WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.480 You look at this guy and you're like, who are you? Seriously? Who are you? What is this? 00:07.320 --> 00:14.880 It's actually scary. It's actually disturbing. You are a demonic force. You are a liar. You are 00:14.880 --> 00:20.960 diabolical. You are a traitor. President Trump is the most courageous commander-in-chief in 00:20.960 --> 00:26.020 modern American history. There is no question about this. What he just did is the bravest 00:26.020 --> 00:31.200 move by a president of the United States of my lifetime, bar none without a doubt. 00:31.400 --> 00:38.320 That's it. That's all you got left, President Trump. You got Ben Shapiro and Randy Fine and Ted Cruz 00:38.320 --> 00:45.120 and Lindsey Graham. Just Laura Loomer. You got just a cast of high prestige, 00:46.040 --> 00:51.480 very moral, deeply principled people are in your corner. That's what you got left. Great 00:51.480 --> 00:58.980 decision. You just look at Trump and you're filled with disgust. You look at him. He's a 00:58.980 --> 01:06.160 totally diminished figure. Watching him on Friday declare this war in his sad little hat, 01:07.220 --> 01:15.080 no tie with a black curtain. He's 80 years old. He doesn't even care. He's at a ceremony today 01:15.640 --> 01:22.580 pinning a medal on a soldier, slurring his words, stumbling over his speech. You look at this guy 01:22.580 --> 01:31.140 and you're like, who are you? Seriously, who are you? What is this? It's actually scary. 01:31.320 --> 01:38.280 It's actually disturbing. You look at Trump and it's like, I don't know you. I don't know who 01:38.280 --> 01:43.800 you are. I don't know what you are. You are demonic. You are a demonic force. 01:44.700 --> 01:50.580 And what's really freaky is now he's always talking about going to heaven. I'm not going to heaven. 01:51.560 --> 01:57.260 Yeah, I think you might be right about that because you are a demonic force. You are a liar. 01:57.760 --> 02:02.220 You are diabolical. You are a traitor. No, I'm not going to pretend that Trump has lost 02:02.220 --> 02:06.820 all of his support. But I got to say, when I'm watching them do these press conferences or 02:06.820 --> 02:11.660 just any sort of news piece or news hit, it's as if he's a shell of himself. 02:12.340 --> 02:18.360 It genuinely doesn't seem as if he's got whatever that magic that he had for a lot of years. And 02:18.360 --> 02:23.760 despite the fact that I wasn't his biggest fan, he had it. He lost it over the past year. It's 02:23.760 --> 02:30.240 gone. It's so obvious if you just look at him the way he talks, the fact that he's basically 02:30.240 --> 02:37.260 cordoned himself off from all of his critics. And he's literally after the bombing campaign began. 02:37.600 --> 02:44.340 One of the first calls he made was to Laura Loomer, Laura Loomer, who could not find 02:44.340 --> 02:49.820 something wrong with Trump's decision making. If he were to drop a nuke on Las Vegas, 02:50.160 --> 02:56.480 I mean, she would never criticize this guy. That's who he now has in the media sphere 02:56.480 --> 03:03.240 that he's talking to. Laura Loomer. Operation Epic Fury will continue and the president and 03:03.240 --> 03:08.600 his administration are getting sick and tired of the woke right. And they're far violations. 03:09.140 --> 03:14.120 They're low hacked violations. And I have a feeling that we're going to see the hammer drop 03:14.120 --> 03:20.200 pretty hard on Tucker Carlson and Macon Kelly and others very soon. Because these people are 03:20.200 --> 03:25.060 saboteurs. They are operatives. They are trying to sabotage President Trump and the MAGA 03:25.060 --> 03:29.520 movement. And for our own national security, we can't allow for these people to continue. 03:30.320 --> 03:33.080 I mean, look, they have a First Amendment right to say it, but eventually they need to 03:33.080 --> 03:37.440 be held accountable, whether legally accountable or they need to be forced to register with Farah. 03:37.620 --> 03:42.360 I mean, this is how inverted the world has become that you have people who are 03:42.360 --> 03:48.620 pretty clearly on foreign payrolls. Now accusing Tucker Carlson and Macon Kelly, 03:48.620 --> 03:55.480 basically two of the maybe five or 10 media people on the right wing that are so popular, 03:55.480 --> 04:01.020 they actually don't have to sell out that actually produce that have such an immense audience that 04:01.020 --> 04:05.140 they don't have to say things they don't believe in to maintain that audience that they get to 04:05.140 --> 04:09.680 actually have dissenting viewpoints. They don't actually have to carry water for whatever 04:09.680 --> 04:14.660 administration's in power. Yeah, they're the people that now have to register under Farah. 04:15.220 --> 04:22.260 Not Laura Loomer. No, no, no. Tucker Carlson and Macon Kelly, they are violating Farah. I mean, 04:22.600 --> 04:28.540 but here's the good news. We do have other people in Trump's cabinet that are being a 04:28.540 --> 04:32.760 little bit too forthright, actually. There absolutely was an imminent threat. And the 04:32.760 --> 04:36.820 imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be 04:36.820 --> 04:40.520 attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there 04:40.520 --> 04:46.320 and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department of War assessed that if we waited for 04:46.320 --> 04:50.300 them to hit us first after they were attacked and by someone else Israel attacked them, 04:50.440 --> 04:55.160 they hit us first and we waited for them to hit us. We would suffer more casualties and more deaths. 