00:00:00.000Envy, as we all know, it is one of the seven deadly sins.
00:00:04.000And yet, if you are a Democrat these days, it may be the only virtue.
00:00:08.000See, here's the thing the natural state of human beings poverty, misery, and death.
00:00:14.000This was the natural state of human beings for literally tens of thousands of years.
00:00:18.000And then it came this thing called private property, and governments that formed to protect that private property, and free markets that formed to trade and invest and grow that private property.
00:00:27.000And now we all live better than the richest man on earth did just 100 years ago, or 80 years ago, or even 60 years ago.
00:01:00.000Whether you should be worried about Hantavirus, what President Trump can do to end the war in Iran victoriously, and why Mark Hamill Has fallen to the hate of the dark side.
00:01:28.000So what happened is that there is a cruise ship called the MV Hondias.
00:01:32.000And according to the WHO, and I know the minute I say the World Health Organization, you throw up your hands and start screaming like a banshee because they did such a horrible job on COVID.
00:01:43.000But here is the information we have thus far.
00:01:45.000Eight cases have been reported, including three deaths.
00:01:48.000Five of the eight cases were confirmed as Hansa virus.
00:01:52.000So, The hantavirus involved is the Andes virus.
00:01:55.000This is the only species known to be capable of limited transmission between humans.
00:02:00.000It's linked to close and prolonged contact.
00:02:02.000Typically, hantavirus is transmitted by somebody ingesting rat poop.
00:02:06.000Basically, apparently, the way this started is that some of the people who are aboard this cruise ship got off the cruise ship in Argentina and they went to a dump to birdwatch.
00:02:15.000Folks, don't go to places where there's tons of poop.
00:03:06.000COVID was like four at times, like the last strains of COVID, meaning it spread really, really fast.
00:03:13.000Now, there's a weird thing about viruses, which is the more deadly they are, typically speaking, the lower the reproduction rate because you die before you can pass it on to other people.
00:03:23.000And very often, you only get a very deadly virus.
00:03:28.000Form of a disease from a person who is symptomatic.
00:05:10.000The ship is now headed for the Canary Islands.
00:05:12.000Okay, but the chances that this is like a pandemic level pantavirus, that it's human to human contact, that somebody went to a birthday party and spread it everywhere, very, very, very low.
00:05:24.000So, again, I always hesitate now because of the poison that is the WHO in the public discourse to bring sources from the WHO.
00:05:31.000That's how bad they are at their jobs and how horribly they abuse the trust of the American people.
00:05:36.000But here is the WHO director of pandemic prevention, a woman named Maria Van Kerkhove.
00:06:16.000The media have an incentive to act as though every new antivirus or disease is going to turn into COVID.
00:06:24.000And let's be real, even COVID wasn't COVID, meaning the way that the media portrayed COVID, that it had an exorbitantly high death rate, that it was going to kill legitimately millions of people, particularly young people.
00:06:37.000It turned out that a lot of that was exaggerated, particularly in the United States.
00:06:42.000There was so much bad data, and it abused the trust of the American people.
00:06:46.000Anthony Fauci abused the trust of the American people.
00:06:48.000Hell Pfizer, in its initial statements about the efficacy of the vaccine and stopping transmission, abused the trust of the American people.
00:06:56.000Do not be taken in by the media panic that is currently happening about hantavirus because there is no evidence at this point.
00:07:02.000Now, the evidence can change, but at this point, there is zero evidence that you should be freaked out about this hantavirus.
00:07:08.000In a second, we'll get to AOC declaring that billionaires are illegitimate.
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00:08:18.000Okay, now speaking of viruses that will not die, the virus of socialist envy never dies.
00:10:17.000Absolutely, you can earn a billion dollars.
00:10:19.000In fact, the way that you earn a billion dollars in the private sector is you provide goods and services to millions of people that they want to pay for.
00:10:27.000That is how you earn a billion dollars.
00:10:29.000You innovate a new product, lots of people want it, and then they pay you for it.
00:10:35.000But again, this sort of stupidity has become de rigueur for the left.1.00
00:10:39.000Alexander Ocasio Cortez then pushed this further.1.00
00:10:42.000He said, The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft.
00:10:46.000$50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
00:10:49.000Now, she's not talking here about the wage theft of the government coming in and literally confiscating a giant chunk of your paycheck every month.
00:10:55.000She thinks it is wage theft for companies to not pay wages that she thinks they should pay.
00:11:01.000She says, if a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full time workers so severely they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual.
00:11:11.000It was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who got stuck with the bill for large corporations free riding off our systems.
00:11:19.000She's not making the argument she thinks she's making.
