WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:09.599 All right. Joining us now is Eric Peters, a friend 2 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:11.839 of the show we've had on many times. Always interesting 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.919 to talk to Eric and Eric petersautos dot com is 4 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.920 where you'll find a lot of articles about liberty and 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.839 mobility because you can't separate the two. It's kind of 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:25.640 like what Jefferson said about life and liberty, the hand 7 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:28.039 of force can destroy but cannot destroy them. Well, that's 8 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:31.600 true of mobility as well as liberty as well. So 9 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:33.799 thank you for joining us, Eric, Oh, thank you, Dive. 10 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.399 I always have a good time coming on your show. 11 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.240 I always enjoy it. Yes, let's talk about the You've 12 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.280 got several articles about what's going on with this war, 13 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:43.520 and I think one of the key ones was the 14 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.960 news blackout that you talk about, And I'm having that 15 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.320 same problem as well. I'm looking at all this stuff. 16 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.560 There's so much disinformation and very little real information, and 17 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:55.039 there's a point to all of that. 18 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.119 Yeah, doesn't it kind of feel to you sort of 19 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.320 like groundhog Day in that it's kind of back to 20 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.640 twenty twenty where we weren't allowed to have access to 21 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.840 real information about what actually was going on, and instead 22 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.799 a steady stream of regime propaganda was foisted upon us 23 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.040 to try to persuade us of things that were not true. 24 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.040 Now it's work regious. It's startling how effectively they have 25 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.680 managed to suppress any news about what is happening within Israel, 26 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.040 for example, or what has happened to our bases in 27 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.920 the region. That's right, They've got plenty of images about 28 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.959 things going on in Tehran, and it's clear they're trying 29 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.719 to manage the perception of the war. And this is 30 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.879 outrageous because Americans have a right to know what's happening 31 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.000 to their sons and daughters in that part of the world, 32 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.959 as well as you know what the consequences of this. 33 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.840 I'm just frustrated about it. This evil, idiotic, unnecessary, gratuitous war. 34 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.239 It is evil to start, it is evil. Everything about 35 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.959 it is evil. And their lies are not even plausible. 36 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:56.760 You know, the lies that they tell us in terms 37 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.400 of the cruise missile hitting the school and all the 38 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.879 rest of this stuff are as implausible as a lot 39 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.239 of this AI slop. And that's another aspect of it. 40 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.959 It's out there and we didn't have that six years ago. 41 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.319 So not only do you have these people actively suppressing 42 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.240 information about what's going on but they're also putting out 43 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.560 a lot of fake stuff. You got people splicing together 44 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.840 real clips from previous incidents that happen in other areas 45 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.879 and putting those out as if it was something that 46 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:28.080 just happened. And then there's clearly AI clips those are 47 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.000 easier to spot. So it's kind of interesting when I 48 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:32.319 look at it on the acause a lot of people 49 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.439 are saying, hey, GROC, is this real? And I know 50 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.840 that that's mocked in and of itself, and yet it 51 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.039 is pretty good in terms of between community notes as 52 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.879 well as Groc. It's pretty good at filtering out the 53 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.479 lies that people are deliberately putting up there to promote 54 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.840 one side or the other, because they'll say, well, this 55 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.240 particular clip is a mixture of this clip from back 56 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.400 here and that clip from back there, and they'll give 57 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.960 you links to those things, as well as sussing out 58 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.080 when you can see the artifacts from artificial intelligence. And 59 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.080 of course sometimes people will put up stuff that still 60 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.439 have got the Gemini logo on it, and then they'll 61 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:12.599 argue with people who call bs that aspect of it 62 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:14.879 is new. I hadn't seen that before. None of us 63 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:15.840 had seen that before. 64 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:18.319 It's frustrating and fruitless. And I like to hang my 65 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.560 hat on things that can be ascertained to be absolutely true, 66 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.800 such as how much the cost of fuel has increased 67 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.240 in this country. That's an obvious consequence fascline on average 68 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.639 is fifty to sixty cents higher now than it was 69 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.280 just ten days ago. And I think the more relevant, 70 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.560 the more important aspect of this, it's really not being 71 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.840 talked about that much, is the effect upon diesel fuel prices. 