WEBVTT 00:00.110 --> 00:06.570 So the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me a crime report 00:06.570 --> 00:08.890 the Department of Justice on 00:09.790 --> 00:16.350 The basis of a supposed crime I committed. What's that crime? Well talking to people in Iran before the war 00:16.890 --> 00:18.210 They read my texts 00:18.850 --> 00:26.170 So the crime under consideration apparently would be the foreign agent act or something like that acting as a agent of 00:26.170 --> 00:31.770 So I had an entire episode prepared for you guys based off of the past four days that I've been off 00:31.770 --> 00:34.930 there has been a tremendous amount of breaking news stories and 00:34.930 --> 00:40.690 Last night after I get done with post-production for the episode, which will follow right after with this I 00:41.430 --> 00:48.410 See a report come out from Tucker Carlson saying that he's being he has been for the third time that we know of 00:48.410 --> 00:50.150 Obviously, he's been spied on non-stop 00:50.150 --> 00:55.590 But for the third time that we know of our own government his own government has been spying on him 00:56.170 --> 01:00.730 That is surveilling his communications and obviously that would be galling enough 01:01.390 --> 01:08.870 Just if it was just that he's being spied on but then it gets even crazier because rider die Trump sick event 01:08.870 --> 01:14.870 Laura Loomer is taking credit for this. She is taking credit for his 01:15.630 --> 01:24.230 potential prosecution a fellow journalist a fellow American not too worried about an actual criminal case against me for a bunch of reasons one 01:24.650 --> 01:28.510 I'm not an agent of foreign power. I'm like a lot of people commenting on 01:29.070 --> 01:30.570 US politics and global affairs 01:30.570 --> 01:34.870 I have only one loyalty and that's the United States and have never acted against it 01:34.870 --> 01:39.330 It's interests are the only interest I care about because I'm from here and I have a lot of kids 01:39.330 --> 01:46.610 So that's not a concern. I've also never taken money from anybody. Don't need it. Don't want it and that's provable 01:47.530 --> 01:52.710 And moreover, it's my job to talk to everybody all the time and try and figure out what's happening around the world 01:52.710 --> 01:59.510 That's literally what I do for a living and I'm not gonna stop doing that nor should I I don't think I'm also an American 01:59.510 --> 02:00.570 I can talk to anybody 02:01.110 --> 02:03.490 So what disturbs me most about this is that? 02:03.970 --> 02:08.090 You know Tucker Carlson has contacts with a lot of governments a lot of foreign governments 02:08.090 --> 02:13.730 He has contacts within Israel as well. He talks about it openly talks about all of his conversations pretty pretty 02:13.730 --> 02:16.370 forthright and pretty open-minded that includes 02:16.990 --> 02:22.790 Perhaps to his detriment or to his endangerment his conversations with Donald Trump 02:22.790 --> 02:27.410 Which he has been very open about his frustrations and his disappointment 02:27.410 --> 02:30.370 In fact, he went on friend of the show and friend of mine 02:30.370 --> 02:34.610 Brett Weinstein show that everybody saw Brett Weinstein on Tucker Carlson 02:34.610 --> 02:38.570 But I don't think most people have seen the episode where Tucker Carlson went on Brett Weinstein 02:38.570 --> 02:42.410 It came out the same day so the Dark Horse podcast and in it 02:42.410 --> 02:47.530 Tucker really kind of lets the cat of the bag. He really goes deep into 02:47.530 --> 02:53.650 Why he believes Trump ultimately made this decision and I'll just cut to the chase 02:53.650 --> 03:00.690 It seems as if he believes that Donald Trump was threatened that he was forced into this that he went against his will 03:00.690 --> 03:08.010 So you should ask yourself is this because he was having communications with the Iranians or is this because he has 03:08.830 --> 03:16.110 Betrayed in scare quotes the president of the United States, but even more disturbing and as I said all of this is disturbing 03:16.110 --> 03:24.190 You've got if it's true that this CIA referral is coming as a consequence of an investigation because of a 03:24.190 --> 03:28.330 Tip a snitchline tip from Laura Loomer well 03:28.330 --> 03:33.990 Then we have a real problem because Laura Loomer should not be taken seriously because Laura Loomer 03:34.590 --> 03:37.570 Well, I'm gonna be as safe about this as I can 03:38.010 --> 03:44.350 She appears to not be representing American interests when it comes to her dutiful reporting 03:44.350 --> 03:50.730 That's my opinion. So in short what we have in our upside-down funhouse image 03:51.470 --> 03:53.650 lunacy world is 03:53.650 --> 04:01.070 someone who appears to be in violation of farra, which is the foreign agent registration act that is 04:01.800 --> 04:05.520 representing a foreign government when it comes to lobbying our own and 04:05.520 --> 04:12.020 Doing so in an undisclosed fashion accusing Tucker Carlson someone who in my opinion does incredibly 04:12.540 --> 04:15.500 quality journalism and also is a 04:15.500 --> 04:22.740 Legitimate courageous truth teller the type that we absolutely need right now and accusing him of what they are 04:23.260 --> 04:23.760 guilty of 04:24.460 --> 04:31.360 Yes, accusing Tucker Carlson of being a foreign agent as she has been doing for many months now when it comes to guitar 04:31.360 --> 04:32.400 But now 04:32.980 --> 04:39.560 If Tucker is correct that this allegation comes as a consequence of his conversation with Iranians just prior to the war beginning 04:39.560 --> 04:45.700 Well, then it would be because he's in the employ of Iran or representing Iranian interests as 04:46.280 --> 04:50.100 Absurd and laughable as that is that appears to be what's happening here 04:50.100 --> 04:52.900 there are some people who are mad at me for my views about Israel and 04:53.880 --> 04:57.680 They have some latitude and one of the reasons they pass on 04:58.400 --> 05:00.040 criminal complaints in effect 05:00.620 --> 05:03.120 To law enforcement is to justify 05:04.280 --> 05:08.660 warrants for spying on Americans. So that is an absolutely real thing 05:09.380 --> 05:12.160 but the main reason they do it is 05:13.100 --> 05:18.100 to leak the existence of the investigation such as it is to 05:18.840 --> 05:20.120 the media and then 05:20.120 --> 05:26.160 Humiliate and terrify the subjects of this op and that's of course happened to me repeatedly 05:26.940 --> 05:28.100 many times 05:29.640 --> 05:30.920 including in famously 05:31.600 --> 05:38.540 2021 when I was still at Fox News and trying to set up an interview with Vladimir Putin and the NSA I heard from someone there 05:39.100 --> 05:45.100 Had grabbed my text messages with an American citizen and had leaked them to news outlets 05:45.100 --> 05:49.920 Those texts were basically my attempts to set up an interview with the foreign head of state and they leaked them 05:49.920 --> 05:56.960 To the New York Times in order to stop the interview which they successfully did by the way and they admitted that they were spying 05:56.960 --> 06:02.300 I mean, this is not a fantasy. It actually happened now a running theme throughout my show over the past six months 06:02.300 --> 06:07.080 If not the past year is that I've become convinced that the vast majority of 06:07.080 --> 06:11.880 Influencers are in the employ of either lobbyists foreign powers 06:11.880 --> 06:19.040 They are not truth tellers, but rather mercenaries and a good example of this is with Laura Loomer that she 06:19.040 --> 06:23.400 Just yesterday actually was in India. Yes 06:23.400 --> 06:30.020 Laura Loomer in India Laura Loomer who has just drilled into Indians for 06:30.560 --> 06:32.640 Years and years and years 06:33.140 --> 06:38.580 Appears to have been paid to go there and give a time prior to heading out to India to give that talk 06:38.580 --> 06:46.240 She deleted all of her very very hate filled messages about Indians before she got on the plane 06:46.240 --> 06:48.920 But that didn't prevent this from happening 06:54.170 --> 07:01.790 Resilitated wire call center. You then went on to say our country was built by white Europeans not third world invaders from India 07:01.790 --> 07:04.150 I think you should do more than just express regret 07:04.150 --> 07:07.730 From what I can see you're brazenly racist and 07:07.730 --> 07:11.290 Islamophobic and I'm sorry to say that we have a tituli 07:11.290 --> 07:16.750 They were power in this country where we welcome all but your comments smack of anti-Indianism 07:16.750 --> 07:23.890 Worst still Islamophobia and even worse racism, which has no place ma'am in today's world 07:23.890 --> 07:27.690 So get real ma'am. Sorry to say that but that comments are 07:27.690 --> 07:33.630 Unacceptable to me as an Indian and as a world citizen now as hilarious as that was and is 07:34.410 --> 07:43.070 It's also really disturbing because if she is correct in taking credit for these really slanderous 07:43.690 --> 07:46.450 baseless accusations against Tucker Carlson and 07:46.750 --> 07:52.850 with it leading to a CIA operation to spy on him and ultimately refer him for criminal charges 07:53.370 --> 08:01.030 It's disturbing to put it mildly that someone with a reputation like Loomer could lead to the 08:01.630 --> 08:02.050 unjust 08:02.950 --> 08:04.550 persecution and potentially 08:04.550 --> 08:10.810 prosecution