Fresh & Fit - BREAKING: Iran & United States Trade Strikes! Ft. Nick Fuentes

00:17:57.000 All right.

00:17:57.000 What's up, guys?

00:17:58.000 Welcome, welcome, welcome.

00:17:59.000 I'm back with Nick, man.

00:18:01.000 So, you got the thing with Nick and Finch podcast.

00:18:04.000 I like that.

00:18:05.000 Yeah.

00:18:06.000 So, obviously, lots of news going on today.

00:18:09.000 It looks like we're back in the war in the Middle East.

00:18:13.000 I mean, what are your thoughts on this in general, man?

00:18:16.000 It's insane, huh?

00:18:17.000 Yeah.

00:18:17.000 It's so predictable.

00:18:18.000 I remember when they did the MOU, we talked about it even yesterday.

00:18:22.000 Everybody was celebrating, saying, Oh, the war's over.

00:18:24.000 Everything's back to normal.

00:18:25.000 And I remember the same night saying, It's not over by a long shot.

00:18:28.000 You know, I mean, we hadn't seen it when they first put it out, but.

00:18:31.000 It's like, unless the U.S. and Iran have just completely changed fundamentally how the state is constituted, then you're still not going to get a deal.

00:18:40.000 And so it's blowing up literally on every single front.

00:18:44.000 Every one of the issues is now blown up.

00:18:47.000 No pun intended.

00:18:47.000 The Strait of Hormuz, Lebanon, and nuclear file all are over now.

00:18:51.000 So, you know, the first ceasefire was bullshit. 1.00

00:18:54.000 This was bullshit. 0.99

00:18:55.000 And now we're entering just like phase two of what we were in before, which is technically a ceasefire, but we're still in a state of war. 0.99

00:19:02.000 Yeah, and you know, the crazy part is, is like, you know, this all started to unravel. 0.67

00:19:07.000 I hate to blame Israel, but like, it really is like they were the first ones to, like, that once that started unraveling, that's what, you know, opened the door for them to start bombing each other again. 0.83

00:19:16.000 And then now we're here where we are. 0.72

00:19:18.000 And, you know, it's kind of interesting because I think, I know you had mentioned this, I had mentioned it.

00:19:23.000 Like, it's almost as if, like, because people say all the time, well, why is Iran so dead set on making sure that this conflict in Lebanon ends, right? 0.82

00:19:32.000 Like, why not just focus on Iran and everything else like that?

00:19:35.000 But I think there's two reasons. 0.96

00:19:36.000 One, obviously, is because Hezbollah is their most capable fighting force, right?

00:19:41.000 They're the ones that have the most experience fighting the IDF on the ground, right? 0.95

00:19:44.000 And they've been able to repel them a couple of times. 0.96

00:19:46.000 And then, number two, and I heard you say this, I was like, that's actually very true. 0.78

00:19:50.000 It almost forces a wedge between the United States and Israel to kind of expose, honestly, how little power we have. 0.79

00:19:59.000 What are your general thoughts on that? 0.79

00:20:00.000 Because when you made that mention, I was like, this is actually really good because it shows a huge weakness that we have in foreign policy that we really can't reel these guys in.

00:20:09.000 As much as Trump might have this tough rhetoric of like, they'll listen to me and all this other shit, it's not true. 0.51

00:20:15.000 Well, there's a few things. 0.96

00:20:15.000 Right. 0.96

00:20:16.000 I would say that, you know, because the question is why would Iran insist upon ceasefire in Lebanon as a condition for the ceasefire?

00:20:24.000 And you could say first that, like you said, Hezbollah is a very powerful, it's really a part of their strategic deterrence against Israel.

00:20:31.000 There's three things Iran uses to deter Israeli aggression, and that's the nuclear hedge, it's the ballistic missiles, and it's the proxies, because all of those function as a second strike.

00:20:42.000 If Israel strikes Iran such that the regime is decapitated or it decimates Iran, there's three ways that Iran could then retaliate to ensure that Israel would never do a first strike. 0.62

00:20:52.000 And that's that Iran might then nuke them. 0.55

00:20:55.000 Two, that Iran would send thousands of ballistic missiles, overwhelm air defenses, and destroy Israel with the conventional arsenal. 0.85

00:21:02.000 And then the third is even if Iran was completely decimated, no missiles, no nukes, then Hezbollah could always finish the job. 0.85

00:21:08.000 They could launch their 150,000 rockets. 0.94

00:21:11.000 Now it's a much smaller arsenal, but they'd launch them all at once.

00:21:14.000 Israel would be decimated that way too.

00:21:15.000 So, it's all part of their arsenal. 0.97

00:21:16.000 So, you could say, one, Iran really needs Hezbollah to be protected as a check on Israel. 0.86

00:21:22.000 Two, you could say, and I think this is interesting also, does Iran want a ceasefire? 0.65

00:21:28.000 I don't even think Iran needs or wants a ceasefire.

00:21:30.000 They actually, it's in their interest for the war to go on longer because the longer that the war goes on, it is an economic catastrophe for the United States.

00:21:38.000 And the more painful economically it is for the U.S., it does two things.

00:21:43.000 One, it prevents the U.S. from continuing the war and more likely that they'll want to withdraw.

00:21:48.000 But, two, it prevents the U.S. from continuing the war and more likely that they'll want to withdraw.

00:21:51.000 Conflict, it deters a future conflict because, especially for the U.S. consumer and voter, but also for the whole world, if the U.S. ever feels like invading Israel or, excuse me, invading Iran ever again, everyone is going to say, oh, and we're going to cause another global depression like the last time. 0.75

00:22:07.000 So it benefits Iran actually for this to really hurt the United States. 0.71

00:22:12.000 And that's how they strategically defeat us the economics. 0.87

00:22:15.000 But like you said, I think there's maybe another, there's maybe a more subtle play, which is if you condition the ceasefire, or rather, if you condition The opening of the strait on a ceasefire in Lebanon, you pit those two interests against each other because these are imperatives. 0.91

00:22:30.000 It's imperative for Israel's grand strategy, their entire playbook, to occupy Lebanon. 0.73

00:22:37.000 They can't not do it. 0.78

00:22:38.000 It's imperative for them.

00:22:40.000 It is imperative for the United States to open up the strait. 0.70

00:22:42.000 Can't not do it because if we don't have the strait, then we don't have oil.

00:22:46.000 We don't have oil.

00:22:47.000 You don't have an economy.

00:22:49.000 You don't have cheap lending.

00:22:51.000 The whole AI house of cards collapses.

00:22:54.000 People don't even realize.

00:22:55.000 How much closing the straight affects our economy because our entire economy is being driven now by AI.

00:23:01.000 It's those AI companies and the companies that fund AI or furnish AI with the compute, with the chips.

00:23:08.000 That's all of our economic growth.

00:23:10.000 It's all being driven by the AI companies, the chip companies, and companies like Google and Microsoft.

00:23:16.000 That's driving all of it.

00:23:17.000 They're driving the real estate.

00:23:19.000 There's not even any commercial building anymore, it's all data centers.

00:23:22.000 So, and AI is run on cheap electricity.

00:23:26.000 You need cheap energy to have cheap electricity so that it's economical to have all this AI.

00:23:26.000 Yeah.

00:23:31.000 So, if you don't have cheap electricity, it's no longer economical or profitable to build the data centers.

00:23:36.000 So, they've actually stopped 50% of all currently in progress and planned data centers.

00:23:41.000 Oh, wow.

00:23:42.000 Because the cost of energy is going up.

00:23:43.000 Gotcha.

00:23:44.000 So, it acutely affects the source of our economic growth, which is because AI is all about electricity.

00:23:50.000 It's all just getting as much energy as possible.

00:23:52.000 And that's exactly what we're in an energy shortage.

00:23:55.000 But then also, you also realize that these AI companies are all financed by borrowing.

00:24:00.000 They're borrowing tons of money to finance the data centers on this hope that AI is going to transform the economy fundamentally.

00:24:07.000 Well, if the money is no longer cheap to borrow, then all these companies go down.

00:24:12.000 That's why Trump wants to slash rates so badly.

00:24:13.000 Exactly, because there's no profits.

00:24:15.000 You know, the AI companies, ChatGPT, Claude, Google, like they don't make money.

00:24:20.000 They don't make enough money to make up for all these investments.

00:24:23.000 So, what's going to happen is when the cost of energy goes up, it causes inflation everywhere else.

00:24:28.000 When inflation goes up, they need to raise rates.

00:24:31.000 To slow down and cool off the economy.

00:24:32.000 You raise interest rates, you make borrowing more expensive.

00:24:35.000 Now it's impossible for this speculative AI bubble to keep growing.

00:24:40.000 So it's not even a conventional energy shock that leads to a recession, which is what always happens in 73, in the 90s.

00:24:47.000 In 2008, energy shock leads to a contraction.

00:24:51.000 This is really hitting us where it hurts, which is the source of all the GDP growth.

00:24:55.000 It's the AI boom in particular, which is all based on speculation and, again, getting as much energy as possible.

00:25:02.000 So Point being, we have to open up the strait.

00:25:05.000 We need the energy.

00:25:06.000 And so by pitting these two imperatives against each other, it breaks up the coalition because people don't realize it's not the.

00:25:12.000 I think they strategically did it, honestly. 0.96

00:25:15.000 I think Iran was like, you know what? 0.95

00:25:16.000 Let's prove to the world that the United States cannot control Israel and these guys are a rogue state. 0.86

00:25:22.000 I think it's less that, like red pilling the world, and more causing just a breakdown in the solidarity because it is a coalition war. 0.88

00:25:30.000 People don't realize it's not the U.S. versus Iran, it's really a four way thing. 0.64

00:25:36.000 It's the US, Israel, and the GCC.

00:25:38.000 And even within the GCC, there's tension between Qatar and the rest of them, between the UAE and Saudi, especially lately.

00:25:45.000 So it's this huge coalition going against Iran that Iran now wants to break apart and sow division.

00:25:50.000 And this is where Iran is like cutting side deals with Qatar. 0.70

00:25:52.000 Yeah.

00:25:53.000 They told Qatar, if you don't help the United States carry out strikes, and moreover, if you stop producing LNG, we won't hit you anymore.

00:26:01.000 Because if we don't hit you, then you don't have to like rebuild your infrastructure.

00:26:06.000 And if you don't produce LNG, it puts more pressure on the United States.

00:26:10.000 I don't think people understand like how badly Qatar got hit.

00:26:13.000 Like, I think in March, Iran bombed LNG, which for those that don't know, that's 20% of the world's gas right there.

00:26:20.000 And that was built up.

00:26:21.000 To kind of circumvent Russia's influence on gas.

00:26:24.000 So the fact that they destroyed that gas inevitably forced everybody to go back to Putin and say, oh, can we get the cheap gas again from Russia?

00:26:31.000 And he was able to bring the prices up, and now they're making money handover fizz, especially with the oil, too.

00:26:36.000 And they said that that's going to be out of commission if we stop the war now for at least a year.

00:26:40.000 Right.

00:26:41.000 Even if we stopped it.

00:26:42.000 Exactly. 0.76

00:26:43.000 So Iran is breaking apart that coalition.

00:26:46.000 And what's more, Israel is really the one that's out for regime change. 0.81

00:26:50.000 And I always say this on my show you need to understand.

00:26:53.000 The fundamental strategic interest that is driving every country involved.

00:26:58.000 Because for the U.S. and Israel, it's similar but not identical.

00:27:01.000 Israel is pursuing regime change. 0.50

00:27:03.000 That's what they want in particular.

00:27:05.000 That's the ultimate goal they don't want a revolutionary Islamist, Shiite, 12 or theocracy running Iran. 0.64

00:27:11.000 That's got to go.

00:27:12.000 They don't want normalization.

00:27:13.000 They don't want peace.

00:27:14.000 They want the regime out.

00:27:16.000 The U.S. does not care.

00:27:18.000 They would prefer it's a different regime, but they're ambivalent.

00:27:21.000 What they really care about is non proliferation of nuclear weapons.

00:27:24.000 If we could get no nukes or no enrichment, but keep the Iranian regime, we'd take that deal. 0.90

00:27:30.000 And so, what Iran is doing is they're driving a wedge between the U.S. and Israel on the conflict, Lebanon versus the Strait, but also even on that nuclear issue. 0.95

00:27:39.000 And if they can divide up the U.S. and Israel, Israel can't do regime change alone. 0.81

00:27:43.000 They need the United States. 0.82

00:27:45.000 So, it's actually imperative for Iran to deprive Israel of their ally, the United States, to carry out their goal, which is the regime change. 0.78

00:27:53.000 So, I think that's maybe like a subtle 5D chess thing that Iran is doing because realistically, If Iran really needed the war to end, would they insist upon a ceasefire in Lebanon? 0.91

00:28:04.000 I mean, maybe not necessarily, but I think they're throwing that out there because then it puts the U.S. in the position where to get the, you know, Iran, we have a deal with them. 0.55

00:28:12.000 Now we need to put pressure on Israel to uphold the deal. 0.78

00:28:15.000 So I think that might be intentional.

00:28:17.000 And I agree with you on that because, you know, these guys have been sanctioned for what, 50 years?

00:28:21.000 Like to them, it's like, okay, we've already been sanctioned.

00:28:25.000 And you made a great point earlier.

00:28:27.000 For them, it's like they never want to get hit again.

00:28:29.000 Right.

00:28:29.000 Obviously, the 12 day war was not fun for them.

00:28:31.000 They barely evaded, you know, almost a decapitation strike.

00:28:34.000 Then they got hit again in February.

00:28:36.000 So it's like, I think at this point, they're just tired of getting, being able to get struck. 0.94

00:28:39.000 So they want to completely destroy the United States and Israel's ability to ever hit them again. 0.93

00:28:43.000 I think that's why they're like, we'll drag this thing on. 0.94

00:28:44.000 We don't care.

00:28:45.000 And I also do think that they're sensitive to the midterms.

00:28:48.000 I think they know that Trump doesn't have as much time as he's letting on, you know, politically.

00:28:53.000 And I think from what like me and you were discussing yesterday, like these midterms might actually be the first time that someone's.

00:28:59.000 Actually, removed.

00:29:00.000 Right?

00:29:00.000 You know, I think who are the president?

00:29:02.000 Bill Clinton, Nixon resigned.

00:29:04.000 Nixon knew he was going to be cooked.

00:29:07.000 Trump, and then I'm trying to think, was any other president impeached?

00:29:08.000 Andrew Johnson was impeached and removed, and Nixon resigned.

00:29:13.000 And Trump was impeached.

00:29:15.000 Clinton was impeached, but Clinton was removed from office.

00:29:17.000 Okay.

00:29:19.000 But then he got back, but he finished his term, so he actually did.

00:29:22.000 He got impeached, so he just got indicted.

00:29:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29:24.000 But he didn't get convicted.

00:29:25.000 For the false statements.

00:29:26.000 Right, right. 1.00

00:29:27.000 I did not have sex with that woman. 0.99

00:29:30.000 Yeah, dude, that's crazy. 0.87

00:29:32.000 Andrew Johnson was removed from office, I don't believe.

00:29:34.000 He was impeached, though.

00:29:35.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29:36.000 It's, and either way, it's like a very rare thing for it to happen because it requires an enormous amount of votes.

00:29:41.000 Like, it's like, what, you got to have like two thirds of the Senate votes?

00:29:44.000 Yeah, majority in the House, two thirds in the Senate.

00:29:46.000 Which is a lot, you know, to get you out of there.

00:29:48.000 I think Donald Trump is probably going to be the most egregious offender of them all.

00:29:54.000 He might be the first.

00:29:55.000 Yeah, he might be the first to actually get it, man.

00:29:56.000 So I was like, because in my mind, I'm just thinking of how the Democrats are going to attack him.

00:30:00.000 And just like the kinetic strikes with Hegseth, the Iran war, the ICE raids, the money, right? 0.90

00:30:08.000 You talked about this extensively yesterday where, you know, was it Lutnick's sons doing some bullshit with futures or whatever? 0.73

00:30:17.000 With the tariffs and everything? 0.93

00:30:19.000 Yeah, with the tariffs.

00:30:20.000 The tariffs.

00:30:20.000 Yeah, because they.

00:30:22.000 They did some deal where if the tariffs were refunded, that they were going to profit from that financially or something like that.

00:30:29.000 And that's exactly what happened the Supreme Court overturned the emergency tariffs and now they got to be refunded.

00:30:35.000 And I think there's some financial interest then that Howard Lutnick gets because of that.

00:30:38.000 I don't remember all the details, but the biggest thing is in DHS where Christy Nome, though allegedly is dating Corey Lewandowski, and there was some kind of thing where they're getting favorable contracts through DHS for people that they know, is kind of the Basic, that's the gist of it.

00:30:55.000 The Wall Street Journal was on to them.

00:30:56.000 They did a big hit piece about it.

00:30:58.000 And I had even heard about that because I have some friends in DHS and they would tell me it's just like egregious what's going on.

00:31:03.000 And it's not just there, it's all over the place. 0.76

00:31:05.000 Like you said, GIA, bro.

00:31:07.000 The Department of Defense.

00:31:07.000 Great Britain.

00:31:10.000 The Great Britain.

00:31:10.000 Oh, yeah.

00:31:10.000 The Great Britain.

00:31:11.000 In the DOJ, they say it's this Russian billionaire named Epstein.

00:31:17.000 Not Epstein, but Epstein, Russian billionaire.

00:31:17.000 Okay.

00:31:20.000 They say he runs the DOJ.

00:31:22.000 This is very, no one knows this, by the way.

00:31:24.000 But I was told by certain sources that that's like the big, that's like another big scandal waiting to happen.

00:31:24.000 Okay.

00:31:30.000 Boris Epstein, Russian billionaire, has huge influence in the DOJ.

00:31:34.000 They say he basically runs it.

00:31:36.000 Interesting, interesting.

00:31:37.000 Yeah, so this kind of stuff is going on everywhere.

00:31:40.000 And I think that.

00:31:41.000 Because I remember, for those of you guys that remember when we did the club accost, we were talking about this in the party bus, right?

00:31:48.000 Besides us, you know, playing some choice music.

00:31:51.000 I remember you talking about this like, yeah, they're stealing.

00:31:53.000 Like the administration is doing a bunch of BS.

00:31:56.000 And then, you know, obviously, this was before Christy Noem resigned.

00:31:56.000 Behind the scenes.

00:31:58.000 I think this was before Pambani resigned.

00:32:01.000 I think, had Bongino left at that point?

00:32:04.000 No, Bongino didn't leave either.

00:32:05.000 He was still there.

00:32:05.000 He was still there, too.

00:32:07.000 So, like, there's just so many, like, and you just look at all the people, right, that are there.

00:32:11.000 And I think Bongino kind of saw the writing on the wall and he said, I got to get out of here, dude.

00:32:16.000 There were leaks.

00:32:16.000 He did.

00:32:17.000 Yeah.

00:32:18.000 Because he was complaining and basically saying, like, I lost everything because he was making millions of dollars.

00:32:23.000 He had a podcast.

00:32:24.000 Like, you know, he had a career.

00:32:25.000 He gave it all up to be in the FBI and he goes, We can't even do anything.

00:32:28.000 Yeah.

00:32:29.000 You know, and I can understand me just putting on like my former agent hat on.

00:32:33.000 Like, as a deputy director, you're kind of powerless, dude.

00:32:36.000 You can't really, you're the number two guy.

00:32:38.000 So it's like, it's really Cash and Pam making all the real decisions.

00:32:43.000 Right.

00:32:43.000 And then obviously the Epstein file thing was like really bad because like both Cash and Bongino were talking about this extensively before getting on.

00:32:54.000 So for like them to have the Epstein debacle, it was like, oh, and then obviously he's going to take a credibility hit because it's like, well, you got to go back to broadcasting after this.

00:33:02.000 What are you going to do?

00:33:04.000 And then, like, these guys aren't making that much, dude.

