ever hold that distinction . so what happens the next day when he shows up at a choreographed event, a u. f. c. fight bishop. it's the

could you imagine if you're sitting at the white house right now, jo, by minutes team watching the wait a minute. what, in fact, very early polls taken right, and it's very early, i know, but still very early polls that were taking right after the jury's verdict came out . show that mr. trump's loyal base wasn't even affected. privateer is guilty, verdict to them. it doesn't matter. i mean, and if you think that's kind of crazy, you're right, but at the same time, it seems just as crazy to consider that only 33 percent of americans support joe by me. yet. here are here's loyal followers, trying to shut down the trump supporters after his conviction watch can do do the

. so that's pretty much america right now to not show that i gotta ask you this, the, what about all the people in the middle in america? those who relate to a viral video that just came out. have you seen this? what do you see this? i'm gonna show it to you. this is a viral video that just came out on tick tock, which is being seen by millions of people daily. you had to pick a democrat or republican, a joe biden, or donald trump gun to your head. who would you vote for the gun would go off? the gun would go off. that's. i mean with the election just 5 months away. those videos made best represent where america stands right now. it's kind of bizarre, but it is what it is from this voters aren't going to budge, no matter what he does. or as he said,

i could shoot somebody on 5th avenue big still support me. you said that a bite is voters, are going to vote for him simply to avoid voting for a truck. they say, regardless of how old, by looks these days, or how many thousands of palestinians children die daily as a result of the attack on garza. and then there are those in the middle, most of whom will decide probably a couple of weeks before the election. if past experiences proved correct and what i got a vote for, well, i could show you right now i could literally go into by computer, right? i can take this thing out of you and i could look up 10 different polls. and i guarantee you that we would find 10 different poles and all of them would say something different. so, you know what? let's, let's talk about another election instead. what do you say? one where we do know who actually won mexico? mexico has a new president. what about the

most aggravating med but at the event at the we will govern for everyone, men and women. but as the human is the principle of our movement for the good of everyone. first take care of the poor in the yep. as you can see right there, it's a she not a he and her name is claudia. shine, bob, she becomes a new president of mexico. will likely change very little. i mean, politically that is because she's a political ally of the previous president address monro at lopez. open the door, a man with a name that is just way way, way too long. so let me bring manila another what. what do we know about uh, what do we know about claudia shamble? a? so rick, a, she is like you said the 1st female president of mexico. she's the former mexico city mayor. and can you, let me just touch on this part about her being the 1st female? no elected president in mexico for all of the talk about mexico and mexicans being

so much, she's mo, here they are elected in the 1st female president, whereas the u. s. has failed to do so in all of our entire history. but here we are a place that's supposed to be super much useful, electing a woman president. so she is a, a scientist by trade and education. so we can expect and that she's going to take a more slow and methodical, perhaps a scientific type of approach. you said so she has, she's got the same political ideologies as angelo. they're, you know, from the same party, the more in a party. she's been said to be his long time protege. but this election rick has been marked by a lot of political violence. some 3 dozen political candidates across varying states and mexico have been assassinated over the past year while they were running for these various offices. anything from local may oral levels to all the way up to

the assembly. and while ammo is leaving office with a strong favorability rating in the 60 plus percentage, unlike what's happening here in the us with joe biden, he is leaving ms. chime mom with her hands full of cartel, violence continues to plague the country. and then we should note, rick, they only have 6 years and mexico, one term, that's the law in mexico. so she's got 6 years to turn this boat around, just a caviar to you. i want you to know that we hispanic men tend to be very much more in touch with our feminine side than most people give our credit. give us credit for just just just for the record. you know, okay, fair and i've, i've been told to call acumen a fair enough. fair enough. here's that, but you don't see every day. are you ready for this? i mean landing, what are this? this is really cool. what do i mean? what, what do we feel like? i'm back in the 19 sixties and seventies. but china successfully landed on the far side the far side of the moon this weekend. and these are the videos they have released to prove it,

