00:00:12.000He's just an annoying left wing agitprop creator.
00:00:15.000But when Jimmy Kimmel and his ilk on the left and in the legacy media start pushing genuinely conspiratorial speech, their rhetoric is no longer just about bad jokes on the TV.
00:00:25.000So should Jimmy Kimmel be on the unemployment line?
00:00:27.000Why is political violence exploding in the country?
00:00:30.000And why is the bulk of it coming from the left?
00:00:35.000Well, it might have something to do with the mainstream left embracing terror supporters, conspiracy theorists, and people who justify murder.
00:00:41.000But we need to dig even a little deeper.
00:00:43.000What precisely is the kind of speech that promotes violence?
00:00:46.000The First Amendment protects, of course, a huge variety of speech.
00:00:49.000That doesn't mean there shouldn't be social consequences to how we do that speech.
00:00:53.000So, what kind of speech deserves social consequences?
00:01:55.000It cannot and will not be used to disrupt democratic institutions or intimidate those who serve them, and it certainly cannot continue to be used against the President of the United States.
00:02:10.000A lot of information about where this is coming from these days.
00:02:12.000And the answer is mostly the political left.
00:02:15.000So the Wall Street Journal has a big story today about the political orientation of the perpetrators of domestic attacks targeting the United States government.
00:02:24.000These statistics, by the way, are wildly skewed in favor of the left.
00:02:28.000I mean, the way you can tell this, by the way, is look at the year 2020.
00:02:32.000If you look at the year 2020 on this particular graph, it actually shows more right-wing attacks against the government than left-wing attacks.
00:02:40.000Okay, the year 2020 featured the BLM riots, which were large scale attacks on law enforcement all over the United States.
00:02:47.000And yet, somehow, the right sort of outnumbers the left on this particular chart.
00:02:51.000But even the Wall Street Journal, using these bad stats from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, shows left wing extremist violence outnumbering right wing extremist violence in 2025.
00:03:07.000They're wildly wrong because these stats ignore the fact that, for example, The attempt to burn alive the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, in the governor's mansion, was perpetrated by a free Palestine extremist, meaning a member of the left.
00:03:21.000But according to the Wall Street Journal, perpetrators often don't fit into neat categories.
00:03:25.000Some attacks on U.S. political figures, like the one on Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, whose residence was set on fire last April, were allegedly motivated by events abroad.
00:05:42.000Incitement under that test is any speech that is intended to and likely to incite imminent lawless action.
00:05:47.000So even if I say you should go kill the president, I'd probably have to say for it to be legal incitement, I want you to go kill the president right now.
00:06:44.000And we should not conflate that with incitement.
00:06:47.000Just to be perfectly honest about this stuff, we should not.
00:06:50.000And then there is the permission structure for violence we have been talking about a lot over the course of the last couple of years.
00:06:56.000That's the stuff that's truly dangerous.
00:06:58.000This is the conspiracism, the justification of violence.
00:07:01.000This is how you get to crazy people thinking the president is a pedophile, meaning a threat to children, a rapist, meaning a threat to women, and a traitor, meaning a threat to the country.
00:07:10.000And in charge of all of the systems of power, and therefore can only be stopped through violence.
00:07:16.000That's the sort of stuff that we are talking about as truly, truly dangerous.
00:07:20.000And conflating these things leads to confusion that leads to inaction.
00:07:25.000Because if you try to lump in together, you know, we should go fight the Democrats, or we should go fight the Republicans with the Democrats are pedophilically attacking children at a pizzeria, or the President of the United States is running a pedophile grooming gang.
00:07:42.000And treating them as the same thing leads to, I think, inaction, inability for us to agree on what is appropriate and what is inappropriate.
00:07:52.000So, Caroline Lovett yesterday at the White House, I think, focused in properly on the types of speech that Cole Allen was engaged in, the kind of stuff that was driving him toward violent action.
