00:00:17.000And the collapse of the moderate faction of the Democratic Party into total mewling cowardice.
00:00:23.000And remember, folks, we are just a couple of elections away from those radical leftists taking power, which means true existential threat to the United States of America.
00:00:31.000Plus, We will get to the question of whether God is non binary.
00:00:34.000We'll explore Iran's bold strategy of mocking the president and whether the Trump administration ought to bail out Spirit Airlines.
00:02:17.000Apparently, it's about 3,800 square feet in Brentwood, I believe, somewhere in the nicer area of LA.
00:02:25.000And of course, he's also willing to travel to Cuba, a communist hellhole where the average annual income is something like $150.0.60
00:02:34.000He's happy to travel there to party it up and explain why he should have air conditioning in his nice five star hotel, but everyone else is just enjoying the weather outside, having a great time.0.91
00:02:45.000His outfits that he was wearing around over there, well, it turns out that they were costing maybe four times the annual income of a normal Cuban.0.55
00:02:53.000$690 shirt from a brand called Glass Cypress.0.97
00:02:58.000And also, in that same image, he is wearing a ring from Cartier that costs $1,480, and he is also wearing Cartier sunglasses that cost $1,300.
00:03:11.000Remember, folks, he is a good Marxist.
00:03:15.000And he represents certain principles on the far left wing.
00:03:20.000That America is evil, that private property is inherently bad, that violence is often justified, and as a sort of self-defense mechanism so he can do whatever the hell he wants, no principles of morality Must be adhered to as long as you are fighting the system.
00:03:35.000It turns out that not only do the ends of Marxist anarchism justify the means, they justify literally any behavior so long as you are aligned with the ends.
00:03:44.000So you can have a really nice mansion, you can wear a $1,400 Cartier ring and $1,300 Cartier sunglasses in Cuba with all of the poor's, so long as you say that you are in favor of communism.
00:03:57.000Now, here's the thing what we are watching right now on the left, the rise of this radical leftist nonsense, and again, he is not unique.
00:04:02.000We'll get to his connections inside the Democratic Party in a moment.
00:06:06.000All these same people defending Hamas' massacre of Jews on October 7th, defending Hezbollah, which, of course, he has done, Hassan Piker.0.51
00:06:14.000Stephen Oust. Who wrote a book on the Beider Meinhof gang?0.59
00:06:19.000He pointed out that a poll at the time that they were active showed that a quarter of West Germans under 40 felt sympathy for the gang.
00:06:26.000One tenth said they would hide a gang member from the police.
00:06:29.000And prominent intellectuals spoke up for the gang's righteousness.
00:06:33.000When the gang started robbing banks, newscasts compared its members to Bonnie and Clyde.
00:06:38.000There's an impulse in human beings that when they do not like the system, they believe it justifies violence and theft of property and evil and terrorism.
00:06:48.000And Hassan Piker is just one of these types.
00:08:09.000He also went on to suggest that you should steal from corporations.0.98
00:08:14.000In fact, your stealing is factored into their bottom line.
00:08:18.000They have a breakage policy, so you should just be the breakage policy, says Hassan Piker.
00:08:23.000When you actively advocate for violations of basic Ten Commandments type stuff, like thou shalt not steal, no, you should steal because truly the corporations are stealing from you.
00:08:34.000You should do violence because they're doing social violence to you.
00:08:37.000Here was Hassan Piker saying he is pro stealing.
00:08:42.000I'm pro stealing from big corporations because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers.
00:08:49.000However, one thing that might even help your ethical dilemma is the fact that the automated process that they designed, these companies know will increase shrink, right?
00:09:07.000The lemons that you stole are factored into the bottom line.
00:09:10.000Of these mega corporations, regardless, and they still end up having increased profit margins because they no longer have to pay the cashiers that they used to hire, as opposed to this automated system, knowing full well that people are still going to be able to steal, still steal a lot more efficiently, as a matter of fact, through the automated process.
00:09:32.000So, because you go to Target and there's an automated checkout counter, you should steal because they know you're going to do it.
00:10:28.000The fact that we have to say this, the fact that we have to say that a corporation charging you for a product at a price that you wish to pay is not theft, but you stealing that product is in fact theft, you know, like basic human morality.
