00:00:00.000Someone you know, a household name, just said that President Trump opposes Jesus by fighting the Iranian radical Islamic tyranny.
00:00:10.000That same person just said that people who oppose the Iranian regime are themselves evil and that they are trying to deceive you that Islam is the enemy.
00:00:19.000Also, those same terrible people are turning President Trump into a slave.
00:00:53.000What he is doing is purposeful and terrible and anti American.
00:00:57.000He wants to demoralize Americans to tell us that America itself is fatally flawed, Islamophobic, run by a secret cabal, its institutions corrupted.
00:01:07.000If he can wreck how Americans think about America, then maybe he can pave the way to something he likes better.
00:01:13.000Well, you know who else believes all of that?
00:01:15.000Hassan Piker, Zorhan Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, the Ayatollahs, for that matter.
00:01:20.000Which is why, right now, they seem to all be on the same side.
00:01:24.000Well, meanwhile, Erica Kirk, the wife of Charlie Kirk, was forced to cancel a live event last night with the vice president thanks to security concerns.
00:01:32.000Now, you may be saying to yourself, those stories have nothing to do with one another.
00:02:27.000I have some ideas as to who Tucker is talking about, but he says the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
00:02:34.000Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes he performs miracles, and states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist.
00:02:41.000That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the son of God offended the president of Iran.
00:02:46.000It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
00:02:49.000According to Tucker Carlson, remember that silly painting, that AI painting that President Trump put up and then took down, where he said he thought he was a doctor and people thought, oh no, he actually is like Jesus there?
00:03:00.000According to Tucker Carlson, Iran was offended by that image.
00:03:04.000They weren't using that image to divide Americans.
00:03:06.000No, they were offended by the image because, of course, it was an attack on Islam and also Christianity.
00:03:14.000According to Tucker Carlson Network, today's Morning Note newsletter covers Majid Peshechkian's condemnation of Trump's desecration of Jesus, the Iran war's gutting effect on America's housing market, because, you know, the housing market was doing amazing before, and also Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami.
00:03:42.000That means that I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus.
00:03:45.000I also believe, as an Orthodox Jew, that Judaism is not the only path to heaven.
00:03:50.000Judaism as a religion is not exclusive, meaning that as long as people who are not Jewish follow seven basic Noahide laws, and this includes Christians and Muslims, they too have a share in the world to come.
00:04:01.000And those seven basic laws are things like.
00:04:03.000No blasphemy, don't commit sexual sins, set up a court of law, make sure that you're not eating flesh from a living animal, stuff like that.
00:04:10.000Which is why I can say, and frequently do if you listen to the show, that you as a Christian should go to church.
00:05:22.000Every reference to them in the Quran functions not to elevate them, but to conscript them into Muhammad's project of replacing Christianity with Islam.0.81
00:05:30.000The Quran itself misrepresents who Mary is.
00:05:34.000It actually addresses her as the sister of Aaron in Surah 1928, which is an anachronism because, of course, Aaron is generations before, like the brother of Moses, a thousand years before Mary, mother of Jesus.
00:05:47.000Also, the Quran attempts to call Mary a virgin, not in order to establish that Jesus is the son of God, but to deny Christ's divine sonship.
00:06:00.000The Quran, according to Berwami, Systematically strips Jesus of every identity that makes him who he is in Christian faith.
00:06:16.000They did not kill him nor crucify him, but it was made to appear so.
00:06:20.000So, according to Barwami, again, he's a Christian who was a Muslim.0.96
00:06:23.000The Quran preserves Jesus only in order to negate him.0.96
00:06:26.000He is a shell, a name emptied of substance.0.99
00:06:28.000The Jesus of Islam is not the eternal son of God, not the Word made flesh, not the crucified and risen Lord.1.00
00:06:33.000He's an anti Jesus, retained only to erase the true one.0.99
00:06:37.000If Jesus is divine, Muhammad is irrelevant.0.95
00:06:39.000If Jesus is the Son of God, Muhammad's message collapses.
00:06:42.000The Quran must therefore silence the real Christ in order to establish Muhammad's authority, says Dan Berwami.
