00:00:28.000So, before we actually get to the latest with regard to Iran, obviously we have to send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of this horrific shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana.
00:00:37.000Apparently, according to the Daily Wire, a gunman who appeared to be targeting his own descendants opened fire in three different homes across Shreveport, Louisiana on Saturday night.
00:00:45.000He was then shot and killed after he attempted to carjack a vehicle in order to escape.
00:00:50.000The suspect was later identified as a 31 year old U.S. Army veteran.
00:00:54.000He shot 10 people, killing eight children ranging from one to 14 years old.
00:01:17.000Basically, the United States went into a ceasefire with the Iranians.0.54
00:01:22.000And the idea was two weeks to open negotiations and to move toward a solution on nuclear weapons and Iran giving up its nukes and on ballistic missiles and on support for terrorist proxies.
00:01:33.000And it seemed as though there was some pretty significant movement.
00:01:35.000The president deployed JD Vance, as well as Steve Witkopf and Jared Kushner, to Islamabad, Pakistan.
00:01:40.000Originally, they came back and they said there was no deal to be made.
00:01:44.000And then it appeared as though there might be actually some movement because the United States, you'll remember last week, put a blockade on Iran's blockade.
00:01:53.000So Iran had basically been putting a blockade on goods in the Strait of Hormuz, harassing shipping, preventing oil from exiting the Persian Gulf.
00:02:00.000Well, the United States, in the aftermath of the failure of the first round of talks, then blockaded Iranian ships.
00:02:06.000Coming in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:08.000And this put the Iranian government in significant economic trouble, and that apparently led to back channel negotiations.
00:02:14.000And on Friday, it was announced by both the United States government and the Iranian government that the Strait of Hormuz was open.
00:02:20.000So on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbasarrahi tweeted In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route as already announced by the Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:02:40.000You can see the areas here that show where Iran was attempting to exert control.
00:02:46.000Iran asserted a hazardous area, which covered a pretty significant chunk of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:52.000Basically, Iran was using its projective power from an island called Iraq Island in order to prevent shipping from moving through.
00:02:58.000And the idea was that Iran was going to let up on all that.
00:03:02.000Well, as soon as Iraqi announced this, the president of the United States put out a bunch of statements talking about the movement in the negotiations, saying, Essentially, the Strait of Hormuz is now open.
00:03:13.000The American blockade would remain on Iranian shipping until such time as Iran gave up the ghost on its nuclear program.
00:03:18.000The president said that that was very close that Iran would ship its nuclear dust out, making a deal with the United States to end permanently their nuclear program, that they would stop supporting foreign terrorist organizations and all the rest.
00:03:30.000Well, this led to what appears to be a pretty open split between some of the negotiators and the people actually in charge in Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially the Praetorian Guard for the mullahs.
00:03:43.000And there have been a lot of rumors about the split.
00:03:45.000In fact, one of the reasons why the negotiations in Islamabad led by Vance didn't succeed, according to Vance and members of the American side of that negotiation, is that the foreign ministry was making promises they couldn't keep.
00:03:57.000They would go back and the IRGC would then pretend that none of that ever happened.
00:04:01.000So, Araki had put out that statement saying that the Strait of Hormuz was open.
00:04:05.000And then, according to Iran International, Araki's post was widely criticized by hardliners and their outlets, including the state-run Mare News, which said that Araki's tweet Provided the best opportunity for Trump to go beyond reality, declare himself the winner of the war, and celebrate victory.
00:04:20.000Mare News said it is clear that ceasefire related negotiations are not being handled solely by the foreign ministry.
00:04:26.000And then another news agency, again, any news agency in Iran is basically being run with the approval of the authorities in Iran, namely the IRGC.
00:04:34.000Taznim News Agency described the post as a bad and incomplete tweet that created misleading ambiguity about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:04:42.000And then another IRGC ally called Fars News Agency. Quoted an informed source close to the Supreme National Security Council as saying that Iran considered the continuation of a U.S. naval blockade a violation of the ceasefire and would close the Strait of Hormuz again.
