Think of it, we've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East and we're not fixing our roads
in this country.
How stupid.
How stupid is it?
And we're not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals even, our schools
even.
It's crazy.
That's Donald Trump in 2020.
I can show you that basically every year of his political career, staying the same
thing over and over and over again.
These endless wars in the Middle East are not to our benefit and he would obviously
stop them and certainly not start one, but start one.
He did.
Israel and the United States chose voluntarily to start a war of aggression irrefutably
tonight.
I am recording at about 6 a.m.
And on Saturday morning and the bombs are currently dropping.
Oh, we know.
I mean, no, keep in mind.
A lot of this is going to be preliminary reports.
So I'm sure a bunch of this is going to change.
But as of right now, there's been hours long bombing campaign in Iran.
I'll show you some of that footage.
And the big difference between this strike and the prior one last summer, which
I was called a panic in for saying, Hey, probably not a great idea.
And certainly this is not the end of it.
And we were all told, oh, look at you.
You always fear mongering, thinking the World War three is going to happen.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Well, the Iranians aren't playing around this time.
As of right now, there are reports of return fire, ballistic missiles
being fired by Iran against American bases in Bahrain, which I'll show
you footage of as well as the UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
potentially, we're not sure about that one.
The initial reports from the Bahrain strike, which looked like it was a direct hit
looked as if there was going to be casualties.
The Department of War is now coming out and saying that there weren't casualties.
So God willing, there weren't.
The reason I say that other than the fact that I don't want any more
people to die, much less Americans to die is because if Americans do die
in response, which allegedly Iran's intention is to try and kill
upwards or more than 500 American troops.
And while obviously that alone would be a tragedy, the bigger concern
even above that, which is already a big one, would be that if that happens,
then ground invasion becomes very likely in my view.
I think that at that point, especially if if these decapitation
strikes don't work, which is what they're trying to do.
There was reports, rumors, really, I don't know if it's accurate
that the president of Iran has already been assassinated by some of these strikes.
I kind of doubt that, but we'll see.
But the point being that if the bombing campaign does not get the regime to fall,
then what other option is there?
I mean, either you walk away, dust off your hands and say,
Mission accomplished, some George Bush shit, or do they ramp up?
Do they actually bring in a ground invasion into Iran?
And for those that don't know, Iran is enormous.
Iran is, you know, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraq's pretty big country.
Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Iran is at least two times bigger than those combined.
It is the immense task.
If you think you're going to ground invade, not to mention the mountainous terrain,
it's going to be a catastrophe if it goes that route.
But the point is that if 500 American troops or even 100 American troops
are killed in response over the next days and weeks, which, by the way,
they're saying that this bombing campaign from Israel and the U.S.
against Iran could last weeks.
That's what they're saying already.
Well, if it does indeed last weeks, and that means that
and the Iranian regime does not fall within the Iranian regime,
is going to continue to bomb our bases throughout the Middle East,
which means that we're talking about significant American troop casualty.
Significant.
And if that happens, well, then Trump really is going to have his hands tied
because at that point you can't just walk away.
And that is probably the game plan.
And by game plan, I mean from the Israeli side, that's what they want.
That's what they've been angling for my entire adult life.
They want a full on ground invasion of American troops into Iran.
And God willing, that's not what happens.
But let's check out this footage from Bahrain.
Oh, shit.
Oh, fuck. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. Oh, fuck.
Oh, my God.
Oh,
dude, fuck me.
A fucking missile actually got through.
Oh, there's more.
I've got to get the fuck out of here.
Now, as I said, there's mixed reporting as to whether or not
there was American casualties or fatalities in those strikes.
But let's be honest, based off of the visual, it looks like it was a direct strike.
So the question is, and this is a major fingers crossed, just hoping a prayer.
But last time, the last time this happened, there was, in my opinion,
backchanneling and communications between the U.S.
DoD or DoW, the Department of War now and the Iranians.
And they essentially ended up bombing a bunch of empty buildings
in Iraq and other places.
