00:16:09.940Even Mark Levin and all these other people.
00:16:11.400The other thing about Trump, they're just like, this deal is bad.
00:16:13.760So it's like I was like, there's no way this thing is going to last.
00:16:16.280But, yeah, like I hate to blame it on Israel again, but it's like that was the point that we couldn't deliver on, unfortunately.
00:16:22.780And what did they do? They completely sabotaged it.
00:16:24.940Well, yeah, and it's funny. I said that on my show.
00:16:26.820I just saw that this is one of the clips that's still blowing up on Instagram.
00:16:29.660As I said, like, they're literally responsible for all the wars in the world.
00:16:33.440At this point, it's just like undeniable because it's like, look, Iran, which is allegedly this like regime of religious fanatics and zealots and the Trump administration, they both want peace.
00:16:44.020They signed the deal. They had the handshake, the rest of it. It's Israel that is literally insistent on sabotaging this peace so they can have more war somewhere else. So it's 100 percent falls on them. And it's so deliberate. And you remember the original ceasefire is in the first week of April. And if you recall, it's so funny. People just have this unbelievably short attention span. We've been, technically speaking, in a ceasefire.
00:17:09.220Like, nominally, that's where the war is ever since the first week of April.
00:17:13.300And if you remember the rollout of that ceasefire, Trump had been saying, we will annihilate Iranian civilization.
00:18:52.280And then literally every single day last week, Iran is bombing Lebanon, escalating not just in the air but also on the ground, invading, expanding the invasion, pushing further.
00:19:08.120What do you think drove Trump to actually do this deal in the face of, you know, obviously the embarrassment, the capitulation, the Israeli lobby obviously heavily, you know, pressuring him not to?
00:19:19.860What do you think actually made him say, you know what, we got to do this MOU even though I've been trying to delay it, but I got to do it?
00:19:56.820And, you know, there was some reporting before the MOU that said, realistically, we got about four, maybe six weeks left before we have a real problem.
00:20:05.240Like we have a supply problem that the reserves in America, and this is happening even right now.
00:20:10.460There's some reporting that at Cushing, which is in Oklahoma, where all the oil goes through, that is reaching this dangerously low level, about 19 million barrels.
00:20:18.800And so it's just getting to the point where we're heading towards this catastrophic energy shortage, which then will just have a ripple effect throughout the entire global economy.
00:20:27.380And so I think Trump said it's imperative.
00:20:50.300I mean, even these guys like Mark Levin and Shapiro, they're out there saying, you know, we need to bomb Karg Island and we need to do all these things.
00:20:56.760And it's like we can't even put a destroyer in the strait.
00:21:01.060The strait is so narrow, it means that it's basically impossible.
00:21:05.460Some Marines can't get in there either.
00:21:57.960So, I can only imagine, like, I'll think about this.
00:22:01.060Imagine the Oval Office every day during the course of this conflict, like from Japan,
00:22:06.100from Indonesia, all these countries, the Gulf states, Trump.
00:22:09.720End the war. End the war. He must have had an insane amount of international pressure to end this thing. All of Europe. Now they've got to buy Russian oil. Like, what's going on here?
00:22:18.560Yeah, yeah. Huge international pressure. And you're right. I mean, at the end of the day, it's like we just we had a set period of time where we had some options before we ran out of oil. It's just that's really what it all comes back to is the U.S. really underestimated Iran's ability to close the strait and sustain the closure of the strait basically indefinitely.
00:22:37.800And you have this period of time where Trump thought we could bomb them into submission.
00:22:42.020Then it was getting too costly even for us.
00:22:44.260Bombing them was too costly for us because of how we were burning through the stockpile of interceptors
00:22:49.200and the damage it was doing to our bases in the Gulf.
00:23:05.880And, you know, it's the end of the it's the end of the rope.
00:23:08.220I know Trump is a very difficult person to predict sometimes, et cetera.
00:23:10.920But if there's someone that understands his thought process, because you've been spot on with a lot of your a lot of your analysis, a lot of your predictions.
00:23:16.460You've been spot on. What do you think his strategy was?
00:23:19.400Like, let's take let's go to February 27th or actually we can even go back when Netanyahu came the 13th time to America.
00:23:26.140Right. And he gave any sold Trump on the plan.
00:23:28.540What do you think the plan was? What was he trying to do?
00:23:31.040What was the strategy? What do you think was going to happen versus what actually happened?
00:23:34.300Well, you know, you got to go back to really December, which is Netanyahu comes to Mar-a-Lago, I think, December 27th.
00:23:47.440He said, look, we got to hit Iran again.
00:23:49.400We got to hit the missiles, he said, because Iran is building 300 ballistic missiles per month.
00:23:53.840And what this is going to do is it's going to make it impossible for us to intervene.
00:23:57.440And if they build up their missile stockpile, then they will get to work on excavating the highly enriched uranium, the centrifuges.
00:24:03.060then it's off to the races. So Netanyahu said we have to go back in, mow the grass or defeat them
00:24:08.100once and for all. Trump goes into Venezuela that first week in 2026, extradites Maduro. It's this
00:24:14.360masterful operation. No U.S. casualties. We kill 100 of their guys, scoop them up. He's feeling
00:24:20.080good. Then you have those protests in Iran where they say 70,000 protesters were killed. It's the
00:24:26.180most violent clashes ever. It's just the number just kept going up. First it was 20, then 30,
00:24:31.700Yeah. Then 40. Then now they're saying, yeah, 50, 60, 70. Yeah. We've never seen that before. Right.
00:24:35.680You know, October 7th, other things. Right. Like so. So it's like, oh, you know, think of the 100,000 protesters that were killed.
00:24:42.240And what we later learned, by the way, is that those protesters in Iran, it wasn't really a spontaneous demonstration.
00:24:50.520Where were the protests occurring? It was on Western Iran, where it's all the Kurds.
00:24:54.820And anybody knows what's going on is that the Iraqi Kurdistan, headquartered in Erbil, has basically broken away from the central government in Baghdad.
00:25:03.800That's where the U.S. still has all its bases.
00:25:06.100Israel is very aligned with the Iraqi Kurds.
00:25:08.440And they share a border then with Iran.
00:25:10.860So there were reports at the time in January that there were men dressed in all black, fully automatic rifles, taking over government buildings, municipal buildings in western Iran.
00:25:19.780It was later reported about a month later that some of these Kurds were armed by the Israelis and by the CIA to cross over the border.
00:25:27.760Effectively, it was an invasion, and they were trying to stoke or spark a wider revolution.
00:25:48.420And so you have these huge protests going on into the middle of January, and that's when Trump was saying overthrow the government.
00:25:55.900And they said that they were in the air ready to go, ready to bomb Iran, but they just didn't have the aircraft carriers mobilized because they were in Venezuela.
00:26:04.280So Trump mobilized the fleet, brought the carrier, the Armada, to Iran.
00:26:09.180There was another round of negotiations in mid-February.
00:26:45.680because you couldn't get what you wanted before.
00:26:47.160it was no enrichment. But then they're trying to say, like, no, we just didn't want them to have
00:26:50.540nukes. No, it was zero enrichment. I remember that vividly. Well, and that's always been the
00:26:54.320sticking point. And that was the ultimatum, as we said. And the ultimatum even went outside the
00:27:00.060negotiations, because in the negotiations, the Iranians, they won't sit if it's anything other
00:27:04.700than the nuclear file. They don't even want proxies and missiles on the table. So they say
00:27:09.120that is outside the bounds of the discussion. So Kushner and Whitcoff, because Kushner wasn't
00:27:14.380even part of the negotiations last year and wasn't part of the first round in february but he came
00:27:19.240for this ultimatum and they said we're not playing around no enrichment no proxies no missiles no
00:27:25.780nothing or else we're coming the iranians said forget it and then that's when we that's when we
00:27:30.520went to war and so i think the mindset was basically a combination of exuberance because
00:27:35.600of the success in venezuela as well as maybe overestimating the pension to the iranians that
00:27:40.880They're going to be able to overthrow the government. And then I think the Israelis and Trump himself undersold the the ability of Iran to close the strait, their willingness or ability to close the strait in a sustained way.