00:08:02.000Here she is talking about his manifesto.
00:08:05.000The left wing cult of hatred against the president and all of those who support him and work for him has gotten multiple people hurt and killed, and it almost did so again this weekend.
00:08:19.000And she pointed out correctly at the White House that it's deranged lies that lead crazy people to believe crazy things.
00:08:26.000Again, largely on the left, but certainly not relegated to the left.
00:08:30.000If somebody were to take a shot at Erica Kirk today, that would likely be because of conspiracy theories about Erica Kirk and nutty things being said about Erica Kirk.
00:08:40.000When you create insane theories about people being corrupt and evil and using their power in corrupt and evil ways, and those conspiracy theories suggest those people are a threat to you, it is not a gigantic surprise when somebody tries an assassination.
00:08:57.000Just two days prior to the shooting, ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called First Lady Melania Trump an expectant widow.
00:09:05.000Who in their right minds says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?
00:09:11.000And having experienced what I did with the First Lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that.
00:09:17.000This kind of rhetoric about the President, the First Lady, and his supporters is completely deranged, and it's unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night.
00:09:28.000As President Trump said on Saturday night at this podium, we as Americans must recommit ourselves to resolving our differences peacefully and uniting around the shared values that make our country great.
00:09:40.000The deranged lies and smears against the president, his family, his supporters have led crazy people to believe crazy things, and they are inspired to commit violence because of those words.
00:10:10.000I think he's been terrible for over a decade, like well over a decade.
00:10:13.000The first time I got in a public spat with Jimmy Kimmel is when he was defending socialized medicine on the basis that his child had an open heart surgery at Children's Hospital in LA.
00:10:22.000And he did a very weepy monologue on his show about that.
00:10:25.000I was less than sympathetic because my child had had a similar open heart surgery from the exact same surgeon, and that did not make me an expert on the healthcare system.
00:10:32.000What makes you an expert? Is actually knowing things.
00:10:36.000So I think Jimmy Kimmel's been terrible at his job for years.
00:10:38.000I think that he has surrendered laughter in favor of clapter, applause from his left wing friends.
00:10:45.000So if Jimmy Kimmel were to get fired, I would shed zero tears.
00:10:51.000I think that he has sort of betrayed his audience in surrendering humor in favor of left wing agitprop.
00:10:59.000But in this particular situation, I will say I think that if Jimmy Kimmel were to be fired over his comments about Melania again last Thursday, And again, listen, I'd be the first person to celebrate Jimmy Kimmel being on the unemployment line for being bad at his job and for some of the other things that he said.
00:11:17.000But getting Jimmy Kimmel for saying what he said on Thursday is like getting Al Capone for tax evasion.
00:11:23.000You're hitting him with the wrong charge.
00:12:04.000Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny, as attested to by his terrible television ratings, made a statement on his show that is really shocking.
00:12:10.000He showed a fake video of the First Lady Melania and our son Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio listening to him speak, which they weren't and never would be.
00:12:16.000He then stated, Our First Lady Melania is here.
00:12:20.000Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
00:12:22.000A day later, a lunatic tried entering the ballroom of the White House correspondence dinner, loaded up with a shotgun, handgun, and many knives.
00:12:28.000He was there for a very obvious and sinister reason.
00:12:30.000I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violence and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale.
00:12:38.000Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.
00:12:40.000Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.
00:12:44.000Melania Trump then followed up with her own tweet Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.
00:12:49.000His monologue about my family is in comedy.
00:12:52.000His words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness within America.
00:12:55.000People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
00:12:59.000A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
00:14:02.000The fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am.
00:14:05.000It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that.
00:14:11.000I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular, but I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.
00:14:23.000And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject.
00:14:28.000I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.
00:14:34.000Because, um, and by the way, so his defense is actually worse than the original joke.
00:14:42.000Again, I think the original joke is tasteless.
