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00:14:07.000But that doesn't mean that if nothing happens this weekend that nothing will ever happen in the future, but it means that this current warning is based on old intelligence and that the Iranians have decided to deliberate further or to cancel any kind of reprisal altogether.
00:15:53.000We'll also be talking tonight about the FISA law.
00:15:57.000Congress is deliberating over the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or the FISA Act, but it is being hotly debated by Republicans, specifically the Section 702, which allows the government to spy on U.S.
00:16:19.000And what some Republicans want is for the government to have to obtain a warrant in order for the government to use intelligence that they gathered in a backdoor manner to use that information against American citizens.
00:16:40.000That's all Republicans want is for the government to have to obtain a warrant, which is just common sense.
00:16:49.000Common sense under the Fourth Amendment, under any kind of constitutional order, that there would be a right to privacy that would be protected.
00:16:57.000But the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who actually, before becoming the Speaker, was in favor of that same modification, he now wants the reauthorization without the warrant.
00:17:11.000intelligence can spy on foreigners, not citizens.
00:17:15.000But in the course of their spying, they get a ton of Americans' data.
00:17:20.000And they say, hey, well, we have the data, we can just rifle through it and find whatever we want to find.
00:17:27.000Which, we know that they are obtaining all this foreign information for the purpose of getting, in a backdoor, accidental way, in an incidental way, the information on citizens.
00:18:19.000But, before we get into the news, I want to remind you to smash the follow button on Rumble and Cozy to get a push notification whenever I go live.
00:18:30.000Smash the follow button, smash the like button, follow me on Telegram.
00:18:37.000Follow me on Telegram and like the video on Rumble if you're watching the replay or if you're watching live.
00:18:44.000I gotta make sure I'm live though because you know whenever I go live at an early hour like this it's always some BS like I'm actually not live and no one tells me and okay.
00:18:58.000Also, before we get into the news, another reminder to get your AFPAC tickets.
00:19:03.000AFPAC tickets have been on sale since Monday and
00:19:09.000It's going to be our biggest conference yet, AFPAC 4, June 15th in Detroit, Michigan.
00:19:15.000I'll be there high-fiving everybody, taking pictures with everybody, hanging out with you, listening to your stories.
00:19:23.000I want to hear what you have to say about politics.
00:19:27.000When I meet you in real life, this is your opportunity to do your show for me.
00:19:34.000You're used to watching my show and me talk about politics but when you meet me the tables are turned and the roles are reversed and it's your opportunity to tell me what you really think about politics.
00:19:50.000And I will sit there and listen and nod my head and make eye contact and pretend to be engaged and I will say, wow, you think so?
00:22:17.000The other thing is, it's the same, everyone's like, why are you doing it in Detroit?
00:22:22.000I'm doing it in Detroit because Turning Point is doing it in Detroit, so if you are a young person, you can get Turning Point to pay for your flight and hotel, and then you can come to AVPAC instead, or on top of Turning Point.
00:22:40.000So people are always like, why are you doing it in Detroit?
00:22:47.000Is paying people to be at their thing and it's kind of like for all the young people It's like a nice little subsidy.
00:22:54.000So see if you could get yourself a little flight Action make it cheaper for yourself Don't tell them that's what you're doing now because then they won't they're definitely not gonna They're not gonna help you do that if they know it so you got to be a little secretive about it, but
00:23:10.000But anyway, afpac.events, that's, we're joking about that, but afpac.events, make sure, I might need to say that just to cover myself.
00:24:52.000I'll make a decision after AFPAC, because it's been a long time since I took a vacation.
00:24:57.000I'm probably going to do AFPAC, and then I'm probably going to take a short vacation.
00:25:01.000I'll probably go away for like a week, because I've just been pushing it basically since January 6th, you know?
00:25:09.000What I was thinking about the other day is, after January 6th, I basically told myself I can never take a break.
00:25:19.000Because if I step away from the show for a long time, then Cozy dies.
00:25:24.000You know, because people really only tune in to Cozy to watch my show.
00:25:29.000They're not there for any other reason.
00:25:31.000If my show doesn't go live and I'm not there for like a week and a half, I don't know if I'm gonna keep my audience.
00:25:38.000I don't know how many people will ever return.