00:04:57.000And true to form, the IRGC Navy command then put forward a tweet saying the same thing.
00:05:02.000They said, A new order has been imposed on the Strait of Hormuz.
00:05:05.000Civilian vessels are permitted to transit solely through Iran's designated route.
00:05:09.000Transit of military vessels through the Strait remains prohibited.
00:05:12.000All transits require permission from the IRGC Navy.
00:05:16.000This transit is in accordance with the agreement for the period of silence on the battlefield and follows the implementation of the Lebanon ceasefire.
00:05:23.000So, Iran, as you'll recall, we discussed this last week that Israel and Lebanon were kind of at war.
00:05:29.000I say kind of because Israel was at war with Hezbollah, which is not the Lebanese government.
00:05:33.000And Iran tried to tie its own ceasefire with the United States into Israel stopping its attacks on Hezbollah in retaliation for Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel.
00:05:44.000They tried to claim the reason that they had.
00:05:46.000Open the Strait of Hormuz was because Israel had stopped its action in Lebanon as opposed to the real reason, which is because the United States was blockading all of the oil going in and out of Iran.
00:05:56.000Okay, but the bottom line is there's pretty openly a split between the IRGC and members of the foreign ministry in Iran.
00:06:03.000President Trump on Friday was interviewed aboard Air Force One and he said there would not be any tolls on the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:29.000Okay, so he then continued by suggesting that we would get the nuclear dust, that there would be an agreement, or if there wasn't an agreement, then we would go and get it done.
00:06:47.000Do you want me to give you the time and date and everything else?
00:06:49.000Is it like you've been negotiating how long that process is?
00:06:52.000I'm not going to give you the time, other than if we sign the agreement, then I can give you a time somewhere after the signing of the agreement.
00:06:59.000And you're going to have a voluntary.0.89
00:07:01.000We'll go in with Iran and we will take it together and we will bring it back, 100% of it, back to the United States.1.00
00:07:09.000If we don't do that, We will get it in a different form, in a much more unfriendly form.1.00
00:07:17.000But in any event, excuse me, excuse me, but in any event, we'll get it.
00:07:21.000Okay, so he had also put out a series of claims about the nuclear deal moving forward and the United States ending the nuclear program and all the rest.
00:07:29.000So Mohammed Khalibaf was the Speaker of the Parliament in Iran, again, appointed by the Malas and a former member of the IRGC himself, then put out two tweets on Friday claiming that nothing Trump was saying was true.
00:07:41.000He said, The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.
00:07:46.000They did not win the war with these lies.
00:07:47.000They will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either.
00:07:50.000With the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open.
00:07:53.000Passage through the Strait will be conducted based on the designated route with Iranian authorization.
00:07:57.000Whether the Strait is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media.
00:08:04.000And he said, Media warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of the war.
00:08:08.000The Iranian nation is not affected by these tricks.0.74
00:09:04.000Some vessels reported that Iran's Navy had been broadcasting a VHF message saying the Strait of Hormuz was closed again.
00:09:11.000Apparently, the radio message said Attention all ships regarding the failure of the U.S. government to fulfill its commitment in the negotiation.
00:09:17.000Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed again.
00:09:19.000No vessel of any type or nationality is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:09:24.000And again, they were sending that radio signal out.
00:09:27.000Well, on Sunday, the president got up early and he immediately started putting out notices.
00:09:31.000So he began by pointing out that the United States would, in fact, be taking cargo ships that were Iranian flagged and that that had already happened.
00:09:41.000Quote Today, an Iranian flagged cargo ship named T O U S K A Tauska.
00:09:47.000Nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier tried to get past our naval blockade.
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00:12:04.000The president also put out a statement Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz, a total violation of our ceasefire agreement.