as the mission continues are going to be bringing back of the 1st sample from that part of the moon that we earthlings have never seen before. far side of the moon is different from the near side of the moon. did you know? that's the near side is where the united states and the russians have already visited. i think a chinese to, to so how is this different? well, if it has a thick across the far side of the moon as a thicker crust, it has more craters. fewer planes were lava, once flowed. it's not clear why the 2 sides of the moon are so different but, but it's hoped that the samples, the lender brings back, will provide some clues for that. so cool. i mean, i wish we were still more in tune with scientific breakthroughs like this. it seems like they've been pushed away. but the scientific breakthrough aside, this trip to the moon by china fulfills and even more important mission china is flexing its muscles. i mean, it's a look at us, technologically, militarily,

economically, where the macho guys in the world right now, speaking of bundle, those favorite word. and, and the word is roderick. right? i mean, what do you think about it? but it seems to me that's the message now. in definitely is a little bit of a flex, rick. i mean, this is, you know, something we're most male leaders around the world since, you know, there's very few female elected by our leaders around the world right now. but, you know, to that point, this renewed interest in the moon is ramping up speculation about countries building bases on the web and now using space and so forth. but everybody from, you know, basing to washington, they have remained really tight lipped on this matter of building potential basis on the moon here on earth. international space treaties have been under way for the last several years. you can think of it sort of as a geneva convention for you know, everything beyond earth, those things take time to rec, a long time to develop. since to quote donald rumsfeld,

there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns and it gets even mercury when we're talking about space, as you might imagine, since there's no, no borders, no boundaries, no one can lay claim to any part of it. so i think you're right, we are looking here at what is a 19 sixty's era old war and, and space race all over again. but a lot more players this time, wreck a lot more. and since you mentioned that donald rumsfeld, china is also building what some argue will be the biggest navy in the world, perhaps the strongest navy in the world as well. and donald rumsfeld once said, when he was getting his butt kicked in a rock, we kept fight with the army. we want. we have to fight with the army. we got famous with that famous rumsfeld line. i will also never forget, i was in the room when he said that i was covering them at the time while i was working for n b c. okay. aside from the politicians and media in washington in london,

it seems the entire world is calling out as real. for genocide, a $153.00 countries had already come out against as well as attacks. and over the weekend there were so many more statement, some condemnation we couldn't possibly put them on. busy you know, i can't playable if we tried, so we, i chose one it and, and this is it. this is a do named thomas gould. he is a member of the irish parliament. here we go. when you go to the photographs and the pictures and the videos that come from, do you have the screens of people screaming? i see this really cool, ms. barton men, women and children in the apartment release. divorced items voice weight is 15 totals in terms of being saw. yeah. to see it we it doesn't excuse me. i bill families

born with him. i didn't i just said already told me though, wouldn't deal for me. but total risk, i'm serious. that need to go so far live and yeah, that's something i mean, this girl, the m p goes on to say, where is the soul of the jewish people, of israel, who have suffered so much throughout the generations in the past? how can they allow their government to do this in their name? this is a question that's being asked by a whole lot of people all over the world and what not just this irish catholic m p from ireland. you're absolutely right work. we have heard politicians in europe criticize israel criticize baby netanyahu before, but none like this mister booth to direct a b b himself. missing no words. they're telling them, vernon, how no, 2 ways about how that and the field he's citing the his constituents feel exactly

that way. well, here in the us, people catching when of that speech, it's going viral on social media. as you might imagine, much of that i are here state side though. rick is now turning directly to our own politicians. many people annoyed that the us politicians are taking such an honest stance on this dire situation and gaza, especially following these attacks on rough up. but instead, our politicians stateside are attacking each other's appearance, their eyelashes, their hair color, their body type, wreck, kind of the deal. i think i've seen some of those as well, and you're absolutely right. i mean, you know, you need to have a sense of grab a task at a moment like this in history, and i'm seeing it from countries all over the world, but i'm not seeing it from our leaders here in the united states. i'm not seeing it from washington. i. i agree with human though. i think it, i think you make a great point. thank so much. hey, let me tell you something else 24 years ago, author. and cartoon is ted rall. he wrote a book about america where he predicted the future. he said, this is remembered,

this is 2020. when he wrote this, he said we would all become docile. i'm distracted and that the government would take advantage of that to oppress us with our own stupidity. in that book that was called 2024 raw protect, the journalist would no longer be trusted. me. well, it's now 2024. was the right. what did he get right? what did he get wrong? very is ted. well, look at him. he's got a new book out at a great smile, and he's going to join us. the book is called 102024 roll. he joins us next. in the the the,