And really, I don't think that there was actually any casualties
in that war, the 12 day wars, they call it.
So let's hope that that's what that was that we just witnessed.
I don't know.
But I got to say, if there are any American casualties, this is all on Trump.
This is as much of a war of choice as I think I've seen in my lifetime.
And we've had a lot of wars of choice, in my opinion.
But this is egregious.
We have no reason to be involved in this.
The Iranians, this is the really galling part about this.
Last summer, before we took out Fordo and their other nuclear sites,
there was negotiations that were happening
and there was allegedly progress that was being made.
And that there was real hope and optimism that perhaps this was
unnecessary, that we weren't going to go to war against them.
This is the exact same circumstances again.
So in the middle of the negotiations last time, there was a sneak attack.
Decapitation strikes launched by Israel with US support.
And then we brought in the B-52s and we took out the nuclear sites.
This is again, the exact same circumstances.
This time, even more egregious, they brought in third party negotiators.
Apparently it was Oman that came out and reported just a few hours
prior to these bombs being dropped that essentially the Iranians
had agreed to everything.
They were like, we're going to give up our nuclear enrichment and blah, blah, blah.
Like almost everything you could ask for, they were going to give up all of it
and still wasn't enough.
And I think if you're not just being totally naive, the obvious truth here
is that there was no option for peace here.
That if you look at the trend lined when it comes to US support
in or excuse me, American support as an UNI support for Israel,
the numbers are such a catastrophe after the two and a half year
long war in Palestine that it's like or Gaza have you want to frame it?
That it's just it's hopeless.
Like they have a plan, in my opinion, the Greater Israel Project
to take over huge swaths of Iraq and Iran and Lebanon and Yemen
and all these all these different countries and obviously Gaza.
And this is their last chance.
They have by whatever mechanism they have Trump under control.
And, you know, my hypothesis has been that it's probably not the Epstein files.
But I got to say the timing on all this, it really makes you wonder.
It does. It makes me wonder, like, what do they have this guy on tape doing?
Because the alternative in some ways is even worse.
Like it means that he's been a fraud the entire time.
Like that's a distinct possibility.
Or is he just so depraved that Trump would do this for financial
benefit? Like, I find that hard to believe.
You're so wealthy already and already the richest, most powerful person in the
world or one of them and you're going to do this for money.
So it's like, all right, either you were a fraud from the jump
and you're for real evil or you're being blackmailed.
And if you look at the cover up and then you look at the fact
that Trump hasn't fired any of the people who participated in the cover
up because a lot of Trump supporters will say, well, you know,
why are you mad at Trump?
It's Bondi and Kash Patel and Tim Boncino or it's like, well,
because he's their boss and he's not firing any of them.
And that or Howard Lutnik, for that matter, who's caught red-handed,
obviously lying egregiously about his relationship with Epstein.
And you have to wonder, well, maybe he's not firing them
because he's the one actually instructing them, all of his underlings,
to bury this investigation, to make sure that whatever he's guilty
of in it, that it goes away.
And the reason I say that is because the last time, like the very first
big push for Epstein disclosures, if you recall, was last summer,
just before he took the the bombing option when it came to the nuclear
facilities inside of Iran.
And at the time I started to wonder to myself, well, maybe that's the leverage.
Maybe maybe they're basically dangling it, saying, look,
either this this investigation goes away or we release it.
And if we release it, well, then your political career is over
and maybe you go to prison, who knows.
But then in this second go around, you've got a very similar dynamic
where the there's obviously huge public anger over the coverup
of the Epstein investigation.
And again, maybe Netanyahu has come to town for the seventh time
over the past over his first year in office.
And now we're bombing them again in a sneak attack again.
And as the capitation strike again and all of that,
despite the fact that 75 percent, at least of Americans,
do not support this war 75 is actually as high as like 82 percent.
But anyways, just to be conservative, I think it was 74 to 82 percent
of Americans do not want to go to war against Iran.