00:06:48.000And by the way, the idea that he is going to come back and then he is going to turn everyone Christian in the same way that Christians believe this?
00:06:57.000No, according to Berwami, the Quran's distortion of Jesus extends beyond the past into the future.
00:07:02.000Islam teaches that Jesus will return at the end of time, but in Islam's eschatology, his role is not to redeem the world.
00:07:08.000Instead, he returns to enforce Islam.0.71
00:07:11.000Jesus returns not as savior, but as Muhammad's enforcer, abolishing Christianity, destroying its symbols, and submitting the world to Sharia, which, by the way, explains why Christians are not well treated, generally speaking, in Sharia law countries.0.89
00:07:21.000When I say not well treated, I mean they basically don't exist because majority Muslim countries have been turned into non safe places for Christians.0.94
00:07:29.000Places that used to be Christian, like Lebanon, have been turned into hell holes for Christians.1.00
00:07:33.000Places like Algeria, that once were Christian, are now totally Muslim.0.99
00:07:37.000There is a reason that the only country in the Middle East with an actual organically growing Christian population is, wait for it, Israel.
00:07:44.000Okay, but Tucker Carlson is running a propaganda op.
00:07:47.000In fact, Milk Bar TV has done a good job of tracing Tucker Carlson's warm words about Islam, which is again kind of strange from Tucker here.
00:07:58.000And again, I don't do the game where I interpret other people's scriptures.
00:08:04.000I just don't do that game because as a religious person, I feel like, you know, scriptures are open to interpretation and the advocates for scriptures should be taken at their word.
00:08:28.000Here's Tucker Carlson on Islam over the course of the last few months and years.
00:08:33.000For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here in the seat of Islam.
00:08:41.000If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that.0.91
00:08:50.000I should bow down before God five times a day.
00:08:54.000And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.
00:08:58.000But you go to the Gulf, and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're on to something.
00:09:32.000Again, all of this relies on the ignorance of a population about what radical Muslim states are like, what Sharia law states are like.
00:09:37.000Now, Tucker may feel perfectly comfortable over in Riyadh, but I promise you that people converting to Christianity in Saudi Arabia aren't feeling quite as comfortable these days.
00:09:46.000The same thing is true in Iran, where there's an actual fatwa out that if you convert to Christianity, you can be executed.
00:09:52.000Coming up in a moment, we'll get to why Tucker Carlson is doing all of this.
00:09:55.000I know there are a lot of theories out there.
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00:10:58.000So, what exactly is Tucker's goal here?
00:11:03.000The goal of Tucker Carlson here. is right now to undermine the president in a time of war against a radical fundamentalist Islamist state and to undermine the West in that same battle more generally.
00:11:14.000Tucker is trying to set up a straw man that a war against the Iranian regime is a war against Islam itself.
00:11:19.000Now, first of all, that is a total lie.
00:11:42.000Well, not only that, Tucker, of course, is going further.
00:11:45.000He's trying to claim that a war against Iran's Sharia law regime, the greatest terror state on planet Earth, is by proxy a war on Jesus and Christianity, which is quite crazy.
00:11:57.000But listen, I'm not speculating about Tucker's motive.
00:12:00.000So Tucker has another newsletter today because he got some blowback for his contention that Muslims love Jesus and therefore that President Trump was somehow not on the side of Jesus, but the Iranian mullahs were.
00:12:11.000So Tucker has a brand new newsletter out today.
00:13:02.000I mean, some of us have read some books, and it turns out that the overlap between Christianity and the Muslim faith Amounted for the first millennium and a half of Islam's existence to basically continuous war between Muslim countries and Christian countries.
00:13:19.000You are all being, you are all being deceived by the deceivers.
00:13:22.000Quote, the forces supporting the Iran war do not want the public to realize that the Quran heralds the Christian savior as a prophet and messenger of the Lord.
00:13:29.000Again, he's still pushing this, even though it is not the full story, even remotely.
00:13:34.000This does not mean Christianity and Islam are aligned.0.68
00:14:23.000The thing that I care about is the behavior of human beings in the world.