00:11:26.000If you pay people to stay home or if you pay to supplement people's wages, that means that there is a downward pressure on wages because someone else is paying half the wages.
00:11:38.000That is an argument against government subsidization of wages.
00:11:42.000That is not an argument in favor of prying more money somehow out of the private employer.
00:11:48.000She says the point is less about individual morality.
00:11:51.000It's more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
00:11:58.000Again, the way to get wages up would be to reduce government dependency.
00:12:08.000She says, We're talking about monopoly power.
00:12:09.000She doesn't even know what she's talking about, monopoly power.
00:12:12.000This idea that billionaires are billionaires because they have quote unquote monopolies.
00:12:17.000The only true monopoly in a free market system is a monopoly in which you get the government to regulate your competitors out of existence.
00:12:44.000Companies using SNAP or EBT to underwrite their wages.
00:12:48.000Again, that is a critique of the SNAP EBT perverse incentives.
00:12:52.000Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
00:13:19.000These folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abusive power.
00:13:27.000So, first of all, it has always been a Marxist lie that capitalism impoverishes the worker.
00:13:37.000Something Karl Marx argued back during the Industrial Revolution that the impoverishment of wage earners would result from capitalism, and precisely the opposite occurred.
00:13:45.000Every prediction Marx ever made about the future state of the world was wrong.
00:14:18.000But again, all that Marxism is really rooted in, in the end, it's not rooted in any thoroughgoing understanding of economics or human nature.
00:14:26.000It is rooted in pure envy, pure unadulterated envy.
00:14:31.000AOC cites to Bernie Sanders as the founder of the movement.0.72
00:14:35.000Again, citing some of the most useless people on earth as the founders of your movement is a move.
00:14:52.000You speak in such clear and simple language, so obviously spontaneous, genuine from your lived experience, which is so different.
00:15:02.000I mean, you know, I'm laughing, but it's honestly terrifying how most, I would say, the majority of elected officials do not reflect the lived experience of their constituents.
00:15:12.000When did this come into your consciousness, this system being rigged for the ultra wealthy?
00:15:17.000Well, first, I want to say in a lot of ways, we're all kind of Bernie's successor.0.98
00:15:25.000Again, there is no one who's been a bigger leech on the ass of American society than Bernie Sanders.0.97
00:15:29.000The man has not held a productive job for literally 80 years.0.99
00:15:33.000For 80 years, he has lived and sponged off the taxpayer.
00:17:02.000Well, where if you work a 40 hour week, you can afford your rent and food on the table and maybe a vacation from time to time, not scraping to get by, praying you can get through the end of the month.
00:17:21.000Okay, I mean, that is so vague as to be utterly worthless.
00:17:25.000Okay, should is doing a lot of work there.
00:17:28.000First of all, the vast majority of people in the United States who work a 40 hour week are affording rent.
00:17:32.000They're not living on the streets, they're affording rent.
00:18:38.000We'll get to it with Steve Hilton in a moment.
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00:19:41.000In California, they're pushing hard for the idea that if they destroy the wealth creators, that somehow this will magically fix everything.
00:19:48.000One of the people who is running against that is Steve Hilton.
00:19:51.000You know him from Fox News, conservative political commentator, former political advisor, and now candidate for governor of California.
00:19:57.000In the polls, the frontrunner at the moment.
00:19:59.000Steve, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:20:10.000So at the same time as all of this is going on, Which you correctly described there.
00:20:17.000You've got, because of the tax system, low paid workers, the ones that Kamala Harris and all these people profess to care about, certainly in California, paying massive taxes to the government.
00:20:26.000And the employers that are allegedly impoverishing these workers also paying massive taxes to the government, which are then recycled in these handouts.
00:20:37.000In California, there are a number of counties now where, because of the cost of living being so high, because of Democrat policies, the official definition Of low income is $100,000 a year.
00:20:49.000So you got people because the California tax system earning 70, 80, 90 grand a year, low income, paying 9.3% state income tax.
00:20:58.000That is higher than the top rate of tax in most states in America.
00:21:04.000My plan, on the other hand, is to reduce taxes for those people, eliminating state income tax for everyone earning 100 grand or below.
00:21:11.000And so these people just don't think about the actual system.
00:21:15.000They want more and more taxes, more and more government, and then they complain that the workers aren't getting paid enough, even as they're taking more money out of their pockets.
00:22:02.000I mean, that's why the first pledge in my campaign about a year ago when I started was $3 gas.
00:22:08.000Because at the time before the war, you had 40 states in America where gas was $3 or below, most of them with no oil reserves.