00:27:51.860You know what the most disturbing thing was to me, man? Like the intelligence community told him, you are not going to be able to effectuate a regime change.
00:27:58.820These guys are theocrats. This is, you know, they're not going to even if you kill Ali Khamenei, you're not going to get the regime change you want, man.
00:28:05.860And it's this is a different this isn't Venezuela where you can pay off the bodyguards like this is different.
00:28:10.340And he went with it anyway. And I don't know what the Masad told him during that meeting, but he clearly had to rely upon Israeli intelligence.
00:28:16.060Like you said, the exuberance. And the thing that's also the most disturbing is like the the diplomat guy from Oman, like they had met on the 27th.
00:28:23.740And they and they had a framework in place where it was almost like a better deal than JCPOA, where they weren't going to stockpile.
00:28:29.940They're going to get rid of sunset clauses, whatever.
00:28:31.740It was better than what Obama had in place.
00:28:33.720And they still attacked anyway, which I'm like, oh, wow.
00:28:36.720And it's like now you can make the argument that Iran is stronger than before.
00:28:43.860And, yeah, I think it is this influence of Israel.
00:28:47.060I mean it was Mike Waltz was a national security advisor up until like May last year.
00:28:51.120And he's an Israeli operative, you know.
00:28:52.680So these are the people in central command.
00:28:55.060These are the people in the DIA, in the NSA, the rest of it.
00:28:58.620And you're right in the buildup to the war. I remember there were a bunch of sources going to Politico and the Washington Post from the military basically saying regime change isn't going to happen because that was like the tagline at the time.
00:29:12.620As Trump said, we want a decisive, definitive confrontation. We want a clean decapitation strike, knock out the regime in one go.
00:29:20.560They said it would last four days. I don't even remember. That first night, yeah. They said four days. That's as long as it's going to go. And I guess they literally didn't have a plan B. Okay, what if it doesn't work? They closed the strait, and then they refused to open it. Okay, now what? And that's literally the question we've been grappling with ever since is, okay, we crossed the Rubicon. You killed the Supreme Leader. You killed half the regime. You blew up all their stuff. They closed the strait. Now what are you going to do? And there's literally nothing we can do.
00:29:48.580You know what kills me the most when he says, we have more reasonable people.
00:29:51.600And I'm like, the guy that's in power right now is his son.
00:34:22.680It's not like they said, what should we do about Iran?
00:34:24.400And they said, what do you think about foreign policy?
00:34:26.660He said, we need to hit Iran really hard.
00:34:28.860So and then, you know, it's hard to know because Vance has rivals inside the White House.
00:34:33.160We're going to leak to the press to make him look bad about, you know, did he support it?
00:34:36.600Did he not? So it's sort of unreliable what you hear because these are planted stories.
00:34:41.540But we know we didn't oppose when the war started.
00:34:44.040He disappeared. He faded into the background because he knows when he runs for president in the primary in 27 and 28,
00:34:50.560they're going to say, you know, war in Iran.
00:34:52.980What happened there? You know, energy shock, inflation. Why would you do new wars, man? You ran on that. Exactly. And what did you do? Why didn't you oppose it, etc.? And I think that what happened with Sachs, Kent and Tucker is they are trying to help extricate him from the liability of the conflict. They're going to try and give him an out. And Tucker's got this interesting line. He's been interviewed a few times recently. New York Times with the British journalist, with Jack Neal, somebody else the other day.
00:35:20.960And they say, so what do you think about Vance? And Tucker has this habit of saying, oh, well, you know, he's got the hardest position in the world because we all voted for Trump and placed all our hopes upon him. And, you know, Vance just has to do whatever Trump says. If Trump betrays the voters and takes us to war, Vance's job is to support Trump. So he really has no choice in the matter. Even if he opposes it and it's bad. Well, you know, what can he do? It's just so unfortunate.
00:35:43.820And what that belies is they don't want him to catch the blame for this next year.
00:35:50.720And I think now this is why Vance is throwing himself in front of the peace process.
00:35:55.200This is why he wants to be the guy in Islamabad.
00:35:57.660He wants to be the guy at Switzerland that's negotiating the MOU.
00:36:01.720Because this is going to be a huge liability, a huge hot potato they're going to have to neutralize in 27.
00:36:08.600Because they're going to be asked, like, okay, Iran war, what did you do?
00:36:11.440Completely split the base, dude, this war.
00:36:12.820Yes. And his answer is going to need to be something like, well, my job was to support the president. I had no say in the matter. You know, as the vice president, my job is to do what he tells me. But what I did is I brokered the peace and I was instrumental in ending it and blah, blah.
00:36:28.120And then the endorsements from Kent, Tucker, and Sachs are going to become critical because all these people that are furious about the war and are leaving the GOP because of it, they're now aligned with, like, Tucker and Kent and saying, oh, these guys are patriots.
00:36:53.960So, you know, that's what's going on there.
00:36:55.580So, no, that's that's very interesting that you say that. So do you think like that was kind of like the first Sacks was like, you know what? Because I mean, obviously, he's a big Zionist, right? Like he benefits from the Iran war, right? Because he loves Israel. But you're saying like, hey, I still got to protect my guy. I'm going to begin. I'm going to be the first domino to kind of, hey, this is an issue. We need to get out of this war, etc. And then obviously trickle back because people forget that Tucker was one of the main guys that told Trump to put Vance on, wasn't he?
00:37:21.180Yeah. Oh, 100 percent. Yeah, it was Tucker and Elon and Don Jr. Some say Peter Thiel. Others deny that. I think those people are liars. I think that Peter Thiel definitely had influence over that.
00:37:31.880So much money. And of course, he would have put him in.
00:37:33.400There's a lot of rumors. Some say that Peter Thiel basically left politics after 22 because his boyfriend killed himself.
00:37:43.500Yeah, of course he killed himself, right? Of course.
00:37:46.080His boyfriend killed himself or threw himself out of the 50th floor balcony.
00:38:35.680Trump was like – people forget – I guess people forget now, but Trump was facing like four criminal cases, like two federal, two state.
00:38:43.600The federal cases where you had the document case out of South Florida here, that one I think was the worst one.
00:38:49.780I think he could have easily went to jail for that one, which is ironic.
00:38:52.720Bolton said, you've got to kill those traitors.
00:38:58.300So yeah, you're talking about Peter Thiel.
00:38:59.340But yeah, so the press is all – Peter Thiel's in this war with the press because the press outed him.
00:39:04.900So then he destroyed Gawker because they outed him as gay.
00:39:07.420And then years later, they kind of were all over the boyfriend.
00:39:11.200They were all over the like the sneaky link or whatever. And, you know, we're not really sure what happened there, because there's one story where they say the press drove the boyfriend to suicide because they were harassing him.
00:39:24.240Because basically what happened is the press got the boyfriend to say things in an interview that Peter Thiel didn't want people to know.
00:39:31.340And so maybe that would have invited retaliation from Thiel or maybe that would have gotten him in trouble.
00:39:35.900There's one story which says that thus the boyfriend was so distraught because of these problems that he killed himself.
00:39:42.480Or, you know, some people allege that, you know, it's sort of mysterious.
00:39:47.000Maybe he was killed to cover up some secrets or something who I honest to God don't know.
00:39:52.580But they say that Teal was basically so despondent about this.