That's about as unanimous as you'll ever get Americans
on basically any topic that's at least three and four,
probably more like four and five Americans.
So you've got one in five, basically the Fox News audience.
That's it.
And probably only like 60 percent of Fox News's audience
really wants this war, either.
But does it matter that it's totally
unpopular with the American people?
It doesn't.
It does not matter that we don't want this.
And I think that's that's the part that is probably the hardest
to deal with, is that, you know, throughout my life, as you guys know,
I'm second gen libertarian, so I've been anti-war my entire adult life.
But with George Bush Jr.
I wasn't exactly surprised that we ended up in wars with Obama.
I wasn't really surprised because I knew he was a conman from the jump
when it came to Trump round one.
He kind of he kind of did what he promised.
He didn't start any new wars.
So you'd have to assume if there was one thing he wanted for his legacy
was to be like, I am the least warmongering of all of the warmongering
presidents of your lifetime, because that was kind of his claim to fame.
Obviously, Biden's a piece of shit.
Had no expectations for him to get us out of any wars.
But then Trump round two comes around and this and I don't want to
I don't want to overstate it because this could end up, you know,
calming down in a couple of days and God willing it will.
But I just want to be very clear.
This has the potential to be worse than the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined.
This has the potential to be worse than any war in our lifetime.
Iran is not a small player.
They have a serious military and they have a serious missile system.
They also have a population of 90 million people.
So if they choose to fight, it's a serious, serious fucking war.
And you also have to understand that they are big time allies,
or at least historically, they have been with, you know,
the axis of evil, Russia, China, etc.
So if Russia or China gets involved,
we're now talking about really not to like overstate it.
Like I think that would be described as World War Three.
Like it has the potential to get there.
And I really prayed it.
I literally pray to God that that does not happen.
But even if it doesn't go that route,
where there's actually direct involvement of Russia or China in defense of Iran.
Well, you still have the potential of other wars breaking out.
Well, the big boss US military is occupied, both in Venezuela.
We've got action that I think is happening in Mexico still.
And then now obviously Iran, who's to say that China doesn't move on Taiwan?
If I was Chinese leadership and if I had intentions,
if I had a game plan of going after Taiwan
at some point over the next five or 10 years,
because they're also facing a demographic collapse.
Well, it's it's now or never, baby, like this is this is when you do it.
So I would say, particularly if this ends up being a ground war,
like if Trump actually is stupid enough to put fucking American boots
on the ground in Iran, I'd be shocked if.
And honestly, we'd be lucky if if China or Russia don't get involved
in defense of Iran.
But even if we get that lucky, I doubt we get lucky enough
that they don't move on Taiwan.
Well, if they move on Taiwan, there's no way there's absolutely no way
that America can fight a war in Iran and China simultaneously.
Like we will get our teeth kicked in in a way I don't even want to think about.
But if China does move on Taiwan, if they have that intention,
well, then we're dealing with I mean, we're right in the in the teeth,
right in the heart of the AI race, which if you haven't been paying
attention is like the race, there was like the Internet Race and Silicon Valley
and all these other technological innovation races that we've been participating in.
This is the big one.
This may be the final one.
Like this is as big as it gets whoever gets the AI, the AI,
super genius, you know, artificial intelligence is probably going to
control the next century.
And I think that's the real that's the real concern that I have that
while we are busy fighting and dying in a war in Iran on behalf of Israel.
Does that mean that we then lose the AI race to China?
Because China takes over the semiconductor production in Taiwan,
semiconductor production, which is the most advanced semiconductors
on the planet, which are vital for AI development.
That is a immense risk.
And for the life of me, I cannot understand
why Donald Trump would take that risk unless he is being blackmailed.
The United States military began major combat operations in Iran.
Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating
imminent threats from the Iranian regime.
A vicious group of terrible people.
You got to pause it briefly.
I mean, just the fact that he opens up this this announcement came
at I think two or three a.m.
this morning, right as the first bombs dropped.
But just the fact that he opens it up saying that this is
in defense of Americans is just such a such an unbelievable insult.
