The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 01-26-26

00:00:00.000 Every week, the Payne family cuts straight to the real financial story.

00:00:04.460 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?

00:00:10.080 You've been through boom and busts. What do you think?

00:00:12.860 No hype, no myths, just what actually matters to your money.

00:00:17.440 Does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s. Where are we,

00:00:21.460 though? Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

00:00:25.300 Listen to the Payne Points of Wealth on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:00:30.000 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:00:36.920 You are now entering the Stone Zone, and I'm your host, Roger Stone.

00:00:42.240 Well, former President Barack Hussein Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama

00:00:47.540 have jumped into the Minnesota fray by issuing a joint statement Sunday

00:00:52.940 condemning U.S. Border Patrol after an Antifa-affiliated activist was killed

00:00:58.620 while allegedly reaching for his gun during an encounter with ICE officials,

00:01:03.800 calling the incident a heartbreaking tragedy and accusing federal agents of acting with impunity.

00:01:10.080 The statement was obviously written by the former divider-in-chief

00:01:14.240 to distort the facts, undermine law enforcement, and recklessly inflame public tensions.

00:01:20.540 The Obamas allege that federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota has become lawless and cruel,

00:01:27.920 blaming so-called unprecedented tactics for the deaths of Alex Priddy and Renee Goode.

00:01:35.180 Barack Obama seems to forget that he holds the record for the largest number of illegals 0.99

00:01:40.380 deported from the country, some 2.6 million illegals deported during his time as president.

00:01:46.960 Of course, there were no violent protests over any of that.

00:01:50.960 The former First Couple has also expressed support for protests in Minneapolis,

00:01:55.360 even as demonstrations have repeatedly turned more violent, resulting in property damage,

00:02:00.440 assaults on officers, and widespread public disorder.

00:02:03.840 It was revealed on Saturday by sources such as undercover reporter James O'Keefe with O'Keefe Media

00:02:09.640 that communist cells are working with military precision, taking over streets,

00:02:14.600 and implementing mob rule through terror and coercion.

00:02:18.440 Let's be very clear.

00:02:19.720 These are not spontaneous or indigenous peaceful protests.

00:02:24.740 This is a paramilitary-type operation that is very carefully planned

00:02:29.940 and obviously fully funded and staffed.

00:02:33.240 More recently, Cam Higby, a citizen journalist, has uncovered not one but two signal chats

00:02:39.840 that involve the lieutenant governor of Minnesota,

00:02:43.640 as well as Governor Tim Walsh's chief political operative and campaign manager,

00:02:49.020 in orchestrating the attacks on ICE agents.

00:02:52.840 The Obamas, of course, realize all of this.

00:02:55.280 It's no coincidence that Black Lives Matter riots initially started while Obama was in office,

00:03:00.020 after the thug, Trayvon Martin, was killed while attacking a concerned citizen.

00:03:05.560 Obama fanned those flames and let his surrogates do the dirty work. 1.00

00:03:09.320 Now he's back at it again.

00:03:11.240 The founder of ISIS, Barack Hussein Obama, hoping to finish off the country he infiltrated, 1.00

00:03:16.680 and I honestly believe he hates with every fiber of his Marxist, Islamist, third-world gutter trash being. 1.00

00:03:24.840 Meanwhile, Governor Tim Walsh has once again used his bully pulpit to worsen the situation, 0.99

00:03:29.660 happening under his watch, and yet again prove himself to be an absolute buffoon

00:03:34.760 after invoking Nazi-era comparisons to attack federal immigration enforcement officers,

00:03:40.580 suggesting that ICE operations in his state will someday be written about like the diary of Anne Frank.

00:03:46.900 Speaking at a press conference, Walsh claimed that children in Minnesota are hiding in their houses,

00:03:52.280 afraid to go outside, and implied that President Donald Trump bears responsibility.

00:03:56.500 Walsh claimed that somebody is going to write that story about Minnesota,

00:04:00.600 explicitly likening ICE and four of his officers to persecution under the Nazi regime.

00:04:06.540 This is not the first time Walsh has used such overheated rhetoric.

00:04:09.880 Last year, he referred to ICE agents as the modern-day Gestapo,

00:04:14.080 a remark widely condemned as dangerous and inflammatory,

00:04:17.440 particularly as agents face rising assaults from activist mobs.

00:04:21.220 Those warnings now appear to be precinct.

00:04:23.340 I point out again that more than 70% of those who have so far been detained for deportation

00:04:29.880 have criminal records either in their country of origin or here in this country.

00:04:35.220 So the idea that U.S. citizens are being grabbed and kidnapped off the streets

00:04:39.620 and arrested to be deported is simply false.

00:04:43.240 In recent weeks, ICE officers in Minneapolis have been harassed, beaten, and attacked.