00:39:56.600He sees it as such a tragedy that he just left politics after 22.
00:40:00.140And so in 24, he made some public appearances and basically said, I'm done with politics.
00:40:05.300You know, because they said, your boy is the vice president.
00:40:23.880But I'm just saying that's what I've heard in that world.
00:40:25.800I remember, I think someone asked him about Lavender at, like, I think it was Oxford or something like that.
00:40:30.020And he's like, we'll have to further Israel government.
00:40:32.580And it's just like, okay, dude, like, all right, whatever.
00:40:35.500So I guess we could go right into, let's pull up the thing real fast with Lebanon.
00:40:39.020We'll show this video real fast of them like striking the zeal because we talked about Lebanon and how that was really the only thing that we didn't have control of.
00:40:45.640And then, of course, the Israelis had control of it.
00:42:02.660But, yeah, what are your thoughts on that?
00:42:04.100Well, it's really interesting because so the 14 point MOU specifically says there's a lot of like there were a lot of questions about what the MOU specifically said about we can pull it up to as well.
00:42:17.680I have it. Yeah. You know, because initially, like I said, the Iranians leaked to the press that it's a ceasefire in Lebanon.
00:42:25.120And I remember on my show, I said, well, is first of all, is that true? Second of all, what does the ceasefire in Lebanon look like?
00:42:32.420because the Israelis are engaged in an air campaign in Lebanon.
00:42:35.880They're bombing southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah is forward deployed with artillery and rockets.
00:42:40.520But Israel is also bombing the capital, Beirut, in central Lebanon,
00:42:44.080which is where Hezbollah's headquarters is in the southern suburbs.
00:42:47.520And so not only are they doing this air campaign in Beirut, but also in southern Lebanon,
00:42:52.280they also are on the ground in southern Lebanon.
00:43:34.700So what that means is Israel's got to they got to leave.
00:43:36.800They got to withdraw and they got to stop bombing altogether for the most part.
00:43:40.980So this was the subject of these negotiations in Switzerland last week between the U.S. and Iran.
00:43:45.900So then the U.S. is going to host these negotiations from last Tuesday until today.
00:43:51.060It was supposed to be till Thursday, but they extended it a day between Lebanon and Israel, brokered by Rubio.
00:43:56.260So what's interesting is Rubio gave a statement during these talks, and Rubio said in a press conference, he goes, the terms of the MOU say territorial integrity and sovereignty.
00:44:07.440He goes, well, it's not territorial integrity when Iran backs Hezbollah and Lebanon.
00:44:54.440Because Lebanon passed a law under pressure from France, the U.S., and Israel last year that said they're going to disarm Hezbollah.
00:45:00.940And they can't because Hezbollah is more powerful than the Lebanese armed forces.
00:45:04.360And so Israel's been insistent that Lebanon do this, and they haven't.
00:45:08.880And that was actually Israel's pretext to reinvade and violate the ceasefire that's been in place since November 24.
00:45:15.140So the reason they have this memorandum, this is effectively like passing the ball back to Iran.
00:45:21.800And what they're effectively saying in this agreement is they're saying, OK, you want to cease fire in Lebanon?
00:45:27.500Well, you know, you first. You want Israel to withdraw from the territory south of the Latani River?
00:45:33.560Well, then Lebanon's going to have to disarm Hezbollah.
00:45:35.540And if Lebanon doesn't do that, then you're in violation of the deal and we're not going to hold up our end of the bar.
00:45:40.500So this is them just kicking the ball back to Iran and saying, OK, you want to play this game about sovereignty and territorial integrity for, you know, you're going to have to do these things.
00:45:50.520And all that does is it just serves as a as a legal justification to remain in Lebanon and continue to violate the MOU because the MOU says Israel out these new terms say, well, Israel doesn't go until all these other conditions are met.
00:46:06.060Oh, those conditions are met. Well, then we're not leaving because it also says Israel is going to remain in the security zone until the threat is neutralized.
00:46:13.180Well, the threat's never going to be neutralized, so they're never going to leave the security zone.
00:46:18.020So consequently, the war between Israel and Hezbollah will continue.
00:46:22.100This ceasefire is—it's funny how the MOU formalized the bullshit ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.
00:46:28.980This 14-point plan formalizes the bullshit ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which already existed on the same terms.
00:46:46.180It says breaking. Scroll up real quick to the Lebanese protesters surround PM Nawaf Salam's office, calling him a Zionist glorious two star Syrian flag at the rally.
00:46:56.400So, yeah, obviously the resist the resist powers are not happy about this. We could hit play real quick and show.
00:47:16.180you can pause it and like you know it's kind of crazy because it's like
00:47:24.900people forget like the lebanese army is like terrified of hezbollah because like they have
00:47:29.000more influence and it's like uh half i think well i'm not mistaken of the lebanese army is shiat so
00:47:32.760it's like they're not gonna they're not gonna it's gonna the the military leader i think he's
00:47:37.160a christian guy uh the the head of the military but he even said i'm not gonna try to fight these
00:47:40.660guys like what are you talking about and then the other thing too is like why they have so much
00:47:43.320support is because like they have fought the israelis they're the reason why the israelis
00:47:46.420have not taken over southern lebanon they were the ones i think uh in 2000 they successfully got
00:47:50.680them out of there and then uh hassan ashra gave like the famous like spiderweb speech
00:47:54.760and uh and then like that's why everyone in the in the like in the middle east like they like they
00:47:59.640support hezbollah so it's like there's no way that they're ever going to disarm because like they
00:48:03.180look at it like israel is going to continue to invade us if we disarm they're going to invade
00:48:06.420and going to take the southern part anyway exactly well hezbollah is protecting effectively lebanon
00:48:11.140from Israel. And the other thing is Israel is actively antagonizing Lebanon with their rhetoric.
00:48:17.100It's the same stuff that they would do with Iran. I remember last year when we entered negotiations
00:48:22.000with Iran, the following day, Israel came out, Netanyahu came out and said, well, the only deal
00:48:27.180we will accept is if we blow up their nuclear centrifuges. That's the only deal. That's the
00:48:31.640only nuclear disarmament we will tolerate. And what this is meant to do is provoke and antagonize
00:48:37.060the Iranians into thinking we can't trust the U.S., we can't make an agreement without
00:48:40.740lowering our guard. That's the big concern, is becoming vulnerable. What Israel says about
00:48:46.540Lebanon is we're going to give them the Gaza treatment. That's literally what their ministers
00:48:50.360say. They said, what's our plan for Lebanon? Do what we did in Gaza. And what did they do in Gaza?
00:48:54.800They bombed the shit out of them, and then they invaded along the entire border and established
00:48:59.300a security perimeter, this like buffer zone, that they have now effectively annexed. And they're
00:49:03.780doing that so that they can reassure the people of southern Israel that they'll not be invaded by
00:49:08.820Hamas or attacked by the rockets. It's the same mentality in southern Lebanon, which is how is
00:49:14.260Israel going to restore confidence and allow the people of their northern settlements to return to
00:49:19.420the northern border of Israel? We got to push everyone in Lebanon 10 kilometers north inside
00:49:24.500their own country and establish that buffer zone. So, you know, the Lebanese are getting bombed in
00:49:29.060Beirut. They're getting bombed in the southern villages and communities. So they're saying the
00:49:33.040only thing that's protecting us is a hundred thousand rockets from hezbollah however many
00:49:37.400fighters they have so so yeah that's why you got protests because and the israelis know that so
00:49:42.260um so they're permanently sabotaging a ceasefire here to sabotage a ceasefire in iran yeah and it's
00:49:48.120kind of interesting because that's a good point we can let's pull up that um that 14 point memo
00:49:52.080because like guys it's this this one kind of like counteracts the first one they signed which is
00:49:55.140kind of crazy because you're right about that uh we'll go through it real quick the 14 lines uh
00:52:33.140Well, so the elections have to be held on October 27th at the latest.