00:14:45.000First of all, suggesting that Melania has a stressful weekend every weekend, akin to somebody trying to kill her husband, is insane and ridiculous.
00:14:53.000And for a person who tries to brand himself as Captain Empathy over here, lacks true empathy in any realistic sense.
00:15:01.000And then, of course, he turns and he swivels and he clocks the president for his political rhetoric and all of the rest.
00:15:08.000Now, I just point out, first of all, that Jimmy Kimmel, it is amazing how our world has changed.
00:15:14.000The kind of hatred that has become commonplace in our politics is so clear.
00:15:20.000Back in 1981, somebody tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, and it was a few days before the Oscars.
00:15:25.000And Johnny Carson, who was then the dominant late night host, was hosting the Oscars.
00:15:29.000And I just want to show you what Johnny Carson said after an attempted assassination against Ronald Reagan.
00:15:34.000Does anyone think any late night comic today would say the same if the president was wounded?
00:15:45.000This used to be a country where people actually held some basic standards in common.
00:15:49.000Here is Johnny Carson, who, by the way, was Democrat in 1981.
00:15:54.000Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
00:15:55.000I'm sure that all of you here and most of you watching tonight understand why we'd have delayed this program for 24 hours.
00:16:03.000Because of the incredible events of yesterday, that old adage, the show must go on, seemed relatively unimportant.
00:16:10.000The Academy, ABC Television, and all of us connected with the show felt because of the uncertain outcome, as of this time yesterday, it would have been inappropriate to stage a celebration.
00:16:21.000But the news today is very good, as you know.
00:16:23.000The president is in excellent condition at last reports.
00:17:03.000But again, bad jokes, tastelessness, being bad at his job.
00:17:08.000That's not the reason why Jimmy Kimmel should have been fired long ago.
00:17:11.000If you want to talk about the kinds of rhetoric that lead people to try to kill the president, the answer is not his joke about Melania or making light of the idea of the president passing away or something.
00:18:35.000And by the way, if Trump wants to send a rapist somewhere, he could just jump on a bus himself, you know.
00:18:44.000So, again, it was Jimmy Kimmel calling Trump a cover up artist for pedophilia and a rapist and all the rest, which is the permission structure for the violence.
00:18:53.000That is the permission structure for the violence.
00:18:57.000He should have lost his job long ago because he's crappy at his job.
00:18:59.000But if we're going to talk specifically about the kinds of rhetoric that need to be called out, that should have social consequences, conspiracism, anti evidence, idiocy that imputes evil to an opponent without evidence, that's the kind of stuff that's bad.
00:19:14.000And again, I'm not blaming Melania for being deeply upset with that joke from last week because obviously you hear that joke and time flattens and then somebody tries to shoot your husband, you might be a little ticked and you should be ticked.
00:19:26.000But let's be real about the kinds of rhetoric that actually we all should be fighting.
00:19:31.000I mean, Democrat and Republican, we all should be fighting because here's the thing we have to have some common standard when it comes to the kinds of speech that receive social blowback and social consequence.
00:19:41.000Otherwise, it just turns into a war of all against all.
00:19:43.000All right, in just a little bit, we'll get to the collapse of California.
00:20:03.000So we should talk about the importance of small business, the backbone of the American economy, the people who actually create value in America instead of just moving numbers on a spreadsheet.
00:20:12.000There are 36.2 million small businesses across the country.
00:20:15.000More than 70% of those small businesses, they say they need additional capital at least once a year.
00:20:20.000You'd think a record high in small business revenue would actually encourage banks to open those floodgates.
00:20:24.000Instead, big banks are tightening underwriting and approving fewer loans than ever.
00:20:28.000Bureaucracy, red tape, endless paperwork turn the funding process into a marathon, sometimes taking months, while entrepreneurs like us are left waiting, watching opportunity pass us by.
00:20:37.000It's a perfect example of how America's most productive citizens are constantly forced to fight uphill battles just to keep building the economy the rest of us rely on.