00:22:16.000California has abundant oil reserves, yet, because of their insane virtue signaling about clamping down on fossil fuels and ending fossil fuels, they are ending California production of fossil fuels, that's for sure.
00:22:30.000But the overall consumption of fossil fuels in California since their war on fossil fuels.
00:22:34.000Is about the same as it ever was, except now we're importing it from halfway around the world.
00:22:38.000Our number one provider of oil right now used to be California when we got most of it from in state.0.64
00:22:46.000These geniuses, in the name of climate change, are now shipping oil halfway around the world, 7,500 miles from Iraq in giant supertankers, spewing out carbon emissions because they run on the dirtiest form of fuel, bunker fuel, in the name of climate.0.87
00:23:00.000They're literally increasing carbon emissions in the name of climate.
00:23:04.000Another example, The oil that works with California refineries is a heavier form of crude oil.
00:23:10.000A good match for that, the oil you get in South America.
00:23:13.000So, again, in the name of Gavin Newsom's climate policy, we are now expanding oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest in order to provide oil to California because they refuse to actually get it from within California.
00:23:26.000In the process, shutting down our energy industry and destroying jobs in the rural areas of California, like Kern County, which they don't care about.
00:23:33.000It's just so utterly insane and incoherent.
00:23:40.000You know, Steve, one of the things that is truly amazing is you're hearing people like the AOCs and the Bernie's of the world talking about the system being rigged.
00:23:47.000Meanwhile, one of the people running for governor in your race is Tom Steyer, who every so often just blows like $150 million on a political race in which he gets his ass kicked and trying to rig the election in his own favor by spending gobs of his own money, much of which was earned off of carbon based fossil fuels.
00:24:06.000And simultaneously saying that the wealth tax isn't high enough.
00:24:10.000In order to drive the other people who are actually innovating and earning in California out of the state.
00:24:14.000Now, what do you make of your competitors in this race?
00:24:17.000How do you view the race at this point?
00:24:20.000So, one further point on Tom Steyer we all have to publish our taxes as candidates for governor.
00:24:26.000Of all the candidates in the race, billionaire Tom Steyer, who rails against billionaires using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes, actually pays the lowest effective tax rate because he's stashing his money away in tax loopholes and places like the Cayman Islands.
00:24:41.000So, I mean, the whole thing is so ridiculous.
00:24:44.000In terms of the race, I think where we are now is encouraging for those of us who want change in California, which, by the way, is a majority.
00:24:52.000Just to be clear, the data on whether people think the state is going in the right direction or wrong direction has shifted very negatively against the Democrats.
00:25:00.000During the last governor's race four years ago, the kind of right track, wrong track number, wrong track in California was a mid to high 40s.
00:25:12.000That's why I know it's going to be difficult to win this year, but I think we've got an opportunity because people are sick of what's been going on.
00:25:18.000In terms of the race, we got this ridiculous top two primary system.
00:25:22.000The top two vote getters in the primary go forward regardless of.
00:25:26.000Right now, I'm leading or tied for the lead in all of the polls.
00:25:29.000There's another one out today that has me on 20%, Javier Becerra, Biden's former health secretary, on 20%, everyone else on 14% or below.
00:25:37.000So that's encouraging, but there's a risk that actually, because of this system, if Tom Steyer dumps another $160 million into the race, which he could perfectly well do, he might go up a little bit.
00:25:51.000The Democrat machine in California has kind of glommed onto Javier Becerra, who was down and out a few weeks ago before the swoll well.
00:26:48.000Everyone in California understands that we could be locked out and you could have two Democrats in the top two if we don't actually get behind the leading Republican, who very clearly now is me.
00:27:01.000Now, Steve, I'm somebody who gave up the ghost on California a while back.
00:27:11.000I have pretty much all my relatives moved.
00:27:13.000We still have relatives who are still back in California.
00:27:14.000Every time I visit LA, it just feels like a living tragedy because obviously you're talking about one of the most beautiful places on earth in California, tremendous natural resources, and somehow governance has reduced it to a completely ungovernable mess.
00:27:27.000So the question is obviously, it feels as though this election is sort of last chance saloon for California.
00:27:33.000I keep hearing from my friends who have stayed in California, maybe it'll turn around, maybe it'll shift.
00:27:38.000If it doesn't shift in this election, the question to me is when would it?
00:28:12.000People can see that you can make a great business, start a business, grow a business, exactly as you have in other parts of the country.
00:28:20.000The idea that you have to be in California just isn't real for a lot of people.
00:28:25.000Of course, there are some businesses, you know, real estate and so on, they're going to stay and they're committed to trying to save the state.
00:28:31.000But there's a real risk that we just fall off the cliff.