00:52:36.780And what they say is that some of the new polling suggests that Netanyahu has lost majority support or his coalition has.
00:52:44.380However, the question is going to be whether the opposition can create a viable government.
00:52:49.000That's always a question. Will they be able to cobble together a majority of seats that are all going to be able to work together to oust him?
00:52:55.920And that's the question. I don't know if there's going to be any leader that's going to be able to consolidate.
00:53:00.660But, of course, it's heavily dependent on the outcome of all this.
00:53:03.640If Netanyahu is seen as weak, if he's giving up Lebanon, if Iran is able to normalize relations with the U.S., obviously Netanyahu will be seen as a failure.
00:53:12.380Because, you know, think about this is his baby.
00:53:30.860And then two, so now we're in this bid to let it happen. Oh, without a doubt, without a doubt, because that's what's justified all this, which is terraforming their periphery in Gaza, West Bank, South Lebanon, Syria, for that matter, Iran, Yemen.
00:53:44.920You know, this this eight front war, seven, eight front war that they're on. And so you're talking about his political. My bad. You're talking about the security and how he's getting hit in Israel. Right.
00:53:53.460So it's one, it's October 7th. But also then the whole idea was never again. How do we prevent October 7th? We're going to eradicate Hamas, eradicate Hezbollah. We're going to decapitate Iran. If none of these things happen, then Israelis are going to say, look at everything we've lost, which is to say we've been isolated in the world. Everyone hates us now. We've been alienated from the US. Was it worth it?
00:54:15.500If we haven't achieved those objectives in Iran, Lebanon, and elsewhere, then the answer is no.
00:59:06.340They call us Holocaust deniers and Nazis, which is cool, fine, maybe on Saturdays.
00:59:09.700But what I will say is they brought an enormous amount of awareness of the problem.
00:59:14.720I've always looked at it like they attack the problem from a humanitarian perspective.
00:59:17.720Like, oh, my God, they're killing people and genocide, apartheid, etc., which is whatever.
00:59:23.880but I will give credit that like you know because I'll say this progressives are way more active
00:59:29.080than we are right let's be honest these motherfuckers will go out and protest like free free
00:59:32.400go nuts or whatever and it's brought awareness of the problem you know what I mean so uh so that's
00:59:37.940one of the benefits obviously they don't attack it from the same perspective that we do like me
00:59:41.920and you come in like yo these guys are subverting our government this is an issue get them the fuck
00:59:45.940up out of here um you know we come at it from a nationalist perspective and we also understand
00:59:50.760that like let's be honest uh jewish power creates a lot of problems a lot of it's caused a lot of
00:59:55.180pernicious left-wing ideologies to kind of permeate throughout the country um with you know
00:59:59.240their expansive situation yeah go ahead go ahead bring it thanks gotta take care of the bro man
01:00:06.340uh so you know so it's good that they've like because they've activated a very um politically
01:00:13.680active uh side right because like you know progressive and stuff the college campuses
01:00:17.280whatever um so that's good but like you know another side like obviously they're coming at
01:00:21.760it from another perspective but that has helped i would say because like if you're right wing
01:00:25.600enter anti-israel or you know critical of jewish power it's like you're good you're cooked you're
01:00:30.160automatically cooked you know i mean that's that's what i've realized so so that's one of the
01:00:33.560benefits yeah i mean it's definitely true that's the thing though the left is huge the left is huge
01:00:40.020organized active and the difference is that the left is not captured in the same way that the
01:00:45.300right is by israel the right is deeply institutionally captured by the israeli
01:00:50.580government in particular the israel lobby such that it's just a different rule set on the left
01:00:56.600criticism of the netanyahu regime in particular that's actually institutional soros is an enemy
01:01:03.040of netanyahu soros is out there even though he's a pro open borders open society jew and like one
01:01:09.440of these jewish billionaires that's ruining america he is actively opposed domestically
01:01:14.640in Israel to Netanyahu's party and Netanyahu's vision of this this version of Zionism Netanyahu
01:01:19.720is pushing. And so it's the opposite. On the left, you can actually remain in the institutions.
01:01:24.720It's actually maybe even a good thing criticizing Netanyahu. Obama was against Netanyahu. Biden had
01:01:30.280friction with Netanyahu. And so that there's been an opportunity there for people to criticize it
01:01:36.300and retain their platform access or, you know, career opportunities. It's a huge boon to us.
01:01:41.900And, you know, there was a time I remember in like 23 and 24, the left was very heavily critical of Israel.
01:01:48.840And you had a lot of people on the right who are pro-Israel that were saying, well, the left is criticizing Israel for the wrong reasons.
01:01:55.480They're saying the left hates Israel because they see Israel's settler colonial estate.
01:02:00.760And use all those left buzzwing terms, genocide, apartheid, ethnostate, colonial.
01:02:04.900Yeah. Right. Right. They said, you know, the left sees the Israelis as white people that are oppressing an indigenous population, extension of the British Empire.
01:02:13.780You know, there's like a socialist. You both know they're not fucking white. Hell no. No.
01:02:18.020Anyone that says Jews are white, you're a fucking retard. Like they're not white at all. And they'll even tell you I'm not white.
01:02:23.600Yeah. Well, you know, you have to get into what what is white. It's European. It's Christendom.
01:02:28.240It's it's, you know, the fusion of those things and their civilization. The Jews are to find themselves against that rather than part of it.
01:02:34.900But in any case, the pro-Israel right was correct that the left was criticizing Israel for the wrong reasons.
01:02:43.140At that time, it was just important to basically thaw the chilling effect because the problem that we had is that you were simply, like, not allowed to say or think these things or, you know, engage in activism against these things.
01:02:58.560OK. So it was important for the left to say those things just to open up that conversation, just to thaw the rules governing that conversation.
01:03:09.160Now, however, I think it's a different story. A year ago, you needed the left and the Muslims for that matter, because the Muslims, they're a huge community, too.
01:03:18.380And let's let's just not. Yeah. And not only that, but they're extremely numerous online.
01:03:24.500I don't think it is. I don't think it's wrong to say that, like, if you're shitting on Israel, you're getting a huge engagement boost from the Muslim world.
01:03:33.020Not just nationally, not here, but internationally. They've been Jew-pilled forever.
01:03:37.220And they're like, finally, America's talking about this. Yeah. It's like for a long time, they could never talk about it like that.
01:03:41.400You knew it. Right. Like, I mean, I grew up in a Muslim household. My family's from Sudan.
01:03:59.620So, you know, if you are in 24 and 25 criticizing Israel, and I was very conscious and cognizant of this.
01:04:08.320I remember saying things in a certain way that would appeal to liberals and appeal to Muslims, because then they'd boost the content.
01:04:15.160And it's like, look, if what we're doing is like a prison break, it literally doesn't matter.
01:04:19.880As long as the content's getting out there, as long as people are getting the idea that we can criticize Israel, like these guys are hypocrites, they're not beyond reproach, etc., it's just about changing that conversation.
01:05:15.560And yet the left and Muslims, or Muslims and the left, respectively on those issues, are using criticism of Israel to run cover for those policies.
01:05:23.760Hey, it's all good if tons of Muslims come here.
01:05:31.040And so I think now the criticism of Israel is mainstream and popular and maybe the majority position, it's now important for the right, the right wing, the nationalists, to assert our own position on this and say, now we need to start drawing some lines and say, listen, we may coalesce.
01:05:49.740We can create a coalition, perhaps, with some elements of the left or some Muslims, but what we are as a faction is nationalists.
01:05:57.040And so the reason we're against Israel, it's the same reason we're against Soros, because we're America first.
