We are at a crossroads here. People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever shrinking share of what they have are foolish. The alternative is that there will be no country. This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted, we are being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated, and we are killing ourselves every day.
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00:06:30.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:06:34.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:06:41.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
00:06:43.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:06:48.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:06:56.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:06:59.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:13.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:17.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:07:20.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:07:27.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:07:31.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:09:38.000that America was different because we are different.
00:09:56.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
00:10:02.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
00:10:09.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
00:10:26.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
00:24:00.000My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs.
00:24:04.000My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs.
00:24:07.000My love has got no fame, he's got his strong beliefs.
00:24:11.000My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs.
00:24:15.000Want more and more people just want more and more freedom and love.
00:24:22.000What he's looking for, want more and more.
00:24:25.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:24:29.000What he's looking for, freed from desire.
00:24:53.000If we don't have freedom on the Internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
00:25:01.000Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geo location, because your phone also has a GPS.
00:25:23.000They have access to your bank account.
00:25:25.000AI will literally know everything about you.
00:25:29.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you're asleep.
00:25:39.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
00:25:43.000They know how many calories you consume.
00:25:45.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
00:25:48.000You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
00:26:00.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
00:26:02.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
00:26:18.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
00:27:18.000These material appetites will never be satisfied.
00:27:23.000And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
00:27:32.000Every mother and father understands the love for a child.
00:39:37.000My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs.
00:39:41.000My love has got no fame, He's got his strong beliefs.
00:39:45.000My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs One.
00:39:49.000More and more People just want more and more freedom and love What he's looking for.
00:39:57.000More and more People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:40:03.000What he's looking for, Freed from desire, Mind and senses purified, Freed from desire.
00:40:10.000Mine and senses purified, freed from desire, Mind and senses purified, freed from desire, Is something involved where we have to forgive them.
00:40:25.000We do have to forgive them for their ignorance.
00:40:28.000We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding.
00:40:31.000And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never.
00:50:55.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:51:00.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:51:06.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
00:51:09.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:51:14.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:51:21.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:51:25.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:51:39.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:51:43.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:51:46.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:51:53.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:51:57.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:53:50.000And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
00:54:16.000against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed for any reason, for any ideological reason.
00:54:29.000Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
00:54:32.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
00:54:35.000Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
00:54:47.000What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
00:55:23.000An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
00:56:50.000Canary Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which since July 2025 has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
00:57:02.000This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
00:57:09.000In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:57:21.000Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
00:57:33.000In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
00:57:45.000Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
00:57:55.000While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
00:58:09.000I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
00:58:26.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
00:58:31.000I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
00:58:35.000So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
00:58:39.000Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
00:58:46.000And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
00:58:49.000As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
00:58:53.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
00:58:57.000As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
00:59:54.000This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
00:59:58.000What had just happened before the 2016 election?
01:00:01.000Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
01:00:10.000And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
01:00:24.000The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
01:00:32.000Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
01:00:42.000This is the background of Trump's first election.
01:02:06.000They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
01:02:20.000This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
01:14:47.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:14:52.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:14:58.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
01:15:01.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:15:05.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:15:13.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:15:16.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
01:15:30.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:15:34.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:15:38.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:15:44.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:15:48.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:17:55.000that america was different because we are different palantir is an ai data analytics company
01:18:19.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
01:18:26.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
01:18:43.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithm, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
01:32:21.000My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs.
01:32:25.000My love has got no fame, he's got his strong beliefs.
01:32:28.000My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs.
01:32:33.000Want more and more, people just want more and more freedom and love.
01:32:39.000What he's looking for, want more and more.
01:32:42.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
01:32:47.000What he's looking for, freed from desire.
01:33:10.000If we don't have freedom on the Internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
01:33:18.000Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geo location, because your phone also has a GPS.
01:33:40.000They have access to your bank account.
01:33:42.000AI will literally know everything about you.
01:33:46.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you're asleep.
01:33:56.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
01:34:00.000They know how many calories you consume.
01:34:02.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
01:34:05.000You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
01:34:17.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
01:34:19.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
01:34:36.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
01:35:35.000These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
01:35:40.000And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
01:35:49.000Every mother and father understands the love for a child.
01:50:08.000You got that back, bad, dance for like a bump.
01:50:10.000You got that back, but it's to the cure.
01:50:20.000I listen to the cure, and then it cry.
01:50:31.000All the things you're trying, all the things I've had, running through my head, running through my head, running through my head.
01:50:36.000All the things you're saying, all the things I've had, running through my head, running through my head, all the things you're all the things high.
01:50:44.000I can't get me all the things you're bad, all the things you're saying.
01:50:49.000All the things you're sad, all the things you're sad.
01:50:51.000All the things you're sad, all the things you had, all the things you said.
01:59:13.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:59:17.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:59:24.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
01:59:26.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:59:31.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:59:39.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:59:42.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
01:59:56.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
02:00:00.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
02:00:03.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
02:00:10.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
02:00:14.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
02:02:08.000And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
02:02:33.000against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed for any reason, for any ideological reason.
02:02:46.000Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
02:02:50.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
02:02:52.000Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
02:03:05.000It's Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions.
02:03:16.000It's our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
02:03:34.000So much of it, it cannot be contained.
02:03:40.000An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
02:05:07.000Canary Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which since July 2025 has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
02:05:19.000This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
02:05:27.000In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
02:05:38.000Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
02:05:50.000In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
02:06:03.000Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
02:06:13.000While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
02:06:26.000I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
02:06:43.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
02:06:48.000I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
02:06:52.000So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
02:06:56.000Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
02:07:03.000And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
02:07:06.000As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
02:07:10.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
02:07:14.000As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
02:08:12.000This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
02:08:15.000What had just happened before the 2016 election?
02:08:18.000Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
02:08:27.000And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
02:08:42.000The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
02:10:23.000They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
02:10:38.000This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
02:17:48.000I think this time we're going to get something.