72 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:39.360 Yes, yeah, even more so. 73 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.039 Yeah, it's now up over five dollars a gallon in 74 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.159 most parts of the country. And a lot of people 75 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.360 don't make the connection between what they are paying at 76 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.960 the supermarket and Walmart and everywhere else for things and 77 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.520 the cost of diesel fuel, because of course things are 78 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.199 moved from A to B generally speaking by heavy trucks 79 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:58.599 that burn diesel and diesel electric locomotives. So if the 80 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:00.919 cost of diesel fuel goes up to five or thirty percent, 81 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:02.400 who do you suppose is going to pay for that? 82 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:05.439 We are, that's right, And we have all these hidden 83 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.400 costs going back to the Opeic embargo, which I know 84 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:11.159 you remember as well as I do. And who could 85 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.879 forget it. And you know, when you have a shock 86 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.879 to the system at the energy price level, it percolates 87 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.240 through everything, just like a value added tax. Every stage 88 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.560 it gets added there, especially because of the transportation of 89 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.360 goods and services, and diesel is a big part of that. 90 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.279 And diesel has gone up more than the gasoline at 91 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.120 the pump. And I think there might be a reason 92 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:35.319 for that, might be some kind of manipulation that we're 93 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.680 seeing there. But you point out that it's so hard 94 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.160 to find out what is happening in Iran. We have 95 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.519 some people like Corol McGregor, We have a Scott Ritter 96 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.399 who are talking about the damage that's been done to 97 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.120 radar systems that control with that and Patriot missiles, but 98 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.680 you know they have sources and you know we can't 99 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.079 verify that. Course, that's the part of that is the 100 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.240 fog of war that you're always going to see. But 101 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.319 a big part of it is that there are always 102 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.720 blowing smoke at us. Well you know what they do, yeah. 103 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:07.000 Left and right? Yes, right, and the right is particularly 104 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.680 egregious but predictably so. The thing that's astonishing is the 105 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.120 so called left, you know, which at one time at 106 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.000 least posed as being anti war. Yeah, you know, it 107 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.360 was the left that aggressively reported about what was going 108 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.120 on in Vietnam, for example, Dan rather on the ground, 109 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.439 you know, looking at what was happening over there, and 110 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:25.279 helped to generate public outrage about what was going on 111 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.120 over there. Now, the left is as bad as the right. 112 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.920 They're captive poodles of the same interests that are keeping 113 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.560 us from knowing what's going on. So it's to try 114 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.879 to render us powerless to really intelligently come to any 115 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.519 conclusion about what's happening and then to do something about it. 116 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.439 And then the absurd lines. I mentioned this every time 117 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.040 I talk to somebody about Mike Johnson saying, well, they 118 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.879 attacked us, they shot at three of our embassies, and 119 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.199 it's like, well, you know when that happened. That happened 120 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.120 after you entire attacked their entire country. It's incredible the 121 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.279 lies that they push out there. But you were talking 122 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.399 about the fact, you can't assess how much image is 123 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.399 being done to Iran or especially to Israel. They have 124 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:07.759 put out a complete news blackout in Israel to see 125 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.519 what is happening with the missiles coming in. 126 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.920 Yeah, and it's being respected by the US media, which 127 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.399 tells you something. Yeah, for all, Now, don't we have 128 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:19.560 a right irrespective of what the State of Israel and 129 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.160 the government of Israel say. I think we have a 130 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:24.480 right to know what's happening in this situation. And yet 131 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:29.160 you know, we're being prevented from having that knowledge. It's infuriating. 