00:33:05.000 You're, you're, you know, you're a director.

00:33:08.000 You're probably making somewhere between 170 to 200, some thousand, which, you know, that's great money for sure.

00:33:14.000 But, like, when you're making that much money a month, right?

00:33:16.000 It's like someone like a Bongino, that's like, what the hell am I doing here?

00:33:20.000 Right.

00:33:20.000 And obviously, I think his wife was still running the show, but she's not going to be able to pull in the same numbers and everything else, like that.

00:33:20.000 Right.

00:33:24.000 So, like, from his perspective, he was like, I got to get out of here. 0.96

00:33:29.000 And then I think he also saw the writing on the wall with all the other crap that was going on more than likely. 0.75

00:33:32.000 So he was like, I got to get out.

00:33:33.000 Because I found it crazy how, like, he only left after a year.

00:33:37.000 But then, like, When I start thinking about it, like, yeah, you don't really have any rope.

00:33:39.000 You can't do anything.

00:33:40.000 You're just, you're the, you know, deputy.

00:33:43.000 Cash is the one making the decision.

00:33:44.000 And even he's not really the boss because Pam Bondi is.

00:33:46.000 And then the other thing about the Epstein files, why it kind of killed them was, and I was saying this forever the FBI only has a segment of the files.

00:33:56.000 Like Epstein had a criminal case that was run by the FBI, but he also, we know he was like an intel asset for a foreign country.

00:34:05.000 So you know the CIA is going to have a file, the DEI is going to have a file, NSA, all these different intelligence components are going to have a file on Epstein.

00:34:13.000 Well, Pam Bondi has no power over these guys.

00:34:15.000 And cash doesn't have any power over these guys.

00:34:17.000 So, even if they were to be transparent, and here's everything we got at DOJ, the other intel agency could say, well, we don't want to share.

00:34:24.000 And then, boom, they take the hit because most Americans don't know that the government is extremely bureaucratic and compartmentalized, where it's like one agency might release everything, but another one might say, no, we're not going to.

00:34:36.000 Or the FBI might have information from the CIA, but they can't put it out publicly because it's not their info.

00:34:41.000 And they have to get a third agency rule like, oh, can I declassify this?

00:34:45.000 It's ours.

00:34:45.000 No, you can't.

00:34:46.000 So, it's like.

00:34:47.000 And again, I'm just like giving different scenarios here, but I could see why it was so difficult.

00:34:51.000 And there's like, for Pam, for Cash, and then obviously Bongino. 0.99

00:34:54.000 And he was like, I got to get the fuck out of here. 0.99

00:34:56.000 And then you add in all the other crap. 1.00

00:34:57.000 I mean, you know, because when you said that back in January, that really had me thinking, like, what the fuck? 0.99

00:35:02.000 And then right after, bam, Bongino gone. 0.99

00:35:05.000 Kash Patel, they're talking about firing him.

00:35:08.000 Pam Bonney gone.

00:35:08.000 Chrissy Nome gone.

00:35:09.000 Who else? 0.96

00:35:10.000 Tulsi Gabbard gone.

00:35:10.000 Tulsi Gabbard.

00:35:12.000 Joe Kent.

00:35:13.000 Mike Waltz was already gone, right?

00:35:14.000 With the signal gate, I think.

00:35:16.000 He's still there, though, as the UN ambassador.

00:35:18.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:35:19.000 Right.

00:35:20.000 It's so crazy. 1.00

00:35:21.000 Yeah, you go from national security advisor to fucking like, you're the UN bitch now. 1.00

00:35:24.000 Like, yeah. 1.00

00:35:25.000 It's insane.

00:35:25.000 Yeah.

00:35:26.000 Like, that guy will never, ever, ever get fired.

00:35:28.000 But Tulsi Gabbard, she's got to go, you know.

00:35:30.000 And even Pam Bondi, you know, it's funny.

00:35:32.000 I didn't like Pam Bondi.

00:35:33.000 She comes from Florida. 1.00

00:35:34.000 Very incompetent, dude. 1.00

00:35:36.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:35:36.000 I was shocked they made her. 1.00

00:35:37.000 Attorney General is insane. 0.95

00:35:39.000 Well, you know why that is. 0.97

00:35:39.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:35:40.000 Susie Wiles brought all these people in. 1.00

00:35:42.000 She's the chief of staff.

00:35:43.000 She's from Florida.

00:35:44.000 She's from Ballard.

00:35:45.000 So she brought in Rubio, Walt, Bondi.

00:35:48.000 These are all Florida creatures.

00:35:49.000 But the thing, even about Pam Bondi, She wasn't even actually the worst because a lot of the really MAGA people in DOJ said Bondi would actually let the more Trump loyal people do these indictments. 0.66

00:36:02.000 They were working on some big indictments.

00:36:04.000 And when Todd Blanche got in, they shut it all down.

00:36:06.000 Like Blanche is actually worse than Bondi. 1.00

00:36:09.000 As bad as Bondi is, and she's terrible and she fucking sucks, Blanche is even worse. 1.00

00:36:13.000 But this is just like a story. 1.00

00:36:14.000 So he came in and shut down.

00:36:16.000 He quashed it, yeah.

00:36:17.000 He shut down the indictments against the enemies or.

00:36:19.000 Yeah, against some of the Democrat.

00:36:21.000 Foes, yeah.

00:36:22.000 Oh, why do you shut it down?

00:36:23.000 Because he's not like a big MAGA guy.

00:36:23.000 I would think that.

00:36:25.000 Pam Bondi was letting it happen.

00:36:27.000 Oh, he was letting it happen.

00:36:28.000 Yeah, because I knew people working in Trump admin number one, and what they would say about how government works in the White House, in the admin, is basically it comes down to if two very low level bureaucrats disagree, it gets kicked up.

00:36:43.000 If those middle level bureaucrats disagree, it gets kicked up.

00:36:47.000 And it keeps getting kicked up until it gets like cabinet level, and then it goes up to the president.

00:36:51.000 And so it's really about these people that are in kind of like the middle and lower positions.

00:36:55.000 You know, are they going to be able to have the discretion to do what they need to do?

00:36:58.000 That's really what it comes down to in a lot of these situations.

00:37:01.000 And so, someone like Pam Bondi, she was actually doing her job in a sense that she was letting the underlings who are MAGA work on the indictments. 0.97

00:37:10.000 And there's actually some good stuff coming down the pike, but then she gets kicked out. 0.88

00:37:14.000 She was a little bit more laissez faire. 0.62

00:37:16.000 She wasn't intervening to shut these things down, she wasn't as activist.

00:37:20.000 But now that Blanche is in, he's much more strict about what they're able to do.

00:37:24.000 And he doesn't believe really in that.

00:37:25.000 He doesn't believe in doing all the indictments.

00:37:27.000 So that's gotten a lot slower and basically shut down.

00:37:30.000 Like nothing new's coming with Blanche in charge.

00:37:32.000 That makes perfect sense because you think about it.

00:37:32.000 You know what?

00:37:36.000 Under Bondi, John Bolton got indicted.

00:37:39.000 Letitia, what's her last name?

00:37:42.000 Jack, the, the, James.

00:37:42.000 Jackson.

00:37:45.000 James out of New York got indicted.

00:37:47.000 Comey got, got, got hit.

00:37:49.000 Right.

00:37:50.000 And then they reached, I think they indicted him.

00:37:53.000 It failed.

00:37:53.000 Then they recharged him.

00:37:54.000 And then Leticia, same thing.

00:37:54.000 Yeah.

00:37:56.000 Cause I think they, the United States attorney out of Virginia or something like that wasn't, wasn't confirmed.

00:38:02.000 Right.

00:38:02.000 Or properly.

00:38:03.000 And so they're like, oh, well, you know, this indictment's going to be gone.

00:38:06.000 So they're refiling it.

00:38:07.000 So, yeah.

00:38:09.000 I mean, that, that, that makes sense.

00:38:10.000 That, uh, so you're saying Blanche is like way more.

00:38:12.000 He's worse.

00:38:13.000 He's, he's, he's like, hey, let's not indict all these people, et cetera.

00:38:15.000 Let's not go after them.

00:38:16.000 Yeah.

00:38:16.000 Yeah, he's not letting them go after it.

00:38:18.000 Is he scared of a blowback?

00:38:19.000 Is he scared of potential retaliation when they're out of there?

00:38:21.000 He just doesn't support it from a policy point of view.

00:38:23.000 He's not in favor of going after these people.

00:38:25.000 Yeah.

00:38:25.000 So, Bonnie was letting him go after it, and he shut the whole thing down.

00:38:29.000 He was a defense attorney before, wasn't he?

00:38:31.000 He was in government, if I'm not mistaken.

00:38:32.000 I don't know his background.

00:38:33.000 I think he was.

00:38:34.000 And, Brett, can you double check for me real quick?

00:38:37.000 I think he was a part of Trump's legal team when he was dealing with the document case out of New York when they indicted him the first time.

00:38:44.000 I think he was on his legal team.

00:38:46.000 Todd Blanch.

00:38:47.000 Todd Blanch.

00:38:48.000 But, like, yeah, so, no, because it really got me to thinking. 0.98

00:38:50.000 I was like, damn, like, all these people are going down. 0.72

00:38:52.000 So, like, yeah, Cash had the issues that he had, like drinking alcohol too much, partying, taking a jet around, his girlfriend getting a security detail, you know, the Epstein files, Pambani, same thing. 0.99

00:39:06.000 And, you know, Bongino being the number two guy, he was like, I got to get the fuck up out of here.

00:39:09.000 Hexa with the kinetic strikes.

00:39:12.000 I'm trying to think here of Rubio if they would go after him for anything.

00:39:15.000 I can't think of.

00:39:15.000 Nah, you know what's funny?

00:39:17.000 Rubio.

00:39:18.000 You know, I shouldn't even say that.

00:39:20.000 I'm just like thinking of how they're going to like go after them when they're going to.

00:39:22.000 Well, but Rubio's people are the most competent.

00:39:25.000 And listen, listen.

00:39:25.000 Yeah.

00:39:26.000 I do not support Rubio at all.

00:39:26.000 You're right.

00:39:26.000 Yeah.

00:39:28.000 Not even slightly.

00:39:29.000 I'm not saying, but I'm saying like, this is not me trying to like say anything to promote him.

00:39:34.000 Like, if he's the nominee, I would vote Democrat.

00:39:36.000 I would consider that, you know, because he's that bad.

00:39:39.000 However, what is funny about Rubio, so he's Secretary of State, State Department is on lock.

00:39:44.000 Those are the most competent people in DHS, is probably the worst.

00:39:48.000 It's like the most of our guys, like the most.

00:39:50.000 Yeah.

00:39:50.000 Like, based people are probably in DHS.

00:39:53.000 Like, they're maybe the most aligned. 0.99

00:39:55.000 And State Department, they got that shit on lock. 0.99

00:39:58.000 Like, they are the most competent there, and they run it like a tight ship. 0.99

00:40:01.000 Rubio, surprisingly, he's a very formidable opponent because he knows what he's doing.

00:40:06.000 He's a refined politician.

00:40:07.000 Yes.

00:40:07.000 I've always said it, like, you know, and I don't think there's any shame in admitting this.

00:40:10.000 He's an extremely refined and good politician.

00:40:13.000 We don't support that.

00:40:14.000 Like, we don't like his policies or whatever.

00:40:16.000 He's owned by the Jays and everything else.

00:40:17.000 But I think we can both say, so is Netanyahu, is a refined politician.

00:40:21.000 Uh, politician, yeah, you know, because he's.

00:40:23.000 I think the one thing that like Netanyahu can do is he can blend every time I watch his speeches. 0.95

00:40:28.000 I'm like, this guy, all this guy does is like make Israel's problems America's problems, you know, yeah, we kill these terrorists today, blah blah blah.

00:40:35.000 Oh, by the way, they were trying to target you guys too.

00:40:36.000 Like, it's like he's able to always like bring in Israeli issues and somehow make them American issues and show either like what we're doing here benefits you guys as well. 0.57

00:40:44.000 And I think that's something that really only he's been able to do.

00:40:47.000 Like, I don't think any other Israeli prime minister has been able to like, you know.

00:40:51.000 Use Israel problems andor justify U.S. aid so much as to, like, we're taking care of the problem for you guys.

00:40:57.000 We're on the front lines.

00:40:58.000 But, like, but yeah, I agree with you that, like, of them all, Rubio is for sure the most refined politician.

00:41:04.000 Doesn't mean he's good.

00:41:05.000 I mean, his, like, staff.

00:41:06.000 Yeah.

00:41:07.000 Like, people in admin say that the State Department, like, they're the only ones that know what they're doing.

00:41:11.000 They're competent and, like, you know, they're ideologically aligned with Rubio.

00:41:14.000 Vance, too.

00:41:15.000 They say that Vance's people are very competent and effective. 0.99

00:41:19.000 But these other people at DOJ, at DHS, at, These other departments, I mean, they don't know what the fuck they're doing. 0.98

00:41:24.000 And, like, that's so typical. 1.00

00:41:26.000 I told people would be like this because at the end of the day, Trump is just incompetent. 0.69

00:41:30.000 You know, what so many people ascribe to malice, you could easily ascribe it to incompetence. 0.58

00:41:34.000 They just don't know what they're doing.

00:41:36.000 It's so classic because, you know, Trump, the first term, everybody said, well, he couldn't get his agenda through because the personnel were terrible.

00:41:45.000 That was the headline all the time.

00:41:46.000 He had all the swamp creatures with him.

00:41:47.000 Yes.

00:41:48.000 It was all these different excuses.

00:41:49.000 It was bad advisors, bad personnel.

00:41:52.000 They said, you know, because in 16, Trump had this website called greatagain.org where they were soliciting people to volunteer to work in his administration from like everywhere, as opposed to these like swamp creature, you know, alumni from the different Republican campaigns or the Bush admin.

00:42:07.000 So, they had this website called greatagain.org where they said, send us your resume.

00:42:11.000 You could come and work in the government, be part of the revolution.

00:42:13.000 They didn't use that at all.

00:42:15.000 And of course, you know, then they brought in like Jeb Bush alum, Rubio alum, Cruz alum, and those people all hated Trump.

00:42:22.000 We used to joke in DC back in those days if you had worked for the Trump campaign, it made you less likely to get a job in the Trump White House.

00:42:30.000 They'd say, oh, you worked for the Trump campaign?

00:42:31.000 You're disqualified. 0.97

00:42:32.000 We don't want you.

00:42:32.000 Because the people that were running it were like establishment rhino types, you know?

00:42:36.000 And so that was the big excuse.

00:42:38.000 They said, well, Why did Trump not pull us out of Syria?

00:42:40.000 Because the generals were lying.

00:42:41.000 You know, they wouldn't carry out the orders.

00:42:43.000 They would lie about the troop totals.

00:42:45.000 And there was some truth to that.

00:42:46.000 But in 24, they said, well, it'll be different this time because, you know, this time the posters are in control.

00:42:51.000 Our guys are going to be in the admin.

00:42:53.000 And it's like, you actually have like based people in the administration.

00:42:57.000 You have a lot of them.

00:42:59.000 Like the personnel, anyone will tell you there's a lot of people in like National Security Council, which were good.

00:43:04.000 And there were people in the Pentagon that were good and people in DHS that were good.

00:43:08.000 But now Trump himself is holding back.

00:43:11.000 The personnel.

00:43:12.000 The personnel are more radical than him.

00:43:15.000 So, the personnel, for example, in Homeland Security, they want to do mass deportations.

00:43:19.000 They want a wall. 0.97

00:43:20.000 They're fucking furious about what is happening. 0.99

00:43:22.000 Trump doesn't want to build the wall anymore. 0.99

00:43:26.000 I have that.

00:43:27.000 I don't want to say how I know that, but it's Trump that doesn't want to do it.

00:43:30.000 He says, we don't need it anymore.

00:43:32.000 We have the military there.

00:43:34.000 We have other means of securing the border.

00:43:36.000 We don't need a wall.

00:43:37.000 Trump is holding them back.

00:43:39.000 So, before we would say the personnel and the advisors are holding, we need to unleash Trump.

00:43:46.000 So he can be himself and do what he needs to do.

00:43:48.000 Now it's like the personnel is being held back by him.

00:43:51.000 His incompetence, his lack of follow through.

00:43:54.000 In some cases, he's just betraying the core promises of what we were all about in 2016.

00:44:01.000 And I said this in 24, and I knew it was going to happen when he threw Project 2025 under the bus.

00:44:07.000 Remember them?

00:44:07.000 Yes.

00:44:08.000 Project 2025 at Heritage.

00:44:11.000 It was two things it was a white paper, a policy, a 93 page white paper where they said, This is what we're going to do in every department and agency, how we're going to make America great again.

00:44:20.000 And that's what got the headlines because people said it's very radical.

00:44:23.000 Democrats freaked out when they saw it.

00:44:24.000 Right.

00:44:25.000 Like they were, are you always, I remember vividly, do you support Project 2025?

00:44:29.000 That was like what everyone was asking during the 25th.

00:44:30.000 Yeah, people forget.

00:44:32.000 It's a big deal.

00:44:32.000 It was huge.

00:44:33.000 But then in addition to that, it was also.

00:44:35.000 You denied it during a debate?

00:44:36.000 Do you support, I think during one of his public debates or interviews, he denied it.

00:44:40.000 Like, I don't, you know, I don't know.

00:44:42.000 He said, I got nothing to do with that. 1.00

00:44:44.000 And which there's some truth to that.

00:44:46.000 But it was also a personnel database.

00:44:49.000 They put together a database of like, you know, very.

00:44:52.000 Trump loyal, ideologically America first people that they were going to use Schedule F, reclassify a bunch of federal workers, fire them, you know, because a lot of them have these protections.

00:45:03.000 You know, an incoming administration can only hire and fire about 5,000 people.

00:45:08.000 If you reclassify a lot of the workers, you can fire like up to 50,000.

00:45:12.000 And so the idea was we're going to fire 50,000 people.

00:45:14.000 Some of them we're just not even going to replace, but the ones that we do, we're going to replace them with guys that are vetted, guys that are loyal to Trump, loyal to the agenda.

00:45:22.000 And what Trump said in like, January 23, and then into 24, as he said, no, Project 2025 has no control over that.

00:45:31.000 He said, I want them to work with America First Policy Institute, AFPI, which was, that's like the official MAGA think tank.

00:45:38.000 It's run by Brooke Rollins, who's now the Secretary of Agriculture.

00:45:42.000 And they are the worst.

00:45:43.000 Like they are the biggest rhinos of all time, America last. 0.92

00:45:46.000 Like they are so establishment, it's not even funny.

00:45:50.000 And Trump basically said, Project 2025 either needs to defer completely to AFPI or they can have no influence.

00:45:57.000 At the end of the day, he disavowed them like three or four times.

00:46:00.000 They got totally pushed out.

00:46:03.000 And that's when I disavowed Trump.

00:46:05.000 Because at that point, it was about June 24, I said, it's very clear what direction this is going to go in, and it's going to be just like the first term.

00:46:12.000 A lot of bad personnel, not enough good personnel.

00:46:14.000 But moreover, it's like Trump's judgment is compromised. 0.98

00:46:17.000 He's still incompetent.

00:46:18.000 Because really, I mean, there was no resistance this time. 0.51

00:46:21.000 You remember in 25, it's like the left was defeated, they were eradicated.

00:46:25.000 They were so weak, no ability to resist.

00:46:28.000 And we had the House, Senate, White House, we had Doge removing so fast.

00:46:33.000 So much was possible.

00:46:34.000 And the only reason it was squandered is because they just were incompetent.

00:46:37.000 That's why tariffs didn't happen.

00:46:38.000 That's why the border wall didn't happen.

00:46:41.000 That's why Doge didn't happen.

00:46:43.000 You know, just wrong people, bad people.

00:46:45.000 And, you know, it's funny because, like, you get a lot of heat for not voting, right?