00:04:47.800 In one incident that the president highlighted,

00:04:50.700 a Department of Homeland Security officer reportedly had part of his finger bitten off

00:04:55.100 during an altercation with radical activists.

00:04:57.760 Despite this violence, Walsh continues to demand that President Trump

00:05:01.660 pull all federal agents out of Minnesota,

00:05:04.680 even though the Department of Homeland Security says

00:05:07.220 the operations are focused primarily on legal immigrants,

00:05:10.540 as I said it before, with criminal records.

00:05:13.080 Walsh's remarks also coincided with a viral online claim

00:05:17.120 accusing ICE of using a five-year-old child as bait.

00:05:21.060 The Department of Homeland Security swiftly debunked the allegations as fake news,

00:05:25.720 stating the child had been abandoned by his father

00:05:27.900 and the alleged mother had refused custody.

00:05:30.960 Officers ensured the child was fed, comforted, and placed safely.

00:05:34.980 Walsh's reckless comparisons trivialized the horrors of the Holocaust.

00:05:39.380 They're a form of anti-Semitism.

00:05:40.620 They demonize law enforcement, and they encourage hostility towards federal officers

00:05:45.180 who are simply doing their jobs.

00:05:47.340 Whether it is for this action against law enforcement now,

00:05:50.100 or for allowing billions in Somali fraud to happen on his watch,

00:05:54.420 it's time for Tampon Tim to be locked up.

00:05:56.920 I think he should be charged.

00:05:58.320 I think that there is more than sufficient evidence to do so.

00:06:01.220 Of course, I'm not a lawyer.

00:06:02.860 But today, I heard that he reached out to the president,

00:06:05.960 and that the president was sending Tom Homan to ascertain the situation in Minneapolis firsthand.

00:06:12.100 Now, I know Tom Homan.

00:06:13.100 He's a good friend of mine.

00:06:14.360 He's a good man.

00:06:15.360 But it sounds to me, and this is speculation,

00:06:17.580 that the president wants a firsthand report.

00:06:20.360 He announced Sunday that border czar Tom Homan was going to Minnesota

00:06:23.460 following weeks of unrest from the coordinated

00:06:25.840 paramilitary common to cells rising up against federal immigration enforcement.

00:06:30.960 I guess I saw it in a true social post on January 26th.

00:06:34.940 The president said Homan would arrive Monday evening, that would be this evening,

00:06:39.240 emphasizing that while Homan was not previously involved in Minnesota operations,

00:06:43.060 he has longstanding relationships with state and federal officers there.

00:06:46.780 President Trump wrote,

00:06:47.920 Tom is tough but fair and will report directly to me.

00:06:51.560 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt confirmed that Homan's mission

00:06:54.780 will extend beyond immigration enforcement.

00:06:57.560 He will oversee ICE operations targeting illegal immigrants,

00:07:00.520 particularly those with criminal records,

00:07:02.220 and coordinate investigations into the massive, systematic welfare fraud

00:07:06.820 emanating from the Somali migrant community,

00:07:09.280 which has resulted now in billions of dollars of tax dollars

00:07:12.640 being stolen through fraudulent entitlement schemes in Minnesota.

00:07:17.420 This announcement comes amid heightened tensions in Minneapolis

00:07:20.960 after Border Patrol agent shot and killed the armed Antifa-aligned activist Alex Priddy

00:07:27.220 after he violently resisted arrest during an encounter with multiple agents.

00:07:31.820 The incident followed the earlier fatal shooting of U.S. citizen René Goode

00:07:37.000 during a separate enforcement action after Goode attempted vehicular homicide

00:07:41.620 against a federal agent.

00:07:43.420 This is kind of like that movie Rashomon,

00:07:46.180 a very famous Japanese noir film in which various people see the exact same event,

00:07:52.380 but everyone who's watching sees something different.

00:07:55.940 I've studied the videos of both the René Goode incident and now the Alex Priddy incident,

00:08:03.160 and in both cases it's very clear to me that Goode is clearly trying to run over an ICE agent,

00:08:10.100 and it's very clear from the video I saw that Alex Priddy was reaching for his gun.

00:08:16.060 Liberals continue to deny both.

00:08:18.480 So what are you going to believe, your own eyes or the left-wing media?

00:08:23.020 Democrats have responded by threatening a federal government shutdown

00:08:26.260 unless Republicans strip funding from the Department of Homeland Security,

00:08:30.540 which has been part and parcel of their Hegelian dialectic problem-reaction-solution model all along.

00:08:37.380 President Trump has rejected calls to retreat,

00:08:39.980 arguing the Minnesota operation is critical to restoring order and protecting the taxpayers.

00:08:44.700 President Trump also revealed that Governor Tim Walz called, as I said earlier, requesting cooperation.