00:12:10.000Many of them were aimed at a French ship and a freighter from the United Kingdom.
00:12:50.000And when the United States blockades Iranian ships, it's significantly worse for Iran.
00:12:55.000The reality is that the United States government spends something like $7 trillion.
00:13:00.000A year, we could lose $50 million every single day, and it would not amount to one third of our federal budget.
00:13:09.000So, again, we are a very, very wealthy country.0.85
00:13:12.000Iran is a very, very not wealthy country.
00:13:13.000And when Iran, their industries are shut down, their export and import becomes impossible, their economy is basically on its last legs.0.85
00:13:22.000He says, in fact, many ships are headed right now to the US, Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska to load up compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be the tough guy.
00:13:29.000We're offering a very fair and reasonable deal.0.74
00:13:31.000I hope they take it because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran.0.54
00:14:55.000According to Axios, Vice President Vance will lead a U.S. delegation for another round of talks with Iran in Islamabad before the ceasefire is scheduled to end on Tuesday night.
00:15:03.000The Iranians are lowering expectations and appear suspicious that Trump's talk of a deal could be covered for U.S. surprise attack.
00:15:12.000The president says over and over if you don't get a deal, you might be under attack again.
00:15:17.000All the stuff you have left might be blown away.
00:15:20.000And the reality is that Iran is actually even more vulnerable in many ways than they were before the ceasefire.
00:15:25.000For one example, Iran has been digging out an enormous number of its missile launchers because so many of its overground missile launchers were destroyed in the first round of fighting.
00:15:36.000They're digging out missile launchers that were put underground specifically for reserve purposes.
00:15:41.000Well, now we know exactly where those are because we have satellites that are over Iran.
00:15:45.000And so, in the first wave of any sort of American and Israeli action, presumably those missile launchers go bye bye as well.
00:15:52.000Beyond that, all of the options are still on the table for the United States here.
00:15:56.000Karga Island, which, of course, I'd spoken of.
00:15:58.000Ad nauseam before the ceasefire, the possibility of an American or Israeli takeover of Kharga Island, which provides 90% of the refining export capacity of Iran, that's still very much on the table.
00:16:10.000And the United States doesn't even need to take it.
00:16:12.000We could effectively permanently embargo Iran's oil supply by just blowing up Kharga Island.0.91
00:16:17.000If we wish to grab it and then bargain it back for nuclear materials, we could do that.0.94
00:16:21.000Or we could just destroy their economy.
00:16:23.000We could just make it so the IRGC can't pay its people.
00:16:37.000If you hit infrastructure that is dual use, civilian and military, and there's a military purpose to doing it, that is not in any way, shape, or form a war crime, all of that is still very much on the table.
00:16:47.000The Iranians have been saying they're not going to be sending negotiators, so they're basically daring President Trump to do it.
00:16:51.000Again, it is amazing to watch as these folks move toward what appears to be some form of regime suicide.0.64
00:17:03.000Like they may survive, but not for very long.0.87
00:17:09.000I mean, the maximalist demands that Iran is making, they're claiming America is taking maximalist positions here.0.68
00:17:14.000It is Iran that's taking a maximalist position.0.66
00:17:16.000They will not turn over their nukes.0.63
00:17:17.000They will not turn over their future nuclear program.
00:17:19.000They will not disarm their ballistic missiles.
00:17:21.000They will not stop surrendering, stop supporting terrorist groups all over the region.
00:17:25.000Again, this is the thing that's amazing.
00:17:26.000Whenever you hear that the United States started this, if Iran just acted like a normal country, like a normal, normal country, none of this would have been happening for the last 50 years.0.70
00:17:38.000But Iran seems like they are buckled in for the ride.
00:17:41.000And again, this is not a giant shock to me.0.72
00:17:43.000I notice there are a lot of people out there who are saying, you know, President Trump was championing reopening the Straits and it was open before we ever got involved.