of someone who I consider to be highly reputable and Tucker Carlson someone who I consider to be 08:11.250 --> 08:13.850 tremendously important particularly in this moment 08:14.510 --> 08:17.310 Particularly given his opposition to the war in Iran 08:18.150 --> 08:25.830 Particularly given his opposition to someone that he campaigned for and on behalf of for a very long time and Donald Trump 08:25.830 --> 08:30.770 and Tucker goes on to make the point that this is to be expected in times of war that you will have 08:32.470 --> 08:35.830 increasing hostility towards journalism you will have a 08:35.830 --> 08:39.690 Diminishment of our privacy rights our rights more broadly our first speech rights 08:39.690 --> 08:47.650 Obviously what this is and on a personal level I take this very seriously in no short part because I'm friends with Brett Weinstein 08:47.650 --> 08:53.330 In fact, I got a call from Brett about a week ago asking me. Well, I'm not going to disclose what we talked about 08:53.330 --> 08:57.450 It's not that relevant, but regardless in that same period 08:57.450 --> 08:59.570 I now know that he was almost certainly 08:59.570 --> 09:05.830 Scheduling his appearance with and his appearance of Tucker to be on his show in the following days 09:05.830 --> 09:09.810 And now I know that Tucker Carlson was being spied on by the CIA 09:09.810 --> 09:14.430 Which means that based off of our completely absurd anti-terrorism and 09:14.430 --> 09:22.210 Homeland defense law that would mean that based off of a connection that if you can normally the way it's supposed to work 09:22.210 --> 09:27.950 Just so you understand is that it's supposed to be that they have a right to spy on foreigners not Americans 09:27.950 --> 09:31.750 We are supposed to have privacy rights. I know it's a 09:32.270 --> 09:36.810 Laughably absurd claim, but that is what our founders intended with the Constitution 09:36.810 --> 09:43.670 But in the wake of 9-11 the way that they found a mechanism to circumvent our God-given rights was to 09:44.210 --> 09:48.750 spy on foreigners and if a foreigner had any context with an American 09:48.750 --> 09:52.990 Well, then they could then spy on them because they're not spying on them 09:52.990 --> 09:57.990 They're spying on them for the purposes of spying on a foreigner 09:57.990 --> 10:03.770 That's the argument as laughable as it is they take it one big step further than that by then 10:03.770 --> 10:11.030 Enabling themselves to spy on anyone who the subject of the operation of the investigation has been communicating with 10:11.030 --> 10:18.010 Which means that very likely Tucker Carlson's communications with Brett Weinstein would also be 10:18.650 --> 10:25.710 Under their purview and therefore perhaps my communications with Brett would also be under that umbrella 10:25.710 --> 10:27.150 now I'm not particularly 10:27.950 --> 10:36.290 Concerned about this because my communications with Brett are very benign and totally in pursuit of the best interest of this country 10:36.290 --> 10:38.130 so I don't care and 10:39.010 --> 10:43.910 Additionally, I'm not at all concerned because I already assumed that they were spying on all of us 10:43.910 --> 10:50.950 So, you know, it's just kind of comes with the territory particularly given the lane that I'm in and the topics that I cover 10:50.950 --> 10:53.910 It would I would be naive not to expect it 10:53.910 --> 11:00.950 It doesn't make it any less disturbing that this is where we are at as a people that our government spies on us 11:00.950 --> 11:08.490 24-7 that our government tries to scare the living daylights out of journalists who are in pursuit of not just the truth 11:08.490 --> 11:13.050 But in my opinion perhaps even more importantly peace. So I'll wrap with this 11:13.050 --> 11:20.090 I hope that you guys will stand up or and stand behind Tucker Carlson or Brett if they harass him 11:20.090 --> 11:26.570 Or me if they harass me, but I doubt it. I just I think it's really it's just a terrible precedent. It's a terrible 11:27.490 --> 11:32.270 Paradigm to exist under that they would think that they could do this to us that they think that they can 11:32.270 --> 11:36.770 essentially scare dissidents into being quiet and allowing for 11:37.790 --> 11:43.310 Illegal unconstitutional disastrous wars to be perpetrated without any dissent. I think it's a sickness 11:43.310 --> 11:47.330 I think it's a disease literally and we have to fight back against it 11:47.330 --> 11:52.270 So I encourage you guys to do so as far as I'm concerned Tucker Carlson has done nothing wrong 11:52.270 --> 11:55.970 There's been no evidence to the contrary that he has done anything wrong at all 11:55.970 --> 12:03.090 So just keep that in mind because I'm sure the reports are gonna be flooding your timelines over the next 24 to 48 12:03.090 --> 12:07.770 hours is a story just broke a few hours ago, and I would encourage you to 12:08.910 --> 12:15.190 Really reserve judgment until you know definitively what's up because I trust Tucker Carlson 12:15.190 --> 12:17.870 I do Iran does have a conventional military 12:17.870 --> 12:23.950 They are a proud and they are a big cunt possible case scenario is Iran says, okay, you humiliated us 12:23.950 --> 12:29.850 You killed all of our leaders. We're gonna go make this a regional mess and try to get as many people involved as possible 12:29.850 --> 12:34.950 They're gonna go after Americans. They're gonna go after Saudis. They're gonna go after everybody imaginable 12:34.950 --> 12:38.590 Just to create a big mess and to try to draw the world into it 12:38.590 --> 12:45.190 Just understand the Iranian people are widely respected and not necessarily are always in sync with leadership 12:45.750 --> 12:49.730 But if and when the people of Iran feel like Persia is being 12:49.730 --> 12:54.690 De-faced and humiliated and disrespected. We don't know where that is gonna go 12:54.690 --> 13:00.450 And that's my final reason why I am always skeptical of military intervention 13:00.450 --> 13:06.990 And when a lot of the sometimes warmongering wing gets too excited, you don't know actually 13:06.990 --> 13:10.690 You need to have a lot of humility welcome back to Liberty Lockdown. This is Clint Russell 13:10.690 --> 13:15.870 Thank you for tuning in once again. My mom came and visited so I took four days off to spend it with her 13:16.430 --> 13:20.850 Hi, mom. Love you very much. Let's get into the show. We've got look 13:20.850 --> 13:27.010 I've been getting a bunch of pushback on a few claims that I've made which is fine. That's normal 13:27.650 --> 13:30.270 particularly from a lot of people I like like Laura Logan, etc 13:30.770 --> 13:35.570 And I just wanted to show the clips because I feel like and in fact 13:35.570 --> 13:38.550 I was fact-checked by Grock and Grock said that no 13:39.310 --> 13:46.250 Trump and Heg Seth and Rubio none of them said these things and I was like, yeah, they have I have them prepared for my show 13:46.250 --> 13:49.350 Right now, so I want you to hear them and you tell me what you think years 13:49.350 --> 13:52.230 I've been killing our people and killing people from all over the world 13:52.230 --> 13:55.970 And I think we have great support and I think if we didn't do it first 13:56.490 --> 14:01.290 They would have done it to Israel and give us a shot if that was possible 14:01.850 --> 14:06.130 So first up you got Donald Trump saying that if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel 14:06.130 --> 14:11.090 Did he say that they would have done it to America? No, it was Israel. All right 14:11.090 --> 14:14.810 Let's shift over to Pete Hegseth to our steadfast partner Israel 14:15.910 --> 14:20.470 Your mission is being executed with unmatched skill and iron determination 14:21.410 --> 14:25.970 Pete Hegseth says that your mission is being fought. It's like yeah 14:25.970 --> 14:29.390 That's kind of the vibe I've been getting and then on last week's episode 14:29.390 --> 14:31.850 I already played you the clip of Marco Rubio saying the same thing 14:31.850 --> 14:36.470 So we've got three basically you can't get any higher Secretary of State 14:37.050 --> 14:41.670 Department of War President United States all acknowledging that this threat 14:41.670 --> 14:49.110 This threat that we it was so imminent and urgent that you couldn't go to Congress to get congressional authorization for this war 14:49.110 --> 14:52.610 It had to be taken and particularly the threat 14:52.610 --> 14:58.810 Was against not America, but Israel so for the life of me 14:58.810 --> 15:03.610 I don't I don't understand why this is still such a contentious point. It's so 15:04.010 --> 15:11.650 Self-evident you have the highest levels of power in our government staying it day in and day out 15:11.650 --> 15:13.250 This is a war 15:13.770 --> 15:19.430 Not to our benefit, but rather on the behalf of our ally as they see it in Israel 15:19.430 --> 15:24.090 What's sad is when the whole world and Americans are looking at the situation and we know the reason 15:24.090 --> 15:31.270 Because you're beholden the BB Netanyahu. We don't know why we don't know if it's because of you're getting paid allegedly 15:31.270 --> 15:37.030 We don't know if you're we just know you're compromised in some way now far be it for me to agree with Charlemagne 15:37.030 --> 15:38.670 They got it that we rarely agree 15:38.670 --> 15:47.170 but I think that this is just more evidence that we've broken