132 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.279 The whole thing is infuriating on so many levels. It's hard. 133 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.120 Yeah, but look at how this has been shaking out 134 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:37.680 of a period of time. I mean, we went through 135 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:42.000 this as everybody was pushing back against the atrocities in Gaza. 136 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.920 You had the Zionis lobby push very actively to get 137 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.560 any of that protest against what that foreign government was doing, 138 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:55.879 to call that racism, anti Semitism, and to censor it 139 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.560 as hate speech. And of course this is where of 140 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.079 the Republicans, who always said they eight these hate speech regulations, 141 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.199 the hate censorship, they were eager to jump in and 142 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.079 do it for their masters. And so we have seen 143 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.079 legislation after legislation proposed, some of it enacted by the 144 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:17.199 Republican Party. I still am astounded that Ron DeSantis went 145 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.959 to Israel to sign a speech censorship bill on behalf 146 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.399 of Israel. Why would a governor of a state go 147 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.120 to a foreign country and sign a censorship bill. Of course, 148 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:31.160 that's a rhetorical question. 149 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.480 Either he's owned or he's scared. I'm not sure which 150 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.639 it is. It doesn't really matter. Ultimately. There's another aspect 151 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.560 of this, though, that I think Bear's discussing. I think 152 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.240 Colonel McGregor has touched on this, and it's the despicability 153 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.639 inherent in the kabuki theater of the negotiations. I put 154 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.000 it in air fingers quotes. Before Trump decided to launch 155 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.319 the war, they had the Ranians believing they sent these 156 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.720 two arch zionists, the President's son in law, Kushner and Witcough. 157 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.399 I mean ridiculous to send these two guys, who clearly 158 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.959 are partisan agent's, to supposedly sit down with the Iranians 159 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.920 to try to hammer out some sort of a deal. 160 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.079 When there was no deal, it was a foregone conclusion 161 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.120 that the attack was going to happen. You know, that's 162 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.040 the sort of thing that you know, Americans of another 163 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.079 generation got up in arms about when the you know, 164 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.800 pardon the language, the dirty Japs sneak attacks on Pearl 165 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.199 Harbor that was considered bad form that was considered contrary 166 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.120 to the way civilized nations behave. 167 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.759 And also being the aggressor, you know, attacking when you've 168 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.399 not been attacked, attacking on the behalf of Israel who 169 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.079 had not been attacked at that point either, And so 170 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.320 all of that, the treachery, the lies, the sneak attacks, 171 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.679 it is just disgusting. And and the back and forth. 172 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.519 It came out that Benjamin Netanya who called Donald Trump 173 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.360 on the carpet because he said, I hear the onions 174 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.440 contacted you secretly. You're not talking to them without my permission? 175 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:52.000 Oh no, no, we wouldn't do it. As and so 176 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:57.919 to cover themselves, they said, we're not anti net Yahooism, right, 177 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.679 because that's really what we're talking about here, And so 178 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.320 they said we're not against him as a matter of fact, 179 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.840 got Kushner and Wikoff talked to him and the Masad 180 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.799 chief on a daily basis, and it's like, well, that's 181 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:12.519 kind of traitorous, right, there, isn't it. 182 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:15.559 Well, the thing that worries me most is that these 183 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:19.360 lunatic ignoramuses I kind of regard them as such, have 184 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.320 now painted us into a corner in the sense that 185 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.399 they put American and Israeli prestige, so to speak, on 186 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.200 the line behind this. And apparently they thought that by 187 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:34.000 assassinating the foreign head of state, the Ayatola Kamane, that 188 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:36.120 they would cause the regime to topple and it will 189 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.320 be another cakewalk, kind of like the Venezuela operation, and 190 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.240 then they could strut around and show everybody how tough 191 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.200 and big and bold they were. Well, Paranes aren't folding, 192 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.799 and any thinking person understands why, because from the Iranian 193 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:53.039 point of view, this is an existential thing. They know 194 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.840 that if they lose this, they lose their neighborhood completely, 195 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.279 they become a vassal state, and therefore they are going 196 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.919 to fight hard to the very bitter end. They're not 197 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.799 going to give in. And you can't just bomb these 198 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.159 people into submission. It's not going to happen. It isn't 199 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.360 happening very evidently. And so what's next. Are we going 200 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.799 to commit half a million ground troops? Where are they 201 