00:46:50.000 And saying, hey, I'm not going to vote, et cetera.

00:46:52.000 People always forget.

00:46:52.000 I vividly remember when you said, I'm not going to vote unless Trump can promise that we're not going to go to war with Iran.

00:46:57.000 That was like one of your number one things.

00:46:59.000 Need mass deportations and no war with Iran.

00:47:01.000 Those were your two things.

00:47:03.000 And it happened the war with Iran and no mass deportation.

00:47:07.000 So it's like, you know, people said, you didn't even vote, Nick.

00:47:09.000 But it's like, I remember when you originally made the announcement.

00:47:09.000 Yeah.

00:47:12.000 No war with Iran. 1.00

00:47:13.000 No fucking war with Iran. 1.00

00:47:15.000 I'm going to withhold my vote. 1.00

00:47:16.000 And he fucking ended up doing it. 0.99

00:47:18.000 And like for me, I was pissed off. 0.99

00:47:19.000 And I think this is what actually fractured the base, made so many people say, no, this Iran war is highly unpopular.

00:47:24.000 Even people that like voted for him and supported him.

00:47:27.000 Because like from my perspective, I voted mostly for foreign policy and then obviously for the immigration.

00:47:33.000 Like, because I was like, I agree with you with what we were talking about yesterday.

00:47:37.000 Donald Trump is probably one of the only presidents that can actually do deportations because everyone is terrified.

00:47:42.000 And I can say this from like, My background with like working with ICE.

00:47:45.000 The thing that used to always mess us up when we did deportations was interior enforcement because you got to deal with the sanctuary cities, you got to deal with the mayor, you got to deal with the police department.

00:47:54.000 I vividly remember so many times I'd go to Austin, Texas, we'd have rest warrants for people.

00:47:54.000 They don't want to help you out.

00:47:58.000 Austin PD, we need you to come on help.

00:47:59.000 They want to come, they want to show up.

00:48:01.000 Even if though it was a felony warrant, they're like, wait, it's immigration related? 0.65

00:48:04.000 No, we're not helping you.

00:48:05.000 So it was a nightmare to do like interior enforcement.

00:48:08.000 So when I saw Trump actually putting ICE into these cities and doing deportations, I was like, wow, I got to give this guy credit.

00:48:13.000 Because like me from the inside knows how hard it is to do interior enforcement.

00:48:17.000 You know, Enforcing at the border is nothing.

00:48:19.000 Like, this is why Democrats have more deportations because everyone comes in, they catch them, throw them back out.

00:48:24.000 Easy to have more deportations.

00:48:26.000 Like, oh, well, Obama has more deportations than Trump.

00:48:28.000 That doesn't count, buddy.

00:48:29.000 It's because they had to open borders and then they want to come in.

00:48:32.000 But when I saw him doing the interior stuff, I was like, this is good.

00:48:35.000 Like, I supported what he was doing in Minneapolis. 0.96

00:48:37.000 Like, Renee Good and Alex Preddy, I was like, don't let this fucking scare you because these are good shoots. 0.98

00:48:42.000 Like, you know, look, people lost their life. 0.99

00:48:43.000 Horrible.

00:48:44.000 But do not commit a felony and impede federal agents.

00:48:47.000 Like, what are you doing?

00:48:47.000 Like, you can't do that.

00:48:49.000 You know, Alex Freddie had a gun on him. 0.93

00:48:50.000 The other chick tried to run a guy over.

00:48:52.000 Like, you know, obviously the Democrats were putting an enormous amount of pressure. 0.71

00:48:55.000 But it kills me because I noticed that he kind of took his foot off the gas with the mass deportations to open up political leeway for the Iran war. 0.76

00:49:02.000 Right.

00:49:03.000 And I was like, dude, seriously?

00:49:04.000 Like, that's when I was like, you're dropping doing the immigration. 0.99

00:49:08.000 The first president that actually has the balls to go in, do interior enforcement, something that I've never seen ever by any administration, you know, using Border Patrol, using ICE, using FBI agents, like shit that I've never seen before. 0.99

00:49:20.000 Using FBI agents to do immigration is nuts, right? 0.99

00:49:22.000 Because, like, they never want to do anything, those guys. 0.99

00:49:24.000 They're so fucking lazy, but that's a whole other conversation. 0.98

00:49:27.000 So, when I saw that, I was like, great. 0.99

00:49:29.000 Like, we're actually going to get some interior enforcement.

00:49:30.000 Finally, they're going to stop these sanctuary cities, dude.

00:49:32.000 Because, like, I feel like I'm going through PTSD right now.

00:49:36.000 Dude, I can't tell you how many times, Nick, like, I would literally be having, we'd be looking for somebody.

00:49:40.000 We'd ask the state locals to help, and they'd say no. 0.99

00:49:42.000 Because of fucking sanctuary locals. 0.99

00:49:42.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:49:43.000 It's like that in Chicago.

00:49:44.000 Insane, dude.

00:49:45.000 Insane.

00:49:46.000 Or we'd have a, oh, the best, put a detainer on the guy.

00:49:49.000 You know, he's going to be released on this day at this time. 0.85

00:49:51.000 They fucking let him out early on purpose so that you can't get him. 0.97

00:49:54.000 Like, and the guy is like a murderer or the guy has like a long criminal history. 0.99

00:49:57.000 They let him go because they don't want to be the ones to be like, Yeah, we gave them the immigration after.

00:50:00.000 They'll purposely let them out early or not tell you after you put a detainer on them.

00:50:04.000 So it's like, and we couldn't do anything to them.

00:50:06.000 So it's like, you know, it was absolutely insane that they wouldn't comply.

00:50:09.000 And this is happening all across the country.

00:50:11.000 So when Trump finally said, you know what?

00:50:12.000 We're going to go ahead.

00:50:13.000 We're going to do mass deportations.

00:50:14.000 We're going to actually back ICE.

00:50:15.000 We're going to let them go into these countries, into these cities. 0.96

00:50:17.000 We're going to tell the locals if you don't fucking comply, remember Pambani sued them. 0.98

00:50:20.000 If you don't comply, you're going to get sued. 0.99

00:50:22.000 But then they completely bailed on it for the fucking Iran war. 0.99

00:50:24.000 Yeah, they just dropped it. 0.99

00:50:25.000 And it's sad because they put all the pieces in place to do it.

00:50:30.000 You had the big, beautiful bill, which allocated $80, $90 billion for border enforcement.

00:50:34.000 And it was supposed to be for a wall, for ICE agents, the infrastructure.

00:50:37.000 And they did it.

00:50:38.000 They hired 10,000 ICE agents.

00:50:40.000 They trained the existing ones.

00:50:41.000 Because I was told that the problem is ICE has not done interior enforcement for so long that a lot of them aren't trained to do this.

00:50:50.000 Like they just don't have the skills.

00:50:51.000 So they had to hire a bunch of them, train a bunch of them. 1.00

00:50:54.000 Then they bought all these warehouses to detain the immigrants because we don't have that either. 1.00

00:50:58.000 And they did that. 0.98

00:50:59.000 You know, they bought all the warehouses.

00:51:00.000 I saw.

00:51:01.000 Yeah.

00:51:01.000 They're trying to like sell them back to the left.

00:51:03.000 Now they're selling them.

00:51:04.000 Now they're selling them.

00:51:05.000 They didn't even use them.

00:51:06.000 It's like he could have done it.

00:51:07.000 But, and here's the best part the left says Trump is Hitler.

00:51:12.000 But Hitler was a visionary.

00:51:14.000 You know, Hitler, and it's not to like glaze Hitler or whatever, but you recognize that Hitler was like a unique figure in the sense that he was compelled by destiny and a vision.

00:51:24.000 And he was an ideas man.

00:51:25.000 You know, he was called the man against time by some of the esoteric Hitlerists. 0.61

00:51:29.000 Like he's played this like cosmic role in history.

00:51:33.000 Trump.

00:51:34.000 Not that guy. 1.00

00:51:34.000 Like Trump is just dumb. 1.00

00:51:36.000 And I don't say that flippantly. 1.00

00:51:38.000 Like, obviously, he's like a smart guy.

00:51:40.000 He'd have to be smart to be president, but he does not have that political talent.

00:51:44.000 He doesn't have that genius because what you would have done in that situation is we're going to go into the sanctuary cities, we're going to arrest and deport everybody.

00:51:53.000 Oh, are Antifa and left wing protesters interfering?

00:51:56.000 We're going to bring in the National Guard and crush them.

00:51:58.000 And it's like create the crisis, solve the crisis.

00:52:01.000 That's just like dictatorship 101. 0.89

00:52:04.000 That's your Caesar like figure.

00:52:06.000 Manufacture the crisis that creates a demand for Trump to take over everything.

00:52:11.000 And like, think about where the country would be if we just kept pushing in that direction.

00:52:15.000 Like, Minneapolis. 1.00

00:52:17.000 Okay, these Somalians are stealing all the money. 1.00

00:52:20.000 The whole country's against this. 1.00

00:52:21.000 Send in Homeland Investigation, send in DOJ, DHS, Immigration, Customs and Border Patrol. 1.00

00:52:28.000 And if these shitheads are firebombing them and shooting them, then bring in the National Guard and crush those people. 0.99

00:52:33.000 Put them in prison for 10 years, like they did in Texas. 1.00

00:52:36.000 They did like a firebomb thing in Texas.

00:52:38.000 They sentence a guy to 100 years in prison for doing that.

00:52:41.000 It's like, and good, like, because these Antifa people, they are the enemy.

00:52:46.000 If you try to enforce the laws, they're going to become terrorists.

00:52:49.000 So put them in jail forever.

00:52:51.000 And then a Democrat can't take them back out.

00:52:53.000 It's like, and then if there's more protests and crush them too, like, this is how you get a right wing takeover of the country.

00:52:59.000 But Trump doesn't have that gene.

00:53:01.000 If it gets bad, he goes, oh, we got to back off.

00:53:04.000 Oh, if there's protests, oh, we got to back off.

00:53:06.000 Steven, we got to stop doing the deportations. 0.83

00:53:09.000 We're going to get killed in the midterms.

00:53:10.000 It's like the midterms.

00:53:11.000 You should even hold the midterms.

00:53:13.000 Cancel the midterms. 0.99

00:53:15.000 What they should have done too in the Senate get rid of the filibuster. 0.65

00:53:19.000 Get rid of the filibuster, pass the SAVE Act, pass the SAVE Act, have mandatory voter ID.

00:53:24.000 Don't have to worry about the midterms.

00:53:26.000 Get all the Republicans in line to do the redistricting or the, what do you call it, gerrymandering to get as many of those seats as possible out of those Republican states.

00:53:38.000 Don't worry about the midterms.

00:53:40.000 You see, this is how you need to be thinking, but it's like, think about all these opportunities that are wasted from COVID and BLM in the first term, which you could have used, to this in the second term.

00:53:49.000 You could nuke the filibuster, do voter ID.

00:53:52.000 You could. 0.90

00:53:53.000 Manufacturer crisis, send in immigration and National Guard. 1.00

00:53:57.000 You could do all these things, but like I said, the team is retarded. 1.00

00:54:00.000 Pam Bondi, Christy Nome, these are fucking idiots, dude. 1.00

00:54:04.000 Christy Nome, she's dressed like a Barbie doll because her husband is into bimbo. 1.00

00:54:08.000 Her husband wants a B one. 1.00

00:54:09.000 She was focusing more on dressing up as one day as an ICE deportation officer, another day as a CBB officer, another day as a Border Patrol agent. 1.00

00:54:17.000 She's over here playing dress up.

00:54:20.000 And here's the other thing, too, because I noticed when you were saying before, the people that were incompetent, notice how they came from the state government.

00:54:26.000 And then the people that were tend to be a little bit more competent, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, they were already federal.

00:54:31.000 So, you know, and then you put someone who's like a governor of, what, North Dakota or South Dakota, if I'm not mistaken, Christy Nome, as, you know, the secretary of DHS.

00:54:39.000 Of course she's not going to know what she's doing.

00:54:41.000 And, you know, and the thing also is like, I think the biggest issue was that, like, he stopped doing the mass deportations and he stopped doing the ICE stuff to create, like, political leeway for himself for Iran.

00:54:53.000 Because he knew that the ICE raids were unpopular. 0.97

00:54:55.000 So he's like, okay, let me just, like, Let me listen to these fucking losers complaining and then like stop that a little bit so I can get more. 0.98

00:55:02.000 I don't even think that's true because they were talking about winding that down in December, actually. 0.95

00:55:07.000 Okay, so you don't even think the Around the War played a role in that?

00:55:09.000 No, I think because the earliest signals, I had been talking about it on my show, the earliest signals were coming in like December.

00:55:15.000 There was like already a second.

00:55:16.000 Do you think that Renee Goodman and Alex Freddy?

00:55:19.000 It was even before that.

00:55:20.000 Because that was in like the first and second week in January.

00:55:20.000 Oh, okay.

00:55:23.000 It was before that.

00:55:24.000 I distinctly remember they were saying, you know, we need a refresh on that.

00:55:29.000 A refresh on the policy, change the strategy.

00:55:32.000 That was the kind of talk that was going around from the deputy chief of staff Blair in the White House, from Susie Wiles.

00:55:40.000 Trump went to the congressional retreat in Doral in Florida, right around here.

00:55:45.000 And it was Blair and Trump both came out and they said, Yeah, don't use the word mass deportations.

00:55:51.000 We're going to talk now only about deporting the worst offenders, the worst of the worst.

00:55:55.000 They moved it to criminal aliens.

00:55:56.000 Right, which is an Obama. 0.54

00:55:58.000 That's an Obama policy.

00:55:59.000 Literally, it's an Obama innovation where they say, You know, we're only going to deport the worst of the worst.

00:56:04.000 We're going to basically pick up the murderers that the police arrest that incidentally turn out to be illegal.

00:56:10.000 That's not really a deportation policy, you know?

00:56:12.000 So that had been in the works.

00:56:13.000 And the reason it was is because they just looked at the polling and they said, we're getting killed with Hispanics and we're getting just killed in general.

00:56:20.000 And if we want to win in the midterms, we just got to back off.

00:56:23.000 I think that they thought Iran would be popular. 0.91

00:56:26.000 Okay.

00:56:26.000 Because they looked at Venezuela, which was very popular, and they thought Iran would go the same way.

00:56:31.000 They didn't think Iran would close the straight.

00:56:33.000 You know, they thought they'd be in there lickety split. 0.98

00:56:36.000 It's over.

00:56:36.000 And I think they were just surprised.

00:56:38.000 Meet with China with leverage. 0.75

00:56:40.000 You know, hey, we destroyed, we control Venezuela, we control Iran. 0.88

00:56:44.000 That's a bunch of your oil right there.

00:56:46.000 And now we got Cuba as well. 0.54

00:56:47.000 And that's, you know, which Cuba is known for obviously giving them a bunch of stolen intel. 0.69

00:56:52.000 Like Cuba's like the black market of our intel. 0.99

00:56:54.000 They steal all our shit and then sell it to our adversaries. 0.99

00:56:56.000 So I think that's what the play was. 1.00

00:56:57.000 Was like, you know, he wanted to go and meet Ping with some leverage for the China summit.

00:57:01.000 Because I remember, weren't they supposed to meet late March?

00:57:04.000 And then obviously the war dragged on.

00:57:06.000 So he had to meet in like May.

00:57:07.000 They pushed it to May.

00:57:08.000 Yeah.

00:57:08.000 So I think that's what his goal was.

00:57:10.000 But, Everything just backfired, dude.

00:57:12.000 Everything has backfired.

00:57:13.000 Nothing has worked.

00:57:14.000 You look at the mass deportations.

00:57:16.000 You look at, obviously, the Epstein files. 1.00

00:57:19.000 Shit, we got into all this with the. 0.97

00:57:20.000 Yeah, because they, well, yeah, no, it's good, though, because this is all going to be used against them for the impeachment, right? 0.98

00:57:25.000 Because that's how we started this conversation is like, what do you think is going to happen with the impeachment? 0.95

00:57:28.000 And now that we're talking about it, like, oh, damn, that's a lot of issues here. 0.64

00:57:30.000 Yeah, and that's what Iran, you know, Iran knows that we and Israel are up against a deadline. 0.96

00:57:36.000 Netanyahu is up against the October 27th deadline.

00:57:39.000 We're November.

00:57:40.000 So I think it's in their interest to basically push it to the limit.

00:57:44.000 And, you know, that's why they're not in a big rush to make this.

00:57:47.000 Look, If Iran wanted a peace deal, they could have one.

00:57:51.000 Yeah.

00:57:51.000 You know, they would come to the table, but we have no leverage.

00:57:54.000 They, they're not in any rush to do that because they're winning.

00:57:57.000 And this is, they know this is hurting us.

00:57:59.000 And they know that we're on a, a clock that they are not an economic clock and a political clock that they, you know, they really, and you said it earlier, Iran has been under a sanctions regime.

00:58:08.000 We have this little nicky-knack blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:58:11.000 We say we're going to be doing economic damage to them by depriving them of their imports and exports.

00:58:16.000 They don't care.

00:58:17.000 The IRGC runs that country now.

00:58:19.000 What are the people going to do?

00:58:20.000 Protest? 1.00

00:58:21.000 They'll just kill them. 1.00

00:58:22.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:58:23.000 We saw how that happened.

00:58:24.000 What are they going to do if they get mad that they're going to protest?

00:58:27.000 They killed 6 million of them in January, you know?

00:58:29.000 Exactly. 0.54

00:58:30.000 And you know, the other crazy thing, also, with that whole like Hezbollah thing is like, oh, yeah, they're over here like killing the protest or whatever. 0.92

00:58:35.000 I'm like, yo, like they're going to side with their government over us. 0.80

00:58:39.000 Like the only, it's actually, that's another thing that annoyed me. 0.86

00:58:42.000 What are your thoughts on like these diaspora? 1.00

00:58:43.000 I call them shotards. 1.00

00:58:45.000 Like these Iranians that live with the stupid lion flag in LA or, you know, Europe or whatever. 1.00

00:58:51.000 Like, yeah, we want the shot back. 1.00

00:58:52.000 It's like, You guys are kind of out of touch. 0.99

00:58:54.000 Like, you know, PBD talks about this shit like all the time, like, oh, the regime and the mullahs. 0.96

00:58:58.000 And I'm like, okay, you don't have to like the Ayatollah or whatever, but I would argue that the people now are definitely backing the government more than like, you know, having the shot come back. 0.99

00:59:07.000 Because it's like, they're dropping bombs on them.

00:59:09.000 Like, Trump's talking about like, we're going to send them back to the Stone Age.

00:59:12.000 Like, you know, oh, yeah, they like when we drop bombs on them.

00:59:14.000 That just doesn't make sense.

00:59:15.000 Like, I've seen them like protesting, getting bombed, and then they shout, yeah, hello, oh, yeah, we're getting attacked.

00:59:20.000 It's like, they're like not scared to die almost.

00:59:21.000 So it's like, this is a different culture, right?

00:59:23.000 And it's just like, whenever people say, like, oh, oh, yeah, they want us to bomb them or they want us to do a I don't know about that one, dude.

00:59:29.000 I don't think they like us too much in Israel.

00:59:31.000 No, yeah, no way. 1.00

00:59:32.000 And that's the whole thing Persian society is very insular. 0.99

00:59:34.000 They're very suspicious and distrusting of outsiders. 0.61

00:59:37.000 And so it does literally create the opposite effect. 0.97

00:59:40.000 You drop bombs on them.

00:59:41.000 No, I'm all set. 0.99

00:59:42.000 But, you know.

00:59:42.000 I'm good.

00:59:44.000 Yeah, you drop bombs on them. 0.98

00:59:46.000 Am I talking to you?

00:59:47.000 Do you hear me over there?

00:59:49.000 Oh, yeah, you're right over there.

00:59:50.000 Yeah, I'm here.