02:17:51.000Now, the big question is: what is that actually going to be?
02:17:55.000Of course, up to this point, it's been a question of whether the United States will act.
02:18:00.000We declined to intervene in Iran during the protest in January.
02:18:05.000But now that we have forward-deployed two aircraft carriers, dozens of attack aircraft, now the question is: well, what is it going to look like?
02:18:15.000What's it actually going to, what's it actually going to be when we make the move?
02:18:19.000And it seems like all signs are pointing towards a weeks-long air campaign.
02:18:25.000We talked a little bit about this last night, but it's looking very likely like it will not be a ground operation, doesn't look like special forces.
02:18:35.000It may not even be what Trump has been requesting, which is a decisive confrontation.
02:18:41.000It's not going to be a once and for all strike that's going to topple the regime.
02:18:46.000But it does look like at the minimum, it is going to be a weeks-long, maybe multiple weeks-long attack in order to degrade Iran's nuclear capability and its missile capability.
02:18:59.000And it seems like this can happen at any point in the next few days.
02:19:04.000And maybe you could say at the furthest extent, it will happen within two weeks.
02:19:10.000That looks like roughly the timeline right now.
02:19:14.000And we're going to talk tonight all about why that is.
02:19:17.000We'll talk about the kind of force package that has been assembled because the type of force and the amount of force is indicative of how they're going to use it.
02:19:29.000We were able to predict a little bit of what happened in Venezuela based on the number of personnel that were involved and the number of warships.
02:19:39.000And I think that similarly, we can look at the force package in the Middle East and we can make some educated guesses about what they are actually there to do and what the plan is.
02:19:50.000And then, therefore, based on that, if we can determine what kind of strike it will be and the scope and scale of it, we can figure out what the Trump administration's endgame is.
02:20:13.000We're going to look at the types of weapons in place, like I said, and we will be making some informed guesses about the timeline, about the goal, and about the mode.
02:20:28.000We're also going to look tonight at an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, which I saw tonight.
02:20:35.000Kind of a slow news day, so there's not too much going on, but I do think this is really worthy of consideration because this absolutely vindicates what I predicted about deportations a couple of years ago.
02:20:50.000And so, I'm reading the Wall Street Journal today, and there's an editorial, there's an opinion piece, and it's talking about mass deportations.
02:21:00.000And we've been talking a lot about the mass deportations.
02:21:03.000We've talked about how they are not really even happening to begin with.
02:21:08.000But the mass deportations that are not happening are also grinding to a halt.
02:21:14.000No mass deportations, and yet they are also simultaneously grinding to a screeching halt.
02:21:21.000And we witnessed this with the withdrawal from Minneapolis and the apparent change in policy from the White House, which is that they're no longer even calling it that.
02:21:32.000They're now talking about removing all of the criminal illegal aliens.
02:21:37.000Crossing into the country illegally is a crime.
02:21:40.000I guess they mean people that have committed crimes on top of that.
02:21:44.000So you cross into the country illegally, you're fine, but only if you commit a violent rape or a murder, well, now you're going to be deported.
02:21:54.000This is an Obama-era policy, but this has now taken the place of mass deportations.
02:22:00.000In any case, we have talked about the pushback from the media.
02:22:05.000We have talked about the pressure from the Republicans, actually, from the Republican Party and from the conference in Congress because of the upcoming midterms.
02:22:17.000We talked about the government shutdown on Monday.
02:22:20.000But here's the angle that a lot of people are not focusing on.
02:22:49.000The strongest evidence or maybe the strongest predictor of whether you will get deportations actually has nothing to do with any of the rhetoric surrounding the deportations.
02:23:02.000People talk about whether it's humane and whether it's cruel.
02:23:06.000People talk about whether it's feasible or whether it's impractical.
02:23:11.000But the number one indicator, the number one predictor, how you knew you were not going to get deportations is because of the effect on the economy.
02:23:22.000Because of the effect on spending, on labor, on wages, and ultimately then on the effect of the effect rather on profits for Wall Street.
02:23:35.000And so I said back in 2024, the reason you're not going to get mass deportations is because the big businesses don't want this to happen.
02:23:42.000The big businesses employ the illegal immigrants, and those illegal immigrants spend their money, which keeps the big businesses going.
02:23:52.000Big business profits from illegal immigration, to put it succinctly.
02:23:58.000And so there's a big editorial in the Wall Street Journal that says, do not do mass deportations.
02:24:55.000You need to understand the anatomy of our power structure, where the true seat of power resides.
02:25:03.000And once you begin to understand this, once you begin to think about that category, that subject, you realize how silly it is to talk with all these other kinds of words and phrases and sentiment.
02:25:17.000People say, I think Trump wants to do mass deportations.
02:25:21.000These kinds of words don't actually have any meaning.
02:25:52.000Good to be back with you here on Ash Wednesday.
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02:28:05.000So anybody will tell you the testimonials are very positive.
02:28:09.000I'm basically doing a second show for the rich.
02:28:13.000It's the most rewarding work that I do.
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02:29:24.000I feel like everybody has accepted it.
02:29:26.000I feel like everybody looks at the situation and just says, yeah, I guess that's just where we are now.
02:29:33.000I really still have a hard time getting over it.
02:29:38.000Because if you are an OG Trump supporter, if you were there in 2015, 2016, if you were there for the original MAGA America First, opposing the Iraq war was like one of the central planks.
02:29:54.000That was like one of the number one staples of the MAGA movement.
02:30:00.000That is the basis upon which Trump was attacking Jeb Bush, who was at one time the frontrunner for the Republican nomination a long time ago.
02:30:13.000And so it's truly amazing that 10 years later, on the other side of all of these battles, this struggle, it is truly unthinkable that we are now literally repeating the exact same thing.
02:30:28.000We talked about it a little bit last night.
02:32:17.000I'm not just restating what I said last night.