00:25:41.000So I so that was kind of the psychology for a couple years, but now that we're on rumble I got a great following on rumble people tune in all the time great replay viewership I'm not as concerned about that so I feel like Not saying I'm gonna wind down the content, but I can I can kind of take a little break and
00:26:02.000Collect my bearings, because it's been a long three years.
00:26:05.000I don't think people think about it that way, but I very much think of the timeline in terms of before January 6th and after.
00:26:13.000Everything got much more difficult after.
00:26:17.000And there was, like I said, I was kind of in this survival mode since Rumble took off.
00:26:23.000And now that Rumble has assumed the same role as DLive, or like YouTube did at one time for me,
00:26:30.000Now it's kind of like a return to normalcy in many ways.
00:26:35.000Because the rules from January 6th until very recently, it was just like I was on deity mode.
00:26:46.000No heads-up display, no extra lives, no nothing.
00:26:53.000But now things are getting a little bit more friendly, you know?
00:26:59.000Anyway, I'm just talking out loud about the show and everything, but... I think maybe I'll make a decision, because AFPAC's only a couple months away, so I think after AFPAC, I'll make a decision and figure out the schedule, and then I'll either be doing five shows a week and really pressing to get them on time,
00:27:22.000Or maybe we'll mix it up a little bit.
00:27:24.000But either way, I'd like to incorporate more of these afternoon streams, because they get more viewership than anything else.
00:27:29.000I do an afternoon stream, it gets like 150,000 views.
00:27:34.000I do a show, the shows have been doing well, like 60,000 to 90,000 every night, but the afternoon streams, for whatever reason, I guess, well, more people are awake at 3 p.m.
00:27:47.000than they are at 2 a.m., so maybe that's why.
00:28:03.000I'm sure you've all heard so much about it, and we'll talk about the whole thing.
00:28:08.000We'll get into all the details about it.
00:28:11.000If you have not been paying very close attention to what has been happening in the Middle East, there are a few developments that you have to understand to understand how we got here.
00:28:26.000And I'm talking, strictly speaking, the precipitating factors here.
00:28:31.000I don't want to go all the way back to October 7th.
00:28:34.000But this is all about Israel and their current state, their current posture towards Gaza.
00:29:30.000And just last week they evacuated Khan Yunis, which was the city that they had been, the last city they had been fighting in.
00:29:38.000And now all eyes are on the last city that they have to take out, which is Rafa.
00:29:44.000And you've heard so much about it, and we've talked so much about it on the show, but Israel's basically done with Gaza.
00:29:51.000They have driven all the people out of their homes.
00:29:55.000They have driven all the people to the brink of starvation.
00:29:58.000100% of the population is at risk of famine.
00:30:02.000And something like three-quarters of the whole population of the Strip has now taken refuge in this one city in the southeastern tip of the Gaza Strip, which is Rafah on the border with Egypt.
00:30:15.000And all the drama now is about this city.
00:30:22.000The only way for them to finally defeat Hamas is to attack Rafah, is to fully invade, full ground offensive, and go into the city and kill all the remaining Hamas leadership and fighters.
00:30:37.000Problem is, many civilians will die and many of the people there will flee into Egypt, which will cause diplomatic problems.
00:30:48.000And those are, those are really the, specifically the two issues with what's happening in Palestine, what's happening with Rafah.
00:30:57.000So the United States is trying to restrain Israel from going into Rafah.
00:31:02.000And so are all of the Arab and other Muslim countries in the Middle East.
00:31:07.000The Arabs don't want Israel to go into Rafah because it will be a lot of civilian casualties, their populations will be angry, it will cause a refugee crisis in Egypt and maybe other countries.
00:31:20.000They're also worried because of the second but separate related development, which is what is happening on Israel's northern border.
00:31:28.000So, Rafah is basically on Israel's southern border.
00:31:34.000But what will happen in Rafah, what is happening in Rafah, is affecting what is happening on Israel's northern border.
00:31:41.000Ever since Israel invaded Gaza, they have been engaged in a fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon, on their northern border.
00:31:48.000And Hezbollah, unlike Hamas, is massive.
00:31:53.000Lot of people, lot of manpower, lot of missiles.
00:31:58.000And they have constant support and training and funding from Iran.
00:32:02.000It comes from Iran into Syria, through Syria into Lebanon.
00:32:08.000And Israel is far more worried about Hezbollah than they are about Hamas because Hezbollah has more manpower and more missiles and is directly supplied and trained by Iran.
