00:00:05.000Many of them are literally working for and with enemies of the United States, which is why podcaster and streamer Hassan Piker was just subpoenaed by the Justice Department.0.99
00:00:14.000Hassan Piker is not the victim of some right wing persecution.
00:00:18.000He allegedly aided the Cuban communist regime, which should not be a shock.
00:00:56.000But Democrats are ignoring that autopsy because instead they've decided to steer toward the socialist left that hates pretty much everything that makes America awesome and successful.
00:01:05.000Instead, they'd like to punish innovation and success to reward terrorist sympathizers.
00:01:09.000And most of all, most of all, the hard left wants control.
00:01:13.000So here's the big question Will we, the American people, give them that control?
00:01:17.000That's the only question that matters.
00:01:19.000We'll get to all of that, plus the latest updates from the Texas Senate primary on the Republican side, breaking news on negotiations over the Iran war, and a quick tour of the failed state that is California.
00:01:38.000Well, over the weekend, Hassan Piker got really, really sad.
00:01:41.000He got really, really sad because it turns out that federal officials served subpoenas to him as well as to Code Pink co founder Susan Medea Benjamin, who is a nut job.
00:01:51.000All of this, according to Fox News, is part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba's communist regime.
00:02:00.000Now, again, you can visit Cuba, you actually can, but you're not allowed to stay at particular hotels that are linked with the government or the military.
00:02:07.000And you're certainly not supposed to bring aid to, you know, the actual government and military.
00:02:11.000Well, apparently, Piker and Benjamin are among the people who've been caught in this federal inquiry into whether activists who traveled there violated sanctions law, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island.
00:02:25.000So there are some administrative subpoenas, according to the Fox News website called Requests for Information RFI.
00:02:32.000They seek financial, logistical, and communications information revolving around trips.
00:02:36.000There were two big trips that were bragged about delegations from the Nuestra America convoy or Our America convoy, which brought together, as you recall, a bunch of left wing nut jobs.1.00
00:02:46.000To travel around in dinky carts to basically poverty tour.
00:02:51.000And you remember, we played clips on the show of Hassan Piker staying at a five star hotel with air conditioning, talking about how everybody in Cuba was actually super duper duper happy being in the heat without air conditioning or electricity, you know, as a communist would.
00:03:06.000Well, it turns out that this entire shebang has been financed, apparently, according to Fox News, by Roy Singham.
00:03:20.000He has pumped some $278 million into nonprofit groups that have been pushing pro China, pro Cuba, anti US narratives, and street protests for almost a decade.
00:03:30.000Well, especially since he got married to the Code Pink co founder, Jody Evans.
00:03:33.000Again, as you will notice, one of the people who's been caught up in the federal investigation is Midia Benjamin, who is Code Pink.
00:03:40.000Code Pink received $1.33 million from Singham after he married Evans.
00:03:44.000So, what precisely did Hassan Piker do?
00:03:48.000That Nuestra America convoy, which is this group that he went with, brought supplies directly to the Communist Party of Cuba.
00:03:54.000There are allegations that they stayed at a five star hotel on the Cuba restricted list because of ties with the Cuban government and military, and that he participated in and financed a coordination flotilla without a license from the Treasury Department.
00:04:06.000Now, the punishments can be somewhat severe here.
00:04:09.000If there is a civil punishment that happens under what's called legally a strict liability standard, a strict liability standard means I don't have to prove intent.
00:04:16.000So if you just stayed at that hotel and you ended up funding the Cuban government, You could have civil liability that amounts to tens of thousands of dollars, up to approximately 65 grand to 112 grand per individual violation.
00:04:30.000And then, theoretically, there are criminal charges that could be pursued.
00:04:35.000You'd have to show that, for example, Hassan Piker knew that he was helping the communist regime, it wasn't by accident.
00:04:42.000And this would amount to up to 10 years in federal prison for individual violations of the Cuban assets control regulations, or criminal fines up to a quarter million dollars.
00:04:51.000Already coming up, Hassan Piker responds, and we look into who may have ratted on him or dogged on him.
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00:06:13.000Now, naturally, Hassan Piker's response to this was to complain about the so called Epstein class.
00:06:18.000Now, the Epstein class is a gigantic misdirect.