00:59:50.000 Okay.

00:59:51.000 I'm here.

00:59:52.000 It's not going to work. 0.98

00:59:52.000 Yeah, no, you drop bombs on them. 0.98

00:59:53.000 I mean, this idea that you're going to bomb them and then they're going to like us more.

00:59:57.000 Because that's what Trump said in Mar-a-Lago when they started the war in February.

01:00:01.000 February 28th, he came out and gave that speech.

01:00:04.000 And it was kind of like a disturbing speech.

01:00:05.000 He did it with like this black curtain.

01:00:07.000 He was all disheveled, had no necktie on.

01:00:09.000 And he comes out and he says, We're going to decimate Iran's military. 0.99

01:00:13.000 And when we're finished bombing the shit out of the country, then the Iranian people are going to come out and take the government back. 0.99

01:00:20.000 They're going to rise up. 0.99

01:00:21.000 And you say, How exactly does that calculation work? 1.00

01:00:24.000 You're going to rock their shit, bomb their city. 1.00

01:00:27.000 They're going to come out now and support what is basically openly a puppet regime. 1.00

01:00:31.000 You know, it doesn't even make sense.

01:00:32.000 But, um, But that's kind of the ill fated logic that we even had in Iraq.

01:00:37.000 Thanks.

01:00:38.000 I have a full water here, but thank you.

01:00:40.000 It's ill fated, you know? 1.00

01:00:42.000 That was the idea in Syria. 0.97

01:00:43.000 That was the idea in Iraq.

01:00:45.000 It's the idea in all these different countries.

01:00:47.000 So, yeah, so it doesn't work.

01:00:51.000 Yeah, I got you another one just in case.

01:00:52.000 Thanks.

01:00:53.000 It's warm in here, guys.

01:00:54.000 Double water.

01:00:55.000 Now you're double fisting water.

01:00:56.000 H2O is ready.

01:00:56.000 Double fisted.

01:00:57.000 HDO is ready.

01:00:58.000 Actually, you know what?

01:01:00.000 We could, let's talk about poker real quick since we're talking about the topic of people, because we're talking about the people that got charged.

01:01:07.000 Uh, can we pull up the Bolton thing real quick?

01:01:08.000 Jump on, and also, guys, we're gonna go over to kick.

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01:01:17.000 So if you're watching on Twitter or whatever, come on over to kickkick.com slash Myron Gaines X, guys.

01:01:20.000 That's like my main streaming platform now.

01:01:22.000 So, and then we'll go over and we have a clip here with John Bolton, and then we'll get into like some of the actual stuff going on with the conflict.

01:01:29.000 But, yeah, dude, I think this is going to be very bad for Trump when it comes to what's going on with the midterms.

01:01:36.000 I mean, I think obviously we're going to lose, but like, but it's not just a loss.

01:01:40.000 It's like a loss, and I think they're going to be out for blood.

01:01:43.000 Oh, yeah.

01:01:44.000 Yeah.

01:01:44.000 Well, and that's really the whole thing is I said this even to Tucker.

01:01:48.000 It's one of the few things we agreed on is when Trump does a half measure, even by winning, all you're doing is pissing off the other side.

01:01:55.000 Like, because think about it.

01:01:56.000 If Kamala had won in 2024, she would have no mandate. 0.99

01:02:01.000 Like, she would have no legitimacy. 0.97

01:02:03.000 Everybody would think the election was rigged. 1.00

01:02:05.000 Even Democrats wouldn't like her because they believed that she was basically a usurper. 1.00

01:02:09.000 You know, she didn't even win the Iowa caucus. 1.00

01:02:11.000 She didn't put her in, yeah.

01:02:11.000 She didn't make it to the Iowa caucus in 2020.

01:02:13.000 She bowed out before even the first race.

01:02:17.000 So she would be looked at as like this puppet who was installed, not popular, not legitimate, no mandate.

01:02:24.000 And the culture had shifted to the right under Biden.

01:02:28.000 Think about under Joe Biden.

01:02:29.000 People need to literally just get this through their heads.

01:02:32.000 It's not always a bad thing when the enemy is in charge.

01:02:35.000 Under Biden, Elon bought Twitter, censorship got better.

01:02:39.000 Zuckerberg moved to the right.

01:02:40.000 You know, he got his afro, he got his chain.

01:02:42.000 He's talking about wakeboarding on the 4th of July.

01:02:47.000 What's more, it's like wokeism basically died under Biden. 1.00

01:02:50.000 You had fuck Joe Biden, go viral. 0.99

01:02:53.000 The culture moved to the right. 1.00

01:02:55.000 We benefited from that.

01:02:56.000 And why?

01:02:57.000 Because when you're in the opposition, you get so much more leeway.

01:03:00.000 When you're in power, the pressure's on.

01:03:03.000 You got to be competent.

01:03:04.000 You got to be effective.

01:03:05.000 You got to present a positive vision.

01:03:07.000 And you have to deal with all the contradictions of governing. 0.63

01:03:10.000 You know, you're pro Palestine, but you got to deal with Israel.

01:03:12.000 Biden was getting squeezed to the benefit of the right.

01:03:15.000 Think about how much more powerful the right got from 2020 to 2024.

01:03:20.000 So much more powerful.

01:03:22.000 And if the Democrats had stayed in, they would have been flaccid.

01:03:24.000 Now that Democrats are looking very strong in 2028, they're coming back with a vengeance because everyone's pissed at Trump.

01:03:31.000 Everyone's got a reason from the Massey stuff to the Epstein files, Iran, the bureaucratic incompetence slash corruption, every way, the inflation, every way you cut it, the Democrats are going to be empowered by being negative.

01:03:46.000 And now that we've had four years of Trump basically messing everything up, now they're going to come back with a vengeance, like literally with a vengeance.

01:03:53.000 And they're going to have a mandate.

01:03:54.000 You know, it's going to be like Zorhan Mamdani.

01:03:56.000 Instead of, you know, lame Kamala, it's going to be somebody more hardcore.

01:04:02.000 He's reinvigorating the Democrat Party.

01:04:03.000 And it's actually like when he won mayor, I was like, yep, this guy's going to be, he's going to revolutionize the Democrat Party.

01:04:10.000 They're going to move from your establishment Democrats, like, you know, a Chuck Schumer over to, or a Hillary, Obama.

01:04:17.000 Now they're going to go into socialism.

01:04:18.000 And that's what we're seeing.

01:04:19.000 Trump is like our Biden.

01:04:21.000 You know, in the sense that.

01:04:21.000 Yeah.

01:04:22.000 Right?

01:04:23.000 That was a good point.

01:04:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:24.000 Biden is old. 1.00

01:04:26.000 Biden is old and demented and weak and incompetent. 1.00

01:04:31.000 And by putting him in and he's a joke, they supercharge the right wing. 0.99

01:04:35.000 Trump is having the same effect. 1.00

01:04:37.000 He's old, demented, incompetent. 1.00

01:04:39.000 He's tapped. 1.00

01:04:40.000 There's nothing new coming out of the MAGA movement.

01:04:42.000 The movement's basically over. 0.96

01:04:44.000 It's super corrupt, super obviously corrupt.

01:04:47.000 It's having the same effect.

01:04:48.000 It's supercharging the left.

01:04:49.000 And here's the problem is like, okay, so there's clearly an appetite for younger, energetic, populist leadership from outside the system.

01:04:58.000 And now the left is basically going to benefit from this advantage of coming in from the outside.

01:05:03.000 Like in 28, they get to be the outsiders that say, oh, look, are you fatigued with Trump?

01:05:08.000 Are you fatigued with the Republican Party?

01:05:10.000 We have the young offering.

01:05:12.000 We have the young, energetic, Israel critical, anti establishment, economically populist offering. 0.60

01:05:18.000 They actually are in the advantage by being the challenger this time around. 0.58

01:05:22.000 And I think that I'm very insistent about this.

01:05:25.000 If Kamala had won, we would be in a stronger position in 28.

01:05:28.000 No, we would.

01:05:29.000 We would be.

01:05:29.000 We are now.

01:05:30.000 And let me actually add to what, because as you were talking about the left getting stronger, you're right.

01:05:35.000 Look at these No Kings protests.

01:05:37.000 Dude, thousands upon thousands of people.

01:05:39.000 Look at Antifa.

01:05:40.000 They're becoming more violent.

01:05:41.000 They're acting crazier.

01:05:43.000 They're actually like in New Jersey, they were protesting against ICE for weeks in front of the thing like, oh, there's no human things here.

01:05:49.000 We're going to go ahead and complain in New Jersey.

01:05:51.000 Getting into fights.

01:05:52.000 The BLM has been a bit more active with them protesting.

01:05:57.000 Look at what happened with Carmella Anthony, right?

01:06:00.000 And then also with Antifa, I've been saying this forever.

01:06:06.000 Like, it's crazy to me how it took Charlie Kirk getting shot for like, The Trump administration to finally take Antifa seriously and make them a terrorist organization.

01:06:14.000 I'm still waiting for them to make BLM a terrorist organization.

01:06:16.000 They should make them that organization as well.

01:06:19.000 And yeah, man, they've just been out radical.

01:06:22.000 And then the left already is totally cool with protesting, hitting the streets, the Free Palestine Movement.

01:06:27.000 Look at what they're doing.

01:06:28.000 They're protesting every other day in New York City.

01:06:30.000 So it's like, you're right, dude.

01:06:32.000 They're getting more powerful.

01:06:34.000 You look at all the protests, they're pissed.

01:06:36.000 And then, like you said yesterday, I did not know that they were able to knock on 1.8 million doors.

01:06:41.000 Yeah.

01:06:43.000 Well, and that's insane.

01:06:44.000 Think about it.

01:06:45.000 For a mayor.

01:06:46.000 Yeah.

01:06:47.000 For a mayor.

01:06:49.000 To be fair, though, that's like hyper left, New York.

01:06:51.000 They're all out there.

01:06:52.000 Sure.

01:06:53.000 But it does demonstrate the energy.

01:06:55.000 And, you know, when it comes to Trump, for me.

01:06:58.000 Are we on Kick, guys?

01:06:59.000 Get off everything.

01:07:00.000 YouTube.

01:07:00.000 Guys, come on over to Kick.

01:07:00.000 Yeah.

01:07:01.000 Kick.com slash Myron Gaines X. We're getting off everywhere except for Kick.

01:07:04.000 And then you can keep the rumble up, too.

01:07:06.000 That's fine.

01:07:07.000 Sorry.

01:07:07.000 Go ahead.

01:07:08.000 The barometer for me is like the podcast bros Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon, Theo Vaughn, these kinds of guys.

01:07:14.000 Like that, that kind of gives you an insight into the mind of maybe like.

01:07:17.000 A normie, like average person.

01:07:19.000 If Trump has lost Rogan and Tim Dillon and these guys, you know, then what's your constituency going to be in 2028?

01:07:26.000 And I think there's going to be an appetite for like a left winger.

01:07:26.000 It isn't there.

01:07:29.000 I don't even think they'll be that radical, but they're going to promise like economic populism back to domestic stuff.

01:07:35.000 It's going to be just enough.

01:07:36.000 And like if Trump were going to be successful, to your point about Antifa, the only way that Trump would have been effective and worth it for him to hold office these four years is if he did a few things.

01:07:48.000 Like one, He should be protecting right wingers on social media and in banking.

01:07:54.000 That's the move.

01:07:55.000 How do you ensure that the right wing will even exist and get more radical?

01:08:00.000 You make sure they don't get banned on social media everywhere.

01:08:02.000 That's why he did an executive order on freedom of speech or whatever, but he's done nothing.

01:08:06.000 He's done nothing.

01:08:09.000 He's done something against debanking.

01:08:12.000 And they should have found a way to get right wing people a sinecure in government.

01:08:15.000 All these left wing activists are funded by NGOs through the State Department.

01:08:21.000 National Endowment for Democracy and stuff like that.

01:08:23.000 All the NGOs, that's basically a funnel to get that money into left wing activist organizations.

01:08:29.000 Atlanta Council, Atlanta Council is funded by the military.

01:08:31.000 They pay guys like Jared Holt to call me a white nationalist on Twitter.

01:08:35.000 It's like, so you should be creating institutions to be a sinecure and actually incubate the far right in the way that the far left has been incubated by the State Department.

01:08:43.000 So, like, those.

01:08:44.000 Like, he's out here doing interviews with Mum Donnie and everything, and he's as far left as you want, you know, crazy far left.

01:08:51.000 They support him still.

01:08:52.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:08:53.000 No censorship, nothing.

01:08:54.000 So they should have gotten rid of the censorship, the debanking.

01:08:57.000 They should have been funding the right wing.

01:08:58.000 And then on the other side, they should have been breaking the back of the left wing institutions, breaking the back of Antifa, their organization networks.

01:09:06.000 They should have been going after, you know, arguably some of the left wing billionaires, the foreign financing for this stuff.

01:09:11.000 That should have been the move.

01:09:12.000 But, you know, it's like Trump just doesn't think like, you know, getting back to it, he's just not a political mind.

01:09:18.000 He's a business mind.

01:09:19.000 So for him, it's like, you know, can you point to some policy wins?

01:09:23.000 Sure.

01:09:23.000 Okay.

01:09:24.000 They got rid of some of the DEI.

01:09:24.000 Yeah.

01:09:25.000 Okay.

01:09:26.000 You know, they closed the border.

01:09:26.000 Great.

01:09:27.000 That's fine.

01:09:28.000 Is that actually going to change the country?

01:09:31.000 No.

01:09:31.000 Does it change our political prospects?

01:09:33.000 Those are the big ones.

01:09:33.000 No.

01:09:34.000 So that's why Trump's a total failure. 1.00

01:09:37.000 Damn. 1.00

01:09:37.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:09:38.000 Yeah, it's.

01:09:39.000 So let's talk real quick about John Bolton here because he got found guilty.

01:09:44.000 And this is yesterday.

01:09:47.000 So, John Bolton is now a felon after pleading guilty to unlawful retention of national defense information.

01:09:51.000 He and his mustache have agreed to a $2.25 million fine, face up to 60 months of prison, and forfeit his pension.

01:09:58.000 Let's play a little bit of it real quick and then we'll kind of react.

01:10:01.000 So, this is, I guess, probably someone I'm assuming at the DOJ, probably U.S. Attorney.

01:10:05.000 This morning, just moments ago, John Robert Bolton.

01:10:08.000 The second pled guilty in federal court to the unlawful retention of national defense information.

01:10:16.000 According to the terms of the plea agreement, Mr. Bolton faces a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison, followed by a term of up to three years of supervised release.

01:10:29.000 He will also pay a fine of $2.25 million and will forfeit his pension under the HIS Act.

01:10:40.000 As national security advisor to the president of the United States, he's going to talk about how he had access to some of the most classified stuff.

01:10:47.000 So, what are your thoughts on that?

01:10:49.000 Obviously, John Bolton is like, you know, you want to talk about Swamp Creature.

01:10:53.000 That is a Swamp Creature for real.

01:10:55.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:10:56.000 No, it's good.

01:10:57.000 I mean, he's like the archetypal neocon.

01:10:59.000 He's in favor of, and the architect of all these wars. 0.92

01:11:03.000 So, it's, you know, it's good that they're going after him, but it's just like, it's just not enough.

01:11:06.000 He was critical in the Iraq War.

01:11:08.000 Yeah.

01:11:08.000 Very, he's, you know, he's like the legendary, he's synonymous with neoconservatism, basically.

01:11:14.000 Yeah.

01:11:14.000 He was in the first Trump admin, though.

01:11:16.000 They brought him in in what, May or June 2018.

01:11:18.000 Why did Trump get rid of him?

01:11:21.000 I think insubordination.

01:11:22.000 Okay.

01:11:23.000 Yeah, because he was going against some of the, like, he wasn't in favor of the withdrawal from Syria and some of the other stuff.

01:11:28.000 But, you know, they brought Bolton in. 1.00

01:11:30.000 Bolton was actually the architect of our Venezuela policy, maximum pressure campaign against Venezuela, which is what created the refugee crisis, which is why they're all fucking here. 1.00

01:11:38.000 Why they're here, yeah. 1.00

01:11:39.000 Because they made some.

01:11:41.000 TPS, or, yeah, temporary protective status.

01:11:43.000 Yeah, yeah, because they, and Trump did that.

01:11:45.000 You know, they destroyed Venezuela's economy, thinking the country would collapse.

01:11:49.000 All the people fled here. 0.99

01:11:51.000 And then one of Trump's last acts as president was to give them TPS so they could stay here.

01:11:55.000 And then they poured in under Biden.

01:11:57.000 A lot of people don't know.

01:11:59.000 I never talk about that.

01:12:00.000 I don't even think Crowder knew that.

01:12:00.000 I said that to Crowder.

01:12:02.000 Because they all want to talk about, oh, Biden let in these 12.

01:12:05.000 They never know how the one hand washes the other, you know, because they say Biden let in 12 million people.

01:12:11.000 It was driven by Venezuela.

01:12:12.000 They were maybe three to four million of those.

01:12:14.000 Why were they leaving?

01:12:15.000 Trump destroyed their economy.

01:12:17.000 Why were they allowed to stay here?

01:12:18.000 Trump gave them TPS.

01:12:19.000 It's like, so yeah, Biden didn't.

01:12:21.000 Repel them, but who drove them here and let them stay, incentivized them to stay?

01:12:26.000 Trump and his guy Bolton, and then Bolton went and ratted on him.

01:12:26.000 Trump.

01:12:31.000 Now we're chasing him.

01:12:33.000 This is just like the futility of Trumpism.

01:12:35.000 You hire someone like Bolton, he learns all your secrets, publishes them in a book, and now we're going to chase him.

01:12:41.000 It's like, when are you going to charge Obama?

01:12:43.000 Charge Obama.

01:12:44.000 Didn't Tulsi Gabbard do a press conference last year about how Obama illegally spied on the Trump campaign with the FISA warrants?

01:12:51.000 Whatever happened to that?

01:12:52.000 Yeah.

01:12:52.000 You know, but this is.

01:12:53.000 This is governing by press conference, where Trump is going to put out a press release and a press conference, and they're going to make these big pronouncements like she did last year.

01:13:02.000 Well, at DNI, we investigated Obama.

01:13:05.000 He broke the law. 0.99

01:13:06.000 Then where's the fucking indictment? 0.99

01:13:07.000 Then, you know, don't give me a press release. 0.99

01:13:09.000 Do it.

01:13:10.000 Put him in jail.

01:13:11.000 Why not?

01:13:12.000 They charged Trump.

01:13:13.000 You know, people say that would be unprecedented.

01:13:16.000 It's not.

01:13:17.000 They went after Trump with, you know, how many years were they going to send him up for?

01:13:20.000 Over 100 years?

01:13:21.000 Oh, dude.

01:13:22.000 Across these different cases, 116 years?

01:13:24.000 He was going to be cooked.

01:13:25.000 And they raided his house, Mar a Lago.

01:13:27.000 And now they want, you know, so I want to see Obama go to jail.

01:13:30.000 I want to see Hillary Clinton go to jail.

01:13:33.000 I want to see Fauci go to jail.

01:13:34.000 What happened to that?

01:13:35.000 You saw it.

01:13:36.000 So, Tulsi dropped.

01:13:37.000 What's your thoughts on her talking about how Fauci was involved with the whole COVID thing and how he kind of, you know, with the wound up?

01:13:44.000 Yeah, covered up the origins of it.

01:13:46.000 You know, once again, it's like, show me the money, man.

01:13:48.000 Like, where's, okay, he lied about it.

01:13:50.000 Then charge him, then indict him.

01:13:52.000 But that's the thing.

01:13:53.000 I mean, ironically, all the people, maybe not ironic, that's the wrong word for it, but Trump is only going after his like personal enemies, the people who like wrote books about him, the people he like doesn't, you know.

01:14:03.000 These people like James Comey, how much power does James Comey really have?