02:32:19.000What's truly remarkable is that in spite of this, this should be as cut and dry and open and shut and black and white as it could possibly be.
02:32:30.000In 2015, Trump said the war in Iraq was a mistake.
02:32:35.000They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
02:33:01.000As black and white as this is, you still have, and I have seen it on my timeline all week, hundreds, if not thousands of pro-Trump shills on Twitter that are supporting this.
02:34:52.000And this vindicates what I said about Trump in 24.
02:34:56.000Herein lies the problem with the Trump victory.
02:35:00.000And I will keep saying this because it is true.
02:35:03.000The problem with Trump at this point is that whatever he does, no matter what it is, a significant percentage of middle American radicals will support it.
02:35:17.000Maybe most of them, maybe all of them.
02:35:20.000It doesn't matter what Trump does, what he says.
02:35:23.000It could be a complete betrayal of his own promises, of his own movement, of everything.
02:35:53.000It's primed for an America-first movement.
02:35:56.000And all of a sudden, now that Trump is thrust into the White House, now all of that revolutionary fervor is deflated.
02:36:04.000If Trump is doing it, they will eat it up.
02:36:08.000And that would not be true in the alternative case.
02:36:12.000And what I mean by that is, had Kamala won, let's say for the sake of example, she would be bringing us to war in Iran as well, without a doubt.
02:40:11.000Oh, well, vote for the least bad option.
02:40:14.000If you do that every time, you're never going to get anything different.
02:40:20.000But if one time you say, I'm not going to vote for that, and then Kamala has the bad war with Iran, she has to cover up the Epstein files, whatever, then maybe it changes the outcome of what type of option you get on the right, what the offering will be in the next cycle.
02:40:41.000So all of this is to say, if you're voting for something that is against your interest, how does that take us to a place where we ever get what we want?
02:40:52.000If Trump is telling us we're going to war with Iran and we vote for this and we affirm this and we reward this, then what do you think we're going to get four years from then?
02:41:16.000And this is the game that we play every two years, every four years.
02:41:20.000By rewarding this, by incentivizing this, by affirming this, you're going to get more of it.
02:41:28.000And this is the issue that Trump creates.
02:41:30.000It's that the GOP, I said this the other night, they're sucking all the resources, support as the rallying point for opposition to the left or under Trump as the rallying point for populist opposition to the entire establishment.
02:41:48.000It is preventing any other option from coming to the fore.
02:41:53.000And in some ways, you could say it's actually re-entrenching the establishment because now that Trump is in office, now people support this stuff.
02:42:04.000If Kambala had won the election, let's say some things that we know to be true.
02:42:09.000No Republican would think it was a fair election.
02:42:12.000Actually, most Americans would say that Kamala has no legitimacy because she never even won a primary on the Democrat side.
02:42:23.000She would be stuck with the crisis in the Middle East, the crisis in Ukraine, an economic catastrophe.
02:42:39.000Now that Trump is in office and he's doing all these things, war in Iran, covering up the Epstein files, a lot of Republicans are going to support it.
02:42:47.000He's deeply unpopular with the majority of the country.
02:44:01.000We don't care if we build a wall or have mass deportations.
02:44:06.000The entire conceit of MAGA was to get a nation of people that were ready to revolt and get them back onto the plantation.
02:44:15.000A nation of people that were unreasonable, thought the elections were rigged, thought they were being screwed by free trade, mass immigration, foreign wars.
02:44:23.000They were ready to burn it all down and get them back onto the plantation being dutiful Republican voters and accepting all the compromises that came with that.
02:44:34.000And that's actually a perfect segue into our first story, which is about this editorial from the Wall Street Journal.
02:44:43.000And like I said, I'm reading the journal today.
02:44:45.000And for those that don't know, the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is a super Zionist and a spook.
02:44:53.000He got his citizenship from the Reagan administration, working with the intelligence agencies, building satellites, owner of Fox News, New York Post, friend of Netanyahu.
02:45:05.000And his paper, Wall Street Journal, is like the mouthpiece of the Chamber of Commerce, of the business interest.
02:45:11.000And there's a very interesting article today in the Wall Street Journal.
02:45:14.000It's an editorial, and it talks about the mass deportations.
02:45:19.000And like I said at the top of the show, there has been so much said about mass deportations from a cultural and political lens.
02:45:27.000When we think about immigration, what we really think about is a cultural social issue.
02:45:33.000We think about a largely white majority, an increasingly small white majority, that is frustrated with the influx of immigrants who have a different culture, speak a different language, have created this underclass lifestyle where they're dependent on welfare, where they never assimilate, and where they're actually changing the texture of life of most cities in America because of these ethnic enclaves they're creating.
02:46:23.000And what does it mean to be an immigrant?
02:46:25.000What's the difference between a settler and an economic migrant?
02:46:29.000These are the types of conversations that we have.
02:46:32.000And then there's also a political conversation.
02:46:34.000Well, they're all going to vote Democrat.
02:46:37.000And the Democrats want to amnesty them because they're a fixture of the Democrat machine politics.
02:46:43.000And people say the Democrats are the party of the marginalized and the racial and ethnic minorities and so on and so forth.
02:46:51.000And we've talked about these angles throughout the past year.
02:46:55.000We've talked about the pushback from the radical left, how they're fighting ICE.
02:47:00.000We've talked about how the Democrat Party shielded the immigrants.
02:47:04.000We have talked about how the Democrats are resisting this legislatively, how their allies in the media are putting the pressure on the administration, how Republicans don't like that the issue's in the media because of the midterms.
02:47:17.000But this is the angle which is actually the most important aspect.
02:47:22.000And it is also the one that is never talked about.
02:47:27.000Now, for context, two years ago, I predicted that mass deportations would not happen.
02:48:00.000It's about the ironclad logic of these kinds of factors here.
02:48:06.000The reason why is because two years ago, I said, during this election in 2024, what is the central determining factor of the success of the Democrats or the Republicans for that matter?