00:10:43.000The fact we even have to repeat that shows where we are in American life.
00:10:46.000Here's Hassan Piker saying you should be able to steal IP.
00:12:02.000Engels wrote about the concept of social murder.
00:12:08.000And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for profit, paywalled system of healthcare in this country.
00:12:33.000Tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths.
00:12:38.000And that was a fascinating story for me because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment.
00:12:46.000They're very black and white on this issue.
00:12:48.000And yet, because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand.
00:13:11.000Of course, I understand why people were so okay with a man being murdered because, of course, it's just social violence if you're the head of an insurance company.
00:15:18.000Nothing Hassan Piker says is radically different from anything Zoran Momdani says.
00:15:21.000And Zoran Momdani is now the mayor of New York.
00:15:24.000Here is Zoran Momdani, and you might notice his language is pretty reminiscent, actually, of Hassan Piker's language.
00:15:31.000Here are some of Momdani's greatest hits.
00:15:41.000We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores, whose mission is lower prices.
00:15:48.000But we will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few.
00:15:52.000If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by a judge, you have the right to say, I do not consent to entry, and the right to keep your door closed.
00:16:07.000We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
00:16:13.000When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
00:16:20.000Do you still believe in democratic socialism?
00:16:22.000Do you still think it can be effective?
00:16:24.000I believe in it even more than I did the day before.
00:16:27.000That's just smarmy, Hassan Piker, right there.0.78
00:16:30.000Okay, and here, just a couple of days ago, was Barack Obama hanging out with Momdani and singing to the kiddies.
00:16:36.000This is a picture of the former president of the United States and the so called ideological thought leader of the Democratic Party sitting with Zor Momdani.
00:16:45.000This is all fully mainstreamed in the Democratic Party.
00:16:50.000The jazz hands of theft and excuse making for terrorism and murder.
00:16:58.000Really, really strong stuff here from the Democratic Party.
00:17:01.000All righty, folks, coming up, we'll get to the other radical Democrats who are taking over the party, why that's happening, how it's happening, and all the rest.
00:17:09.000Plus, updates on Iran and Democrats trying to defund ICE.
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00:19:42.000She's talking about how the DOJ is now investigating UnitedHealthcare stealing from Medicare.
00:19:46.000Now, the thing that she is actually talking about, so you understand how she's lying, the thing she is talking about is an antitrust probe from February 2024.
00:19:54.000And the investigation specifically pertained to Medicare Advantage plans.
00:19:58.000Those plans are designed so that the government pays more if a patient has a severe health condition.
00:20:04.000So, if you diagnose more conditions, then the insurance company is paid more, right?
00:20:12.000The Medicare enrollee is paid for more if the more health conditions you document.
00:20:18.000So, if doctors under UnitedHealth's corporate umbrella were up coding or over documenting diagnoses, then UnitedHealth's Medicare plans become more lucrative.
00:20:26.000That is a perverse incentive designed by government.
00:20:31.000And the fact is, the Biden antitrust case was about UnitedHealth being a dominant player in the space.
00:20:36.000But the real problem, and this is why when you hear Hassan Piker talks about United Healthcare and they're creating social violence or whatever nonsense term he wants to use to justify murder.
00:20:47.000Whenever you hear him say that, understand the system under which United Health works is a heavily regulated, heavily subsidized federal government driven system.
00:20:55.000But here is AOC, of course, going after United Health the other day.
00:20:58.000And she, of course, is a fellow traveler with Hassan Piker.
00:21:00.000They think the same things, they campaign together, the whole deal.
00:21:04.000The Department of Justice has a criminal case open on United Healthcare for stealing money.
00:21:33.000Like these companies that are running Medicare Advantage are stealing from people and we need to be honest about it and we have to, it's got to come to an end.
00:21:44.000Okay, and by the way, where does all this end for them?
00:21:46.000It ends with, wait for it, communist centralization of power.
00:21:50.000This is why Representative Pamela Jayapal, the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she says that actually what we should be emulating in the area of healthcare is the apparently non socially violent state of Cuba with regard to their remarkable healthcare system.
00:22:07.000Cuba has a remarkable public health system, lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality, sort of the opposite of what the United States has.