00:06:21.000And the idea is that there is a criminal upper class that was deeply embedded in a sex trafficking ring for children.0.50
00:06:28.000On the program, we have discussed this case ad infinitum, ad nausea.
00:06:32.000What the cases actually show, which is that Jeffrey Epstein was, in fact, a pervert and a pedophile, and that he was associated with very, very rich and famous people.
00:06:41.000But there is no evidence that he actually trafficked children to any of those other rich or famous people.
00:06:46.000There's some evidence, it appears, that he was trafficking overage women to some of these people, but there is no evidence that he was trafficking underage children to any of these rich and famous people.
00:06:57.000Nonetheless, there has been this widespread theory that basically there is a child sex trafficking ring that embeds basically all areas of the American upper class everybody in government, everybody in media, everybody in entertainment, in finance, and all the rest.
00:07:13.000And so when he says Epstein class, understand.0.81
00:07:15.000That what he's doing is he is just making a class argument as to why he should not be punished for helping the Cubans.0.81
00:07:22.000So he tweeted out the American government would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we've starved than punish the Epstein class.0.95
00:07:29.000Now, again, if he can name these specific people and what specific crimes they've committed who should be punished, I'm with him.0.91
00:07:35.000I mean, I have a very easy standard when it comes to legal violations.
00:07:38.000If you commit a legal violation, you should be prosecuted.
00:09:10.000I mean, you mean just for going to Cuba and helping to massage a truly evil regime that's responsible for the imprisonment of all political dissenters, the murder of thousands of people over the course of decades, and the forced exile of tens of thousands more?
00:09:25.000I mean, that's so sad that people are being mean to Hassan Piker.
00:09:27.000I mean, maybe he should flee to China where all of his friends are.
00:09:30.000I mean, he says he loves Chairman Mao.
00:09:33.000Maybe you should leave our country because clearly his loyalty to our country does not exist.0.61
00:09:38.000Well, he did explain by accident who's been funding all of this, and the answer is Roy Singham, who again lives in China.
00:09:47.000Roy Singham is an American citizen, he lives in China now, and he's a centimillionaire.
00:09:54.000I think he has almost a billion dollars, not sure how much money he has now, but he's been a funding vehicle for a lot of political.
00:10:04.000A lot of political movements in the country, like a lot of activism, and they hate that.
00:10:09.000Like the American government hates that.
00:10:11.000So they're trying to jam him up, you know?
00:10:16.000They're trying to hit him on anything and everything they possibly can.1.00
00:10:19.000Again, the same people like the Hassan Pikers who will accuse anyone and everyone of dual loyalty.0.94
00:10:23.000They're happy to take money from a guy who left America to live in China, an enemy of the United States, and then funds left wing causes in the United States to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.0.94
00:10:36.000Communist agents have been a part of the communist ideological bloc since literally the beginning of the Soviet Union.
00:10:43.000I mean, there are attempts during World War II by communist affiliated parties to undermine places like Great Britain and the United States in the middle of World War II, particularly Britain, because Russia at that time was, of course, on the side of the Nazi government.
00:10:57.000Well, here is Piker back in March of 2025 admitting communications with the communist regime in Cuba, which again may be a crime.
00:11:15.000The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told him that if the only thing stopping us all from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen.0.84
00:12:02.000I mean, that would be bad enough, considering, again, for those who don't know, Hassan Piker has deep and abiding relationships, not just with candidates like Abdul El Sayed over in Michigan.
00:12:13.000But also with people like Ezra Klein, a supposed moderate Democrat on the New York Times editorial board.
00:12:19.000He is somebody who's rallying with major Democrats across the country.
00:12:22.000He has a relationship with Zar Mamdani.
00:12:26.000This would be the equivalent of if Karl Rove, during the Bush administration, had been actively working with the communist government of Cuba or the communist government of China.
00:12:37.000That is what we are talking about right now.
00:12:57.000Adam Hamawi is currently in a race in New Jersey to succeed a retiring Democrat named Bonnie Watson Coleman in Congress.
00:13:07.000The Jewish Insider is reporting, and no one else is, that apparently he has a long standing past relationship with terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
00:13:17.000According to the Jewish Insider, their relationship spanned a 1991 road trip the two took together to Detroit.