02:48:47.000That is one of the number one quantitative metrics to predict which party is going to win the election.
02:48:55.000Now, the Republicans are promising mass deportations.
02:48:59.000People are saying they're going to win the election because they're promising mass deportations.
02:49:04.000I said in 24, the reason you're not going to get mass deportations is because if you deport 10 million people, which is how many people came in under Joe Biden, what kind of impact do you think that will have on the economy?
02:49:25.000That is like if all the illegal immigrants in America, which is 30 million people, if all those people were removed, that would be like if Texas broke off from America and suddenly wasn't counted in the GDP, like Texas or Florida.
02:49:41.000If you deported even 10 million, that would be like if you took Chicago and its entire metropolitan area and you subtracted that from the U.S. economy, its GDP.
02:49:53.000What would that do to the GDP numbers?
02:49:56.000What would that do to the rest of the macroeconomic metrics?
02:50:02.000Well, let's say very simply, in the first place, you remove 10 million people, that is 10 million fewer consumers.
02:50:09.000That's 10 million fewer people that are spending money on clothes, on food, on gas, on cars, on energy, on rent, on healthcare, on education, all of these things.
02:50:34.00010 million people that are being employed under the table for low wages in construction, hospitality, food delivery, all these kinds of things that are now going to have to be replaced.
02:50:47.000Replaced by native-born workers that are going to want benefits, healthcare, minimum wage.
02:53:21.000And I think it's worth it, but some of it is.
02:53:24.000Some of the cost of the tariff is ultimately passed down.
02:53:28.000So that's already putting upward pressure on prices.
02:53:34.000Now you're going to deport 10 million people on top of that.
02:53:37.000Now you're going to deport 10 million consumers, 10 million workers, 10 million people that are employed under the table in some of these very important fields, agriculture, construction, food service, hospitality.
02:53:56.000Deporting 10 million people, which is so politically costly, logistically not feasible for the government, would be unprecedented in terms of the effort required to do it.
02:54:09.000And it's going to destroy the economy and they get wiped in the midterms and they get wiped in 28.
02:54:14.000Or is Trump going to gesture that he's doing deportations, performatively, target the criminals, of which there are only 700,000 criminal, illegal aliens, people that are already a drain on society, and say that they did mass deportations.
02:54:32.000And meanwhile, they don't fuck with the illegal immigrants that are actually working.
02:54:37.000They don't mess with those good illegals that have been here for 20 years, that are contributing to society, that are bolstering the profits of Wall Street.
02:54:57.000He says, well, we're only going after criminal illegals.
02:55:00.000And specifically, what have they done?
02:55:03.000They have made carve-outs for the illegals with jobs.
02:55:08.000When Trump passed the Big Beautiful Bill last year, him and Stephen Miller and Brooke Rollins at Agriculture were devising a plan to give hundreds of thousands of H-2A visas for illegal immigrants working on farms.
02:55:42.000We're going to give you a seasonal work visa to work on the farms.
02:55:45.000And they were going to give this big carve out and shield those people from deportation and effective amnesty.
02:55:53.000Now, in 2026, I hear word from the administration from inside that they are not going to do job site raids for companies with more than 50 employees.
02:56:06.000When Trump went into a Hyundai factory in Georgia and they deported 300 South Koreans, Trump himself called the governor and apologized and said he wouldn't do it again.
02:56:18.000They're making carve-outs for illegal aliens.
02:57:20.000And if we don't have enough white workers, let's bring in Mexican workers.
02:57:24.000Oh, not enough Mexican workers or they're too stupid?
02:57:28.000More Chinese workers, more African workers, more refugees.
02:57:34.000And we're all going to live together increasing aggregate demand, buying products forever.
02:57:41.000You know, then we're going to go to the moon and we're going to go to Mars.
02:57:45.000Hopefully we can colonize the stars so that we can increase aggregate demand even more.
02:57:52.000I imagine a scenario where we encounter extraterrestrial life and they can also consume products and contribute to the gross domestic product.
02:58:02.000We can only hope that we can actually expand, put people on other planetary bodies.
02:58:08.000There will be more production, consumption, and demand.
02:59:05.000The U.S. was already slowly approaching zero labor force growth as fertility fell and the population aged.
02:59:12.000So this is an economic problem, right?
02:59:17.000People aren't getting married and having kids.
02:59:20.000And my first concern is, well, you know, who's going to man the factories?
02:59:25.000Man, I think about the travesty of men and women being alienated from one another, not pair bonding, not entering the sacrament of marriage and having children.
02:59:37.000Our society is dying because it's devoid of love and connection and ultimately tradition and holiness.
02:59:45.000Yeah, but like, so who's going to man the factories?
02:59:49.000If men and women aren't getting married and having lots of kids and we don't have a ton of kids, I mean, so who's going to make the stuff?
02:59:58.000Like, who's going to be insurance agents?
03:00:11.000It says what kept the country from this demographic disaster was immigration.
03:00:16.000The 3,000 person per day arrest quota for immigration enforcement looks like an act of economic self-sabotage.
03:00:24.000In other words, we're not having kids to man the factories.
03:00:28.000We need immigrants to make up the difference.
03:00:30.000If you start deporting illegals, we're sabotaging this plan.
03:00:35.000It says, which is, you know, sort of the point, actually.
03:00:38.000Research from the Center for Migration Studies finds that the undocumented workforce in the United States is large and overwhelmingly employed across key sectors of the economy.
03:00:49.000Many of the 675,000 immigrants deported last year, that's a fake number, by the way, were working to build data centers, manufacturing plants, energy infrastructure, and housing.
03:01:03.000Who will take their place when the U.S. has 6 million unfilled jobs?
03:01:09.000Who will build the data centers, guys?
03:01:12.000You thought we were going to deport 30 million illegals, but wait, who's going to build the data centers so that we can have more chat GPT prompts?
03:01:21.000Who's going to build the houses for all the illegal immigrants without the illegal immigrants?