00:17:51.000Well, I mean, that's kind of true in the sense that Iran had not formally flexed its power in the Strait of Hormuz.0.52
00:17:59.000But it turns out that when you go to war in order to forestall a country from doing a bad thing, that country sometimes responds by doing another bad thing and then you have to stop them from doing that bad thing.0.59
00:18:09.000So, Just to take an example, it turns out that Germany wasn't really attacking tons of American shipping prior to the United States getting into World War II against Germany.
00:18:18.000Germany declared war against the United States.
00:18:19.000The United States declared war on Germany.
00:18:21.000The United States starts mobilizing for war, and the Germans start attacking American shipping.
00:18:25.000Well, when we restored security on the high seas to our own shipping, are we supposed to treat that as though, well, you know, if we had never gone to war with Germany, then it turns out that there never would have been a shipping problem?
00:18:36.000You can do this with literally any conflict.
00:18:39.000So the question is whether the conflict is justified and removing a piece from the board your enemy was using.
00:18:45.000Is in fact a victory, even if they weren't using that piece before the conflict began, because obviously the math changes once you decide you're going to stop them from doing a really bad thing.
00:18:55.000They might do another bad thing, and then you have to stop that.
00:18:58.000And when you do, that is called a victory.1.00
00:19:00.000If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that the Iranian government is basically stuck between a rock and a hard place.0.71
00:19:06.000If they give up their future nuclear program, the nuclear program is basically their main guarantee that the regime doesn't fall, because theoretically they could turn themselves into a sort of hermit state like North Korea.
00:19:17.000They have a nuke, and so you can't take them down, and they just sit there and keep under repression 90 million people.
00:19:52.000They're barricaded up in Tony Montana's office, snorting coke off the desk.
00:19:57.000And asking people to say hello to their little friend.
00:19:59.000Well, it didn't work out all that great for Tony Montana, as it turned out.0.83
00:20:04.000So, what is likely to happen next year is that Iran is likely to remain intransigent.
00:20:08.000The president is likely to authorize further military action to both significantly hamper or destroy Iran's economic capacity and to either bomb into complete rubble every nuclear facility possible or to unleash some special operations in line with the Israelis and go get the nuclear material or both.0.65
00:20:25.000That is the very likely next step, and it will probably be happening.0.81
00:20:27.000Sooner rather than later, if the Iranians don't get on the clock and start negotiating right fast.0.79
00:20:33.000Coming up, Iranian agents being arrested abroad, like here in the United States.0.99
00:20:36.000I wonder who let them in and let them stay.0.99
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00:22:25.000And she was working with others on behalf of Iran and was preparing to board an LAX flight to Turkey when she was taken into custody.
00:22:31.000Apparently, she brokered a contract worth more than $70.6 million for the sale of Iranian made Mohair 6 armed drones to Sudan's Ministry of Defense.
00:22:41.000And was also trying to sell 55,000 bomb fuses to the Sudanese military and multiple ammunition deals, including 10 million rounds of AK 47 ammo and a separate proposed contract for 240 million rounds.
00:22:52.000And they're using Oman and Turkey to facilitate all of this.0.94
00:22:57.000So, Iran, again, nefariously promoting terrorism and horror all over the world, all over the world.0.97
00:24:51.000And so this requires some explication.
00:24:53.000There's been a lot of heartburn on the pro Israel right and among pro Israel Americans in general, which represent a plurality of Americans over this sort of stuff.
00:25:02.000Is it because of what Israel is doing?
00:25:04.000Although, let's be clear about what's happening here.
00:25:06.000There's been a rising tide of anti Americanism.
00:25:08.000On the left, a third worldism on the left that has basically taken over the Democratic Party.
00:25:13.000A belief that the United States is inherently terrible, that the United States is unjust, that American values spread abroad are evil and wrong, and that virtually every country on earth, the more horrible the country, the more victimized they must have been at the hands of the United States.