00:13:22.000Hamawi's service as the Sheikh's translator for a press conference, in which Abdul Rahman denied any rule in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Hamawi's testimony on the Sheikh's behalf at his 1995 trial, where the Islamist leader was convicted of plotting to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks in New York City.
00:13:41.000Back during that period, the now congressional candidate, Went with a different group to Bosnia.
00:13:48.000He went with a group subsequently shut down for providing logistical support to Al Qaeda.
00:13:53.000Hamawi, by the way, is endorsed by, wait for it, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna of California, Ilhan Omar, herself a terrorist sympathizer, Alexander Ocasio Cortez, who of course is a soft terrorist sympathizer as well, and Rashid Talib, a not soft terrorist sympathizer.
00:14:06.000They've all endorsed him in his New Jersey congressional bid.
00:14:10.000Apparently, he had a relationship with a group called Benevolence International.
00:14:15.000So, what exactly is Benevolence International?
00:14:19.000Apparently, Benevolence International was a group active in Bosnia that was acting as a sort of Al Qaeda cutout.
00:14:29.000I mean, these are the people that are getting run for Congress by the Democrats at this point.
00:14:37.000This is why I know the Republicans don't have great approval ratings right now.
00:14:41.000I know that a lot of people are upset with them for not passing the Save Act.
00:14:44.000A lot of people are upset with Republicans because they want the war in Iran to come to a faster end or because they don't like the inflation rates.
00:14:50.000Understand, the Democratic Party is moving toward a full scale embrace of people who make common cause with the Chinese Communist Party, the Cuban government, and actual terrorists, Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.
00:15:03.000You know how much you have to hate America to truly believe that?0.86
00:15:06.000And unfortunately, if that's sort of the bleeding edge of the radicalism, if that's the bleeding edge, then the softer version of that infuses the Democratic Party ideology.
00:15:17.000That's the only explanation I can give for this insane tweet from the Democratic Party that was put out on Memorial Day.
00:15:26.000They put up pictures of the soldiers who are KIA in the current conflict with Iran.
00:15:32.000And they said, Americans who have died in Trump's war with Iran.
00:15:36.000Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump's war with Iran.
00:15:40.000Again, the idea here is, realistically speaking, what they are trying to do, they need to take this down because it's obvious what they're trying to do.
00:15:45.000They're trying to say that these men and women died in vain.
00:15:48.000That's what they're trying to do on Memorial Day because that's how much they hate Trump.
00:15:58.000Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, who, of course, is a horrific mayor, he actually put out a tweet honoring George Floyd two and a half hours before honoring fallen American soldiers on Memorial Day.
00:16:10.000Quote Today we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.
00:16:28.000And of course, when it comes to the actual criminal case, he is not telling the truth.
00:16:32.000I mean, we have extensively covered the actual findings from the autopsy of George Floyd and the supposed guilt of Derek Chauvin, the police officer in that case, who I believe is railroaded.
00:16:44.000But the fact that no matter what you believe, that somehow gets posted before anything with regard to the soldiers on Memorial Day is pretty insane.
00:16:54.000And of course, Governor Tim Walz did the same thing.
00:17:18.000Honoring our fallen heroes by going to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, where, again, that is in honor of a man who died of a pre existing medical condition and heavy drug use.
00:17:36.000That's where you're choosing to spend your day.
00:17:39.000Democrats are doing this all over the country, by the way.
00:17:41.000Another Democrat, Mikey Sherrill, in New Jersey, spent Memorial Day joining an anti ICE protest.
00:17:48.000According to the Daily Wire, she demanded access to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark on Monday.
00:17:53.000Her request to inspect the facility was formally denied, she said, adding it raised serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view.
00:18:00.000Now, a bunch of other Democrats have already toured the facility over the weekend.
00:18:04.000So that's how she spent her weekend.1.00
00:18:07.000And then protesters built a wall to try to block the detention center exit.
00:18:14.000And also, the protesters then decided that it would be worthwhile to call a Fox News reporter a Nazi B word.0.66
00:18:21.000So, you know, people using their Memorial Day productively.
00:18:25.000So, just for people that want to know what it's like to cover these protests, it's constant with this.
00:19:08.000In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual American citizens.
00:19:14.000And some of the detainees that are being held, according to DHS, you know, again, these are the detainees that Democrats are deeply worried about, include illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, for crimes ranging from homicide to drug trafficking to sex crimes against children.
