Speaker 1: In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a
Speaker 1: revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show.
Speaker 2: As a clock strikes thirteen, it's Tuesday, the third of
Speaker 2: March of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. Well, we had
Speaker 2: a very interesting revelation yesterday from Marco Rubio. Why now,
Speaker 2: Why now did we attack Iran? As a Trump has said,
Speaker 2: you know, for forty some odd years, I've been shouting
Speaker 2: death to America, So why do we do it now? Well,
Speaker 2: we're going to tell you the very interesting reason, and
Speaker 2: it's something that unfortunately a lot of us have been
Speaker 2: talking about for quite some time. We have Warpete saying
Speaker 2: he is a recovering Neocon. I think he fell off
Speaker 2: the wagon. That was ever the truth. We're going to
Speaker 2: have Charlie Kirk and his comments about Lindsey Graham and
Speaker 2: the neocons and the failures both pragmatic and philosophical. But folks,
Speaker 2: the real failure is moral, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about how their war plans have already gone sideways. Yes, Trump, Taco,
Speaker 2: he isn't checkening out, but he always changes orders, he
Speaker 2: always changes objectives. Is that chaos and not able to
Speaker 2: steer a course? That is really the concern here as
Speaker 2: we look at the commander and thief, we'll be right back. Well,
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth says that this war in Iran is not Iraq,
Speaker 2: but he can't say what it is. And he scolds
Speaker 2: the press for saying, how dare you ask what our
Speaker 2: objectives are? Right? I mean, don't you know that we're
Speaker 2: supposed to be the rulers of the world, and that's
Speaker 2: all you need to know? By right we are the
Speaker 2: exceptional power. We can project power. And he made some
Speaker 2: vague dimensions about how Iran should not be allowed to
Speaker 2: project power. Well, the Pentagon has named this operation Epic Fury,
Speaker 2: and heg Seth doesn't really have any objectives except to
Speaker 2: say lethality. Let me just say killing everybody is not
Speaker 2: an objective. Telling everybody is not legal. It's not moral.
Speaker 2: But that's all that Pete Heseth can come up with. Lethality.
Speaker 2: They even have this thing about lethality maxing, which goes
Speaker 2: back to a lot of the slaying on some of
Speaker 2: the discussion boards and stuff. It's people who are doing
Speaker 2: crazy stuff to their body men to affect their jaw,
Speaker 2: to get the square jaw. Whatever they think that it's
Speaker 2: all about looks. Quite frankly, I think it is an
Speaker 2: appropriate way for the Pentagon to describe itself because it
Speaker 2: is all about looks, isn't it. It's all about cosmetic surgery.
Speaker 2: Forget surgical strikes. It's about cosmetic surgery, about image projecting
Speaker 2: an image not necessarily power. Well, the question when we
Speaker 2: look at whether or not he is a recovered neocon,
Speaker 2: I guess we can always question warpete is going to
Speaker 2: become repeat.
Speaker 3: I've been a recovery neo kon for six years now.
Speaker 3: Like the foolishness with which we ricochet around the world
Speaker 3: intervening think it was in our best interests when really
Speaker 3: we just overturned the table and created something worse in
Speaker 3: almost every single scenario has led to almost I mean,
Speaker 3: the hubris of the Pentagon is that they want to
Speaker 3: now tell other countries how to do counterincertaincy based on
Speaker 3: what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: So you really have learned nothing?
Speaker 2: That's right. I think you really have learned nothing either.
Speaker 2: By the way, while we're on the topic of what
Speaker 2: should US policy be and should we ever have a president,
Speaker 2: it makes a case for war, you know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: they attacked us, let's stop this threat of violence that's
Speaker 2: killing our own people. No, we are the ones who
Speaker 2: are doing that. We are the aggressor are the hitlers
Speaker 2: in all of this. Charlie Kirk got it right before
Speaker 2: he died.
Speaker 4: On one side is the Lindsay Graham John Bolton types
Speaker 4: where they are actively calling for regime change. Here is
Speaker 4: Lindsay Graham. This is just lunacy. It says nothing new
Speaker 4: in nuclear weapons at this point. This is now that
Speaker 4: we want to go all in and take out the regime.
Speaker 4: It's time for us to close the chapter on the
Speaker 4: Iranian Ayatola and his henchmen and start a new chapter
Speaker 4: in the Middle East. And that sounds good, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: But what have we learned When it comes to wars,
Speaker 4: and especially wars in the Middle East, what you draw
Speaker 4: up on a whiteboard rarely happens what you think theoretically
Speaker 4: is going to occur. There might be unintended and unforeseen consequences,
Speaker 4: especially when you're talking about a country two and a
Speaker 4: half times the size of Texas.
Speaker 1: Yes, it has ninety.
Speaker 4: Million people and was an ancient and Greek great power
Speaker 4: with well over a dozen ethnic groups. You have underground Christians,
Speaker 4: you don't really have many Jews left in Persia, but
Speaker 4: also you have secular younger Persians. Who's going to run
Speaker 4: the country exactly, Lindsay Graham, this sounds like Hillary Rodham
Speaker 4: Clinton in Libya. So I'm pointing to the first extreme
Speaker 4: right now, the neo conservative extreme. We must go take
Speaker 4: off the head of the snake right now.
Speaker 5: Be all in President Trump and helping Israel eliminate the
Speaker 5: nuclear threat. If we need to provide bombs to Israel,
Speaker 5: provide bombs, if we need to fly planes with Israel,
Speaker 5: do joint operations. But here's the bigger question. Wouldn't the
Speaker 5: world be better off if the Iototals went away and
Speaker 5: replaced by something better? Wouldn't Iran be better off? It's
Speaker 5: time to close the chapter on the Iran and iotot
Speaker 5: and his henchman. Let's close that chapter soon and start
Speaker 5: a new chapter in the Mideast, one of tolerance to
Speaker 5: hope in peace.
Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds good, but that's pathologically insane. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: it is. How do you know it's going to be better?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: The Ayatola is awful, but maybe he's one of the
Speaker 4: few guys that can keep that country together and not
Speaker 4: have a ninety million person civil war. Lindsey Graham is
Speaker 4: so consistently out of his mind it's hard to even comprehend.
Speaker 4: Regime change is not like changing the head coach at
Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears. It's not how it works. It's not
Speaker 4: like a clean transfer typically in the Mid East. It's
Speaker 4: very messy, creates a quagmire, and then there is civil war.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, their well defined plans went away right at the
Speaker 2: very beginning. The very first thing they did was the
Speaker 2: decapitation strike. When all the leaders are meeting and Trump
Speaker 2: told Jonathan Carl he said, yeah, we had three or
Speaker 2: four candidates that we wanted to replace the Ayatola. We
Speaker 2: killed them all. That's how this stuff goes. They don't
Speaker 2: have a plan. Then the gang that can't shoot today,
Speaker 2: they don't know what they're doing. And of course we
Speaker 2: got to get the Ietol out of there because he's
Speaker 2: a horrible guy, and he is. It's kind of interesting
Speaker 2: all of the things that people are talking about in
Speaker 2: terms of what the Ietola did. He's got his secret police,
Speaker 2: he arrests, tortures, kills, dissidence, on and on and on.
Speaker 2: One of the longest authoritarian leaders that the world has
Speaker 2: had longest surviving. I looked at it and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, the Shaw did all of those things. Our guy,
Speaker 2: the Shaw was there for another year longer than Comane was,
Speaker 2: and the Shaw is the one who basically paved the
Speaker 2: way for Comane to take over. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: things here that are really working against themselves. One of
Speaker 2: the things in terms of when you look at the
Speaker 2: the motivation of people to fight a war and don't
Speaker 2: underestimate them, I think that counts a great deal, especially
Speaker 2: an asymmetric warfare. Motivation is a big part of the equation.
Speaker 2: And they want to talk about how they did this
Speaker 2: precision surgical strike and we can pinpoint accuracy, we can
Speaker 2: do this and that and earthing. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: how do you explain then, these two schools that were killed,
Speaker 2: where they killed one hundred and fifty or one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty something kids girls in one school alone, about
Speaker 2: another fifty or sixty in the other school, how do
Speaker 2: you explain that At the same time, you're boasting about
Speaker 2: the accuracy of your weapons and your targeting, and you're planning,
Speaker 2: and of course what Scott Ritter was saying yesterday I
Speaker 2: played that clip for you. He was involved in targeting
Speaker 2: when he was in the military, and he said he
Speaker 2: is haunted by the fact that they got bad intel
Speaker 2: and they targeted this bomb shelter and killed so many civilians,
Speaker 2: a lot of them chillildren. And so his take on
Speaker 2: it was, this is just kind of a quota system.
Speaker 2: You know, the Trump administration comes in in the Pentagon
Speaker 2: and we got to have X number of strikes, so
Speaker 2: give us targets. And he said, these guys are just
Speaker 2: going through grabbing targets, sloppily grabbing targets. That's what this
Speaker 2: is about. And I think people are going to see
Speaker 2: they talk about blowback. That's one of the very first
Speaker 2: places it begins. First of all, have their decapitation strike.
Speaker 2: They not only kill the I TOOLLA, but they kill
Speaker 2: the people they think they can work with. Secondly, they
Speaker 2: brag about their precision strike while they kill two schools
Speaker 2: full of children. And so this is not a rock
Speaker 2: This is not endless, said heg Seth. He said, all
Speaker 2: you people talking about mission creep, but it's not mission creep.
Speaker 2: I guess it's just creeps on a mission right committee
Speaker 2: to re elect the president. Sounds like going back to
Speaker 2: Nick and dan Kane had laid out the mission and
Speaker 2: operational terms protect US forces prevent Iran from projecting power
Speaker 2: beyond its borders, and disrupt and destroy its ability to
Speaker 2: sustain combat operations. Well, dan Kine had some other things
Speaker 2: to say, and I reported that before the strike went
Speaker 2: out dan Kane and it was widely leaked, apparently by
Speaker 2: jd Vance, who would like to become president. He sees
Speaker 2: his chances evaporating with this war. He point out that
Speaker 2: dan Kaine said, you know, we're short on AMMO and
Speaker 2: we're short on allies. That's a big deal. And so
Speaker 2: there was a lot of reluctance there in the Pentagon
Speaker 2: from the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And
Speaker 2: yet Trump does it anyway, I want to talk about
Speaker 2: why he did it here in a moment so emphasize
Speaker 2: the US as setting the terms of this war from
Speaker 2: start to finish. Are we really are we really know
Speaker 2: what are the legal basis for these combat operations? And
Speaker 2: are we setting the terms for it? Are we in
Speaker 2: control or is there a tail that's winging the dog.
Speaker 2: That's basically what Rubio said in a meeting with some
Speaker 2: congressional leaders that they call the Gang of Eight, destroying
Speaker 2: missile stockpiles and we're degrading naval capacity. These are measurable tasks. Well,
Speaker 2: we're also we're not just destroying the stockpiles of ammunition
Speaker 2: of the Iranians. We're destroying our own stockpiles, leaving us
Speaker 2: vulnerable as we're trying to provoke a war with China
Speaker 2: as well. Ensuring that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: It is a strategic objective, but it can't be secured
Speaker 2: by air power. A durable nuclear outcome would require verification, monitoring,
Speaker 2: and an inspection framework that's capable of confirming compliance over time.
Speaker 2: You're going to have somebody on the ground to do that.
Speaker 2: When the Secretary promises quote no stupid rules of engagement
Speaker 2: and rejects the constraints associated with prior conflicts, he signals
Speaker 2: a posture that is centered on unilateral force. This is
Speaker 2: why I say he only talks about killing people. That's
Speaker 2: his only plan lethality. And when he despises rules of engagement,
Speaker 2: that's why Warpete despises international rules of war, why he
Speaker 2: despises the Geneva Convention, why he despises the Pentagon's rules
Speaker 2: that have been there. You know, things like we don't
Speaker 2: kill people who are shipwrecked. There's so many of these
Speaker 2: things that they're doing. Of course, in the Caribbean. A
Speaker 2: Daily Call reporter Reagan Reese asked Trump, I said the
Speaker 2: US would leave when all the objectives are complete, and
Speaker 2: then asked Trump directly, well, what are those objectsives? Or Pete,
Speaker 2: how dare you ask the president what his objectives are?