03:01:43.000Deportations impose costs on citizens too.
03:01:47.000The Peterson Institute for International Economics projected in 2024 that deporting 1.3 million workers could raise consumer prices by 1.5% within three years as labor shortages worsen.
03:02:02.000Deportations lead to the loss of jobs for citizens, according to the Hamilton Project.
03:02:31.000As a businessman, a taxpayer, and an American with roots in this country that go back 400 years, I want to see us keep growing as we have for the past 250 years.
03:02:41.000I believe the vast majority of Americans feel the same way.
03:02:45.000The question we need to ask is: what is the ROI on our investment in ICE ICE?
03:02:53.000This is the part that nobody wants to talk about.
03:04:20.000The Chamber of Commerce representing the business interests.
03:04:25.000Because they on Wall Street are measuring the macroeconomic trends.
03:04:30.000They are measuring the collapsing fertility rate.
03:04:33.000They are measuring the trend in terms of population growth and the future workforce and the size of people which will be beneficiaries of the government, retirees, dependents, as opposed to productive people.
03:04:47.000And so they lobbied for us to accept more Hispanics, more Asians to do these jobs that Americans could not do because there's not enough of us, because we're not being born.
03:05:00.000And this is why then the propaganda was created.
03:05:04.000There's all sorts of political interest behind it as well, but this is just the narrative that serves as the pretext.
03:05:11.000America's going to become a big and welcoming country, and we are a nation of immigrants, and the American dream is for everybody, and the blessings of liberty were secured not just for white men, but for people from anywhere.
03:05:29.000So that white people would get comfortable with their replacements.
03:05:34.000White people would get comfortable with the economic migrants pouring in from the countries that still have a high fertility rate, who are going to replace the children that white people never had and were not going to have.
03:05:47.000And what is the incentive to bring these people in?
03:06:12.000You got to pay for your capital, your machinery, your equipment.
03:06:16.000But probably your biggest cost is your labor.
03:06:19.000It's the people that are working there.
03:06:21.000If you're running a farm, it's the people that are picking the grapes, picking the berries.
03:06:27.000If you're running a hotel, it's the people that are turning over the rooms, turning over the beds and the bathrooms.
03:06:33.000If you're a construction company, it's the people that are hammering the nails that are doing the work.
03:06:39.000So they want immigrants to come over here and work as cheaply as possible.
03:06:44.000Immigrants that are going to come here, and because they are not actually citizens, or in some cases they are, but there's another way in which the workers are dependent on their employers, like in the case of H-1Bs, they want people that are going to come over and, in a word, accept a lower quality of life, lower wages, becoming an underclass, dependent on government to subsidize their lifestyle with some small wages.
03:07:11.000And if you could get that cost down with a constantly increasing supply of labor and people that are working basically without regulation, you keep that cost as low as possible.
03:07:23.000And that means your profits can go up.
03:07:25.000If the cost goes down, the profits go up.
03:07:36.000And so Wall Street, which buys and sells the companies and the companies, which are becoming conglomerates and highly centralized, well, it is in their economic interest to have this endless supply of labor as a distinct class.
03:07:50.000The people that own the businesses, whether they're running the businesses themselves or they just own the stocks or they're the asset managers, they want to keep the supply of labor flowing so that profits go up, so that their assets appreciate in value and they get richer.
03:08:25.000The Republican Party subsists on donations and funding from the billionaire business class, but they subsist on votes from the middle and working class.
03:08:41.000They get their votes from states like West Virginia, where they're coal miners, states like Texas, where they're cattle ranchers, states like Indiana, where they used to make things, where they used to be factories, but they get their funding from Wall Street.
03:08:56.000So how do you reconcile these two positions?
03:08:59.000Because these are economically at odds with one another.
03:09:06.000And Trump is going to play up the cultural social angle and even the economic angle for the voters and say, build the wall, deport them all.
03:11:49.000Americans need to be trained up because they've been excluded from this job market for 30 years because a decision was made that they would be replaced by foreigners because that's cheaper.
03:12:02.000So Trump called up Stephen Miller and said, we got to stop.
03:12:05.000We're going to give H-2A visas, H-1A visas to the illegal farm workers.
03:12:13.000He said, we're not going to deport people from job sites.
03:12:16.000We're not going to go to a job site with more than 50 workers.
03:12:19.000We're not going to implement E-Verify.
03:12:22.000Instead, we're going to have these visible patrols of ICE, right?
03:12:27.000We're going to have ICE just walking down the street, border patrol parading around downtown Chicago so that all these liberals can take their pictures and go on TikTok and Republicans will say, oh boy, the deportations are happening.
03:12:42.000Look, there they are in uniform parading around the streets.
03:17:25.000They're literally building skyscrapers for their bank, which is dependent on the macroeconomic success of the country.
03:17:34.000That has very little to do with how you feel about the fact they put a Mexican ice cream parlor in your neighborhood, you know?
03:17:41.000So it is just a flawed way of thinking to think that these people that write substack articles have more power and more influence over the Trump government than the fucking billionaires that gave Trump hundreds of millions of dollars.
03:17:59.000You're following some 35-year-old burnout that makes 40 grand a month posting articles on chronicles and a substack telling you everything's under control.
03:18:21.000So this is why you actually need an insurgent candidate that is truly disruptive.
03:18:26.000You need someone that is going to take on the billionaires.
03:18:29.000You need someone that is going to take on the money power.
03:18:32.000As Spengler wrote, you need a true Caesar-like figure who is going to rally the popular power, the people power, the national power against the money power.
03:19:03.000Anyway, so that's that Wall Street Journal editorial.
03:19:06.000Very, very important point to understand for anybody that would place their hopes and dreams and aspirations on the next Republican being based.
03:19:47.000Do you think it's because they got red pilled?
03:19:50.000Why do you think the United States is shutting down its borders?
03:19:52.000Why do you think the United Kingdom is going to try to control regular migration?