00:19:33.000But that's how many Democrats were spending their Memorial Day.
00:19:36.000Now, again, is all of this going to redound to Democrats' benefit?
00:19:39.000Already coming up, Democrats know why they lost in 2024.
00:19:43.000They just are going to ignore that and try to go hard to the left.
00:19:47.000First, the week after Memorial Day, also known as the week, everybody realizes they might have bought 12 things they didn't need because a website slapped the word sale in a red font next to a countdown clock.
00:19:57.000The checkout process is not always that simple, but every once in a while, online shopping actually works the way it is supposed to.
00:20:03.000One of the few genuinely useful things in e commerce right now is that purple shop pay button from Shopify.
00:20:08.000Because everybody has had this experience.
00:20:09.000You're checking out online, your wallet is nowhere near you, you forgot your password, your phone is asking for a verification code sent to an email account you made in 2014, and then suddenly you see the purple button.
00:21:20.000The reason they're saying that is because the conclusions are we should stop being crazy.
00:21:24.000And they understand that it's an unpopular view inside the Democratic Party to stop being crazy.
00:21:31.000And according to the DNC autopsy, they full on admit that Bidenomics failed, that the Democratic Party, quote, emphasized macro statistics rather than the micro realities voters expect.
00:21:42.000Experienced daily and specifically tied President Biden by name to actual economic anxiety.
00:21:48.000They also admitted that their focus on social issues over economic issues alienated socially conservative voters who prioritized kitchen table concerns.
00:21:57.000The autopsy also noted that they should not have assumed, Democrats should not have assumed, that identity politics will hold male voters of color.0.90
00:22:11.000They're just going to steer to the left.
00:22:12.000They're going to follow the line of, say, Chris Van Hollen.1.00
00:22:16.000One of the dumbest members of the United States Senate.0.98
00:22:19.000Chris Van Hollen is, of course, the United States Senator from Maryland.0.99
00:22:24.000Most familiar from taking pictures with people accused of domestic abuse, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
00:22:30.000Remember, he flew all the way down to El Salvador to take a picture with him.
00:22:33.000Well, now he's writing op eds for the New York Times saying that what Democrats really need to do is focus on Israel more and yell at Israel more and treat Israel as the great villain in the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
00:22:46.000Ignoring the fact that what kicked off the latest round of the Israeli Palestinian conflict was the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
00:22:53.000He wrote an entire piece in the New York Times saying Democrats need to face a hard truth.
00:22:58.000While Republicans' approach to the Israeli Palestinian conflict has failed, so has ours.
00:23:02.000The Democratic Party has provided reflexive and unconditional support to Israeli governments, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:23:07.000And so he calls for withdrawing all taxpayer support from Israel and conditioning all arms sales.
00:23:12.000Again, Democrats are going to steer more toward this, which is why, presumably, AOC is now taking more steps toward a presidential run.
00:23:20.000She believes the momentum is in her corner, and she's not wrong.
00:23:22.000I've been saying for a long time, I think she's an underrated Democratic presidential candidate because she can raise money like nobody's business, and Bernie's going to get behind her.
00:23:31.000According to Axios, Democratic operatives expect that AOC would easily raise $100 million just from small dollar donors, mobilize many supporters of Bernie Sanders' past campaigns, and command attention as few other candidates could now.
00:23:44.000Does that mean she'll win the nomination?
00:23:46.000Not necessarily, but clearly the momentum is with the far left inside the Democratic Party.
00:23:51.000Zorhan Mamdani is still being championed as a mainstream Democrat by every major Democrat.
00:23:56.000Here he was over the weekend, claiming that it was time to basically steal private property and redistribute it.
00:24:05.000Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City.
00:24:15.000When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers.
00:24:24.000And for buildings that have suffered. Chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards.
00:24:36.000Stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.
00:24:48.000So, what is he actually talking about here?
00:24:49.000Basically, you use rent control to destroy any incentive for people to take care of their apartments because rent controlled apartments, by necessity, mean that you are charging a lower rent.
00:25:00.000Than probably the cost of maintaining the apartment.
00:25:03.000Then you step in when the conditions of the apartment are bad, and then you seize the apartment in the name of the people and you hand it over to a cooperative land trust run probably by some of your political buddies.