00:08:50.780 So perhaps, let's hope, Trump is above all a negotiator and a businessman first,

00:08:55.440 and if he can negotiate a peaceful settlement that carries out the rule of law,

00:09:00.420 I think he will certainly do so.

00:09:02.040 In the face, however, of what is clearly a very well-organized and funded insurrection,

00:09:07.620 as I've said previously, and the president has said himself,

00:09:10.400 he should consider, he will consider, implementing the Insurrection Act of 1807.

00:09:17.880 Now, that is a huge step.

00:09:19.180 It is the only waiver, the only instance in which the president of the United States

00:09:25.260 is allowed to use uniformed military forces on American soil,

00:09:30.020 and it has only been used in time of crisis.

00:09:32.420 President Dwight Eisenhower used it in 1957 when local law enforcement in Arkansas refused to follow directives

00:09:41.400 from the federal government regarding desegregation of the Little Rock schools.

00:09:45.780 President Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy both used it to enforce civil rights enforcement in the South during the 60s.

00:09:53.000 George H.W. Bush used it in the wake of the Rodney King riots.

00:09:58.140 It is a huge decision for the president.

00:10:00.280 I have little doubt that Tom Homan will take care of business.

00:10:03.620 He's certainly not the type to go soft when it comes to detaining and deporting illegals in enforcing the rule of law.

00:10:09.120 But perhaps the president wants to hear the firsthand report from Homan before making this incredibly difficult decision.

00:10:16.600 Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have issued six grand jury subpoenas last week to top Minnesota officials,

00:10:22.080 including Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison,

00:10:25.660 and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry as part of an investigation into possible obstruction of federal deportation operations.

00:10:33.360 While the subpoenas initially appeared focused on whether inflammatory public statements interfere with immigration enforcement,

00:10:40.220 new reporting suggests the alleged obstruction may go far deeper.

00:10:44.300 Citizen journalist Cam Higby, who I referred to earlier, released what he describes as bombshell evidence

00:10:50.860 after going undercover inside multiple left-wing activist signal groups operating across Minneapolis.

00:10:58.940 Higby says the groups exist for one purpose, to track, impede, and obstruct federal immigration agents in real time.

00:11:06.700 According to Higby, Minneapolis is divided into multiple patrol zones, each with its own individual signal group.

00:11:14.560 Activists allegedly run mobile patrols to hunt for suspected federal vehicles,

00:11:19.280 logging license plates into shared databases of known federal assets.

00:11:23.760 Once identified, often incorrectly, vehicles are broadcast through an all-day dispatch call,

00:11:29.700 directing protesters on how to block or harass agents.

00:11:32.820 Higby reports that participants undergo training for specific roles.

00:11:38.360 In fact, he has released their training manual.

00:11:41.860 They use military-style salute reporting formats and tag operational updates with emojis to indicate assignments.

00:11:49.280 He also released screen recordings showing an active federal vehicle plate database

00:11:54.200 and dispatch calls tracking suspected ICE movements.

00:11:58.100 Even more troubling, Inside Wire and other journalists who are citizens claim a former campaign strategist for Governor Walz,

00:12:06.920 Amanda Kohler, was identified as a key leader within this signal network.

00:12:13.040 Additional materials shared include, as I said, this activist training manual,

00:12:17.220 organizational charge resembling a shadow police force,

00:12:20.520 and coordinated pressure campaigns against individual journalists.

00:12:24.580 Federal subpoenas are not enough, in my opinion.

00:12:26.660 This communist thug operation needs to be broken up.

00:12:29.960 Severe examples need to be made.

00:12:31.840 This type of behavior cannot be allowed in the land of the free.

00:12:35.280 Yes, I'm afraid Senator Joe McCarthy, who was vilified at the time, was right. 1.00

00:12:39.560 And it turns out the only mistake was he didn't go far enough in calling out the communist infiltration within our government.

00:12:47.560 But the real question that must be asked is,

00:12:49.700 What did Governor Tim Walz know, and what did he know it?

00:12:54.000 When did he know it?

00:12:54.960 The famous phrase from Watergate.

00:12:57.560 So what did he know, not only about this violent insurgency in the streets of Minneapolis,

00:13:02.440 but what does he know about the multi-million dollar Somalian fraud on the American taxpayers?

00:13:08.880 Those who have already thrown in the towel on the 2026 election make an enormous mistake.

00:13:13.500 If they don't think that this NGO, non-profit Somali fraud is not going to spill over into Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Washington State, 0.98

00:13:25.000 and as the president himself has said, both New York and California.

00:13:28.820 But will Republicans stay the course?

00:13:31.820 Do they have the guts to fight this out?

00:13:33.960 Or will they go soft?

00:13:35.200 When we come back to the Stone Zone, I'll answer that question.