00:20:45.000But if you want bank rates without the bank delays, you need to check out cardiff.co.shapiro.
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00:20:54.000Cardiff is the largest privately held small business lender in America.
00:20:58.000They've already funded over $12 billion since 2004.
00:21:01.000Their application takes less than five minutes.
00:21:36.000So we should be focused more as conservatives.
00:21:40.000We should be focused a lot more on Kimmel's conspiracism.
00:21:45.000We should be focused a lot more on the violence that has been full scale embraced by the Democrats, not, you know, them saying that you need to fight back or political warfare or that kind of stuff.
00:21:54.000That's kind of normal political rhetoric.
00:21:56.000The thing that they actually should be smacked for in political terms is their willingness to go along with actual violence.
00:22:05.000So, for example, there was an event called the People's Forum, and there's a person named Mohsen Madawi who was speaking there.
00:22:14.000And what he had to say, and again, these are all people who would be perfectly comfortable in the halls of power with Democrats.
00:22:20.000Democrats would be perfectly happy hanging out with these people.
00:22:24.000He suggested Hassan Piker is a victim now because people have pointed out.
00:22:27.000That Hassan Piker, just last week, a few days before the assassination attempt, was talking about how maybe Luigi Mangione was justified.
00:22:35.000Sure, he wouldn't want Luigi Mangione to do what he did, but it was kind of you understand it.
00:22:39.000I mean, after all, Brian Thompson was doing social violence to people.
00:22:44.000By the way, Mohsen Medali, in a brief filed by the DOJ, was cited as admitted to being involved in and supporting pro terrorist acts of violence.
00:22:54.000He told a gun shop owner he had considerable firearm experience and used guns to kill Jews while he was in Palestine, according to that DOJ report.
00:23:01.000And here he was at a People's Forum defending Hassan Piker.
00:23:05.000These are the kinds of people that Democrats are welcoming into the halls of power.
00:23:09.000We had to do a last minute call because of the level of attacks and targeting that he has been going through from the right and the left.
00:23:21.000And specifically, since last night, with the situation in the White House, there are people who are trying to point fingers to Hassan.
00:23:35.000As we know, this is a whole war on truth.
00:23:41.000The system is trying to silence us and to censor us from speaking up for Palestine and from sharing our truth because the truth has its own power.
00:23:55.000You know, our truth, his truth, is that he's a terrorist supporter and so is Hassan Piker.
00:23:59.000And Bernie Sanders is hugging Hassan Piker.
00:24:02.000And Zar Mamdani is hugging Hassan Piker.
00:24:04.000And Zar Mamdani on his own was a supporter of terrorist supporters like the Holy Land Five and the Ohan Omars.
00:24:11.000And the Democrats who embrace all these people, right?
00:24:32.000And we know that Viktor Orban, allegedly, allegedly, according to Washington Post reporting, there was a plot by the Russians to stage an assassination attempt.
00:25:16.000Again, far be it from me to defend Hakeem Jeffries, who I think is truly a terrible politician who defends some of the worst people in America.
00:25:22.000Again, he is perfectly willing to defend the Zorhan Mamdanis of the world.
00:25:27.000But when Hakeem Jeffries suggests that he stands by his maximum warfare comments, because he had suggested maximum warfare on redistricting, again, that is normal political rhetoric.
00:25:36.000The reason that I'm pointing this out is because if you conflate all of these things, you end up getting nothing done.
00:25:41.000I think Americans agree that conspiracism is bad and wrong and generates violence.
00:25:46.000I think that the vast majority of Americans, left, right, and center, agree.
00:25:50.000That if you impute to your political opponents evil without evidence, that foments violence.
00:25:55.000But if you conflate that with jokes you don't like, or you conflate that with kind of inflamed political rhetoric about how you're going to fight an electoral war, how you're going to go to battle, as though that is what's actually.