00:25:28.000The Daily Wire's Brekha Stole reports on this.
00:25:32.000She says Mamdani did not detail how the city would legally seize or transfer ownership of privately held properties.
00:25:37.000One possible mechanism is New York City's controversial third party transfer program, which allows the city to foreclose on distressed buildings whose owners owed back property taxes or water charges and had accumulated significant housing code violations before transferring them to nonprofit housing groups or tenant organizations.
00:25:53.000By the way, nonprofit housing groups typically face significant problems in maintaining the property themselves.
00:26:00.000This has been a repeat significant problem with nonprofits.
00:26:03.000Because it turns out when there's no profit motive, then why does the nonprofit have any interest in maintaining the property?
00:26:30.000Quote, Amazon is worth $2 trillion, but it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust.
00:26:39.000We collected every dollar they owe the people of the city.
00:26:41.000And will continue to hold them accountable.
00:26:43.000In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else.
00:26:46.000No company, no matter how large or powerful, is above the law.
00:26:49.000Now, realistically speaking, you want to throw Amazon out of your city?
00:27:19.000I also have to give a shout out to my friend Nicholas Sharma because the only reason I could watch game one was because he had YouTube TV and he gave me his login.
00:27:41.000Democratic socialism, where you defraud companies by sharing your password.
00:27:45.000And there won't be any consequences to that in increased fees from the companies.
00:27:49.000There will be the beautiful thing about socialism, it's the theory you can steal other people's money and intellectual property with no externalities.
00:27:55.000But don't worry, it's not just Zoran Momdani.
00:27:58.000And of course, it's not just AOC, it's also Graham Plattner, you know, the dude with the Nazi tattoo.0.70
00:28:05.000And now you have this weirdo with a far older weirdo.
00:28:09.000This is like a Muppet show over here of some sort.
00:28:15.000They're like Stadler and Hofstadter over here.
00:28:41.000There's absolutely no question that if we target the wealth where it has been hoarded, frankly, for decades at this point, and we pull it back into our system and put it into social programs like health care, like child care, like Paying teachers what they are worth, we will absolutely improve the lives of working Americans and, quite frankly, improve our society as a whole.
00:29:01.000I think that I'm going to listen to this schmucko on how to redistribute wealth.0.92
00:29:06.000Probably I'll listen to the guy who thought it was a great idea to get a Totenkopf tattoo and also to rant online about how much he loved tie hookers and also how much he liked to pleasure himself in porta potties.0.97
00:29:21.000I will listen to him on economic redistributionism.
00:30:46.000I noticed that you didn't actually apologize to the dude you said didn't deserve to live after there was a video of him being shot.
00:30:53.000Private First Class Ted Daniels, who again was the person who captured viral helmet footage of himself moving into open terrain to draw Taliban fire from his squad in 2012, said that Democrats backing Platner are the ones who own apology.
00:31:05.000Quote, what I'd really like is for Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, and everybody else on the far left to tell my children to their face.
00:31:12.000They're endorsing and supporting a man who said their father should not have lived, cheering on the death of their father.0.84
00:31:17.000Well, the good news is that they've got the ultimate anti American, useless leech on the ass of society, Bernie Sanders, out campaigning for him.0.98
00:31:26.000You get to watch the full on Ribbentrop Molotov pact happen in real time.0.99
00:31:30.000The communists and the Nazis together.0.80
00:31:33.000Again, Bernie Sanders tweeting out a photo of himself standing next to a road sign on our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with Graham Platner.
00:31:41.000We need candidates like Graham who'll take on the greed of the oligarchs and deliver for working families.
00:31:44.000Again, one of my favorite things about claiming.0.89
00:31:47.000An oligarchy traditionally is a small cadre of people who are very rich controlling the government.
00:31:54.000That speaks much more to the Democratic Party, which wishes to control your life top down with a very small group of people, than it does to the laissez faire economic system promoted typically by conservatives.
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00:35:01.000Showed up to his Boston concert with a teleprompter.
00:35:05.000By the way, personal opinion Bruce Springsteen, one of the most overrated artists of the last century, wildly overrated.0.94
00:35:15.000Frankly, I think he kind of sucks, but put that aside, here was his.