containment ladies and gentlemen like this is being discussed in 15:48.250 --> 15:52.710 Mass this is being discussed on both sides of political aisle right wingers left wingers 15:52.710 --> 15:57.210 Everybody's still having the same conversation. We are not in control of our government 15:57.210 --> 16:02.710 You know the people that are cheering on this war in Iran have no fucking clue why we're there. They don't care 16:02.710 --> 16:05.090 They're happy to just see 16:06.430 --> 16:09.670 Violence, you know, they're happy to see things blow up 16:10.370 --> 16:14.710 They're at a bar in Florida. They're excited about 16:14.710 --> 16:21.590 The Ayatollah getting whacked. They don't they don't know why they don't know what Iran did to them 16:21.590 --> 16:25.030 They're just happy to see violence and chaos 16:25.890 --> 16:32.550 They don't care that a tomahawk missile ripped through a school and killed a hundred and sixty five people many of them between the ages of eight 16:32.550 --> 16:38.050 And ten years old they don't care because many parts of this country are a moral black hole 16:38.610 --> 16:46.490 They are a moral black hole where there is no morality. They're amoral. You say well, they have they maybe they have bad morals 16:46.490 --> 16:47.610 No, no, no 16:48.170 --> 16:51.270 They have no morals. They're a black hole 16:51.270 --> 16:57.290 So you may be thinking that Tim Dillon is being a bit hyperbolic just for comedic sake. I don't know man 16:57.290 --> 17:06.210 We've got Alex Karp CEO of Palantir saying this is what our greatest export is at this current stage of Empire decline 17:06.730 --> 17:14.010 So that what makes America special right now is our our lethal capacities our ability to fight war 17:14.010 --> 17:19.190 That's right. One of the top performing stocks in America over the past couple years Palantir 17:19.690 --> 17:20.990 Cia cut out. Am I dead? 17:21.450 --> 17:25.730 Yeah, the CEO of that company says that what makes America special 17:26.210 --> 17:30.430 Is our capacity to essentially export violence our our capacity 17:30.950 --> 17:32.130 to kill people 17:32.890 --> 17:35.490 that's what makes America special at this point 17:36.190 --> 17:36.830 and 17:37.710 --> 17:38.030 unfortunately 17:38.030 --> 17:46.330 I have to agree now. I don't agree with the positive spin that he's giving it obviously that also helps line his pockets now 17:46.330 --> 17:53.730 Doesn't it? No, I'm just saying I tend to agree that that does seem to be what our primary economic exports are 17:53.730 --> 17:58.290 death and destruction and in truth, it's hard to blame the American people for 17:58.290 --> 18:05.630 Feeling as if this is some sort of patriotic endeavor when you have talking points like this coming from Fox News 18:05.630 --> 18:10.110 This is a short-term disruption for the long-term gain short-term 18:10.110 --> 18:14.350 Pain for the long-term gain short-term pain be for long-term gain 18:14.350 --> 18:15.850 We're gonna have some short-term pain 18:16.530 --> 18:21.890 With long-term gain short-term pay for a long-term gain some short-term pain 18:21.890 --> 18:28.970 Yes, but we've got some long-term gain short-term spike for a long-term gain some short-term pain for American consumers 18:28.970 --> 18:33.590 We may have to deal with that in the short term short term and temporary temporary 18:33.590 --> 18:38.450 short-term pain. It's gonna suck in the short-term. Some short-term pain. Short-term pain. 18:38.650 --> 18:43.010 We have to focus on the short-term. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term. 18:43.090 --> 18:48.070 Long-term. Short-term. Lip. Hopefully this is a short-term pain. Oh, I'm sorry. That's not 18:48.070 --> 18:54.050 just Fox News. That's CNN and MSNBC, and that's across the board. You remember when CNN and 18:54.050 --> 18:58.850 MSNBC would pretend to be the enemy of Donald Trump? Well, that all gets put to the wayside 18:58.850 --> 19:04.930 as soon as a war is afoot, in which case the talking points circulate, and everybody starts 19:04.930 --> 19:10.250 to sound like a parrot. But you might be thinking, well, Clint, I mean, sure, that may be affecting 19:10.250 --> 19:15.330 the older demographics, which still tune into conventional cable news. But what about the 19:15.330 --> 19:21.270 young? Certainly they're getting, you know, more truthful, hard-hitting information, right? 19:21.810 --> 19:25.230 I think the way you can look at this, I haven't heard anyone else say this, but this seems 19:25.230 --> 19:29.890 to me to be the war to end all wars. I know that that's like bumper-stickery and whatever. 19:30.190 --> 19:38.350 But it's the war to say, no more of this. No more state-sponsored jihadism all over the 19:38.350 --> 19:45.630 place. And once that happens, once these countries calm down and things start turning, 19:45.730 --> 19:49.770 and we know the Gulf states are thriving because they've put aside some of this 19:49.770 --> 19:54.650 jihadist lunacy, people will start being more successful and more successful, flourishing 19:54.650 --> 20:00.850 people are less inclined to become crazy radicals. 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Check it out. Now you're 21:26.830 --> 21:31.530 thinking to yourself, surely Ben Shapiro has learned his lesson after supporting the 21:31.530 --> 21:36.330 Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, the entire global war on terror. No, no, he hasn't. 21:36.610 --> 21:42.830 And I can tell you why, because this war is to benefit Israel, which is his true 21:42.830 --> 21:47.230 passion in life. So that's why he's getting this one wrong yet again. 21:47.410 --> 21:50.650 You saw 32,000 people shot in the streets. I know that we're supposed to forget about 21:50.650 --> 21:54.290 all that because opponents of the war, as we will get to our very, very upset about 21:54.290 --> 21:58.570 a girl's school that got hit in the war. And then we're supposed to totally pretend 21:58.570 --> 22:02.190 that the Iranians don't slaughter innocent Iranians at the rate of tens of thousands 22:02.190 --> 22:06.810 the minute they pop their heads out of the ground. The Kurds, for example, live 22:07.390 --> 22:12.430 on the eastern side of the border with Iraq. You have Iraqi Kurds on one side, Iranian 22:12.430 --> 22:16.110 Kurds on the other. We could see serious incursions into Iran from both Azerbaijan 22:16.110 --> 22:21.670 and from Iraqi Kurdistan by Iranian Kurds. And if that happened, there would be a 22:21.670 --> 22:26.130 serious challenge to IRGC forces. Those forces are now isolated from Iran 22:26.130 --> 22:31.230 because of the fracturing of the IRGC leadership class. Basically, with the 22:31.230 --> 22:35.610 destruction of the top levels of the IRGC, the lines of command have now 22:35.610 --> 22:40.070 broken down and you have specific IRGC areas governed by specific IRGC 22:40.070 --> 22:44.030 commanders. And so the entire structure could begin to collapse piece by 22:44.030 --> 22:46.930 piece. And if that happens, then more and more Iranians in the center of the 22:46.930 --> 22:51.570 country will understand that the moment has come for action. And finally, the 22:51.570 --> 22:53.350 United States could simply bomb until the bombing is done. 22:53.570 --> 22:57.330 Let me tell you, I'm not guessing at Ben Shapiro being wrong. We already know 22:57.330 --> 23:02.030 he's wrong because in that monologue, he says that there is an expectation 23:02.030 --> 23:05.650 or potentiality. The Kurds, after having been betrayed by the United 23:05.650 --> 23:10.050 States of America and undoubtedly by Israel as well, have already announced 23:10.510 --> 23:14.370 Yeah, we're not falling for that again. You guys pulled the rug on us in Iraq. 23:14.550 --> 23:18.690 You pulled the rug on us in Syria. We're not going into Iran on your behalf. 23:18.910 --> 23:22.710 No, thank you. But certainly we can rely on the left wing to get this right. 23:22.770 --> 23:26.590 He's basically saying, listen, we're Christians. We don't need to defend 23:26.590 --> 23:30.430 these Jews at all. Their holy book is irrelevant to us. It's just 23:30.430 --> 23:34.610 barbarism in there. Does Israel have the right to that land? 23:34.770 --> 23:38.370 Because you're appealing to Genesis. You're saying that's the original 23:38.370 --> 23:42.830 deed. It would be fine if they took it all. 23:43.330 --> 23:47.450 I thought that was fascinating and well worth watching. The way he went after 23:47.450 --> 23:53.190 Huckabee, based on a differentiation between the New Testament and the Old 23:53.190 --> 23:57.790 Testament, he's basically saying, listen, we're Christians. We don't have to 23:57.790 --> 24:00.490 care about the Old Testament at all. Right? There's just a lot of 24:00.490 --> 24:03.810 barbarism in there. He went after the whole Malachite business, you 24:03.810 --> 24:08.350 know, that's just genocide. Right? Like this, we don't need it. We 24:08.350 --> 24:12.730 defend these Jews at all. Their holy book is irrelevant to us. It's just 24:12.730 --> 24:18.330 barbarism in there. Christ is king. All we have to care about is Jesus. 