00:22:15.000Higher life expectancy, higher life expectancy, early cancer diagnosis, right?
00:22:20.000Until the blockade happened, and over the course of the embargo, 60 year embargo, illegal embargo, they were actually detecting cancer.
00:22:31.00070% of cancer cases were detected in stage zero or one.
00:22:34.000Now, today that's flipped to 70% in stage three because they have not been able to invest in their public health system.1.00
00:22:47.000Hassan Piker's philosophy is the mainstream philosophy increasingly of the Democratic Party.
00:22:52.000How does this infiltration take place?
00:22:53.000Well, the truth is that it really starts with fake empathy.
00:22:57.000So, Rob Henderson has a really good piece over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:23:02.000Obviously, he works also with our friends over at Manhattan Institute.
00:23:06.000And he points out that there's a newly published paper by Samuel Pratt at UCLA.
00:23:10.000They built what they called a words can harm scale, which was a survey asking people how much they agree with statements like, I could be left emotionally scarred by something I read.
00:23:19.000And the first finding from this study was that that belief is stable, meaning that people who believed it two weeks ago still believe it today.
00:23:26.000That I could be left emotionally scarred by something I read.
00:23:30.000People who are higher in the belief that words can harm tend to be young, female, non-white, politically liberal.0.69
00:23:37.000They rated themselves as higher in intellectual humility, empathy, moral grandstanding, and the belief in the importance of silencing others.
00:23:43.000They also exhibited lower emotional stability and a greater tendency to see themselves as victims in everyday conflicts.
00:23:50.000Moreover, they report higher levels of anxiety and depression.
00:23:53.000So, in other words, the two women who are interviewing Hassan Piker from the New York Times there seem to fit squarely within this model.
00:24:00.000And the takeaway here is that good motives, you know, empathy, can have some pretty mixed effects.
00:24:08.000The finding here is that the most empathetic people support the least tolerant policies, of course, because you believe that if you're empathetic, you understand why somebody bad did the bad thing and it must be somebody else's fault.0.74
00:24:22.000And that ends with the kind of tyranny that is being espoused by people like Hassan Piker and like Zar Mamdani and all of the rest.0.60
00:24:28.000You can see this in action pretty much every day.
00:24:32.000For example, there was a California gubernatorial debate the other night, and Katie Porter, who is going to lose, she's out there claiming that basically we ought to leave homeless people on the street essentially because it turns out that homeless people work.
00:24:50.000If you were in my class, Mr. Hilton, you would learn in my bankruptcy and consumer protection class that the majority of homeless people in California are actually working.
00:25:01.000They're not just people on the streets.
00:25:02.000It's not just people with mental illness or people with drug or substance use problems.
00:25:06.000It's also families who are fleeing intimate partner and domestic violence.
00:25:11.000It's people who are double and tripled up.
00:25:13.000It's people who are living in their cars on our college campuses.
00:25:17.000Homelessness comes in a lot of different ways.
00:25:19.000And if we don't see the whole problem, if we demonize them from one perspective, we'll never be able to solve this problem.0.53
00:25:26.000And the solution to the problem that is promoted by people like the Katie Porters of the world is, of course, more government funding to let people stay on the streets and wallow in their own filth.1.00
00:25:36.000And that is the Democratic policy.0.66
00:25:37.000We had empathy leading to horrible policy.
00:25:39.000By the way, she happens to be wrong on the fact it is not true that the vast majority of homeless people are working.
00:25:45.000There was a CBS News 2020 survey on the homeless population of LA, and it found that.
00:25:52.000Nearly 47% were found to have worked within four years of becoming homeless.
00:25:58.000Only 19% had done any work in the calendar quarter they became homeless.
00:26:02.000A 2017 survey in San Francisco found that only 13% of homeless people were working part or full time.
00:26:18.000And it's not empathetic to leave people like that on the streets to wallow in their own feces.
00:26:23.000It's actually quite terrible to people.
00:26:24.000So here's the question How did all of this happen?
00:26:27.000How is it that a fringe viewpoint, a viewpoint that I think most Americans, when they hear it, think that it's being facetious or that it's just crazy?
00:26:33.000People openly advocating theft, people openly excusing full scale murder.
00:26:38.000How exactly does that become a mainstream swath of the Democratic Party?