00:26:10.000Again, there's very specific lines of thought that generate violence.
00:26:15.000And we should pick those out and we should be specific.
00:26:17.000Specificity is what allows for agreement and change.
00:26:21.000Generality just turns everything into a war of all against all.
00:26:28.000And again, I think that there is a larger problem in our body politic of trying to impute evil motivation to your political opponents without evidence.
00:27:13.000So, a great example of this in a much softer way.
00:27:16.000So, yesterday, the EPA head, Lee Zeldin, was testifying before Congress.
00:27:22.000In front of the Appropriations Committee.
00:27:24.000And Representative Rosa DeLauro, you might remember her from her Halloween hair.
00:27:30.000She's the one with the gigantic purple strip down the middle of her hair for no reason that anyone can discern, and some of the ugliest glasses you've ever seen.
00:27:37.000I'm doing this so if you're listening, you actually know who I'm talking about.
00:27:39.000Now you know exactly who I'm talking about.
00:27:41.000Anyway, she was questioning Lee Zeldin.
00:27:44.000And she was questioning him about the fact that the EPA has said that it cannot regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, which, again, is black letter law.
00:27:54.000The Clean Air Act says nothing about carbon emissions or global warming.
00:27:57.000And thus, if Congress wants to regulate, it can.
00:28:00.000But it is not up to the executive branches to do it.
00:28:05.000And listen to how DeLauro approaches this issue.
00:28:07.000The way she approaches this issue is she says, It's because Lee Zeldin is a liar and a bad man that he is not using the EPA to do something illegal.
00:28:17.000And meanwhile, he's just like, hey, that's the law.
00:28:19.000If you want to go do something as Congress, you can.
00:28:22.000But she wants to ignore the law in favor of what the philosopher Alester McIntyre called emotivism, suggesting that Zeldin is a bad man with terrible intent.
00:28:31.000He is not just a good person trying to effectuate the law as he sees it.
00:28:34.000He must be a very, very terrible bad man who wants children to die or some such.
00:28:40.000How can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans to appease polluters under the false flag of economic growth?
00:28:48.000Following the law, Section 202 of the Clean Air Act, where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?
00:28:55.000Loper Bright, Supreme Court case, you're familiar with it?
00:28:58.000No, maybe others are not, but let me ask you.
00:29:02.000As a member of Congress, Loper Bright says that we, as an agency, don't have the authority to get creative if Section 202 of the Clean Air Act.
00:30:19.000And that sort of nonsense is very bad for our politics.
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00:31:27.000Meanwhile, the state of California is in a state of slow rolling collapse.
00:31:33.000The polls have been tightening in California, in Los Angeles in particular.
00:31:37.000So, the gubernatorial race there is hilarious because you have 25 people who are running for governor.
00:31:41.000And since Eric Swalwell was apparently engaged in alleged acts of impropriety with a wide variety of women, and then he dropped out and he was the front runner, now it appears that everybody in the gubernatorial race is getting 15%, like every single human.
00:31:56.000Meanwhile, there's a mayoral race in Los Angeles.
00:31:58.000Karen Bass is the incumbent mayor who's done an awful job.
00:32:01.000She's still the front runner in both polling and total cash on hand, demonstrating once again that my old hometown of LA is filled with dullards.
00:32:10.000But there is a three way battle for the top two spots because you have to have a runoff.
00:32:14.000If nobody gets 50%, then the top two run against one another.
00:32:17.000Spencer Pratt has raised nearly $540,000 since January 1st.
00:32:22.000He is raising money like nobody's business.
00:32:25.000He was a registered Republican, he is running as an independent.
00:32:28.000And here he was talking about the state of Los Angeles and California on Adam Carolla's show.
00:32:35.000We don't have anybody in LA that fights Sacramento, and these dreams of Sacramento.
00:33:36.000But all the lights have been allowed to be stolen from our taxpayer money because Mayor Basura and Nithya Rahman and her DSA City Council let criminals.