00:28:34.000And so this is a make or break moment.
00:28:37.000I think we can do it because of the fact that people are so sick of what's been going on.
00:28:42.000We've got a couple of other factors in our favor.
00:28:44.000In a midterm election, as you know, it's all about turnout, getting your voters out.
00:28:48.000And there's a couple of ballot initiatives that have been confirmed for the ballot in November in California that will really help get Republicans' voters out because they're disproportionately popular among Republicans.
00:28:58.000The first of them is a ballot initiative called Save Prop 13, which is about limiting local tax increases, property tax increases, and so on.
00:29:06.000And then the one that's had more attention, voter ID.
00:29:09.000Voter ID is going to be on the ballot in November.
00:29:11.000That's really popular with Republicans.
00:29:13.000So I think that we've got everything going for us.0.94
00:30:00.000But we've got a lot of support growing.
00:30:02.000We've got the business community engaged in politics in California for the first time in at least 20 years, partially prompted by this insane wealth tax proposal.
00:31:54.000So, you know, to go back to what's happening, I think it's important to note that.
00:31:59.000The places like California that have decided to follow the AOC Bernie Sanders wealth is terrible, innovation is awful, it's all theft path, they are losing people, they are losing income.
00:32:11.000This is a chart of AGI gained or lost in states that Trump won in 2024 versus states that he lost.
00:32:19.000This would be the income that is being gained or lost.
00:32:24.000And what you can see is massive gains in the red states and massive losses in the blue states.
00:32:32.000Amounting to some $2 trillion gained in the Trump states and almost $2 trillion lost in the blue states.
00:32:40.000That is because business owners, people who innovate, are fleeing places that hate them.
00:32:45.000By the way, the lost leaders, places like California, which lost $503 billion in AGI, and New York, which lost $660 billion in AGI.
00:33:07.000People on the right, whenever we argue in favor of free markets, we typically argue in utilitarian fashion about free markets, that free markets work better.
00:33:15.000Than socialism and regulation and subsidization and government control.
00:33:19.000But in the end, the argument that is being made by AOC, Bernie, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, like all these people, the arguments that are being made are not, in fact, utilitarian arguments.
00:33:30.000They're not saying socialism will work better.
00:33:32.000Socialism is not going to provide you a 40 hour work week with a vacation and rent and food in a better way than capitalism.
00:34:18.000Human beings are human beings wherever you go.
00:34:20.000Human nature is human nature wherever you go.
00:34:24.000And the reality is that the moral status that Marxism tries to claim, the idea that you are more altruistic, that you're a better person if you believe in redistributionism, is a lie.
00:35:06.000Justice is not the idea that you have an idea of what the world should be.
00:35:10.000And if you don't get that thing, then justice has not been achieved.
00:35:13.000Thomas Sowell, the economist, he properly observed in his fabulous book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice Justice is a process and not an outcome.
00:35:21.000We are not God, that we can simply say, let there be equality or let there be justice.
00:35:25.000We must begin with the universe that we were born into and weigh the costs of making any specific change in it.
00:35:37.000It is good that there are billionaires because a society that has in a free market billionaires means there are a lot of people who are millionaires.
00:35:43.000It means there are a lot of people who are making $100,000.
00:35:46.000And it means that everybody is wealthier than they were the day before.
00:35:57.000Take an airplane to a third world country that does not protect private property, that does not believe in equal rights before the law.0.73
00:36:08.000Meanwhile, you're living here in the United States, the greatest country in the history of mankind.
00:36:14.000And you have a magical device that you carry around in your pocket every day, filled with more technology than the tech that was used to put a man on the moon.
00:36:23.000And you're carrying that around every day.
00:36:24.000And you can hit a button on that phone, and a product will be magically delivered to you without any effort on your part other than hitting the button.
00:36:32.000And that product will have been sourced from 80 different countries, and you'll never know about it.
00:36:56.000The idea that you as an individual get to decide what a thing is worth to you is the basis for free market economics, meaning that it is the most individualistic system that has ever been conceived of by mankind.
00:37:09.000We didn't even properly understand it until the works of Ludwig von Mises and von Boerck in the late 19th, early 20th century.
00:37:18.000And the basic idea is this a glass of water, what is it worth to you?
00:37:23.000Now, in the United States, on a typical day, probably not all that much, right?
00:37:27.000You can go to a tap, you can open up the tap, you can put some water in it.0.63
00:37:29.000If you were in the Sahara, it would be worth literally all of your wealth because otherwise you would die.0.73
00:37:35.000Does that mean that the water changed value or does it mean that your value on the water changed?
00:38:23.000Closer to the Joker than it is to Luke Skywalker.