24:18.750 --> 24:23.290 So you have to believe that the Democrat voting Sam Harris, who's also an 24:23.290 --> 24:28.250 atheist, ethnically Jewish, but atheist, he would obviously find Mike 24:28.250 --> 24:32.890 Huckabee's position that Israel has a right to the entirety of the 24:32.890 --> 24:36.990 Middle East to be laughably absurd because he's an atheist. He 24:36.990 --> 24:39.430 doesn't believe in the Bible. There's no way he could think that 24:39.430 --> 24:42.650 Huckabee is in the right. He would have to side with Tucker 24:42.650 --> 24:47.530 Carlson. He would have to. No. No, he doesn't because at the end of 24:47.530 --> 24:51.490 the day, despite calling himself an atheist, there is no person on 24:51.490 --> 24:55.610 earth that Sam Harris hates more than Muslims because there has 24:55.610 --> 24:58.130 never been a war in the Middle East that Sam Harris didn't 24:58.130 --> 25:02.150 support. Literally never. But we haven't ran out of hope yet. I 25:02.150 --> 25:05.430 mean, I'm sure, I'm sure given how much Bill Maher hates 25:05.430 --> 25:09.050 Donald Trump, he's got to be opposed to this, right? 25:09.530 --> 25:16.050 Also this week war. Did you hear about that thing? We bombed 25:16.050 --> 25:19.130 Iran and it's going on now. Have you expected me to say I hate 25:19.130 --> 25:22.790 it? I don't. Sorry. When he puts boots on the ground. Yeah, 25:22.950 --> 25:25.530 then I'll hate it now. I know too many happy Iranian 25:25.530 --> 25:26.630 Americans. Sorry. 25:33.050 --> 25:36.570 You cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the 25:36.570 --> 25:39.650 Middle East in the last 50 years and not connected to this 25:39.650 --> 25:40.970 fascist theocracy. 25:41.310 --> 25:44.530 Bill Maher says there that you can't name one tragic one 25:44.530 --> 25:46.290 bad thing that's happened in the Middle East that didn't 25:46.290 --> 25:54.110 connect to Iran. Okay, how about the Iraq war? The 25:54.110 --> 25:56.570 Iraq war is not a war. I mean, I'm sure you get the look. All 25:56.570 --> 26:00.990 I'm saying is that is such an unbelievably biased position 26:00.990 --> 26:07.070 again, coming from an atheist, allegedly, who obviously is as 26:07.070 --> 26:10.270 bloodthirsty as anybody on the right wing. You will find 26:10.270 --> 26:13.430 basically sounds like Lindsey Grant. And what makes this 26:13.430 --> 26:16.770 worse and more irritating, despite the fact that we've 26:16.770 --> 26:23.030 now got 20 plus years of just disastrous quagmires in the 26:23.030 --> 26:26.670 Middle East, you still have this incredibly short term 26:26.670 --> 26:29.510 analysis that people are putting forward. We're just 26:29.510 --> 26:31.650 going to drop bombs and then we'll go home and everything 26:31.650 --> 26:35.910 will be fine. Well, here's the problem. Bill Trump today 26:35.910 --> 26:40.510 alone has said that we have now wiped out Iran's 26:40.510 --> 26:45.090 complete 100% of their military capability. He then followed 26:45.090 --> 26:50.550 up in the same post saying that the Strait of Hormuz needs to 26:50.550 --> 26:55.790 be reopened by the people who use it. To which I say, if Iran 26:55.790 --> 26:59.210 has been 100% militarily defeated, then why do we need any 26:59.210 --> 27:01.950 assistance? Trump then goes on to say that he wants the 27:01.950 --> 27:04.730 Europeans to help. He wants the Chinese to help. The 27:04.730 --> 27:07.190 Chinese are not going to help. We have already kicked the 27:07.190 --> 27:09.910 hornet's nest. It's like when your enemy's making 27:09.910 --> 27:13.030 a mistake, don't stop them. That's how they view what 27:13.030 --> 27:15.070 we're doing here. So, obviously, they're not going to 27:15.070 --> 27:18.890 assist. But moreover, the obvious real lesson here or the 27:18.890 --> 27:23.130 real truth here is that Donald Trump is lying. If Iran has 27:23.130 --> 27:26.430 been 100% militarily defeated, you don't need to be 27:26.430 --> 27:30.550 posting and asking for help by anybody else. You don't 27:30.550 --> 27:32.890 need help, especially with Trump. You know, he would 27:32.890 --> 27:35.070 love to take a victory lap. We did this all on our 27:35.070 --> 27:38.010 own and we're just the best. We're the best and it's 27:38.010 --> 27:43.010 over in two weeks and it was in and out. We're 27:43.010 --> 27:48.230 5,000 Marines to the region, which are likely going to 27:48.230 --> 27:53.150 be used to try and free up the Strait of Hormuz. Now, if 27:53.150 --> 27:55.870 Iran's been defeated, you certainly don't need 5,000 27:55.870 --> 27:59.890 Marines to release the blockade, right? It should 27:59.890 --> 28:03.010 be easily done with a dozen people. Nope. And 28:03.010 --> 28:07.430 here's the problem. In June of 2025, right before 28:07.430 --> 28:10.450 we decided to bomb their nuclear facilities, we 28:10.450 --> 28:13.050 were in negotiation with the Iranians and they were 28:13.050 --> 28:15.810 at the negotiating table with us and it seemed as if 28:15.810 --> 28:19.570 there was a potentiality for a real agreement that 28:19.570 --> 28:21.710 essentially lifted the sanctions that have been 28:21.710 --> 28:25.670 crippling Iran economically for years now, probably a 28:25.670 --> 28:28.910 decade. And in return, they would either allow for 28:28.910 --> 28:33.430 inspections again or give up their medium-enriched 28:33.430 --> 28:37.430 uranium. And during that process, yeah, we hit 28:37.430 --> 28:39.990 them hard. Now you fast forward to February of 28:39.990 --> 28:42.150 2026, just last month, just a couple of weeks ago. 28:42.610 --> 28:45.450 Again, we are at the negotiating table this time 28:45.450 --> 28:48.110 because the Iranians have already realized that we 28:48.110 --> 28:50.510 will kill them in the middle of negotiating. They 28:50.510 --> 28:53.230 have the Omanians. I don't know if that's 28:53.230 --> 28:55.470 what you call them. Oman is being used as 28:55.470 --> 28:58.910 intermediary to try and negotiate peace. And the 28:58.910 --> 29:02.370 representatives from Oman just the day before we 29:02.370 --> 29:05.390 take out their leader and their top 50 leadership 29:05.390 --> 29:07.890 and bomb the living hell out of them, Oman says, 29:08.310 --> 29:10.950 Iran has agreed to everything. They're ready to 29:10.950 --> 29:14.490 roll. All they want is to maintain a, you know, 29:14.510 --> 29:18.070 basically a civilian-level nuclear facility for 29:18.070 --> 29:21.090 medicine and whatnot. But no, we bombed the 29:21.090 --> 29:23.670 hell out of them. And what has come out since 29:23.670 --> 29:27.070 then is that it was Kushner, Jared Kushner, who 29:27.070 --> 29:28.970 had Netanyahu sleeping in his bed as a child, 29:29.970 --> 29:32.750 little conflict of interest, I'd say there, as 29:32.750 --> 29:37.030 well as Steve Whitkoff, who was the lead envoy 29:37.030 --> 29:40.050 negotiator with the Iranians. And the Iranians 29:40.050 --> 29:43.770 now believe that they were basically shipped. 29:44.350 --> 29:47.090 They were stabbed in the back while believing 29:47.090 --> 29:49.870 that negotiating towards a peace settlement was 29:49.870 --> 29:52.930 a possibility. In fact, it was not that. In 29:52.930 --> 29:54.890 fact, this was headed to war no matter what. 29:55.070 --> 29:57.550 So here's the problem just from a purely 29:57.550 --> 30:00.630 like setting judgments aside here and just 30:00.630 --> 30:03.850 analyze this with me under a game theory framework. 30:04.310 --> 30:06.950 If you are negotiating with someone and you know 30:06.950 --> 30:09.410 that they might kill you mid-negotiation, can 30:09.410 --> 30:12.330 you take them seriously about anything? The 30:12.330 --> 30:15.430 answer is no. And that is where the Iranians 30:15.430 --> 30:18.550 and honestly the rest of the world is now 30:18.550 --> 30:22.990 feeling and having to reassess and interact 30:22.990 --> 30:25.770 with America under the presumption that you 30:25.770 --> 30:28.010 are not a good faith actor, that in fact you 30:28.010 --> 30:31.170 are just setting us up to be murdered. So 30:31.170 --> 30:32.810 under that paradigm, that means that 30:32.810 --> 30:35.370 peace negotiations cannot be fruitful 30:35.370 --> 30:37.750 because you cannot trust anything that 30:37.750 --> 30:40.670 America or Israel has to say, which is 30:40.670 --> 30:43.010 obviously the rational position to hold. 30:43.230 --> 30:45.070 And it's unfortunate because this is 30:45.070 --> 30:48.030 oftentimes how we're told to perceive the 30:48.030 --> 30:49.590 Iranians that they're irrational, that 30:49.590 --> 30:52.210 they're prepared to, you know, blow up 30:52.210 --> 30:53.710 their entire country as long as it 30:53.710 --> 30:55.910 injures one American or one Israeli. 30:55.910 --> 30:58.190 And it's like, well, who's the irrational 30:58.190 --> 31:00.170 actor? If our side is the one who's willing 31:00.170 --> 31:03.010 to murder our negotiation partners, 31:03.410 --> 31:05.630 mid-negotiation and bomb the hell out of a 31:05.630 --> 31:08.390 country, mid-negotiation, well then who's 31:08.390 --> 31:10.770 the irrational one? Who's the one that's 31:10.770 --> 31:12.950 reckless? I would argue it's pretty 31:12.950 --> 31:15.270 clearly us. So now under game theory, 31:15.590 --> 31:17.290 the only thing that you have, the only 31:17.290 --> 31:19.750 chip or card you have to play, given 31:19.750 --> 31:21.670 that you are terribly outmaned but 31:21.670 --> 31:24.010 you do have, you know, very difficult 31:24.010 --> 31:26.370 terrain to invade, you have a capacity to 31:26.370 --> 31:27.710 defend yourself but you don't have 31:27.710 --> 31:30.570 really any capacity to harm America, at 31:30.570 --> 31:32.970 least not on our homeland. The only card 31:32.970 --> 31:35.310 that the Iranians are left to play is 31:35.310 --> 31:38.050 to close the Strait of Hormuz, which 31:38.050 --> 31:39.510 today they announced that they will be 31:39.510 --> 31:41.870 closing it for at minimum three months. 