the take a fresh look around there's a life kaleidoscopic, isn't just a shifted reality distortion by tell us to do vision with no real opinions. fixtures, design to simplify will confuse really once a better wills. and is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented to this,

but can you see through their illusion going underground? can the so as promised, here is the new book that ted rall has pulled out. it says $22410.00 roll. big colors looks like something put out by a cartoonist, but it's revisited. it's revisited. so it's 2024 revisited. and he joins us now to talk about all the things that i'm hearing. he got right and maybe a few that he got wrong. let's start with wrong. i think it would be possibly more interesting to do that. what, what, what did you write about in 2020 that you have now had to correct in the

2024. a well small direction. it was 2000. right. so not 2020 so it was 24 years ago, which is a little more a little more out there. so i definitely got of, i mean, i think my record was pretty good. frankly, if it wasn't, i probably would not have wanted to revisit this book and reissue it. i would. it's just wanted to bury it completely in the dust. and so most of the stuff in there, i think, was pretty prescient. but the mistakes i think, the main mistake that i made this was hardly a pair, a parody of george r wells, 1984. and finally, um, i kind of thought that people would remember 1984 pretty well. and that it would be a book to kind of lasted and something that people would think about. and the people would be paranoid about the surveillance date. i thought that they would be, they would care about that. obviously, edward snowden staked a lot on that. he thought that he would trigger a national conversation about surveillance when he did,

he revealed those that i say, and c, i a documents back in 2013. so that can really help him. we don't really seem to care as a society very much about it. it's not a political issue. i thought it would be that i definitely got wrong. yeah. do you know what i would really hit me when i was reading and i and i apologize. i haven't had a chance to read the book yet. i'm looking forward to it when i get time to read and i'm not working, but you said something about our own stupidity and you said something about how the media and the corporate to take advantage of that stability. and that struck a chord with me being doing what i do for a living. i kid, i can't tell you this may sound mean. but if i made a 100 people over the course of a week, i would say 98 of them have no earthly clue what the hell is going on in this country. and probably 90 are just plain stupid and don't know anything about

anything. and that's the world i find myself living in these days. my wife says just shut up, listen to people and shut up. you can't go around changing people. you can't go around telling people the truth because most of them don't want to hear it. but i feel like it's worse now than it's ever been. and i feel like part of it is what you write about the, the media, the government. they love that. it's great for them. how do we get there a well, i mean, look, it's not new rick. there's a, you know, anti intellectual is a, that goes back to the very foundation of the republic. and it's one of the reasons that we, for instance, don't have a federalized educational public educational system, like most western and many developing countries. now it's part of our culture and i think it comes from our pioneer background. it comes from just it comes from that a desire to um uh, especially the hotel person coming in here now and sorry about that. sorry. um. oh

is the last time it was my cap? uh, it's like bad luck here. um, listen, i got a 2020 and 2020 and the year 2000 mixed up, i figured they both have a bunch of zeros. i just put them in the wrong place to go on. so. so anyway, um yeah, you got a left off so the, um yeah, so i, i feel like, uh, how do we get here and it's such a big question. um, you know, it's the educational system. it's the media, the more you wait a minute, we are the best educated nation in the history of the world. almost every single person in our society gets 12 years of education. and i think 75 percent go on to some kind of community college or some, you know, post high school stuff. we shouldn't be smarter. no, as well. we should be smarter. i mean, you know, there's, there's an expression that i call n p r smart. just people who kind of like, you know, they, they read the right things. they read the new york times, they read they, they listen to n p r, they watch cnn. but,

and they think that they've got everything figured out and that they know everything that's going on. but you know, you save us the same people about some pretty basic stuff like, you know, how exactly did the crisis in ukraine really started? i mean, i really know about anything that happened prior to 2022 or, you know, israel, they don't really know that anything really what the situation was for the palestinians before. uh before a 20. uh huh. 23. and so, i mean, there's no hist, historical background, part of it is jim farber wrote a book in the late sixty's where he said only the american educational system could take something as thrilling as the march of history and render it completely and totally boring. and i think that's a big part of it. we just don't know where we came from because they didn't. the are passed so much that nobody cares when, when i was in c. and i was heralded at the time. and you can read about it the new york times said rick sanchez was tweeting before twitter or twitter was cool. i was the 1st guy to start this whole thing where i use social media on tv. it was pretty