01:14:07.000 And symbolically, I mean, what does James Comey really represent other than that?

01:14:10.000 86, like that, which that was so lame.

01:14:12.000 Like, you went after him for that thing with the Instagram post.

01:14:15.000 I get it, like, because look, a part of me is like, I understand because, dude, Trump was in a really bad spot, like 22, 23.

01:14:23.000 Like, and I even, for me, like, I remember the case that worried me the most.

01:14:27.000 Because at the end of the day, like, I think me and you both, like, we might be pissed off with Iran or whatever, but we like Donald Trump.

01:14:33.000 We thought he's hilarious, whatever.

01:14:34.000 I think he's the most entertaining president of all time.

01:14:37.000 The thing that had me concerned was the classified document case.

01:14:39.000 When they went to Mar a Lago and they found all those documents there, and they're like, well, is it classified?

01:14:43.000 Is it not classified?

01:14:44.000 Can he declassify them?

01:14:45.000 And the thing that was, I was like, in my head, I was like, no, he's going to be cooked, is because NDI, which is exactly what they got with John Bolton, it doesn't matter how it's classified.

01:14:53.000 If it's military information, it's national defense information, cooked.

01:14:56.000 It doesn't matter what the classification is.

01:14:58.000 So they had him dead to rights.

01:14:59.000 And I knew that this guy, Jack Smith, was not going to let up, right?

01:15:04.000 You know, Dorian Jack Smith?

01:15:04.000 Right.

01:15:07.000 So.

01:15:08.000 That was a case that I was like, this is bad. 0.98

01:15:10.000 The other stuff was like, you know, the Georgia Rico. 1.00

01:15:13.000 I think that was just, oh my God, the black bitch. 1.00

01:15:15.000 What's her name? 1.00

01:15:16.000 The black woman, the DA, the district attorney for that county.

01:15:20.000 I don't remember.

01:15:22.000 Out of Georgia.

01:15:23.000 Someone's going to put her name here. 0.98

01:15:25.000 She went after Young Thug as well.

01:15:26.000 They made a very similar Rico case against Young Thug and the YSL.

01:15:31.000 She went after Trump for the Georgia Rico with like voter fraud or whatever. 0.97

01:15:35.000 And then obviously, Washington, D.C. for like insurrection.

01:15:38.000 Was it?

01:15:39.000 Fannie Willis.

01:15:40.000 Yes.

01:15:41.000 She was like fucking her other attorney. 1.00

01:15:42.000 Yes. 0.99

01:15:43.000 So she obviously had her political ambitions, but like the South Florida document case, bro, I think was the most dangerous one for sure.

01:15:50.000 And he would have gotten found guilty on that one for sure.

01:15:53.000 Well, and to me, it's just like, why?

01:15:54.000 I would love nothing more than to see the Obamas get dragged through the mud because they treat Obama like he's a saint.

01:16:01.000 They treat Michelle Obama like she's a saint. 1.00

01:16:04.000 And they're fucking criminals. 1.00

01:16:05.000 Very pompous. 1.00

01:16:05.000 Just like the Trumps. 1.00

01:16:07.000 So arrogant, so pompous, and so much of their power is in this idea that they represented. 0.88

01:16:12.000 Like a better time. 0.71

01:16:13.000 They were the adults in the room.

01:16:14.000 And, you know, they, they, Obama is a saint, you know, the sainted Obama, so cerebral and so, you know, whatever, mature.

01:16:23.000 And so to see that, and, you know, they got their Netflix deal and they're producing movies now and they had their thing at the library.

01:16:30.000 That just opened up.

01:16:31.000 Yes.

01:16:31.000 The library just opened up.

01:16:32.000 You know, all these criminals. 0.74

01:16:33.000 I would love to see nothing more. 0.99

01:16:35.000 Trump should have launched a strike on all the former presidents.

01:16:38.000 Should have been like Bush, Clinton, Obama.

01:16:41.000 Wouldn't that have been something? 1.00

01:16:43.000 And that's the kind of shit that we voted for Trump the first time to get. 0.99

01:16:47.000 It's not like these political bullshit victories, but like real accountability. 1.00

01:16:52.000 End the wars, put these people in jail. 1.00

01:16:54.000 You need to get the fuck out of it. 0.98

01:16:56.000 You know, let me get your take on this. 0.99

01:16:58.000 I always thought that the Obamas were responsible for far more than just the political crap. 0.97

01:17:07.000 I think they brought about a very negative cultural change in America. 0.99

01:17:10.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

01:17:11.000 I think the faggotry we have now with transgenderism started with gay marriage. 1.00

01:17:17.000 The BLM bullshit that we're dealing with now started with during the Obama era. 1.00

01:17:21.000 A lot of this wokeism that we're dealing with now, that's at a ridiculous level, started with him. 0.98

01:17:27.000 So I think they're responsible for a lot of the cultural issues that are just.

01:17:32.000 Obviously, you've all become significantly worse.

01:17:34.000 What's your thoughts on that?

01:17:35.000 Yeah, the Obamas wrecked America.

01:17:38.000 It all originated with them.

01:17:39.000 And, you know, people don't even realize Obama was pretty conservative in 2008.

01:17:43.000 He won the state of Indiana.

01:17:44.000 He was against gay marriage.

01:17:46.000 Like, do people remember that? 0.70

01:17:47.000 He was in favor of, like, the auto unions.

01:17:49.000 Like, Obama did not run as this race communist progressive, which is what he eventually became. 0.72

01:17:55.000 And, yeah, you're right. 0.63

01:17:56.000 I mean, it started with Trayvon Martin and, you know, they were very pro gay and all the rest of it. 0.74

01:18:01.000 So, yeah, it's a huge part of the problem.

01:18:04.000 Sam Francis.

01:18:05.000 Shortly before he died, he basically said, once Obama won the 2012 election, like America's over.

01:18:10.000 That was it.

01:18:11.000 So, yeah, and they need to be held accountable for that.

01:18:14.000 But you're never going to see it.

01:18:16.000 That's what Trump should have done.

01:18:17.000 But, you know, no way.

01:18:19.000 Yeah.

01:18:19.000 And I think for Trump, it's just been more about, like, you know, competing against him, like trying to get a better deal, trying to be a better president.

01:18:24.000 I think, you know what it is?

01:18:26.000 I think, was it 2011 when they had the White House Correspondence Center? 0.98

01:18:30.000 They say all the time that that was when, like, Trump said, I'm going to run and I'm going to fucking go against this guy. 0.98

01:18:35.000 He roasted him the whole night. 0.97

01:18:36.000 Like, he was just making fun of him.

01:18:37.000 And I think that was the night that they were actually. 0.89

01:18:39.000 Getting bin Laden when he was. 0.97

01:18:42.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:18:43.000 I think it was right around that night that he was making fun of Trump and they were running the operation for getting bin Laden.

01:18:49.000 And I mean, I don't know if that's the exactly thing, but a lot of people say, like, that's kind of when Trump said, I'm going to fucking run and get this guy. 0.95

01:18:54.000 Yeah, that was awesome. 0.85

01:18:56.000 You ever see that video where he's just sitting there stewing?

01:18:58.000 Oh, yeah, he's so pissed.

01:19:00.000 Obama goes, I thought he was going to run as a joke.

01:19:02.000 Yeah.

01:19:03.000 Or no, that was Seth Meyers.

01:19:04.000 Obama said something like.

01:19:05.000 So see if you can pull it up real quick, guys.

01:19:07.000 Oh, that's so good.

01:19:08.000 White House correspondents then are like 2011.

01:19:11.000 And yeah, he's just like, and making fun of Trump.

01:19:13.000 He's like just cooking him the whole time and he was pissed.

01:19:15.000 Sorry.

01:19:16.000 Yeah, he said something like, you know, Trump has to make these decisions like, are we going to fire Meatloaf or Gary Busey?

01:19:23.000 Those are the decisions that keep me up at night.

01:19:26.000 He's just totally making fun of Trump.

01:19:28.000 And you see, Trump is like seething.

01:19:30.000 Yeah.

01:19:30.000 And honestly, Trump will always have aura for that.

01:19:34.000 This idea that they're just like, that Obama made fun of him.

01:19:38.000 So his vengeance was to like become the president. 0.54

01:19:41.000 Like insane.

01:19:43.000 That's insane.

01:19:44.000 Oh, no, that's a big part of the reason why.

01:19:45.000 You make fun of me?

01:19:46.000 Okay.

01:19:48.000 I'll take over the world.

01:19:51.000 He won, yeah.

01:19:51.000 And he won.

01:19:52.000 He won.

01:19:53.000 Like, I remember when he won, I was so funny.

01:19:55.000 Like, no one thought he was going to win.

01:19:57.000 In 2016, Hillary had all these, like, I think she had, like, a book ready and, like, the newspaper was ready, whatever, magazines.

01:20:03.000 And it's like she lost. 0.99

01:20:04.000 And she was like, what the fuck? 1.00

01:20:05.000 Like, no one thought he was going to win. 1.00

01:20:07.000 I even think with him, he was even surprised. 1.00

01:20:09.000 Like, oh, shit, I won. 1.00

01:20:10.000 I got to be president now. 1.00

01:20:10.000 What the fuck am I going to do? 1.00

01:20:11.000 That's what they say, you know, that he didn't even think he was going to win. 0.99

01:20:14.000 Yeah.

01:20:15.000 Pull it up real quick. 1.00

01:20:15.000 This shit is hilarious. 1.00

01:20:16.000 Like, yeah, because I'm almost certain this is when, like, when they were going to get Osama. 1.00

01:20:24.000 Oh, yeah. 0.99

01:20:25.000 Yeah, this is definitely it.

01:20:30.000 It's here tonight.

01:20:32.000 Now, I know that he's taken some flack lately, but no one is happier.

01:20:37.000 No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald.

01:20:42.000 And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter.

01:20:47.000 Like,.

01:20:49.000 Did we fake the moon landing?

01:20:54.000 What really happened in Roswell?

01:20:58.000 And where are Biggie and Tupac?

01:21:02.000 All kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.

01:21:11.000 For example, no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men's cooking.

01:21:22.000 Team did not impress the judges from Omaha Stakes.

01:21:26.000 And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership.

01:21:33.000 And so ultimately you didn't blame Little John or Meat Loaf.

01:21:39.000 You fired Gary Buzic.

01:21:43.000 And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.

01:21:49.000 Well handled, sir.

01:21:52.000 Well handled.

01:21:54.000 Say what you will about.

01:21:56.000 Mr. Trump, he certainly would bring some change to the White House.

01:22:01.000 Let's see what we've got up there.

01:22:15.000 He's not laughing at you.

01:22:18.000 Donald Trump is here tonight.

01:22:19.000 No, I know that.

01:22:19.000 He had the same exact face the whole time, just like.

01:22:22.000 Yeah, not laughing at all.

01:22:24.000 Which is so.

01:22:25.000 Because he hated Obama. 0.86

01:22:27.000 He thinks Obama's a punk.

01:22:28.000 And not only that, you know, now I'm remembering why Obama went so viciously at him.

01:22:28.000 Yeah.

01:22:33.000 Trump would always say, Show us your birth certificate.

01:22:35.000 The birther thing, yeah.

01:22:36.000 Because Trump was teasing a run in 2012.

01:22:38.000 Yeah.

01:22:39.000 And that's how he got in the news cycle saying Obama wasn't born here.

01:22:42.000 And that's what made the.

01:22:43.000 And what's funny, too, about that is that the Clintons created that.

01:22:47.000 When the Clintons run against Obama in the 08 primary, that's where that came from.

01:22:52.000 Oh, that he was born in Kenya and he can't even be president. 0.97

01:22:55.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:22:55.000 That's a big reason why Hillary Clinton didn't get in the cabinet until later because Michelle Obama in particular had this big grudge. 0.99

01:23:02.000 I think it might have even been like Sidney Blumenthal or like somebody who was involved in cooking that one up.

01:23:07.000 There's like a lot of like Democrat bad blood because it originated with the Clintons because they're vicious.

01:23:13.000 Oh, man.

01:23:14.000 I forgot about that. 0.75

01:23:15.000 Yeah, because he beat her out in the primary.

01:23:18.000 And, but yeah, but that, you know, these new school guys, these nephews, they don't even remember that.

01:23:25.000 They don't remember the birther thing.

01:23:26.000 They don't remember, you know, Trump's.

01:23:28.000 Because, you know, back in those days, it was super viral in the early internet when Trump said Obama wasn't born here.

01:23:33.000 Oh, yeah. 0.97

01:23:34.000 So Obamas hated him, and then they motherfucked him on the White House thing. 0.96

01:23:38.000 Like, there were a couple things that Trump would viciously attack him on. 0.97

01:23:40.000 You would attack him on the birth certificate, he shouldn't be president.

01:23:44.000 And then he would also attack him a lot on the Middle Eastern foreign policy.

01:23:47.000 Yeah, but he would always say, oh, yeah, the Benghazi failure, that was a big one.

01:23:50.000 And then also, he would say, Obama's going to drag us into a war with Iran. 0.99

01:23:53.000 This deal sucks. 1.00

01:23:54.000 It stinks, which is true. 1.00

01:23:56.000 People say all the time, well, Trump has always been critical of the Iran deal.

01:23:58.000 He's always been hard on Iran.

01:24:00.000 True, but a lot of his tweets were, we don't want war with Iran, and Obama's going to get us into a war with Iran.

01:24:05.000 And then fast forward, what, 15 years later, and he's the one getting us into a war with Iran. 0.98

01:24:10.000 And it's just like, what the fuck is going on? 0.99

01:24:11.000 So horrible, though. 0.99

01:24:13.000 Because that clip was funny, but then to people juxtapose that clip with Trump being inaugurated in 2016 and Obama sitting in the audience, it's just like, that is actually legendary.

01:24:26.000 And.

01:24:26.000 That's why we love Trump or did.

01:24:28.000 Can you describe?

01:24:28.000 Because I don't think people understand.

01:24:30.000 Like, people might be like, oh, Myron, why is that such a big deal?

01:24:33.000 Like, can you tell them how much Trump hates getting made fun of?

01:24:37.000 Like, yeah, I mean, you know, he's obviously got a huge ego.

01:24:41.000 Yeah.

01:24:42.000 Very fragile ego.

01:24:43.000 So that stuff really does get to him.

01:24:45.000 But, you know, I don't know.

01:24:46.000 I think that's overstated how much that really impacted it.

01:24:48.000 Yeah, because, you know, he was talking about running for president for like 30 years.

01:24:52.000 You know, he's going to run for the Reform Party nomination, I think, in 2000.

01:24:56.000 He did actually something in New Hampshire, I think, in 1992.

01:24:59.000 Or in '96, if I'm not mistaken, they set up some like, yeah, because back in '16, when he was originally running, I was like a big Trump guy and knew everything.

01:25:10.000 Yeah, so he did something in New Hampshire teasing a Republican run in the '90s.

01:25:14.000 He did the reform, flirted with the Reform Party run in 2000.

01:25:18.000 That's why he called Buchanan a Hitler lover.

01:25:20.000 Oh, yeah.

01:25:21.000 Remember that?

01:25:21.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:25:22.000 Because Buchanan was one of the first people to be a little bit critical of our favorite dreidel spinners, right?

01:25:28.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, in '92.

01:25:29.000 And, um, Yeah, so Trump, like, he had been flirting with it.

01:25:34.000 It's in the 88 convention, the Republican convention.

01:25:36.000 I think in 88, they were asking him about it.

01:25:38.000 So he's wanted to be president forever.

01:25:41.000 It's just that to him, I think he always saw that as the ultimate legacy.

01:25:45.000 Is like, you know, he wanted to go from what his father was doing, which was like apartments in Queens to like the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

01:25:53.000 And then he wanted the Trump Tower.

01:25:54.000 And then, you know, as the game show, the celebrity thing.

01:25:57.000 And then I think ultimately he always wanted to be the boss of the country, you know, so. 0.71

01:26:02.000 But he's, to me, he's just like sort of a petty tyrant.

01:26:05.000 He doesn't have that political genius that a Hitler had or like a Joseph Stalin had. 0.61

01:26:09.000 He doesn't have that talent. 0.96

01:26:10.000 He's just sort of like a petty tyrant. 0.91

01:26:11.000 Yeah.

01:26:12.000 Because it's like he's like, because like there's obviously business elements of like a business mindset that will, you know, be great as being like a political leader.

01:26:12.000 Yeah.

01:26:20.000 But at the same time, there's like things there that like you might not necessarily think about, right?

01:26:24.000 Because you have to be fairly cerebral and tactical with some of the things that you do politically that he, you know, might not be as refined as he is.

01:26:31.000 He's not idealist.

01:26:32.000 Yeah.

01:26:32.000 You know, it's like.

01:26:34.000 So, yeah.

01:26:35.000 So that's why he was never going to be the guy.

01:26:36.000 But that video is so funny.

01:26:38.000 It almost makes you remember why it's so interesting because when you contrast the Trump of 2016 from now, You, we really forget what it was like.

01:26:46.000 It's been so long and so much has happened, and people have grown up under Trumpism that we've like lost touch with what it was really like in 2016.

01:26:46.000 Yeah.

01:26:54.000 Not only what it was like with like Trumpism in its ascendancy, but also what it was like with the left.

01:26:59.000 I feel like a lot of these younger kids, especially now, you know, kids that are 18 now or kids that grew up under Trump, like they never knew the Obama years.

01:27:07.000 Yeah.

01:27:08.000 It's like a different generation. 0.99

01:27:10.000 I remember the Plainiers vividly, like as a kid.

01:27:12.000 Like that's why like Trump was so shocking to like, because I'm 36, I'm old as hell.

01:27:16.000 Like, It's so shocking because I was like, I remember when presidents were super proper and nice and very presidential, as they would say.

01:27:24.000 So this guy comes in and says, We're going to build a wall.

01:27:24.000 Refined.

01:27:26.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:27:27.000 And Mexico's going to pay for it.

01:27:29.000 It was unheard of. 0.99

01:27:30.000 Like, what the fuck is going on? 1.00

01:27:31.000 We're going to ban the Muslim countries. 1.00

01:27:34.000 I was like, Oh shit. 1.00

01:27:35.000 Like, this guy's nuts, but it's hilarious. 0.99

01:27:36.000 So, like, you have like, I'll never forget this Obama and Mitt Romney debating in like 2011, 2012 for the presidential election.

01:27:47.000 They're all polite.

01:27:49.000 You know, complimenting each other.

01:27:50.000 Even when Obama ran against McCain, I remember this old lady, well, isn't Obama a Muslim? 0.78

01:27:55.000 And he's like, no, he's not a Muslim. 1.00

01:27:56.000 Oh, he's like defending him and shit. 1.00

01:27:58.000 Like, that would never happen nowadays. 0.99

01:28:00.000 Like, it's like they would just bash each other.

01:28:01.000 So, like, it completely went from like, you know, very posh, boring, you know, politics to like now it's like blood sport, right?

01:28:09.000 Like, Trump is over here saying, like, they're eating the cats and dogs.

01:28:11.000 Like, during the Kamala Harris debate, it's like it changed into like entertainment almost.

01:28:15.000 So, yeah.

01:28:16.000 Well, and not only that, but I.

01:28:17.000 It's hilarious.

01:28:18.000 The younger.

01:28:19.000 People, they just don't remember what it was like in the early 2010s.

01:28:22.000 It was so liberal and so woke.

01:28:24.000 They just like forget the texture of life.

01:28:26.000 Now that Trump is in office, the culture's totally different.

01:28:30.000 Like what's acceptable and how far right things have moved.

01:28:34.000 And I almost wonder how positive that is because of that amnesia.

01:28:37.000 I feel like that's what makes the pendulum go back in the other direction.

01:28:40.000 Because people have kind of gotten acclimated to like the new normal, which is Trumpism and like what's tolerated.

01:28:46.000 And they forget what it was really like in the 2010s, which it was unbearable because it felt like.