31:42.570 --> 31:43.870 Now as I've already told you guys in 31:43.870 --> 31:45.910 prior episodes, the Strait of Hormuz 31:45.910 --> 31:48.110 is responsible for 30 percent of the 31:48.110 --> 31:51.750 oil transit of the world every single 31:51.750 --> 31:53.590 day. So if Trump is lying about his 31:53.590 --> 31:55.770 capacity to open up the Strait of Hormuz, 31:56.230 --> 31:58.870 that means we are in for a world of hurt 31:58.870 --> 32:02.010 economically, like catastrophic. We're 32:02.010 --> 32:04.410 talking 200 plus dollars per barrel of 32:04.410 --> 32:06.690 oil, which would have cascading effects 32:06.690 --> 32:08.750 throughout not just our stock market, 32:08.950 --> 32:10.550 but through the global economy, but 32:10.550 --> 32:12.710 through every single product we buy 32:12.710 --> 32:14.870 because as you probably are aware, so 32:14.870 --> 32:17.910 much of what we consume has oil in 32:17.910 --> 32:19.130 it or in the production of it. But 32:19.130 --> 32:21.450 here's the tragedy, this is the only 32:21.450 --> 32:24.270 card Iran has to play. If you recognize 32:24.270 --> 32:26.610 that your negotiating partner cannot be 32:26.610 --> 32:29.250 reasoned with, the only card they have 32:29.250 --> 32:31.690 to play is to make it so painful 32:32.330 --> 32:35.290 for us, you and I, the people who don't 32:35.290 --> 32:37.510 even support this war, to make it 32:37.510 --> 32:39.790 politically untenable for them, 32:40.270 --> 32:42.670 Trump, Whitcoff, Kushner, the Israelis, 32:43.130 --> 32:45.930 to ever do this again, that is the 32:45.930 --> 32:49.270 only leverage they have. The Iranians 32:49.270 --> 32:51.350 have to punish us economically to 32:51.350 --> 32:53.230 try and defend themselves militarily. 32:53.790 --> 32:55.190 And I think that's exactly what 32:55.190 --> 32:56.470 they're going to do. The only thing 32:56.470 --> 32:57.770 prohibiting transit in the streets 32:57.770 --> 32:59.830 right now is Iran shooting at shipping. 33:00.190 --> 33:02.690 It is open for transit should Iran not 33:02.690 --> 33:05.190 do that. So in short, despite that word 33:05.190 --> 33:09.410 salad, yeah, we're fucked. They don't 33:09.410 --> 33:11.270 actually have a plan for this. And in 33:11.270 --> 33:14.330 fact, the Trump was warned by one of 33:14.330 --> 33:17.410 his top generals, don't do this, that 33:17.410 --> 33:19.310 they will obviously shut down the 33:19.310 --> 33:21.010 Strait of Hormuz. And guess what? 33:21.550 --> 33:22.430 According to, I think it was a Washington 33:22.430 --> 33:25.150 Post, I read the article from, Trump said, 33:25.590 --> 33:27.810 I believe that we will beat them so 33:27.810 --> 33:29.870 badly with this surgical strike, this 33:29.870 --> 33:31.310 decapitation strike, we take out their 33:31.310 --> 33:33.170 top 50 leadership. Obviously command and 33:33.170 --> 33:34.950 control will fall, the people will rise 33:34.950 --> 33:37.590 up. There will be no moment at which 33:37.590 --> 33:39.210 Iran is still standing by which they 33:39.210 --> 33:40.430 can give orders to shut down the 33:40.430 --> 33:41.610 Strait of Hormuz. This is honestly 33:41.610 --> 33:43.330 what Trump thought. That was wrong. 33:44.630 --> 33:46.430 And I'll tell you how stupid this 33:46.430 --> 33:49.130 is. This is a true story. George Bush, 33:50.290 --> 33:54.650 George H. W. Bush, the junior in 2003 when 33:54.650 --> 33:55.930 they were talking about, you know, 33:56.210 --> 33:57.930 Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran as 33:57.930 --> 34:01.390 potential arenas for war, George Bush 34:01.390 --> 34:04.370 was smart enough to say, yeah, Iran's a 34:04.370 --> 34:06.790 no-go zone because of the Strait of 34:06.790 --> 34:09.070 Hormuz primarily. Also because of the 34:09.070 --> 34:10.370 mountainous regions and making it 34:10.370 --> 34:11.410 impossible for a ground invasion, 34:11.410 --> 34:13.350 it's just ultimately suicide. There was 34:13.350 --> 34:14.690 top generals at that point that were 34:14.690 --> 34:17.150 threatening to resign over it, to 34:17.150 --> 34:19.210 resign over plans of a ground invasion 34:19.210 --> 34:22.070 into Iran. So this is a dead end and our 34:22.070 --> 34:24.790 our military brass has known that for 34:24.790 --> 34:26.290 decades. And this is going to be 34:26.290 --> 34:27.590 complicated, but I want to explain it 34:27.590 --> 34:29.270 to you guys because I had an 34:29.270 --> 34:30.630 opportunity to respond to Thaddeus 34:30.630 --> 34:32.610 Russell about this a couple hours 34:32.610 --> 34:34.470 ago. And it's just, it's very 34:34.470 --> 34:36.450 complex, but it's also, I think 34:36.450 --> 34:38.290 it's very rational and logical. So 34:38.290 --> 34:39.430 let me tell you what I think is 34:39.430 --> 34:40.710 happening and why. But it's 34:40.710 --> 34:42.190 important to understand how the 34:42.190 --> 34:44.830 empire actually functions. The American 34:44.830 --> 34:47.370 empire is clearly a real thing, but it's 34:47.370 --> 34:49.430 not so much a physical empire in that, 34:49.510 --> 34:51.450 you know, like the Greeks or the Romans, 34:51.690 --> 34:53.130 like we're going around and we're 34:53.130 --> 34:54.570 actually putting boots on the ground 34:54.570 --> 34:57.570 and we're conquering every square 34:57.570 --> 34:59.850 inch of land that we control. That's 34:59.850 --> 35:02.230 not how our modern empire works. Our 35:02.230 --> 35:04.470 modern empire functions under a more 35:04.470 --> 35:06.310 soft power, even though it's oftentimes 35:06.310 --> 35:09.690 brutal, but it's considered soft 35:09.690 --> 35:12.310 power sanctions, CIA, USAID, 35:13.310 --> 35:15.350 funding opposition parties, things of 35:15.350 --> 35:18.290 that nature, the more kind of less, 35:18.510 --> 35:20.430 it's not less overt. We're not actually 35:20.430 --> 35:23.270 just putting 500,000 troops and 35:23.270 --> 35:25.570 invading a country like Ukraine, for 35:25.570 --> 35:27.130 instance, our overthrow was done 35:27.130 --> 35:29.070 without troops or very minimal troops. 35:29.330 --> 35:30.910 And then the other tier of soft 35:30.910 --> 35:33.150 power would be that we negotiate 35:33.150 --> 35:35.610 with other countries offering 35:35.610 --> 35:38.470 security guarantees or financial 35:38.470 --> 35:40.230 assistance. Like, for instance, we give 35:40.230 --> 35:41.710 a ton of money to a bunch of Muslim 35:41.710 --> 35:43.730 countries to get along with Israel. We 35:43.730 --> 35:45.490 also have offered security guarantees 35:45.490 --> 35:47.490 to many Muslim countries to get along 35:47.490 --> 35:50.550 with Israel. I know. It's an interesting 35:50.550 --> 35:52.570 trend that keeps popping up over and 35:52.570 --> 35:53.990 over again. Like Donald Trump in his 35:53.990 --> 35:56.730 first term, I've heard Tim Pool and 35:56.730 --> 35:58.610 a bunch of people, you know, give a 35:58.610 --> 36:00.190 lot of credit to Trump for the Abraham 36:00.190 --> 36:02.150 Accords. But what really were the 36:02.150 --> 36:04.090 Abraham Accords? In my estimation, it 36:04.090 --> 36:05.990 was not so much about peace in the 36:05.990 --> 36:07.790 Middle East. It was about getting 36:08.250 --> 36:10.010 everybody in the Middle East who was 36:10.010 --> 36:12.790 oppositional to Israel to be under our 36:12.790 --> 36:15.050 thumb so that then they would allow for 36:15.050 --> 36:17.410 Israel to do what they did in Gaza, to 36:17.410 --> 36:18.710 do what they're now doing in Iran, 36:18.710 --> 36:21.370 which is why we took out Iraq. It's 36:21.370 --> 36:23.250 why we took out Afghanistan and Libya 36:23.250 --> 36:26.090 and Syria is that this is about 36:27.050 --> 36:29.490 another empire, an empire that is not 36:29.490 --> 36:31.270 our own that does not, in my 36:31.270 --> 36:33.290 opinion, benefit us at all. Now, I'll 36:33.290 --> 36:34.870 explain that in a second. But the 36:34.870 --> 36:36.450 key thing to understand is, as I 36:36.450 --> 36:38.330 said, our empire is not so much 36:38.330 --> 36:40.290 physical as much as it is coercive, as 36:40.290 --> 36:41.890 much as it is financial in nature. 