01:06:02.640It's not America first to have open borders or to give money to Israel.
01:06:05.700It's not America first to have Muslims here that only care about Islam and Muslim countries.
01:06:20.900And like now that the information is out, we can actually we can start to like actually like be more specific about the issues.
01:06:25.920Right. Because like I said before, it's good because they brought awareness from the left. Right. That wasn't there before because criticism of Israel used to be literally a nuclear topic that you couldn't talk about.
01:06:35.740So now they made it a bit more mainstream. But, yeah, we need to come at it from the these guys have too much goddamn power.
01:06:42.680They are Israel first. They are responsible for a lot of the ism, the toxic isms that are in this country, feminism, progressivism, Marxism, et cetera, which I want to talk about that, too, with the DSA.
01:06:52.480Hey, where do you see the Democrat Party going with this as far as, like, this socialism move that we're seeing?
01:07:00.480You know, I said this before, and I want to get your position on this, too, and I'll let you talk about it.
01:07:05.860I think Momdani, winning mayor of New York City, was the beginning domino of what we're going to see where it's going to be a socialist revolution.
01:07:13.860I'm starting to see these establishment Democrats kind of not be as cool, the Hilliaries, the Chuck Schumers, the Bill Clinton era.
01:08:08.680And, you know, Momdani defeated Cuomo, who was backed by the whole Democratic establishment.
01:08:12.740That that was, you're right, the first big upset.
01:08:14.920And then he had this election on Tuesday where all of Mamdani's primary challengers, three of them in congressional primaries, won their races.
01:08:23.260And all of their opponents were establishment people backed by Hakeem Jeffries, backed by the labor unions, backed by the Black and Latino Caucus.
01:08:31.400That is like the institutional Democratic Party.
01:09:12.280You know how many, just so you guys understand, like when it's talking about, you know how many volunteers you need for that?
01:09:16.980Yeah. Volunteers. These people aren't getting paid. They need volunteers for that.
01:09:19.88030,000 volunteers, I said they had in New York City, which is just one place.
01:09:24.780And the people that they got to register and turn out, it's really just a turnout game.
01:09:29.600It's that the progressives are turning out huge numbers of people that either don't vote Democrat or don't usually vote or don't usually vote in off your elections.
01:09:38.100And it's a lot of young white people. It's a lot of young white people.
01:09:41.180And these like nonconventional minority groups, not like the old school blacks and like, let's say, Mexicans.
01:09:46.160It's like different like minority groups. And that's just where the energy is.
01:09:50.720That's where the young people are. That's where the energy is. And that's their ideology.
01:09:54.140The young people are just like ultra progressive. And so I don't know that that's even going to be good for the Democrats,
01:10:00.380because the reason they got their asses kicked in 24 is because all the big Jewish money left the Democrats because they were so alienated by the young progressives.
01:10:09.660You know, you've got to think about guys like Bill Ackman and Sean McGuire.
01:10:13.220Bill Ackman is at Pershing Square, Wall Street guy, Jew.
01:10:17.180He's tied with Larry Fink, who runs BlackRock.
01:10:38.540He's, I believe, is a Wharton School alum. And so, like, these big Jews with, like, all the money on Wall Street who previously were Democrats, donated to the Democrats, did fundraiser for Hillary.
01:10:49.800They all of a sudden, Bill Ackman signed that letter where he said the left has gone to left. They're too censorious. They're too woke. We got to shut it down.
01:10:58.020So he bailed. Then Sean McGuire. Sean McGuire is a partner at Sequoia. Sequoia is one of the big VC firms in Silicon Valley.
01:11:04.540Same thing. Lifelong Democrat, Democrat donor, fundraisers for Hillary. Same deal. After October 7th, he said, I'm out. Now I'm a Republican. So these are like two good examples because he got a Wall Street guy from the eastern seaboard. He got a tech VC guy from the West Coast.
01:11:20.780These are the two poles of power in America, and they represent Jews, institutional Jewish money shifting from the Democrats to the Republicans because they were scared off basically by the young progressives, the young white kids, the students, these like militant minorities that are pro-Palestine liberation, the socialists.
01:11:39.740And so the reason they lost in 24, where was the money? Like you look at 2020, so much money went behind the Democrats from all the usual suspects, from like Reid Hoffman, from Zuckerberg, 300 million from the Zuckerberg Chan Foundation, from Bloomberg.
01:11:56.200So all this like big Jewish money in 24, it didn't show up.
01:11:59.180Isn't that crazy, like, how October 7th, like, red-pilled the Jewish community and they said,
01:12:03.140yep, we got to go with Trump because he's going to go hard on Israel, he's going to give him more money.
01:12:06.740They really don't like how Biden dealt with them.
01:12:11.380I remember when Biden came out at that press, it was after Biden's special counsel report came out about his documents case.
01:12:18.740He did a press conference, I think it was, like, May last year or two years ago, and said, you know,
01:12:23.220I don't like the way the Israelis are running the campaign in Gaza.
01:12:25.840And the New York Times editorial board totally flipped on him and were like all negative throughout the rest of the year.
01:12:30.760So the Democrats alienated the Jewish media. They alienated the Jewish money.
01:12:35.160Now, how are the Democrats going to get back?
01:12:37.760Well, they're thinking about running a Jew for president like Pritzker in Illinois or the Shapiro in Pennsylvania,
01:12:42.960because they're going to have to reconcile the like militant progressives that hate is like really actually hate Israel from the institutional Jewish money.
01:12:51.580that is like liberal Zionist, like they're pro-Israel.
01:12:55.300Maybe they don't love Netanyahu, but they want to defend Israel
01:18:25.420Everybody shut up. That's who's going to be the nominee. Obama made that call. Yeah.
01:18:29.300Well, no, actually, I think the Obama's I forget exactly how it lined up.
01:18:33.580I think they were not happy about that, if I'm not mistaken. I forget how that all shook out.
01:18:38.300But the party establishment basically said, Kamala, that's who it is.
01:18:43.240I think it would have looked optically bad because she's a black woman.
01:18:45.540So they would have been like, no, she has to do it. Like, yeah, well, in the way that run by race politics over there.
01:18:51.340So that's true. But I think you could have the way that you could have avoided that is have an open convention.
01:18:56.840And then whoever wins, wins. And people complain. You say, well, look, that's one.
01:19:01.120You know, they made the argument it was too late. And it was too late or something.
01:19:03.940Yeah. And they said, yeah, because the convention was held in August, which is pretty late in the game.
01:19:07.940So they said, look, this is just what it's going to be. But but anyway, so the Democrats are really mad because of this history of like the progressives being screwed over.
01:19:18.140And it hasn't worked. The Democrat establishment is just losing then. Like they lost this election in 24. And the progressives are mad that the Democratic Party isn't standing up enough to Trump. Like when Trump got into office, he had a big appropriations bill in March, which the Democrats just passed.
01:20:15.560And I think that's metastasizing in this Zoran Mamdani, these people that he backed, and that they're winning, that they've got the energy.
01:20:22.600Like you said, that's that domino theory.
01:20:24.640People are going to look at that and say, look at the effect Zoran's having.
01:20:28.520We need to emulate something like that.
01:20:52.080He just did, he literally just did an ad today saying that they're freezing, they're freezing
01:20:54.760the rent in New York City until next year.