00:32:20.000And what will happen if Israel invades Rafah is this.
00:32:25.000Hezbollah anticipates that when Israel strategically defeats Hamas, Israel will then initiate a war against Hezbollah.
00:32:38.000We've gone over them on the show before.
00:32:40.000I'm not going to get into them right now.
00:32:42.000But Hezbollah has a very good reason to believe that once Israel wraps up Gaza by finishing them off in Rafah, they're going to wrap it up and then turn their attention north and they're going to go into Lebanon and they're going to try and take out Hezbollah.
00:33:00.000So, if Israel goes into Rafah and takes out this city, Hezbollah may preemptively attack Israel.
00:33:09.000And if they don't preemptively attack, then there's a good chance that Israel will attempt to instigate or provoke them into a preemptive attack, or Israel will attack outright and initiate the war directly.
00:33:22.000So what happens in Rafah directly affects what happens on Israel's northern border.
00:33:29.000If Israel takes out Rafah, that is a signal to Hezbollah and to their main patron, Iran, that Israel is ready to turn their attention north and take the fight somewhere else.
00:34:04.000Leads to the other major development, which is Israel's antagonism towards Iran itself, towards Iran proper, and the specific incident which Iran is replying to or has stated that they will reply to this week, which is that last week Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus in Syria, which is a major problem.
00:35:04.000Even during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were not messing with each other's ambassadors, weren't messing with each other's embassies.
00:35:13.000Now there was some spy games that were being played.
00:35:16.000But the idea that a state would go in and attack or lay siege to or bomb an embassy, it is a major faux pas.
00:36:54.000Maybe our diplomatic personnel isn't safe in Israel or in other countries.
00:37:00.000And if they're attacking diplomatic personnel, then that may signal to Iran that maybe an appropriate response is for Iran to attack the Embassy of Israel in some other country.
00:37:10.000And countries don't want their territory to become a battleground for another war.
00:37:17.000I mean, hypothetically, Turkey wouldn't want the Israeli Embassy being bombed by Iran.
00:38:34.000And if Israel decided to do that, they'd probably have the backing of the United States.
00:38:40.000In the event that Israel were to go to war with Iran, Hezbollah would provide a second strike capability to deter Israel.
00:38:51.000If Israel bombed Iran's nuclear facilities or bombed Iran's conventional capabilities, Hezbollah, there's 100,000 guys with 200,000 missiles right over the border, they'd come pouring in.
00:39:04.000And that is meant, it's basically a chess game.
00:39:08.000You move one piece out of the way, and Hezbollah puts Israel in check.
00:39:12.000So that means that Israel can't take the Queen, can't take the Bishop, whatever.
00:40:03.000And one way to look at this entire campaign since October 7th is it is a long campaign by Israel to take out these successive Iran proxies, to take out these successive Iranian powers.
00:40:18.000October 7th was used, that initial attack by Hamas has been used now as a justification to eliminate Hamas.
00:40:27.000In the future it will be used to provoke and instigate a war with Hezbollah and significantly diminish Hezbollah and ultimately it will be used to instigate a conflict with Iran and significantly diminish Iran's capabilities.
00:40:42.000Most likely by taking out their nuclear facilities.
00:40:46.000So, we've been following this for the entire time, for the past six months.
00:40:51.000I've been saying the same story from the beginning.
00:40:55.000And they're leveraging one thing into the next.
00:40:57.000They leveraged the Al-Aqsa flood on October 7th into a six-month war in Gaza.
00:41:02.000They're leveraging the war in Gaza into an attack on Hezbollah.
00:41:06.000They will leverage the attack on Hezbollah into a war with Iran.
00:41:10.000And this is exactly what they're doing.
00:41:13.000Israel has been bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the attacks are going further into Lebanese territory, further north, further away from the border.
00:41:56.000Because if Iran doesn't retaliate, then what that signals is that they will allow Israel to kill high-ranking officials in other countries, in embassies.
00:43:47.000So these are all the relevant questions and how Iran calibrates the response, it has to be severe enough that it deters Israel from provoking Iran further, but it also can't be so severe that it dares Israel to retaliate even more strongly.
00:44:07.000And it's this tit-for-tat reciprocal escalation that eventually brings the United States in.