00:13:38.140 Every week, the Payne family cuts straight to the real financial story.

00:13:44.000 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is,

00:13:46.960 Are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?

00:13:49.660 You've been through boom and busts.

00:13:51.620 What do you think?

00:13:52.420 No hype, no myths.

00:13:54.620 Just what actually matters to your money.

00:13:57.060 It does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s.

00:14:00.500 Where are we, though?

00:14:01.180 Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

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00:14:11.160 The Stone Zone.

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00:14:22.040 I'm your host, Roger Stone.

00:14:24.140 As I have said across the country in multiple speeches and interviews,

00:14:27.980 The problem in America today is not the screwball, socialist, Marxist-inclined, progressive Democrats.

00:14:35.160 The real problem are the gutless, feckless, spineless, lily-livered establishment Republicans,

00:14:42.720 the white-wine-swilling, brie-cheese-eating establishment Republicans,

00:14:47.320 who have neither the guts nor the courage to fight for America.

00:14:51.020 Therefore, it's not surprising that a growing number of established Republicans are now calling for investigations

00:14:56.320 into federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

00:14:59.860 Moves that would be tatamount to surrender in this ongoing war against the communist hordes.

00:15:05.580 Following the fatal shooting of Antifa-aligned leftist Alex Priddy,

00:15:09.880 who very clearly reached for his gun in a confrontation with ICE agents during an immigration operation in Minneapolis,

00:15:16.280 several Republican lawmakers rushed to demand hearings and probes,

00:15:21.080 echoing the talking points more commonly heard from Democrats and, of course, the fake news media.

00:15:26.360 House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino requested testimony from ICE and the CBP leadership,

00:15:35.120 while Senators Tom Tillis, not running for re-election,

00:15:38.380 Bill Cassidy, being challenged by President Trump,

00:15:40.960 Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, who was not really elected as a Republican,

00:15:47.440 issued statements questioning federal tactics and warning against rushing to judgment.

00:15:52.800 The irony is that these same Republicans have spent years arguing that law enforcement

00:15:57.980 must be trusted to make split-second decisions,

00:16:01.360 yet they now appear eager to second-guess agents in the field

00:16:04.600 based on selective video clips and incomplete facts.

00:16:08.520 These spineless Republicans are, very predictably, buckling under pressure.

00:16:14.360 This is why the public demanded President Trump a man of action in the White House instead of one of these bozos.

00:16:21.460 Trump-administered officials have remained steadfast.

00:16:24.200 The Department of Homeland Security has noted that Priddy approached officers while armed

00:16:28.440 and resisted commands, forcing agents to respond defensively.

00:16:33.180 Again, it's like that Japanese film Rashomon.

00:16:36.120 I have watched it repeatedly, and he very clearly draws his gun.

00:16:40.840 Anyone who's being objective can see it.

00:16:43.380 President Trump has stood firmly behind law enforcement,

00:16:46.140 placing blame squarely where it belongs on Minnesota's Democratic leadership

00:16:50.500 and planned communist obstruction.

00:16:53.500 Instead of backing that position,

00:16:55.580 some Republicans, many facing re-elections or political pressure back home,

00:17:00.020 have chosen to try to distance themselves.

00:17:01.880 Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, facing a Trump-backed challenger,

00:17:07.420 warned that ISIS credibility is at stake.

00:17:10.600 Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma went further,

00:17:13.780 questioning the very premise of federal enforcement in Minneapolis

00:17:16.720 and suggesting Trump is receiving, quote-unquote, bad advice.

00:17:21.520 This is a panicking type of behavior, as the president calls it, 0.99

00:17:25.500 and it's most craven and cowardly. 0.76

00:17:27.460 During a time when the left is unified in attacking border enforcement, 0.94

00:17:31.900 Republican calls for investigations only embolden critics,

00:17:36.220 undermine agents, and weaken President Trump's negotiating hand.

00:17:40.640 Republicans, independents, all Americans must stand for law and order

00:17:44.980 and be willing to see this thing through.

00:17:46.940 The fate of our nation is at stake for generations to come,

00:17:49.920 and we must succeed, no matter the cost.

00:17:53.000 I'm Roger Stone.

00:17:54.460 You're listening to The Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.

00:17:58.140 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial or leave us online,

00:18:01.360 because we'll be right back.

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00:18:15.160 And we're back in The Stone Zone.

00:18:17.800 I'm your host, Roger Stone.

00:18:19.740 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the Islamist Antifa sympathizer,

00:18:25.920 was one of 17 Democrat state attorney generals to argue

00:18:29.800 that there is no constitutional right to carry a firearm at political rallies or protests.