04:55.400 --> 04:59.500 We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage. 04:59.620 --> 05:04.140 Have we not done so? There would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that 05:04.140 --> 05:07.320 this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties. 05:07.320 --> 05:13.100 That was the sound bite heard around the world. That was one of the first times in my lifetime 05:13.100 --> 05:20.060 where it has been admitted so overtly that in fact, the tail is wagging the dock. That in fact, 05:20.140 --> 05:25.900 Israel, this small country the size of New Jersey that everybody says doesn't have much power and 05:25.900 --> 05:31.800 certainly doesn't control our government. Well, they are the ones that dictated how this war 05:31.800 --> 05:36.580 was carried out and when it began. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, 05:36.860 --> 05:41.820 said it explicitly. Now, many in the White House have come out and said that's not accurate and 05:41.820 --> 05:46.280 they're blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's exactly accurate. That's exactly how it played out. 05:46.360 --> 05:51.660 Just to reiterate and clarify the point he's making there, we have military bases 05:51.660 --> 05:55.520 all throughout the Middle East. Why do we have those military bases in the Middle East? 05:55.760 --> 06:00.760 Well, it's obviously for some of our own purposes when it comes to global trade and 06:00.760 --> 06:06.900 things of that nature, but it's largely, being honest, it's largely about defending Israel 06:06.900 --> 06:13.280 and Israeli interests. So what Marco Rubio is saying there pretty explicitly is that 06:14.040 --> 06:19.760 Israel says jump and we say how high, sir. And this is obviously jarring for people who are 06:19.760 --> 06:26.440 not already kind of aware of this dynamic that think that in fact, yes, Israel is just our 06:26.440 --> 06:30.460 aircraft carrier in the Middle East, as John McCain and others have described it. 06:30.860 --> 06:36.120 When in truth, it doesn't appear to be exactly that. And how does it? It appears to be much more 06:36.120 --> 06:43.100 fraught, much more subservient, much more dominatrix-y. Rubio didn't just have that one screw 06:43.100 --> 06:48.500 up. He also said this. They are producing by some estimates over 100 of these missiles a month. 06:49.040 --> 06:52.880 Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. They can build 06:52.880 --> 06:57.220 a hundred of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they also 06:57.220 --> 07:02.260 have. So while it's obviously true that the United States is a far superior military might 07:02.260 --> 07:09.260 compared to Iran, the reality is, is that when it comes to hometown defense and when it comes to 07:10.200 --> 07:16.020 insurgencies, it's a totally different dynamic. Just as Afghanistan and Iraq were totally outmanned, 07:16.620 --> 07:21.120 it was it didn't exactly go smoothly. Now did it? So it's the same dynamic that we're 07:21.120 --> 07:26.240 looking at in Iran, only difference being that it's actually a much more serious and legitimate 07:26.240 --> 07:32.780 military. It's also a much larger, more populous country with 90 million people. And yeah, it's 07:32.780 --> 07:36.740 probably not going to go any better than those other two examples. And it's not just me feeling 07:36.740 --> 07:42.580 this way. This is Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater, who had this to say to Steve Bannon. 07:42.800 --> 07:46.340 Because I know the president respects your opinion. If you had a chance to talk to 07:46.340 --> 07:50.960 the president today, what would be Eric Prince's recommendations to the commander-in-chief? 07:53.000 --> 07:55.300 Don't ever contemplate ground troops in Iran. 07:58.020 --> 07:59.540 You think that's even a possibility? 08:01.420 --> 08:05.280 I didn't think this was a possibility today. Over the last couple of days, Steve, 08:05.440 --> 08:07.980 I didn't really think that he was going to do it. 08:08.980 --> 08:12.440 Well, that's exactly right. I didn't think that this was likely to happen. And now that 08:12.440 --> 08:18.380 it has, I have to consider that maybe it is possible that Trump is crazy enough to actually put 08:18.380 --> 08:22.500 troops on the ground. But I want to rewind back to that point that Marco Rubio made. 08:22.840 --> 08:28.520 He's saying that they can produce 100 of their own missiles for every six or seven 08:28.520 --> 08:34.240 interceptor missiles that the US and Israel produces. The math ain't mathen, as they say. 08:34.240 --> 08:42.520 It is inevitable that they can overwhelm us because the production capacity is too high. 08:42.620 --> 08:48.680 We don't have production capacity. So much so. This is true. There is, in fact, a movement right 08:48.680 --> 08:56.420 now to try and acquire interceptor missiles from Ukraine, another one of our proxies. 