00:38:27.000He put out a photo of President Trump in sort of an AI painting of President Trump dead, like lying in the ground with flowers growing on him and a gravestone atop him that says Donald J. Trump, 1946 to 2024.
00:38:43.000And he put out a statement on Blue Sky, which is Twitter for leftist crazy people If only he should live long enough to witness his inevitable, devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted, and humiliated for his countless crimes.
00:38:58.000Long enough to realize he'll be disgraced in the history books forevermore.
00:41:19.000Here's Kathy Griffin doing a Candace Owens.0.99
00:41:23.000There's always new things happening.0.99
00:41:26.000I mean, who knows how many assassination attempts there could be just in the next day or how many times Erica Kirk is going to switch from her sparkle pants to that weird video that she made that's just bizarre.
00:41:40.000It's kind of a close up, like a zoom in.
00:42:53.000He said, Though I was elected as a Democrat, I'm proud to serve all Pennsylvanians.
00:42:57.000It has become increasingly lonely to serve in that way, but I firmly believe it's what's needed.
00:43:01.000My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says.
00:43:05.000The president could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays, and my party would suddenly hate them.
00:43:09.000Such pointless pile ons and attacks are unproductive.
00:43:11.000The American people want us to work together to find solutions on issues they and our country face.
00:43:16.000And he says it wasn't long ago when Democrats supported things like a secure border or avoiding government shutdowns or Israel.
00:43:22.000He says those once common views have become increasingly toxic in the Democratic Party, a result of catering to the fringe and agitated parts of our base.
00:44:23.000Again, not totally unreasonable maps, really, either way.
00:44:27.000Very likely this is upheld, but the idea is on the part of Democrats that this is un American.
00:44:33.000So again, according to Democrats, totally American to do this in Virginia, a 55 45 state, totally un American to do this in Tennessee, a 60 40 state.
00:44:44.000Here is Representative Justin Jones lighting a Confederate flag on fire in the state capitol.
00:44:48.000I wasn't aware that a lot of people are in love with the Confederate flag these days, but okay.
00:45:57.000How can we represent all voices in a conversation?
00:46:00.000I want to do this by partnering with organizations from the Boden Democrats to the Boden Republicans.
00:46:05.000I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative, in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle.
00:46:15.000Here, you've had three strike laws, mass incarceration, denied us of who we are, and we are still here.
00:46:25.000The only majority black district from us.0.85
00:46:27.000But I want you to know, and I want my nephews, sons, and the future to know no matter what you do, no matter how much you try and break us and make us bid and make us quit, we will still be here.
00:46:41.000A lot of politicians are frustrated theater kids.
00:46:56.000Well, now she says there are no longer any blue or red states.
00:46:59.000They're only democracy or authoritarian states.
00:47:02.000So, which does Virginia count as precisely?
00:47:06.000What we have to understand is that there are no longer blue states and red states.
00:47:11.000There are authoritarian states and democracy states.
00:47:15.000There are states that do not believe in the right of the people to have a say, who want to aggregate power and foment corruption.
00:47:23.000And there are states that want to guarantee that in this country, We have free and fair elections.
00:47:29.000We have access to the remedies that democracy is supposed to deliver.
00:47:33.000And that no matter what goes wrong in one part of the country, the quality of your citizenship does not depend on your zip code and your geography.
00:47:43.000No, the quality of your authoritarianness apparently depends on your zip code.
00:47:48.000Because, again, the idea is if Democrats do it, it's fine.
00:48:05.000I do not have a strong opinion as to the idea that states should never redistrict.
00:48:11.000And it seems to me what's good for the goose is good for the gander and vice versa.
00:48:14.000Now, speaking of that Virginia redistricting map, the map was not ruled unconstitutional today.
00:48:20.000The actual referendum was ruled unconstitutional.
00:48:22.000So, what I mean by this is it's not the actual map that the Democrats drew in Virginia that the court struck down.
00:48:28.000What actually happened is that the Democrats put up a referendum on the ballot in Virginia.
00:48:33.000That said, the goal is to quote unquote restore fairness.
00:48:36.000So that was misleading, the court found.
00:48:38.000They found that that referendum did not, in fact, restore fairness.
00:48:40.000It basically reduced 45% of the voting population of the state of Virginia into one district.
00:48:49.000So, like 9% of the congressional delegation.
00:48:52.000Okay, so what they found is that there are a few violations here that the Democratic Party pursued in order to ram through this redistricting.
00:49:02.000One, the actual referendum itself was poorly worded and illegitimate.