Speaker 2: You're not realizing that you're talking to a king here,
Speaker 2: and of course his objectives always change that Taco tex
Speaker 2: Seth replied, Iran projects power in a way that we
Speaker 2: can't tolerate. Let's think about that. US and Israel have armies,
Speaker 2: US and Israel have planes and missiles, US and Israel
Speaker 2: have nuclear weapons. None of that can be tolerated by Iran.
Speaker 2: We project power. As a matter of fact, that seems
Speaker 2: to be the only thing that we're concerned about is
Speaker 2: projecting power. Iran can't project that. But if you're going
Speaker 2: to stop that, here's this double standard that we've got here.
Speaker 2: If you're going to stop them projecting power, is that
Speaker 2: not an open ended mission? Well, yes it is. Preventing
Speaker 2: Iran from projecting powers not a narrowly defined condition. Projecting
Speaker 2: power can include support for proxy militias, weapons transfers, cyber operations,
Speaker 2: missile tests, maritime activity, political influence to aligned groups. This
Speaker 2: is what we do. We do all of these things,
Speaker 2: but they better not do that. They don't have a
Speaker 2: right to exist. They don't have a right to protect
Speaker 2: themselves from us, even if we attack them. If suppressing
Speaker 2: power projection becomes the organizing principle, the mission's boundaries become
Speaker 2: inherently movable. Any remaining influence can be treated as justification
Speaker 2: for continued action. These are these same people who tell
Speaker 2: us we're not getting into a quagmar, We're not going
Speaker 2: to do an endless war. And yet if your goal,
Speaker 2: the only goals we can kind of suss out of
Speaker 2: these people is to stop them from projecting power, that
Speaker 2: is an endless conflict, punitive strikes without occupation, and precisely
Speaker 2: what the Iraq Lexin was supposed to teach. Degrade the
Speaker 2: capability and the costs and leave before the insurgency starts.
Speaker 2: Excess explicit rejection of nation building isn't evasion, it's a doctrine.
Speaker 2: The problem isn't that the strategy is incoherent. The problem
Speaker 2: is that projecting power as a terminal objective has no
Speaker 2: natural stopping point. It expands to meet whatever resistance it encounters.
Speaker 2: Kind of like the war on terror, right, it's a
Speaker 2: war on a tactic. It's not even a well defined
Speaker 2: first And of course the terrorists were being trained and
Speaker 2: funded by the US government as well al Qaeda, the
Speaker 2: mouje Hidin before them, then al Qaeda. Then isis who
Speaker 2: actually ran air cover for this guy who had this
Speaker 2: long rap sheet. I guess you could say his resume
Speaker 2: of being in every one of these terrorist groups. We
Speaker 2: helped to install him as leader in Syria and destabilize
Speaker 2: that area. We go, we leave chaos and death. The
Speaker 2: doctrine has precedent. The precedent is not encouraging the nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty six tripley strikes, which is what Kirk was saying,
Speaker 2: and this sounds like Elary Clinton right. Nineteen eighty six
Speaker 2: tripley strikes were declared a success within forty eight hours
Speaker 2: and a failure within a decade. Hegseth has also said
Speaker 2: the US will fight to win. Winning presumes that something
Speaker 2: can be identified and measured If the desire to avoid
Speaker 2: nation building produces a strategy defined almost entirely by punitive
Speaker 2: force without a clearly articulated political settlement, then success becomes
Speaker 2: synonymous with contained degradation rather than a stable, verifiable outcome.
Speaker 2: And of course they will let us know when they
Speaker 2: have won. They will let us know. They're not going
Speaker 2: to define what the mission is. They'll let us know
Speaker 2: when the mission has been accomplished, just like George W.
Speaker 2: Bush did on the deck of the air can remember
Speaker 2: that mission accomplished, one lie after the other, Hexa said Monday.
Speaker 2: I think one of those fallacies for a long time
Speaker 2: is that this Department, Department of Defense, or presidents or
Speaker 2: others should tell the American people and our enemies, by
Speaker 2: the way, here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how
Speaker 2: long we'll go, here's how far we'll go, Here's what
Speaker 2: we're willing to do. And not do that is foolishness,
Speaker 2: he says, Well, is it foolishness to define what you
Speaker 2: were fighting for why you're fighting. I guess the people
Speaker 2: who fought World War II were fools, right, right right.
Speaker 2: The US government went through a great deal of trouble
Speaker 2: with the Frank Capra series of films Why We Fight.
Speaker 2: Everybody knew why they were fighting. They were fighting because
Speaker 2: they were attacked, right, and other countries were attacked Hitler
Speaker 2: the same way that we do it now. You know
Speaker 2: the preemptive strike from Japan. Hey, we got to attack
Speaker 2: them because they've put these crippling sanctions on us or whatever.
Speaker 2: So we knew why we fought in World War Two
Speaker 2: and we knew what the objective was. We don't have
Speaker 2: that kind of clarity anymore because the people who are
Speaker 2: leading our government and our armed forces don't have that
Speaker 2: kind of clarity themselves. That is foolishness of the worst kind.
Speaker 2: All warpete wants is lethality killing. That is his objective.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing you're going to get out of
Speaker 2: this sky. When the objective is undefined, allies cannot calibrate
Speaker 2: their own risk. So it makes it more difficult to
Speaker 2: get allies right. You're asking me to buy into something
Speaker 2: that you don't have a defined objective to achieve. Here,
Speaker 2: what's that all about? And that's what we're doing, and
Speaker 2: that's why we're in the situation that we're in public
Speaker 2: fatigue with an open ended war is well defined, establishing
Speaker 2: explicit boundaries to keep the campaign from expanding. Addresses strategy,
Speaker 2: do you have one, As I said Trump, from the
Speaker 2: very beginning, from the very first strike, things went in
Speaker 2: a different direction. Trump told Jonathan carl in an interview that
Speaker 2: he had successors in mind after the strikes in Iran,
Speaker 2: but they were all killed. And so it goes when
Speaker 2: you are going to be the policeman of the world,
Speaker 2: right And he said the attack was so successful that
Speaker 2: it knocked out most of the candidates. Trump told me,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be anybody that we were thinking
Speaker 2: of because we killed them all. And so first striking,
Speaker 2: how stunningly successful the president believes this military has been.
Speaker 2: He actually told me, nobody else in the world could
Speaker 2: have done this. It's not geopolitics, folks, it's ego politics.
Speaker 2: It's not three D chess as a fool's Errand anyway,
Speaker 2: he said, the attack was so successful and knocked out
Speaker 2: most our candidates. So how is that successful? Successful in
Speaker 2: a way that only somebody who has bankrupted a half
Speaker 2: dozen casinos, who is that stupid could think that it's successful.
Speaker 2: You had a plan, did you, well? Trump completely ignored
Speaker 2: White House reporters On Sunday night, he decided that he
Speaker 2: would point to and hang around statues of Jefferson and
Speaker 2: Franklin that he recently put in the Rose Garden area.
Speaker 2: I got to say, that is as close as you'll
Speaker 2: ever get to Jefferson and Franklin. He rejects that colartion
Speaker 2: of independence, he rejects the Constitution, he rejects their politics,
Speaker 2: their philosophy, their actions, but he embraces the statue. I
Speaker 2: get to say, going back to the late nineties, I
Speaker 2: told the family, I said, I don't ever want to
Speaker 2: go to Washington again. I don't have to. I said,
Speaker 2: this place is nothing but a cemetery of liberty. You
Speaker 2: can look around it and you can see the statues
Speaker 2: of Jefferson and Franklin, other people who appreciate and understood
Speaker 2: liberty and gave it to others. As I've always said,
Speaker 2: liberty is one thing you can't have unless you give
Speaker 2: it to others. They were wise enough to understand that.
Speaker 2: But I look around and it's a it's a mausoleum,
Speaker 2: is a cemetery of monuments to great men that we
Speaker 2: don't have anything like them anymore. I mean, the picture
Speaker 2: of this orange pig standing next to statue of Jefferson
Speaker 2: makes me want to throw up. You're not even of
Speaker 2: the same country. Get out of here. It's like Ven
Speaker 2: Miller talking about we we we when he talks about
Speaker 2: America and the founding of America. His parents came here
Speaker 2: as refugees during World War Two. He didn't do anything
Speaker 2: to build this country. He's destroying it. He's anesthetical to
Speaker 2: everything this country is about. Steven Miller is one of
Speaker 2: the most anti American, un American immigrants we've ever had.
Speaker 2: I'd take a million Mexicans if we could get rid
Speaker 2: of Steven Miller, ten million, unbelievable on welfare. Just get
Speaker 2: rid of this guy. Unbelievable. So he hangs around the
Speaker 2: statues of the non interventionist hopefully something will rub off
Speaker 2: on him. I don't know. Trump skipped out on answering
Speaker 2: questions from the press the day after he had done
Speaker 2: this as strike. We were shouting questions, what's your message
Speaker 2: for the families of the service members who were killed?
Speaker 2: How long are we going to be in this conflict?
Speaker 2: He doesn't talk about any of that. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, there is a reporter host. I guess Joey Jones,
Speaker 2: who's on Fox News. I don't know who this guy is,
Speaker 2: but he told Maga he said it's okay to ask
Speaker 2: questions about troops killed in Iran. Americans, he said, demand
Speaker 2: answers when our blood is shed. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: think he was talking to ordinary rank and file people, right,
Speaker 2: Maga whatever. I think he was talking to his employers
Speaker 2: at Fox News, saying it's okay if I ask questions
Speaker 2: of the King Trump, because Americans know it's okay we
Speaker 2: do question authority. He's talking to himself, He's talking to
Speaker 2: his bosses at Fox when he says that he saw
Speaker 2: combat and both Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan. He lost
Speaker 2: both legs above the knee, and he suffered severe damage
Speaker 2: to his arm and wrists. He urged viewers on Sunday
Speaker 2: tonight lose sight of the ultimate sacrifice those soldiers made.
Speaker 2: A day earlier, he said, it's incumbent upon me to
Speaker 2: stop for a moment. I understand that there's a that
Speaker 2: three people killed is a small number. Well, it's getting
Speaker 2: bigger all the time. We're now, as of last night,
Speaker 2: we were up to six, he said. But three lives lost.
Speaker 2: Three Americans killed in action for what. He didn't say
Speaker 2: that right, Three Americans killed in actions, hundreds if not
Speaker 2: thousands of lives affected, he said, really millions for every
Speaker 2: American out there that understands what that is like, Well,
Speaker 2: I agree, and I think that is important, But I
Speaker 2: also don't think that only American lives matter. You know,
Speaker 2: three Americans were killed, We had what maybe two hundred
Speaker 2: school children between the ages of seven and thirteen, young girls.
Speaker 2: They don't matter because they're Iranian. They don't matter because
Speaker 2: the Iotola was their leader. They didn't have anything to
Speaker 2: do with the Iatola being in power. Who knows if
Speaker 2: they even liked him or their parents even liked this guy.
Speaker 2: That's like saying it's okay to kill Americans because of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I despise that man. You're gonna say that
Speaker 2: gives Iranians a license to kill me and my family.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's get real about that. That's what war is.
Speaker 2: We're going to kill these people in this other country
Speaker 2: because we don't like their leader. How about we have
Speaker 2: trial by combat. I'd like to see if Trump could
Speaker 2: take on this guy, who was in his early eighties,
Speaker 2: I don't know, got some new health concerns with Trump
Speaker 2: as some things are showing upon his neck. It's and
Speaker 2: I'm not laughing at the health condition. It howppens to
Speaker 2: all of us. But I'm just saying, why don't we
Speaker 2: let these old men fight it out with each other
Speaker 2: instead of killing innocent people. Well, a drone has impacted
Speaker 2: a US embassy and riot. After Rubio warns that the
Speaker 2: hardest hits are yet to come. Yeah, Trump says they
Speaker 2: we're protecting four to five weeks, but it can go longer,
Speaker 2: whatever it takes. In other words, another opened ended war.
Speaker 2: The straight of horm moves is closed, and they will
Speaker 2: set any ship on fire that tries to pass through.
Speaker 2: Worder's reports citing Iranian media, so West Texas intermediate crude
Speaker 2: oil is now up by more than seven percent following
Speaker 2: the headlines. You know, they've very proud of the fact
Speaker 2: that Iran had I don't know something seven or eleven
Speaker 2: ships or something, some small number of ships in that area.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if they qualify a ships. They
Speaker 2: might have been boats, but they said they're all gone.