08:57.160 --> 09:03.040 We're now going hat in hand after giving hundreds of billions of dollars for their war against 09:03.040 --> 09:08.460 Russia. We're now saying, hey, can we have some of your missiles as if they're not actively in 09:08.460 --> 09:15.160 an existential war themselves? I mean, it's just mind blowing how unbelievably naive 09:15.680 --> 09:19.500 this government is and every government in my lifetime has been about the Middle East. 09:19.620 --> 09:24.060 And they've just put us right back in the thick of it again. I am more fearful than ever 09:24.060 --> 09:30.120 after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground and that 09:31.080 --> 09:33.980 troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish 09:34.760 --> 09:44.780 objectives that the administration seems to have. But I also am no more clear on what the 09:44.780 --> 09:50.700 priorities are going to be of the administration going forward, whether it is destroying the 09:50.700 --> 09:57.860 nuclear capacity of Iran or simply the missiles or regime change or stopping terrorist 09:57.860 --> 10:03.020 activities. Now, mind you, I don't agree with Senator Blumenthal on basically anything and 10:03.020 --> 10:07.780 the Senate is filled with scumbags. They had an opportunity to force a war powers resolution 10:07.780 --> 10:13.000 and they voted against it. So they are essentially keeping their hands clean. Well, 10:13.080 --> 10:17.100 in fact, they're soaked in blood just like the Trump administration. So these people are 10:17.100 --> 10:20.680 cowards, but it doesn't change the fact that it's not just him. It's not just the Democrats 10:20.680 --> 10:25.260 who are saying this. You also have congressional reps on the Republican side, obviously 10:25.260 --> 10:30.240 Massey saying it, but also Tim Burchett is saying it. They don't have any clarity as to 10:30.240 --> 10:35.540 what we're actually doing here. They really don't know what the mission is. The mission has evolved 10:35.540 --> 10:40.740 from, OK, we're going to just prevent Iran from producing a nuclear weapon, which was obviously 10:40.740 --> 10:45.340 laughable given that the IAEA has already said that they weren't producing one given that 10:45.340 --> 10:50.340 our own intelligence reports, according to Tulsi Gabbard earlier last year, said the same 10:50.340 --> 10:55.420 thing. Don't let those little details bother you. Then after we obliterated their nuclear 10:55.420 --> 11:01.120 facilities and the tons and elsewhere, we've now evolved our negotiating stance or our demands, 11:01.220 --> 11:07.580 I should say to them having no ballistic missile capacity either. So essentially we're saying that 11:07.580 --> 11:15.080 Iran, a nation of 90 million people can have no defense whatsoever. Coming from the same camp 11:15.080 --> 11:21.640 who has said ad nauseum for years now, Israel has a right to defend itself. Well, does Iran not have a 11:21.640 --> 11:27.620 right? Apparently not. That was the negotiating offer ultimatum that was given to the Iranians 11:27.620 --> 11:32.860 before the decapitation strikes began, which tells you everything you need to know that this war 11:32.860 --> 11:39.720 was obligatory. This war was chosen prior to those negotiations even occurring because 11:39.720 --> 11:43.940 there's no one in their right mind that would expect the Iranians to ever accept a deal 11:43.940 --> 11:50.700 that says, hey, trust us. Sure, we were in peace negotiations with you just eight months ago and 11:50.700 --> 11:55.720 you decided to decapitation strike us then. But now we're going to agree to your terms 11:55.720 --> 12:00.520 and get rid of our entire ballistic arsenal on top of our nuclear program, which wasn't 12:00.520 --> 12:05.660 actually producing a nuclear weapon. We're just going to get rid of everything so that Israel, 12:05.900 --> 12:09.880 who has been at war with six fucking countries over the past three years, 12:09.880 --> 12:16.120 can just do whatever they want to us at their will. I'm sure that that was a reasonable ask to 12:16.120 --> 12:21.760 be made if you aren't thinking at all, which the obvious conclusion you ought to be coming to 12:21.760 --> 12:29.000 is that, in fact, that was the plan all along. This war was granted. It was a given, 12:29.340 --> 12:35.080 and in my opinion, it was obviously decided even before Trump won back the White House. 12:35.080 --> 12:40.140 This was going to happen no matter what, but that didn't stop J.D. Vance from telling Tim Dillon 12:40.140 --> 12:46.560 in 2024 this. So obviously, you know, Israel has the right to defend itself, but America's 12:46.560 --> 12:50.700 interest is sometimes going to be distinct. Like sometimes we're going to have overlapping 12:50.700 --> 12:55.220 interests and sometimes we're going to have distinct interests. And our interest, I think 12:55.220 --> 13:01.060 very much is in not going to war with Iran, right? It would be huge distraction of resources. 13:01.060 --> 13:05.460 It would be massively expensive to our country. They've pursued the pathway that has prolonged 13:05.460 --> 13:09.880 the war as long as possible, which is bad for Israel. And they seem to be sort of 13:09.880 --> 13:14.260 sleepwalking us into war with Iran. It's like the dumbest of all possible worlds. 13:14.820 --> 13:19.840 So J.D. Vance on the campaign trail going to war in Iran would be hugely against our 13:19.840 --> 13:24.340 interests. And we have very distinct interests that are occasionally separate from Israel. 13:25.020 --> 13:31.940 No, we fucking do not ever when it comes to foreign policy. We do not have any distinct 13:31.940 --> 13:36.120 interests. And honestly, when it comes to domestic policy, given the hate speech laws and things 13:36.120 --> 13:40.340 that we pass and the fact that immigration enforcement seems to be targeted primarily 13:40.340 --> 13:45.380 towards people who are critical of Israel, it starts to feel as if, yeah, we don't have 13:45.380 --> 13:50.220 much autonomy or sovereignty when it comes to domestic policymaking, either not just foreign 13:50.220 --> 13:55.900 policy or warmaking policy. And I'm not the only one that's noticed this. Our military veterans 13:55.900 --> 14:01.220 actually have kind of caught on over the past couple decades. Israel is the reason for this war. 14:01.760 --> 14:05.880 America does not want to fight this war for Israel. Let's go. Come on. Let's go. 14:09.420 --> 14:15.260 America does not want to stop its sons and daughters to war for Israel. Your ability 14:15.780 --> 14:38.970 to name that shows you have lived it as leaders. This is wrong. And nobody wants to fight as a 14:38.970 --> 15:02.890 Marine and stand up for America. Sir, thank you for your service. 