00:26:44.000The answer is what the scholar Nicolaus Telep has called renormalization.
00:26:48.000Here's how renormalization works if you have an intransigent minority of people who refuse to abide by the rules, they can get everybody else to abide by their rules.
00:26:57.000So he gives the example of let's say you have a family of four.
00:27:01.000And you have like two parents, a son, and a daughter.
00:27:03.000And the daughter only eats organic.0.53
00:27:05.000So when it comes time to make dinner, mom now has a choice.
00:27:09.000She can either cook two meals, one for the non organic family members and one for her daughter, or she can cook one meal with only organic ingredients.
00:27:16.000So it's easier, it's less fuss to just cook one meal.0.99
00:27:20.000So that's renormalization of the family unit.
00:27:21.000Now everybody is doing what the daughter, who's only 25% of the family, wants to do.
00:27:28.000Now the family, which only eats organic now, They decide to go to a barbecue attended by three other families, and now the host has to make the same choice that mom did.
00:27:54.000If the demand made by the intransigent person is something super duper crazy, people just might say no.
00:27:59.000But the process applies in politics the same way that it Does in life.
00:28:06.000So, for example, Talib says, You think that just because some fringe party only has the support of 10% of the population, that their candidate will always get 10% of the votes?
00:28:43.000There's a physicist named Serge Gallam.
00:28:45.000He has posited that in some cases, it takes about 20% of a population to support an extreme view in order to cause radical renormalization.
00:28:55.000He says that what you do is you activate what he calls frozen prejudices at the risk of appearing intolerant or immoderate to a broad majority while still maintaining a solid.
00:29:22.000And I'm never moving from that position.0.86
00:29:24.000And then you go to, say, a supposedly marginalized group and you say, hey, you can either side with me, the person rebelling against the system, or you can side with the system that is victimizing you.
00:29:41.000Yeah, sure, he believes some crazy things, but we're on the same page on the bigger thing.0.89
00:29:45.000Sure, they believe some crazy things about Hezbollah, and sure, they're kind of justifying murder, but on the really important thing, like whether the healthcare system is failing us, he's right.
00:29:54.000He's just too passionate, but he's right.
00:29:57.000And that's how you take over an entire party.
00:29:59.000All righty, in just a second, we'll get to the manifestation of this takeover of the Democratic Party by the radicals.
00:30:04.000A supposedly moderate Democrat booed offstage at a Michigan Senate Democratic primary event.
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00:31:39.000But he is like full scale, insanely radical, pro terrorism, the whole deal.
00:31:46.000And he right now is probably the frontrunner to win the Democratic primary.
00:31:49.000A person who is tied with him is a woman named Mallory McMorrow.
00:31:52.000So what she does is she condemns Hassan Piker and she says he's extreme and El Sayed shouldn't campaign, but then she mirrors a lot of his positions.
00:32:01.000She basically says, yeah, I don't like Hassan Piker.0.99
00:32:03.000I don't like the things that he says, but in reality, many of the kind of broader points he's making, those are kind of true.0.99
00:32:09.000So she will go along with the lie that Israel committed a genocide because she is trying to make hay with the Abdul El Sayed voters.0.99
00:32:17.000And then coming in third right now is Haley Stevens, who is a moderate progressive Democrat.0.65
00:32:20.000Now, again, by any stretch of the imagination, she is a normal, very, very left person, but But she also was supported by AIPAC, mainly because her opponent is somebody who is radically anti Israel.0.60
00:32:35.000And so there are a lot of pro Israel people who would rather.
00:32:37.000She's not an Israel should be disestablished, Israel committed genocide, Israel should be wiped off the map Democrat, which I guess is now the minority position among Democrats.
00:32:46.000So much so that at the Michigan Democratic Convention last week, she was literally booed off the stage.
00:33:25.000Even the ones who are masquerading as moderate are not, in fact, moderate.
00:33:27.000James Tallarico, who again is being trotted out by Joe Rogan, said he'd vote for James Tallarico for president, which is pretty insane, pretty crazy.
00:33:37.000Well, James Tallarico is now saying that putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is a form of theocracy.
00:33:46.000That you must actually become a practicing Jew or an observant Christian in order to go to Texas school.