00:35:19.000If you'd like a Bruce Springsteen, if you'd like a lecture from an octogenarian who hasn't written a good song in several decades, well, you came to the right place.0.98
00:35:30.000The richest men in America have abandoned the world's poorest children to death and disease through the dismantling of USAID.
00:35:42.000This is no longer on the front page, but children die every day and this is happening now.
00:35:52.000We are undermining NATO and the world order that kept us safe and at global peace for 80 years.
00:36:01.000Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts, like the full history of the brutality of slavery.
00:37:13.000And we should recognize the difference between the two because otherwise, rights are just a mush word.
00:37:20.000There has been a co opting of nonviolence into the point of almost being a psyop.
00:37:26.000Eventually, you can see down the road what might happen.
00:37:30.000And if you take away all of people's political power or even the idea that they have political power, and you also take away their ability to feed their family, and you can only take away so much from a person before they have no options left other than to, you know, like scream in the street, i.e., like sort of riot.
00:37:46.000Or something like that, or before they pinpoint certain individuals that they see as the perpetrators of all these crimes against making a way of life.
00:37:58.000You shouldn't have to earn the right to live.
00:38:00.000Okay, so again, what he's actually doing is creating a permission structure for violence.
00:38:57.000It's these massive corporations like Walmart that are emptying out good jobs from our communities, replacing them with part time workers.0.75
00:39:14.000Not Chris Murphy, again, a completely useless twerp who's earning a government salary by trying to steal other people's money and regulate things under the ground.0.99
00:39:25.000Walmart, where you shop for your kids, they're the ones who are screwing you.0.99
00:39:29.000Now, all of this ends with governance.0.84
00:39:31.000If the left gains control, then they govern horribly.
00:39:34.000So, to take an example, Seattle's socialist mayor, a woman named Katie Wilson, you'll remember that we played a clip on the show recently of her responding to talk of Starbucks leaving the state.
00:39:46.000She had urged residents to boycott Starbucks because they were moving $100 million into Tennessee and putting thousands of new jobs there.
00:39:56.000She said, Bye and giggle in response to the Starbucks leaving the state.
00:40:24.000Californians, if you're hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to avoid Chevron.
00:40:28.000Pro tip unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to keep your engine running clean, even if it doesn't have a fancy name like Techron.
00:40:36.000Big oil is already making billions off Trump's Iran war.
00:40:39.000Don't let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name.
00:40:43.000Well, Chevron responded by pointing out that the high gas prices are because of Gavin Newsom.
00:40:50.000That is why Gavin Newsom is ripping on Chevron.
00:41:17.000In California, it's seven, eight bucks a gallon minimum.
00:41:20.000That is not because it's more expensive to ship oil and gas to California, which, by the way, is one of the most oil rich regions on planet Earth.
00:41:29.000But Democrat governance, they can make paradise into hell, which is the point that Spencer Pratt, running for Los Angeles mayor, is making.
00:42:05.000You're taxed on your income, you're taxed on your gas, you're taxed on your property, you're taxed out the every single expensive transaction you endure is taxed.
00:42:14.000Yes, hundreds of restaurants have shut their doors thanks to Karen Bass and Nithya Raman.
00:42:19.000Businesses are fleeing their terrible leadership.
00:44:01.000Because they might take out a credit card.
00:44:04.000I mean, they don't have to take out a credit card.
00:44:06.000And it turns out that the vast majority of us use credit cards all the time.
00:44:12.000But understand the hatred for private property, the hatred for the free market system, the hatred for the things that make America great in the first place is extraordinarily strong.
00:44:43.000Now, Cornyn has alienated over the years many, many people in Texas for his left wing stance or liberal stance on gun policy, for example.
00:44:52.000There's been enormous dyspepsia in the state of Texas with the idea that Cornyn was too friendly with Democrats.
00:44:58.000And so he was already losing to Paxton in that race.
00:45:01.000And then very late breaking, right near the end of the race, President Trump endorsed Paxton over Cornyn.
00:45:07.000And then last night, Paxton basically skunked Cornyn, which is no shock at all.
00:45:12.000The president put out a statement congratulating Paxton.
00:45:16.000Say congratulations to Ken Paxton on such a tremendous win and to John Cornyn for having run a strong and powerful race, but more importantly, having had a truly great career.