00:49:07.000Second, the Virginia Constitution dictates that a proposed amendment must be approved by a majority of members elected to each of the two houses in two separate legislative sessions, and there has to be an intervening general session of the House of Delegates between those two approvals.
00:49:22.000The goal there would be to, again, have any amendment approved over a course of time instead of just immediately slam bang.
00:49:28.000Okay, but this was an amendment to the Virginia Constitution that apparently violated all of those rules.
00:49:37.000They found that they did not actually adhere to the requirements of the Virginia Constitution.
00:49:41.000And so they struck down what happened in Virginia in the redistricting case.
00:49:44.000Now, it doesn't mean that Democrats can't try to find another way around it or that the map itself, they ruled on.
00:50:31.000Let's be clear, by the way, what's actually happening right now.
00:50:32.000A lot of people say, oh my gosh, we are months into this war.
00:50:36.000If by war you mean we have not run a full scale air raid, On Iran in weeks at this point, and we just have ships that are parked off the coast of Iran, and this somehow counts to you as a gigantic war.
00:50:52.000The definition of war has changed somewhat, it seems to me.
00:50:56.000Nonetheless, here was the president yesterday being asked about Iran's previous concessions.
00:51:01.000Well, it's more than a one page offer.
00:51:03.000It's an offer that basically said they will not have nuclear weapons, they're going to hand us the nuclear dust, and many other things that we want.
00:51:30.000But my guess is that Abbas Araki, the foreign minister, is spewing a bunch of BS, and then the U.S. is taking that seriously, and then the IRGC is like, yeah, we're not doing any of that.
00:51:39.000That is likely what is happening right now.
00:51:41.000Well, yesterday, according to the president, three world class American destroyers just transited very successfully out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire.
00:51:49.000There was no damage done to the three destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers.
00:51:53.000They were completely destroyed, along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated navy.
00:51:59.000These boats went to the bottom of the sea quickly and efficiently.
00:52:01.000Missiles were shot at our destroyers and were easily knocked down.
00:52:03.000Likewise, drones came and were incinerated while in the air.
00:52:06.000They dropped ever so beautifully down to the ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave.
00:52:11.000Beautiful poetry there from the president.0.96
00:52:13.000He says a normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal country.1.00
00:52:18.000And if they had a chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it without question.1.00
00:52:21.000But they'll never have that opportunity.
00:52:23.000And just like we knocked him out again today, we'll knock him out a lot harder and a lot more violently in the future if they don't get their deal signed fast.
00:52:29.000Our three destroyers with their wonderful crews will now rejoin our naval blockade, which is truly a wall of steel, President Trump.
00:52:37.000Well, apparently, yesterday, according to the Wall Street Journal, there was an explosion on the Bachman Pier on Iran's Kesham Island in the Strait of Hormuz during exchanges of fire between Iranian forces and what state media described as enemy forces that would be the United States.
00:52:49.000The pier had been targeted several times during the war with Israel.
00:52:52.000Several explosions were also heard in Banzar Abbas, according to the semi official TASNIM news agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC.
00:52:59.000Iranian state media said that Iran's military fired ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and suicide drones at warships.
00:53:04.000Keshem Island is located in the Strait of Hormuz, and it is used as a launching point for drones and missiles against shipping.
00:53:12.000All this came after earlier yesterday, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lifted restrictions on the U.S. military's use of their bases in airspace imposed after Project Freedom, which was a way to open the Strait of Hormuz.
00:53:25.000Well, apparently, Saudi and Kuwait blocked the U.S. military's use of bases after senior American officials played down Iranian attacks on the Persian Gulf in reaction to the operation in the Strait.
00:53:36.000The Saudis and other Gulf states were concerned the U.S. would not protect them amid the escalation in fighting, according to officials.
00:53:41.000And again, here is a map that you can see of the strikes.
00:53:45.000For those who can't see the map, this is one reason you should subscribe and watch, so you can actually watch, you know, you can look at the maps that we're looking at.
00:53:52.000But this is kind of the narrowest portion of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:53:55.000Bandar Abbas is located on the Iranian coast and sort of the north side of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:54:00.000And then there's Kesham Island, which is a rather longish island that is located one third of the way down the Strait of Hormuz.
00:54:07.000And so that's the area that was bombed yesterday.
00:54:11.000Well, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, suggests that Iran is trying to force people to pay tolls, and that's unacceptable.
00:54:20.000Just this week, Iran's own state media announced that the regime has launched what it calls the Persian Gulf Straits Authority, where it seeks to demand that all ship captains from international shipping, commercial shipping, civilian shipping, basically have to check in.
00:54:41.000And pay a bribe, pay a toll in order to use these international waterways.