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.120 going to come from? And that would take months? And 202 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:17.679 are the American people going to put up with a 203 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:22.759 draft some stars being dragooned to be sent over to Iran? 204 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.240 And what then? You know, if that doesn't work, what's 205 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.519 the next step. In other words, they've now placed particularly Israel, 206 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.960 in this position. You know, Israel ex to be perceived 207 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.919 as sort of the invincible hedgemon in the area. If 208 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.399 the Rangs win by simply not losing, that's all they 209 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.799 have to do. I think it's not out of the 210 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.000 bounds of possibility that the maniacs that run that state 211 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.399 might resort to nuclear weapons to try to end this, 212 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.320 you know, in a win as they see. 213 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.000 As a matter of fact, there's some clips that I've 214 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.759 seen people talking back and forth. I'm not sure myself 215 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.679 what the status says of it, but it certainly looks 216 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.240 like a nuclear bomb. And if they don't use a 217 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.679 nuclear bomb, they could use out of their arsenal things 218 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.000 that are as destructive, if not more destructive, than many 219 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:10.159 nuclear bombs, and that are conventional weapons. But you know 220 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.840 that is the magic word, going nuclear. And yet when 221 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:17.080 you look at the massive destruction that they're unleashing, and 222 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.759 I think the most sickening thing of all this is 223 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.679 Pete Hegseth and how he revels in all this carnage. 224 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.720 Just he's out of hand. Ye people who thinks that 225 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.679 by blowing up the Middle East. He's going to hasten 226 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.799 the return of Jesus. He's lecturing the soldiers over there 227 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.279 apparently that you know, this is the end times. It's 228 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:41.159 this eschatological apocalyptic view based upon the school field Bible 229 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:44.320 that some of these people have. Hackaby is of the 230 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.360 same mind. Right, people should be in a mental hospital, 231 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.799 not having their levers, hands on any lovers of power. 232 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:53.919 Yeah, and I keep telling everybody this is not Christianity. 233 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.159 You know, Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers, because they'll 234 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:00.000 be called children of God, not somebody who has fished 235 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.480 trace their genealogy and claims that they got a connection. 236 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:06.320 And of course there's questions about that as well, but 237 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.960 that's the reality. And so he's out there quoting things like, 238 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.360 you know, God, who prepares my hands for warfare, my 239 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:17.960 fingers for battle. That's not what that's about either, because 240 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.919 as a Christian he should know that is metaphorical for 241 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:25.639 a spiritual battle. God doesn't equip our hands for warfare 242 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.240 so we can go out and do premptive strikes against 243 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.600 civilians and murder hundreds of schoolgirls. That's not following God. 244 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.919 And disgusts me to see this, and you know, his 245 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.200 tattoos are just as phony, and his Crusader ideas are 246 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.720 just as nonsensical as his Christian ideas. He does not 247 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.519 represent Christianity in any way, shape or form. He is 248 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:48.200 anti Christians. 249 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.600 There's some other aspects of this, you know, the state 250 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.440 of Israel. People like Netanyahu, he's at best a secular Zionist. 251 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:59.399 He's not even a religious observant Jewish person. And there 252 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:04.840 is antipathy and worse toward it's Christians in Israel get 253 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:10.559 attacked in the streets. Yeah, Israel is bombing, as you know, 254 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.399 the Christian enclaves in Lebanon, killing Christian people, and you've 255 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.960 got some less Apparently it doesn't bother Heg Zeph or 256 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.240 any of these other crazed, demented Zionists, whatever you want 257 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.759 to call them. It's it's really something to worry about. 258 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.639 Yeah, they don't care about fellow Christians. They only care 259 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:33.039 about people who say that they're Jewish. And this is 260 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.759 this is really a sad thing. But you know, when 261 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.240 we look at this, Eric, I'm looking at the gas 262 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.639 tank for the US, the strategic petroleum reserve that we've 263 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.519 got there, right, what kind of idiot clowns go to 264 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.919 war without filling up their gas tank and they didn't. 265 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.279 It's still less than sixty percent. It's at fifty eight percent. 