Speaker 2: Right the Iranian quote unquote navy, if they ran a
Speaker 2: navy all gone, that's not what's going to close the
Speaker 2: straight of hor moves. It's asymmetric warfare. They have missed,
Speaker 2: they have drones, and it's a very narrow passageway that's there,
Speaker 2: and the tankers going through are very vulnerable. You want
Speaker 2: to take a chance with your billion dollar tanker or
Speaker 2: whatever these things cost go through straight u horor moves,
Speaker 2: or maybe just set this out and we just stopped
Speaker 2: the flow of oil. As I said yesterday, when you
Speaker 2: compare the amount of oil that goes through the straight
Speaker 2: horor moves, it's about twenty percent of the global supply.
Speaker 2: That is far far more than the amount of oil
Speaker 2: that was blocked with a nineteen seventy three OPEC embargo.
Speaker 2: America's importation of for and oil was only nineteen percent,
Speaker 2: and the OPEK embargo only was against the United States,
Speaker 2: and it only lasted about six months or so. But
Speaker 2: look at the economic consequences and how that unfolded through
Speaker 2: the rest of the seventies, the inflation it kicked off,
Speaker 2: the stagflation that it kicked off, the mass recession that
Speaker 2: happened with it. And because what happened was the US
Speaker 2: went into the global market and started buying up oil
Speaker 2: from had to have the oil and buying it up
Speaker 2: from other people, raising the price for everybody else. But
Speaker 2: this is twenty percent of the global supply that's affected
Speaker 2: in terms of going through the Strait of removes. And
Speaker 2: it's not just the oil and transit. It is also
Speaker 2: the refineries, which are clearly a target by the Iranians.
Speaker 2: This is something we've already seen in the Russian Ukraine War.
Speaker 2: The refineries especially become a target, very vulnerable, soft target,
Speaker 2: but it can affect any of the infrastructure, and it
Speaker 2: can happen here domestically as well. How many ships will
Speaker 2: be willing to go through the Iranian kamikazi drones taking
Speaker 2: pot shots? Marco Rubio says, well, the president always has
Speaker 2: all options on the table, yet he believes that the
Speaker 2: objectives can be achieved without any ground forces. So there's
Speaker 2: no diplomacy happening with Iran, and the next hits are
Speaker 2: going to be the hardest to come. This is not
Speaker 2: a rock. It's not endless. We'll see. But it started
Speaker 2: the same way as Iraq didn't it with lies about
Speaker 2: weapons of mass destruction, started exactly the same way. History
Speaker 2: doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly does. Rhyme doesn't it
Speaker 2: so Iran can't contest US control of the Gulf in
Speaker 2: a conventional fight, but it doesn't need to. His strategy
Speaker 2: has always been centered on denial, using drones, missiles, minds
Speaker 2: to raise the cost of commercial transit through her moves.
Speaker 2: Even if their so called navy takes heavy losses than
Speaker 2: they have, the core threat remains. Drone and missile attacks
Speaker 2: can still disrupt shipping, and can still rattle energy markets
Speaker 2: and still rattle the global economy. Meanwhile, the surreal implications
Speaker 2: underlying all this, Rubio says, I've been asked why now
Speaker 2: and what did he tell them? And it really got
Speaker 2: a lot of people upset. He told the Gang of
Speaker 2: eight leaders in the Senate and the House, he said, well,
Speaker 2: Israel was going to strike, so they forced our hand.
Speaker 2: We had to do it because Israel is going to
Speaker 2: do it. They don't take any orders from us, They
Speaker 2: give the orders to us. And it's not just giving
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump with Jewish billionaires
Speaker 2: like Miriam Maddelson. It's not just doing that. It is saying, well,
Speaker 2: we as a country are going to attack Iran. And
Speaker 2: what Rubio said was if they attack Iran, we know
Speaker 2: that Iron is poised to immediately release attacks on our
Speaker 2: bases and so forth, so we decided that we better
Speaker 2: get ahead of them, and we better attack first, and
Speaker 2: we better take out these bases because before we absorb
Speaker 2: those strikes. That's the logic. If you want to call
Speaker 2: it that, it's weakness of the worst kind, isn't it.
Speaker 2: He wants to prattle on about the omnipotent presidency. We've
Speaker 2: got all options always on the table, do whatever we want,
Speaker 2: unless it's something that Israel doesn't want to have happen.
Speaker 2: In that case, we have to do what they want. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not just about our corrupt politicians who've sold us out,
Speaker 2: so people need to go to jail. Why are they
Speaker 2: allowing this to happen, Well, we know why they allow
Speaker 2: it to happen. They're the ones who could pass the
Speaker 2: law to stop this foreign influence, but they're profiting from
Speaker 2: the foreign influence, so they keep it going. So we're
Speaker 2: out up to six US service members killed in action,
Speaker 2: eighteen seriously wounded. Trump claims a big wave is coming
Speaker 2: and they are deploying more troops to the region. THEA
Speaker 2: Defense Ministry says their defense have intercepted nine ballistic missiles
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight drones. You know, that's part
Speaker 2: of the problem. Talked about this when we play I'm
Speaker 2: sure you played risk and you know that when you
Speaker 2: are attacking, they presume that an attacker a defender brother
Speaker 2: has like a three to one It's been a long
Speaker 2: time since I played, Do you remember, Travis. Is it
Speaker 2: like a three to one advantage or something? You know,
Speaker 2: when you're rolling the dice, anyway, they skew it that way,
Speaker 2: and yet when you're talking about missile defense, it goes
Speaker 2: the other way. The advantage is with the attacker because
Speaker 2: it's so hard to shoot down these missiles coming in.
Speaker 2: You need to have three anti missiles for every missile
Speaker 2: coming in. That's one of the reasons why the supplies
Speaker 2: are so decimated in the Twelve Day War and what
Speaker 2: is happening in Ukraine, because you've got to have a
Speaker 2: lot of anti missile missiles in order to even have
Speaker 2: a fighting chance, so to speak. This military says it
Speaker 2: has a stock of over twelve one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: targets and it has struck I'm sorry, over twelve hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty targets in Iran since the start of the
Speaker 2: operation and over six hundred Iranians killed and climbing, including
Speaker 2: two hundred schoolgirls. Big victory, right. This reminds me of
Speaker 2: Robert McNamara's body counts that were running through the Vietnam War.
Speaker 2: I wasn't old enough to fight. I was old enough
Speaker 2: to know what was going on. Believe me, I was
Speaker 2: focused on that because my sisters were older and they
Speaker 2: knew boys who were going to Vietnam and had been there.
Speaker 2: I paid a lot of attention to it. And this
Speaker 2: is the same kind of folly, just disgusting. Trump says
Speaker 2: he doesn't rule out sending more troops on the ground
Speaker 2: to Iran. He said, I don't have the yips whatever
Speaker 2: that means with respect to boots on the ground. Like
Speaker 2: every president says there will be no boots on the ground,
Speaker 2: I don't say that, says Trump. After he launched strikes
Speaker 2: on Saturday, he said, I say, probably don't need them
Speaker 2: or if they were necessary, because he has less interest
Speaker 2: in appearing to be reasonable, appearing to be good than
Speaker 2: any other president I have seen. I've never seen anybody
Speaker 2: who is as openly contemptuous of the constitution of the
Speaker 2: rule of law and the lives of his own people
Speaker 2: than Donald Trump. Didn't we see that in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Why did people vote for him a second time? I
Speaker 2: don't understand it. Don't understand it. So I said before,
Speaker 2: I thought he was more dangerous than La La Harris
Speaker 2: because people know who La La Harris is. She's going
Speaker 2: to try to do a lot of things, and she'd
Speaker 2: wake up people and they would resist her. Trump, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, does this stuff. He kills people right
Speaker 2: front of you, shoot him on Fifth Avenue or whatever,
Speaker 2: shoot him up with this vaccine, lock you down with
Speaker 2: martial law, and people still give him a pass. I
Speaker 2: think he's the most dangerous president, without a doubt of
Speaker 2: my lifetime. So, yeah, he lies about everything else, but
Speaker 2: when it comes to the troops and their lives, he
Speaker 2: just doesn't care enough to lie. So the admission by
Speaker 2: Rubio saying, well, you know, we had to do it
Speaker 2: because Israel was going to do it. We can't ever
Speaker 2: tell them what to do, right, I mean, you give
Speaker 2: them billions of dollars, but we have no leverage with
Speaker 2: them whatsoever. Matt Walsh said, well, he's flat out telling
Speaker 2: us that the war with Iran is because Israel forced
Speaker 2: our hand, forced our hand. They basically told us what
Speaker 2: we had to do. Iran is claiming to have shot
Speaker 2: down at least one US jet, while US and Kuwaiti
Speaker 2: counterclaim there's actually friendly fire. It's kind of like the
Speaker 2: thing you didn't fire me, I quit right. They don't
Speaker 2: want to say that happened to them. Meanwhile, NATO has
Speaker 2: taken a pass as if they had anything to help
Speaker 2: with NATO Mark Ruta, who is now head of NATO,
Speaker 2: So the alliance will not participate in the joint US
Speaker 2: Israeli mission. The joints chiefs say that more American service
Speaker 2: members are being added to this operation. Go die for Israel.
Speaker 2: That's what this is about. Discuss me Rabobanks take is
Speaker 2: paraphrase down to one single key sentence. The US strike
Speaker 2: in Iran is Trump's high risk gamble to choke China's
Speaker 2: energy lifeline, to flip Tehran to Allied control, to open
Speaker 2: the India Middle East Europe Corridor, weaken Russia and lock
Speaker 2: in twenty first century US of jiminy, delivering quick regime change,
Speaker 2: falling oil prices that cement trump Ism as a historic win.
Speaker 2: None of that is involved. We're doing it because Israel
Speaker 2: told us this grand strategy that they want to project
Speaker 2: onto Trump. None of that is going to happen, folks,
Speaker 2: None of that. And it wasn't his strategy anyway. He
Speaker 2: did it because Natanyahu told him to do it. Or
Speaker 2: here's the other alternative, says Robobank. Or it could spark
Speaker 2: Middle East chaos yep, and global blowback yep. That hands
Speaker 2: Beijing and advantage and a new age of empires. I
Speaker 2: think that second scenario is the most likely one for sure.
Speaker 2: So reporters are still frustrated by lack of a timeline
Speaker 2: or laying out any specific objectives. Yeah, take that to Congress.
Speaker 2: This is why, in the wisdom of people like Jefferson
Speaker 2: and Franklin, we said, let's have a deliberation about this,
Speaker 2: let's discuss before we go to war, what is happening.
Speaker 2: And that's just from a pragmatic standpoint, And then you
Speaker 2: have the legal aspect, and then you have the overarching
Speaker 2: moral aspect of this, that you don't initiate wars, you
Speaker 2: don't start wars. A premptive strike is starting a war
Speaker 2: that in and of itself is im moral. It's wrong.
Speaker 2: It's a moral to start wars isn't that why everybody
Speaker 2: got fired up about Pearl Harbor and about Hitler attacking
Speaker 2: Poland and on and on. You're starting wars, so heg Seth.
Speaker 2: They kept asking, he Seth, can't you tell us what
Speaker 2: your plans are with this? How dare you? How dare
Speaker 2: you ask me? He says, didn't you hear my remarks?
Speaker 2: We are ensuring that the mission is getting accomplished. We've never,
Speaker 2: and we would never in front of a press pool
Speaker 2: lay out how long that may take. And they would
Speaker 2: never lay out what the mission is. They'll tell you
Speaker 2: what the mission is once they have decided that they've
Speaker 2: accomplished the mission, just like George W. Bush on the
Speaker 2: aircraft carrier deck. Trump previously told the Daily Mail it
Speaker 2: take up to four weeks. Well, as this commentary says
Speaker 2: on zero Hedge, for a month of intense warfare will
Speaker 2: seem like a lifetime, given how fast events. At the
Speaker 2: blowback of incoming of the last forty eight to seventy
Speaker 2: two hours, he just told CNN we're about to hit
Speaker 2: them hard and the operation is progressing very well. The
Speaker 2: big wave hasn't happened yet, but it will come soon.