cool and i really believed that the prime of the social media would be a democratizing force. it would make us better. it would make us smarter. i was totally wrong. social media is being used essentially in most ways. 4 by not by people, but by corporations to be asked you as much as they b s. u on the cnn's and the fox news is of the world. am i wrong? i mean, basically you're right, but i, i used to believe my father, who was a big technologist with right the all technology was fundamentally equal. the, you know, it's a bit for every good, you know, nuclear power for every nuclear bomb. there's a nuclear power plant that provides cheaper, cleaner energy, but i think what social media it really is and that negative more than anything. yeah. there's yeah, democratized aspects to it. yeah. you know, people can, you know, watch this and read my cartoons in cities where i don't appear in the newspaper or you don't have or, you know, local cable company doesn't distribute your show. but that's great. and that is

democratizing. but the, the downsides are so toxic and so fall. and the thing is that we, you know, we're, we're, we're walla, we, in a vanity, we're taking pictures of our meals and, and so, and using bad with just doesn't the mouth look, i eat this today. but you can, we are, you mentioned you create a little while ago and you write in your book about how the government would see the stupidity and use the social media and the new technology against us rather than for us. and i mean, i'll, i'll give you an example. you mentioned ukraine. you go on youtube and you put ukraine and you get ukraine winning. ukraine just blow up, you know, put in his brain ukraine, just knock down 5000 muscles. and then you go to real source is like an india or other parts of the oregon. that's none of that is true. so everything on youtube, for example, social media controlled by the government to some extent, the messages,

whatever the state department wants us to hear me. is that on purpose? i mean i, i want to hear both sides. i want to hear when ukraine does well, i'm going watch it as well. but on youtube you'll only hear ukraine stuff. how did they get to the point where they can do the? well, it's because it's corporate media. i mean, look, there's no, as you know, you've been living in this environment in this space, right? your entire career. so have i read and there's no perfect model, but i do think you're better off with independently owned, family owned businesses, media, businesses. you're not beholden to those kind of corporations that have those ties to government and the revolving door between media and government and policy. but that's what i was talking about youtube. i was talking about seeing that i wasn't talking about c s a youtube is corporate. compares it completely, i mean, but we, we tend to think of you to more about social media side, not as a, you know, mass media or the example. so, right. so it's only the alphabet though. yeah. i mean, it literally budget part of the biggest corporation in the,

or one of the big corporations in the world. i had a friend and i had a friend who you know, by the way, and i won't mention his name. say to me, recently youtube is controlled by the c. i a in the state department, and i looked at them like, wow, that's a hell of a thing to say. is he right? probably, i mean, new york times is, is, is controlled by, you know, been there by the c, i a and a and other, you know, 3 letters agencies. i mean, those, those connections have always been there. we call it access journalism. right. so, you know, it's propaganda and it's kind of like, well, what's propaganda, propaganda is a point, a slanted point of. yeah. and, and that's what they're, they're selling. yeah. and, and the, let me explain that to our viewers because they don't understand you. what you just said is if there's a reporter to new york times, they want and they have a source at the c i a, every time they get new information, the 1st thing they do is they pick up the phone and they call that source. and they say, hey, what really happened, and they get the c, i is version and that's what they publish. because if they ever don't do this, the i is version, then the ca won't talk to him anymore. then they won't be able to file stories and,

and that's access, that's how access is controlled and manipulated. so that you only get one side of the story. i wish we could go on forever because you and i, you know, maybe we'll do this at some point in miami, over a glass of rom or something. okay. but i think it's, it's a, it's a fun conversation. congratulations on the buddies. right? it's uh 2024. revisit that. i get it right. that's it. thank you to god bless. see you later. ok. that's our show. remember to always look outside your own box as we say that all the time, but it's so important. you know, troops don't live in boxes. i'm rick sanchez, and we'll see you as i hear the music. i'm a perfect the the,

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