00:14:28.000But again, Tucker is trying to run an op here.
00:14:30.000Quote, although Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God, Americans grasping that the faith's roots are not as far from the Bible as they think will destroy the anti Muslim propaganda campaign that has consumed our country for decades.
00:14:52.000Also, listening to Tucker Carlson, who doesn't know his ass from his elbow on the Bible, I mean, truly, he says he finished reading the Bible for the first time a couple of years ago, and he is a frequent spouter of the Marcion heresy, an early heresy rejected by the Catholic Church that suggested that the Old Testament could be completely read out of the New Testament.
00:15:11.000And Tucker, so Tucker is rewriting Christianity so that it is in line with Islam, but not in any way aligned with Judaism, which, again, is the source of the first half of the book for Christians.
00:15:23.000In any case, then he gets to his point.0.84
00:15:25.000Neocons have brainwashed the U.S. public into thinking Middle Eastern terrorists lust for American blood because they are Muslim.
00:15:46.000And notice again, Tucker completely obliterates the distinction between Islam as a doctrine and the behavior of a very sizable portion of Muslims across the world, which is pretty radical, which is fairly radical.
00:15:59.000I mean, these are radical belief systems and they exist in the world.
00:16:02.000But Tucker is trying to pretend that actually the only reason that a Muslim would be a terrorist has to do with either blowback at the United States or because they're just violent criminals.
00:16:10.000You know, they're just kind of like Hannibal Lecter, you know, people who just have a screw loose or something, which ignores, you know, pretty much every fact on the ground.
00:16:20.000Who are the truly evil people, according to Tucker Carlson?
00:16:40.000For those who don't know the Old Testament, and I count Tucker among them because he clearly has very little fluency with it, I have some fluency with it since I've gone through it, I don't know, 50 times in the original Hebrew at this point.
00:16:52.000But if we are talking about Amalek, Amalek is a nation that attacked the Israelites as they were coming out of Egypt.0.57
00:17:00.000And there's an injunction in the Bible that Jews are supposed to remember what Amalek did to them, and they are supposed to wipe out the memory of Amalek.0.63
00:17:07.000Now, here is the thing no one knows who Amalek is.0.79
00:17:10.000This is black letter Hebrew law doctrine, this is Jewish law doctrine.
00:17:25.000When Benjamin Netanyahu invokes Amalek, he invokes it as an idea of evil.
00:17:30.000And he invokes it specifically with regard to Hamas, a terrorist group.
00:17:34.000But of course, Tucker wants to claim that Jews are genocidal because that allows him to support people who actually are, in fact, genocidal and pretend that Hamas is, in fact, just a political group or whatever.
00:17:45.000If Islam were the issue, says Tucker Carlson, like the establishment wants you to believe.
00:18:40.000He claims that, you know, Islam is not a problem in India.
00:18:43.000Well, I mean, there have been some tensions you may have noticed in India.
00:18:46.000What exactly does Tucker thinks it is happening in Kashmir.
00:18:49.000You might want to talk to Modi, the leader of India, about his supposition.
00:18:53.000And as for Bangladesh, Bangladesh has been fighting a decades long war with radical Muslim factions, like decades long.
00:18:59.000So, again, I don't believe that all Muslims are terrorists or anything remotely like that.
00:19:05.000I think there are polls that show that a lot of Muslims believe stuff that is not in line with Western values.
00:19:10.000That is not the same thing as saying they're terrorists.
00:19:13.000And also, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
00:19:17.000What Tucker is trying to do is claim that you have been lied to.
00:19:21.000That every act of terrorism against the United States or our allies is because of American blowback, or you are being manipulated by evil neocons, wink, wink.
00:19:31.000You're being manipulated by those people, and so is President Trump.0.86
00:19:34.000Again, this is part and parcel of the broader demoralization Op Tucker has been running for years at this point, drawing solidarity with America's enemies, including Russia and China, while declaring that we in the United States are unfree pawns of those nefarious forces, that America is somehow being run by the Zionists and their evil doing messengers, the Christian Zionists.0.61
00:20:02.000And by neocons, you know exactly who he means.