03:19:56.000Is it because they had an epiphany and the people have had enough and they got based?
03:20:02.000It's because we are just now starting to see technological unemployment.
03:20:08.000We are just now starting to see the disruption to the labor market caused by AI.
03:20:14.000Soon, we're going to have a very similar effect with robotics.
03:20:18.000And what do you think happens when AI and robots start replacing all the white-collar and blue-collar work?
03:20:25.000You're going to have a lot of unemployed people.
03:20:27.000What are you going to do with all of them?
03:20:29.000Now, all of those producers and workers who are also consumers, as this article says, they're now going to become beneficiaries of the state.
03:21:59.000So it just speaks to the fact that that is what drives everything.
03:22:03.000And ultimately, that is what we have to get in front of if we want to have real change.
03:22:08.000So anyway, that's the Wall Street Journal.
03:22:11.000I do want to get into the situation in Iran.
03:22:16.000And we're running out of time here a little bit.
03:22:17.000We're an hour in, but I'm going to talk about Iran because this is a really big deal.
03:22:22.000We are into our coverage of the imminent action in Iran.
03:22:27.000And today we have another update for you.
03:22:31.000The buildup of military force continues.
03:22:34.000Second aircraft carrier strike group has entered the Mediterranean Sea as of today.
03:22:41.000That is the USS Gerald Ford, our biggest, most advanced aircraft carrier, which is joined by three destroyers, has entered the Mediterranean Sea and is on its way to the Middle East, where it will join another carrier strike group, the USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as a number of other warships, aircraft, personnel that have been forward-deployed.
03:23:06.000That aircraft carrier, once in place, will put the United States in a position as soon as Saturday to launch an all-out attack on Iran.
03:23:16.000This is according to the latest information from Axios and other sources close to the administration.
03:23:24.000They say that as early as Saturday, we will be in a position, offensively and defensively, to start the attack on Iran.
03:23:33.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
03:23:35.000It says, quote, the rapid buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East has progressed to the point that President Trump has the option to take military action against Iran as soon as this weekend, according to officials inside the Pentagon, leaving the White House with high-stakes choices about pursuing diplomacy or war.
03:23:55.000Mr. Trump has given no indication that he has made a decision about how to proceed, but the drive to assemble a military force capable of striking Iran's nuclear program, its ballistic missiles, and accompanying launch sites, has continued this week, despite indirect talks between the two nations on Tuesday, with Iran seeking two weeks to come back with fleshed-out proposals for a diplomatic solution.
03:24:19.000Mr. Trump has repeatedly demanded that Iran give up its nuclear program, including an agreement not to enrich any more uranium.
03:24:27.000The prime minister of Israel, whose country potentially might take part in an attack, has been pushing for action to weaken Iran's ability to launch missiles at Israel.
03:24:37.000Israeli forces, which have been on heightened alert for weeks, have been making more preparations for a possible war.
03:24:44.000And a meeting of Israel's security cabinet was moved to Sunday from Thursday, according to two Israeli defense officials.
03:24:51.000Many administration officials have expressed skepticism about the prospect of reaching a diplomatic deal with Tehran.
03:24:57.000The indirect talks on Tuesday in Geneva yesterday ended with what Iran's foreign minister said was an agreement on a set of guiding principles.
03:25:06.000The U.S. said the two sides made progress, but added that big gaps remain.
03:25:28.000I mean, really, it goes back much further than that.
03:25:31.000But in the second Trump administration, it started last year.
03:25:35.000As soon as Trump got into office, Netanyahu started coming by asking us to bomb Iran's nuclear program, which we then did.
03:25:43.000We engaged Iran in negotiations, came to an impasse, and then Israel provoked Iran into a war, and the United States intervened to cripple Iran's nuclear complex by bombing Fordo, Esfahan, and Natans.
03:25:58.000And so we resolved the issue temporarily.
03:26:03.000And we resolved the issue temporarily by increasing Iran's breakout time.
03:27:05.000Now, after Netanyahu came to visit the United States in December, these protests mysteriously started out of nowhere in Iran, and they threatened to topple the government.
03:27:16.000The United States was going to intervene, maybe to push over the regime.
03:27:20.000But we didn't have enough assets in the region.
03:27:32.000But at the same time that he called off the strike, he started sending in a huge force package to remedy the situation.
03:27:40.000So Trump started sending in a ton of warships into the Middle East and a ton of missile defense systems and started moving our forces out of harm's way and started moving in aircraft and cargo ships and refueling aircraft and all kinds of assets to prepare for a possible attack on Iran and to defend against a counterattack from Iran.
03:28:03.000And a couple weeks ago, Trump gave them an ultimatum and he said, either you are going to fully surrender and capitulate to our demands or we are going to destroy your regime.
03:28:14.000And since then, the United States has been engaged in diplomacy with Iran.
03:28:20.000I say diplomacy because that's not really what it is.
03:28:23.000They've opened up indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran.
03:28:28.000And this was done at the behest of our other Muslim allies.
03:28:32.000Only after an intense lobbying effort from Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, the Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, did the United States relent and they gave Iran one last chance to make a deal.
03:28:46.000Now, this is a very important thing to understand, okay?
03:28:49.000A lot has been said about these talks.
03:29:26.000Last year, arguably, the United States was negotiating.
03:29:31.000And Steve Witkoff and some of the other personnel were looking for a creative solution where Iran is going to give some concessions and maybe we would accept some technical concessions.
03:30:23.000We're not going to change our position.
03:30:25.000What was expressed in Oman last week and what was expressed in Switzerland yesterday was not a willingness to negotiate, but rather we are giving Iran a chance to capitulate to our demands.
03:30:58.000Now we're going to meet in the middle.
03:31:00.000Now we're going to work something out.
03:31:02.000The White House, the press secretary, the Secretary of State, the envoy, the president, the vice president, they have all said, our position is you're giving up enrichment or you're going to die.