Speaker 2: There's now an official Pentagon casualty death count. Golf allies,
Speaker 2: especially Israel, are getting hit hard by Ron's significant ballistic
Speaker 2: missile arsenal. Trump himself may now be and only too late,
Speaker 2: realizing that he just bit off more than he can
Speaker 2: chew and ordering this ultra risky regime change operation. There is,
Speaker 2: as of yet no clear and game. Trump has talked
Speaker 2: about reaching objectives without defining them. Of course he would
Speaker 2: right keep it fluid. I don't want to tell you
Speaker 2: if he defines an objective, folks, then he runs the
Speaker 2: risk of not meeting that objective and being seen as
Speaker 2: the loser. That he is, lucky loser. That was the
Speaker 2: name of the book that he sued the people for
Speaker 2: publishing that because they talked about how he was. It
Speaker 2: was a slot machine with Trump's face on it, coming
Speaker 2: up on the on the three different wheels. And you
Speaker 2: know he's a gambler and he doesn't win even when
Speaker 2: he's the house. It's crazy anyway, very predictable, very familiar.
Speaker 2: Sounds like the two thousand and three Iraq war under
Speaker 2: Bush and the Neo cons Israel is taking significant casualties
Speaker 2: at least nine dead and dozens wounded. Has Law has
Speaker 2: entered the war. Even British US bases on Cyprus have
Speaker 2: come under drone attack, Gulf nations are seeing casualties, and
Speaker 2: even other European bases in the region have come under fire.
Speaker 2: These have been sustained, particularly on Israel. If Trump's thinking
Speaker 2: really approached this as if it was a one and
Speaker 2: done Venezuela, and that after some quick salvo, a country
Speaker 2: of ninety million with a well armed, experienced military would
Speaker 2: immediately shout uncle. He's probably already realizing that this situation
Speaker 2: is spiraling out of control, far beyond his expectations. But
Speaker 2: he was clearly and loudly warned. Yet it is also
Speaker 2: true that Iranian top leadership is fast being depleted. It
Speaker 2: seems the Pentagon is already throwing the White House and Trump, however,
Speaker 2: under the bus, or at least as doing so. Through
Speaker 2: anonymous quotes given to The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN,
Speaker 2: and others, Pentagon briefers acknowledged that Iran was not planning
Speaker 2: to strike US forces or bases in the Middle East
Speaker 2: unless Israel attacked Iran first, undercutting the administration's argument Saturday
Speaker 2: that Tehran was planning to potentially strike the US premptively
Speaker 2: and posed an immediate threat, according to multiple people who
Speaker 2: attended the briefing. Well, now we have had Marco Rubio,
Speaker 2: Secretary of State, say that it's not just leaks out
Speaker 2: of the Pentagon, but the threat of a preemptive strike
Speaker 2: from Iran was not that at all. It would have
Speaker 2: been a retaliatory attack based on Israel's preemptive attack. So
Speaker 2: he decided we would go in im premptively attack. So
Speaker 2: senior administration officials told reporters on Saturday that the US
Speaker 2: chose to attack Iran because it had received indications that
Speaker 2: the regime was planning to launch missile attacks against US
Speaker 2: bases in the region preemptively and create a mass casually situation.
Speaker 2: There was no intelligence to support the administration's claim on this,
Speaker 2: and now that has been that was reported by CNN
Speaker 2: and by the New York Times and Washington Post. There
Speaker 2: was no intelligence to support the idea that Iran was
Speaker 2: planning a preemptive attack, and now Marco Rubio has said
Speaker 2: has verified that said. The intelligence was that Israel was
Speaker 2: going to start the war, so we had to get
Speaker 2: out in front of them because they won't listen to us.
Speaker 2: They're not our ally, they're our commander, and so. Dan Kine,
Speaker 2: who is head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned
Speaker 2: about five different points. He said that the war plans
Speaker 2: under consideration carried a very high risk of significant American
Speaker 2: and allied casualties. He cautioned that a multi day campaign
Speaker 2: would exhaust the defense munitions and other limited supply items
Speaker 2: critical for protecting regional partners like Israel if Iran retaliated again.
Speaker 2: Short on ammunition, short on allies, he said an intensive
Speaker 2: operation against Iran could deplete stockpiles to a level that
Speaker 2: would complicate US readiness for potential future conflict with China.
Speaker 2: We have to leave ourselves vulnerable. The Empire has to
Speaker 2: get vulnerable. Can't protect itself because they're going to protect Israel.
Speaker 2: But even that is called into question. Do we even
Speaker 2: have enough missiles to protect Israel, our bases, our allies.
Speaker 2: He described the potential campaign as one that could stretch
Speaker 2: the military thin and leave forces over text. Finally, he
Speaker 2: gave high likelihood of success. He said was unable to
Speaker 2: provide similar guarantees regarding a large scale strike on Iran.
Speaker 2: He had given a high likelihood of success when it
Speaker 2: came to Venezuela and Maduro. You know, kidnapping a leader
Speaker 2: is a very different thing than going to war against
Speaker 2: a country the size of Iran, and that was his point.
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, we're going to you know, we can
Speaker 2: certainly do this Venezuelan crime, but in terms of starting
Speaker 2: a war with Iran, I can't guarantee that's going to
Speaker 2: be successful. So the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Speaker 2: and of course, remember that Trump and Warpete were very
Speaker 2: careful to handpick loyalists to Trump. They didn't want people
Speaker 2: who were going to rock the boat. We're going to
Speaker 2: push back against what he wanted to do. Glenn Greenwall
Speaker 2: said that for decades, Netanyahu in American neocons have dreamed
Speaker 2: of only one foreign policy goal, having the United States
Speaker 2: fight a regime change war against Iran. With the Oval
Speaker 2: Office occupied now by Trump, who campaigned for a full
Speaker 2: decade on a vow to end regime change wars and
Speaker 2: vanished neo conservatism. Their goal has finally been realized. They
Speaker 2: got exactly what they want. And as Reason points out,
Speaker 2: the goalposts of the Iran war keeps shifting, and you're
Speaker 2: going to see him shift. Trump doesn't want to say
Speaker 2: what the strategy is, because he's always changing his objectives.
Speaker 2: He's always changing his orders. You think the tariff thing
Speaker 2: was bad and chaotic, wait to see the way this
Speaker 2: guy conducts a war. Well, we're going to take a
Speaker 2: quick break before we go. This is yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 2: see this until the show ended. Iris machine Gun, thank
Speaker 2: you very much for the tip. He said. No words
Speaker 2: can express how sick I am of this warmongering present.
Speaker 2: That was exactly the position I was in Sunday night
Speaker 2: when I was looking at this. It's like, there's so
Speaker 2: much to say, so much to cover here. I know
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave out and I'm sure that they
Speaker 2: did leave out some very important things here. My contempt
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump and his regime. I really can't put
Speaker 2: it into words. I try, but I can't ap rumble seat.
Speaker 2: As if the last few years wasn't enough, via both
Speaker 2: sides of the aisle between Orange Man and Biden. Now
Speaker 2: we're geopolitically isolated and a big red target for terrorism.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. We'll be right back, folks.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. Well, how popular is this war here in America? Well,
Speaker 2: turns out not very popular. A Reuter's poll showed on
Speaker 2: taken on Sunday shows only twenty seven percent of Americans
Speaker 2: support the US attacking Iran. Forty three percent of Americans
Speaker 2: opposed the war. Another poll it was twenty five percent support,
Speaker 2: fifty nine percent opposed. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: if you look at this article from Free Thought Project,
Speaker 2: they said, here are twenty nine polls showing that Americans
Speaker 2: do not want war with Iran. War with Iran is
Speaker 2: arguably the most unpopular foreign policy proposal of the last
Speaker 2: forty years. And in this very long article, I won't
Speaker 2: go through all the details, but they go through one
Speaker 2: pole after the other, and it's not even close. Again
Speaker 2: when you look at it, it's underwater, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the very first one they've got here underwater by
Speaker 2: fifty three percent of people, you know, fifty three percent
Speaker 2: more people do not want the war then want the war.
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green calls out Vance and Gabbard for previous
Speaker 2: opposition to the war with Iran. I played the clips
Speaker 2: yesterday of Tulsey Gabbard, and of course we had Stephen
Speaker 2: Miller saying, you know, a young guys, if you don't
Speaker 2: want to go to war for Biden, you better vote
Speaker 2: for Trump. Well, how's that working out for you? Marjorie
Speaker 2: Taylor Green called them out. She said, Vance and Gabbard,
Speaker 2: you both need to speak out against this war in Iran.
Speaker 2: People are paying attention, very close attention. Silence won't cut it.
Speaker 2: You were both on record repeatedly, publicly, loudly against going
Speaker 2: to war with Iran. Our friend Charlie Kirk was adamantly
Speaker 2: against war with Iran. You cannot be silent. Americans are dying.
Speaker 2: You both know this is not what we campaign for,
Speaker 2: and this is one d perc what we said would
Speaker 2: not happen. We said, I said, you said, no more
Speaker 2: foreign wars, no more regime change. All we want wanted
Speaker 2: was America first. This is not it. You know, part
Speaker 2: of what Charlie Kirk was saying, and again it was
Speaker 2: about the pragmatism, and it was about I think we
Speaker 2: need to stop calling these people neocons. There's nothing conservative
Speaker 2: about them. They're just con men and women. But they're
Speaker 2: really warmongers. They sell war. They profit from war. That
Speaker 2: is their raison debt. That is how they get and
Speaker 2: stay in office. They do whatever it takes for the
Speaker 2: Machiavellian industrial complex. And that's really what it's about. It's
Speaker 2: about selling war. And one of the things that Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk said, he said, well, you know we have on
Speaker 2: the other hand, we have Ron Paul and you know,
Speaker 2: I know these people can be isolationists, but you know
Speaker 2: that's kind of a pejorative term. We shouldn't really call them.
Speaker 2: They're really kind of looking at these things and we
Speaker 2: should be cautious about it because of the practical history.
Speaker 2: You know, look at how this has worked out for us.
Speaker 2: Stuff is not working out, he says, as a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, has been such an epic failure. We just
Speaker 2: need to reject that philosophy. It's not to say that
Speaker 2: we need to jump into isolationism with both feet. We can,
Speaker 2: but that is really closer to what we want to
Speaker 2: look at. Look, it's not Ron Paul. I just I
Speaker 2: saw that and I wanted to say to Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 2: It's like, it's not just Ron Paul. It was George Washington.
Speaker 2: It was the founders of this country and for generations
Speaker 2: they said, we don't go abroad seeking monster destroy We
Speaker 2: don't want to have foreign entanglements with other nations and
Speaker 2: get drawn into their wars and to fight their wars
Speaker 2: for them, like we did for Israel. In this particular case,
Speaker 2: this is in a foreign entanglement that has drawn us
Speaker 2: into a war with Iran. It's classic, we knew about that. Instead,
Speaker 2: what do we want? We want peace and we want
Speaker 2: commerce with all countries. Trump doesn't want commerce. He wants conflict,
Speaker 2: and he's done that from the very begame. It's all
Speaker 2: about ego politics. There's no geopolitics in this at all.
Speaker 2: It's all about his ego. It's about intimidation. It's a
Speaker 2: mafia approach to government. He wants to be king of
Speaker 2: the world. He wants these people about him to kiss
Speaker 2: his ring. It's very destructive, very chotic. As I said,
Speaker 2: he is a one man fourth turning Depression and World War.
Speaker 2: Gabbard ran a presidential campaign and made no more regime
Speaker 2: change wars a major plankover campaign. She was also highly
Speaker 2: critical of Trump's escalations against Iran, which included the January
Speaker 2: Excuse me, the January twenty twenty killing of the Iranian
Speaker 2: general Solomani. Which is why I say, why are people
Speaker 2: surprised about anything like this that Trump does. Look at
Speaker 2: what he did throughout twenty twenty, look at what he
Speaker 2: did with Iran and an assassination. It used to be
Speaker 2: that assassinations were considered to be evil because they are evil,
Speaker 2: but somewhere along the way we got brainwashed by all
Speaker 2: the James Bond movies. This is very clearly an active war.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Gabard said at the time, the assassination of
Speaker 2: sole Money. This is clearly an active war by this
Speaker 2: president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war
Speaker 2: from Congress, clearly violating the Constitution, said Gabbard. Trump also
Speaker 2: launched the current war with Iran without any authorization from Congress.
Speaker 2: But it's all different now because now he gave her
Speaker 2: a job. He gave her a job, that's all it
Speaker 2: takes right for her to sell out the constitution. Vance
Speaker 2: warned against the idea of a war with the Zomik Republic.