And by the way, quick, really important addition
that many of you probably aren't aware of.
There was a push for a war powers resolution to try and force
Congress's hand to actually vote for a declaration of war against Iran.
And the Democrats dragged their feet and basically wouldn't support it
because they're fucking just as much war mongers
and just as much owned by APEC as the GOP side of the aisle.
So that vote didn't happen.
And as such, he was able to take these actions unilaterally tonight.
It's menacing activities directly in danger.
The United States, our troops, our bases overseas
and our allies throughout the world for 47 years.
The Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged
an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder
targeting the United States, our troops
and the innocent people in many, many countries.
Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover
of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages
for four hundred and forty four days.
In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing
in Beirut that killed two hundred and forty one American military personnel.
But which, by the way, after that, we had the Iran Consulate Scandal
who were giving them the weapons in their war against Iraq,
if I recall correctly.
So, yeah, I guess we didn't take the Bahrain bombing very seriously.
But now, 40 years later, we're going to get our vengeance for that,
even though Ronald Reagan didn't care.
We're probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole.
Many died.
Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.
The regime's proxies have continued to launch countless attacks
against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years,
as well as U.S. Naval and commercial vessels and international shipping.
It's been mass terror and we're not going to put up with it any longer.
I love that you could actually frame the Iranians as being the terrorists
in that region from the American perspective.
Sure, Iran has, you know, they do have terrorist proxies,
but compared to American activity in the Middle East over the past 20 years,
are you kidding me?
In terms of death and destruction and terrorism in the Middle East,
you're saying Iran has been a bigger perpetrator than the U.S.
I'm sorry, but that's laughably absurd.
From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq,
the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias
that have soaked the earth with blood and guts.
All of the American blood and guts that they've soaked the earth with
have been because of our illegal, unconstitutional
immoral wars in the Middle East.
Just a reminder. And by the way, most of those wars,
almost all of them actually, I'd have to look at a map to be sure.
But I think Syria and Iraq, both border Iran,
or at least they're very close. Afghanistan is not too far off.
And it was Iran's proxy that launched the monstrous October 7th attacks
on Israel, slaughtering more than 1000 innocent people,
including 46 Americans while taking 12 of our citizens hostage.
It was brutal, something like the world has never seen before.
Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror
and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens
on the street as they protested.
It has always been the policy of the United States,
in particular, my administration,
that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon.
I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon.
Well, I thought that was handled.
I mean, even though I didn't support it, I thought at least
they had removed the Cassus Belly for war based off of
the bombing campaign last summer.
They took out for the other nuclear facility sites.
It's like, so how are we still pretending as if
they have a nuclear weapon?
How are you still pretending this lie is legitimate?
Obviously an egregiously false or you you lied last summer
and you didn't destroy the facilities, even though you just were adamant
over and over again, we obliterated them.
That is why in Operation Midnight Hammer last June,
we obliterated the regime's nuclear program at Fordo,
Natanz and Isfahan.
After that attack, we warned them never to resume
their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons.
And we sought repeatedly to make a deal.
They wanted to do it.
They didn't want to do it.
They didn't know what was happening.
They just wanted to practice evil.
This is so crazy.
According to the third party, Oman negotiators,
yeah, they accepted everything that we wanted or 95 percent of what we wanted.
I think they weren't going to give up civilian nuclear production,
but like they caved, they gave you everything.
And at this point, it's like, I mean, there's a chance,
I guess, that Trump isn't actually privy to the negotiations
because he doesn't seem to actually be hands on in any way.
So maybe he doesn't know that he's being lied to,
but I have to believe that he knows that he's just doing this
because he's forced to blackmail violent threats after the Butler attack.
Whatever the reason, I feel like he has to know.
And I also got to say the fact that he's he's condemning Iran
for trying to create a nuclear weapon,
given that our current ally, the people we are fighting this war for in Iran,
which would be the Israelis, have a nuclear arsenal,
the only country on earth that we're aware of that has a nuclear arsenal
that isn't under IAEA inspections,
that doesn't have any of the nonproperation agreements signed, nothing.