03:32:35.000Well, like I said on Telegram and like I've been saying, the United States and Israel perceive Iran as weaker than ever before.
03:32:43.000And so now we're engaging them in this gunboat diplomacy where we put an armada off their coast, point the guns at them and say, surrender or else.
03:32:53.000And like I said, people are calling these negotiations, it isn't what it is.
03:32:58.000From the perspective of our side, we are in a position either to extract all the concessions we want, or we're going to do a regime change, or we're going to bomb them.
03:33:09.000And then whatever is remaining is going to make a deal.
03:35:09.000Now, if the United States is giving Iran an ultimatum, then you have to think about, well, if they're not going to change their mind, will Iran?
03:37:11.000Well, let's talk about what the strike looks like.
03:37:13.000It's helpful to consider the actual forces that are assembled.
03:37:17.000So this is from the Wall Street Journal.
03:37:19.000It talks about the size of the presence that has been assembled.
03:37:23.000It says, quote, the U.S. is sending significant numbers of jet fighters and support aircraft to the Middle East, assembling the greatest amount of airpower in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
03:37:36.000The U.S. is ready to take action against Iran, but President Trump hasn't decided whether to order strikes and whether the aim would be to halt Iran's nuclear program, wipe out its missiles, or to topple the regime.
03:37:52.000Will he strike and what's his end game?
03:37:56.000Like we talked about, I think it's a certainty that he will strike.
03:38:00.000Over the past few days, the U.S. has continued to move F-35 and F-22 jet fighters toward the Middle East.
03:38:06.000A second aircraft carrier loaded with attack and electronic warfare planes is on the way.
03:38:11.000Command and control aircraft are inbound and critical air defenses have been deployed to the region in recent weeks.
03:38:18.000The firepower will give the U.S. the option of carrying out a sustained weeks-long air war against Iran instead of the one-and-done midnight hammer strike that was carried out last June.
03:38:30.000Options include a campaign to kill scores of Iranian political and military leaders with the goal of overthrowing the government, as well as an air attack that would be limited to striking targets, including nuclear and ballistic missile facilities.
03:38:44.000Both would involve a potentially weeks-long operation.
03:38:49.000As formidable as the buildup appears, however, it is just a fraction of the assets that were deployed for the 1991 Gulf War or the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
03:39:00.000For the former, the U.S. deployed six aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.
03:39:05.000And for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, the U.S. Air Force positioned 863 aircraft in the Middle East.
03:39:14.000Desert Storm in 1991 included 1,300 aircraft.
03:39:19.000So the reason that it's important to consider the size and the scope of the force is because it tells you what they're planning.
03:39:27.000In 1990, when we invaded Iraq, we had 1,300 aircraft, six aircraft carriers.
03:40:18.000If you want to topple the Iranian regime, you can't just defeat them with air power.
03:40:23.000You're going to need a ground force to go in and actually kill all their soldiers.
03:40:28.000You're going to need a lot of soldiers on the ground to go and actually secure the cities and the infrastructure and kill the personnel and gain control over the country.
03:40:40.000If you don't do that, well, then there's still going to be a million Iranian armed forces and revolutionary guard tomorrow or a week after your air campaign and there's still going to be a chain of command.
03:40:52.000So you actually do need a ground force to have some replacement government to actually have regime change.
03:40:59.000If that's not in place, then it doesn't look like they're going to pursue a ground war or a regime change war.
03:41:08.000If it's not going to be Desert Storm, if it's not going to be Iraqi freedom, what is it going to look like?
03:41:14.000Well, this looks like the force package that was assembled in April 2024 and July 2024 when the United States was there to simply deter Iran from going all out against Israel.
03:42:25.000Is it going to be an air campaign to destroy Iran's nuclear complex and missiles?
03:42:31.000Is it to destroy what is left of their nuclear program and to prevent them from making additional missiles and launching missiles at Israel so that the country has a degraded defensive capability?
03:42:44.000Or is the goal here to kill all of Iran's leaders?
03:42:49.000Because that could be the purpose, to go and bomb heavily fortified facilities where Iran's military and civilian leadership are hiding out.
03:42:59.000In the former scenario, we are making Iran weak and vulnerable, potentially for future negotiations.
03:43:05.000You destroy their missiles, you destroy their nuclear program, and then you can basically impose regime change on them.
03:43:13.000And really, there's no reason to negotiate with Iran at that point.
03:44:36.000It was using a limited amount of power, using a limited amount of, you could say, smart power, hard power, but employed in a limited and restrained and smart way to decapitate part of the regime.
03:44:50.000You could call it a partial decapitation, not even necessarily a regime change.
03:44:55.000I like the word decapitation because the regime did not actually change at all.
03:45:00.000Same security apparatus, same political apparatus.
03:46:33.000Maybe that's what it looks like at this point in time.
03:46:37.000And the reason I say that is because if you don't have a ground force, slash, if you don't have popular opposition on the ground, which is armed and trained, like in Syria, and they were al-Qaeda, but whatever, if you don't have some form of a ground force, if you don't have an alternative regime to take the place of the existing regime, then you can't do regime change.
03:47:05.000But if you don't have ground forces, if you don't have someone with legitimacy, with an organization that's ready to step up, the regime will not change.
03:47:16.000You're just going to kick the can down the road until the next time you got to bomb them after they've rebuilt their defenses.
03:47:23.000So if these things are not in place, then that leads me to believe it's not a real regime change.
03:47:29.000You're not going to topple the regime with a week of bombing.
03:48:18.000They don't want to be fighting a war in Iran in November.
03:48:21.000They don't want to be fighting a war in Iran where oil prices get jacked up because the Strait of Hormuz closes, where Americans are getting blown to smithereens in Aludaid and elsewhere.
03:48:34.000They don't want it to go on for a long period of time.
03:48:36.000They want it to be quick, painless, and they want to succeed.