00:44:43.000But it can't be so weak that Israel presumes that they can kill Iranians with impunity.
00:44:50.000But maybe the critical factor is the involvement of the United States.
00:44:55.000And that is what's been happening over the past week.
00:44:57.000Iran has been very publicly signaling that they will retaliate.
00:45:02.000And they've said some specific things.
00:45:04.000They've said that if the UN Security Council had condemned the strike by Israel, then Iran wouldn't retaliate.
00:45:14.000That's what they said earlier this week.
00:45:16.000And resolutions in the Security Council are binding, contrary to what Americans say.
00:45:23.000Technically speaking, unlike resolutions that are passed in other United Nations bodies, like the General Assembly, or DISAC, or the WHO, or ECOFIN, or whatever, the Security Council passes binding resolutions, meaning that it's incumbent on the member states of the UN to enforce them.
00:45:43.000So, like, if the United Nations says Saddam Hussein must go, it's the obligation of the member states of the UN to carry out the regime change.
00:47:45.000Because what Israel did is a pretty extreme provocation.
00:47:49.000I don't think the United States supports the targeting of embassies.
00:47:53.000The United States recognizes that this is what Israel is trying to do.
00:47:58.000Israel is trying to provoke Iran into a war.
00:48:00.000And they're trying to provoke that by doing these extremely antagonistic, belligerent actions like this one.
00:48:08.000So the United States doesn't co-sign bombing embassies, and they certainly don't co-sign bombing embassies to make us fight Israel's war against Iran.
00:48:17.000So Iran was waiting to see how much is the United States going to go with this, but the key factor is that the United States has signaled an absolute commitment to defend Israel.
00:48:29.000The United States is deploying military assets to the Middle East to deter Iran.
00:48:36.000They have even deployed some military personnel to Israel.
00:48:39.000Joe Biden has said that he stands 100% with Israel, says that the United States will defend Israel from the attack, and so on and so forth.
00:48:49.000And so, the reason why we haven't seen Iran retaliate yet, and why they might not retaliate at all, is because
00:48:59.000If they do, they know that Israel will have the full backing of the United States in counter-attacking.
00:49:26.000Israel will attack them harder, and the United States will back them.
00:49:31.000And then Iran will have to reply, and then it risks a full-out war, not just with Israel, which would be bad enough, but also with the United States.
00:49:41.000And that is the last thing that Iran wants right now.
00:49:43.000It would mean a full-scale regional war, and by the end of it, the axis of resistance would be in ruins, and so would Iran.
00:49:52.000And probably it would mean regime change in Iran.
00:49:56.000So that is why we have not seen any kind of a strike from Iran, and that's why I also don't think we're going to.
00:50:05.000This morning, Iran seized an Israeli cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and there's an early report, I don't know how reliable, but there's an early report that says that Iran is doing that in lieu of a strike.
00:50:19.000So in other words, instead of bombing the shit out of Israel, they're just gonna take some civilian cargo ship.
00:50:26.000And they say that they're doing that to send a message that Iran can paralyze Israeli trade if they want to, but that doesn't make a ton of sense.
00:50:40.000They're really just backing down now because the United States has stepped up to protect Israel.
00:50:47.000But, unfortunately, I don't think there's a... Unfortunately,
00:50:53.000It may seem counterintuitive, but this does not prevent a war.
00:50:58.000You might think, well, at least we're not going to embark down this path where Iran attacks Israel, and Israel attacks Iran, and then Iran attacks again, and then the United States attacks Iran.
00:51:49.000And it destroys civilian infrastructure in Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities, it kills civilians, and there's a simultaneous uprising in the West Bank, and it's a serious conundrum.
00:52:02.000Well, as bad as that strike will be, it will allow Israel to respond proportionally.
00:52:51.000This is one option, which is that this very quickly goes from a relatively minor operation in the Gaza Strip to a full-scale regional conflict which involves Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom against Iran and all of its proxy forces.
00:53:11.000In Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and also involves Syria itself.
00:53:18.000Most likely it will draw in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and potentially Turkey.
00:53:32.000Huge sigh of relief because that won't happen this weekend.
00:53:36.000But behind door number two, the second option, is that if Israel is allowed to get away with bombing the embassy, they're going to bomb another one next week.
00:53:45.000They're going to do something else because that has been the pattern since the beginning.