01:28:52.000 It felt like leftism was just inevitable.

01:28:54.000 Like everything was going more left forever. 1.00

01:28:57.000 You were always going to be surprised about, you know, first it was the gays, then it was the trannies, then everyone thought it was going to pedophilia. 1.00

01:29:04.000 And it felt like that kind of momentum. 0.95

01:29:06.000 There was a huge push for interracial marriage, too.

01:29:08.000 A lot of people have noticed, like when Obama came in, there was a huge push for interracial relationships.

01:29:08.000 Yeah.

01:29:13.000 Like every Netflix show or every TV show, there'd be like interracial couples all the time. 0.98

01:29:18.000 It was like a thing. 0.99

01:29:18.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:29:19.000 Well, and it was just always like more feminism, more black, more diversity, more. 1.00

01:29:23.000 It was always going in that direction.

01:29:25.000 And what, you know, to his credit, what people don't.

01:29:27.000 Maybe on our side, give Trump enough credit for is he totally arrested that trend and made it move in the other direction.

01:29:32.000 And things are changing.

01:29:33.000 Because, like, you know, Elon Musk being the most powerful man in the world and being like low key a white nationalist, that's kind of odd.

01:29:40.000 You know, you think about that.

01:29:41.000 And, you know, even these Tesla drivers, they're getting flipped off all the time.

01:29:46.000 People drive Teslas and liberals like vandalize the cars, flip them off. 0.77

01:29:50.000 Cause they're like, you know, the guy that runs the number one electric U.S. automaker is like a fascist. 0.98

01:29:56.000 It's like a white nationalist. 0.50

01:29:57.000 Well, it kind of just objectively is in many ways.

01:30:00.000 And you go, you know, in broad strokes, things have gotten better, and we should work to maintain and push further in that direction.

01:30:08.000 And you forget that, like, when Trump first came in, they were firebombing Tesla dealerships.

01:30:13.000 Like, yo, they were, like, legitimately firebombing them, like, throw out Molotov cocktails, et cetera.

01:30:18.000 Like, a bunch of people got arrested for terrorism for doing that.

01:30:20.000 That was crazy, yeah. 0.99

01:30:21.000 In early 25, so when Trump came in, so it was like, oh, shit. 1.00

01:30:25.000 So, but no, it's just crazy times, man. 0.99

01:30:28.000 Oh, okay, let's go to the war.

01:30:30.000 We went over on a whole thing, a tangent with impeachment and everything else, but.

01:30:35.000 But yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely insane.

01:30:38.000 So let's go ahead.

01:30:39.000 We could go to rerun, or let's see here.

01:30:43.000 And guys, we're going to do obviously a QA section on OSS as well.

01:30:48.000 You guys can ask me and Nick a bunch of questions.

01:30:49.000 We'll go over there.

01:30:51.000 Okay, in a little bit.

01:30:52.000 Okay, so IRGC confirms this two hours ago.

01:30:54.000 Its attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain is retaliation for the earlier U.S. attacks on Iran.

01:30:59.000 So basically, I think what happened was obviously the war in Lebanon did not cease. 0.54

01:31:05.000 The Israelis did not pull back. 0.65

01:31:06.000 As a matter of fact, they aggravated it by signing this agreement.

01:31:09.000 Yesterday, which obviously a lot of people got pissed off in Lebanon. 0.90

01:31:14.000 Hezbollah people like went over to the PM's house and everything else.

01:31:17.000 And then that led to the U.S. striking along the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.

01:31:25.000 And then Iran retaliated by hitting bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.

01:31:31.000 And then let's see what else we have here.

01:31:34.000 Initial reports.

01:31:36.000 So you scroll up a little bit, refresh it, like to refresh the Twitter page.

01:31:47.000 It confirmed.

01:31:47.000 And then I do have an IRG statement here.

01:31:51.000 Let me see if I can read it real quick.

01:31:52.000 Okay.

01:31:53.000 So it goes So after they bombed them, here's their statement.

01:31:57.000 During a joint missile and drone operation between 2 and 3 a.m. today, Sunday, July 28th, your brave sons in the naval and air force of the Revolutionary Guard launched ballistic missiles and drones at eight vital locations of the American Army at Ali al Salam Air Base in Kuwait and the 5th Fleet in Mina Salman, Bahrain, destroying them and firmly responding to the recent American aggression.

01:32:17.000 The aggressive enemy.

01:32:19.000 Which is by nature a breaker of covenants and agreements, attacked five coastal sites belonging to the Islamic Republic at dawn today under the pretext of confronting the IRGC's naval forces against the violating ship. 0.52

01:32:31.000 Based on the memorandum of understanding signed in Islamabad, the agreements, the arrangements for the regulating navigation in the Strait of Homus are the responsibility of the Islamic Republic.

01:32:42.000 And from now on, violating ships will be dealt with more firmly than before.

01:32:46.000 And any potential aggression by the enemy under any pretext, even if the aggression is directed against, Unimportant targets, as happened last night and tonight, will face an overwhelming response.

01:32:58.000 In the last paragraph here, it says, or last sentence, the enemy must know that violating the ceasefire is a violation of Article 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Islamabad and will lead to a complete cessation of operations.

01:33:10.000 So, what are your thoughts on that, Nick?

01:33:13.000 That's the IRGC statement.

01:33:15.000 Yeah, so, you know.

01:33:17.000 Can you talk about Trump's true social, too, please, guys?

01:33:19.000 So the MOU says that Iran and Oman will jointly manage the strait.

01:33:23.000 Yep.

01:33:23.000 Last week, after Switzerland, the Iranian delegation met with the Omanis to work out how they're going to jointly manage it.

01:33:30.000 And what's happened since then is now the Omanis have opened up a route of passage through the strait hugging their coast.

01:33:36.000 Yes.

01:33:37.000 So the strait goes between Iran and Oman.

01:33:40.000 And what the IRGC said is the only way we're going to let you go through the strait is if you get permission from the IRGC.

01:33:47.000 And what that does is create a precedent where then to get permission, you need to pay money.

01:33:51.000 So Iran said, you're going to go through this.

01:33:54.000 Lane of passage that we have authorized that we've opened up and need to tell us about it. 0.98

01:33:58.000 Well, the Omani said, We're opening up our own lane.

01:34:00.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:34:01.000 And you're going to double cross them, right?

01:34:02.000 Because they were supposed to work together to have like split the revenue and then like have one lane that they go through. 0.87

01:34:09.000 So the Omani's kind of double crossed them. 0.93

01:34:11.000 Right.

01:34:11.000 So the Omani's are saying, We're going to let ships go without paying or asking permission.

01:34:15.000 This is why the Iranians are now attacking the shipping. 0.96

01:34:18.000 The Iranians started, I think, on Thursday, Friday, and then today, all the past three days, every single day, Iran has been attacking the tankers that are going through that route. 0.99

01:34:26.000 To deter them from doing that so that they can monopolize the trade. 0.86

01:34:29.000 Because if the strait is opened on the Omani side, then it's freedom of navigation and then Iran loses all their leverage. 0.87

01:34:34.000 Because then obviously all the shipping is going to go there instead of asking the IRGC and then they can't charge the toll. 0.68

01:34:40.000 So Iran has been attacking the shipping.

01:34:42.000 In retaliation, the U.S. has been bombing Iran's southern coast.

01:34:46.000 And the other thing that they're doing is they're sending a full escort package for one single tanker.

01:34:52.000 There was one single tanker.

01:34:53.000 I don't know if it was destined for Oman or if it originated in Oman, but there's a tanker that went through the strait from Oman.

01:34:59.000 And they had a full package from the U.S. 0.98

01:35:00.000 They had like Ospreys and drones and like a full air package to escort the ship from Bahrain through the Strait, sending a message to the Iranians, like, don't try to fuck with this Omani route anymore. 0.96

01:35:11.000 So the Iranians then retaliated against the U.S., bombing Kuwait, bombing Bahrain.

01:35:16.000 And now they're saying the MOU is off.

01:35:19.000 They're saying we may just pull out of the thing altogether.

01:35:21.000 And the Council of Jurists, the expert council, they came out and said, we should have never opened up the Strait.

01:35:29.000 They said, we're never going to negotiate the nuclear file and we need a ceasefire in Lebanon.

01:35:33.000 And so now they're saying, on that basis, of all three of those points, they're going to just pull out of the MOU and then that's it.

01:35:38.000 Oh, man.

01:35:40.000 Which is just, I mean, and then we run out of oil.

01:35:45.000 I don't think people understand how bad this is.

01:35:47.000 Like, you know, like we discussed before, the reason why, and if we could, oh, here's Trump right here.

01:35:53.000 This is, I said this recently.

01:35:55.000 Can you make it big on our end?

01:35:57.000 This is a true social post right here for you guys.

01:35:59.000 It says United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites, providing a ceasefire agreement.

01:36:06.000 Again, it is very possible that they will never learn.

01:36:09.000 There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete.

01:36:16.000 The job that we very successfully started.

01:36:19.000 If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist, President Donald J. Trump.

01:36:23.000 And that was three hours ago.

01:36:25.000 Yeah.

01:36:26.000 So we're in exactly the same situation.

01:36:28.000 What good is the MOU?

01:36:30.000 Because what does the MOU say?

01:36:31.000 Can I pull up the MOU real quick for us, real fast, guys?

01:36:33.000 It says they're opening the strait.

01:36:34.000 Okay, the strait's not open.

01:36:36.000 Yeah.

01:36:36.000 They say there's a ceasefire in Lebanon.

01:36:37.000 There's no ceasefire in Lebanon.

01:36:39.000 And here it is.

01:36:41.000 So here's the MOU right here.

01:36:43.000 The United States of America and the Islamic Republic and their allies in the current war by signing this MOU declared the immediate permanent termination of military operations on all fronts.

01:36:50.000 Including in Lebanon.

01:36:51.000 Also, I find this interesting.

01:36:52.000 What do you think about this, Nick?

01:36:53.000 Remember how they tried to slide in Gaza in there and then they had to change it? 0.87

01:36:56.000 Did they? 0.99

01:36:57.000 They did originally.

01:36:58.000 It was like in some of the earlier drafts that were leaked.

01:37:00.000 And then they made it, then they just made it all fronts.

01:37:02.000 And then they, you know, obviously made it about Lebanon. 0.60

01:37:05.000 And I think the Gaza thing was like, okay, maybe that's asking for too much.

01:37:09.000 I don't think the Iranians were ever asking for that.

01:37:11.000 They did. 1.00

01:37:12.000 They did.

01:37:12.000 But, like, they ended up, like, pulling it back.

01:37:15.000 But, like, in earlier drafts, because they were going back and forth a million times.

01:37:18.000 So, like, they were trying to get Gaza as well.

01:37:21.000 And then they pulled it back. 0.58

01:37:22.000 And I know this because.

01:37:23.000 Oh, man.

01:37:25.000 I forget who it was that I was watching, but there was a lot of people in the Muslim world that were pissed off because Gaza was removed.

01:37:33.000 That's how I know that it was originally in the drafts and then they took it out for the final.

01:37:36.000 Because that's why they were being so secretive about what's in it, what's not in it.

01:37:39.000 Because they were kind of passing back our draft back and forth, and Gaza wasn't, and then they removed it.

01:37:44.000 And that's what pissed a lot of people off.

01:37:45.000 Yeah, because that would never fly. 1.00

01:37:46.000 In the Muslim world, yeah. 1.00

01:37:47.000 Israel would never. 1.00

01:37:48.000 I mean, maybe Lebanon, but never. 0.99

01:37:49.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:50.000 And that's precisely why.

01:37:51.000 Well, I think they just wanted them to not pull out of Gaza, but stop the bombing, is what it was.

01:37:56.000 But.

01:37:57.000 Hamas hasn't disarmed, so they're going to keep attacking.

01:38:00.000 But that's how I know, because I was watching somebody, I forget them. 0.91

01:38:05.000 There was a bunch of Muslims that were pissed off about it. 0.87

01:38:07.000 Because they looked at it like, well, Gaza is the reason that this war started, which allowed for all of this to begin to give Iran the opportunity that it has now.

01:38:18.000 Why would you betray Gaza? 0.72

01:38:19.000 Because they look at it like, which I can understand their grievance, Gaza is the reason why everyone is against Israel now because of the mass murdering.

01:38:27.000 So they looked at it like their suffering and their sacrifice is not being.

01:38:31.000 Because they were the ones that created this, you know, the negative press for Israel, right?

01:38:36.000 That's what's going on.

01:38:38.000 Can we pull it up real quick one more time?

01:38:42.000 The final deal will confirm and refrain from the threat against force of each other, ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.

01:38:49.000 The final deal confirmed the permanent termination of a war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

01:38:52.000 Okay, so this is what the first point that they're saying that they violated.

01:38:56.000 But you were saying earlier with the. 0.99

01:39:01.000 Shit, I was. 0.99

01:39:02.000 We're talking about the straight termination. 1.00

01:39:08.000 Shit, or. 1.00

01:39:09.000 I don't remember. 0.99

01:39:10.000 But I mean, maybe just about the whole situation that the MOU is now.

01:39:15.000 I mean, what's even the point?

01:39:16.000 Yeah.

01:39:17.000 You know, I mean, it's exactly the status quo from before.

01:39:21.000 And fundamentally, it's because they just never agreed on these issues.

01:39:24.000 Because the disagreement, which was at the center of this, was if the straight opens, it's under what conditions?

01:39:31.000 Does Iran control it or is it freedom of navigation?

01:39:34.000 Because that was always a sticking point.

01:39:35.000 Iran said, yeah, we'll open the strait, but we're going to charge money.

01:39:38.000 And the U.S. said, no, you're not.

01:39:40.000 We need freedom of navigation.

01:39:42.000 And so, apparently, in the weeks leading up to the MOU, they said, Oh, we resolved that. 0.90

01:39:46.000 We're going to let Iran charge a toll.

01:39:48.000 And the U.S. insisted, No, we're not. 0.99

01:39:50.000 And they still are.

01:39:51.000 So there was no agreement on that. 0.75

01:39:53.000 There was no agreement on Lebanon. 0.91

01:39:54.000 And then the Iranians are using these violations as a pretext.

01:39:59.000 So they're saying, Well, since there's no ceasefire in Lebanon, now we don't have to open up the strait.

01:40:04.000 We can bomb shipping if we want to.

01:40:06.000 Since the strait is closed, now the U.S. is going to hit Iran.

01:40:09.000 Now Iran says, Well, then we're not going to talk about the nuclear file.

01:40:12.000 So You know, we're just not anywhere closer to a deal than we were a week ago, two weeks ago, a year ago.

01:40:19.000 It's fundamentally the same impasse on every single thing.

01:40:22.000 And so now Trump says, you know, we're back at square one with the military threats.

01:40:27.000 So we're going to bomb Iran if they don't behave.

01:40:29.000 And you say, well, what has changed? 0.79

01:40:31.000 You know, what military option is available now that wasn't available in April, that wasn't available, you know, when you threatened to annihilate Iranian civilization? 0.65

01:40:39.000 What are you going to do? 0.96

01:40:40.000 Take Karg Island, bomb the nuclear, or not the nuclear, the. 0.98

01:40:45.000 Oil refineries and the bridges and the civilian infrastructure, invade the islands and the Strait of Hormuz. 0.67

01:40:50.000 I mean, what realistically are you going to do that wasn't on the table then but is on the table now?

01:40:55.000 You can't.

01:40:56.000 There's nothing you can do.

01:40:57.000 And this is why, for me, I've always wondered where it's going to go.

01:41:00.000 I really have no idea where it's going to go. 0.99

01:41:02.000 I really don't because it's like we can't get Iran to change their behavior. 0.96

01:41:07.000 We also can't invade militarily. 0.96

01:41:09.000 So something's got to give here. 0.99

01:41:11.000 Either we're going to give Iran everything they want or we're going to get absolutely fucked. 0.99

01:41:16.000 Or are we going to go to war? 0.99

01:41:17.000 But I mean, that seems.

01:41:19.000 That seems like the least likely of all that you're going to see a ground invasion of Iran or, you know, a tactical nuclear weapon or something.

01:41:25.000 Because in order for us to have any military options, we would just need to qualitatively escalate in the types of weapons we're willing to use, you know, what kind of tactics we're willing to employ. 0.55

01:41:35.000 So I just, I really don't see how this ends because it's literally if we want Iran to engage on our terms, it's a ground invasion, it's an escalation we're not prepared for. 0.68

01:41:47.000 On the other hand, if we don't do that, Is there any scenario where Iran opens up the strait under our terms? 0.88

01:41:52.000 I think the answer is no. 0.92

01:41:54.000 And if they don't do that, then the economy completely falls apart.

01:41:57.000 I remember what it was that I was going to ask you.

01:42:00.000 Can you explain real quick to the audience the reason why the reserves and why that was probably one of the main factors for Trump to pull into, get this deal, even though it was very unfavorable to us in the first place?

01:42:12.000 Yeah.

01:42:12.000 So it's 20% of the world's oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz.

01:42:16.000 That's been taken offline since February 28th.

01:42:20.000 So how many months is that?

01:42:21.000 It's all of March, April, May, June.

01:42:24.000 And in order to offset the loss of that supply, the U.S. released hundreds of millions of barrels of oil.

01:42:31.000 And the whole international community did, right?

01:42:32.000 Didn't it?

01:42:33.000 Like us and obviously everyone else, like released, yeah.

01:42:35.000 Yeah, I was about to say that.

01:42:36.000 They coordinated through the International Energy Association the release of 400 million barrels of oil.

01:42:41.000 And that's just what they coordinated.

01:42:43.000 China released their reserves.

01:42:44.000 We don't even know because they're not transparent about it.

01:42:46.000 But the whole world dumped their supply.

01:42:49.000 And that's why the price hasn't gone out of control.

01:42:51.000 Because they were saying that if the war went on into June, you'd have like $200 per barrel for oil.

01:42:57.000 The only reason that hasn't happened is because we've just been pumping this stuff out, but now we're just running out.

01:43:02.000 There's only 350 million barrels left in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

01:43:06.000 That's enough for like, I don't know, 10 or 20 days or something.

01:43:09.000 It's just not enough.

01:43:10.000 And once that runs out, you're talking about rationing.

01:43:14.000 You're literally talking about energy rationing, where they're going to start to say, you can't buy gas.

01:43:19.000 Or maybe they're talking about a shutdown.

01:43:21.000 Are we going to use flock cameras to track how much people are driving and ration fuel per person?

01:43:26.000 You start to get into that territory.

01:43:28.000 And people say, well, The US is an energy exporter, so we don't have to worry about that.

01:43:33.000 But we use more energy than we use.

01:43:36.000 Yeah, we need to explain that to them.

01:43:37.000 Because, like, people are so, oh, because Trump always says this during interviews.

01:43:40.000 He always says, we make more oil than Saudi Arabia.

01:43:42.000 We make more oil than all these people.

01:43:44.000 We don't even really need to trade like that.

01:43:46.000 We produce our own.

01:43:47.000 Now we got Venezuela, et cetera.

01:43:48.000 And I'm just, like, in my head, like, okay, this, though some of that might be true, it doesn't matter.

01:43:53.000 Can you explain to them, like, why that doesn't matter that we make our own oil and we got Venezuela?

01:43:57.000 And it's like, why it still doesn't change the high prices?

01:44:00.000 Yeah, it all has to.

01:44:01.000 Well, number one, it's just basic, like, supply and demand.

01:44:04.000 You know, that's the first and foremost, is everyone in the world is competing for oil and.

01:44:09.000 And so the price system works with that like it does with the rest of the world.

01:44:12.000 And it's down now at 73, but it's going to go back up, especially with this conflict.

01:44:15.000 Because they haven't priced it in, you know, because the markets, for whatever reason, the markets are behaving irrationally.

01:44:20.000 They are responding to the news.

01:44:22.000 If the headline says the war is over, then they will say, oh, well, oil is going to become plentiful again.