03:49:43.000We don't know who's going to die, who's going to be killed, who will be remaining, and how their psychology will change after seeing what we're capable of.
03:49:52.000But I think that is going to be the approach.
03:49:56.000And I think it's going to happen within a matter of weeks.
03:50:00.000I don't think that the United States intends to be hanging out there with all of this force in the region indefinitely.
03:50:07.000I don't think they want to do this later.
03:50:10.000I think they want to get it done as quickly and as soon as possible for contingency's sake and for other reasons.
03:50:17.000So I think we're going to get within two to four weeks, you're going to get a major air campaign.
03:50:28.000And I think it's going to target some element of the regime, probably specifically the Ayatollah, because ultimately, he is holding up the deal.
03:51:10.000If I were to forecast it, and this stuff is never precise, but if I were to forecast it, that is my best guess based on what we have in the region.
03:51:22.000But given the two positions, what's being said by the White House, what's being said by Iran, what either side is willing to accept, the amount of force there, that's not too big, but it's not small either.
03:51:36.000Midterm election, the timeline, political constraints.
03:51:39.000I think you take all that information together, and that's about as good of a picture as you're going to get about what this is going to be.
03:53:11.000Rolling back the proxy network systematically, destroying Iran's strategic weapons, its missiles and nukes, and then cutting off the head of the snake.
03:53:21.000And once you have a favorable regime in Iran, Israel has hegemony over the Middle East because they're the only nuclear power.
03:53:29.000They have a qualitative military edge guaranteed by the United States.
03:53:34.000And all the countries there will be under the suzerainty of the United States.
03:54:15.000And so is it more crazy that the U.S. will go to war with Iran for regime change, or is it more crazy that Israel gives up short of their grand prize?
03:58:44.000And I really resent this like small town America thing where we're deluding ourselves and saying we're just like an ice cream parlor and a post office and a town hall with a little American flag and we're just the Boy Scouts.
03:59:00.000Okay, but we're signing up for the military to go on aircraft carriers, of which we have 10 in a global war against communism.
03:59:10.000And, you know, we're making a billion bombers and tanks and we have colonies, bro.
04:01:00.000Might be my lingering Ben Shapiro that is talking.
04:01:02.000But why is no one in the admin underlining the fact that Trump's ICE is much more efficient than Obama's?
04:01:05.000Obama had 3.4x more mistake arrests per 1,000, one death per 14K detainees, Trump 1 slash 19K, and more citizens mistake than they deported.
04:01:11.000ICE was performing well despite all the unrest.
04:03:11.000I've tried sounding it out. Sydney Watson until today, because I could just feel from seeing her stupid face in the thumbnail that it would go exactly the way it went.
04:03:16.000After all the nagging and interruptions, how did you not punch this fucking bitch in the mouth?
04:03:25.000Beth Murray said in $77 sent $20 diplomatically and with respect to your voice as a real Catholic would mean so much to the issue of Carrie Prejean Boiler and free speech.
04:09:28.000But legitimately, that's why I'm not all over that one.
04:09:33.000Because I think, in my opinion, that is just part of this genre of slop where people are, it's like, there's a lot of stuff that matters in this country with organized Jewry.
04:09:44.000And some of these things are just the downstream effects.
04:23:19.000I mean, he has this theory that the races were created because of this, like, I don't know, there's like other people in the beginning of the genealogy that we have to infer the existence of.
04:23:34.000And I don't, here's the thing: like, I don't need to go back to the book.
04:23:39.000Like, there's clearly black people and white people.
04:27:37.000I already liked the stream from a few months ago when you covered how orgs like the NCRI function helped uncover depths of what government acquisition of data to circumvent the 4-A plus Palantir plus Elon Equals.
04:37:18.000If your announcement were trying to send a missile strike of some sort on the U.S., where do you think the most likely spot they would target?
04:37:22.000One of our bases or a city of some sort?
04:42:36.000I ride with my Wag AF, Sniff Vuetes, Clifficular, Sean Strickland, Bryce Mitchell, James Fishback, Casey Puss, Yay, and the millions more in attendance.
04:43:47.000You think Jesus was in a suit and tie?
04:43:49.000It's like, no, but as a Muslim, you believe the Quran is in Arabic.
04:43:54.000You believe that Arabic is like a holy language.
04:43:57.000And it's not like that in Christianity.
04:44:01.000We don't have anything comparable to the Quran in the sense that the Quran is co-eternal with God and Islam, which is in itself a contradiction.
04:44:10.000And they believe that it is a transliteration from Allah's speech.
04:44:15.000We don't believe that about the Bible.
04:44:17.000We believe the Bible is divinely inspired.
04:44:20.000We don't believe it is the actual direct literal word of God in the sense that God spoke it.
04:44:57.000And, you know, so there's this idea that there's God and then there's the Word of God.
04:45:02.000And the Word of God and God are co-equal.
04:45:06.000They're both God, distinct, but the same.
04:45:11.000And Muslims kind of have something similar in the sense that they've got the Quran, which, I mean, they wouldn't say it's the word of God, but they would say it is eternal with God.
04:47:10.000I don't think it'll be a lot of people.
04:47:12.000You know, if it's going to be what we talked about, which is a series of airstrikes, I don't think more than 2,000 people are going to die.
04:50:53.000Maybe don't, but any chance the protracted Russia-slash-Ukraine conflict is related to making it more difficult for Russia to support Iran during the current tensions?
04:53:27.000thank you for the money $20 your most underrated candace bit was the one where you said if you run into candace in a dark cali and all you see are her teeth and eyes lol the visual is hilarious that's just like the most basic Say, Leecha sent $20.
04:53:37.000Any Texans in the chat, please vote for Doc Pete Chambers in the primary and get that fake out of office.
04:54:54.000Yeah, it's next to the city hall, which is in the middle of the downtown business district, which is in the middle of the historic district of all the old architecture, which is inside the southwestern suburbs, which is huge.