36:42.270 --> 36:44.610 We use bribery. We use protection 36:44.610 --> 36:46.590 rackets to get people to do our 36:46.590 --> 36:48.790 bidding. So we don't control the 36:48.790 --> 36:51.690 entire world, but we control most of 36:51.690 --> 36:54.390 the world with this mechanism. And 36:54.390 --> 36:56.850 the underlying mechanism by which we 36:56.850 --> 36:58.910 control is that we are the global 36:58.910 --> 37:01.110 reserve currency. We're able to 37:01.110 --> 37:02.890 print money that has maximal 37:02.890 --> 37:04.610 purchasing power domestically and 37:04.610 --> 37:06.830 diminishing power as it gets pushed out 37:06.830 --> 37:08.530 into the rest of the world, but the rest 37:08.530 --> 37:10.110 of the world is required to use it 37:10.110 --> 37:12.590 because we'll kill you if you don't. So 37:12.590 --> 37:15.310 it's certainly an empire, but it's a 37:15.310 --> 37:18.350 modern variation of it. However, the 37:18.350 --> 37:20.010 reason I believe that our empire is 37:20.010 --> 37:22.030 being sacrificed right now is for 37:22.030 --> 37:24.450 another empire, an empire that is 37:24.450 --> 37:26.690 physical in nature, an empire of 37:26.690 --> 37:30.150 expansion, an empire specifically for 37:30.150 --> 37:32.990 Israel, not even for America. And it 37:32.990 --> 37:34.870 is very physical. And I'm not just 37:34.870 --> 37:37.210 talking about Gaza or the West Bank, but 37:37.210 --> 37:40.570 also portions of Lebanon and Yemen and 37:40.570 --> 37:43.290 probably Iraq, possibly Iran. I'm not 37:43.290 --> 37:44.830 sure at that point at this point, but 37:45.470 --> 37:48.370 Syria for sure. So in short, to put a 37:48.370 --> 37:50.190 tiny little bow on this, what I believe 37:50.190 --> 37:52.110 is happening is that we are 37:53.030 --> 37:55.870 jeopardizing our empire because, as of 37:55.870 --> 37:57.610 today, the Iranians have announced 37:57.610 --> 38:00.410 that they are willing to allow ships 38:00.950 --> 38:03.310 to sail through the Strait of Hormuz as 38:03.310 --> 38:05.130 long as they are selling that oil or 38:05.130 --> 38:09.290 gas in yuan. Yeah, that's a problem 38:09.290 --> 38:10.990 because that means that they are 38:10.990 --> 38:13.230 essentially blockading anything that 38:13.230 --> 38:14.930 goes through there that is being 38:14.930 --> 38:18.670 transited or sold via the US dollar, 38:18.830 --> 38:20.450 which means that the petrodollar 38:20.450 --> 38:22.730 reserve status is kind of massively 38:22.730 --> 38:25.550 under threat. The Iranians, however 38:25.550 --> 38:26.910 you want to feel about them, are 38:26.910 --> 38:28.250 playing for keeps. They're playing 38:28.250 --> 38:30.650 hardball and they're playing smart. 38:31.150 --> 38:33.870 This is exactly the lever of pressure 38:33.870 --> 38:35.290 that you would want to apply to an 38:35.290 --> 38:37.130 empire if you were trying to defeat 38:37.130 --> 38:38.930 them. Sure, we don't have the power to 38:38.930 --> 38:40.690 strike you domestically, but we have 38:40.690 --> 38:42.870 the power to undermine your entire 38:43.530 --> 38:46.110 shit, your entire operation, bro. 38:47.290 --> 38:49.250 That's about as hardball as it gets. 38:49.770 --> 38:52.690 So in summary, we are trading our 38:53.330 --> 38:56.430 soft power, dollar-based empire, 38:57.290 --> 39:01.150 on behalf of Israel's burgeoning 39:01.750 --> 39:04.270 physical empire in their region, 39:04.550 --> 39:06.710 their expansionary programs. And that, 39:06.910 --> 39:09.010 ladies and gentlemen, is why you would 39:09.010 --> 39:10.650 have someone like Miriam Adelson 39:10.650 --> 39:13.210 ponying up $250 million to put 39:13.210 --> 39:16.270 Trump into power. And this is the 39:16.270 --> 39:17.930 payoff. 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It is 40:13.770 --> 40:16.350 illegal to post footage or most 40:16.350 --> 40:18.370 footage within Israel of strikes 40:18.370 --> 40:19.450 that are landing from Iran. 40:19.750 --> 40:21.130 There's also been a total 40:21.130 --> 40:22.690 internet blackout within Iran 40:22.690 --> 40:25.190 probably because they're afraid of 40:25.190 --> 40:27.270 subterfuge cyber attacks, things of 40:27.270 --> 40:28.590 that nature, but also to suppress 40:28.590 --> 40:30.650 dissidents that might rise up against 40:30.650 --> 40:32.110 them. But regardless, it's made it 40:32.110 --> 40:33.670 almost impossible to get any footage 40:33.670 --> 40:35.950 of what's actually happening there. 40:36.290 --> 40:38.230 We've also gotten virtually no 40:38.230 --> 40:39.810 footage of all of the damage that's 40:39.810 --> 40:41.190 been happening to American bases 40:41.190 --> 40:42.370 throughout the region, even though 40:42.370 --> 40:43.550 we now know that there's been at 40:43.550 --> 40:46.910 minimum 13 KIA on the American side. 40:47.110 --> 40:48.270 But there was something that took 40:48.270 --> 40:49.430 place yesterday that people, 40:50.150 --> 40:51.870 most people didn't even know what 40:51.870 --> 40:53.310 happened, but those that did take 40:53.310 --> 40:54.950 notice understood that this could be 40:54.950 --> 40:56.310 something very, very big. 40:57.070 --> 40:58.230 This is Scott Besson. 40:58.730 --> 41:00.330 I listened to you on the... 41:00.330 --> 41:02.750 It's because of what you... 41:02.750 --> 41:04.610 It's because of what you... 41:05.970 --> 41:06.850 Oh, okay. 41:09.050 --> 41:10.390 Okay, no problem at all. 41:13.170 --> 41:14.630 See you shortly, Mr. Secretary. 41:14.870 --> 41:15.670 You can work that in. 41:16.430 --> 41:18.570 Mr. Secretary, I have to say it's a 41:18.570 --> 41:20.350 first, I'm sure, a last as well 41:20.350 --> 41:23.230 that an interviewee has been pulled away 41:23.230 --> 41:24.450 to go to the Situation Room. 41:25.550 --> 41:27.090 How's the President? Was he... 41:27.090 --> 41:27.590 Was he stressed? 41:28.050 --> 41:31.710 No, the President is in great spirits. 41:32.390 --> 41:35.850 The Iranian mission is proceeding 41:35.850 --> 41:37.090 well ahead of schedule. 41:37.710 --> 41:40.150 And I have to tell you, well, 41:40.750 --> 41:45.010 that I'm a teenager who's considering 41:46.110 --> 41:48.910 military service, and I could give 41:48.910 --> 41:50.370 this team my highest compliment 41:50.370 --> 41:53.010 from President Trump to the head 41:53.010 --> 41:54.970 of the Joint Chief, to the Secretary 41:54.970 --> 41:55.650 of War. 41:56.370 --> 41:59.190 I would, they say, that I would 41:59.190 --> 42:01.530 trust my child's life in their hands. 42:03.150 --> 42:04.390 Now, for those that aren't familiar 42:04.390 --> 42:05.750 with Scott Besson, he's our Treasury 42:05.750 --> 42:08.730 Secretary, like top economic advisor 42:08.730 --> 42:10.050 basically to President Trump. 42:10.470 --> 42:12.530 So if you're not familiar with 42:12.530 --> 42:13.730 him, you probably don't know how 42:13.730 --> 42:14.330 he normally speaks. 42:14.930 --> 42:15.890 He doesn't speak like that. 42:16.450 --> 42:17.730 He was shaken. 42:17.730 --> 42:19.490 Like deeply shaken. 42:20.130 --> 42:22.090 And to have him pulled mid-interview 42:22.090 --> 42:23.710 tells you that it was something 42:23.710 --> 42:26.210 urgent to put it mildly, right? 42:26.490 --> 42:27.890 You don't pull one of your top 42:27.890 --> 42:29.610 spokespeople from an interview 42:29.610 --> 42:31.070 unless it's mandatory. 42:31.570 --> 42:32.910 And they said it was mandatory. 42:33.090 --> 42:34.270 So he gets pulled aside, he comes 42:34.270 --> 42:35.050 back hours later. 42:35.430 --> 42:37.730 And he's like clearly, like why 42:37.730 --> 42:38.610 does it go shaken? 42:39.110 --> 42:40.550 So there's two possibilities, in 42:40.550 --> 42:40.910 my opinion. 42:41.190 --> 42:42.910 One, and unfortunately I don't know 42:42.910 --> 42:44.050 what he said to that interviewer 42:44.050 --> 42:45.790 prior, maybe he said something 42:45.790 --> 42:47.930 that Trump didn't like. 42:48.450 --> 42:49.930 So he just went back there, got his 42:49.930 --> 42:51.510 ass chewed out, and then came back 42:51.510 --> 42:52.590 out and was all shaken. 42:52.930 --> 42:54.630 And that's why he conveyed it in 42:54.630 --> 42:55.030 that fashion. 42:55.590 --> 42:56.050 It's possible. 42:56.510 --> 42:57.750 The other possibility, and this is 42:57.750 --> 42:58.570 a very interesting one. 42:58.870 --> 42:59.750 Since that moment, 43:00.470 --> 43:01.850 Bibi Netanyahu has not been seen. 43:02.610 --> 43:04.170 Yeah, it's true. 43:04.750 --> 43:07.450 Also, there's another Israeli 43:07.450 --> 43:09.130 intelligence meeting or briefing 43:09.130 --> 43:10.850 today, which Bibi Netanyahu 43:10.850 --> 43:13.190 always attends, wasn't there. 43:13.750 --> 43:15.630 There was also a press 43:15.630 --> 43:17.310 conference from Netanyahu that came 43:17.310 --> 43:19.470 out yesterday that people are 43:19.470 --> 43:20.890 pointing out that he had six 43:20.890 --> 43:22.690 fingers, that he was missing 43:22.690 --> 43:24.810 teeth in one of the frames, 43:25.750 --> 43:27.270 and they're there theorizing that 43:27.270 --> 43:27.650 it was AI. 43:28.270 --> 43:29.670 So it makes you wonder. 43:30.070 --> 43:31.250 It really does make you wonder 43:31.250 --> 43:33.790 if Netanyahu was taken out by Iran 43:33.790 --> 43:35.390 and that they are covering it up 43:35.390 --> 43:37.670 for, I don't know what purpose 43:37.670 --> 43:38.710 you would cover it up, I guess, 43:38.770 --> 43:40.850 to try and negotiate an exit 43:40.850 --> 43:43.630 strategy, maybe, or to find an 43:43.630 --> 43:44.070 heir apparent. 43:44.410 --> 43:44.810 I don't know. 43:44.810 --> 43:47.010 Now, today Israel denied it, and they 43:47.010 --> 43:48.050 say that Netanyahu is fine. 43:48.530 --> 43:51.690 Okay, maybe, but regardless of 43:51.690 --> 43:53.270 whether or not that actually has 43:53.270 --> 43:54.890 happened, I still think it's really 43:54.890 --> 43:57.190 telling that you would have a moment 43:57.190 --> 43:59.450 where the Treasury Secretary would 43:59.450 --> 44:01.230 be pulled aside and then come back. 44:01.430 --> 44:03.410 Why does it go stumbling over his 44:03.410 --> 44:03.690 words? 44:04.170 --> 44:06.510 Obviously, like, shaken and looked 44:06.510 --> 44:07.390 like he was scared to death. 44:07.850 --> 44:09.810 And then you got to really, like, 44:09.910 --> 44:11.030 rewind back and listen to what he 44:11.030 --> 44:11.230 said. 44:11.630 --> 44:13.410 He says, I just want to say that 44:13.410 --> 44:16.450 I would, my son is of age 44:16.450 --> 44:19.330 for the military, and I would be 44:19.330 --> 44:21.410 proud to have him, you know, under 44:21.410 --> 44:24.430 the command of Pete Hegsath or 44:24.430 --> 44:25.090 Donald Trump or whatever. 