01:20:57.040So like, I mean, what do you, what do you think's going to, man, well, midterms are
01:21:01.560coming up what do you think about that well republicans are going to get destroyed and
01:21:05.060deservedly so democrats are backups like 80 percent odds in the betting markets they're
01:21:09.360going to win 43 percent odds are going to sweep and take the senate as well let's talk about this
01:21:14.360because a lot of people completely mischaracterize your position on voting democrat here um and i
01:21:21.580know your strategy i understand why you say but for the fucking retards out there can you please
01:21:25.100explain it to them why yeah you have this position so you got to kind of work backwards this is how
01:21:30.440I think so the big game is 28. Yeah. Why? Because for the first time since 2012, Trump is not on
01:21:37.760the ballot. Trump won the primary in 16 and 20 because he was the incumbent in 24. He's just
01:21:43.000effectively the incumbents, non-consecutive term. So 28 is the first time since 20. You know,
01:21:48.100that's a long time, 16 years ago. A lot has changed since then. So what happens in the
01:21:52.480Republican primary is whoever wins that nomination is going to determine the future of the GOP
01:21:57.200Because it's succession. Who succeeds Trump? Trump transformed the party. And so 28 is going to be a referendum on, so what is the Republican Party now? Are we going to keep going in the direction of Trump? Are we going to kind of backslide into something more establishment? That's really an important question.
01:22:13.360Now, who is going to be the nominee in 28?
01:22:16.300Well, the party is already consolidating behind two people, Rubio and Vance.
01:22:20.180It only makes sense because the VP and the Secretary of State are the highest positions outside the president.
01:22:25.260So it only makes sense those are the people that are going to make the run.
01:23:02.600On the other side, you got Vance, who was a never-Trumper in 16, voted for Evan McMullin, CIA agent, who was handpicked by Bill Kristol to run in 16.
01:23:12.120He's propped up by Peter Thiel, who's in bed with Alex Karp and all these other PayPal mafia, Palantir guys.
01:23:18.580Vance is no good either. His chief of staff is a Tikva fund fellow, Jacob Reeses, who's like a super Orthodox Jew.
01:23:25.320His girlfriend says, you know, nobody worry, like Vance is going to be pro-Israel and everything.
01:23:29.760David Sachs is going to be his chief of staff, Jewish Zionist, PayPal mafia.
01:28:57.680And fuck Tucker and Meghan and Alex Jones and the rest.
01:29:00.300So like Trump is the problem. He is the obstacle. He is the impediment because Trump is basically saying anyone that's America first is out. Fuck them. Whether it's Thomas Massey, Tucker, the rest of them, everyone that's Israel first is the you know, Rubio should be president. Cubans like gold. I look at my gold Oval Office. Mark Levin is the chosen one. He's the genius, whatever.
01:29:22.780So you can't be a Republican in America first.
01:29:49.940I think they spent like $10 or $20 million on him, like $10 million or so on Cori Bush, and then they spent $30 million on him getting Massey out of there.
01:30:12.700It's sort of like if you're going to do a hostile takeover over a company, you want it to be as cheap as possible.
01:30:18.100You know, if you're if you're trying to buy up all the shares against the will of the management, you want it to be weak, you want it to be cheap, you want to buy a depreciating asset, then it appreciates. That's the metaphor I think of. So do we want a strong Republican Party in 28 or a weak Republican Party? If we want a hostile takeover, we need the Republican Party to be a weak brand so that we can come in and redefine it. New vision, new leadership, new management. That's the only way it's going to make sense. If Trump is too strong, it's not going to work.
01:30:44.560He's going to just suck all the oxygen out of the room.
01:31:10.760But like, yeah, I would say he's probably the closest that could actually really be removed because because you mentioned all the problems, right, like of the corruption.
01:31:19.620And I don't want to interrupt you when you're going through it.
01:31:20.800But like you could talk about the kinetic strikes with with them shooting these boats.
01:31:23.520Right. Right. Like the Democrats, if they actually take over, they're going to have a field day, dude.
01:31:27.400They're going to say, oh, these kinetic strikes are illegal. You're killing these guys in international waters.
01:31:30.800How do you know that they're drug traffickers? What's going on here?
01:31:33.720They're on war. That's illegal. You guys invaded. It wasn't even really struck them when it wasn't really a threat.
01:32:42.900They're going to have a field day, dude, with the oversight committee that you mentioned.
01:32:45.580Well, and not only that, but remember in January 21, Trump got impeached over January 6th, between the 6th and the 20th.
01:32:53.020And Mitch McConnell was basically holding that over his head because they successfully impeached in the House.
01:32:57.980Then it was kicked over to the Republican-controlled Senate.
01:33:00.680And Mitch McConnell basically said, Trump, if you fuck around in your next two weeks, we will remove you from office.
01:33:07.300You know, you could see a scenario where if it gets really bad with Trump and let's say Trump goes against Israel and Democrats have 51, maybe they got 49 to 51 seats.
01:33:16.840Are they going to be able to get 15 Republicans to defect to impeach Trump?
01:33:20.940I mean, you don't even have to go that far to think of some of the names.
01:33:23.960You've got guys like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and you got guys like Rand Paul.
01:34:50.840For the hate of them, I come in and say, well, you know, if we make the Democrats too powerful, like, will we ever be able to regain power?
01:34:58.420Like, well, you know, we make them too powerful, we're cooked.
01:35:00.260And you even said to yourself, like, hey, we might have to endure this till 32.
01:35:04.400But you look at it like it's worth it because the Republican Party is such a bad position right now.
01:35:08.760Yeah, I do, because I think that, you know, this comes from the assumption that unless there's a radical intervention, America's going down the tubes.
01:35:18.640You know, look, look, look what Trump did this time. Trump ran on mass deportations, got the popular vote on mass deportations. If he can't do it, who can? No one's going to do it. He ran on it, won the popular vote. It's Trump. It's his signature issue. He could get away with other things that regular candidates or presidents can't. If he can't do it, no one can. If no one can do it, it's an amnesty. If it's amnesty, then this country's over.
01:35:42.360So I think that you either have a radical change or we're going down the tubes either way.
01:35:47.440And it's like, I'm not I'm not voting for more Republicans to, like, go the speed limit to hell.
01:35:52.040And in the meantime, they're going to fuck with all the Israel critics and groipers.
01:35:55.500And, you know, they're putting the screws in us anyway.
01:35:57.640They say Alex Jones always tells me this always freaks me out.
01:36:01.480He's always like, dude, like the DOJ is investigating us.
01:36:04.260He's like, you know, even Trump's DOJ is trying to fuck with me and Alex Jones.
01:36:08.420so you know people say well we need to vote republican to buy us time it's like who's us
01:36:13.440israel steven miller who's getting bought time like ben shapiro we're not getting time we don't
01:36:19.860you know it's the opposite like anti-semitism boards at like the doj and all this shit so yeah
01:36:23.900dude like it's it's it's uh it's fucking nuts man it really is and it's like i and it's kind
01:36:28.520of crazy because like you know people are very nearsighted like i see your vision but like they
01:36:32.220look at it like what do you mean but it's like well we're kind of in a bad spot right now even
01:36:36.240And the right wing, man, and the Republican Party, like, it's like, what the fuck is going on here?
01:36:39.540Like, these guys are very pro-Israel, and like you said before, like, Marco Rubio getting in would be horrible.
01:39:01.540So you could see a scenario where that happens.
01:39:04.040Right. And, you know, they they exert pressure on the United States.
01:39:08.780Also, politically, it's more subtle, you know, because they control the power centers here.
01:39:12.960They got juice and I say juice, meaning like power, but also Jews in L.A., in New York and D.C.
01:39:19.260They got ammo here. So no president's going to want to go against them just because of the domestic situation.
01:39:25.740So the president would kind of just need like this wartime footing like we are we are getting ready to confront Israel.
01:39:31.980And what happens when you confront an enemy is you got to clean up.
01:39:35.440You know, you got to eliminate the corruption in America.
01:39:37.800You got to target the disloyal fifth column here. That's going to be a problem.
01:39:41.560You got to prepare for a tactical nuke going off.
01:39:43.960You got to talk to their adversaries that you're going to might need to balance against them.