00:25:29.000That is the actual ideology of the left.
00:25:30.000And it's infected some of the right as well.
00:25:33.000The grievance right, which believes that their constituents in the United States are being ground under the boot heel of a terrible American system.
00:25:42.000A system that promotes neoliberalism and foreign interests at the expense of the American people.
00:25:48.000And that terrible regime is having impacts outside the United States.
00:25:53.000Third worldism and grievance party right wing nonsense.
00:26:18.000For all the talk of our vaunted allies all over the world, which of our vaunted allies in the recent past, I'm talking like the last 15 years, have joined any serious operation by the United States to make the world a better place?0.99
00:26:59.000Democrat Senator Chris Murphy and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz actually showed up for this thing.
00:27:05.000South African President Ciro Ramaphosa, who's presided over the continuing racism in the policy of his country, proposed a resolution at this event to establish an international panel on inequality between nations.
00:27:17.000So, the United States being prosperous means other nations are poor.
00:28:02.000So here you have Senator Chris Murphy going abroad and calling the President of the United States the biggest threat to American democracy since the Civil War.
00:28:09.000Well, I do recall a couple of other threats to American democracy since the Civil War.
00:28:15.000Like there was a gigantic world war, you may recall, in which the United States had to fight off two.
00:29:01.000That is like you're broad with a socialist psycho saying this sort of stuff as a Democrat.
00:29:07.000And this is considered fully in line with how Democrats think these days, which presumably is why Abdul El Sayed, who is a radical terror supporter in Michigan, is now, I think, likely to win the Democrat Senate primary.
00:30:27.000When you conduct a genocide, you're a war criminal.
00:30:29.000What do you make of the fact that Haley Stevens is backed by AIPAT?
00:30:32.000I find that disastrous for our politics.
00:30:36.000And you should be more interested in what's happening in Michigan than you are interested in what's happening in Tel Aviv.
00:30:40.000Okay, he literally just gave a whole disquisition about how Hamas and Israel are the same.
00:30:44.000And he has said that he would not come out in favor of the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini because he is afraid that if he did, Dearborn would abandon him.
00:30:52.000And this person is a frontrunner for the Democrats.
00:30:54.000The Democratic Party is a third worldist party.
00:30:56.000Kamala Harris, now making clear what she always wanted to say.
00:30:59.000Joe Biden was the moderate in that administration, believe it or not.
00:31:01.000Kamala Harris always wanted to go full scale, Mamdani.0.99
00:31:04.000Here she was over the weekend doing just that.0.88
00:31:17.000Entered a war that the American people do not want, putting at risk American service members.
00:31:27.000Okay, so again, the idea that America was pulled into this by Israel, the president himself has rejected that only about 1,000 times here.0.58
00:31:35.000And I've explained on the show exactly why the United States went when we went.
00:31:39.000And the answer is the Iranian economy had collapsed, there were millions of people in the streets.
00:31:42.000The Iranian government started mowing down people by the tens of thousands.
00:31:45.000Simultaneously, they were building up ballistic missile capacity sufficient to create a military umbrella for the development of their nuclear program.
00:31:53.000And it became clear to the United States there was a target of opportunity that was in the crosshairs.0.88
00:31:57.000This notion that President Trump gets pulled into anything is ridiculous.
00:32:01.000The president makes his own decisions.0.86
00:32:02.000But again, this is how much Democrats despise Israel now.
00:32:06.000They're now making excuses for the person they hate the most, Donald Trump, by ripping into Israel.
00:32:11.000They see this as a way of garnering support in Democratic primaries.
00:32:14.000Because Democratic primary voters have a picture of the world.
00:32:17.000Where the West is bad, America is bad, our actual fighting allies are bad.
00:32:22.000Israel joining with the United States to go after Iran makes Israel worse in their view.
00:32:27.000The fact that the United States and Israel are on the same side automatically means something worse for Israel than if Israel opposed the United States.