266 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:54.039 I started looking this up. 267 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.200 The stupidity of this. It almost beggars articulation. You'll hear 268 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.720 Trump talk about where we have Benezuela. There is a 269 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.639 lot of oil in Venezuela. Yeah, it's in the ground, 270 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.200 and it's quite a different matter to get that oil 271 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:09.080 out of the ground and get it refined, and get 272 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.200 it shipped and get it into the supply chain. That's 273 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.159 something that's going to take years to happen. 274 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.559 And it's not going to happen without resistance either. As 275 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.879 we're seeing in the Gulf States, it's very easy to 276 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.320 do a terrorist attack if that's what you're inclined to do, 277 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.159 to attack the infrastructure of your enemy, if they regard 278 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.600 the United States as a bully and as an enemy, 279 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:31.440 there's a lot of people they could take it out 280 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.639 on the infrastructure that's there, and you may not be 281 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.200 able to get any of that stuff out. But you 282 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.039 also had Lindsay Graham prattling around talking about how we're 283 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.000 going to get rich, We're going to control over a 284 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.080 third of the world's oil between Venezuela and Iran. You 285 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:45.720 may not have any of it. I mean, Israel started 286 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:49.120 blowing up the oil refineries in Iran, and at first 287 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.559 Lindsay Graham and Trump said, don't do that, don't do that. 288 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:54.600 We want that oil when we get it. Now they're 289 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.039 joining in with Israel blowing this stuff up, and now 290 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.399 Iran is apparently looking at They've already made a couple 291 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:06.039 of preemptive strikes against desalinization plants as well as a 292 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.639 liquid natural gas plant and an oil refinery, and they 293 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:16.320 could basically by attacking ports and refineries and factories, they 294 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.120 could basically shut down the supply of oil and gas 295 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:21.720 without even shutting down the Strait of horror moves. And 296 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.399 it could take a very long time to get that 297 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.759 back effectively. 298 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.559 They're doing it. My understanding is that a couple of 299 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.039 ships have already been hit in the straits. Yeah, and 300 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:33.799 Trump and his usual poltroonish bellicos way says that where 301 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.159 they should just grow some guts and they should drive 302 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.720 their tankers. That said from mister bone Spurs who dodged 303 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.879 the draft back in Vietnam and his son no offense 304 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.360 I mean, I mean, Baron Trump is just a kid. 305 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:44.919 You know. I don't want to see Baron Trump get 306 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.159 dragged into this any more than anybody else. But the 307 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.039 point is, you know, he's not going to suit up, 308 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.639 He's not going to go. Trump's not going to send him. 309 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.279 Lindsey Graham has no skin in the gram in the game. 310 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.159 None of these people do. It's like his evil intocracy, 311 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.720 you know, just has no more moral compunction whatever about 312 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.480 putting other people's lives and fortunes at risk and at peril, 313 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.840 and then just disregarding the havoc that they cause. It's obscene, 314 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:10.440 that's right. 315 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.480 And he's more than willing to put the deep water 316 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.679 Navy in that tiny strait, which is shallow water. It's 317 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.240 very different the way they operate, you know, it's set 318 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.879 up to be operating to get things at a distance 319 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.279 that are there in deep water. They can't operate in 320 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.360 that strait. And if he puts them in there, and 321 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.039 yet you still have his Secretary of Energy come out 322 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.440 and lie about the fact that the Navy is escorting 323 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.919 tankers to straight or hor Moose had a big effect 324 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:43.159 on Tuesday in terms of oil even after people realized 325 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.360 that it was a lie. And even after they took 326 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:47.320 the tweet down, even after the White House pulled back 327 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:49.399 and said, well, no, that's actually not true, it still 328 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.559 had the desired effect on the marketplace, which is really 329 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:53.399 truly crazy. 330 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.879 Yeah, temporarily, you know, I think Maybe's idea is to 331 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:01.200 goad the Iranians into attempting to sink an American aircraft 332 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.960 carrier or something, which would then perhaps give Trump the 333 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.720 pretext to the Iranians. The man literally said something about 334 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:11.319 he's not limited by anything at all except his own 335 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:12.359 view of what is right. 