01:39:47.900And then you're going to need to talk to the people in their country, see how you can destabilize or try to influence their political situation there.
01:39:54.860You would really just need like this full spectrum approach.
01:39:57.540We need to be literally on a war footing with this country to try to push back in the other direction and basically just reassert, reassert, assert control over them for the first time ever.
01:40:07.300Would you, because I'm under the premise, I want to get your opinion on this too.
01:40:11.840I look at it like a lot of the issues in the Middle East literally stem down to the Palestine question, which Israel has been trying to avoid for a very long time.
01:40:18.460Netanyahu sabotages the Oslo Accords, etc.
01:40:21.940And that's why the Middle East has the issues that they have.
01:40:24.700If you solve that, whether it's a one-state or two-state solution, you know, that I think would solve a lot of the problems.
01:40:29.860Because then now you defend Hezbollah, why they exist, Iran, the acts of resistance in general.
01:40:35.100So it's all really because the Palestine situation, if you're able to assimilate them, bring them in and give them some type of sovereignty.
01:40:40.700Well, that, I think, is the beginning of like maybe bringing down the first domino and some type of peace treaty.
01:40:47.580But he's obviously been trying to get around it with the Abraham Accords.
01:40:50.580What are your thoughts on like how would you solve and deal with that issue, if at all, if you were the president?
01:40:57.600Well, at this point, I think it's just not going to happen.
01:41:00.040I think that Israel will never now tolerate the existence of a Palestinian state because the security is the only way at this point.
01:41:07.200But they'll never do that, too, because it's like, no, they'll repopulate too much.
01:41:10.980What's more, people don't even realize when Trump recognized Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.
01:41:16.760That was kind of the beginning of the end because it's like that.
01:41:22.160You know, but the West Bank, it's like the Israel is creating settlements that are just dividing up the West Bank.
01:41:27.580So it's never going to be a coherent whole.
01:41:29.480They took Jerusalem. That's really what Al-Aqsa flood was about, which is what kicked the whole thing off, is Israel asserting control over the temple and over the whole city. So I think those people, they're going to get pushed out of Gaza eventually. Israel's going to assert control over the West Bank, maybe push those people into Jordan or just try to choke them out gradually.
01:41:48.460The settlements are going to strangle all the different Palestinian settlements.
01:41:53.040And so I think that's just not going to happen.
01:42:46.000So if he if he demonstrates autonomy, if he consolidates the country, then, yeah, they'll they'll probably take him out because they don't want Syria to be to be unified.
01:42:55.020Hell no, because that would be a huge threat for them as well, because they don't like them either.
01:42:59.200So it's like, yeah, you know, I just realized, like, the only thing that you can really do, because I agree with you, two state solution, they never want that.
01:43:06.180Like, because that would mean they have to have their own military, like there'd be a problem.
01:43:09.360But then I thought, OK, maybe a one state. But the issue with the one state is that Palestinians, obviously, you know, the birth rates are higher.
01:43:15.060So they would obviously overtake a Jewish state. That'd be a problem. So I thought maybe you can have a middle ground where you can have maybe you can ensure that the Israelis have a 51 percent representation in Knesset, maybe so they can have still some level of power.
01:43:26.940But they'll never allow that shit. So it's like it's just going to be perpetual war. So it's like, what are you going to do? And it's like they create so many fucking problems in the region.
01:43:33.500Like, I would argue, like, almost all the problems in the region are because of them.
01:43:52.560Well, there was some talk that the U.S. would recognize Western Sahara and Somaliland in exchange for them taking these people, you know, or, like, Libya also, because, like, Libya needs to be unified.
01:44:02.500So there's like this arbitrage where it's like, we'll give you sovereignty if you take the people.
01:44:07.800And but, yeah, I mean, it's just a question of like there's two.
01:44:11.080It's like what seems more what seems more unlikely?
01:44:14.380It seems unlikely that Israel is going to forcibly remove like one point eight million people from Gaza at the same time.
01:44:20.560What are they going to do, reintegrate them?
01:44:21.820They're going to build them a smart city and say, all right, remember, we killed all you people.
01:44:25.120Remember, we killed 10 percent of your population.
01:44:27.020Well, now you can be the servants in Howard Lutnick's new blockchain smart city.
01:44:31.600You know, it's like that's not going to happen either. So, you know, you look at what they did in the Gaza ceasefire. Israel took 50 percent of their territory. They pushed all the Palestinians into the coast in this tiny little enclave. And I think they're, you know, Israel's under no pressure to change that situation.
01:44:48.440So they're just going to make the conditions intolerable, and then it'll just become more attractive, I think, for those people to leave.
01:44:54.500If they could get Washington to figure out some program where they're extradited or emigrated forcibly from Gaza, then they'll do that.
01:45:01.680And if some people stay, then maybe those people remain.
01:45:05.180Yeah, and they're going to definitely turn that into a beachfront like a Dubai is what I think they're going to do.
01:45:10.460Because, you know, I think there's this I've realized that there's like this tourist race in the Middle East to like modernize and westernize and like make money outside of outside of oil.
01:45:19.240Yeah. And we saw Dubai kind of lead the charge.
01:45:22.760They're bringing all these people. No crime. Very clean. Safe. Right.
01:45:26.640It's because nobody has rights except for Emiratis.
01:45:28.860They did immigration the right way, by the way, unlike us.
01:45:33.200So they have all these like things in place and it's like people make all this money, whatever.
01:45:36.580And then I see Saudi Arabia trying to bring entertainment over.
01:46:06.980They want it to be a regional hub for tech, energy, trade, banking, all those things.
01:46:13.020And, you know, think about in the 2020s, early 2020s under Biden, there's all this talk about this IMEC corridor, India, Middle East, Europe corridor.
01:46:23.000How do we connect Indo-Pacific to Europe?
01:46:26.500It's basically what China is doing with Belt and Road Initiative.
01:46:29.340They're doing all these big infrastructure projects to orient trade to China with the new Silk Road.
01:46:35.400What is it? There's two different programs. One's a maritime trade route. One's an overland trade route. And so the U.S.'s answer to China's Belt and Road to the new Silk Road is IMEC. And so they said, we're going to connect India, which is supposed to be that's going to be the anchor of our new Indo-Pacific policy.
01:46:52.220That's changing a little bit. But but they said India is going to be the hub and we're going to have trade from India to Europe.
01:46:58.540And it's going to go through ports in India, going to go through the Indian Ocean into the Emirates, ports on the Emirates, highways and rail through the Emirates, through Saudi Arabia, through Jordan, through Israel.
01:47:10.140All of it's going to go through Israel and then into Greece, Italy.
01:47:14.160And they're basically going to create this like trail of transportation infrastructure connecting Indo-Pacific in Europe.
01:47:20.600And Israel is going to stand to benefit from all of this, from all this money.
01:47:24.580And that's really the big picture is making Israel the center of all the commerce and what they call the rimland.
01:47:31.380You know, there's this theory that this is like the foundations of geopolitics, that you've got really the world island, that all of geo strategy on Earth revolves around this basic fact that Asia, Europe and Africa is most of the territory in the world.
01:47:48.120And any country that could dominate all of these continents is just going to have the most resources.
01:47:54.160And the country that has the most resources will just be number one.
01:48:09.380It's the Mediterranean, it's the Middle East, and it's that route around India through over to the coast of China.
01:48:15.880Whoever can control that rim that runs through the middle of the world island is going to control all those resources because they'll all be doing trade and the commodities will be moving through the rim.
01:48:26.860And so if Israel is situated at the middle of the world island, the middle of the rimland, and they dominate the rimland, then that makes them the most powerful country in the world.
01:48:35.760Because you look at the Strait of Hormuz, for example.