00:32:35.000Because in the end, the reason why so many Democrats are warm toward China or warm toward Iran or making excuses for Venezuela and Cuba right now is because there is one common thread.
00:32:45.000Any country that opposes the United States is considered a country victimized by the United States.
00:32:51.000The United States is guilty of their behavior.
00:32:53.000And it is a referendum on the evil of the United States that these countries don't like us.
00:33:00.000That is the nature of the Democratic Party increasingly these days.
00:33:03.000And domestically, what does that mean?
00:33:04.000The only way to carry yourself, to purge yourself, Of this sinful status, where everyone else's problems are because of you, the only way to purge yourself is to impose a socialist top down economic system in the United States and to withdraw from the world internationally in favor of countries that hate us.
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00:34:59.000I don't think anyone thinks he represents the vast middle of the Republican Party.
00:35:03.000But the vast middle of the Democratic Party, the upper echelon of leadership, Either there's a disconnect between the middle and the leadership, or the leadership is reflecting the middle.
00:35:12.000In any case, the leadership of the Democratic Party is full scale, embracing the third worldism.
00:35:18.000Barack Obama, who's been kind of publicly missing from the debate for a while, he sounds off on Twitter every so often when he's not busy making crappy Netflix documentaries for too much money.0.94
00:35:28.000He was out there campaigning basically with Zoran Momdani.
00:35:31.000Because Momdani and Obama are of a piece.
00:35:34.000The thing that drove Barack Obama, I have said this literally his entire career, the thing that drove Barack Obama.
00:35:40.000Was the feeling that America was inherently guilty for all the problems of the world?
00:35:45.000This sort of post colonial viewpoint was always Barack Obama's viewpoint.
00:35:50.000You'll remember that Barack Obama, in his memoir, Dreams for My Father, wrote this I know, I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side.
00:36:04.000How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair.
00:36:10.000I know the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its prescribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, longer prison sentences, and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task.
00:36:26.000Okay, that is third worldism in a nutshell.
00:36:28.000People are impoverished in Jakarta and Nairobi because of unfeeling elites who are doing capitalism and militarism and all the rest of this.
00:36:54.000Not opposition to Israel's actions, which again, that's all debatable, of course, as it is for any country, but true hatred of Israel, the kind that's now being mainstreamed in the Democratic party and hatred of the United States, meaning hatred of our free market system.
00:37:09.000Hatred of our Constitution, hatred of the fundamental principles upon which the United States is built, as opposed to third world countries everywhere, that hatred is coming from the same place.
00:37:22.000These are not separate issues, they are the same issue.0.55
00:37:25.000Obama and Mom Dhani have always been on the same page, and they were over the weekend when they decided to get together to read to pre K students in the South Bronx.
00:37:34.000The show, the wheels on the bus go round.
00:37:53.000The fact that Obama is even doing that with Momdani shows where the Democratic Party is.0.59
00:37:57.000The Democratic Party had a choice to make Do you embrace Zoran Momdaniism, this third world nonsense, or do you run away from it because it is not representative of the vast bulk of Americans?0.78
00:38:06.000And the answer is they ran toward it, they grabbed it, and they hugged it.0.85
00:38:10.000And this is why when Zoran Momdani says he's never running for president, which of course he can't, he wasn't born in the United States, that should be of cold comfort because the entire point here is that this is a movement and he is just one member of that movement.
00:38:58.000Well, again, all that matters to him, God, the smarm, the smarm, the pasted on smile, the grinning joker nonsense from this third world is pretty incredible stuff.
00:39:08.000And of course, he told Kristen Welker that he believes in democratic socialism even more than he ever did before, based on its grand success over the past three months.
00:39:38.000Bernie Sanders took over the heart of the party.