15:03.390 --> 15:05.250 The Senator broke his hand. 15:19.060 --> 15:27.320 United States Marine veteran Sergeant Brian McKinnis saying very loudly and very clearly 15:27.860 --> 15:33.840 that no one wants to fight for Israel right before his left arm is broken in half. 15:34.100 --> 15:39.620 And in fact, his arm was broken in part thanks to Capitol Police, as well as 15:39.620 --> 15:46.860 Tim Sheehy, a United States Senator, federal level Senator out of the state of Montana, 15:46.900 --> 15:51.280 who is dragging him very violently out of that room. And I just got to say, 15:51.660 --> 15:55.520 despite the fact that it's, I mean, that video is tragic beyond words. 15:56.620 --> 16:01.960 The primary takeaway I have aside from that is that I have never seen anything 16:01.960 --> 16:10.600 more symbolic or poetic, such a tight encapsulation that describes so perfectly 16:11.200 --> 16:15.320 exactly what our government is structured to do, what our foreign policy is, 16:15.620 --> 16:22.620 that our own warfighters, a man who could have his arm pinned in a door as he's screaming, 16:23.000 --> 16:26.800 no one wants to fight for Israel. And you could have a United States Senator 16:26.800 --> 16:31.040 dragging him the opposite direction and have his arm snap in half and the United 16:31.040 --> 16:33.660 States Marine doesn't bat a fucking eye. 16:42.800 --> 16:50.460 His arm is broken in half and he is unfazed entirely. That is a level of dedication. 16:50.680 --> 16:54.820 That is a warfighter. Those are the men that you ought to actually respect. 16:55.700 --> 16:59.660 So those are the men that our politicians pretend to respect. 17:00.280 --> 17:07.620 They think that they are tricking you by pretending to respect them as they send them 17:07.620 --> 17:14.280 to fight wars for a country that is not our own. Now, in our 24-7, 365 news cycle 17:14.280 --> 17:19.820 and TikTok mindset where no one seems to be able to pay attention to anything for any 17:19.820 --> 17:24.820 extended period of time, I hope that a moment like that, as powerful as it is, 17:24.820 --> 17:30.680 can actually stick with people, that it might actually open their eyes to the dynamic that 17:30.680 --> 17:35.660 we've been describing for so long. That A, we are not defending this country with these wars 17:35.660 --> 17:42.780 in the Middle East. And B, our soldiers, to a large extent, are not on board with this behavior. 17:43.260 --> 17:47.380 So if you're going to say, I back the troops, how about you listen to the troops? 17:48.080 --> 17:51.640 How about you actually hear what the military veterans have to say? 17:51.640 --> 17:57.680 Because almost to a man, the ones that I knew, sure, many of them still love their service, 17:57.780 --> 18:04.840 they still love this country. But they almost all have recognized, after serving multiple tours 18:04.840 --> 18:11.060 in Afghanistan or Iraq or both, that in fact they did not go to fight to defend this country. 18:11.280 --> 18:15.960 Ask them if they believe that they were toppling Saddam or going after the Taliban 18:15.960 --> 18:22.840 because of 9-11. Ask them. Ask them if they still believe that. Because I can assure you, 18:23.200 --> 18:27.400 many of them enlisted for that very purpose, only to find out that they had been deceived. 18:27.880 --> 18:34.680 And what makes this so doubly tragic is that it's that exact dynamic, it's that exact energy, 18:34.920 --> 18:41.820 that ethos that gave rise to the MAGA America First movement. That so many on the right wing 18:41.820 --> 18:48.920 who had been bloodthirsty, warmongering zealots throughout the 2000s came to their senses, 18:49.640 --> 18:56.340 that they realized that they had been deceived, only to now have their guy, their hero, 18:56.980 --> 19:02.980 who was put in specifically to remedy this dynamic, to stop the endless wars in the 19:02.980 --> 19:08.960 Middle East on behalf of a country that is not our own, are now being duped yet again 19:08.960 --> 19:18.220 to go fight a yet even more potentially disastrous war in Iran, a neighbor not too far away from the 19:18.220 --> 19:25.440 prior disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's like we're living in Doomsday Groundhog Day, 19:25.660 --> 19:30.440 and you can either come to terms with that reality or you can continue to tune in to 19:30.440 --> 19:36.080 man-children like this. The president's decision here is extraordinary. It's known as Operation 19:36.080 --> 19:40.040 Epic Fury, which I gotta say is just awesome. The operation names from the administration, 19:40.740 --> 19:46.660 top notch, Midnight Hammer was great last year, Operation Epic Fury. Yeah, man. Epic Fury. 19:47.360 --> 19:52.460 I mean, these people are toddlers. We're dealing with toddlers. I just want to make it very clear. 19:53.000 --> 19:57.300 They will, they will present themselves as holier than now that they're superior to 19:57.300 --> 20:03.180 my camp. They're certainly, they would never dain it themselves lowly enough to have to 20:03.180 --> 20:09.120 bait someone like Dave Smith after running from him consistently for years on end. 20:09.640 --> 20:14.140 And this is, this is the level of intellectual analysis into their foreign policy dictates 20:14.140 --> 20:21.740 that the name sounds cool. Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury. Oh, wow. I mean, this is like, 20:21.900 --> 20:26.740 it's literally like a kid with the like watching a Marvel movie. Like, do you know this is real 20:26.740 --> 20:31.960 life? Do you understand that like Americans are and have been and will continue to die 20:31.960 --> 20:38.140 for this war? I guess it's not really relevant to you because you don't even perceive them to be 20:38.140 --> 20:46.020 your countrymen, do you? Because in fact, this is a war explicitly per the Secretary of State 20:46.020 --> 20:52.140 on behalf of Israel. And it's interesting, the Venn diagram of people who support this war 20:52.140 --> 20:58.740 seems to be exclusively people who have prioritized and stood with Israel, 20:58.740 --> 21:03.140 despite their egregious behavior over the past few years, which reminds me 21:03.700 --> 21:08.820 of why I think that Charlie Kirk may have been taken out. We are just going to take out the Ayatollah. 21:09.040 --> 21:16.300 Oh, really? What comes next? What comes after regime change? Might be, oh, well, we need a small 21:16.300 --> 21:21.200 number of US troops to support the new regime. We have seen this play before regime change. 21:21.320 --> 21:25.100 You have no idea how this is going to work out. You have no idea. There's something big 21:25.100 --> 21:30.800 that Americans keep forgetting about behind the news cycles, behind the tariff wars, the conflicts, 21:31.080 --> 21:34.660 the ice raids, all of that. There's an uncomfortable truth that we all need to admit. 21:35.120 --> 21:41.540 We are at nearly $39 trillion in national debt. It'll hit $40 trillion by the end of this year. 21:41.860 --> 21:46.520 That's over $355,000 per US taxpayer. So I want you to ask yourself, 21:46.980 --> 21:51.820 are you truly protected by this epic disaster? If not, I want you to reach out to my 21:51.820 --> 21:56.440 partners over at Goldco. 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So I guess we'll just have to take the reframing of your position 22:43.760 --> 22:49.580 according to the Charlie Kirk show, a show with your name on it, that it seems to be 22:49.580 --> 22:54.880 backing up President Trump regardless of how counter it was to your opinions, both publicly and 22:54.880 --> 23:00.300 privately. For the last two years, Pierce, for the first time really in my lifetime and maybe in 23:00.300 --> 23:06.620 American history, the Warhawks have had to come debate us. It's a new reality now, 23:06.760 --> 23:11.360 like Ted Cruz was trying to tweet at me the other day. Now that the media has been 23:11.360 --> 23:14.680 decentralized and the corporate media is destroyed, they actually have to come in and 23:14.680 --> 23:20.560 have the argument. And we have so consistently destroyed you guys over the last two years that 23:20.560 --> 23:23.160 this is like the propaganda put out about the elections in Iran. 23:23.700 --> 23:25.860 Got it. Yeah, you destroyed us. Yeah. 23:26.160 --> 23:27.600 Again, he's killed us on that one. 23:27.660 --> 23:31.480 Stop interrupting, Pierce. He can't let me make the point. This is now a pro-Palestinian 23:31.480 --> 23:35.860 country. That's how bad you guys have lost the argument. So you guys are all giddy now 23:35.860 --> 23:39.140 because you got your war, even though the American people are totally against it. 23:39.380 --> 23:40.120 Just wait, dude. 23:40.120 --> 23:45.220 Obviously, Dave is right. The non-interventionists have totally dominated all of the debates 23:45.220 --> 23:49.460 when it came to Israel-Palestine. The same dynamic is going to happen again with this war, 23:49.520 --> 23:54.780 despite the fact that we're now actively fighting it. No, we're not rooting for America 23:54.780 --> 23:59.320 to lose. We're not rooting for Americans to die. We're rooting for us to not make 23:59.320 --> 24:03.440 this catastrophic mistake. We're trying to get you out of the car. You're drunk, 24:03.860 --> 24:08.540 hand us the keys, as Dave was saying. But of course, Shapiro doesn't hear that. 24:08.540 --> 24:13.160 He goes this direction with his analysis. He had on Dave Smith. Apparently, his job is never to 24:13.160 --> 24:18.320 tell jokes, but to instead give poorly informed foreign policy takes. And also to hate America. 24:18.520 --> 24:22.460 Here we go. The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in the region. Let's get real. 24:22.740 --> 24:26.400 The United States of America is arguably the worst terrorist organization in the world. 24:26.580 --> 24:30.560 If you want to look over the last 25 years, how many innocent civilians we've slaughtered, 24:30.740 --> 24:36.020 you're getting us into the neocon- Yeah, that's right. It turns out how many 24:36.020 --> 24:39.360 times you appear on Joe Rogan's show, or how many times you hide behind your title of 24:39.360 --> 24:44.580 comedian who holds the Guinness Book of World Records for fewest jokes told, or how many times 24:44.580 --> 24:50.240 you spew purile analogies that demonstrate nothing but unbelievable willful ignorance of the nature 24:50.240 --> 24:54.680 of war. I'm sorry, but you hate the country if you say America is the worst terrorist 24:54.680 --> 24:58.740 organization in the world. You just do. To make that argument, you have to deliberately 24:58.740 --> 25:03.640 obscure the difference between actual terrorists who actually are seeking deliberately to kill 25:03.640 --> 25:07.740 innocent people in the name of politics, not collateral damage deliberately seeking to 25:07.740 --> 25:12.040 kill innocent people and nation states who are seeking to avoid civilian casualties. 