Speaker 2: He said, our interest, I think is very much in
Speaker 2: not going to war with Iran. It would be a
Speaker 2: huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to
Speaker 2: our country, he said. Green came out strongly against the
Speaker 2: US attack on Iran hours after they began on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and has cited Trump's overseas interventions and support for Israel
Speaker 2: as it's committing atrocities in Gaza as one of the
Speaker 2: reasons for her falling out with a president and her
Speaker 2: recent resignation. So again, why did they do it? Well,
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio went to Congress and he told them, he said,
Speaker 2: the US launch premptive strikes against Iran after learning that
Speaker 2: Israel was about to attack. American troops in the region
Speaker 2: faced an imminent threat of retaliation, said Rubio, So we
Speaker 2: had to do We had to react to what Israel
Speaker 2: was going to do. Because Israel doesn't care what is
Speaker 2: our interests. They have absolutely no loyalty or respect for
Speaker 2: the United States. Just take a look at the Jonathan
Speaker 2: Pollard example for they betrayal of the spying and then
Speaker 2: selling very damaging secrets to the Russians. Sorry, let me
Speaker 2: clear my throat here. Rubio made the revelation on Capitol Hill,
Speaker 2: where he briefed a small group of Congression leaders, the
Speaker 2: so called King of Eight. There was absolutely an eminent threat,
Speaker 2: he said. The eminent threat was from Israel. The eminent
Speaker 2: threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked,
Speaker 2: and we believed that they would be attacked, that they
Speaker 2: would immediately come after us, and we were not going
Speaker 2: to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded. So,
Speaker 2: because we can't have any control over Israel and they
Speaker 2: have nothing but contempt for the well being of the
Speaker 2: United States, we had to defend ourselves by attacking, Rubio said.
Speaker 2: The Department of War determined that a defensive posture following
Speaker 2: an Israeli attack would only open the US to more casualties.
Speaker 2: He said, we went proactively in a defensive way to
Speaker 2: prevent them from inflicting higher damage. What or well, in
Speaker 2: double speak, we went proactively in a premptive attack defensively.
Speaker 2: That's the same thing you heard from Japan. Secretary Rubio's
Speaker 2: remarks indicate that Israel put US forces in harm's way
Speaker 2: by insisting on attacking Iran, said Congressman and Jaquem Castro.
Speaker 2: And the administration was complicit joining their war rather than
Speaker 2: talking them down, because evidently we have no leverage with them, right,
Speaker 2: they control Trump and Rubio and congress Matt Walsh said,
Speaker 2: So he's fed out telling us that we're at war
Speaker 2: with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically
Speaker 2: the worst possible thing he could have said. So how
Speaker 2: about we tell Israel what to do for a while? Right,
Speaker 2: can't do that. Iran had a prepositioned it's missiles and
Speaker 2: had them ready on alert, said Rubio. He didn't specify
Speaker 2: where the missiles raiming or which US targets would have
Speaker 2: been within range. The small country of lawmakers being briefed
Speaker 2: on Monday is referred to as the Gang of eight,
Speaker 2: comprised of the leaders of both parties in the House
Speaker 2: and Senate and their respective Intelligence Committee chairman. Because the
Speaker 2: intelligence agencies are the true government of this country and
Speaker 2: they're the ones who get us into wars. So you
Speaker 2: had people like Mike Johnson, Haiking, Jeffries, John Thune, Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 2: and then the House Intelligence Committee chairmen and ranking members
Speaker 2: and both parties. Democrats across both chambers have decried the
Speaker 2: Trump administration for not informing them and not informing lawmakers
Speaker 2: of the impending military action against Iran. He said, well,
Speaker 2: there's no law that requires us to do that. Look
Speaker 2: at how Marco Rubio perverts and inverts the constitution. He says,
Speaker 2: the law says we have to notify them forty eight
Speaker 2: hours after beginning hostilities. We've done that, and I think
Speaker 2: the notification went today, but did notify members of Congress.
Speaker 2: Did but we did notify members of Congress in advance.
Speaker 2: We can't notify five hundred and thirty five members of Congress.
Speaker 2: He said, well, that's not what the constitution says. The
Speaker 2: Constitution says five hundred and thirty five members notify you.
Speaker 2: If you're allowed to do this, they decide whether not
Speaker 2: a war should start. If the war starts, then it's
Speaker 2: up to you to conduct it. But they decide when
Speaker 2: the war starts, not you. We don't want to have
Speaker 2: all that power with one individual. And of course the
Speaker 2: founders understood that. They said, the executive branch is the
Speaker 2: ones most likely to get us into a war. We
Speaker 2: have seen that now over an over again. He said,
Speaker 2: We've complied one hundred percent with the law, and we're
Speaker 2: going to continue to comply with it. You can't trust
Speaker 2: anything that these people say. Everything they say is a lie,
Speaker 2: everything they say is a perversion. Everything they say is
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Speaker 2: He said, there is no strategy. Trump is doing what
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Speaker 2: he was in his first term. I have no idea
Speaker 2: why people thought that the guy who effed up America
Speaker 2: to an unprecedented level of f up was somehow going
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Speaker 2: I've never seen or even imagined that a president would
Speaker 2: lock down a country and so you got to stay
Speaker 2: locked down until I got a vaccine. I knew what
Speaker 2: Dark Winter was about. I just didn't think they'd be
Speaker 2: able to pull it off. Honestly, I didn't think the
Speaker 2: American people would go along with it. I didn't go
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Speaker 2: go along with it. I couldn't understand how complicit and
Speaker 2: passive the American sheeple were with all this stuff, and
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Speaker 2: little bit about regime change. The running and state media
Speaker 2: is now confirmed that the Supreme Leader, wh don't aways
Speaker 2: start calling that they give Trump that title? All right?
Speaker 2: King just doesn't get you there. Of course, Shaw was
Speaker 2: the Persian word for king. But I think, you know,
Speaker 2: I think Maga and Trump would be happy with Supreme Leader. Anyway.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Leader is dead now and eighty six year
Speaker 2: old Ayatola who had ruled Iran for thirty six years.
Speaker 2: As I said before, you know, he was actually there
Speaker 2: for thirty six years eight months. The Shaw was in
Speaker 2: power for thirty seven years and six months, so again
Speaker 2: about another ten months longer than the Shaw was there.
Speaker 2: And I looked at it, and you know, part of
Speaker 2: what's going on with this is he wasn't just a
Speaker 2: political leader, but he was also a religious leader. I
Speaker 2: look a little bit into the difference between Sunni and
Speaker 2: Shia Muslims, because these are two main sects of Muslims,
Speaker 2: and the Sunnis are about ninety to eighty five percent,
Speaker 2: means that the Shia are about ten to fifteen percent
Speaker 2: of Muslims, which is equivalent to about three hundred to
Speaker 2: five hundred million Shias. And they look at this guy
Speaker 2: who had this office, They look at him in a
Speaker 2: sense that some people said, kind of like a pope
Speaker 2: for the Catholics. There is a sense of succession that
Speaker 2: they have for this. They believe that, and this is
Speaker 2: part of the difference between the she Is and the Sunnis.
Speaker 2: The she Is are more like they have They don't
Speaker 2: necessarily she Is identify a line of secession. But the
Speaker 2: Sunnies are basically focused on collective community and debate in
Speaker 2: terms of coming up with the consensus for how they're
Speaker 2: going to interpret their Islamic law, and the she Is
Speaker 2: are saying, well, we want people who are in a
Speaker 2: line of succession going back to Muhammad, and they're going
Speaker 2: to decide who this next supreme ruler is going to be.
Speaker 2: It is a kind of a thing we look at it.
Speaker 2: It is very much like the Shah the King. I
Speaker 2: can see why they would have both of these authoritarian
Speaker 2: leaders in because you've got some guy who is basically
Speaker 2: in this lion of succession. Again, they're talking about the
Speaker 2: Shaw's son as if he's a possibility to put in there.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think that's going to work. Basically,
Speaker 2: who knows that might be part of the plan that Netta,
Speaker 2: who has for Trump to do, will have to wait
Speaker 2: and see. But Commani was one of the world's longest
Speaker 2: serving authoritarian rulers, but not as long serving as the Shaw. Again,
Speaker 2: about another ten months for the Shaw. Comani took power
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine following the death of the Iotola
Speaker 2: who was there with the revolution, Ietola Komenie And I think,
Speaker 2: I think this guy's name is like Kamani or something
Speaker 2: instead of Komeni. They almost look the same, but they're
Speaker 2: two different people. And so there was a really old
Speaker 2: Iaetola who took over in nineteen eighty nine, the revolution
Speaker 2: that dethroned the Shaw. This guy was there for thirty
Speaker 2: six plus years as Supreme leader. He held authority over
Speaker 2: the judiciary, the state, media, and over all security forces.
Speaker 2: Sounds just like the Shaw, doesn't it He wielded that
Speaker 2: power ruthlessly against descent. Thousands of protesters were killed under
Speaker 2: his watch during the most recent crackdown. Again, sounds like
Speaker 2: the Shaw, the Shaw and his secret police, the Slavak,
Speaker 2: created and trained by the CIA and Massad Iran's exiled
Speaker 2: former Crown Prince. Reza Pavlavi, a leading opposition leader who
Speaker 2: has organized mass protests against regime, also called for the
Speaker 2: Iranian people to take to the streets. The question I
Speaker 2: have when I ever look at this. Everybody talks about
Speaker 2: the iatolasm. Yeah, they're horrible, right and very repusitive, very tutalitarian,
Speaker 2: But nobody talks about how repressive in totalitarian the Shaw was.
Speaker 2: And my only thinking on this is that the press
Speaker 2: takes so much of their direction and information from the CIA,
Speaker 2: and the CIA put that king in Well, what is next?
Speaker 2: As people were asking what's next for Ron after Kamani
Speaker 2: is dead, this person writing on RT says, as a
Speaker 2: researcher of Middle Eastern politics, I can't treat such actions
Speaker 2: as a surgical strike. They amount to the demolition of
Speaker 2: constraints that once, however imperfectly made the international arena at
Speaker 2: least somewhat predictable. And this is the folly of Steven
Speaker 2: Miller and his ilk, the idea that hey, every country,
Speaker 2: every country's borders are up for grabs, and if you
Speaker 2: can't defend it, you can't keep it. We're going to
Speaker 2: take Greenland, We're going to do this. We're going to
Speaker 2: go after Cuba next, and all the rest of the stuff.
Speaker 2: There's just this endless list of conflict and chaos that
Speaker 2: Steven Miller and the Trump regime want, and that's the
Speaker 2: reality of all this stuff. Yeah, the Shaw was evil,
Speaker 2: and Comane was evil, but you knew where these guys were.
Speaker 2: It was predictable, and you could work around that to
Speaker 2: try to maintain peace internationally. He says, the physical elimination
Speaker 2: of a state's top leader and assassination is an acceptable
Speaker 2: policy tool. If it is, then law becomes stage scenery
Speaker 2: rather than an organizing principle. And that's really where we
Speaker 2: are with the Trump regime. Law is just scenery and
Speaker 2: it only applies if they like the law. If they
Speaker 2: don't like the law, they ignore it. That's the hallmark
Speaker 2: of a dictator. Dictator says, the law is in my mouth.
Speaker 2: It's whatever I dictate whatever I say. So rules only
Speaker 2: apply when they serve the strong, and they can be
Speaker 2: set aside when they do not. This in a nutshell
Speaker 2: is Steven Miller and Donald Trump against that backdrop. Reports
Speaker 2: of a strike on a girl's primary school has been
Speaker 2: absorbed with particular bitterness in Iran, whether there'll be any
Speaker 2: clear moral judgment at all, or whether the tragedy will
Speaker 2: dissolve into cautious phrasing and familiar rituals of justification whenever
Speaker 2: responsibility falls on us allies. Again, this is part of
Speaker 2: the problem that they have. While they want to focus
Speaker 2: on how precise and surgical their strikes are, in the decapitation,
Speaker 2: taking out the leaders and all that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: then that kind of works against the idea that, hey,
Speaker 2: this is just an accident and you know, the fog
Speaker 2: of war and all that. You know, we have unintended
Speaker 2: casualties during war. Well, it really does undermine that narrative
Speaker 2: that it was just accidental collateral damage killing all these schoolgirls.