00:20:05.000But if he just means people who oppose radical Islamist terrorism, that might include, you know, Muslims like the Saudis and the UAE and Bahrain, all of whom are supporting the president in this current war.
00:20:15.000But of course, Tucker thinks that President Trump has been mind slaved by, you know, you know who, you know.
00:20:46.000This kind of crap has consequences, not just for the war in Iran and the undermining of American morale and the lies being told, but for American life more broadly.
00:20:55.000Already coming up, we'll get into the other big story of the day and how it's linked to this sort of demoralization op.
00:21:00.000Erica Kirk had to cancel a live event with JD Vance.
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00:22:11.000So, yesterday, Mary Margaret Olihan of the Daily Wire reported that Erica Kirk. had to cancel the event that she was set to do with JD Vance.
00:22:35.000Hey, so Mary Margaret reported via Daily Wire, quote, regarding the threats to Erica Kirk that prevented her from attending today's event with Vice President Vance, a TVUSA official tells me that their security had been monitoring the situation in the days leading up to today's event.
00:23:50.000Mikey McCoy, I don't know if he has a place in there, him and Elizabeth, but they are there all the time because I have sources that live in the building, obviously.
00:23:56.000Again, APB, Stacey Sheridan on that day.
00:23:59.000I know I have contacts that live in that same building.
00:24:02.000If you guys remember seeing Stacey Sheridan, that would be great.
00:24:06.000Still can't get an Erica sighting because we're everywhere and we're watching and we're listening.
00:24:15.000Came out and immediately claimed that actually there were no security threats.
00:24:18.000Quote, this is PR horse bleep, obviously.
00:24:21.000What do we think is the real reason she pulled out?
00:24:23.000Hey, so JD Vance correctly points out on the stage last night with Andrew Colvitt at TPUSA that the people who are saying that Erica wasn't grieving are full of it.
00:24:35.000The people who tell you I was there with her, I was holding her hand, my wife was hugging her while we loaded Charlie's body onto Air Force Two and said the Lord's Prayer, the people telling you.
00:24:48.000That Erica wasn't grieving her husband are full of shit.
00:24:52.000And we need to be honest about that fact.
00:24:56.000Now, of course, as we know, because I've pointed it out and it's obvious, Megyn Kelly has refused to condemn Candace Owens on this topic in any way, shape, or form.
00:25:05.000Now, Megyn, of course, will lie and claim that my criticism of her on this matter has something to do with Israel.
00:25:09.000But you should go back and listen to the prior sentence again.
00:25:58.000Because the DOJ will lie to you and make things up, but he trusts Candace.
00:26:02.000So, again, presenting full scale support for Candace Owens as she turns Erica Kirk into a punching bag after Erica's husband was murdered in front of everybody.
00:26:12.000Again, with Theo Vaughn, who again will come up shortly, here was Tucker Carlson saying that basically Candace is like the FBI, but better.0.99
00:26:22.000What Candace is saying is clearly causing a lot of turmoil.
00:26:28.000I'm a freaking podcaster, but I do know how the system works.
00:26:31.000And it's really simple the FBI has this case, and of course, the state of Utah.
00:26:37.000It's their job to not only find out what happened, present it to the public in a way that restores some confidence that you can have justice in this country, that we have functioning law enforcement.
00:26:48.000I don't have confidence in that because there's a lot of evidence that we don't have that.
00:26:51.000So, restore confidence by being honest and telling a story that makes sense.
00:27:19.000Literally yesterday, by the way, while all of this was going down, Buckley Carlson, Tucker's brother, who travels with Tucker and joins the show sometimes as a commentator, tweeted in defense of Candace, while Candace was speculating again that Erica had no actual security threat at all.
00:27:45.000The crazies, to harm other people, to attack Erica Kirk and make her life miserable, to spew baseless conspiracy, low IQ mind vomit, to undermine what is in fact a righteous battle against the worst regime on earth.0.96
00:27:57.000Regardless of the questions you have about the persecution of the war in Iran, there's no question that the bad guys here are Iran.0.90
00:28:04.000Somebody needs to stand up to all of this.0.96
00:28:14.000Last night, The vice president, JD Vance, on the stage at TPUSA was asked about which podcast he would recommend in the middle of this event.