00:33:51.000Taking the foundational text of Western civilization, the Ten Commandments, and putting it on the wall in a Texas school is not, in fact, theocracy.
00:34:02.000By the way, having a Christmas pageant in a public school is also not theocracy.
00:34:06.000When I went to public school when I was a kid, I was in the Christmas pageant.
00:34:10.000So was my younger sister, who's now married to a rabbi.
00:34:13.000But one of the reasons, by the way, we might want to put the Ten Commandments in Texas.
00:34:17.000Of schools or in public schools in general is because it says a couple of things that now seem to be in controversy.
00:34:23.000Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property.
00:34:29.000There are at least three commandments that Democrats are very much against these days, apparently.
00:34:33.000Here's James Tallarico, pseudo moderate.
00:34:37.000I'm called to love all of my neighbors the way I love myself.
00:34:40.000That includes my Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, agnostic, and atheist neighbors.
00:34:48.000I don't want anyone forcing their religion down my throats.
00:34:51.000I certainly don't want the government forcing a religion down my throat.
00:34:56.000And so, why would I do that to any of my neighbors?
00:34:59.000In the Texas House of Representatives, I have been a vocal critic of Christian nationalism.
00:35:05.000I'm a Christian, but I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.0.79
00:35:17.000Again, the idea that putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is full scale theocracy.
00:35:25.000Of course, it comes from the same person, the pseudo Christian.1.00
00:35:27.000I say pseudo Christian because it seems to me that every Christian that I know, and again, I'll let Christians speak for themselves here.0.80
00:35:36.000It seems to me that if you say that you believe in Jesus as a Christian and then you proceed to overthrow every single principle that he stood for while misciting the New Testament, that doesn't seem like amazing practice.
00:35:49.000Well, here's James Tallarico explaining to Jake Tapper on CNN that God is non binary, which is just.
00:36:16.000Slow clap for the Democrat, who's obviously a very, very religious Christian.
00:36:22.000But I don't think it's controversial theologically.
00:36:25.000Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender.
00:36:29.000In fact, the Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female.
00:36:37.000And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me.
00:36:40.000They should take it up with the Apostle Paul.
00:36:43.000Well, I'm pretty sure that the Apostle Paul would not have described God as non binary because that's a nonsensical term.
00:36:49.000As applied to God, also a nonsensical term is applied to human beings, by the way.
00:36:53.000But the Democrats are so radical at this point.
00:36:55.000They are so radical at this point, truly.
00:37:00.000So the president has been pushing forward a reconciliation bill to reopen DHS and ICE.
00:37:06.000The president endorsed that yesterday.
00:37:08.000He said Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Lindsey Graham have taken a critical first step to passing another reconciliation bill to fund our great border patrol and ICE agents.
00:37:16.000The radical left Democrats and their so called leader, Cryon Chuck Schumer, one of the most incompetent senators in American history, Will try to offer amendments during this process to divide Republicans.
00:37:26.000Republicans must stick together and unify to get this done and to keep America safe.
00:37:29.000Okay, so meanwhile, Democrats continue to stand in the way of just funding ICE and Border Patrol.
00:37:36.000Senator Tina Smith, she is out there saying that actually Congress should fund everything except ICE and Border Patrol.
00:37:47.000What we have achieved is our unified vote to fund everything in the Department of Homeland Security except for these illegal.
00:37:55.000Agencies and Customs AND Border Patrol and ICE.
00:37:58.000And again, I want to remind everybody who's listening to this that What we wanted was to put some basic common-sense, safe guardrails on how these agents have been acting, To stop the worst of the abuses, like we saw in my home state of Minnesota, And we weren't able to even get our Republican colleagues to agree to that.
00:38:17.000So we might not have power in Congress, but we are not powerless to carry forward What we believe is the best thing for this country.
00:38:27.000Again, they're not asking for policy changes.
00:38:30.000That are moderate in scope and orientation.
00:38:33.000What they're asking for is to defund the agencies that make sure that the border is closed and that illegal immigration is actually penalized.0.55
00:38:42.000Senator Alyssa Slotkin from Michigan, she's doing the same.
00:38:49.000When people turned on the TV and saw these things happening with their own eyes, they understood it as something that ran completely contrary to who we are as a people and certainly spit in the face of how we became a nation in the first place.