Speaker 2: When you drone on and on about your decapitation surgical
Speaker 2: strikes in moments like this, emotion risk becoming policy. The
Speaker 2: loss of a figure of this scale talking about the
Speaker 2: Ittoo again now will not be experienced only as a
Speaker 2: political development. For many site communities beyond Iran's border, it
Speaker 2: will register as a symbolic wound. And we may see
Speaker 2: that the Shiites had the fan in many, many countries.
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's like ten to fifteen percent of
Speaker 2: all the Muslims, and you just basically killed their religious leader,
Speaker 2: not just the guy who was the political leader of
Speaker 2: Iran and not very well liked either in that capacity.
Speaker 2: So this can sharpen anti Israeli sentiment, It can widen
Speaker 2: the line of confrontation with the West, the subtle arithmetic
Speaker 2: of vengeance that turns outrage into recruitment. And when we
Speaker 2: look at this shooter in Austin, I don't know if
Speaker 2: anybody has looked at his background to see if he
Speaker 2: is a Schehite Muslim. That might have been his motivation.
Speaker 2: He was not from Iran. He was from I think
Speaker 2: was it Senegal? Did you remember that Trevis?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 8: I heard Senegal, but I didn't confirmed.
Speaker 2: But you know, he could very well have been a
Speaker 2: she Heite Muslim. So the pattern of strikes, the framing
Speaker 2: of the campaign are widely interpreted as an attempt to
Speaker 2: deprive Iran of both mind and heart, systematically removing the
Speaker 2: upper tiers of decision making. The strategic wager is clear,
Speaker 2: disrupt succession, provoke the elite, fragmentation and paralyzed government at
Speaker 2: the very moment that the state is at its most vulnerable.
Speaker 2: But those who imagine Iran as a structure held up
Speaker 2: by one man underestimate the degree to which the Islamic
Speaker 2: Republic has been changed under these siege conditions for several decades,
Speaker 2: over decades of sanctions, covert action, and external threats to
Speaker 2: developed institutional redundancies and continuity mechanisms precisely to survive shocks
Speaker 2: in systems that have lived under permanent threat. Succession planning
Speaker 2: is a survival mechanism. Reuter's reports say Iahtola Rafi has
Speaker 2: been appointed as the Jewish the jurist member of the
Speaker 2: Leadership Council. He's not the Jewish member. They don't have
Speaker 2: a Jewish Iatola tasked with temporarily carrying out the Supreme
Speaker 2: Leader's duties. It is a signal system intends to have
Speaker 2: no vacuum even under bombardment and to lock in transition
Speaker 2: framework that Iran's constitutional logic provides politically, he is a
Speaker 2: figure rooted in the clerical milio while simultaneously embedded in
Speaker 2: the state's institutional circuitry. You're not going to see much
Speaker 2: of a change. They're quite frankly regime change. Decapitation is rarely, however,
Speaker 2: about one person. It's about preventing the body from finding
Speaker 2: another head. It looks around, I'm trying different heads on
Speaker 2: I guess for size. Finally, hovering over every successful scenario
Speaker 2: is a security establishment, and that in Iran is the
Speaker 2: Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Core. External assessments cited by Reuters suggests
Speaker 2: that the aftermath may produce not dilution, but consolidation. Strategies
Speaker 2: of decapitation frequently yield an adverse effect, an inverse effect.
Speaker 2: The higher the pressure, the higher the probability of accelerated consolidation,
Speaker 2: tightening of ranks, and a harsher survival mode. People are
Speaker 2: in existential threat mode right It's either kill or be killed.
Speaker 2: The gravest danger in the current US Israeli course is
Speaker 2: that the attempt to finish Iran by eroding governability and
Speaker 2: disabling institutions may open the door to a future drenched
Speaker 2: in blood and Ruin the history of the region recently.
Speaker 2: Modern times has repeatedly shown that dismantling a state from
Speaker 2: the outside rarely yields a clean outcome. More often, it
Speaker 2: unleashes cycles of violence, fragmentation, and revenge, paid for not
Speaker 2: by decision makers but by ordinary families, neighborhoods, and children.
Speaker 2: Even those who imagine that collapse will deliver liberation tend
Speaker 2: to discover that the vacuum does not remain empty. It
Speaker 2: fills with militias, with vendettas, with economies of predation, with
Speaker 2: leaders who rise listen to this not because they can govern,
Speaker 2: but because they can hurt. Right, let's say, I just
Speaker 2: want you to get even with those guys over there.
Speaker 2: So what Trump and his idiots have gone is just
Speaker 2: kick the ant bed here and make them angry and
Speaker 2: put them in survival mode. And when I look at
Speaker 2: what has been happening with the massive the iron fist
Speaker 2: that the Ayatola hit these protests with, it was something
Speaker 2: that some Christian organizations have been involved in. They said,
Speaker 2: this is an opportunity for us to a help other
Speaker 2: people and doing so to give them the gospel. And
Speaker 2: there was an organization that was helping to equip them
Speaker 2: and train them in terms of giving medical help and
Speaker 2: other things like that. Those people are going to have
Speaker 2: a target on their back right now, thanks to Trump,
Speaker 2: thanks to the Pentagon. Whenever they go into Middle Eastern
Speaker 2: country and kick the ant bed, this is what always happens.
Speaker 2: It winds up being the extinction of all the Christians
Speaker 2: in the area. This is another part of their policy
Speaker 2: that happens reliably and continuously each time they do this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Well, we're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 2: and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what has been done last few days. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy must be partying and celebrating like he's never
Speaker 2: done before. He is so excited one war after the other,
Speaker 2: and he thinks that Donald Trump is the greatest president
Speaker 2: he's ever seen, just as I think he's the worst
Speaker 2: president I have ever seen. So Lindsey Graham is out
Speaker 2: there taunting Cuba, saying you're next. He said that after
Speaker 2: Venezuela as well, he said to Cuba, you're next, And
Speaker 2: so Lindsey Graham unloaded a sharp threat against Cuba after
Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury. As a matter of fact, I saw
Speaker 2: a meme where they had cash matel dressed up in
Speaker 2: her furry costume and he's sitting at this table with
Speaker 2: everybody else in suits, and he said, I thought you
Speaker 2: said it was Operation Free. Appearing on Sunday Night America
Speaker 2: with Trey Goudi, Graham told Trey Goudi that Trump must
Speaker 2: finish the job that Reagan failed to do. It wasn't
Speaker 2: just Reagan, It's pretty much every president has had a
Speaker 2: chip on their shoulder about Cuba. Cuba. He praised Trump's
Speaker 2: moves to strike her on in Venezuela before it, he
Speaker 2: useduld a start threat toward Cuba. Cuba's next. They're going
Speaker 2: to file this communist dictator in Cuba. Their days are numbered,
Speaker 2: said Lindsay. Then he loved up on Trump some more.
Speaker 2: I have admired you. I have never admitted admired you
Speaker 2: more than I do right now. He loves them. That's
Speaker 2: gott to creep you out if you're hed a sexual,
Speaker 2: I guess anyway. Charlie Kirk in turns how I played
Speaker 2: that early in the program, he said, Lindsay Graham is
Speaker 2: absolutely insane. He is, He's deranged, He's crazy, certifiably. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you keep doing the same stuff over
Speaker 2: and over again expecting different results, you are crazy. Is
Speaker 2: a crazy, murdering sob really, Lindsey Graham is. So I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe for any president
Speaker 2: when it comes to foreign policy. Now, what does that
Speaker 2: tell you about Donald Trump? Right? Neo Khan extraordinary. Here's
Speaker 2: the guy who if you look up the word neo
Speaker 2: Khan in the dictionary, you're going to see Lindsay Graham there, right,
Speaker 2: And he thinks that the goal standard for Republicans and
Speaker 2: for any president is Donald Trump. In other words, the
Speaker 2: neo Khan, the leading neokon says that the best Neo
Speaker 2: Kan of all is Donald Trump. Trump. I have admired you.
Speaker 2: I'd never ad mind you more than I do right now.
Speaker 2: Graham has made similar threats against qby before telling reporters
Speaker 2: the Bard Air Force in January, you just wait for Cuba.
Speaker 2: Cuba is a communist dictatorship. It's killed priests and nuns.
Speaker 2: They've preyed on their own people. Their days are numbered.
Speaker 2: Have we done a lot of that as well? On Friday,
Speaker 2: before the Iran strike, Trump flouted the idea of a
Speaker 2: quote unquote friendly takeover of Cuba through borders outside the
Speaker 2: White House. A friendly takeover, he says, they don't have
Speaker 2: anything right now, but they're talking with this, and maybe
Speaker 2: we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba, you know, like
Speaker 2: a friendly takeover of Greenland or Canada or in this
Speaker 2: other nonsense. We could very well end up having a
Speaker 2: friendly takeover of Cuba after many, many years. Said well again,
Speaker 2: hostile takeover is really more like it, especially if we're
Speaker 2: looking at Graham, because he is hostile to everybody and everyone.
Speaker 2: Washington has aggressively tightened its economic stranglehold on Cuba in
Speaker 2: that nice and friendly bless their hearts, pressuring Venezuela's new
Speaker 2: acting president, Delci Rodriguez to cut off oil exports of
Speaker 2: the island. The move has strangled Cuba's already struggling economy,
Speaker 2: compounding severe fuel and food shortages that are there. The
Speaker 2: saber rattling from Washington comes just days after a deadly
Speaker 2: shootout at sea between Cuban Coastguard and armed men in
Speaker 2: a boat allegedly stolen from Florida. That's the first I've
Speaker 2: seen that. They said the boat was stolen. But again,
Speaker 2: these guys are you know it is there is a
Speaker 2: mania amongst ex Cubans to take over Cuba. This is
Speaker 2: yet another one of these instances here. The incident which
Speaker 2: left for dead, is further inflamed tensions, and Cuba has
Speaker 2: accused the US of failing to curb the militancy of
Speaker 2: exile groups and the American soil who seek to overthrow
Speaker 2: the government of Havnor. Cuban deputy Foreign Minister stated that
Speaker 2: the incident was not isolated, but part of a sixty
Speaker 2: year pattern of attacks and countless terrorist attacks organized, financed
Speaker 2: and carried out from the territory of the United States. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean that absolutely is true. To go back and
Speaker 2: look at the Bay of Pigs and other things like that.
Speaker 2: And in terms of aggression, I think the most aggressive
Speaker 2: thing that ever saw Cuba do to the United States. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been horrific with their own people. They've confiscated the
Speaker 2: property of a lot of people who fled to Cuba.
Speaker 2: But I think probably the worst thing that happened was
Speaker 2: the release of all these criminals that Castro did who
Speaker 2: made their way to Florida. And that was firement was
Speaker 2: that mariol Anyway, there was a ton of unsavory characters
Speaker 2: who are unleashed by Castro. That's about the worst thing
Speaker 2: that I saw done to the United States. Understand internally
Speaker 2: what Castro did to people that were there. Steven Miller,
Speaker 2: if young men don't want to be drafted to fight
Speaker 2: in Kamala's and Cheney's Third World War, they better get
Speaker 2: out and vote for Trump. He said, well, no, I
Speaker 2: think your best bet that didn't work, did it. I
Speaker 2: think your best bet is to get adopted by Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you're one of his children, you don't have
Speaker 2: to go to war. There's a hashtag out there. I
Speaker 2: mentioned this yesterday about Baron. There's a hashtag now send Baron.
Speaker 2: It's always rich Man's war, poor Man's fight. That was
Speaker 2: a phrase from the Civil War, you know, when I
Speaker 2: played as Shenandoah earlier. I always think about that movie
Speaker 2: whenever I talk about war and how the character played
Speaker 2: by Jimmy Stewart and that how his family did not
Speaker 2: want to get involved on either side, but they got
Speaker 2: drawn into this senseless conflict. People on both sides kidnapped,
Speaker 2: killed his children in that And that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2: It's always rich Man's War, poor Man's fight. Baron is
Speaker 2: a good example of this. The hashtag send Baron is
Speaker 2: trending on social media as a satirical website calls for
Speaker 2: Trump to deploy his youngest son into the military. The
Speaker 2: website draft Baron trump dot com was set up by
Speaker 2: a former South Park writer amid Operation epic Fury, which
Speaker 2: has seen the US and Israel launch extensive air strikes
Speaker 2: against Iran. At least they say here, at least four
Speaker 2: American servicemans now up to six and counting, have been killed.