00:30:24.000And Theo Vaughn is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist who does not like the censorious impulses of the left and engages in all the same conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens and all the rest of it.
00:30:36.000And that's the guy that the vice president thinks that everybody should listen to.0.92
00:30:39.000Now, listen, maybe the vice president thinks he has to kiss Theo Vaughn's half retarded ass in order to keep him in the coalition.0.97
00:30:44.000And that's his political calculation.1.00
00:30:46.000I think it's a bad political calculation.
00:30:48.000There is no politician who is fully capable of just picking up.
00:30:51.000A prior president's coalition and then just carrying it forward.1.00
00:30:54.000It didn't work for Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama.
00:30:57.000It's not going to work for JD Vance with Donald Trump.
00:30:59.000Just because Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan back Trump doesn't mean that they're going to get behind Donald Trump.
00:31:18.000It is certainly not a moral calculation.
00:31:20.000And the same is true of the vice president's consistent defense of Tucker's disgusting demoralization up.
00:31:26.000Which has been in continuous operation for years at this point.
00:31:29.000Back in December 2025, he said, The idea that Tucker Carlson, who has one of the largest podcasts in the world, who has millions of listeners who supported Trump in the 2024 election, the idea that his views are somehow completely anathema to conservatism, that he has no place in the conservative movement, is frankly absurd.
00:31:48.000And I don't think anybody actually believes it.
00:32:00.000But now, because of his connections to Tucker or his desire to maintain Trump's coalition, a coalition that is broad and complex, he's been relegated to placating the crazies, assuming he doesn't actually agree with them.
00:32:11.000So last night at TPUSA, he was asked a critical question about the Iran war.
00:32:16.000And his response was not to defend the president's agenda.
00:32:19.000His response was this I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy that we have in the Middle East.
00:33:25.000It is not possible to humor low IQ slop and then assume it will not have consequences.
00:33:31.000Honoring garbage is exacerbating garbage.0.99
00:33:34.000Laughing along with the purveyors of bullshit while occasionally tut tutting, and then when push comes to shove, defending the overall importance of grifters and nuts and even endorsing them popularizes the worst ideas.
00:33:46.000It matters because when these same figures push the demoralization op that America is run by nefarious forces beyond your control, when you prop up and promote those people who do that sort of stuff, You make people's lives worse.
00:33:58.000You're making American politics worse.
00:34:01.000And that does make the world a worse place.
00:34:04.000Terrible low IQ slop ideas have consequences.
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00:35:31.000We are watching as low IQ slop washes over the nation like a tsunami.
00:35:36.000Hassan Piker, who the Democratic Party will not break from for love or money, day by day continues to humiliate the people who continue to staple themselves to his pant leg.0.97
00:35:46.000So, yesterday, Hassan Piker was speaking at Yale, which, again, good for Yale for the affirmative action of letting truly retarded people now have podiums at Yale.0.92
00:35:58.000Well, here was Hassan Piker at Yale expressing his devastation over the downfall of the USSR, one of the most evil regimes in world history, responsible for the killing or murder of tens of millions.0.98
00:36:30.000Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner, child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was no longer contested around the globe.0.85
00:36:51.000And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity.
00:36:57.000That we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now.
00:37:11.000Okay, the downfall of the Soviet Union is one of the great accomplishments in world history.0.86
00:37:15.000Again, the Soviet Union is one of the most murderous regimes in global history.0.86
00:37:20.000It spawned similarly tyrannical regimes all across the world, from Asia to Africa to Latin America.0.89
00:37:26.000And the fact that Hassan Pike are sitting.
00:37:28.000In his multi million dollar home, visiting the richy riches over at Yale and telling them that actually we'd all be better off if the USSR were still around because neoliberalism is devastating the West.
00:37:40.000What does he think happened to countries that were under the thumb of the USSR?
00:37:52.000Like these are supposed to be the mainstream Obama Democrats trying to talk Piker out of completely humiliating them and he just face plans them.
