we'll talk to ted rall. ted is a syndicated columnist cartoonist radio talk show host an author of many books, most relevant to this matter. a book called to afghanistan and back. ted rall, thank you for joining us. full disclosure. ted, as my friend and co host of the sputnik radio show called the final countdown. so i just got to put that out there. but that's not why i asked to, to join us on this topic. 10 happens to be a dual citizen, french american, or american french not sure. and which order or if it matters, he can clarify. but because of his dual citizen status, frances, his maternal homeland, the events unfolding, their hip, literally close to home for tad. so tad, as we witnessed the writing, the looting the burning of communities, all surrounding parents and beyond what goes through your mind, what's your analysis of those events? well, a lot of americans are sort of asking, what's wrong with france? why are they so crazy? oh, you know, how did things become so dysfunctional there? and i'm kind

ted rall, thank you for joining us. full disclosure. ted, as my friend and co host of the sputnik radio show called the final countdown. so i just got to put that out there. but that's not why i asked to, to join us on this topic. 10 happens to be a dual citizen, french american, or american french not sure. and which order or if it matters, he can clarify. but because of his dual citizen status, frances, his maternal homeland, the events unfolding, their hip, literally close to home for ted. so tad, as we witnessed the writing, the looting the burning of communities all surrounding paris and beyond what goes through your mind, what's your analysis of those events? well, a lot of americans are sort of asking, what's wrong with france? why are they so crazy? oh, you know, how did things become so dysfunctional there? and i'm kind of reminded of a very famous episode between throw and his good friend ralph waldo emerson. one of them was in prison for civil disobedience, or i should say in jail. and the other one came to visit him and said,

ted rall is back with us. thank you for sticking around, ted. so let's talk about what a manual my phone is doing about this. i mean, frances burning, i've seen numerous videos online of home giant buildings set a blaze by rioters. some have made comparisons to america's george floyd protest and the bill of rights of 2020. are they really comparable? i mean, you had mentioned rodney king, how is the french president responding to these violent apps? well, the french president is between a rock and a hard place because of what happened earlier this year. people are wondering whether these protests are related in any way to the yellow best protests a few years ago. they've been ongoing, as well as the wide spread protests over his decides. decision to unilaterally increase the retirement age and perhaps from 62 to 64 without consulting parliament . and there is, there is a relationship, but it's not the relationship isn't. hey, whenever we're mad, we take to the streets and pro molotov cocktails of the cops. the relationship is that the police not