00:34:20.000Determined to cut off its nose to spite its face.
00:34:22.000They're very angry that there are rich people in California.
00:34:24.000So Gavin Newsom, the governor, will wander around the land talking about how California is the top income creating state in the nation and how it's filled with innovators and billionaires.
00:34:37.000And meanwhile, California is actively attempting to undermine all of that, which is the reason why Gavin Newsom, despite his sort of quasi Marxist leanings on economics, has been opposing a referendum that would force a wealth tax onto the ballot.
00:34:50.000Well, it turns out it made the ballot.
00:34:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, on Sunday, advocates for the wealth tax said they have gathered enough signatures to place a wealth tax referendum on the November ballot, even as a new study shows it is likely to result in less state revenue.
00:35:04.000Of course, it's likely to result in less state revenue.
00:35:07.000See, that's the nice thing about being a billionaire.
00:35:09.000You can afford a house somewhere else.
00:35:11.000The proposed ballot measure would impose a supposedly one time 5% tax on individuals with more than $1 billion in wealth.
00:35:17.000By the way, again, that is very supposedly.
00:35:19.000There has yet to be a tax that does not expand the minute it hits the books.
00:35:23.000Remember, the income tax was initially supposed to hit only the very top income earners in the United States, and it kicked in at an exorbitant income.
00:35:32.000And now it applies to half the country and takes a giant chunk of your wealth.
00:35:37.000This tax, according to the Wall Street Journal, would hit nearly all of a billionaire's assets, including trusts, as well as voting interests in a company if that exceeds his equity stake.
00:35:46.000And it applies to billionaires who are California residents as of January 1st this year.
00:35:50.000So if you didn't get out in time, then they would try to grab 5% of your entire wealth.
00:35:55.000So the reason this is insane is because this also applies to unrealized wealth.
00:36:00.000Okay, so for example, let's say that you own a company, like a nice sized company.
00:36:06.000Let's say you own half of it and it's a $2 billion company, but you own stock in the company.
00:36:12.000If you own stock in a company, that doesn't mean that your stock is liquid.
00:36:15.000It doesn't mean that you can just take that money out of the bank and start spending it.
00:36:20.000It means that maybe you pay yourself a salary, a nice salary, like $5 million a year.
00:36:25.000Let's say you pay yourself $5 million a year.
00:36:29.000Well, if you're being taxed on your billion dollars in assets, then 5% of $1 billion.
00:36:44.000So you might be taking a $5 million salary, which is a really, really nice salary, obviously, but you own a billion dollars in stock.
00:36:51.000Well, you're going to be paying $50 million in tax, which means you have to sell stock, which means the price of the stock goes down, which means the company is unable to achieve more liquidity, which means maybe people get fired, which then hits all of your workers.
00:37:08.000Well, billionaires are doing what you would expect, they're leaving.
00:37:11.000France had a wealth tax for a little while and they had to repeal it because it was so bad.
00:37:15.000All the rich people in France were leaving.
00:37:17.000The California Tax Foundation visiting fellow Jared Walzak estimates in a new paper reported departures already total $777 billion.
00:37:25.000And there are more quiet departures that do not draw media coverage because there are solid legal reasons to believe the initiative's residency date and approach could be challenged successfully in court.
00:37:36.000By his estimate, the wealth tax exodus could total $1.23 trillion.
00:37:42.000Reduce annual state revenue by $3.53 billion to $4.49 billion, mainly from lower income tax collections.
00:37:51.000Because again, it turns out that, you know, who pays people's salaries are the rich people.
00:37:57.000It takes money to pay people's salaries.
00:37:59.000The businesses they run pay the salaries.
00:38:01.000There's another report in the New York Post suggesting that this wealth tax could cost 100,000 jobs and $28 billion in wages.