00:53:50.000On January 3rd, they killed over 100 people in two terrorist attacks on the anniversary of Soleimani's death.
00:53:58.000A month later, they sabotaged a gas pipeline inside of Iran.
00:54:02.000Over the course of the same period, they've been killing Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel, they've been attacking IRGC positions in Syria, they've been antagonizing Hezbollah, and they just blew up the embassy.
00:54:15.000So you can bet that in the forthcoming
00:54:34.000And eventually they will provoke so much that Iran will have to reply.
00:54:41.000There's a very narrow path in the middle
00:54:46.000Where it's kind of the same thing when they describe like this soft landing with inflation.
00:54:52.000There's like this narrow path to achieve a soft landing where everyone kind of patiently waits for Israel to stop killing people without attacking Israel.
00:55:04.000Because that's just what Israel wants and that's what they're trying to do.
00:55:09.000They're carrying out this butchery in Gaza
00:55:14.000And they're provoking all their neighbors.
00:56:09.000They know that the world is turning against them and they know that that's a problem.
00:56:13.000But they're hoping that Iran attacks first.
00:56:17.000Because if Iran attacks Israel, then the whole world will have to patiently watch as Israel expands the war and kills other people elsewhere.
00:56:51.000The United States is holding back from really pressuring Israel and they're hoping that the Netanyahu government topples and the operation in Gaza finishes before anybody makes a move against Israel.
00:57:08.000Because the moment that anyone makes a move against Israel,
00:57:13.000Israel will be fully justified to reply, and the clock, so to speak, resets back to zero.
00:57:20.000Right now, Israel has been beating a dead horse for six months.
00:57:25.000And everybody is saying, alright, enough.
00:58:13.000But they declined to get involved because they anticipated all that I'm saying right now.
00:58:18.000Which is that if they made the first move, Israel would have a mandate in the mind of their own people and the international community to now take it to Hezbollah.
00:59:33.000And if they do that, they will be stronger than they have ever been.
00:59:39.000They'll be in an unprecedented, uniquely secure position since the Jews started to settle Palestine over 100 years ago.
00:59:48.000Because for the first time since they arrived there, they will have no adversaries, internally or externally.
00:59:55.000They will have the full Palestine west of the Jordan River.
00:59:59.000They will have full control of their borders, full spectrum mastery, and it will put them in an unprecedented position to dominate the region.
01:00:11.000And that's what they promised from the start.
01:00:13.000They said, we're going to change the geopolitics of the region for 50 years.
01:00:19.000So this is about taking the atrocity on October 7th and leveraging that to ethnically cleanse Gaza and deport all the Muslims and send them into the Sinai.
01:00:29.000And now they annex Gaza, and now that's taken care of.
01:00:31.000And then they're going to do the same thing in the West Bank, and now that's taken care of.
01:00:36.000And now, their border with Egypt, their border with Jordan is secure.
01:00:39.000From the river, from the Jordan River to the sea, Israel has full control over the land.
01:00:45.000And then they want to take out Hezbollah.
01:00:47.000And then from Egypt, to the river, to the sea, to their northern border, they're clear to the Litani River in Lebanon.
01:00:55.000They will be fully bounded by bodies of water.
01:00:58.000By the Suez, Eastern Med, Jordan River, and the Litani River.
01:01:06.000And then by taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, then there is no country in the region that has nukes other than them.
01:01:14.000And there is no other country that is infiltrating these other states other than them.
01:01:22.000Because what you have to understand is that what Iran represents fundamentally is a challenge to Israeli hegemony over the region.
01:01:34.000Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan and Iraq are clients of the United States.
01:01:42.000Syria has been destabilized by 10 years of civil war.
01:01:46.000Lebanon has been destabilized by 40 years of war with Israel.
01:01:52.000And so all that remains is Iran and its many proxies which are operating inside of all these countries, inside and in between the cracks of all these countries.
01:02:02.000And once that's rolled back, and once Iran is destabilized, Israel will dismember all of these countries.
01:02:10.000Iraq will be divided up into three different countries.
01:02:13.000Syria will be divided up into three different countries.
01:02:16.000If not in a legal way, effectively that is how it will be.
01:04:51.000expects Iran will carry out strikes against multiple targets inside Israel in the coming days.
01:04:57.000And is prepared to intercept any weapons launched at its ally.