Speaker 2: Trump has been accused of appearing indifferent toward those deaths,
Speaker 2: shrugging them off as the reality of war and warning
Speaker 2: that US death toll could get quite a bit higher. Hey, folks,
Speaker 2: that's just the way it is for you. Little people.
Speaker 2: Get used to it. Rich Man's War, poor Man's Death.
Speaker 2: During brief remarks at a Medal of Honor ceremony and
Speaker 2: the wake of the attacks, the President spoke about his
Speaker 2: plans for the ballroom in the White House he has
Speaker 2: the same thing he did in the wake of Charlie
Speaker 2: Kirk's death. Yeah, it wasn't that a horrible thing. Hey,
Speaker 2: I tell you about my ballroom. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: He's basically doing the same thing yet again. Toby Morton,
Speaker 2: a comedian and former South Park writer who runs dozens
Speaker 2: of political parody sites, recently made headlines for scooping the
Speaker 2: Trump Kennedycenter dot org and Trump Kennedycenter dot com domains
Speaker 2: and using them to troll the president who wanted to
Speaker 2: put his name above the Kennedy Center that was there.
Speaker 2: If you're looking for proven jenes, inherited courage and unquestionable resolve,
Speaker 2: looked no further than the Trump family. Leadership starts somewhere.
Speaker 2: That's what he put on his website. And of course
Speaker 2: a lot of people have been trolling the Trumps with
Speaker 2: all this stuff. When we look at you've got this
Speaker 2: AI animated picture that they had of Donald standing there
Speaker 2: with a bearing between him and Milania. And this is
Speaker 2: a quote from the website, the parody website. People come
Speaker 2: up to me with tears in their eyes and they say, sir,
Speaker 2: you're the strongest. Send Baron off to war and so forth.
Speaker 2: So all we did was they put that in the
Speaker 2: AI to do Donald Trump's voice, and combine that with
Speaker 2: the AI video that's out there, and we got this.
Speaker 9: People come up to me with tears in their eyes
Speaker 9: and they say, sare you're the strongest, Send Baron off
Speaker 9: to war. I've always been strong, very strong, stronger than
Speaker 9: anyone expected. Some say the strongest ever, and strength matters.
Speaker 9: Believe me, I'm sorry, son, it was me or you
Speaker 9: and my bone spurs still hurt.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact. Yeah, the bones spurs stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what got them off of the Vietnam War draft.
Speaker 2: And the daughter of the pediatress that wrote him the
Speaker 2: doctor's excuse, I'm sorry, Donald Trump can't go to Vietnam.
Speaker 2: He's got bone spurs. He's got to stay home, said
Speaker 2: that it was always a family joke, that always laughed
Speaker 2: about it. How he did it as a favor to
Speaker 2: Trump's father. Potis is chilling at his own country club
Speaker 2: while starting World War three. Hashtag send Baron and again
Speaker 2: the person who talks about that is doctor Alissa Bronstein
Speaker 2: and Sharon Kessel, the daughters of a queen's pediatrist, doctor
Speaker 2: Larry Bronstein, he provided the bone spur diagnosis. He later
Speaker 2: told The New York Times it was a favor from
Speaker 2: their father to Trump's father, who was his landlord. But
Speaker 2: it looks like Baron might actually have a legitimate excuse.
Speaker 2: He's too tall for the military. They have a off
Speaker 2: of six six in the Marines, and the other branches
Speaker 2: of the military have a cutoff of six foot eight.
Speaker 2: Baron is already six foot nine. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's still growing or not. So again, he's too tall
Speaker 2: for the military. They can't fit him in the tanks
Speaker 2: or planes. I guess. So bone spurs for Donnie and
Speaker 2: a growth spurt for Baron. Meanwhile, Netanyahu's son also doesn't
Speaker 2: have to go rich Man's war poor Man's fight. And
Speaker 2: this article is talking about how this is a UK express.
Speaker 2: People are so concerned that he's very vulnerable living in Miami. Well,
Speaker 2: maybe not as vulnerable as if he went to war.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of security people that are around
Speaker 2: him all the time. I'm sure Benjamin Netanya, who's thirty
Speaker 2: four year old son, yeah, has been living in Miami
Speaker 2: while Israeli soldiers mobilized, sparking outrage among troops and security
Speaker 2: warnings from experts, and so again Trump's son doesn't have
Speaker 2: to go. Netnaho's son doesn't have to go. You'll have
Speaker 2: to go, and you'll have to hope that the attacks
Speaker 2: don't come to our shores as well. So he supposedly
Speaker 2: engaged in nonprofit charity work, maybe works for the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 2: What do you think in Florida, while approximately three hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty thousand reserve soldiers have been mobilized to join
Speaker 2: the Israeli army in the war against Iran, temporarily abandoning
Speaker 2: their responsibilities. I don't know that it's an excuse if
Speaker 2: you're going to get drafted in Israel, to say I've
Speaker 2: gut some charitable work that I need to do. He's
Speaker 2: certainly being protected by Massad, who are watching him near him.
Speaker 2: If they don't want to have him know that they're around,
Speaker 2: they won't be visible, but I'm sure that they are
Speaker 2: watching him. I think it's foolish for him to be here,
Speaker 2: said one person. He should be doing his duty in Israel,
Speaker 2: and that the Prime Minister's family is as much a
Speaker 2: part of what is required to defend their country as
Speaker 2: for anybody else. In March, shin Bett confirmed that it
Speaker 2: handles security for Nettaniel, whose wife and sons. The remains
Speaker 2: uncertain where the protection continues while Yeah is in the US. Oh,
Speaker 2: you know it does. I think it's a huge mistake
Speaker 2: from the perspective of Israel, from the perspective of symbolism,
Speaker 2: that he is not serving and he is not doing
Speaker 2: his duty in the military. Situation has sparked fury among
Speaker 2: Israeli soldiers who say that he should be contributing to
Speaker 2: the war effort. You know, even the royal family tried
Speaker 2: to keep up appearances. You know, they would have Andrew,
Speaker 2: not Andrew. But what's the other guy's name that married
Speaker 2: the American Charles Andrew.
Speaker 8: I don't remember these people.
Speaker 2: I can't remember the redheaded guy that said the son
Speaker 2: one of the two sons of Diana. Anyway, they had
Speaker 2: him join the military, and they love to take pictures
Speaker 2: of these guys in uniform to show everybody that, hey,
Speaker 2: the royal family is a part of this as well,
Speaker 2: But not the royal family in America. They don't even
Speaker 2: try to pretend it's us who are leaving our work,
Speaker 2: said one person in Israel, to protect our families back home,
Speaker 2: not the people who are responsible for this situation. Rich
Speaker 2: men's war, poor man's fight, poor man's death. Our brothers,
Speaker 2: our fathers, our sons are all going to the front line,
Speaker 2: but yeah is not here. It doesn't help to build
Speaker 2: trust in the leadership of our country. Well again, Trump
Speaker 2: made his announcement they did. The attack was at night,
Speaker 2: but it's during the day in Iran. He recorded an
Speaker 2: eight minute video and then he went back to their
Speaker 2: fundraising party in mar Lago, very expensive fundraiser that was
Speaker 2: happening there. And you've got an article here from MEDIAI
Speaker 2: talking about how he made that transition very easily. Just amazing,
Speaker 2: how difficult it is to be the commander in chief,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you've got to go
Speaker 2: to a party. Right anyway, he says, I always liked gold,
Speaker 2: he said. When he was making his speech there and
Speaker 2: his entrance at the massive ballroom, he said, so we're
Speaker 2: ahead of schedule. As he started to be pivoted after
Speaker 2: talking a little bit about the war that he just
Speaker 2: started and how he just set the Mid East on fire,
Speaker 2: then he starts talking about his massive ballroom that he's
Speaker 2: building near the White House. He said, so we're ahead
Speaker 2: of schedule. There by a lot. But please join me
Speaker 2: in thanking every American service member who bravely is standing
Speaker 2: in harm's way, he said. And we have a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot of great service members here with us in
Speaker 2: this big, beautiful building. Isn't it beautiful. We've added onto
Speaker 2: that building a little bit. We're improving the building. See
Speaker 2: those nice drapes. It's about a year and a half
Speaker 2: from now, and you're going to see a very beautiful building.
Speaker 2: There's your entrance to it right there. Looks so nice.
Speaker 2: I think I'll save money on the doors because you
Speaker 2: can't get more beautiful than that. Those drapes. In my
Speaker 2: first term, I always liked gold. It'll be spectacular, the
Speaker 2: most beautiful, I believe, because I have built many a ballroom.
Speaker 2: This is the idiot who is leading this country into
Speaker 2: chaos in global depression. Just amazing. Now they're picking out
Speaker 2: drapes and talking about it. No wonder Lindsay Graham likes them.
Speaker 2: Maybe they can talk about their clothing and their interior decorating.
Speaker 2: They could get onto Broadway shows that they've loved. I
Speaker 2: don't know. After talking about the ballroom, Trump finally got
Speaker 2: to the quote reason that we're gathered here this morning
Speaker 2: to recognize the unsurpassed courage of three really incredible American heroes,
Speaker 2: one living and two no longer with us. Se said, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: Trump parties at a flashy gala on Friday night while
Speaker 2: the troops are warned that they may die in Iran again.
Speaker 2: You hosted this in Friday night at Marlago. It was
Speaker 2: a charity, a nonprofit called Place of Hope, which describes
Speaker 2: itself as a faith based organization providing care for children
Speaker 2: and families in South Florida. What if it's any connection
Speaker 2: to Paul White, She just had a statement where she's
Speaker 2: a faith healer that's out there. She says, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to start healing in you people to you get
Speaker 2: up to the contribution of what she trying to get
Speaker 2: is like tens of thousands of dollars, and it was
Speaker 2: for a charity that was there. But she was scolding
Speaker 2: people that she was not going to start praying for
Speaker 2: them until they started coughing up some cash. Truly was amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for the article here, but I wasn't planning
Speaker 2: on talking about that just yet, and I don't have
Speaker 2: that article here, So we will get back to circle
Speaker 2: back to that at some point here. But let's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about the morality of this, and must
Speaker 2: begin with the people who profiteered, not off of a
Speaker 2: fundraiser party in mar Lago, but who profiteered off the
Speaker 2: polymarket where people go to bet. You know, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of talk about this. As I pointed out last Wednesday,
Speaker 2: he had the Jerusalem Post had run a test with
Speaker 2: four of the most prominent large language models AI asking
Speaker 2: them when's the war going to start? And I said
Speaker 2: at the time, I said, they could have just asked
Speaker 2: Netna who He's the one who's going to decide when
Speaker 2: the war starts? And how about that? Rubio has confirmed
Speaker 2: that it was Netnaho May who made the decision. Nevertheless,
Speaker 2: some people made a lot of money off of this
Speaker 2: anonymous poly market account one point two million dollars on
Speaker 2: Trump's Iran strikes and a very suspicious bet. People commenting
Speaker 2: on this and said it's insane that this is legal.
Speaker 2: We got people around Trump who were profiting off of
Speaker 2: war and death. The same thing was done with a
Speaker 2: strike on Venezuela. Everybody could see that it was coming.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not hard to guess that it's coming
Speaker 2: when he sends aircraft carrier groups parked off of the coast.
Speaker 2: But it's been less than eight months, sorry, eight weeks
Speaker 2: since an anonymous account on polymarket netted over four hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars after successfully predicting the Trump Administration's invasion of
Speaker 2: Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro. The mysterious be doubled
Speaker 2: down on their wager mere hours before the US aircraft
Speaker 2: launched the offensive, which led to at least eighty civilian
Speaker 2: and military casualties, And so they doubled down on the
Speaker 2: bet just a few hours before it happened. It was
Speaker 2: an extremely suspicious situation, making it look like it was
Speaker 2: somebody who had some inside information in the Trump regime.
Speaker 2: So now the Trump administration has attacked Iran, the situation
Speaker 2: is looking even worse. According to blockchain analytics company bubble maps, SA,
Speaker 2: six polymarket accounts made around one point two million dollars
Speaker 2: in profit after successfully betting on the US striking Iran
Speaker 2: by the end of February, suggesting that an ethically appalling
Speaker 2: scheme is spreading behind closed doors. All six accounts were
Speaker 2: created last month, and they exclusively bet on when Trump
Speaker 2: would strike the sovereign nation. So this is somebody who
Speaker 2: maybe they were involved in polymarket before, but they create
Speaker 2: a new account that they hope is not going to
Speaker 2: be traced back to them to trade on insider information.