00:39:05.000That our American forefathers launched not too far north of here because of an oppressive government, because of an oppressive regime that was using brutal tactics in the streets and in people's homes.
00:39:21.000Yes, the ICE is just like the British Redcoats.
00:39:24.000Meanwhile, Congressman Ro Khanna, again, a charter member of the extraordinary Hassan Piker Radicalism Caucus, he says that we need to tear ICE all the way down.
00:39:36.000Not another dollar needs to go to ICE.
00:40:29.000Uh, ice transfers probably than any other state in the country.
00:40:32.000And I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.
00:40:40.000So when it comes to the issues of violent criminals, when it comes to felons, people that are being released from the largest state system in the United States of America, California cooperates with ice.
00:40:50.000But why is it then what makes it a sanctuary state?
00:40:56.000And you didn't have like a great answer to that one.
00:40:58.000I mean, what makes it a sanctuary state?
00:41:00.000Because basically, what it's saying is that California does not have to cooperate with ICE, and in fact, in local areas, should not cooperate with ICE.
00:41:07.000He's talking about the transfer from prison to ICE.
00:41:10.000But at the same exact time that he's talking about the magic of that, it turns out that according to our friends Chris Ruffo and Susan Crabtree over at City Journal, Governor Newsom has granted approximately $1 billion of government funding to an army of nonprofits that have encouraged unchecked numbers of migrants to enter the country, fought deportation orders in the courts, and led street protests against ICE.
00:41:31.000That includes apparently more than $250 million to Catholic charities, another $85 million to Jewish Family Services, $12 million to Centro Legal de la Raza, $23 million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area, and more.
00:41:45.000Al otro lado, a nonprofit that has been awarded more than $2 million from California since Newsom took office, helps migrants enter the United States, hence the group's name, To the Other Side.
00:41:57.000The Democratic Party is deeply radical, incredibly, incredibly radical at this point.
00:42:04.000Now, Democrats are going to use whatever means that they have at their disposal, obviously, to gain power and then enact their radical principles.
00:42:12.000They were celebrating yesterday over the redistricting effort in Virginia, which, of course, disenfranchised something like 40% of the population of Virginia since it was a 55 45 Democrat state.
00:42:22.000And now the congressional districts will be split 10 to 1 in favor of the Democrats.
00:42:28.000By the way, we should point out here that Abigail Spanberger, who campaigned as moderates, when we say that the moderates are being erased in the Democratic Party, I mean many of the people who campaign as moderates just flip.
00:42:38.000Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate, and here is what she had to say about redistricting Virginia less than one year ago.
00:42:50.000Certainly, Virginia, by constitutional amendment, has a new redistricting effort that was put in place and first utilized in the 2021 redistricting.
00:43:00.000Certainly, I've been watching with interest what other states are doing, but I have no plans to redistrict Virginia.
00:43:12.000And again, there's a reason why her approval ratings in Virginia have tanked.
00:43:16.000You campaign as a moderate, you govern as a left winger.
00:43:18.000Eventually, the American people may reject you.
00:43:20.000But it's pretty dangerous when one of the parties has been taken over full scale by its radicals.
00:43:26.000Meanwhile, on the foreign front, President Trump continues to sort of allow things to percolate.
00:43:33.000So, in order to understand what he's doing, the biggest thing you have to understand is that Iran is losing tons and tons of money.
00:43:39.000The blockade right now, which will not continue indefinitely, That blockade is destroying Iran's capacity, destroying it.
00:43:48.000Miyad Maleki of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies points out pre war, Iran earned about $45.7 billion from oil annually.
00:43:55.000Oil and gas together account for 65 to 75% of Iran's total export revenue and roughly 25% of its GDP.
00:44:04.000If you lose oil and the blockade also cuts petrochemicals and all other Gulf routed exports, that's not a 10% GDP hit alone, but a wipeout of the entire hard currency earnings base.
00:44:15.000Also, 70% of steel production capacity has been destroyed.
00:44:18.00085% of petrochemical export capacity is offline.
00:44:23.000The total direct damage done to Iran in 45 days is 38% to 48% of their entire pre war GDP.
00:44:30.000And it's getting worse every single day.