44:25.230 --> 44:26.890 It's like, that was like a 44:26.890 --> 44:29.070 fealty test to end all fealty 44:29.070 --> 44:29.390 tests. 44:29.970 --> 44:32.070 Like, you, hey, will you let us 44:32.610 --> 44:33.850 risk your son's life? 44:34.310 --> 44:35.350 And he's like, yeah. 44:35.530 --> 44:37.150 And he's saying that in a very 44:37.150 --> 44:38.230 shaken fashion. 44:38.410 --> 44:40.370 So something to, you know, pay 44:40.370 --> 44:42.530 attention to is that there is real 44:42.530 --> 44:43.730 stress right now. 44:44.010 --> 44:46.430 And I think that it belies the fact 44:46.430 --> 44:48.310 that Trump is pretending we've 44:48.310 --> 44:49.130 already won this war. 44:49.230 --> 44:50.050 It's only been two weeks. 44:50.170 --> 44:51.730 They're 100% militarily destroyed. 44:52.530 --> 44:53.870 You know, everything's going great. 44:54.350 --> 44:55.830 There's short-term pain for some 44:55.830 --> 44:57.110 long-term gain, right? 44:57.490 --> 44:58.730 I think not. 44:59.290 --> 45:01.450 Now, I'm not rooting against us, 45:01.450 --> 45:02.830 as I've said many times. 45:03.310 --> 45:04.990 I am critical of Donald Trump and 45:04.990 --> 45:06.490 the Trump administration because I 45:06.490 --> 45:08.370 love this country and because I 45:08.370 --> 45:10.350 want us to succeed and prevail 45:10.350 --> 45:13.410 and be prosperous and free and 45:13.410 --> 45:13.790 peaceful. 45:14.430 --> 45:15.930 But the reason I'm critical is 45:15.930 --> 45:17.270 because we're not being any of 45:17.270 --> 45:17.730 those things. 45:18.290 --> 45:19.770 The dollar is dying as a 45:19.770 --> 45:20.590 consequence of our empire. 45:21.090 --> 45:22.730 The empire is dying as a 45:22.730 --> 45:23.830 consequence of our relationship to 45:23.830 --> 45:24.050 Israel. 45:24.410 --> 45:25.490 And some of the opposition to 45:25.490 --> 45:26.830 these wars has also been 45:26.830 --> 45:27.150 dying. 45:28.030 --> 45:29.510 And I'll maybe get into that in 45:29.510 --> 45:30.050 my next episode. 45:30.470 --> 45:31.530 That would be Charlie Kirk. 45:31.810 --> 45:32.550 And I actually had this 45:32.550 --> 45:33.710 conversation with my mom down 45:33.710 --> 45:34.690 at the pool today. 45:35.070 --> 45:36.530 We were talking about, you know, 45:36.610 --> 45:38.310 whether or not Trump is still on 45:38.310 --> 45:39.970 our side because, you know, she 45:39.970 --> 45:42.670 wants to believe or she wants to. 45:42.890 --> 45:43.270 She's hopeful. 45:43.630 --> 45:44.850 And some of the pushback she gave 45:44.850 --> 45:46.530 me on some of my criticisms was 45:46.530 --> 45:49.310 like, well, there are certain 45:49.310 --> 45:51.170 things that Trump can do and 45:51.170 --> 45:52.290 other things that he can't. 45:52.530 --> 45:53.670 So we just have to hope, 45:53.970 --> 45:56.110 basically a limited capacity of 45:56.110 --> 45:57.590 what he can endeavor to 45:57.590 --> 45:58.030 accomplish. 45:58.610 --> 46:00.150 So we just have to hope that 46:00.150 --> 46:00.890 some of the things that he 46:00.890 --> 46:01.890 endeavors to accomplish will 46:01.890 --> 46:03.350 be to our benefit. 46:03.530 --> 46:05.350 And what I express to her is 46:05.350 --> 46:07.410 that, well, I have no animosity 46:07.410 --> 46:08.710 towards Jewish people. 46:08.710 --> 46:10.430 It is so evident to me at this 46:10.430 --> 46:12.150 junction that, yeah, I agree with 46:12.150 --> 46:13.390 her that there is a limited 46:13.390 --> 46:15.710 amount of capacity of things 46:15.710 --> 46:16.630 that you're going to be able to 46:16.630 --> 46:18.270 accomplish, particularly in the 46:18.270 --> 46:19.110 first year or two of your 46:19.110 --> 46:21.170 presidency, and you're going to 46:21.170 --> 46:22.630 have to pick and choose. 46:23.010 --> 46:24.050 So which are you going to pick 46:24.050 --> 46:24.430 and choose? 46:24.830 --> 46:26.990 And what I think most Trump 46:26.990 --> 46:28.270 supporters are realizing at 46:28.270 --> 46:29.630 this point, or at least a good 46:29.630 --> 46:30.670 chunk of them are realizing, 46:30.970 --> 46:33.110 is that, yes, he has limited 46:33.110 --> 46:34.170 things that he can accomplish 46:34.170 --> 46:35.890 and the only things that he's 46:35.890 --> 46:37.330 really focusing on accomplishing 46:37.330 --> 46:39.270 are to the benefit of Israel, 46:39.650 --> 46:40.210 not America. 46:40.510 --> 46:41.830 When it comes to deportations, 46:42.450 --> 46:43.570 he says, you know, we're going 46:43.570 --> 46:44.610 to do mass deportations. 46:44.810 --> 46:46.790 Then it looks as if he's not 46:46.790 --> 46:47.750 even going to surpass 46:48.370 --> 46:50.390 Barack Obama's deportation 46:50.390 --> 46:50.750 figures. 46:51.050 --> 46:52.450 And why is he not going to 46:52.450 --> 46:53.250 surpass Obama? 46:53.590 --> 46:55.230 Well, because it's politically 46:55.230 --> 46:55.850 untenable. 46:56.150 --> 46:58.370 But then you have to ask 46:58.370 --> 46:59.190 yourself, wait a second, 46:59.610 --> 47:02.310 the war in Iran is super 47:02.310 --> 47:04.250 unpopular, way more unpopular 47:04.250 --> 47:05.930 than deportations. 47:06.710 --> 47:08.110 But you can still do that. 47:08.470 --> 47:10.310 Oh, but whose interest is that 47:10.310 --> 47:10.510 in? 47:10.970 --> 47:12.470 Oh, that's in the interest of 47:12.470 --> 47:14.150 Israel or in Adelson 47:14.810 --> 47:16.410 or your donor class more 47:16.410 --> 47:16.730 broadly. 47:16.730 --> 47:17.910 And it's like, oh, suddenly, 47:18.090 --> 47:20.010 suddenly the things that aren't 47:20.010 --> 47:21.390 popular get done 47:21.930 --> 47:23.210 if it's to the benefit of 47:23.210 --> 47:23.790 your donors. 47:24.070 --> 47:25.810 But if it's unpopular 47:26.570 --> 47:27.510 and it's to the benefit of 47:27.510 --> 47:29.010 Americans, you can't get it 47:29.010 --> 47:29.230 done. 47:29.730 --> 47:30.750 All right. 47:30.970 --> 47:32.270 Then you start to recognize 47:32.270 --> 47:34.630 like, oh, well, then clearly 47:34.630 --> 47:35.730 you're not on our side. 47:35.930 --> 47:37.330 Because if there is a limited 47:37.330 --> 47:38.350 amount of things that you can 47:38.350 --> 47:40.770 accomplish and you are opting 47:40.770 --> 47:42.290 to not do the things that you 47:42.290 --> 47:44.490 promised us, like not more 47:44.490 --> 47:45.570 wars in the Middle East. 47:45.790 --> 47:46.850 And instead, you're delivering 47:46.850 --> 47:48.730 more wars in the Middle East 47:48.730 --> 47:50.330 on behalf of your donors. 47:50.610 --> 47:52.070 Well, then you have completely 47:52.070 --> 47:54.470 abdicated your duty to your 47:54.470 --> 47:56.010 voters, to your supporters. 47:56.410 --> 47:57.370 And as I've said, 47:57.950 --> 47:59.590 the reason I approach this 47:59.590 --> 48:00.890 with such urgency, the reason 48:00.890 --> 48:02.350 I feel this betrayal so 48:02.350 --> 48:04.470 deeply is that we needed a 48:04.470 --> 48:04.870 hero. 48:05.770 --> 48:07.670 39 trillion in debt is a 48:07.670 --> 48:08.610 hiccup away. 48:08.810 --> 48:10.250 We're going to be 40 trillion 48:10.250 --> 48:11.210 deep in the hole 48:11.210 --> 48:12.590 by the end of this year. 48:12.910 --> 48:15.230 There is no time for fuck ups. 48:15.290 --> 48:16.850 There is no time for games 48:16.850 --> 48:17.510 or mistakes 48:17.510 --> 48:18.850 or selling out 48:18.850 --> 48:19.890 or being a fraud. 48:20.210 --> 48:20.750 None of that. 48:20.890 --> 48:23.110 You have to be real right now. 48:23.150 --> 48:24.270 And if you're not real, 48:24.390 --> 48:25.090 I'm going to hold your feet 48:25.090 --> 48:25.510 to the fire. 48:25.670 --> 48:26.390 And the reason I know that 48:26.390 --> 48:27.810 this is viable, the reason I 48:27.810 --> 48:28.730 know that this is valuable 48:28.730 --> 48:30.550 is because Donald Trump 48:31.130 --> 48:33.130 is he is surrounded by 48:33.130 --> 48:33.590 Yes, man. 48:33.590 --> 48:35.850 He is his voting base. 48:35.990 --> 48:36.730 The writer dies 48:36.730 --> 48:38.610 are largely sycophantic. 48:38.830 --> 48:41.290 They largely just praise him 48:41.290 --> 48:42.790 anytime he makes a mistake. 48:42.830 --> 48:43.690 It's 5d chess. 48:43.910 --> 48:44.950 Oh, you just don't understand. 48:45.150 --> 48:46.190 He's actually going to be doing 48:46.190 --> 48:46.530 this. 48:46.590 --> 48:47.910 Oh, you think that in the 48:47.910 --> 48:48.890 short term, this is a problem, 48:48.950 --> 48:49.950 but long term, he's going 48:49.950 --> 48:51.730 after Fauci, right? 48:52.370 --> 48:53.910 No, he's not. 48:54.130 --> 48:54.910 So at his core, 48:55.250 --> 48:56.350 what drives Donald Trump? 48:56.790 --> 48:58.170 Well, in my opinion, 48:58.170 --> 48:59.230 there's a distinct possibility 48:59.230 --> 49:00.290 he's being driven by 49:00.290 --> 49:01.570 his survival instincts 49:01.570 --> 49:02.550 that he's actually under 49:02.550 --> 49:04.050 threat, as Brett Weinstein 49:04.050 --> 49:05.030 talked to Tucker Carlson 49:05.030 --> 49:05.510 about yesterday. 49:05.890 --> 49:07.590 The golden pager 49:08.290 --> 49:09.610 that was given to President 49:09.610 --> 49:11.750 Trump strikes me as 49:11.750 --> 49:13.990 another Rorschach test, 49:14.310 --> 49:15.670 just like Beebe's statement 49:15.670 --> 49:17.810 after Charlie Kirk's murder. 