00:54:46.000So that doesn't just affect this region, it infects the entire world.
00:54:53.000Now, again, one of the things that just continues here is the fact that we are blockading their oil.0.68
00:54:59.000According to CENTCOM, there are currently more than 70 tankers U.S. forces are preventing from entering or leaving Iranian ports.
00:55:05.000Those commercial ships have the capacity to transport over 166 million barrels of Iranian oil worth an estimated $13 billion plus.
00:55:14.000The president yesterday said they trifled with us.
00:55:58.000If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have to know.0.95
00:56:00.000You're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.0.85
00:56:06.000Okay, now again, everyone is pretending that something horrible is happening, and the economy continues to chug.
00:56:12.000Everybody's pretending as though the economy is on its last legs here in the United States.0.80
00:56:15.000No, the Iranian economy is on its last legs.
00:56:18.000But Don't worry, you have Kamala Harris here to do propaganda work on behalf of the Iranian regime.
00:56:24.000This war in Iran, which the American people do not want, which was not authorized by conference, but even if it was, it should not have been initiated.
00:56:35.000He talked about obliterating, and then he said, Oh, he did.0.89
00:56:54.000Okay, so the question everybody keeps asking is how does this come to its end?0.83
00:56:58.000Okay, so just to reiterate, here are the goals prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, destroy their ballistic missile umbrella because the ballistic missile umbrella allows them to develop a nuclear weapon, and end their support for international terrorism, right?0.90
00:57:10.000End their spreading of their tentacles around the Middle East.0.93
00:57:14.000There are only two ways to achieve these goals in the long term.0.94
00:57:19.000In the long term, one, Iran agrees to it, two, regime change.0.50
00:57:23.000Now, the president has been focused a lot on one, the idea that Iran is going to agree to it.
00:57:34.000The current regime realizes that it is better to continue to exist and control the country and give way to the United States than to not exist.
00:57:42.000And so we're trying to model what we do with Iran and what we do with Venezuela.
00:57:45.000The difference is socialist slash communist regimes are evil but exist in the realm of rationality.
00:57:51.000Obviously, that is not true of the IRGC.
00:57:53.000The IRGC is much more like Hitler at the end of World War II in the bunker or like the Japanese generals who tried to prevent the surrender of Japan after the nuclear bombs were dropped.
00:58:05.000Okay, so that means that the regime needs to change.
00:58:08.000But here's the thing the regime does not have to fall like right away.
00:58:10.000We don't have to launch tens of thousands of troops into Iran to achieve immediate regime change.
00:58:15.000If you can deprive Iran of its nuclear development long enough for the regime to fall, if you can keep their ballistic missile arsenal degraded long enough for the regime to fall, if you can degrade their economy long enough for the regime to fall, you win.0.52
00:58:36.000That's why I've said many times you cannot adjudicate whether.
00:58:40.000This action was a victory or a failure for probably months to years afterward.
00:58:46.000And by the way, that's usually true with wars.
00:58:48.000Since the end of World War II with an actual surrender, it's taken a while to determine whether a thing is a victory or a loss.
00:58:54.000For example, when we had an armistice in Korea, was that a victory or a loss?
00:58:58.000Well, it turns out, in retrospect, pretty large victory because South Korea exists and has been a thriving place.
00:59:04.000Okay, so how can Iran survive, right?0.93
00:59:06.000Which is the way that they are able to continue being a threat, only by pushing the United States off the ball.0.97
00:59:12.000And that means they're going to try to wait us out.
00:59:14.000They think that if they can get us to just go home, pack up and go home, then they might be able to rebuild their export economy and rebuild their nuclear facilities and rebuild their missile facilities.
00:59:23.000And we're right back where we were a few years ago in five or 10 years.
01:00:05.000Well, that essentially dooms the Iranian regime to a forever future of poverty because they're not going to be reintegrated into the world economy.
01:00:11.000And now they have no oil exports, even to China or Japan.0.98
01:00:15.000It means no money for their IRGC thugs.0.98
01:00:38.000So, take the second first UAE is willing to undergo the threat of Iranian drones and missiles in order to permanently defang the regime.0.73
01:00:48.000And the U.S. can, in fact, clear the Strait of Hormuz.
01:00:51.000We started doing this with Project Freedom earlier this week.0.98
01:00:53.000That's why the Iranians freaked out and started trying to fire at the Saudis and at UAE.0.98
01:00:58.000So, why didn't we continue with Project Freedom?0.70
01:01:00.000Well, again, the reason is, according to contemporaneous reports, that the Saudis were fine with Project Freedom until the Iranians threatened retaliation.