00:44:33.000Every single day, Iran is losing $400 to $500 million in oil export revenue.
00:44:38.000So the Iranians think time is on their side because the pressure will force the Trump administration to cave.
00:44:46.000I'm not sure why time would be on their side, since again, it's a very, very impoverished country and they're making themselves ever poorer.
00:44:52.000Well, President Trump last night put out a statement saying that he had succeeded in staying the execution of eight Iranian women.
00:44:58.000He had called on Iran as a sign of good faith not to execute eight Iranian women.
00:45:02.000And he said, I've been informed that the eight women protesters who are going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed.
00:45:08.000Four will be released immediately, four will be sentenced to one month in prison.
00:45:11.000I very much appreciate that Iran and its leaders respected my request.0.63
00:45:14.000Okay, so if Iran really wants this war to continue, then why are they doing that?
00:45:19.000And the answer is that they are doing that because they are trying to get Trump back to the table.
00:45:23.000They are trying to squirrel him out of his actual red lines by offering sort of small olive branches.
00:45:41.000As you all saw yesterday, President Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire.
00:45:45.000He's maintaining and generously offering a bit of flexibility to a regime who has been completely tarnished because of Operation Epic Fury.
00:45:54.000There's obviously a lot of internal division.
00:45:56.000This is a battle between the pragmatists and the hardliners in Iran right now, and the president wants a unified response.
00:46:02.000And so, as we await that response, there's a ceasefire with the military and kinetic strikes.
00:46:08.000But Operation Economic Fury continues, and the effective and successful naval blockade continues as well of ships and vessels that are moving to and from Iranian ports.
00:46:21.000We are completely strangling their economy through this blockade.
00:46:38.000She also adds, Caroline Levitt, that what Iran is saying publicly is very different from what they are saying privately to the administration.
00:46:44.000You guys all see a lot of different messaging coming out of Iran, a lot of different rhetoric and language from them.
00:46:52.000I would caution you to take anything that they say at face value.
00:46:55.000What we've seen is that what they say publicly is much different than what they concede to the United States and our negotiating team privately.
00:47:02.000I've said that repeatedly to all of you in the news media, and you should take our word.
00:47:07.000Now, meanwhile, the IRGC is attempting to.
00:47:10.000pursue what would probably be classified as small scale military actions in order to, in order to demonstrate that they are not totally defenestrated.
00:47:19.000So they put out some agitprop showing their speedboats seizing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which is a thing that happened over the course of the last 24 hours.
00:47:26.000There are a couple of ships that were attacked and stopped by the IRGC.
00:47:30.000They said they collected tolls from these ships.
00:47:33.000And then they released tapes of the IRGC speedboats seizing vessels that are kind of floating aimlessly in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:47:40.000You can see the speedboats doing that.
00:47:41.000The president responded to this, by the way, by saying that we'll probably start shooting those small boats, particularly the ones that are dropping mines.
00:47:50.000We obviously should be doing that, clearly.
00:47:52.000We should be destroying their speedboats that are harassing shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.0.99
00:47:56.000He said, I've ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be.0.97
00:48:00.000That is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.0.98
00:48:03.000Additionally, our minesweepers are clearing the Strait right now.
00:48:06.000I'm ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level.
00:48:08.000We should also be blowing their speedboats out of the water if they're going to stop shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:48:14.000Because that, of course, is a military action.
00:48:17.000The president has not been doing that, presumably because he wants this quote unquote ceasefire to continue.
00:48:21.000He figures that they are going to give before he does, considering the tremendous loss of money, that their economy is basically grinding to a complete and utter halt.0.76
00:48:30.000Well, the Iranians do have one capacity, and that is to appeal to all of their friends in media to do propaganda on their behalf.
00:48:38.000So CNN did a full scale propaganda report on behalf of the IRGC about Iran putting together Lego videos.0.87
00:48:45.000I'm not kidding, this is one of the things Iran does.
00:48:47.000They have put together videos showing the war as sort of Lego battles.0.97
00:48:53.000And so CNN decided they were going to do a full story speaking to the creators behind Iranian Lego style videos.0.65
00:49:02.000Just doing propaganda work on behalf of Iran.0.53
00:49:09.000If you're on the internet, you've likely seen these highly popular Iranian Lego style videos.