I mean, and I might add that same nation
that has an undeclared nuclear weapons program, very high level, I would imagine,
they have also been at war and bombed over six countries
over the past two years or so, six countries.
And we're going to pretend that the Iranians are the sinister
nuclear program. I mean, it's just the hypocrisy is extraordinary.
But Iran refused just as it has for decades and decades.
They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambition,
and we can't take it anymore.
Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program
and to continue developing long rage missiles
that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe,
our troops stationed overseas and could soon reach the American homeland.
Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had
and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message.
For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive
and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical
dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests.
We are going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry
to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated.
We're going to totally again obliterate.
If it was obliterated seven or eight months ago,
it doesn't exist right now.
You can't build up a nuclear facility from scratch in eight months.
That's absurd, but we're going to obliterate it again.
I elate their Navy.
We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies
can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces
and no longer use their IEDs or roadside bombs,
as they are sometimes called to so gravely wound and kill thousands
and thousands of people, including many Americans.
And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.
It's a very simple message.
They will never have.
I can't do it.
I can't listen to any more of the guy.
Look, as you guys know, I was a hesitant first time Trump voter.
This last go around and I am I mean,
disgusted doesn't really do it justice.
This guy is he's a traitor.
I think he's a traitor to his own movement, to his own country.
It's it's despicable.
He ought to be ashamed of himself.
And, you know, I know his inner circle is filled with a bunch of Zionist
lunatics, Lutnik being his handler, in my opinion.
He's probably being told that this is this is going to his poll
numbers have been dropping.
I know he's been lamenting that often.
And I think he's just he's maybe they're they're telling him that, look,
this is this is how we actually win back the public, that we have a fast,
very vicious, very successful war over a matter of two or three weeks.
The leadership, the Ayatollah falls in Iran.
The Iranian people go out to the streets.
They celebrate and then they take over their government.
I mean, it's basically the same pitch that George Bush got and then
made in 0304.
But maybe he's buying it.
Maybe he's been sold that bad bill of goods.
I don't think that's likely to happen.
And I think that I think that we just witnessed tonight, if it wasn't
already over, which I think there's a distinct possibly that his
his legacy, his presidency really ended last summer when he said,
you're still talking about Epstein, if there was any doubt,
there's no doubt anymore.
This is it.
I honestly don't see how you come back from this.
Barring some miraculous, very rapid victory in Iran, in Tehran.
Leadership falls.
The people go out in the streets.
They're all super thankful and there's not a civil war and there's just
this peaceful blossoming of democracy in Iran.
OK, maybe.
But setting that very unlikely scenario aside,
I think that his presidency is over.
I think that he is DOA.
And for the record, JD Vance, your DOA, too, buddy.
I don't see how JD Vance, Marco Rubio, really anyone on the GOP side,
aside from Thomas Massey has a hope in hell in 2028.
I think you just literally turned our country over to the Democrats.
And I'm not celebrating that fact.
Let me be very clear.
The two favorites, according to Polymarket or 2028 Democrat presidential candidate.
Number one, Gavin Newsom, the man who destroyed my home state.
Yeah, he's the number one favorite and the second AOC.
I mean, it's it's a it's a catastrophe.
And it's all of the good things that Trump campaigned on,
that his base was rallying around that I got on board with at the last minute,
hesitantly, but still liked a lot of the things they were saying.
Going to this doge department.
We're going to get rid of a trillion dollars worth of fraud.
Elon Musk was saying maybe there's two trillion gone, doge is gone.
They were going to abolish the Department of Education.
Didn't happen.
They were going to abolish USAID didn't happen.
They instead rolled it into the State Department under Marco Rubio.
They said they were going to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The biggest thing I voted for him for didn't happen.
They were going to end the war in Gaza.
I guess it kind of happened, even though there continues to be fighting
to this day and only after basically total conquest of the Palestinians.