00:18:36.180 Now he finds his own position under intense scrutiny

00:18:39.200 following a fatal shooting at a crowded protest in Minneapolis

00:18:43.140 as Democrats all of a sudden find renewed support for the Second Amendment,

00:18:47.640 as long as they're communist thug foot soldiers occupying the streets who have the guns.

00:18:54.380 In a January 26, 2024, filing supporting California's gun control laws,

00:19:00.480 Ellison and other attorney generals backed sweeping sensitive place restrictions,

00:19:06.060 explicitly including political rallies and protests as locations

00:19:09.780 where the right to bear arms could be limited in the name of public safety.

00:19:13.600 They wrote that without such bans, states would be unable to effectively prevent gun violence

00:19:19.640 in crowded places, that even the perceived risk of firearms could keep people away from public events.

00:19:26.980 Now fast forward to this weekend in Minneapolis, where a federal officer was shot and killed.

00:19:34.340 He was an armed man violently resisting during an anti-ice protest

00:19:38.820 in an event occurring in a crowded public space.

00:19:42.700 Although he did have a concealed carry permit,

00:19:46.500 in Minnesota you very specifically have to have ID on you while carrying.

00:19:52.720 He didn't.

00:19:53.900 That is in itself suspicious.

00:19:56.520 Federal authorities have described the shots in that case as defensive

00:19:59.980 and the circumstances have ignited debate once again

00:20:03.980 over Second Amendment rights and demonstrations.

00:20:06.640 But what stands out to me is the contradiction from Democrats.

00:20:12.160 Attorney General Ellison helped argue that politically charged political gatherings

00:20:16.060 should be disarmed zones, yet now he and others are forced to defend a position

00:20:21.360 that they vehemently opposed for years.

00:20:24.660 How about we protect the Second Amendment rights of everyone,

00:20:28.000 but understand when you are violently resisting law enforcement

00:20:31.180 and most probably, as I saw in the video, reaching for your firearm,

00:20:35.920 there's a good chance you might get shot.

00:20:38.840 That seems like a pretty logical position to take, considering the circumstances.

00:20:43.460 Meanwhile, in a huge international scandal,

00:20:47.020 China's senior military leadership is under new scrutiny as reports emerge

00:20:52.040 that the Chinese Communist Party is investigating one of its top generals

00:20:56.800 for allegedly leaking sensitive nuclear weapons information to the United States.

00:21:02.340 Chinese defense minister confirmed Saturday that Zhang Yuzha, 75,

00:21:09.920 vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission of China

00:21:13.780 and one of the highest-ranking officers in the People's Liberation Army,

00:21:18.860 is under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law.

00:21:24.300 While Beijing offered no specifics,

00:21:27.040 sources who attended a classified briefing told the Wall Street Journal

00:21:31.000 that Zhang is accused of sharing technical details about Chinese nuclear weapons programs

00:21:37.820 with federal officials in Washington, D.C.

00:21:41.280 According to those sources,

00:21:42.960 Zhang is also suspected of attempting to build his own power base

00:21:46.300 inside China's Communist Party's military leadership,

00:21:50.040 a move seen as threatening unity and loyalty to the supreme Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.

00:21:58.420 Evidence reportedly included testimony from Gu Zhang,

00:22:03.740 a former executive at China's National Nuclear Corporation,

00:22:08.200 who himself is now also under investigation.

00:22:11.040 The Chinese embassy in Washington framed this entire probe

00:22:14.820 as part of the party's zero-talents anti-corruption campaign,

00:22:19.720 a familiar line used by the authoritarian communists

00:22:23.700 to justify sweeping purges in the past.

00:22:27.180 Since taking power in 2012,

00:22:29.560 Xi has punished more than 200,000 public officials,

00:22:33.980 often under the banner of reform,

00:22:36.340 while consolidating personal control over the military.

00:22:40.480 Zhang is not alone.

00:22:41.900 Another top military leader, General Li Zhuili,

00:22:46.740 is also under investigation,

00:22:48.380 and two former defense ministers were expelled last year.

00:22:51.740 The Communist Party removed Zhang's fellow vice chairman,

00:22:55.680 He Weidong, in October.

00:22:58.220 The developments underscore deep instability

00:23:00.640 within China's military command

00:23:02.880 as the Trump administration goes on the offense against Beijing,

00:23:07.380 rather than kowtowing to them like the Biden administration once did.

00:23:11.900 A new-released National Defense Strategy memo

00:23:14.520 identifies China as the primary strategic challenge

00:23:19.280 to the United States,

00:23:20.520 emphasizing deterrence over appeasement.

00:23:23.320 The Chinese regime is so opaque,

00:23:25.700 ruthless, and set for world domination,

00:23:28.340 but they are internally fragile

00:23:30.180 and hampered by their adherence to communist principles.

00:23:33.680 The United States must use that against them

00:23:35.520 and continue to exploit any fractures we find

00:23:38.080 within their Politburo.