00:38:30.000Meanwhile, on the foreign front, this morning, President Trump put out a truth saying Iran has just informed us they are in a state of collapse.
00:38:39.000They want us to open the Hormuz Strait as soon as possible as they try to figure out their leadership situation, which I believe they will be able to do.
00:38:46.000Well, the answer there should be obviously we're not opening up a damn thing until you collapse or give up what we want.
00:38:53.000The reality is their economy is in serious trouble.
00:38:55.000The way you can tell, by the way, that their economy is in serious trouble is they're executing everybody they possibly can.
00:39:00.000They are deeply afraid that there is going to be a rebellion from inside Iran.
00:39:03.000Some smuggled footage, smuggled out to the New York Post from an infamous Iranian prison, has now captured six dissidents breaking into song to defy the Islamic regime one last time before being hanged.
00:39:37.000That is because the Iranian regime is freaking out, freaking out.
00:39:40.000According to Iran International, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has held a meeting to address growing concerns among security agencies over a possible resurgence of protests.
00:39:49.000Sources familiar with the discussions told Iran International.
00:39:52.000According to information presented at the meeting, officials believe mounting economic hardship, driven by rising prices, unemployment, and damage to key industries, such as petrochemicals and steel could become the main trigger for renewed protests.
00:40:04.000Estimates shared during that meeting suggested Iran's economy may not be able to withstand more than six to eight weeks of a naval blockade.
00:40:14.000Another major concern is the near total shutdown of production centers in key sectors, including oil, petrochemicals, and steel.
00:40:21.000Apparently rebuilding those industries could take years.
00:40:23.000Security officials also say internet shutdowns have left around 20% of the workforce dependent on online activity The reason they've shut down the internet is they are deeply afraid that people are going to start coordinating about getting out in the streets again.
00:40:37.000And apparently, these security officials are warning that, based on the economic forecast, an additional 2 million people could lose their jobs in the private sector by the end of spring.
00:40:47.000Also, the closure of markets has halted all economic activity.
00:40:51.000And so that means that basically the real is worthless at this point.
00:40:57.000The New York Times has a piece about the cooking oil trade.
00:41:00.000Quote, As the prices of basic goods have spiraled in Iran, they can sell olive, sunflower, and corn oils for a modest profit to Iranians at the border, who will either sell the oil inside their country or use it themselves.
00:41:10.000Dozens of people were seen carrying multiple four and five liter bottles of oil as they walked from Turkey into Iran over the course of a single morning and afternoon.
00:41:18.000So people are literally trying to walk cooking oil across the border.
00:41:24.000The government gave Iranians a direct monthly cash payment last month, amounting to 10 million Iranian rials, which sounds like a lot of money.
00:41:31.000You know how much 10 million Iranian rials is?
00:41:37.000Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, Iran is rapidly running out of places to store their crude oil.
00:41:41.000That is because of the blockade that we have put on Iranian ships.
00:41:46.000The Islamic Republic has enough unused storage capacity to last another 12 to 22 days.
00:41:51.000At that point, they have to stop pumping.
00:41:52.000So right now, they're keeping up the pumping, but because they can't get it out, they're filling up legitimately like old storage facilities that are incapable of even holding the oil.
00:42:02.000Iran has already curtailed as much as 2.5 million barrels of daily crude production, according to Goldman Sachs.
00:42:08.000Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, says, While the surviving IRGC leaders are trapped like drowning rats in a sewage pipe, Iran's creaking oil industry is starting to shut in production thanks to the U.S. blockade.
00:44:12.000They've got a real problem on their hands when they're relegated to using human shields like women and children and just stuffing guns into the hands of nine year olds.
00:45:07.000This is why, you remember that just last week, the Iranians didn't send people to Pakistan because they thought they had the upper hand.
00:45:13.000Well, now they are unilaterally sending people to Pakistan, basically attempting to draw the United States into negotiations.