00:38:01.000Gives them a swirly, just puts their face directly in the toilet and flushes, saying that he supports Hamas, like overtly.
00:38:22.000I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.
00:38:24.000I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter, I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.
00:38:32.000Well, I mean, that's weird because you know what Hamas doesn't really let happen are typically, you know, like voting and rights or anything like that.0.87
00:39:20.000Government run grocery stores, guys, it's going to be great.
00:39:22.000Because if there's one thing that we have to fight off in America, it is starvation.
00:39:27.000Now, I know you're thinking right now that we actually have a massive obesity problem in the United States, and you would be right.
00:39:32.000But according to Zorhan Mamdani, the biggest problem in America is that people cannot afford food.
00:39:36.000And the best way for people to afford food. Is for the government to have grocery stores.
00:39:41.000This has never been tried anywhere except for, you know, Cuba and the USSR and pretty much all the communist countries, which led, of course, to the very, very famous photos of Soviet leadership walking into American supermarkets and being astonished by the selection of products.
00:39:54.000Because it turns out capitalism, it makes things better and it makes things cheaper and it makes them more plentiful, which is how they become better and cheaper.
00:40:01.000Now, here is Zoram Amdani explaining his plan because what New York City needs desperately is a government run grocery store.
00:40:46.000I promise you, what is going to happen is that if, in fact, the city subsidizes particular food products at a cheaper rate, either people will want to buy those food products or they will not.
00:40:57.000If they do, like for example, eggs, then there will be a run on eggs and then there will be a shortage.
00:41:04.000Because when you subsidize a product, when you subsidize the price of a product, it spurs more demand and you will end up with a shortage and lines.
00:41:40.000You could get rid of all of the regulations surrounding the grocery stores in New York, which make it very difficult to actually run and operate a business.
00:41:47.000It's hilarious that the minute the Democrats want to lower prices, Then they give a specific cutout that actually gets rid of all of the government red tape, but just for their friends, like the government run grocery store.
00:42:00.000Genius level stuff there from Zorhan Mamdani.
00:42:02.000Meanwhile, Representative Roh Khanna, who is the West Coast version of Zorhan Mamdani, free everything, free everything, says Roh Khanna.
00:42:09.000Again, it is kind of amazing that the Silicon Valley area is represented by a person who really kind of despises tech.
00:42:15.000In any case, here he was calling for free healthcare and college.
00:42:18.000By the way, there's no such thing as free, there's just stuff paid for by somebody else.
00:42:24.000The moment has finally come for national health insurance.
00:42:28.000Because people now realize you cannot have health care linked to your job, not at a time where your job may change or where you may lose your job.
00:44:31.000I did not consent to any sexual activity.
00:44:36.000Although I did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me.
00:44:47.000Okay, she says, by the way, according to Politico, that her delay in taking action against Swaol was driven by fear, not doubt, fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties.
00:44:57.000I've never doubted what happened, she said.
00:44:59.000She accused him of drugging her as well.
00:45:01.000Well, this has some implications for some of the other Democrats.
00:45:03.000So, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who wants to run his own presidential campaign, made very, very close buddies with Swalwell.
00:45:10.000In fact, here they were on camels in the desert in, wait for it, Qatar.
00:45:40.000He lied to his family, lied to his constituents.
00:45:42.000Some of the most powerful people in this country.
00:45:45.000Even before he ran, he was trusted with some positions that normally we would never think someone like this could do if they're leading that double life.
00:45:53.000And again, I was manipulated, I was lied to, and everyone else was too.
00:46:21.000I mean, he's admitted to it, I believe, having an affair with a staffer who then ended up killing herself.
00:46:26.000So it was a great day all around for Congress.
00:46:28.000TMZ apparently has set up shop over in D.C., and they're asking for people to turn in evidence of Congress people getting drunk and screwing their mistresses.
00:46:35.000I assume that, I'm not sure that the bandwidth exists on planet Earth for that amount of material.
00:47:41.000They took hits like nobody's ever taken.