49:17.970 --> 49:18.690 You can read it 49:19.550 --> 49:21.630 into totally different ways, 49:21.910 --> 49:22.170 right? 49:22.470 --> 49:24.030 The normal way to read it 49:24.030 --> 49:25.730 is that this was maybe 49:25.730 --> 49:28.890 a tasteless 49:29.630 --> 49:31.390 celebration of a successful 49:31.390 --> 49:33.870 operation and yada yada yada. 49:34.770 --> 49:36.050 On the other hand, 49:37.670 --> 49:39.090 it can obviously be read 49:39.090 --> 49:39.490 as a threat. 49:39.730 --> 49:40.630 I can imagine the meeting 49:40.630 --> 49:41.630 in which somebody says, 49:41.710 --> 49:42.750 hey, maybe we should send 49:42.750 --> 49:44.490 President Trump a golden pager 49:44.490 --> 49:45.890 after our successful operation. 49:46.490 --> 49:47.430 Somebody should immediately 49:47.430 --> 49:48.630 shoot that idea down 49:48.630 --> 49:50.210 and say, no, we can't do that 49:50.210 --> 49:53.030 because it could be read 49:53.030 --> 49:54.550 in another way, right? 49:55.290 --> 49:56.790 So anyway, as we are 49:56.790 --> 49:57.810 struggling to understand 49:57.810 --> 49:58.830 what is taking place 49:58.830 --> 50:00.530 in our country, why? 50:00.530 --> 50:01.290 I think it was received 50:01.290 --> 50:01.930 that way too. 50:02.390 --> 50:02.690 You do. 50:02.970 --> 50:03.210 I do. 50:05.270 --> 50:06.410 Well, you're not making me 50:06.410 --> 50:06.850 feel better. 50:08.130 --> 50:09.310 I mean, come on now. 50:10.350 --> 50:10.510 Come on. 50:10.630 --> 50:10.850 All right. 50:12.130 --> 50:15.590 You know, yeah, what was that? 50:15.670 --> 50:16.370 Now, it's important for you 50:16.370 --> 50:17.790 to remember that Tucker 50:17.790 --> 50:19.990 Carlson prior to about two 50:19.990 --> 50:20.850 weeks ago when the Civil War 50:20.850 --> 50:22.450 started had a really good 50:22.450 --> 50:23.510 relationship with Donald Trump. 50:23.830 --> 50:25.510 So when Tucker Carlson says, 50:25.650 --> 50:26.530 yeah, I think it was 50:26.530 --> 50:27.290 received that way 50:27.970 --> 50:29.430 as in as a threat, 50:29.430 --> 50:30.810 that's fascinating. 50:31.290 --> 50:33.090 That should be front page news 50:33.090 --> 50:33.830 nationwide. 50:34.450 --> 50:34.950 So in my view, 50:34.970 --> 50:35.870 there are two possibilities, 50:36.510 --> 50:38.350 either a Donald Trump 50:38.350 --> 50:39.850 is under mortal threat 50:39.850 --> 50:40.410 and there's literally 50:40.410 --> 50:41.530 nothing he can do to get out 50:41.530 --> 50:41.790 of this. 50:41.890 --> 50:43.710 And he's just trying to 50:44.230 --> 50:45.510 keep him and his family alive. 50:46.110 --> 50:46.530 Possible. 50:46.770 --> 50:49.810 Or B, and I am coin flip 50:49.810 --> 50:50.170 on this. 50:50.250 --> 50:50.790 I really don't know 50:50.790 --> 50:52.310 which it is, is that 50:52.310 --> 50:55.310 his ego has been satiated 50:55.310 --> 50:57.330 by the pro-Zionist 50:58.210 --> 50:59.390 orbiters around him. 50:59.670 --> 51:01.010 They've convinced him 51:01.010 --> 51:01.890 that he's some sort of 51:01.890 --> 51:02.810 messianic figure 51:02.810 --> 51:03.550 within Judaism. 51:03.810 --> 51:04.310 This is true. 51:04.630 --> 51:05.850 They say this constantly. 51:06.510 --> 51:07.410 You've got Mark Levin 51:07.410 --> 51:08.210 constantly saying 51:08.210 --> 51:10.450 he's the first Jewish president. 51:10.870 --> 51:12.070 You've got Lindsay Graham 51:12.070 --> 51:12.710 saying he's Reagan 51:12.710 --> 51:13.610 plus, plus, plus, 51:13.830 --> 51:14.470 and blah, blah, blah. 51:14.510 --> 51:15.450 And the more bombs he drops, 51:15.610 --> 51:16.410 the more patriotic 51:16.410 --> 51:17.510 and the more George Washington 51:17.510 --> 51:18.150 he is. 51:18.290 --> 51:20.130 And this is purely an ego play 51:20.130 --> 51:22.130 that they have found a way 51:22.130 --> 51:23.790 to manipulate Donald Trump 51:23.790 --> 51:24.730 based off of ego. 51:25.770 --> 51:27.310 So we've got two possibilities, 51:27.450 --> 51:27.810 as I said, 51:28.090 --> 51:28.850 mortal threat 51:28.850 --> 51:29.930 or it's an ego play. 51:30.210 --> 51:31.950 So as far as I'm concerned, 51:32.090 --> 51:33.430 there's not much I can do 51:33.430 --> 51:34.970 if this is a mortal threat thing 51:34.970 --> 51:35.930 and Trump is just trying 51:35.930 --> 51:37.190 to survive his presidency 51:37.190 --> 51:37.830 and get out 51:37.830 --> 51:38.750 and keep his family alive. 51:38.990 --> 51:40.310 Well, then how am I going 51:40.310 --> 51:40.870 to convince him 51:40.870 --> 51:41.450 of anything, right? 51:41.850 --> 51:43.790 But if it is an ego play, 51:43.870 --> 51:45.210 if he is selling us out 51:45.210 --> 51:46.010 based off of him 51:46.010 --> 51:46.650 being manipulated 51:46.650 --> 51:47.510 by his advisors, 51:47.510 --> 51:49.390 well, then the alternative 51:49.390 --> 51:51.450 ego attack that we have 51:51.450 --> 51:52.770 is to not 51:53.650 --> 51:54.690 inflate his ego, 51:55.090 --> 51:57.730 to call out as loudly as possible 51:57.730 --> 51:59.670 that you are betraying us 51:59.670 --> 52:00.930 and your legacy 52:00.930 --> 52:02.190 will be one of betrayal. 52:02.630 --> 52:03.870 And we expected you 52:03.870 --> 52:04.510 to be the hero 52:04.510 --> 52:05.970 that you marketed yourself to be 52:05.970 --> 52:07.110 and you're not that. 52:07.390 --> 52:08.890 And every fucking street corner 52:08.890 --> 52:10.990 you walk down in America, 52:11.410 --> 52:13.170 you're going to be yelled at 52:13.810 --> 52:15.710 for that exact purpose 52:15.710 --> 52:17.050 that we know exactly 52:17.050 --> 52:18.090 who you are 52:18.090 --> 52:19.190 and what you did 52:19.190 --> 52:20.470 and that you are a coward 52:20.470 --> 52:21.850 and a traitor to this country 52:21.850 --> 52:24.250 or you can be the hero 52:24.250 --> 52:25.710 that you marketed yourself to be. 52:26.150 --> 52:27.630 You can disclose the Epstein files. 52:27.750 --> 52:28.810 You can end the endless wars. 52:29.170 --> 52:30.750 You can go after Fauci 52:30.750 --> 52:33.070 and the entire deep state 52:33.070 --> 52:34.770 the FBI that tried to kill you 52:34.770 --> 52:35.350 probably 52:35.770 --> 52:37.430 like you can do all of these things 52:38.910 --> 52:40.310 or you go down 52:40.750 --> 52:42.490 as the greatest what if in history. 52:42.930 --> 52:44.150 What if you had had courage? 52:44.430 --> 52:45.310 What if you had been honest? 52:45.490 --> 52:46.690 What if you would actually pursued 52:46.690 --> 52:47.950 the things that you promised? 52:48.170 --> 52:49.410 So if it's an ego play, 52:49.590 --> 52:51.090 we go after his legacy. 52:51.090 --> 52:52.670 We say you either deliver 52:53.190 --> 52:54.410 or you are reviled. 52:54.830 --> 52:55.910 Those are your options. 52:56.410 --> 52:58.810 Be a hero, be lauded, be loved 52:58.810 --> 53:00.570 or be a villain. 53:01.430 --> 53:03.390 Be yelled at, be hated. 53:03.790 --> 53:05.150 So while obviously I'm just driven 53:05.150 --> 53:06.850 by truthful analysis 53:06.850 --> 53:07.870 of what I see happening. 53:08.250 --> 53:10.270 There's also tactical reasoning 53:10.270 --> 53:11.970 to the approach that I have 53:11.970 --> 53:13.230 is that I believe 53:13.230 --> 53:15.290 that if we can shift the zeitgeist 53:15.290 --> 53:15.830 in America, 53:15.830 --> 53:17.590 particularly amongst his base 53:17.590 --> 53:19.070 the people who he thinks 53:19.070 --> 53:19.890 love him still 53:19.890 --> 53:21.490 to say, hey, 53:22.030 --> 53:23.810 you're actually not delivering. 53:24.310 --> 53:25.970 You're actually not on our side 53:25.970 --> 53:27.350 and the clock is ticking. 53:27.890 --> 53:29.570 We are approaching the midterms. 53:29.710 --> 53:31.250 You're going to lose the midterms 53:31.250 --> 53:32.850 because you chose to 53:32.850 --> 53:34.090 instead of delivering on your 53:34.090 --> 53:34.910 campaign promises 53:34.910 --> 53:37.170 to deliver on your donor promises 53:37.810 --> 53:39.110 by starting a war in Iran. 53:39.490 --> 53:40.630 So the Democrats are now going 53:40.630 --> 53:41.110 to win the Senate. 53:41.250 --> 53:42.170 The Democrats are now going to 53:42.170 --> 53:42.630 win the House 53:42.630 --> 53:44.090 and you're going to get impeached. 53:44.310 --> 53:46.290 So now we're never homeboy. 53:46.870 --> 53:48.930 We have no time left to play around. 53:48.930 --> 53:51.030 We have no time left for 5D chess. 53:51.290 --> 53:53.970 We have no time left to just put all 53:53.970 --> 53:55.570 of our desires and needs 53:55.570 --> 53:57.710 and really necessities aside 53:57.710 --> 54:00.790 to assuage your egotistical concerns. 54:01.070 --> 54:02.250 We're not going to pretend 54:02.250 --> 54:03.330 you're delivering when you're not. 54:03.610 --> 54:05.010 And if that still doesn't work, 54:05.570 --> 54:06.390 well, then yeah, 54:07.110 --> 54:08.950 his life is probably under threat. 54:09.150 --> 54:10.350 And you can guess by who. 54:10.970 --> 54:12.010 If you enjoyed this episode, 54:12.050 --> 54:12.890 please do hit the like button, 54:13.090 --> 54:13.450 subscribe, 54:14.230 --> 54:14.930 leave a comment 54:15.490 --> 54:16.670 and share it around. 54:17.010 --> 54:18.090 And if you guys want to get cozy, 54:18.090 --> 54:19.090 go to mypolo.com. 54:19.350 --> 54:20.190 Use promo code lockdown. 54:20.690 --> 54:22.130 You can get a little spiff over here. 54:22.750 --> 54:23.510 All right. 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