25:12.520 --> 25:16.280 Now, instead of contending with Shapiro's non-arguments and ad hominems against Dave, 25:16.440 --> 25:22.580 which by the way, Dave would falcon flatline Ben Shapiro in a debate, flatline him. It would be 25:22.580 --> 25:27.760 hilarious. And I hope one day it'll happen, even though it will never happen because Ben 25:27.760 --> 25:33.940 Shapiro knows that everything I'm saying right now is correct. He cannot beat Dave Smith in a debate. 25:34.280 --> 25:38.680 It would be over for his career. That's how serious it is. But instead of 25:38.680 --> 25:42.960 handling the actual arguments he does make, which there's very few and far between, 25:43.440 --> 25:47.380 I'll let Dave handle that. And instead, I'll just challenge one contention he made. Now, 25:47.400 --> 25:51.420 he's very upset that Dave said that if anything, the United States has committed the most 25:51.420 --> 25:55.720 terrorism over the past couple of decades. Well, he's saying his argument or his counter 25:55.720 --> 26:02.700 argument is that no, we don't conflate collateral damage with actual terrorism targeting civilians. 26:03.220 --> 26:08.060 Let's just look at the footage. Let's look at the footage in Iran. You tell me if civilians aren't 26:08.060 --> 26:14.080 dying in this. That's right, Dave Smith. How dare you conflate that with terrorism? Sure, 26:14.340 --> 26:19.160 it's just bombing a downtown area with God knows how many civilians being obliterated in 26:19.160 --> 26:24.180 that process. And let's not also consider the fact that according to the IDF's own figures, 26:24.180 --> 26:29.100 somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians died in Gaza over the past two and a half years. 26:29.380 --> 26:34.740 But no, they weren't targeting them though. So it's totally acceptable. Totally different thing. 26:35.700 --> 26:41.180 Totally, totally different. Now, do you think if you lived in Tehran or if you lived in Gaza, 26:41.480 --> 26:48.280 it would feel different than some suicide bomber running into, you know, downtown New York City? 26:48.840 --> 26:52.300 Like no, it would feel pretty similar actually. In fact, it would be probably far more 26:52.300 --> 26:56.980 concerning, especially when you have our head of the Department of War talking like this. 26:57.100 --> 27:03.920 Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, 27:04.660 --> 27:15.260 Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day 27:15.260 --> 27:22.020 until we decide it's over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. 27:22.900 --> 27:29.660 B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, Predator drones, fighters, controlling the skies, picking targets, 27:30.140 --> 27:37.420 death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. 27:38.180 --> 27:42.720 It goes on to say, this is not a fair fight. It's not supposed to be a fair fight. And we 27:42.720 --> 27:47.860 are punching them while they are down, which is exactly the way it's supposed to be. Wow. 27:48.600 --> 27:56.520 Tough talk. I mean, look, I'll admit, when there's a war, especially a war of defense, 27:56.860 --> 28:01.820 that's how you ought to fight. You ought to fight to win. But when you have chosen a war, 28:02.240 --> 28:07.980 and you are in fact the aggressor in a war talking about how you're going to be day and night, 28:08.140 --> 28:14.460 just basically obliterating them, it doesn't sound very courageous, doesn't sound very 28:14.460 --> 28:18.600 patriotic. It doesn't sound very much like it's in defense of this nation. And the reason it 28:18.600 --> 28:22.060 doesn't sound like any of those things is because it's not any of those things. 28:22.340 --> 28:28.500 No, it says Marco Rubio did not claim Israel dragged Donald Trump into a war, but he did though. But 28:28.500 --> 28:34.140 he actually, he did. They just, it's just embarrassing to admit that you're all literal 28:34.140 --> 28:41.380 traitors. Like that's treason. Like Trump, Rubio, like I'm not even joking. This is treason. 28:41.380 --> 28:46.380 There should be treason trials. I mean, this could literally lead to World War three. And these 28:46.380 --> 28:53.080 people did this literally at the behest of and for the sake of Israel. And that's not our country. 28:53.300 --> 28:58.060 So these are, these are treasonous actors. We have been betrayed. Okay. 28:58.180 --> 29:02.580 Preach it Harrison Smith. Absolutely love that guy. He's absolutely right. I mean, 29:02.600 --> 29:07.260 this is like, definitional treason. You're sacrificing our blood and treasure 29:07.260 --> 29:12.680 on behalf of a country that is not our own. Like what's more egregious than that? 29:13.200 --> 29:19.080 But the good news is that they have a much better plan than they did in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya 29:19.080 --> 29:24.700 or Syria. They're going to arm the moderate rebels. Where have we heard that before? 