00:49:15.000Published almost daily, these detailed videos with American and Western cultural references have taken the world by storm.
00:49:28.000Turns out, Explosive Media is a small team of Gen Z creators.
00:49:32.00018 to 25 years old, they say they all reside in Iran, and most, Have never left the country.
00:49:39.000Their spokesperson who requested anonymity said the initial goal of these videos was to show the outside world what Iranians are like educated, culturally relevant, and funny.
00:49:50.000We know that the West has a bad perception of us.
00:51:31.000The only reason, the only reason to do that is because what Iran does not want, what they don't want, is for the president to just continue the blockade.
00:51:40.000That's the reason you put up that video.
00:51:43.000They're putting out a video mocking Trump.0.66
00:51:45.000For extending the ceasefire that supposedly Iran likes and wants.
00:51:49.000But clearly, they don't like the ceasefire because the ceasefire is basically a time where their economy is collapsing and they can't even show that they're, quote unquote, fighting back against a violent enemy.
00:51:59.000I mean, Iran isn't, they have a problem.
00:52:05.000But they will always have the love of people like Representative Ted Liu of California, who says that the United States is going to lose any prolonged conflict.
00:52:14.000We're only the most powerful military force in human history.
00:52:19.000Any prolonged conflict that the United States has, the United States will lose.
00:52:25.000And that is because we will run out of munitions.
00:52:29.000In this unconstitutional war in Iran, based on new media reporting, the United States has already expended 50% of our THAAD interceptor missiles, 50% of our Patriot missiles, and 30% of our Tomahawk missiles.
00:52:46.000And this is only about a month and a half.
00:52:50.000And so China and Russia are looking at this, knowing they can just stockpile up on drones and ballistic missiles.
00:52:57.000And after a few months, the United States will run out of munitions to defend against that.
00:53:03.000A Patriot missile costs between four and four and a half million dollars.0.72
00:53:07.000An Iranian drone costs about $30,000 to $50,000.0.97
00:53:10.000It's like shooting Ferraris at Frisbees.0.91
00:53:14.000Okay, there's only one problem with that, which is that we are not actually using Patriot missiles to shoot down most of these drones.
00:53:21.000Most of them are being shot down by our planes in the air.
00:53:24.000But again, Undermining American morale is the goal here.
00:53:27.000That is the entire purpose of this particular exercise.
00:53:31.000And, you know, they'll always have people like Sonny Hostin over at The View.1.00
00:53:35.000This line that is constantly used that what is being spent in the Middle East is somehow depriving Americans of health care here is so stupid.0.97
00:53:47.000You know how much money we spend on health care in the United States?0.99
00:53:50.000Legitimately, trillions of dollars on health care in the United States.
00:53:55.000If you don't like the war, just say you don't like the war, but don't pretend that you're suddenly fiscally responsible and that you just want to spend the money on butter, not on guns.
00:54:01.000It's just such, it's such nonsense.1.00
00:54:49.000These people are so stupid, truly dumb.1.00
00:54:52.000Congress appropriated more than $800 billion for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere since 2001.1.00
00:54:59.000And that is exclusive, by the way, of other military spending because we spend in this country something like $800 billion to a trillion every year on our defense.0.98
00:55:11.000It's just, but again, stupidity is the order of the day.1.00
00:55:14.000Speaking of stupidity and moral idiocy, we'll bring it all the way back home.1.00
00:55:18.000Cenk Uygur's nephew is Hassan Piker.1.00
00:55:21.000Cenk Uygur is the original Hassan Piker, but fatter and less fashionable.
00:55:27.000And Cenk Uygur is making common cause, as you know, now with Tucker Carlson.
00:55:31.000They're hugging each other tight in the night.
00:55:33.000Cenk Uygur put out a statement after Tucker Carlson said that he regrets having backed President Trump, mainly because it seems that Tucker assumed that President Trump was an isolationist, anti American.
00:55:46.000So, Chen Kuiger is now coming out in defense of his friend.
00:55:49.000I'm a little disgusted by the lack of grace some people on our side are showing people like Tucker Carlson for not only opposing Trump, but apologizing for supporting him.0.58
00:55:56.000They definitely don't speak for Muslim Americans who are grateful for our new allies.