00:45:23.000John will remain my friend for a long time to come as we both watch Ken become a fantastic, common sense senator, one who is respected by all.
00:45:30.000His opponent, Alfred E. Newman, that's a reference to James Tallarico, may be the worst Texas candidate I have ever seen.
00:45:35.000A strong open borders advocate, he is weak on crime, believes that our six genders is insulting to Jesus Christ, will never support the military.
00:45:41.000Was a big mask wearer until recently, and is a vegan who dislikes meat.
00:45:44.000Not exactly a good way to be if you're wanting to win an election in Texas.
00:45:49.000So, those critiques of Tallerico are, of course, right.
00:45:52.000Tallerico, on the other hand, was eager to face off against Paxton, more eager to face off against Paxton than Cornyn because he believes that there is some fertile ground to be tilled with regard to past allegations of corruption surrounding Paxton.
00:46:09.000The most corrupt politician in America.
00:46:12.000Just became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate.
00:46:16.000Three years ago, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors at the expense of the people.
00:46:28.000That kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system.
00:47:39.000You know, I guess one of his statements was something like it's not clear if Jesus or God was a man or a woman or he contains both masculine and femininity.
00:47:49.000In Texas, and it's going to be a problem for a lot of Christian voters, whether you're Latino, black, or white.
00:47:57.000They don't agree with that interpretation of the faith and of Christianity.
00:48:03.000And so I think, you know, he's a vulnerable candidate in Texas.
00:48:07.000Yeah, again, I think that that is true.
00:48:08.000And it'll be fun to watch as Democrats do Lucy and the football again with regard to Tallarico and this Texas race.
00:48:15.000Every couple of years, Democrats think this is going to be the moment when Texas turns blue.
00:48:19.000They're likely to toss enormous amounts of money.
00:48:21.000At the Tallarico race, specifically because they think that Paxton is weaker.
00:48:24.000So, a lot of Republicans are upset because they figure that they might have to spend more money in Texas and that will draw money away from, say, Michigan or Maine.
00:48:32.000But the reality is, Democrats are actually going to spend a lot of money in Texas, where they should spend zero dollars because that race is not going to be won by James Tallarico, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance.
00:48:41.000In fact, Democrats are hurting themselves in 2026 in the same way that Republicans hurt themselves in 2022.
00:48:49.000You'll recall that President Trump intervened personally to help select in primaries a bunch of very, very bad Republican candidates for the Senate.
00:48:59.000He selected a candidate in New Hampshire, terrible candidate, a candidate in Georgia, terrible candidate, and they lost.
00:49:04.000A candidate in Arizona who's not very good lost.
00:49:08.000Democrats are now doing the same thing.
00:49:10.000So, the Michigan Senate seat for Democrats, very winnable.
00:49:13.000They're probably going to lose it because they insist on nominating El Sayed.
00:49:26.000So, Democrats had an outside shot at taking the Senate.
00:49:29.000I would say that now, given their candidate's election, that outside shot looks like they're going to have to basically pull a royal flush at this point in order to make that happen.
00:49:37.000All right, in other news, when it comes to Iran, a lot of talk about will a deal be made?
00:50:01.000If Iran has the capacity to ramp up a program that results in nuclear weapons, and if President Trump is not president in two and a half years, which is the case, That is tantamount to retaining a nuclear program and a pathway toward a nuclear weapon.
00:50:13.000This means that the United States ought to be seeking not just the release of what President Trump calls the nuclear dust, that's the highly enriched uranium that they currently have, but also their less refined nuclear materials, decommissioning of their nuclear facilities, and actual verification standards.
00:50:28.000Second, end of support for international terrorism.0.64
00:50:31.000The thing that has threatened all of our allies in the region, not just Israel, but all of our Gulf allies, is the Iranian terrorist support base.0.72
00:50:37.000The reason for what is happening in Lebanon right now is because.0.67
00:50:40.000Iran has been using Lebanon as a staging ground for a Hezbollah fake state that launches terrorism against Israel on the regular.
00:50:49.000That is the reason there's currently conflict in Lebanon.0.82
00:50:51.000We should be pushing for an end of support for international terrorism by Iran.0.56
00:50:56.000Obviously, an end to the building of ballistic missiles.0.93
00:50:58.000We've done tremendous damage to their capacity to build ballistic missiles.