00:47:46.000And again, he is not wrong about this, actually.0.58
00:47:49.000So according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. CENTCOM says that a blockade of Iranian ports has now been fully implemented and that U.S. forces are maintaining maritime superiority in the Middle East.
00:47:57.000Eight oil tankers have been, have obeyed direction from U.S. forces to reverse course according to the United States.
00:48:02.000No interdictions have yet been reported.
00:48:05.000Enforcement is unlikely to happen in the Persian Gulf itself.
00:48:07.000Some 20 commercial ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz recently.
00:48:10.000That's an improvement in the flow of vessels through the critical choke point.
00:48:13.000Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, mediators Are looking to possibly extend a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
00:48:20.000Unclear whether that's going to happen, that maybe further negotiations will take place.
00:48:23.000Apparently, the reports are that the United States is demanding that if Iran sends negotiators, that Iran actually be bound by the things that it is negotiating.
00:48:33.000Some of the negotiators were not on the same page as the IRGC, which is effectively running the country at this point.
00:48:38.000There are already some positive effects of the broader conflict in the Middle East that is currently happening, not just between Israel and the United States and Iran, but also between Israel and Hezbollah.
00:48:50.000So Israel hammered the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, it's an Iranian front group, just last week.
00:48:57.000That prompted the United States to broker talks between Israel and Lebanon.
00:49:03.000According to Reuters, the talks hosted at the State Department by Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded with encouraging words and talk of further meetings, but no firm commitments.
00:49:11.000But the fact of the gathering underscored the degree to which Israel and Lebanon have come to the shared goal of disarming Hezbollah.0.77
00:49:17.000This is one of the things that's incredible.0.95
00:49:18.000If you know anything about Middle Eastern politics, The way that European leaders talk about this is insane.
00:49:23.000They'll say that Israel is the aggressor in Lebanon.0.76
00:49:26.000They are on the side of the Lebanese government.
00:49:28.000They are intervening on the side of the Lebanese government.
00:49:30.000The Lebanese government is harassed by Hezbollah, which is a terrorist group, which is effectively running the southern half of the country, doing so with weaponry not approved by the Lebanese government.
00:49:41.000And the Lebanese government has been too weak to actually disarm Hezbollah.
00:49:53.000Israel and Lebanon are now on the same side trying to disarm Hezbollah.
00:49:57.000Yichael Leiter, who's the Israeli ambassador to the United States and was part of that meeting, he said, actually, we and the Lebanese government are on exactly the same page.
00:50:07.000We discovered today that we're on the same side of the equation.
00:50:12.000That's the most positive thing we could have come away with.0.89
00:50:15.000We are both united in liberating Lebanon from an occupation power dominated by Iran called Hezbollah.0.94
00:50:26.000Lebanon is under their occupation, and we are suffering from their constant barrages of missiles and terror attacks trying to cross our border.
00:50:42.000Leiter did say that the most important thing is to keep the French out of the negotiations.
00:50:46.000The French have been an awful force in these negotiations.
00:50:50.000They've constantly militated in favor of essentially giving goodies to Hezbollah.0.77
00:50:57.000I hope we won't have to make a concerted effort, but we certainly don't want the French anywhere near these negotiations.0.98
00:51:03.000We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes to peace negotiations, they're not needed.0.99
00:51:11.000They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon.1.00
00:51:17.000The fact is that back to the Iran side of the equation, the United States' embargo right now, our blockade on Iranian ships that are entering or leaving Iranian ports, that blockade is likely to lead to vast inflation in the currency, which is already out of control.
00:51:31.000Basically, the shutdown of their economy.
00:51:33.000And the rumors are that the leadership in Iran knows this and they have to act quickly or they will have the complete collapse of their economy in very, very short order.
00:51:39.000And meanwhile, the conflict between President Trump and the Pope continues.
00:51:43.000The President put out a statement on Truth Social yesterday.
00:51:47.000This statement on Truth Social, frankly, I was fine with.
00:51:50.000Quote Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed protesters in the last two months and that for Iran to have a nuclear bomb is absolutely unacceptable?
00:51:58.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:52:04.000If you're upset by that, I'm not sure why.