01:48:38.740All the oil that goes through the strait, if that's now controlled by Israel, that's huge leverage.
01:48:43.400Now, what if Israel controlled all the commerce that goes through the Suez and all the overland pipelines and trade routes running through the Middle East?
01:48:53.600So, you know, situated in the middle of it all, what they want is like a they want like a world government run through Jerusalem at the center of these three continents, at the at the intersection of all of them.
01:49:08.740Let me ask you about this, because I don't think I've ever seen anyone get your take on this.
01:49:15.060China. What are your thoughts on China?
01:49:19.200Whether adversarial, their economy, are they a big threat for us?
01:49:23.080What are your thoughts in general when it comes to China?
01:49:25.140Yeah, they're probably our number one geopolitical threat.
01:49:28.920But I like Trump's approach, which is engaging them on the basis as a rival rather than an adversary.
01:49:36.020The relationship doesn't necessarily need to be hostile or adversarial. It could just be competitive. And so if we can engage with China on issues where we can collaborate, like on bilateral trade and on counterterrorism and things like that, I think it could be productive.
01:49:51.080But it's no question that they're going to be the number one rival. And I think that that's why we should probably thought relations with Russia. Russia and China are actually natural adversaries. Russia is clearly in decline, terminal decline. So I think that, you know, if we can extricate ourselves from Eastern Europe, we could actually lean on Russia and kind of balance in the same way that Nixon had China against Russia.
01:50:22.700And, you know, you probably might agree with me on this.
01:50:25.500Like, I've always – a big problem why, like, I get so pissed off and annoyed with, like, the Middle East wars and Israel and shit like that is because I'm like, yo, we're taking our eye off of, like, these guys who are very competent.
01:52:59.660Well, and Trump was pushing this truce.
01:53:02.180Give us a 30 day truce. It's kind of the same thing in Iran. And Russia said 30 day truce. So what? So that you can rearm you like Ukraine is losing. Ukraine is losing. Of course, you want to call a timeout. You want to call a timeout because you're getting destroyed. You want to rearm and then you're going to start the war all over again.
01:53:18.660Zelensky was saying, you know, we're not even going to agree to a long term agreement unless we get a NATO security guarantee.
01:53:25.240Russia said that's why we started the war.
01:53:26.800So, you know, so that's where it was last year.
01:53:29.740And I remember saying, like, on some level, what can Trump really do?
01:53:33.980Unfortunately, once you're in the war, you're in.
01:53:37.720And people can say, we wish we weren't in the war.
01:53:40.340We wish we could just stop supporting Ukraine.
01:53:42.920But it doesn't kind of really work that way because Russia has a vote, too.
01:53:47.080And if you just let's say you stop supporting Ukraine altogether, then Russia just blitzes Ukraine.
01:53:52.400Ukraine's done. And then, you know, let's say Russia is going to try to exert influence elsewhere in Moldova, in the Baltic states.
01:53:58.940It's like so when you're dealing in a great power competition, you actually can't afford to take your foot off the gas because it is deterrence.
01:54:05.660It is a constant threat of force and tripwires, which is what is constraining these rival powers.
01:54:10.880The second you say, you know what, let's just let Russia have it. They earned it. We're done fighting.
01:54:17.720So I said, in other words, back then, if you want an agreement, you actually need to keep up the pressure on Russia.
01:54:22.880You actually maybe even need to push harder against Russia to convince them that war is no longer profitable.
01:54:30.440In other words, if Russia thinks we're getting as much as we can, like we've gone as far as we're capable of doing, we're exhausted militarily, then they're going to be more willing to say, all right, there's nothing more to be gained here.
01:54:44.300So, you know, I think actually this situation where Ukraine is winning, it makes it more likely there might be a deal because military action is less profitable for Russia.
01:54:56.420Yeah. I mean, last I checked, Russia was controlling, what, roughly 22 percent or so of Ukraine.
01:55:02.060Have they like real some of that back or not?
01:55:04.300Not at all. I mean, it's still holding the territory.
01:55:07.280But like as far as like they're not moving anymore.
01:55:10.280Right. Right. And it's been minuscule from the start.
01:55:12.580they wanted the whole country they lie and they say oh it's a special military operation we never
01:55:17.660wanted all of it really then why'd you go for kiev then why'd you try to bomb the airport
01:55:21.800obviously they thought the government would collapse um and you know now that now they're
01:55:26.320just trying to take everything east of the dnieper rivers and i think zelinski kind of got a sense of
01:55:30.800urgency with this iran war because russia was making money hand over fist man because like
01:55:34.440they they lifted the sanctions and like and then iran bombed qatar and like uh destroyed lng so
01:55:39.880like they need to rush the gas and oil again so it's like you know and it's it's like you know
01:55:43.600the you like almost like a picture like oh we have these sexes but we need your oil so it's like
01:55:47.780oh shit um no man what's up what's in there are the girls here or what's the deal i've been here
01:55:53.460okay what they're all here is chris here chris hasn't walked it we'll go a little bit do you
01:55:58.500have chats we could read some chats give nick a break um uh let's see here we got uh for the
02:05:22.540Like, this is why the city is uninhabitable.
02:05:24.800It's because nobody wants to go there because of the crime.
02:05:26.960The cops don't want to go there, so consequently there's no law and order.
02:05:30.380If there's no law and order, who wants to put money there?
02:05:32.120I mean, you drive through the ghetto in Chicago, which I do from time to time, everything's boarded up.
02:05:37.540Every restaurant you go into, it's like a bank.
02:05:39.680You go into a Popeye's, and it's like you've got to slide the money through the slot or whatever.
02:05:43.860And what's more, there's no investment.
02:05:47.280Nobody wants to put an ATM in Chicago anymore.
02:05:49.860You put an ATM in any restaurant, any place in the city, and black people are going to go throw a chain around it and drive it through the front door on the back of a pickup truck.
02:05:59.440So it's like, you know, I just think it's—
02:06:02.380Do you even go—I mean, I haven't been to Chicago since 2015.
02:06:27.000And they do it in the suburbs. They do it out in Naperville, which is like probably 25 miles outside the city, and they take over these little suburban towns, and they're twerking on the cars and mugging people, and then somebody shoots, they all scream and scatter in every direction.
02:06:40.180And Brandon Johnson goes, you know, well, they ain't no Al Capone. They not gangsters. These are kids. It's like, bro, they're shooting people.
02:06:49.560Yeah, they bring guns. They shoot people. They mug people, and it's just sad.
02:06:53.560And now, not only is it in the south side, but because the stuff is bleeding into the downtown, it's killing the downtown.
02:07:00.400Just this week, I forget, I think it was Lou Malnati's, which is one of the big deep dish pizza chains.
02:07:07.020They're leaving the center of the city, the center of downtown, closing up shop.
02:07:11.720Chicago deep dish pizza is leaving Chicago.
02:07:13.480Water Tower Place, Mag Mile, Lou Malnati's, Lululemon, all the big businesses that are like the central shopping district, State Street, Michigan Ave, they're all gone.
02:07:21.480It's like a ghost town because it smells like pot.
02:12:03.460And I go outside, and there's like 10 cop cars up and down the block.
02:12:06.640And they literally had a guy with a blast shield, like in Call of Duty, like a straight-up blast shield, come in with my key and open my mailbox because they thought there was a bomb in my mail.
02:12:18.720And at that time, that was happening to everybody.
02:12:21.820I think it happened to Marjorie Greene.
02:12:23.120It happened to some of the other government officials.
02:12:25.160This was like a serial thing where they were just doing these bomb threats against everybody.
02:12:30.140And so I remember literally crouching behind the cop car on my street, like with my ears
02:12:35.840plugged, waiting for my fucking house to blow up.
02:12:38.380So it was like, yeah, the guy tried to shoot me.