00:23:39.900 The Chinese have discovered 0.96

00:23:41.600 what other communist countries have learned.

00:23:44.280 Communism does not work.

00:23:46.440 They can call it communism as long as they want,

00:23:48.960 but the Chinese are engaged in limited forms of capitalism

00:23:53.640 to sustain their economy.

00:23:56.100 There has long been instability

00:23:57.920 between the political leadership

00:23:59.500 and the military leadership,

00:24:00.860 and there are serious questions

00:24:02.740 about the military leadership's readiness

00:24:05.200 for any kind of international engagement,

00:24:08.940 never mind an attack on the United States.

00:24:11.660 We'll be following the events in communist China very closely.

00:24:15.760 Meanwhile, a viral AI-generated character

00:24:18.980 known as Amelia,

00:24:21.000 a purple-haired British schoolgirl

00:24:23.040 waving a Union Jack,

00:24:24.400 has become an unlikely symbol of public resistance

00:24:27.980 to the United Kingdom's increasingly draconian controls

00:24:32.220 on free speech,

00:24:33.900 and the broader Orwellian trend

00:24:36.700 spreading across Europe.

00:24:39.360 Amelia,

00:24:40.500 created and endlessly remixed

00:24:42.620 using mainstream AI tools,

00:24:45.540 appears in multiple viral videos

00:24:47.680 walking through London

00:24:48.760 and Parliament

00:24:49.760 warning about mass migration,

00:24:52.680 cultural erosion,

00:24:53.760 and militant Islam.

00:24:56.240 Predictably,

00:24:57.080 establishment media

00:24:58.040 and government-aligned

00:24:59.160 disinformation monitors

00:25:00.880 have rushed to label

00:25:02.700 these videos

00:25:04.000 as dangerous extremism,

00:25:06.200 as opposed to simply being free speech.

00:25:08.520 But the explosion

00:25:09.760 of Amelia posting

00:25:11.220 tells a deeper story.

00:25:12.420 You see,

00:25:13.340 ordinary people

00:25:14.160 are pushing back

00:25:14.940 against a system

00:25:15.800 that increasingly treats

00:25:17.760 dissent in the UK

00:25:19.180 as a crime.

00:25:21.120 Ironically,

00:25:22.000 the character originated

00:25:23.200 in a UK

00:25:24.420 home office-funded

00:25:25.720 counter-extremism game

00:25:27.760 tied to the notorious

00:25:29.600 PREVENT program,

00:25:31.400 which has issued

00:25:32.080 criminal referrals

00:25:32.920 to thousands of citizens,

00:25:34.520 including children,

00:25:35.820 for expressing

00:25:36.500 politically incorrect views

00:25:38.060 on social media.

00:25:39.660 What was meant

00:25:40.520 as behavioral control tools

00:25:43.280 have now backfired

00:25:44.640 spectacularly.

00:25:46.140 The internet

00:25:46.820 reclaimed Amelia

00:25:48.220 as a symbol,

00:25:49.620 transforming her

00:25:50.480 into a decentralized

00:25:51.480 protest meme

00:25:52.680 against state censorship

00:25:54.460 and ideological repression.

00:25:57.660 This is precisely

00:25:58.760 why elites are panicking

00:26:00.400 at this point.

00:26:01.880 Analysts complain

00:26:02.760 of monetized hate,

00:26:04.600 while government-linked

00:26:05.660 organizations report

00:26:06.700 being astonished

00:26:07.740 by the speed and scale

00:26:09.680 of this backlash.

00:26:11.240 This means that

00:26:12.000 the narrative control

00:26:13.080 has failed.

00:26:14.320 The meme escaped

00:26:15.120 from its algorithm cage,

00:26:17.200 and digital censors

00:26:18.400 are powerless now

00:26:19.420 to stop it.

00:26:20.120 Across the UK

00:26:21.880 and across Europe,

00:26:24.140 citizens increasingly

00:26:25.180 face arrests,

00:26:26.360 investigations,

00:26:27.200 and surveillance

00:26:27.900 for speech

00:26:29.180 that was once considered

00:26:30.540 normal political debate,

00:26:32.600 free speech.

00:26:33.840 Amelia has risen

00:26:34.820 as a digital middle finger

00:26:36.740 to bureaucrats,

00:26:38.300 NGOs,

00:26:39.160 and to the police

00:26:40.240 state services

00:26:41.020 who believe

00:26:41.600 they are the thought police.

00:26:43.080 This is how free people

00:26:44.720 will have to use AI

00:26:45.880 to keep our freedoms

00:26:46.840 against a ruling class

00:26:48.300 that wants to put the boot 0.97

00:26:49.940 to our necks

00:26:50.820 in perpetuity.