29:25.320 --> 29:29.640 Like all of those countries, which is how you know this is a CIA war. 29:29.860 --> 29:36.560 And it's big. A U.S. official telling Fox thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground 29:36.560 --> 29:42.400 offensive in Iran. So after destroying their country, Iraq, we're going to be 29:42.400 --> 29:49.540 arming the moderate rebels, the Kurds to invade Iran. That's going to be how we circumvent the 29:49.540 --> 29:54.180 necessity for American boots on the ground, even though you and I know that almost certainly 29:54.180 --> 29:59.180 we have special forces or special operators that are on the ground currently trying to 29:59.180 --> 30:03.320 topple the regime in Iran. But no, don't worry, we're not going to go full ground 30:03.320 --> 30:08.680 invasion. We're going to arm the moderate Kurds to handle it. It worked out great in Syria, 30:08.680 --> 30:14.220 so I'm sure this will be just a flawless plan once again. I mean, with a name like Epic Fury, 30:14.640 --> 30:18.800 how could it go bad, right? And while most thinking people in this country are realizing 30:18.800 --> 30:23.940 that this is a disastrous mistake in the making, you've got coverage like this coming out of Fox 30:23.940 --> 30:33.100 News to indoctrinate the hard line Trump supporters into thinking that all is right with the 30:33.100 --> 30:37.960 United States by design, that you do not want to reach the United States. But you also said 30:37.960 --> 30:42.340 it would be necessary as a defensive vehicle that you could if necessary. So to be clear, 30:42.540 --> 30:48.140 are you committing that Iran is not and will not build missiles that would have the capability 30:48.140 --> 30:55.180 to reach the United States? I can confirm, yes. Sir, if that's a red line for you, 30:55.280 --> 30:58.620 why is attacking U.S. military bases abroad justified? 30:59.800 --> 31:08.340 But because they are attacking us. They are U.S. military installations, facilities, 31:08.760 --> 31:16.060 bases who are attacking us, we are under attack. Why don't you recognize this fact? 31:16.620 --> 31:22.200 We are under the attack by U.S., by U.S. forces in the region. So we have every right 31:22.200 --> 31:27.540 to defend ourselves. My mistake. That question was so unbelievably stupid. 31:27.540 --> 31:30.860 I just assumed it was Fox News. I take it back. That was NBC News. 31:31.400 --> 31:36.600 Larry Ellison, save your money. You don't need to buy corporate media in this country. 31:36.780 --> 31:40.880 They're all bought and paid for by the military industrial complex. You don't need to. 31:41.120 --> 31:43.280 You don't need to purchase them. You can stop spending your money. 31:43.560 --> 31:47.300 They're going to carry water for these wars regardless. Oh, my Lord. 31:48.140 --> 31:52.240 He's going, this is a spokesman for Iran. And he's like, yeah, look, 31:52.800 --> 31:56.580 yes, we have a ballistic missile arsenal to defend ourselves from the Israelis, 31:56.580 --> 32:00.620 obviously. But we have limited the range so that it cannot reach America. 32:01.080 --> 32:04.600 I can tell you that. And they go, well, then why are you shooting at American bases 32:04.600 --> 32:09.000 in the Middle East? The ones that are firing at you currently. 32:09.960 --> 32:12.460 I mean, this is the level of coverage. But don't get it twisted. 32:13.060 --> 32:17.840 It's not just corporate news or right wing news that's just totally filled with nonsense. 32:18.440 --> 32:21.020 This is the type of garbage that Rachel Maddow is pushing. 32:21.260 --> 32:24.900 And so why did Donald Trump just start this war? Why is this happening? 32:27.500 --> 32:31.540 Que bono, right? Who benefits? You know, cutter. 32:32.300 --> 32:37.760 The country that just gave Donald Trump a really, really nice $400 million plane, 32:37.940 --> 32:42.680 really a gilded flying palace for his own use, both during the presidency, 32:43.160 --> 32:47.320 during his presidency and after Trump plans to take that plane with him and keep using it 32:47.320 --> 32:52.360 after he leaves office, if he ever leaves office. And you remember the United Arab Emirates 32:53.540 --> 33:00.320 famous for recently structuring a totally pointless crypto financial transaction 33:00.320 --> 33:05.580 so that $2 billion of it would be stuffed into the Trump family's otherwise worthless 33:05.580 --> 33:09.880 brand new crypto financial firm. And of course, you remember the Saudis 33:09.880 --> 33:15.820 who stuffed another $2 billion into the pockets of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. 33:16.120 --> 33:21.660 So that's the left wing portrayal, the alleged left wing portrayal of this war 33:21.660 --> 33:29.940 that it is on behalf of Qatar, not Israel, Qatar. So when I say that we live under a controlled 33:29.940 --> 33:35.320 media environment, I mean it very explicitly. And I do not mean in a partisan fashion. 33:36.100 --> 33:41.940 It is not a partisan fashion in the left-right partisan. It is so obvious that there is 33:41.940 --> 33:47.720 divide and conquer strategies that also are misdirects from the true culprit, 33:47.720 --> 33:53.740 the true, like the thing that would be unifying, the thing that when you see a United States Marine 33:53.740 --> 34:00.580 have his arm broken, literally seconds after shouting out, nobody wants to fight for Israel 34:00.580 --> 34:06.960 and then his arm snaps. That's the type of unifying thing that they don't want you talking 34:06.960 --> 34:14.780 about because they want you focused on Trump, Trump good or Trump bad, not Israel ever, 34:15.420 --> 34:21.980 not war ever. And if you dare focus on these wars, then you better be in support of them 34:21.980 --> 34:28.020 or else you don't support the troops, like the troops who shout out, we don't want this war. 34:28.340 --> 34:33.720 You see the dynamic that they're creating? You see the dichotomy? You see the mind fuckery? 