336 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.920 That's right. Yeah, it's anything he wishes. And when he 337 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.480 was talking about the tariffs and his temper tantrum after 338 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.720 the Supreme Court shut down that illegal move that he 339 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.200 had there, when he was talking about that, he said, 340 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.279 I can do anything I want. I can apply any 341 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.279 tariff that I want to to any country. I can 342 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.960 destroy any country that I wish. And of course he 343 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:31.759 knows it's a tax, and he knows that a tax 344 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.039 is the power to destroy. But of course he can 345 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.359 destroy any country he wishes with arms as well. That's 346 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.279 what he's trying to do. And back to what we 347 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.000 were talking about in terms of the war and how 348 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.279 it's going. Iran has watched what the United States has 349 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.680 done for a very long time, because we have been 350 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.599 at war with them, not for forty seven years. The 351 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.880 clock didn't start when they took over the American embassy 352 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.640 and they put in the iatolas. That was a response 353 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.279 to what we'd done about twenty six years earlier, in 354 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.680 nineteen fifty three, when we overthrew their government. And I 355 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.440 know because I knew some Iranian students in college who 356 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:08.400 were telling me about that. They were protesting the Shaw's 357 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:13.640 horrific regime when I was in college and they were 358 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:15.920 showing up a balaklavas over their head and everything. I said, 359 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.920 what's that all about? They said, well, let me tell 360 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:20.960 you about the Savak. You know, this thing that's trained 361 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:25.079 by the Ciam Masad secret police that would kill and 362 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.880 torture people if they realize that you're a political opponent. 363 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.720 That's why we have the itolas is because we did 364 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.000 regime change once before, and we don't know what we're doing. 365 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.559 When we do regime change, sometimes we put in something 366 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.079 that's even worse. And if they say that the Iatola 367 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.359 is worse than the Shaw, well you caused that just 368 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.960 like Trump caused the pump prices to go up, he 369 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.279 caused the iatolas. Our American policy by the CIA and 370 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:52.920 the continuing deep state is what caused us to have 371 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.480 an iotola there. And so these people have been looking 372 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.279 at this for the longest time. They realize that the 373 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.160 Achilles heel of the mighty American military is to have 374 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.519 a drawn out war of attrition and to use asymmetric 375 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:11.400 warfare against our very expensive, complicated and centralized systems. And 376 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.680 they have a decentralized system and even taking out the Iyatola. 377 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.839 And again I got this from Al Jazeera because you 378 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.599 have to read you some of these other sources out 379 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.200 there and try to figure out that the truth lies 380 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.680 maybe somewhere in between these two extremes that we get here, 381 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.160 the pro Zionist media here in America and the anti 382 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:33.920 Zionist media that's outside of the country. And so what 383 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.000 they were saying was they had what they called the 384 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:41.799 fourth successor, and they had people for deep to replace 385 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.200 the individual leaders that were taken out, as well as 386 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.440 decentralized command and control, and so they're in it for 387 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:48.039 the long haul. 388 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:53.799 Absolutely. You know, Americans, unfortunately have a very superficial understanding 389 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:57.039 of history, even their own recent history. Iraq is a 390 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:01.759 parallel for what's going on in Iran, the situational morality. 391 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.440 For many years, Saddam Hussein was considered to be a 392 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.319 great ally of the United States. You know, there are 393 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:10.119 famous pictures could find online of Don Rumsfeld going to 394 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.880 Iraq and shaking hands with Sadam Musin. 395 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.519 And we use him as an ally against Iran. 396 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.720 Yes, so, But then he became inconvenient for one reason 397 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:20.680 or another, and all of a sudden, at that point 398 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.920 they seem to have recognized, oh, he's a bad guy. 399 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.279 He has you know, he has dungeons, and he has 400 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:27.319 secret police, and he drags people off into the night, 401 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:28.799