Break the Rules

Are the Trump Tariffs 5D Chess or utter nonsense that will plunge the world into a recession?

Erik Finman

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Joshua Rainer

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Armand Domalewski

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Lev Polyakov

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Are Trump & the MAGA leadership going full Authoritarian when it comes to solving America's problems?

Styxhexenhammer666

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Counterpoints

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Lev Polyakov

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Does Signalgate "signal" a level of incompetence within President Trump's administration which is a threat to national security? Then we're discussing the potential for the Ukraine Russia ceasefire & what Trump will do if he doesn't see Russia wanting peace.

Brian O'Shea

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JP Lindsley

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Mike Cote

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Vlad Davidzon

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Brandon Weichert

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Lev Polyakov

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What was the mindset reinforced through the culture Millennials (& tangentially Boomers + Zoomers) lived through which got us to our current point in our culture?

Shredded Nerd

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James Cunningham (Glasscake)

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Eric Leinung-Grayson

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Lev Polyakov

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Is the Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Doomed? Join us on the BTR Levstream for an unfiltered breakdown of the latest chaos in the Russia-Ukraine war! With ceasefire talks stalling, and Trump’s peace plan hanging by a thread, we dive deep into whether peace is possible or if WW3 is inevitable should Russia not be stopped before it gets too strong.

Special Guests:

• Thomas Sauer - Former Marine Infantry & Navy Bomb Squad.

    https://x.com/thomasbsauer

• Jarrett Stepman - Commentator and historian at The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation, analyzing Trump’s role and U.S. diplomacy in the conflict.

    https://x.com/JarrettStepman

• Vladislav Davidzon - Senior Fellow Atlantic Council and correspondent for Tablet Magazine.

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Lev Polyakov

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The Right once fought back against the radical Left, but now, is it becoming the very monster it sought to slay?

Join me w/ Dave Greene (The Distributist) & River Page (The Free Press) for this debate/discussion on whether this swinging pendulum of reaction will ultimately doom the good ideas on the right from being implemented?

Even with good ideas on crime, government waste, and immigration, can a movement fix the country if it’s more fixated on slop and spectacle than statesmanship? Would the Founding Fathers sneer at JD Vance’s MAGA populists just as they would at Maxine Waters?

And if the pendulum keeps swinging, does the Right risk dooming its own cause before real change is possible?

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The Distributist

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River Page

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Article: "The Online Right Is Building a Monster"

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-online-right-is-building-a-monster

Lev Polyakov

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Was the Dark Ages are dark as has been claimed? Gnostic Informant argues in the positive w/ Pascal in the negative.

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Gnostic Informant

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

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Lev Polyakov

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Lev dives into Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy with Uberboyo and Essentialsalts as they unravel the war for identity in our chaotic times. Apollo vs. Dionysus & Order vs. ecstasy collide in a fractured world:

Boomers cling to a gaudy, Roman-esque past (Trump, MAGA, '80s excess), while Zoomers and Gen Alpha drown in shallow digital noise. Is this cultural bottleneck (stagnation above, degeneration below) killing the art of existence?

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Uberboyo

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Essentialsalts

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Lev Polyakov

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Is President Trump bringing in an age of peace through engaging w/ Russia and distancing from Ukraine, or is this the start of the Russia-China alliance making deeper inroads into conquering the West?

Journalist JP Lindsey joins us from Ukraine along w/ Steve Bannon's chief operative Vish Burra, Vlad Davidzon of the Atlantic Council, & liberal activist Armand Domalewski.

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JP Lindsey

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Vish Burra

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Vladislav Davidzon

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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/vladislav-davidzon/

Armand Domalewski

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Lev Polyakov

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With JD Vance challenging the EU on issues of free speech and a Ukraine deal brewing behind closed doors, JP Lindsley and Liberty Lockdown’s Clint Russell break down the hidden power plays shaping the future of the West, and get to the bottom of what the US & EU's response should be to the Russia/China threat.

Liberty Lockdown (Clint Russell)

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JP Lindsey

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00:39 - Trump's Napoleon Quote

02:09 - Ukrainian Anarchism

04:40 - Clint = America First

05:40 - Joseph on Clint's POV on the US

08:22 - Did the US provoke Russia?

12:24 - The Truth about Victoria Nuland

19:07 - Biden admin's appeasement of Russia

21:13 - Burisma as Pro-Russian

23:22 - Deep State’s desire to bleed Russia

25:34 - Biden Admin's reluctance at the start of the war

34:05 - Would Russia keep going beyond Ukraine?

39:46 - Ukraine's fighting spirit

42:45 - Clint: Russia's ambition ends at Crimea landbridge

44:48 - What proof of Russian expansion is needed?

45:23 - Did Zelenskyy say Russia needs to be nuked?

46:22 - Signs of Russian Expansion

52:51 - Russia's 2022 Peace Deal

56:31 - Was Putin being prudent all this time?

1:01:21 - Putin: Weakness or Prudence?

1:05:22 - Does Russia have superior military power?

1:10:25 - The precedent for appeasing nuclear threats

1:11:31 - Clint: EU, not US, should justify UKR support

1:14:38 - US's responsibility for the rest of the world

1:27:37 - Leftism in the Pro-Ukraine side

1:38:34 - How Biden hurt both the US & Ukraine

1:39:42 - Burisma as Pro-Russia (Redux)

1:43:50 - Concluding thoughts