01:05:02.000President Joe Biden predicted that Iran's attacks were coming sooner than later and sought once again to issue a stern public warning saying his message to Tehran was simply, don't.
01:05:16.000believed that Iranian proxies could also be involved in the forthcoming attacks, according to a senior administration official and a source familiar with the intelligence, and that targets would likely be both inside Israel and around the region.
01:05:31.000's readiness to intercept weapons launched at Israel marked a clear indication of the level of ongoing cooperation between the two militaries.
01:05:41.000had observed Iran moving military assets internally, including drones and cruise missiles, signaling that it was preparing to attack Israeli targets from inside its own territory, according to two people familiar with U.S.
01:06:30.000was not clear whether Iran was preparing to strike from its soil as part of an initial attack or if it was just posturing to deter Israel or the U.S.
01:06:39.000from conducting a possible counter-strike on its territory.
01:07:20.000intelligence assesses that Iran has urged several of its proxy militia groups to simultaneously launch a large-scale attack against Israel using drones and missiles and that they could attack as soon as this week.
01:07:33.000Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with the foreign ministers of Turkey, China, and Saudi Arabia to urge them to press Iran not to escalate the conflict in the Middle East after threats made by Iran against Israel.
01:07:46.000The thing is, though, if Iran went all out, there's nothing that anybody could do to stop it.
01:07:53.000Because the thing about missile defense is that it's unreliable.
01:07:59.000It only is capable of intercepting a certain proportion of projectiles that go into the air, and there's only so many anti-ballistic missile batteries.
01:08:11.000If Iran truly sought to do damage to Israel, if they were launching strikes simultaneously from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon, and with enough missiles, some of them are getting through.
01:08:28.000And it doesn't take much for it to be a catastrophe.
01:08:31.000So, America can try to intercept them, Israel can try to intercept them.
01:08:40.000And then Israel can reply, and America can reply, and it could devastate Iran's military.
01:08:47.000But at that point, we'd be in unprecedented waters.
01:08:51.000This would be like another major war on the scale of the Iraq War, or something like that.
01:08:58.000And unfortunately Iran doesn't have the power to resist the United States like Russia is doing right now.
01:09:03.000It's similar to what Russia did a couple years ago, but Russia has a big enough economy and a big enough military and America doesn't back Ukraine like they back Israel.
01:09:20.000So it's different in key ways that would seriously make this risky for Iran to
01:10:34.000So, that's what you gotta look out for.
01:10:37.000The key details you gotta look out for are what the strike is, where it's coming from, where it's going, what it is, and if it happens within the next 48 hours.
01:10:53.000If it doesn't happen in 48 hours, then you know they pushed it back.
01:10:57.000You know they're not gonna risk America getting involved.
01:12:51.000Is more highly correlated with likelihood to be politically conservative than the politics of the parents.
01:12:59.000In other words, the likelihood that you are conservative is more related to how old your mother is or how old your mother was when she had you than whether or not your parents were conservative.
01:13:15.000May I don't know if I'm remembering that exactly right, but I think that's what that person said So yeah, it is heritable.
01:13:21.000I believe that and I think that's that is 100% true I mean right now people are being selected for those that are more Vital those that are more religious the people that are having kids are religious conservatives so Yeah, that's absolutely happening
01:19:28.000I mean, if he, honest to God, if he had challenged me before he did the whole Purim costume and all that, I might have accepted.
01:19:41.000But after that, like, there's just, it's not even worthwhile for me at that point.
01:19:47.000And I'm somebody that's totally on the outside, I'm totally ostracized, blackballed, whatever.
01:19:54.000You know, so a person like me is looking for opportunities to get in front of a mainstream audience, or to get some kind of credibility by debating people that are more mainstream than me.
01:20:09.000But at this point, he is such a joke and has made such an embarrassment out of himself that there is nothing for me to gain by debating him.
01:20:22.000Even if I won a crushing victory, which I totally would, there's nothing to be gained.
01:20:41.000Now it's not just one freak doing a show.
01:20:43.000Now it's a freak show with two freaks doing their act next to each other, so... I probably would have debated him before he did that, but he's just turned into a laughingstock.
01:21:11.000Big surprise that the former amateur porn star who turned men gay, Nala, is being platformed and embraced by another former amateur porn star who also turned men gay, Knowles.
01:21:21.000Thanks for the really early show today.