01:44:28.000 So that's reflected in the price.

01:44:30.000 But they don't realize that just because, even if the war ended today, it doesn't mean that supply goes back to normal.

01:44:35.000 Because it takes time for supply to increase again, it takes time to get those ships out of the strait.

01:44:40.000 It's going to take time for them to build confidence to even go through the strait.

01:44:44.000 And then, you know, the tankers are slow.

01:44:46.000 It's going to take them 30 days to get to their destination.

01:44:48.000 So it doesn't just go back to normal automatically.

01:44:51.000 And it's not, we're not even there yet.

01:44:52.000 You know, the strait isn't even open still.

01:44:54.000 So, you know, the price seems to be out of touch with the economic reality.

01:44:58.000 But the point is, no matter how much oil the U.S. makes, we're still competing for oil on a global market.

01:45:04.000 It has to do with the type of oil that we are able to refine with our infrastructure, the type of oil that we make, the type of oil other countries make.

01:45:12.000 All of our refining infrastructure on the southeast coast in Texas is built to refine.

01:45:18.000 Heavy, sour crude oil that we thought we were going to get from Mexico and Venezuela.

01:45:23.000 That's the type of oil in Mexico and Venezuela in the 1990s.

01:45:26.000 They thought that was the oil boom.

01:45:28.000 So they built up all this refining infrastructure for that product.

01:45:32.000 The oil that we get from the oil sands, from fracking, is light and sweet.

01:45:36.000 So we don't have the refining infrastructure to use that.

01:45:39.000 We export that to other countries.

01:45:42.000 And so, you know, this is why even though we have a lot of oil, we're still importing oil.

01:45:46.000 We import the type of oil that we can refine.

01:45:49.000 And so what eventually happens is it turns into a logistical.

01:45:52.000 Situation where it's like, where are we going to get the type of oil that we need?

01:45:57.000 There's just not going to be enough of it.

01:45:59.000 And the infrastructure in Venezuela isn't even built up yet.

01:46:01.000 It's going to take years for them to build that up.

01:46:03.000 When people say, well, we control the oil in Venezuela.

01:46:05.000 All right, great.

01:46:06.000 You got the reserves.

01:46:07.000 Now you've got to create the infrastructure to extract the oil and have it actually be able to utilize it.

01:46:07.000 Well, guess what?

01:46:14.000 I don't think people understand it's going to take a while.

01:46:17.000 Yeah.

01:46:17.000 So, I mean, it's not a good situation at all.

01:46:21.000 And our oil is more expensive.

01:46:22.000 Than other places as well.

01:46:23.000 There's like a price discrepancy.

01:46:25.000 Like, you can make the argument that, like, with the trade rooms being closed, yes, it forces countries to buy our oil.

01:46:30.000 We're able to kind of enter the market, whatever.

01:46:32.000 But, yeah, like you said, we don't make enough for everybody on top of what we consume.

01:46:36.000 So it's like, what, man.

01:46:36.000 Right.

01:46:39.000 It's a very, I don't think people understand that, like, because I got into an argument about this with, like, Tim Poole.

01:46:44.000 And he was like, oh, yeah, Trump is purposely keeping the trade rooms closed.

01:46:48.000 And I was like, no, he's not, dude.

01:46:49.000 No, no, he's not.

01:46:50.000 Like, he was literally arguing me, like, saying, well, it's because, He's purposely doing this like 3D or 4D chess, keeping it straight closed so that we can dominate the energy market.

01:47:00.000 And he has no incentive to open it up.

01:47:03.000 And he's just like feigning diplomacy to get it open.

01:47:05.000 I was like, no, dude, that's not what it is.

01:47:08.000 Like, crash the world's energy market to do that and have Americans paying double for gas.

01:47:14.000 Like, how does that help?

01:47:15.000 Well, it's always the 5D chess with the Trump shells.

01:47:19.000 It's never as simple as it is.

01:47:21.000 There's always some super clever, no, no, Trump is the genius mastermind.

01:47:25.000 Here's how Trump can still win.

01:47:27.000 And, you know, that's just not the case.

01:47:29.000 Just like epic levels of Coke, man.

01:47:31.000 Yeah.

01:47:33.000 What else do we got here? 0.85

01:47:34.000 So we got the Bahrain strikes. 0.90

01:47:40.000 Let me see here.

01:47:44.000 How you like Miami, by the way, man?

01:47:46.000 Love it.

01:47:46.000 Love the city.

01:47:48.000 It's my second home.

01:47:48.000 I'm going to try to get him here, chat.

01:47:50.000 I'm going to try to get him to come to Miami and move out here, hopefully, one day.

01:47:55.000 Let's see here if there's anything else new.

01:47:57.000 So Trump threatens.

01:47:59.000 Oh, has there been.

01:48:00.000 I think there's been some movement as well with Russia, Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken, right?

01:48:05.000 Nothing major.

01:48:06.000 I mean, the overall.

01:48:09.000 Situation is changing, but nothing happened the past 24 hours.

01:48:13.000 So, okay.

01:48:17.000 Let me see here.

01:48:18.000 I'm going to check a rerun real quick, see if there's anything else breaking.

01:48:23.000 Oh, I want to ask you about this.

01:48:25.000 What were your thoughts?

01:48:26.000 Because I never got to talk to you about this.

01:48:27.000 Remember when the F 15 got shot down?

01:48:29.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:48:30.000 What are your thoughts on that and what really went down when that happened?

01:48:34.000 Because there are multiple different theories of what they think was going on.

01:48:38.000 It was like maybe a failed black operation where they're trying to get the uranium.

01:48:42.000 And then I ended up having to become a rescue mission because they had this fighter, this weapon system officer that was a colonel that was out there.

01:48:49.000 What are your thoughts on that in general?

01:48:51.000 Yeah, you know, I remember that case where they said that the F 15 was shot down and, you know, one of the pilots was stranded there in the mountains.

01:49:03.000 And then in the end, there were two transport planes that got destroyed over there.

01:49:07.000 And they said that what happened is the transport planes came, I think, not only to get the pilot, but to get the wreckage of the plane or something like that.

01:49:15.000 And they said that the pilot.

01:49:16.000 Cargo planes came under attack.

01:49:18.000 And then there was this discrepancy about where the planes landed.

01:49:21.000 And they said that it was closer to Iran's nuclear sites than it was to where this guy actually crashed.

01:49:27.000 And they said, how could he have gone hundreds of miles in another direction when he's some solo guy in the mountains of Iran in a totally remote place?

01:49:35.000 So, you know, I don't know.

01:49:36.000 You just never know about things like that.

01:49:39.000 I think that if we were going to go in to get the highly enriched uranium, it wouldn't look like that because the highly enriched uranium, according to the IAEA, is in the tunnels at Esfahan.

01:49:51.000 And it's deep underground.

01:49:52.000 And so they say that if we're going to go in and get it, we're going to need to bring like excavation equipment, like literally heavy construction equipment.

01:49:59.000 We need to like dig it out.

01:50:01.000 And it's going to be the largest special forces operation in history, like tens of thousands of troops.

01:50:07.000 And we're going to be literally moving heaven and earth to get to this stuff. 1.00

01:50:11.000 The Iranians can't even get it. 1.00

01:50:12.000 And it's their country. 0.97

01:50:13.000 And then you're talking about coming under fire from within Iran, from drones and missiles and the IRGC.

01:50:20.000 So I don't think they would seriously do that.

01:50:22.000 And I think that.

01:50:23.000 Size of the force that went into Iran, probably too small.

01:50:27.000 And if that actually happened, I think Iran would say so because wouldn't that be a big propaganda victory if the U.S. tried to get the uranium and they failed? 0.73

01:50:35.000 I think so. 0.84

01:50:36.000 What I've been told from people is that they were trying to set up a FARP or FARP, whatever, a Ford operating location.

01:50:43.000 They're slowly bringing these little birds, these planes that were used for moving equipment, and they were setting up kind of like a clandestine operation to do this.

01:50:52.000 And then what ended up happening was this fighter jet got shut down and they had to shift from.

01:50:58.000 Doing, you know, one of these raids into a rescue mission.

01:51:02.000 Because I think I was talking about like Larry Johnson, I know Aguilar, a couple of these guys were like, why the hell do they have little birds here?

01:51:09.000 These are for like, you know, quick attacks.

01:51:10.000 What's going on for a rescue mission?

01:51:12.000 So the aircraft threw them off.

01:51:14.000 And what they were trying to say is that they think that they were establishing this forward operating base to do this assault.

01:51:20.000 And they got caught off guard because this fighter jet got shot down.

01:51:23.000 So they had to completely switch the mission into a recovery situation.

01:51:26.000 That's why they had all these unorthodox aircraft in the area.

01:51:28.000 And then, why there were all these, you know, SEALs and Delta guys that were in the area as well, which didn't make sense for a rescue mission.

01:51:35.000 So, that's what they were saying.

01:51:36.000 And then, also, the other thing was that the Iranians grabbed a military ID or an ID of someone, and it was a woman, a name, and I think it was on her ID or something like that, where she was like a nuclear specialist, someone that like deals with or knows how to deal with highly enriched uranium.

01:51:54.000 So, like, in one of the military components, I forget what it was.

01:51:57.000 It was either an ID, like maybe the job series code or whatever.

01:52:00.000 But that's what kind of led them to say.

01:52:02.000 Okay, it looks like they were making something going on, and this operation got thwarted because this fighter jet got shot down.

01:52:09.000 And then the other thing, also, that was kind of weird was like this guy was like a colonel as a weapon system officer.

01:52:15.000 That was also kind of strange.

01:52:16.000 So, that's another reason why they were like, well, that's kind of a high rank to be doing that, where they attached to this unit, and then they got shot down and they had to ship what they were doing.

01:52:24.000 So, all these different theories came out as to why. 0.99

01:52:28.000 But regardless, because remember, like when Trump was talking all this shit about Cargill and this, Cargill and that, MEU here, MEU that, people were like, what the fuck is this? 0.97

01:52:37.000 People were speculating that that was all a diversion to keep from what he was really trying to do, which was try to get this, you know, highly enriched uranium. 0.98

01:52:44.000 So, I don't know.

01:52:45.000 I think it's far fetched. 1.00

01:52:46.000 Only because the Iranians would have every reason to blow the lid on that. 1.00

01:52:50.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:52:50.000 Be a big propaganda. 1.00

01:52:51.000 Well, they got in a big firefight as well.

01:52:53.000 They did get in a firefight.

01:52:54.000 Why would they be complicit in the lie? 0.51

01:52:55.000 Wouldn't it be better for Iran to say, you know, you try to get the uranium? 0.89

01:52:59.000 They made like a Lego thing on it. 0.93

01:53:01.000 Well, you know how they do those like Lego things where they make fun of the United States?

01:53:01.000 Yeah.

01:53:04.000 Yeah, that's from their propaganda ministry.

01:53:04.000 Yeah, they're doing it on it.

01:53:06.000 I mean, I feel like they would come out and talk about it and, uh, It would be a major humiliation.

01:53:11.000 Like a formal news thing.

01:53:12.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:53:13.000 Fair.

01:53:14.000 So, okay.

01:53:16.000 Obviously, we're in a very strange situation right now.

01:53:19.000 And, guys, we're going to shift over here to OSS very soon, read the chats, and then answer questions over there.

01:53:25.000 What would you do at this point if you were the president of the United States, man?

01:53:29.000 I want to know what would Nick Fuentes do if we're in a position that we're in now?

01:53:35.000 How the hell would you get us out of this?

01:53:36.000 Or how the hell can we get out of this?

01:53:38.000 There's no way.

01:53:39.000 I mean, that's the thing, is like.

01:53:41.000 Once you make an error like this, this is a pivotal error, which means there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.

01:53:47.000 Like, it's a fulcrum now, and there's no good options. 0.96

01:53:51.000 You know, like we talked about, you can let Iran take control over the strait, and you can, you know, but what are you even going to do about Lebanon? 0.98

01:53:57.000 Nothing you do about Lebanon. 0.86

01:53:59.000 Israel's not going to stop. 0.99

01:54:00.000 Nothing you do to make them stop. 1.00

01:54:01.000 And, you know, we could try.

01:54:03.000 They're talking about selling F 35s to Turkey, and they're talking to Netanyahu's political opponents.

01:54:09.000 And I think all that is signaling. 0.99

01:54:11.000 I think all that's bullshit. 0.98

01:54:12.000 I don't think any of that's real. 0.99

01:54:13.000 They're not really trying to piss off Israel.

01:54:15.000 They're saying those things to make Israel scared.

01:54:18.000 But Netanyahu's been around for 30 years.

01:54:21.000 You know, you can't scare this guy. 1.00

01:54:23.000 And he runs our shit. 1.00

01:54:24.000 He runs America. 1.00

01:54:25.000 Larry Ellison gave $60 million to one of Trump's PACs, and he's in bed with Netanyahu.

01:54:30.000 You know what I mean?

01:54:31.000 And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

01:54:33.000 Bought TikTok and everything.

01:54:34.000 So I don't think that that means anything.

01:54:34.000 Right.

01:54:39.000 We're not going to get Israel over their dead body. 0.83

01:54:41.000 Are they going to withdraw from Lebanon? 0.82

01:54:43.000 If you don't have that, Iran's not going to make peace. 0.58

01:54:45.000 Iran's not going to go back to the pre war status quo in the straight.

01:54:49.000 They're not going to talk about the nukes.

01:54:51.000 So, I mean, even if you gave them everything that we could, I still don't think you have a deal.

01:54:57.000 There's also no military options either.

01:54:59.000 Honestly, what can you do?

01:55:01.000 Are you going to invade Iran?

01:55:03.000 No shot.

01:55:05.000 Are you going to open the Strait by force? 0.98

01:55:07.000 Destroy all their drones and missiles?

01:55:07.000 How?

01:55:09.000 You can't.

01:55:10.000 They're too small, too remote, too cheap, too mobile.

01:55:14.000 There's too many of them.

01:55:14.000 They're making more of them already.

01:55:16.000 Too underground.

01:55:17.000 Can't be done.

01:55:17.000 Yeah.

01:55:18.000 So, there's just really no good option.

01:55:20.000 And what is happening is that.

01:55:22.000 The U.S. is just simply losing this war. 0.98

01:55:25.000 Iran is just destroying us right now. 1.00

01:55:28.000 And they know exactly what they're doing. 1.00

01:55:29.000 They're going to make it as painful as possible.

01:55:32.000 And so I think that, you know, we are just in the situation where we're in this like submission hold and we can't tap out.

01:55:37.000 You know, like we're being strangled to death and there's no way to tap out.

01:55:40.000 So I really, you know, people are always saying, like Joe Kent says, well, we should just leave.

01:55:46.000 Maybe that's the only thing we can do is to literally just pack it up. 0.64

01:55:50.000 Just, you know, say, all right, uncle, okay, Iran's going to control the Strait. 0.73

01:55:55.000 And, uh, These commercial ships are going to have to maybe pay money. 0.89

01:55:59.000 It'd be cheaper than what we're doing now, which is escorting the commercial ships through.

01:56:02.000 Just pay the fine.

01:56:03.000 It's yours now.

01:56:04.000 That's the cost of it. 0.82

01:56:05.000 I mean, maybe it's literally as simple as we're just going to have to evacuate our bases in the Middle East, bring the carriers home, pay Iran our reparations. 0.71

01:56:13.000 Like, we might literally just have to give them the whole thing. 0.87

01:56:16.000 And I think that may be the only way out at this point is just like an unconditional U.S. surrender. 0.90

01:56:22.000 And I, you know, and people are going to say, and people have said, That, like, we are pro Iran or something. 0.74

01:56:28.000 That might be the only option we have left. 0.80

01:56:30.000 Might be it.

01:56:32.000 What else can you do?

01:56:32.000 I mean, seriously, because you got these guys like Shapiro and Levin, and they say, we just need to keep going.

01:56:38.000 We're being soft on them.

01:56:39.000 I mean, realistically, what can be done that hasn't already been done?

01:56:42.000 We bombed them 15,000 times. 0.93

01:56:43.000 Yeah, all the Zionists are saying continue the war. 1.00

01:56:45.000 It's actually insane that they're like one idiot I was talking with the other day. 1.00

01:56:48.000 Like, they're like, I don't like the MOU. 1.00

01:56:51.000 Like, we just got to keep going. 0.99

01:56:52.000 I'm like, what the fuck are you going to do? 0.96

01:56:53.000 Like, at this point, you, and I don't think these people understand you have no military options because. 0.99

01:56:59.000 The next step is a nuclear bomb or destroying their infrastructure. 0.55

01:57:02.000 And if you do that, say goodbye to the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the Bahrainians, the UAE. 0.81

01:57:07.000 I think the UAE got hit 2,000 times during this course of this war, plus. 0.92

01:57:10.000 And it's like, they can't do anything because they're right there next to Iran on a map. 0.99

01:57:15.000 Like, if we pull up real quick on a map just to illustrate to the audience, like how defenseless these fucking Gulf states are, it's actually ridiculous. 0.98

01:57:20.000 Like, how little, you know, defense they have. 0.98

01:57:24.000 And then, like, the interceptors, like you said, are pretty much cooked.

01:57:27.000 Yep.

01:57:27.000 You know?

01:57:28.000 I mean,.

01:57:30.000 Man, I mean, we burned through 75% of our missile, according to estimates of our missile interceptors.

01:57:36.000 And, you know, nine of our bases have been rendered inoperable.

01:57:40.000 Like the reporting on the extent of the damage has totally undersold how much of it has been, you know, completely wiped out.

01:57:46.000 And the U.S. has no defenses.

01:57:47.000 Like, you know, I was watching some of the stuff.

01:57:50.000 They were talking about how when we went to war in the global war on terror, we were not worried about.

01:57:55.000 Let me get big real quick.

01:57:55.000 And then, yeah.

01:57:57.000 So, guys, zoom in down a little bit.

01:57:59.000 You can see where Iran is. 1.00

01:58:00.000 Move to the. 0.95

01:58:01.000 Move to your left a little bit.

01:58:03.000 Now down, down.

01:58:05.000 Because we're in the way.

01:58:06.000 So, like, guys, look at.

01:58:07.000 No, scroll down more.

01:58:09.000 Yep.

01:58:09.000 Move down a bit more.

01:58:11.000 Now move it down, south.

01:58:14.000 Okay.

01:58:15.000 See where Dubai is, guys?

01:58:16.000 Compared to Iran? 0.99

01:58:18.000 Dude, that's like a half skip and a jump away. 0.99

01:58:19.000 That's like 30 miles of water that separates them, dude.

01:58:22.000 They're just, they could just, like, hit them relentlessly. 0.97

01:58:24.000 All these Gulf states are right there across the Persian Gulf from Iran. 1.00

01:58:29.000 And that's why they've been able to just, like, bully them the whole time. 1.00

01:58:31.000 Sorry.

01:58:32.000 Yeah.

01:58:32.000 Um, I lost my train of thought.

01:58:34.000 What was I talking about?

01:58:35.000 It was, um, Oh, yeah.

01:58:37.000 In the global war on terror, we were not worried about attacks from the air because it's before drones, Taliban didn't have an air force, anything like that.

01:58:45.000 And so when we actually had our troops in Iraq and in these other countries, their fortifications were like they would put sandbags up because they're worried about vehicle attacks or rockets or something.

01:58:55.000 They weren't worried about the air.

01:58:56.000 So when we're in some of these countries like Kuwait, which is, I think, where these people got killed, they're just in regular buildings.

01:59:06.000 And the building where some of these people were killed.

01:59:09.000 They put out a request to the military saying, We're not safe here.

01:59:12.000 This is one of the targets.

01:59:13.000 And if we get hit with a drone, we're going to die.

01:59:15.000 And that's what happened.

01:59:16.000 They got hit with a drone and they died because we're not ready for shooting down projectiles from the air.

01:59:21.000 We're not ready to deal with the drones.