00:26:52.620 Meanwhile,

00:26:53.240 Senator Ted Cruz

00:26:54.220 is facing

00:26:54.780 a huge backlash

00:26:56.620 after leaked recordings

00:26:58.460 revealed him sharply

00:26:59.540 attacking President Trump's

00:27:00.940 tariff policy

00:27:02.020 and ridiculing

00:27:03.060 Vice President

00:27:04.080 J.D. Vance

00:27:05.260 all behind closed doors.

00:27:07.640 Yet again,

00:27:08.460 showing the duplicitous

00:27:09.820 nature of the man

00:27:10.880 once dubbed

00:27:11.620 Lion Ted.

00:27:13.280 Lion Ted.

00:27:14.760 According to the recordings

00:27:15.960 released by Axios,

00:27:17.440 Cruz warned donors

00:27:18.660 that President Trump's

00:27:19.980 tariff policies

00:27:20.980 could decimate

00:27:22.140 the economy

00:27:22.920 and even lead

00:27:24.380 to impeachment,

00:27:25.140 claiming that Trump

00:27:25.900 lashed out angrily

00:27:27.180 when confronted

00:27:28.280 by Senate Republicans

00:27:29.440 in one account.

00:27:30.700 Cruz said the president

00:27:31.660 responded bluntly,

00:27:33.300 F you, Ted.

00:27:35.020 Well, well stated,

00:27:36.180 Mr. President.

00:27:37.360 The remarks made

00:27:38.240 in a donor meeting

00:27:39.220 show Cruz is indeed

00:27:40.560 positioning himself

00:27:41.520 as a free trade

00:27:43.160 pro-intervention

00:27:44.760 Republican ahead

00:27:45.800 of the possible

00:27:46.620 2028 presidential run

00:27:48.740 that I believe

00:27:49.400 he has planned.

00:27:50.680 He's now beginning

00:27:52.140 to openly distance himself

00:27:53.780 from President Trump's

00:27:55.280 populist America

00:27:56.600 first economic agenda

00:27:58.040 and from Vice President

00:27:59.620 J.D. Vance,

00:28:02.040 who Cruz mocked

00:28:02.980 as a creation

00:28:03.760 of media personality

00:28:04.980 Tucker Carlson.

00:28:07.060 Cruz also derided

00:28:08.100 Trump's Liberation Day

00:28:09.900 branding for tariffs

00:28:11.460 and complained

00:28:12.660 about resistance

00:28:13.480 inside the administration

00:28:14.760 to trade deals

00:28:15.760 with India,

00:28:16.920 naming White House

00:28:17.720 advisor Peter Navarro,

00:28:19.800 Vance,

00:28:20.380 and at times

00:28:21.200 President Trump himself.

00:28:23.380 Cruz accused

00:28:24.180 Vance and Carlson

00:28:25.320 of undermining

00:28:26.120 hawkish national

00:28:27.540 security officials

00:28:28.480 and steering foreign

00:28:30.060 policy away

00:28:30.760 from confrontation

00:28:31.500 with Iran,

00:28:32.780 claims disputed

00:28:33.780 in this case

00:28:34.300 by both camps.

00:28:35.320 Publicly,

00:28:36.760 Senator Cruz's office

00:28:37.900 insists he remains

00:28:38.900 Trump's strongest ally

00:28:40.540 in the Senate,

00:28:42.100 hogwash that is believed

00:28:43.380 by virtually nobody

00:28:44.420 in Washington.

00:28:45.640 It's abundantly clear

00:28:46.840 that Ted Cruz

00:28:48.060 is what he has always been,

00:28:49.760 a Bush Republican, 0.99

00:28:51.480 a neocon war pig, 0.98

00:28:53.820 perhaps orchestrating 0.95

00:28:54.860 the release of this audio

00:28:56.040 deliberately

00:28:56.700 to show the Bush-era goons 0.78

00:28:59.020 that he is their man.

00:29:00.660 The public drubbing

00:29:01.820 of Cruz

00:29:02.420 by Tucker Carlson

00:29:03.520 on his podcast

00:29:04.420 last year

00:29:05.400 should be listened to

00:29:06.580 again by anybody

00:29:07.980 with an open mind.

00:29:09.480 He exposes Cruz

00:29:10.560 as the fraud

00:29:11.600 and lowlife

00:29:12.460 I believe he is.

00:29:14.020 He will be the worst enemy

00:29:15.080 of MAGA in 2028

00:29:16.600 and others

00:29:17.840 going forward.

00:29:19.280 That's my prediction.