01:01:09.000And it wasn't the retaliation that scared the Saudis.
01:01:11.000It was that the United States apparently said that if that happened, we would still continue to pretend that the ceasefire continued with the negotiation.
01:01:17.000So, first thing we need to do, stop with that nonsense.
01:01:25.000If they wish to give up the ghost, they can do it.
01:01:27.000But this idea that we have to constantly say we're in a ceasefire in order to continue negotiations is nonsense.
01:01:32.000They can negotiate under fire, it's fine.
01:01:35.000The UAE, meanwhile, was still willing to undergo all of those conditions.
01:01:39.000Okay, so you have to, like, the UAE did not deprive the United States of the use of its airspace, even with the threat of Iranian retaliation and the reality that the United States was saying, if you get hit, you can't retaliate.
01:01:53.000So why was the UAE acting differently than Saudi?
01:01:55.000Well, the answer is that the UAE and Saudi are differently situated geopolitically.
01:02:01.000Well, because UAE has, we found out this week, Israel's Iron Dome and Iron Beam to shoot down drones and missiles.
01:02:08.000Why does UAE have it and Saudi doesn't?0.81
01:02:10.000Well, that's because UAE signed the Abraham Accords.0.52
01:02:14.000By the way, that's also why Iran has targeted UAE disproportionately.
01:02:18.000See, here's the thing the UAE, the leadership there, quite smart.
01:02:21.000They discovered the magic of alliance with Israel because the UAE has a lot of oil.
01:02:26.000But the world is moving away from oil in the Middle East.
01:02:30.000The United States is a massive developer of oil and natural gas at this point.
01:02:34.000So, UAE is starting to do what all smart investors do they're diversifying.
01:02:39.000They're taking their money and they're putting it in tech.
01:02:42.000They're allying with a country with massive military capacity.
01:02:45.000They're allying with the best offensive force in the region.
01:02:48.000UAE knows, again, that the oil economy may be degrading over time.
01:02:52.000They're looking to invest those assets in other assets, like, for example, tech.
01:02:55.000And Israel gives them an amazing way to do that.
01:02:58.000So, UAE is not all that fearful of what Iran is going to do of them.
01:03:01.000They have money invested in other places.
01:03:03.000They have deals with the United States, with Israel, and they have Iron Beam and Iron Dome, which allow them to shoot down more of the stuff.0.93
01:03:09.000The Saudis, meanwhile, have been, shall we say, dilly dallying.0.82
01:03:15.000They've held out on the Abraham Accords.0.81
01:03:18.000Instead of using their oil money to invest in, say, tech, they've mainly used it to invest in entertainment, in building useless cities in the desert that will never be visited, in the live tour.
01:03:40.000They're not just wrong economically, they're also wrong militarily.
01:03:43.000It means they don't have things like Iron Dome and Iron Beam.0.99
01:03:45.000So their fields and their refineries are less protected in that way than UAE's.0.55
01:03:50.000So here is one option that the United States might want to pursue because the president has a history of this.0.98
01:03:56.000Tell the Saudis to sign the Abraham Accords.0.86
01:03:58.000And in return, Iron Dome and Iron Beam could be quickly set up in Saudi to protect against Iranian retaliation.0.83
01:04:06.000That means the threat to Saudi is greatly reduced.
01:04:08.000And now the only question becomes opening the Strait, which the United States can open with Project Freedom.0.95
01:04:13.000Then we bomb Kharg Island and the energy facilities, and there is no off ramp for Iran.0.94
01:04:17.000Their leverage over the Strait is gone, their leverage over the oil fields is gone.0.97
01:04:21.000We leave overwatch of the nuclear and ballistic to our Gulf allies in Israel.0.87
01:04:25.000They just keep mowing the lawn with regard to the nuclear facilities and the ballistic missiles every few months until the Iranian regime collapses.0.97
01:04:32.000And we win because at that point, there's no off ramp for the Iranians.0.99
01:04:35.000There is no way for them to survive in the long term.0.99
01:04:39.000And even in the meantime, their threat level drops to the bare minimum because they don't have money to send to terrorist groups.
01:04:45.000They don't have money to develop a ballistic missile facility.
01:04:48.000And every time they do, it gets blown up.
01:04:50.000They don't have the scientific capacity to ramp up their nuclear program.
01:04:55.000There are things, in other words, that can be done.
01:04:57.000So, anybody who is suggesting right now the United States has quote unquote lost or is quote unquote losing is, I think, missing the boat at this point in time.
01:05:04.000Artie, coming up, we are going to get into an astonishing set of local elections in Great Britain.
01:05:11.000The Labor Party is in massive, massive trouble.
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