00:39:40.000And then he combined it with Barack Obama's diverse background.0.99
00:39:43.000And that's how you end up with Mamdaniism.0.96
00:39:45.000And Bernie is out there doing his usual shtick.0.98
00:39:47.000Over the weekend, he put out If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than Walt Disney, Citigroup, CVS, Kohl's, Ticketmaster, Tesla, United Airlines, et cetera.
00:40:15.000But again, all of this is tied back to this bizarre notion that free markets are unfair.
00:40:22.000And then, of course, that ties into what I always find totally hypocritical Democrats claiming that military spending is the thing that is keeping.
00:40:51.000It's not possible, the president said, for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, or Medicare.
00:41:02.000He said, He said we can only afford to fund war.
00:41:08.000Then released a budget demanding $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year alone, paid for by ending utility assistance for families, canceling affordable housing programs, and cutting cancer research.
00:41:23.000All to fund a huge increase for the military industrial complex.
00:41:36.000Because draft dodging Donald loves sending other people's children to war.
00:41:42.000Again, this line, again, you hear this from the same people, the same people who are promoting the lie for some reason that people in the military are not volunteers, that there is a draft.
00:41:54.000They're using the same sort of shtick that was being used in 1969 when it was actually accurate, when people actually were being drafted into the military and sent overseas.
00:42:04.000And this is all part and parcel of a deep and abiding dislike for the United States.
00:42:09.000Meanwhile, by the way, I will say that the dishonesty of a lot of these folks is pretty astonishing.
00:42:14.000Ilhan Omar, who again, you want to talk about third worldist politicians?0.91
00:42:53.000Meanwhile, again, it seems to me that the importance of a conservative and Republican victory when it comes to the broader philosophical battle here is the important thing.
00:43:00.000The president was speaking at a TPUSA event over the weekend, and he said, We have a country based on merit.
00:44:10.000The executive order apparently instructs the FDA.
00:44:12.000To treat psychedelic medicines as top review priority if they already have a breakthrough therapy designation and meet criteria for the national priority voucher program.
00:44:20.000And he ordered the HHS to put 50 million bucks of existing funds into partnerships with states that are already building psychedelic treatment programs.
00:45:56.000Meanwhile, great piece by Brad Wilcox over at the Wall Street Journal talking about the supposed lack of ability to buy a house in the United States.
00:46:05.000Again, I think so much of what's happening, this sort of third worldist perspective that is building up on the left, basically has taken over the left, but is building on the right as well.
00:46:13.000An enormous amount of that is predicated on a sense of disappointment in America.
00:46:17.000The idea that America is somehow failing people, and it's failing you because there's a conspiratorial elite with different priorities and systems rigged against you.
00:46:24.000Well, Brad Wilcox has a great piece pointing out that actually, real wages are up, a record share of Americans have moved into the upper middle class, and millennials have more wealth than baby boomers did at their age.
00:46:36.000He points out the shift in home ownership and marriage.
00:46:39.000Those shifts are connected because while home ownership itself has trended downward, married Americans have been largely immune to the trend.
00:46:45.000In fact, there remains a consistent and monumental gap between married and unmarried Americans.
00:46:49.00071% of married adults aged 25 to 54 own their own home today, compared with only 21% of their unmarried peers.
00:46:56.000But marriage doesn't merely make it easier to afford a home.
00:46:59.000It motivates people to earn more and save more in pursuit of one.
00:47:07.000Freedom has always relied on a baseline of virtue.
00:47:10.000If people are taught from a young age to pursue virtue, it makes it easier for them to make the decisions that lead to success.
00:47:16.000The point Wilcox is making is you can earn a lot of money as a single person.
00:47:19.000If you're still living in mommy's basement, you're going to talk about how hard it is to buy a home, but you don't have a drive to buy a home if you don't have a wife and kids.
00:47:28.000Pursue the virtuous, pursue the good, and you are significantly more likely to achieve financial success.
00:47:34.000That is one of the great things about the United States, and it's just statistically accurate.
00:47:38.000All righty, folks, the show continues right now for our members.
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