00:52:06.000That is a perfectly normal political position.
00:52:09.000Meanwhile, Tom Homan, a lifelong Catholic, and of course, our immigration enforcements are, the borders are, he says, you know, as a Catholic, America has to have a border, and it's my job to enforce it.
00:52:22.000Look, I'm not going to speak for the president.
00:52:24.000I'm speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic.0.84
00:52:26.000I wish they stayed out of immigration if they don't know what they're talking about.0.97
00:52:30.000Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years and talked to a nine year old girl, they got raped multiple times.1.00
00:52:36.000Or stood in the back of the trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a five year old boy that baked to death.
00:52:42.000If they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change.
00:52:47.000And I welcome a discussion with any of them because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.0.89
00:52:55.000Again, he is not wrong about any of this.
00:52:57.000Again, if the Pope steps into politics, then criticizing his politics is perfectly within lines.
00:53:10.000That some of the Catholic clergy have attacked mercilessly the Trump administration on immigration.
00:53:17.000It is a constant idea that somehow everything that the Trump administration does when it comes to securing our borders is inhumane.
00:53:25.000And my constant response to that is how is it humane to allow drug traffickers and sex traffickers to bring little kids across the southern border?
00:54:32.000We've talked about him unfortunately before.
00:54:33.000He is the 20 year old influencer who has decided that it's a great idea to spend your life being sterile, smashing yourself in the face with a hammer to accentuate your jawline, and taking enough meth to kill a horse.
00:54:55.000He was on Kickstreet, he was streaming.
00:54:57.000Again, this is a miserable life for people.
00:54:59.000And if you're following these, if you're a young person, if you're a 17 year old guy and you're following Clavicular because you think he's funnier, just understand he's a miserable loser.
00:55:06.000These people are miserable losers, truly.
00:55:09.000He is walking around taking drugs with his friends, and then girls come up and they take videos because they want clout, and that's all.
00:55:19.000The actual video is of him basically ODing on camera, which is pretty terrible.
00:55:24.000In a video from his stream, you can actually see it.
00:55:26.000We're not showing it right now, but you can see him legitimately go unconscious.
00:55:31.000And, uh, and then later he resurfaced and he, he said that he got home, quote, all of the substances are just to cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public.
00:55:39.000But obviously that isn't a real solution.
00:55:42.000The worst part of tonight was my face descending from the life support mask.
00:55:45.000I don't even know what that last sentence means.
00:55:47.000I mean, obviously if the answer is that you're troubled, yeah, clavicular is, which is why young people do not emulate people who have these sorts of troubles in their life.
00:55:56.000And of course you'll remember that clavicular was one of the genius participants in, uh, in the Heil Hitler van video with Myron Gaines and Nick Fuentes and the Tate Boys and Sneeko and Justin Waller combined IQ that of a cum quad.
00:56:24.000Maybe the definition of hell would be being stuck in that van.
00:56:28.000Now, Sneeko himself had a bad day yesterday.0.59
00:56:31.000Sneeko, who we had discussed because yesterday he was out on the streets of New York shouting Khaibar al Yehud, which is an Islamic chant for the mass murder of Jews.0.62
00:56:40.000And that was him just a couple of days ago.0.83
00:57:32.000Some people suspect that this was staged.
00:57:34.000Probably Sneeko himself would suspect it was staged because he believes everything was staged.
00:57:37.000But again, dumb people doing dumb things receive dumb consequences.
00:57:41.000And no, that is not an excuse for anyone doing violence to anyone else who is not doing violence to them, which is something that we can easily say here.
00:57:48.000And we can also say that you should not listen to any of these low IQ individuals.0.94
00:57:52.000You should not listen to the foolishness and ugliness that they purvey.
00:58:01.000All the people that you know and mainline influencers, people who have actual political voices and voices people listen to who refuse to call this sort of stuff out, there's a reason they're doing it.
00:58:12.000And it's usually the clicks and it's often the money.
00:58:13.000And if it's for principle, that's even worse.
00:58:15.000All righty, folks, coming up, I'm going to be taking your questions.
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