34:34.040 --> 34:37.580 But nevertheless, for those that are paying attention, that are thinking for themselves, 34:38.060 --> 34:43.180 I hope this can be a unifying moment. For instance, this Marine veteran who had his 34:43.180 --> 34:50.840 arm broken, he is hard left, Green Party running, I think for the Congress in North Carolina under 34:50.840 --> 34:58.760 the Green Party. He's married to a Muslim woman. He says the Palestinian. He also cries out later 34:58.760 --> 35:03.360 on, you know, free Palestine River to the sea, like this guy is lefty. There's no doubt about it. 35:03.820 --> 35:08.600 He and I disagree on economics and probably domestic policy on a lot of different levels, 35:08.600 --> 35:15.200 but we ought to be able to unify on this one topic that we don't want to fight wars for foreign 35:15.200 --> 35:21.420 countries ever again. And that is literally all we've done my entire fucking life. He knows it. 35:21.640 --> 35:28.040 I know it. You know it. And it's time that we kind of set some of our personal differences aside 35:28.040 --> 35:34.960 and at least unify on that issue. And to that end, Nick Fuentes has been saying that he wants to 35:35.400 --> 35:41.240 get his followers or at least himself is going to go out and vote for Democrats in the midterms. 35:41.540 --> 35:45.980 Look, I'm not going to tell you what to who to vote for. I don't think it's a personal decision. 35:46.580 --> 35:49.400 I'll tell you, there's nothing you can do to get me to vote for the Democrats. 35:50.160 --> 35:54.100 But at this junction, there's really nothing you can get me to do to vote for the Republicans 35:54.100 --> 36:00.580 either. Just being honest. And yes, the Democrats are still worse, but I just don't see any 36:00.580 --> 36:05.080 significant difference at the highest levels when it comes to foreign policy or financial 36:05.080 --> 36:08.940 circumstances. The fact that we're going bankrupt, the fact that we're morally bankrupt. 36:09.540 --> 36:15.640 These are dynamics that are bipartisan in nature. And I personally cannot bring myself to vote for 36:15.640 --> 36:20.260 that level of evil, whichever direction or whichever offer I choose to go with. 36:20.580 --> 36:24.400 So instead, I'm going to pour my energy into things that I think are valuable like 36:25.060 --> 36:29.260 well, reading the Bible and trying to get Thomas Massey to run for president. 36:29.260 --> 36:35.600 And also making sure that Thomas Massey wins his reelection this upcoming cycle. 36:35.840 --> 36:40.560 So while I disagree with Nick Fuentes and I will not be voting for the Democrats in the midterms, 36:40.780 --> 36:45.600 I do agree with his sentiment though that these people absolutely deserve to lose. 36:46.020 --> 36:54.580 In fact, they must lose. You cannot hold on to power if you just spend years saying that 36:54.580 --> 36:59.340 the Iraq war was a mistake, Afghanistan war was a mistake, global war on terror was a mistake, 36:59.560 --> 37:03.980 that all of these were a mistake and then go and do the exact same thing, but on steroids. 37:04.760 --> 37:11.580 Sorry, you can't get power after that. You cannot maintain power after that. You can't 37:11.580 --> 37:16.840 maintain power after you say we're going to close the border and do mass deportations and 37:16.840 --> 37:21.560 then not. You can't hold on to power when you say we're going to make sure that there's 37:21.560 --> 37:26.680 full disclosure of the Epstein files and their big prosecutions. We're going to purge the swamp, 37:27.000 --> 37:31.160 the deep state. We're getting rid of it and then become the deep state and then say, 37:31.240 --> 37:38.960 vote for me. The Democrats are too dangerous. No, you're both too dangerous. You both not only 37:38.960 --> 37:45.620 should none of you be in power. All of you should be in prison for real, like not hyperbole, 37:45.620 --> 37:53.520 not being melodramatic, just being honest. You are taking the blood and treasure of this country. 37:53.700 --> 38:00.560 You're taking the future, my children's future, all of our children's future and you are squandering 38:00.560 --> 38:07.480 it on behalf of a foreign country. You deserve to go to prison for that. That is not being 38:07.480 --> 38:13.020 overly dramatic or emotional. Look at me. There is no emotion here other than rage. 38:13.020 --> 38:22.060 I'm just telling it like it is. You deserve to be in prison forever. All of you. And that includes 38:22.510 --> 38:27.160 the congressional representatives and the senators who have advocated their duty to 38:27.740 --> 38:33.600 require a vote before things like this happen. And they won't even do a vote 38:33.600 --> 38:41.100 after things like this happen. They all should be in prison. And that's my pitch for the 38:41.100 --> 38:46.840 midterms. I'm not voting for you, but I'd be happy to put you behind bars. If you enjoyed this 38:46.840 --> 38:51.220 episode, please do it with a like button, subscribe and share it around. I'm sure it'll 38:51.220 --> 38:56.740 be very algo friendly, given the things that I had to say today. But it's from the heart 38:56.740 --> 39:00.300 and it's the truth. And that's all I really care about. Love you guys. Peace. 39:00.800 --> 39:02.560 Someone mentioned, hey, you should go on with Liberty Lockdown. I said, 39:02.660 --> 39:05.660 I don't know that I've ever heard of that guy. I went and watched him. I thought, 39:05.740 --> 39:10.140 how have I not heard of this guy? The guy's dope. I mean, he's great on air. 39:10.140 --> 39:15.300 I would love to go on with him, but he's phenomenal. I'd love to go on with that dude.