00:51:01.000But if there's a deal, it obviously ought to include some provisions that prevent their rebuilding of ballistic missiles, releasing of the Strait of Hormuz, because international shipping requires freedom of navigation there.
00:51:13.000And only when all of those things happen should we start releasing funding.
00:51:15.000Because the big mistake here would be to destroy everything that we have in terms of infrastructure and then hand them the money to just rebuild it.
00:51:23.000So let's say the no deal gets done.0.96
00:51:24.000Let's say the Iranians say no to all of that, which, again, I think is highly plausible.0.99
00:51:28.000The alternatives would be a return to Project Freedom.0.88
00:51:30.000Actually, we help guide shipping through the strait again.
00:51:33.000That's expensive, but it opens it up and it is doable.0.91
00:51:37.000And the quicker option and the riskier option destruction of Iran's oil facilities.0.92
00:51:43.000That destroying Iran's oil refineries at Karg Island, destroying the South Pira's oil field, would result in Iran then attacking oil fields in Iraq, in UAE, in Qatar, in Saudi.0.58
00:51:55.000The problem is that, as we have learned with the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the possibility of an offensive action in the hands of Iran does not foreclose them from using that offensive action in the future.0.68
00:52:05.000In other words, if they can back the United States and our Gulf allies and Israel down based on a threat to do this when they have their ballistic missile capacity reduced to maybe 20% of what it once was.0.77
00:52:17.000If that's enough to back us down now, what will it look like in five years when they've rebuilt all of that?0.59
00:52:23.000What will the threat to Saudi and UAE and Bahrain and Qatar be then?
00:52:29.000One of the keys to making war, if you're going to do it, is you don't blow the opportunity that's in front of you when your enemy is weak.
00:52:35.000And Iran is tremendously weakened from where they were at the beginning of this war.0.86
00:52:38.000Allowing them out of that box with new money or Chinese weaponry being shipped in would be a gigantic mistake.
00:52:45.000I don't think the president's going to make that mistake.
00:52:54.000The Iranians basically saying there's no agreement on nukes, there's no agreement on ballistic missiles, there's no agreement on the Strait, which, again, are all the major terms.
00:53:05.000Other than that, how was your evening at the theater, Mrs. Lincoln?
00:53:09.000The big issues here are those issues the Strait of Hormuz, the nuclear weapons, the ballistic missiles, the terrorism support.
00:53:14.000What else are you negotiating exactly?
00:53:17.000Nonetheless, the president has been signaling optimism about the deal, but he's also been signaling that a bunch of other countries should join the Abraham Accords.
00:53:26.000And then he says that he has options for dealing with the nuclear dust.
00:53:31.000The Iranian government continues to put out statement after statement, basically mocking the United States.
00:53:35.000Moshtaba Khamenei, who is the new Ayatollah, who may be legless and dickless, but is in fact apparently somewhat operational, kind of, maybe.
00:53:45.000He put out a statement The shaky Zionist regime and the cancerous tumor of Israel are also approaching the final stages of their ill fated life.
00:53:52.000And by the grace of God, and in accordance with the decisive and unwavering determination of the past year, the great leader, the martyr, Quds Allah, the most merciful, will not see the day 25 years after that date, God willing.0.82
00:54:03.000For this reason, in this year, the issue of disavowal from polytheists is doubly important.0.91
00:54:08.000And the depth and scope of disavowal from America and the Zionist regime goes beyond the ritual of disavowal during the Hajj season and time.0.85
00:54:15.000In different parts of Iran and the world, and after these blessed days, death to America and death to Israel will be the common slogan of the Islamic nation and the oppressive of the world, especially the youth.0.93
00:54:27.000I mean, if there is, it is totally unclear what that deal looks like.
00:54:31.000The Iranians have been firing at shipping again.
00:54:34.000U.S. forces over the weekend had to conduct what they called self defense strikes in southern Iran to protect troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.
00:54:42.000Maybe there will be some deal cut on paper, but it remains to be seen how deep that deal goes or what the actual effect of the deal is in the end.
00:54:51.000All right, folks, the show continues in just a moment.
00:54:53.000We'll get to these viral high school graduation celebrations.
00:54:58.000Why are we celebrating high school graduations in the way that we are, given the fact that so few Americans are actually graduating from high school being able to read?
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