I mean, this guy talked about ending the fucking IRS and income tax.
You know, in hindsight, in hindsight, I got to be honest,
in hindsight, it is kind of laughable.
Like, really?
You thought that they were going to do any of those things?
It's like, I didn't think that they were going to do, but I hoped.
I hoped.
And yeah, fell for it again.
Award, as they say, I mean, it's just sad.
It's really sad.
And beyond being sad, it's so dangerous.
I mean, what we're facing right now is so perilous.
You got to understand, too, prior to Iraq War two, which was 2003
and the full global war on terror, our national debt was under 10 trillion.
It's 40 trillion today or 39 and a half trillion today.
It'll be 40 trillion very soon.
I mean, this is our financial circumstances
just just consider the inflation that we've dealt with over the past four or five years.
Our financial circumstances are so, so much less stable
and so much more dangerous now than they were 23 years ago before the Iraq War.
And it's like, we're now taking on a bigger war with a potential
for a bigger catastrophe and certainly larger financial outlays
and we're in four times worse economic circumstances.
I mean, it is it's so reckless and there's really no upside.
I mean, there really is no upside.
Even even if the US topples Iran and topples their leadership,
it doesn't really benefit Americans.
What is the what is the huge benefit that we get from it?
It's I can't even envision one.
And for that reason, I'll conclude with this.
I don't think that they're actually going to impeach Trump
because I think Trump has so thoroughly sold out that the Democrats will protect him
because I think that they wanted this war because their donors wanted this war.
And I think that they're going to still pretend as if he's this fascist
dictator and blah, blah, blah.
But I'd be surprised if they actually impeach him like last time,
because last time I think he was kind of a real boy.
This time he's not a real boy at all.
He is one lock, stock and barrel owned by foreign lobbyists or by foreign powers
and and corporate powers.
And I just think he's on their team now.
So I'd be surprised if they impeach him.
But I will say this, though, if I'm wrong and if there is a move
from the Democrats or from Thomas Massey to file articles of impeachment,
I hope that it goes through.
I hope that he is convicted.
And I like prosecuted and convicted, and I hope he spends the rest of his life in jail.
That's how seriously I take this betrayal.
And I don't even say that lightly.
Like I spent just I've told the story before I think.
But I spent an hour talking to his son, Donald Trump,
Junior at when I was at Tim Cass one time.
And I really liked the guy I did.
I thought he was he seemed kind of like a more based version of his dad.
Seemed to be much more red-pilled when it comes to a whole bunch of topics.
And I've said that the conversation was off the record.
So I'm going to leave it at that.
But I like him, but Don, Junior, your father is a traitor to this country.
I'm just being totally honest.
He has sold out his own nation.
He has sold out you and your children.
And maybe you don't even know it yet.
But what he has done on behalf of a foreign government,
on a people that are not his own will be his legacy.
And it is a disastrous one.
And I just think that he had all of the good will from the American people
after surviving the assassination attempts in Butler, Pennsylvania,
after surviving the prosecutions that could have amounted to 700 or 800 years
in prison after surviving the media just barrage of attacks,
really unjustified attacks that, you know, Russian collusion,
the FBI spying operations, he had so much good will.
He was as popular as he had ever been in this country
when he first got into office and just bit all the way
for no benefit to the American people.
And I just it's unforgivable.
We needed him to be the guy he campaigned himself to be.
And I thought that based off of all those things,
I just detailed that there was at least a chance that he was a real boy,
that he was going to go in there with a vengeance and try and shake shit up
and really try and save this country because we needed a hero.
And we got a villain and that's too bad.
Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now.
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Leave a comment down below if I got any of this wrong.
And let's hope and I mean this sincerely.
Let's hope that no American troops died in any of those videos.
I showed you any of the other videos I haven't played for you.
And let's hope that this war ends very, very rapidly,
like not even 12 days like last time,
because this has a chance to spiral into something truly catastrophic.
So I hope it doesn't happen.
Love you guys.
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