01:59:23.000 And so, you know, we are really incurring severe losses in terms of equipment, in terms of personnel.

01:59:31.000 And what's funny, too, so we go into the war to destroy the missiles.

01:59:34.000 That's the whole idea.

01:59:36.000 And our ability to destroy the missiles is what prevents them from closing the strait.

01:59:40.000 If we can suppress the missile and drone fire, then they can't keep the strait closed.

01:59:44.000 So we bomb them 15,000 times and we pound them literally with everything we have. 0.76

01:59:49.000 We have destroyed only 25% of their missile stockpile, still have 75% of them.

01:59:53.000 And since the ceasefire, they've already gone back to work on their missile production facility.

01:59:57.000 So they're going to start pumping them out all over again.

01:59:59.000 Same thing with the drones.

02:00:00.000 China's furnishing them with these supplies to build more of it.

02:00:03.000 So at the same time, the U.S. has burned through 75% of the interceptors.

02:00:08.000 So we destroyed 25% of their missiles.

02:00:11.000 We burned through 75% of our interceptors.

02:00:14.000 And again, you say, if we go back to war, what more can be done?

02:00:19.000 We bomb them 15,000 more times.

02:00:20.000 Are they going to now have half the missiles?

02:00:23.000 Have they rebuilt more of them?

02:00:24.000 I mean, they say that it's going to take around six months.

02:00:27.000 To get back to their pre war stockpile of missiles.

02:00:30.000 And it's already been two months since the ceasefire. 0.95

02:00:33.000 So that's the problem, is just there's no way that you're going to sufficiently suppress Iran's ability to shut down the strait in time before there's an economic calamity. 0.96

02:00:43.000 And the scary part is, like, they don't even really have to shut it down with force. 0.99

02:00:45.000 All they got to do is create fear.

02:00:47.000 Right, exactly.

02:00:47.000 They just hit a couple of boats, and then Lloyds of London are not insuring any of these ships, and they're not going to go through.

02:00:52.000 Exactly.

02:00:52.000 That's all they have to do.

02:00:54.000 Do you think more U.S. service members are dead?

02:00:57.000 Than the, I think, 13 to 15 that they're claiming?

02:01:00.000 I don't think, I think that would be illegal.

02:01:01.000 Isn't there like a legal requirement to talk about casualties?

02:01:04.000 I don't know.

02:01:05.000 There's more injured.

02:01:07.000 There's more severely injured.

02:01:08.000 Hundreds are injured.

02:01:09.000 They've been keeping that hidden.

02:01:10.000 Yeah.

02:01:11.000 Drop site said there's like over 300 that have been severely injured.

02:01:14.000 Yes.

02:01:15.000 Especially from Kuwait, like, because a lot of them had to get airlifted to Germany.

02:01:18.000 Right.

02:01:18.000 Yeah, right.

02:01:19.000 Like, unlike the first couple days of the war in the U.S., obviously, like, there was a couple, a lot of people reported that, like, Kuwaiti hospitals were completely being bombarded with U.S. service members. 0.96

02:01:29.000 And they couldn't take care of them and they had to airlift them all to fucking Germany.

02:01:33.000 And obviously, the US government, like, you know, is not going to disclose that. 0.88

02:01:35.000 But yeah, and then I remember for a while, they didn't like say anything about like the bases being destroyed.

02:01:39.000 But like, yeah, CNN did a report and a couple others and they found out, like, no, they're inoperable, man.

02:01:44.000 They're inoperable.

02:01:44.000 And then, like, they, and then people say, well, why did they start hitting hotels?

02:01:47.000 Because service members end up going to these hotels.

02:01:50.000 They found out, and that's why they're shooting like these precise drones into these hotels.

02:01:53.000 Right.

02:01:54.000 So it's like, you know, dude, at this point, I'm like, cause I'm thinking to myself, like, what can you do militarily?

02:02:01.000 You can't really do much more.

02:02:03.000 Because if you do it, you're going to risk the Gulf states getting destroyed.

02:02:06.000 Because the next step is nuclear bombs or power plants or infrastructure. 0.76

02:02:12.000 And then you can't invade because you got the.

02:02:16.000 Not the Albors Mountains.

02:02:17.000 The Albors Mountains are on the Caspian Sea.

02:02:19.000 The Zagros Mountains to the east. 0.97

02:02:22.000 Saddam couldn't get past those. 0.89

02:02:23.000 So it's like, how the hell are you going to do? 0.96

02:02:24.000 You'll never be able to do a land invasion.

02:02:26.000 We don't have the stomach for it politically anyway.

02:02:28.000 So it's like, what can you honestly do at this point?

02:02:31.000 It's like the only thing you could do is you would have to. 0.57

02:02:35.000 Really go hard in Israel and tell them you got to leave Lebanon, but they're not going to do that.

02:02:39.000 So it's like, I don't know what the hell the Trump administration is going to do at this point.

02:02:42.000 And then, like you said, which is true, they've only just stopped maybe 25 to 30% of their missile capabilities and they're still making their drones and their missiles, which is funny because I remember on day one of the war, or sorry, like the first couple of days of the war, Netanyahu and the Israeli government were like, they only have 100 launchers left.

02:02:58.000 Come on, dude.

02:02:59.000 Yeah, I remember that, yeah.

02:03:01.000 Like, you know, they're still shooting the missiles. 0.98

02:03:03.000 So, yeah, I don't know what the fuck is going to end up going on here. 0.97

02:03:09.000 Um, So, I think, yeah. 0.96

02:03:13.000 So, you're completely against, like, because the other thing, also, because this is an MOU as well, they wanted us to pull out of the region.

02:03:20.000 What are your thoughts on that?

02:03:21.000 Like, do you think that would be a complete, well, it would be a complete capitulation, of course.

02:03:26.000 But, like, would that set us up for long term failure, in your opinion?

02:03:30.000 Leaving the region all together?

02:03:32.000 It's hard to say.

02:03:33.000 I think that's what we wanted to do anyway. 0.90

02:03:34.000 That's really the whole point to get Saudi Arabia and Syria in the Abraham Accords. 0.93

02:03:40.000 And then, even if Iran still exists, Iran will be balanced by this Abraham alliance, they want to call it, you know, which is Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi, Syria, the Emirates, Bahrain. 0.92

02:03:51.000 You know, that was the whole idea. 0.88

02:03:52.000 Um, And then we wouldn't need to be there because then we could furnish all these countries with fighter jets and intelligence and all these things.

02:03:59.000 And if it got to that point, they'd be able to defend themselves.

02:04:02.000 They wouldn't need us. 0.53

02:04:04.000 So now the question is okay, Iran isn't going anywhere.

02:04:08.000 Saudi's not normalizing with Israel.

02:04:10.000 Maybe Syria isn't either.

02:04:12.000 So, you know, the situation isn't quite the same.

02:04:16.000 And we can't really hand it off to these other countries to do it because, you know, like in Europe, for example, we want to do the same thing in Europe.

02:04:23.000 How?

02:04:23.000 We're going to get UK, Germany, France to spend more on military.

02:04:26.000 Then they don't need us. 0.64

02:04:27.000 They can defend themselves from Russia, and then we can leave.

02:04:30.000 Well, this alliance in the Middle East isn't happening.

02:04:35.000 But then again, do we really even need to defend these people at that point?

02:04:38.000 Well, that is where all the oil is.

02:04:40.000 So I don't know.

02:04:41.000 I mean, I don't know that the U.S. is in a position where we can leave them to their own devices.

02:04:47.000 You know what else is kind of like, I guess, troublesome?

02:04:52.000 They talked about after Israel attacked Qatar.

02:04:56.000 I know, Saudi Arabia, that. 0.74

02:04:57.000 Obviously, shook them up quite a bit when they were trying to kill the Hamas guys back in September, actually, right before I remember because it was right before Charlie Kirk passed away that they attacked Qatar trying to get these Hamas guys while they were trying to negotiate this thing.

02:05:09.000 And obviously, it was very embarrassing for us and everything else like that. 0.69

02:05:13.000 Saudi Arabia went and did a deal with Pakistan for security assurances since they have nuclear weapons.

02:05:19.000 I don't know if you've heard about this.

02:05:20.000 Like, have you heard about these talks how they're going to try to create a Muslim NATO?

02:05:24.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey.

02:05:28.000 Qatar.

02:05:29.000 What are your thoughts on that?

02:05:31.000 Yeah, I mean, it's certainly interesting. 0.94

02:05:33.000 And I think that's a good idea because then it almost becomes like an anti Israel bloc.

02:05:38.000 And what is happening is that the Middle East is just fundamentally different now than it was before October 7th. 0.53

02:05:43.000 And what's shaping up is even before the Iran war, you had Saudi and the Emirates splitting up because Saudi is actually, you know, when Mohammed bin Salman first got in, he wanted to shake everything up.

02:05:54.000 Now he wants to calm everything down.

02:05:55.000 Now they're really like a status quo power, trying to preserve the status quo. 0.84

02:05:59.000 The Emiratis, like the Israelis, are trying to change everything.

02:06:01.000 That's why they're intervening in Sudan. 0.84

02:06:02.000 They're intervening in Yemen.

02:06:03.000 They're intervening in all these different conflicts.

02:06:05.000 And so, what would emerge is an alliance.

02:06:08.000 Like you said, there's a mutual defense pact now between Pakistan and Saudi.

02:06:13.000 And then they're talking about bringing Turkey into that as well.

02:06:15.000 And those are going to be like, and Qatar too.

02:06:18.000 These are going to be the forces in favor of the status quo.

02:06:21.000 What you might see on the other side is a different block, which is, let's say, Israel, Greece, the Emirates, Azerbaijan.

02:06:29.000 And they're going to be like the revisionist powers.

02:06:31.000 And so the Middle East is really going to, in terms of the geopolitical alignment, it's going to be totally different. 0.89

02:06:36.000 And then the question would be which side would Iran be on?

02:06:40.000 Probably they'd be on the side with Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi, Turkey.

02:06:43.000 I mean, it sounds crazy that, because at one time, of course, the Saudis and the Iranians were in this like proxy war for 10 years, which engulfed the entire Middle East.

02:06:52.000 And now you might think in a scenario where the U.S. leaves the region, maybe then that is how things would shake out. 0.59

02:07:00.000 And then you just have, Then a proxy war between these more revisionist powers and these Islamist status quo powers. 0.50

02:07:08.000 It might shake out to be something like that.

02:07:10.000 But I don't know that the U.S. can really afford to leave the Middle East just because of how vital the commodities are there and the trade as well.

02:07:18.000 So, yeah, not only that, but like, um, I think it would open a door for like China to come in and build an enormous amount of influence in there as well if we were to leave. 0.75

02:07:25.000 I think that's a big reason why they didn't want to leave, but Iran wants them out of there. 0.51

02:07:28.000 Um, as part of the MOU, obviously, they would never leave completely, but I mean, you don't think, uh, China would try to come in and take some of the influence, especially with their partnership with Iran?

02:07:37.000 I don't think so because China has no ability to project power in the Middle East.

02:07:40.000 They're, you know, they're an economic power, of course, uh, but they, they just have no ability to project power any, I mean, not even in Taiwan yet.

02:07:48.000 But you don't think if we, um, If we pulled out, that opened the door for them to potentially maybe build a base in Iran or build a base in.

02:07:54.000 Well, I mean, you know, yeah, yes, and no. 0.95

02:07:57.000 I mean, it would have been trending in that direction.

02:07:59.000 The UAE and Saudi Arabia.

02:08:00.000 If we left, of course, if we left is what I mean.

02:08:01.000 Yeah, I mean, they joined BRICS already.

02:08:05.000 And Beijing brokered a truce between Iran and Saudi Arabia in 23.

02:08:10.000 They opened up embassies and everything.

02:08:11.000 They talked about normalization and everything.

02:08:13.000 So, yeah, I mean, China would play like a diplomatic role.

02:08:17.000 And yeah, maybe they'd build some infrastructure.

02:08:18.000 All those countries are Belt and Road countries, too, even Israel.

02:08:22.000 And, you know, We've seen some of the middle powers are playing China and the U.S. off of each other.

02:08:26.000 Saudi did that under Biden.

02:08:28.000 Turkey does this between Russia and the United States.

02:08:31.000 So, certainly, their influence would increase.

02:08:32.000 But I think so much of that is overstated because China just doesn't have as long of a reach as the United States does because we're a security provider.

02:08:40.000 They are not a security provider at all.

02:08:42.000 Yeah.

02:08:42.000 The only thing with the security provider thing, which I think we kind of got shown to be a paper tiger, was we weren't able to protect our Gulf allies in this situation.

02:08:50.000 And obviously, our ability to even intercept missiles or whatever, that's kind of been.

02:08:54.000 You know, significantly reduced as well. 0.62

02:08:55.000 So it's like, that's another thing from this conflict that I was like, oh man, like, we've been, like, Saudi Arabia's complaining, they protect Israel more than us. 0.98

02:09:02.000 What the fuck is going on here?

02:09:03.000 So it's like, you know, is our security assurances and guarantees going to be as potent, as powerful as what it was now that people have, like, literally seen we can't even stop drones from $20,000 drones from, like, you know, passing a waterway and hitting our allies that, you know, obviously have very sensitive and, you know, fragile infrastructure. 0.99

02:09:22.000 So I don't know, man.

02:09:24.000 It's absolutely nuts.

02:09:24.000 What do we got here?

02:09:25.000 We got some.

02:09:26.000 We're going to shift here, guys, over to OSS in a little bit.

02:09:28.000 Huh?

02:09:28.000 What's that?

02:09:28.000 What are we doing?

02:09:28.000 What are you doing?

02:09:29.000 Yeah.

02:09:29.000 You know what?

02:09:29.000 Are you guys having this video?

02:09:33.000 Yeah.

02:09:33.000 Let me see.

02:09:39.000 Real quick.

02:09:40.000 And then.

02:09:40.000 Oh, tell them real quick about your Merchant America First Plus.

02:09:44.000 Real fast.

02:09:45.000 Yeah.

02:09:45.000 Tell them, bro.

02:09:46.000 Come on, man.

02:09:47.000 I hate plugging.

02:09:48.000 I hate plugging.

02:09:49.000 I barely like to plug it on my own show.

02:09:52.000 Yeah.

02:09:52.000 Do it, man.

02:09:53.000 Do it.

02:09:53.000 So they can show you love.

02:09:54.000 That's crazy.

02:09:56.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:09:57.000 Fuentes.store for the merch, America First.plus for the subscriptions, and the show, then the big show.

02:10:20.000 Yeah, That's right over there.

02:10:24.000 Yeah, we'll do a quick thing here in a second, then we'll do the shift.

02:10:31.000 Let me see here.

02:10:33.000 Yeah, yeah, to get it open.

02:10:34.000 Yeah, no worries.

02:10:36.000 Oh, was that ended up with the Todd Blanch thing?

02:10:38.000 Who was his lawyer?

02:10:39.000 Brett?

02:10:40.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

02:10:41.000 It was his personal lawyer, right?

02:10:43.000 For New York.

02:10:46.000 Yeah.

02:10:46.000 What are your thoughts on the Epstein debacle?

02:10:50.000 Do you think that's going to come back and haunt?

02:10:52.000 The entire administration and people are going to go to jail when the Democrats get in, or is this going to be part of the oversight? 1.00

02:10:57.000 I think it's all bullshit. 1.00

02:10:58.000 I think the whole Epstein thing is a load of bullshit. 1.00

02:11:01.000 The Democrats, that's a political football. 0.99

02:11:02.000 I always thought that about the, you know, because they all say.

02:11:06.000 It's got MTG in the whole, in the hot seat with him and everything.

02:11:08.000 Yeah.

02:11:09.000 But, you know, look, the Democrats, if they wanted it, they could have gotten it under Biden.

02:11:12.000 Biden was just.

02:11:13.000 And by the way, you know, Epstein was a Democrat.

02:11:18.000 You know, the triangulation of Epstein was the Democrats here, the Labor Party in the UK, and the Labor Party in Israel.

02:11:25.000 So he was a.

02:11:26.000 Practically a Democrat operative.

02:11:27.000 He was like a blue church operative, let's say. 0.94

02:11:31.000 Trump probably had him killed. 0.92

02:11:32.000 I mean, most likely.

02:11:34.000 He got arrested during the Trump administration, yeah.

02:11:35.000 Yeah, it was Bill Barr.

02:11:36.000 Yeah, it was Bill Barr that picked him up, you know, and he died under Trump.

02:11:40.000 So I think the Democrats, they just wanted that to go off for obvious reasons because now this is how you get the Trump base to be deflated.

02:11:47.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:11:48.000 But it's, I mean, it's all bullshit. 0.98

02:11:49.000 What really came out of the files? 0.99

02:11:52.000 Nothing.

02:11:52.000 Yeah.

02:11:52.000 It's, yeah, just, I mean, people were just doing control Fs the whole time.

02:11:55.000 Like, your name's in there.

02:11:57.000 Your name's in there.

02:11:58.000 It was such a nothing burger. 1.00

02:11:59.000 They had three fucking. 0.99

02:12:00.000 Million files and you don't. 0.99

02:12:01.000 You don't got one thing.

02:12:03.000 Yeah, nothing that.

02:12:04.000 And everybody hated me for saying that.

02:12:05.000 But look, I'm honest.

02:12:07.000 You know, did we find a smoking gun in the files? 1.00

02:12:09.000 No, people want to point to one stupid email. 1.00

02:12:11.000 That's totally vague. 0.99

02:12:13.000 That that you know people are just assuming is there's something bad, and so much of it was just fake.

02:12:18.000 People are posting, like AI, images that weren't even in the files.

02:12:23.000 Someone someone submitted an FBI tip saying, oh, here's like a video of Epstein abuse.

02:12:28.000 It was some like fetish porn video nothing to do with Epstein.

02:12:32.000 So, I think it was a big nothing burger.

02:12:34.000 And then, of course, we release all the files, and then people go, Well, what's in the 3 million other files?

02:12:40.000 You go, Okay, so what's going to happen where there's nothing in there?

02:12:42.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:12:43.000 You know, I think it's a crock of shit. 0.99

02:12:44.000 I think it's important for people to understand that, like, you know, there's a reason why they couldn't, like, push a full on criminal investigation to all the people involved, right? 0.99

02:12:53.000 Like, the FBI tried, you know, and they just weren't able to build enough probable costs to indict a lot of these other people that were involved.

02:12:59.000 So, like, you know, what you know and what you can prove are two completely different things, and people tend to not know that.

02:13:05.000 Now, I mean, You know, let me read this quick commercial break.

02:13:10.000 If you want to take a piss or anything like that, I'll read this real quick, Nick.

02:13:12.000 And then go ahead, you can hit continue and then I'll read it.

02:13:16.000 Yeah, yeah, left is fine.

02:13:17.000 Left is fine.

02:13:18.000 Left is fine.

02:13:18.000 And then you can just let Nick take a piss or whatever and I'll read this.

02:13:23.000 You could put me on camera only. 0.92

02:13:26.000 Okay, yep, you just hit.

02:13:29.000 Oh, you got to click the link, the task.

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02:14:53.000 No.

02:14:55.000 I'll read all the super chats over there and we'll answer questions.

02:14:58.000 And Nick will hang out with us for a little bit longer.

02:15:00.000 And then he's got to go, man.

02:15:01.000 He's got to go do some things, man.

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02:15:36.000 Yeah.

02:15:36.000 Me and Alex Jones made new accounts, and then they banned them in 24 hours.

02:15:40.000 But did you try to, like, because I know, like, if you, was it, I don't know if you, like, go into the portal or try to log into your old account and reinstate.

02:15:47.000 Did you try that?

02:15:47.000 Yeah.

02:15:47.000 So after that happened, then they came out and they said, this is a pilot program.

Fresh & Fit - June 27, 2026

BREAKING: Iran & United States Trade Strikes! Ft. Nick Fuentes

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