00:45:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbasarrahi is set to return to Islamabad on Sunday for further discussions with Pakistani officials, even though U.S. envoys won't be there after President Trump canceled their trip.
00:45:35.000The Secretary of State explained yesterday on Fox News with Trey Yingst that Iran's open straits, you know, they say that they have open straits.
00:45:47.000If what they mean by opening the straits is, yes, the straits are opened as long as you coordinate with Iran, get our permission, or we'll blow you up and you pay us, that's not opening the straits.
00:45:58.000They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it.
00:46:09.000President Trump, for his part, put out a statement saying that we're not going to travel 16 hours to Pakistan to talk about nothing.
00:47:09.000We'd I took the greatest economy we've ever had, and I said, We're going to have to take a little detour and stop that from happening.
00:47:15.000And that's what happened, and we've done a great job, and it'll come to an end very soon, and we're going to be very victorious.
00:47:24.000Meanwhile, the Secretary of State was on with Trey Yingst again, and he said, Listen, everyone keeps pretending that Iran is somehow in solid shape.
00:47:32.000Literally every problem Iran had is worse now.
00:47:36.000Do you believe the Iranians are serious about making a deal?
00:47:39.000I think the Iranians are serious about getting themselves out of the mess that they're in.
00:47:42.000All the problems Iran had, they had riots a few months ago, and these were economic riots.
00:47:47.000All the problems that Iran had before the start of this conflict are still in place, and most of them are worse.
00:47:52.000And now they have half the missiles, none of the factories, and no Navy.
00:47:59.000He is right, and he says, listen, we still have some tools that we can bring to bear here.
00:48:02.000And that is aside from just bombing the hell out of, for example, Kharga Island and destroying forever their capacity to refine.
00:48:12.000Well, again, that's the president's decision to make.
00:48:14.000I would start out by reminding everybody that the level of sanctions on Iran are extraordinary, the pressure on Iran is extraordinary, and I think more can be brought to bear.
00:48:22.000But I hope that in the aftermath of this conflict, the whole world's eyes have been opened to the threat Iran poses.
00:48:30.000One of the things that he says here is listen, if they're willing to drop the economic nuke of shutting the straight, what would they have actually done with a nuke nuke?
00:48:38.000That's what people should keep in mind.
00:48:40.000And honestly, the cowardice of our allies here, of our purported allies, is truly extreme here.
00:48:45.000They've been bitching and moaning for legitimately decades over the threat of Iran.
00:48:49.000The minute that the president actually does the thing that needs to be done, they're completely in the wind, completely in the wind and complaining about it.
00:48:57.000And you can always trust the Europeans to be the Europeans when the chips are down.
00:49:36.000It is a giant bag of money to bribe people on behalf of extremism.
00:49:42.000One great example of this unbelievable report from the Wall Street Journal.
00:49:47.000You may remember that in 2024, there was a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, a totally illegitimate body, supposedly enforcing international law by asking the opinions of the people in Iran and South Africa about members of the United States or Israel or other allies.
00:50:05.000Well, Karam Khan put out a An arrest warrant for Israel's leaders in 2024.
00:50:11.000That was Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the defense minister at that time.
00:50:14.000That was shortly after he had learned he had been accused of sexual assault, and then he went on leave in May 2025.
00:50:20.000Well, now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to look after Mr. Khan if he moved against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:50:28.000So Qatar, a U.S. ally, was literally promising, apparently, according to this witness, to bribe the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court if he went after the Israelis.
00:50:39.000Slow clap for all the geniuses who have been pretending that Qatar is not spreading its money around for nefarious purposes.
00:50:45.000That built on the UK Guardian's November report on a Qatar linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Aliceus Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan's alleged assault victim as an Israeli plot.
00:50:59.000In recordings, private investigators discussed their intelligence operations' connections to what seems to be Qatar, which they called the client country.
00:51:07.000Folks, if your university is accepting funding from Qatar, you should be asking a question why?