Speaker 2: That's why you know when you look at things like polymarket,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot of insider trading, people
Speaker 2: who know what's going to happen with that. So the
Speaker 2: bets made mere hours before the first bombs fell on
Speaker 2: Iran's capital. It is insane that this is legal, said
Speaker 2: Senator Chris Murphy, Democratic Connecticut in a post on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: He said, people around Trump are profiting off of war
Speaker 2: and death. I'm going to introduce legislation as soon as
Speaker 2: possible to ban this. Beyond these suspicious accounts, many other
Speaker 2: users were sucked into the fervor of betting on bloodshed
Speaker 2: in Iran. Polymarket saw trading volumes for a single contract
Speaker 2: about the timing of Trump's strikes balloon to just shy
Speaker 2: of ninety million dollars. Prediction markets are some of the
Speaker 2: first products that allow direct bets on geopolitical events. Polymarket
Speaker 2: facilitating anonymous betting through the use of cryptocurrencies, making instances
Speaker 2: of insider trading difficult to identify, let alone to police.
Speaker 2: So you create a new account, you fund it with crypto,
Speaker 2: and then you get paid off in crypto and they
Speaker 2: can't tell that you are somebody who's inside the Trump
Speaker 2: administration or somebody who's inside the Pentagon who is profiteering
Speaker 2: off of this. But really, how different is this than
Speaker 2: what the Republicans and Democrats do on a regular basis.
Speaker 2: You look at Lindsey Graham, look at a lot of
Speaker 2: these other war sellers, these war bongers. Is this bet
Speaker 2: on polymarket really any different than that? Combined with the
Speaker 2: fact that Polymarket generally only requires a wallet in order
Speaker 2: to trade, some kind of a crypto wallet, which allows
Speaker 2: for a high level of anonymity, this can create incentives
Speaker 2: for participants to act early and to do insider trading. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Polymarket's biggest competitor, callshe, which is regulated by the US
Speaker 2: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, requires users to verify their identities
Speaker 2: and has taken a notably different approach. Just last week,
Speaker 2: the company cracked down on a video editor name Artem
Speaker 2: Captor who works for James mister Beast Donaldson YouTube's most
Speaker 2: popular content creator. They accused him of insider trading and
Speaker 2: they find him over twenty thousand dollars. So Polymarket's main
Speaker 2: trading platform is operating from outside of the US and
Speaker 2: it's technically not open to US based customers. After the
Speaker 2: CFTC find the company one point four million dollars during
Speaker 2: former President Joe Biden's term in twenty twenty two for
Speaker 2: operating an unregistered derivatives market. So again, of course polymarket
Speaker 2: bet could have been done by somebody in Israel. Yet,
Speaker 2: you know, the connection to similar things that happened in
Speaker 2: Venezuela might argue for something that is happening people connected
Speaker 2: with the Pentagon or the Trump administration. Those are two
Speaker 2: different events, though. I mean, you could still have somebody
Speaker 2: do insider trading on the Venezuela thing. It could be
Speaker 2: different group of people, could even be people in Israel
Speaker 2: who were trading on Polymarket. It could have been one
Speaker 2: of those lethality maxers that are around Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Then all that trendy stuff. Well, the attack on Iran
Speaker 2: was moral, says the US to the UN Security Council. Really,
Speaker 2: I would say that if it is preemptive that if
Speaker 2: you haven't been attacked, you are starting the war full stop.
Speaker 2: That is not moral to start wars. And actually we
Speaker 2: had see don't have that in here. I didn't put
Speaker 2: that in here. Actually had Milania Trump opening up the
Speaker 2: UN Security Council now in the world, Yes, she have
Speaker 2: that kind but what does she have to say about
Speaker 2: all this stuff? So again went down his lists of
Speaker 2: Iranian history. As I pointed out yesterday, he talks about
Speaker 2: the Iranian Revolution, what happened in nineteen seventy nine, but
Speaker 2: he left out the American Cia Revolution, the coup of
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty three. He talked about the authoritarian, tautalitarian government
Speaker 2: of the Ietolas, but he didn't talk about the tautalitarian
Speaker 2: authoritarian government of the Shaws. In nineteen eighty three. He
Speaker 2: said Iran's proxies carried out the bombing of the US
Speaker 2: marine barracks in Beirut. You know, Ronald Reagan had the
Speaker 2: good sense to leave. He said, these people are crazy.
Speaker 2: We're not going to get involved in what's happening in
Speaker 2: eleven and it's not any of our business. But Trump
Speaker 2: leaves out his assassination of Solomoni, their top military leader
Speaker 2: that was there, and he added that in two thousand,
Speaker 2: Iran knew of and was probably involved in the bombing
Speaker 2: of the USS coal militaryship, which result in the death
Speaker 2: of seventeen US service members. But there are other issues
Speaker 2: in terms of the US military accidentally shot down an
Speaker 2: Iranian civilian airliner and nothing happened. There weren't any terrorist attacks. Instead,
Speaker 2: what they accepted was some compensation from the US government
Speaker 2: for that murder of a couple hundred people, nearly three hundred,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't really much compensation per person that was there,
Speaker 2: but that was handled in a reasonable way. And then subsequently,
Speaker 2: in just a couple of years, similar thing happened off
Speaker 2: the coast of Long Island. I believe that the US
Speaker 2: government doing exercises as they had done in Iran shot
Speaker 2: down Flight eight hundred, But of course the FBI confiscated
Speaker 2: and blocked that investigation. So the FBI stands for I
Speaker 2: think is FEDS blocking investigation. They certainly did that with
Speaker 2: Flight eight hundred, doing with Epstein as well. So again,
Speaker 2: but weren't we negotiating with Iran? That's one person Well,
Speaker 2: actually no, it was lies and treachery. Congress is rushed
Speaker 2: to get into the loop as critics are denouncing the
Speaker 2: Iran strikes. But of course you're going to have Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson and others are going to make sure that really
Speaker 2: nothing happens with this. They do not want to have
Speaker 2: the Constitution enforced. Scramble to brief a broader swath of
Speaker 2: lawmakers comes as a as bipartisan coalitions in the House
Speaker 2: and the Senate move to force votes next week on
Speaker 2: measures that would limit Trump's ability to take additional military
Speaker 2: action against Ron without Congress's sign off. Despite calls from
Speaker 2: Democrats to quickly reconvene both chambers and debate the war
Speaker 2: powers measures, Speaker Mike Johnson and Toon and the Senate
Speaker 2: have no plans to do so. You see, this is
Speaker 2: why I played this clip of Jeff's Sessions interrogating Leon Panetta,
Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense at the time, because again Jeff
Speaker 2: Sessions like, well, well, you know how this works. You're
Speaker 2: supposed to come to Congress and we're supposed to decide
Speaker 2: whether they're going to have a war or not. It's like, well, Senator,
Speaker 2: we'll let you know what we decide to do, said Panetta.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's going on and the Senate and
Speaker 2: the House under people like Tune and Orthune whoever I
Speaker 2: pronounce his name, and Johnson. That's exactly what they want.
Speaker 2: They didn't want the Constitution. So this is where we
Speaker 2: are right now. The Trump sites failed talks as justification
Speaker 2: for Iran strikes, but the negotiators say no, actually, they
Speaker 2: weren't failed talks. It's just that the Trump administration was
Speaker 2: not acting in good faith. And now we've had Rubio himself,
Speaker 2: Trump's own Secretary of State come out and say, no,
Speaker 2: it wasn't the talk. We we did this strike not
Speaker 2: because we didn't think they were getting anywhere, but because
Speaker 2: we were afraid that Israel was going to go there,
Speaker 2: that Israel was going to kick off the war. So
Speaker 2: we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we
Speaker 2: will be right back.
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Speaker 2: Well Sidney Falco Zero says, I remember watching Christians quote
Speaker 2: unquote declare the weapons of mass destruction. War was justified
Speaker 2: by God. Then they backed up to those yellow support
Speaker 2: the troops stickers. Then America Bless God stickers. Spineless. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're seeing a lot of that. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: the prophecy profiteers are working over time. Right now. It's
Speaker 2: the end of the world, and they don't know any
Speaker 2: of that. And you look at the profiteers out there,
Speaker 2: people like Paula White Kine, who is the leading spiritual
Speaker 2: advisor to Donald Trump, just said and here I found
Speaker 2: the article here. We're not going to lay hands on
Speaker 2: people until you are obedient, and so you have to
Speaker 2: send us somebody. You've got to give one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: We're going to reach our goal of one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars during this conference before I'm going to start healing
Speaker 2: you people. So christ like, isn't she It's amazing. Get
Speaker 2: a check, make it parable to Paula White ministries. If
Speaker 2: you say I don't have it, give one hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: bring up a sacrificial seed. This isn't for me. This
Speaker 2: is about kids that will die without you being obedient,
Speaker 2: she said, And so she rose to prominence to a
Speaker 2: TV ministry. She's married one of the singers softwriters from
Speaker 2: I think it's Journey. His name is Kin. So they
Speaker 2: call it the White Cane Ministry. I think whenever I
Speaker 2: see that, I think of the blind leading the blind,
Speaker 2: you know, the white Cane. That's In February twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: Trump appointed White Cane to lead the White House Faith Office,
Speaker 2: which is into to empower faith based entities, community organizations,
Speaker 2: and houses of worship to better serve families and communities.
Speaker 2: I just look at these people like Paul White, people
Speaker 2: like Julie Green, people like Mike Huckabee. It's like, folks,
Speaker 2: if you're not a Christian, I got to say to you,
Speaker 2: this is not These are not followers of Christ, whatever
Speaker 2: they are, whatever their relationship is with God. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, there was an article put up by
Speaker 2: Brian schallhave said quoted Jesus has said, I'm not praying
Speaker 2: for the world. I'm praying for my people. And I
Speaker 2: guess he wasn't requiring them to chip in some money
Speaker 2: for that either. Let's take a quick look in just
Speaker 2: a little bit of time we've got of what happened
Speaker 2: with Epstein. Isn't it interesting that Bill and Hillary testified
Speaker 2: and there has been so little talk about that thanks
Speaker 2: to Trump, he covered up for them. Maybe you can
Speaker 2: do such a really good job of covering up for
Speaker 2: himself with Epstein. So Bill Clinton comes up, and I
Speaker 2: didn't have any relationship with that man, right. Hillary Clinton
Speaker 2: is there saying, Oh, it's only about charity. That's the
Speaker 2: only reason that Bill was on those planes. And I
Speaker 2: don't even know Jeffrey Epstein, Well, Glenne Maxwell was at
Speaker 2: Chelsea's wedding. We've got the pictures that show that it's
Speaker 2: getting harder and harder because of AI to tell if
Speaker 2: these pictures are manufactured, but those were not. It's just
Speaker 2: when you look at these strikes that are happening, reportedly
Speaker 2: strikes over Iran or strikes over Israel, it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's real or not. I really can't
Speaker 2: tell anymore at this point, and so it's a new
Speaker 2: form of the fog of war, I guess. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to Bill and Hillary, he was saying that
Speaker 2: all these flights that I took, and he took nearly
Speaker 2: two dozen of these things. Epstein went to the Clinton
Speaker 2: White House seventeen times. I forget how many flights, but
Speaker 2: it was a couple dozen that Bill Clinton took on
Speaker 2: the Lolita Express. He says it was simply charity work,
Speaker 2: and I had my staff there and all the rest
Speaker 2: of this stuff. And it's like, well, okay, where was Hillary.
Speaker 2: Why didn't she meet Jeffrey Epstein if it was all
Speaker 2: charity work and she's so heavily involved in the charity stuff.
Speaker 2: And then of course there are those uncomfortable pictures about
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton sitting on the Jeffrey Epstein plane with a
Speaker 2: very young girl on his lap, face blacked out. This
Speaker 2: is the kind of corruption, folks. It truly is evil,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of interesting. The New York Times
Speaker 2: came out and said, well, the QAnon people are saying,
Speaker 2: we told you it was a satanic pedophile elite with
Speaker 2: all these different things. And I said, well, they didn't
Speaker 2: quite get. The New York Times doesn't see the Satanic connection.
Speaker 2: The QAnon people don't see the Trump connection. Maybe Trump
Speaker 2: is connected to the Satanic cults. Do you ever think
Speaker 2: about that? Thanks for joining us, the common man. They
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