00:29:20.900 President Trump

00:29:21.900 in the meantime

00:29:22.520 describes some

00:29:23.280 interesting details

00:29:24.240 from his U.S. operation

00:29:25.660 resulting in the

00:29:26.720 arrest and capture

00:29:29.160 of Venezuelan strongman

00:29:30.740 Nicolas Maduro,

00:29:32.240 saying American forces

00:29:33.460 used what he calls

00:29:34.460 a discombobulator

00:29:36.240 to disable enemy systems.

00:29:38.920 Speaking to the New York Post,

00:29:40.520 President Trump said

00:29:41.340 the weapon rendered

00:29:42.240 opposing equipment

00:29:43.340 inoperable,

00:29:44.860 adding that details

00:29:45.960 remain classified.

00:29:47.840 President Trump

00:29:48.440 may have been using

00:29:49.260 shorthand

00:29:49.800 to describe a combination

00:29:50.940 of advanced

00:29:52.060 U.S. capabilities

00:29:53.560 already known to exist,

00:29:55.640 including cyber warfare tools,

00:29:58.320 acoustic system

00:29:59.160 designed to disorient

00:30:00.400 hostile forces,

00:30:02.280 and possibly directed

00:30:03.720 energy technologies

00:30:04.960 such as the military's

00:30:06.840 active denial system.

00:30:09.180 These systems are designed

00:30:10.460 to incapacitate

00:30:11.460 without mass casualties,

00:30:13.520 precisely the kind

00:30:14.460 of overwhelming

00:30:15.240 but measured force

00:30:16.900 President Trump

00:30:17.980 has long argued for.

00:30:19.540 The operation

00:30:20.420 has been widely reported

00:30:21.740 to involve

00:30:22.300 extensive suppression

00:30:23.440 of Venezuelan radar,

00:30:25.660 communications,

00:30:26.600 and air defenses,

00:30:27.420 clearing the way

00:30:28.380 for U.S. helicopters

00:30:29.980 and special forces

00:30:31.900 on the ground.

00:30:34.280 More than 150 aircraft

00:30:35.740 reportedly launched

00:30:36.780 from multiple bases,

00:30:38.480 demonstrating

00:30:39.020 unmatched American reach

00:30:41.100 and coordination

00:30:42.500 under the Secretary of War,

00:30:44.640 Pete Hegseth.

00:30:46.160 While fake news media

00:30:47.320 try to make hay

00:30:48.440 about whether

00:30:49.020 a single weapon

00:30:50.040 called a discombobulator

00:30:52.140 actually exists,

00:30:53.600 they ignore the larger

00:30:54.760 and much more important point

00:30:56.060 that the United States

00:30:57.020 executed a complex,

00:30:59.060 high-risk mission

00:31:00.100 with both speed

00:31:01.360 and precision,

00:31:02.780 targeting a corrupt dictator

00:31:04.240 who has long

00:31:04.860 destabilized the region

00:31:06.300 by importing

00:31:07.540 hundreds of millions

00:31:08.820 of dollars worth

00:31:09.640 of illegal drugs

00:31:10.700 into the United States.

00:31:12.860 The message

00:31:13.380 that has been sent

00:31:14.180 is that America power

00:31:15.720 is unmistakably

00:31:16.700 back on the world stage

00:31:18.020 and President Trump

00:31:19.280 knows exactly

00:31:20.140 how to wield it.

00:31:22.060 Once again,

00:31:22.840 we saw in Venezuela

00:31:24.240 the same measured

00:31:26.240 projection of American power

00:31:28.240 that we saw in Iran.

00:31:30.100 Sure, the neocons

00:31:31.140 were urging the president

00:31:32.460 to put boots on the ground

00:31:33.800 to have a sustained presence

00:31:36.580 in Iran.

00:31:37.580 Instead, the president

00:31:38.540 decided on a lightning strike

00:31:41.800 by our superior military,

00:31:44.420 disabling their

00:31:45.320 nuclear weapons

00:31:46.500 development program

00:31:47.660 but not losing

00:31:49.180 a single American lives

00:31:50.900 and leaving no Americans

00:31:52.620 behind.

00:31:54.380 This is very evocative

00:31:56.040 of what happened

00:31:56.800 in Venezuela.

00:31:58.220 Was there regime change

00:31:59.320 as we saw

00:31:59.820 under the bushes?

00:32:00.900 No.

00:32:01.500 There was the precision arrest

00:32:02.920 of the drug importer

00:32:04.740 in chief,

00:32:05.460 the chief drug 0.75

00:32:06.880 narco-trafficker, 0.96

00:32:08.620 Nicolas Maduro.

00:32:10.460 And behind,

00:32:11.520 we don't have

00:32:11.980 a changed regime.

00:32:13.120 We still have

00:32:13.760 the same Marxist regime.

00:32:15.400 Believe me,

00:32:16.080 they're scared to death.

00:32:17.740 Plus, I guarantee you

00:32:18.840 there are nervous people

00:32:19.840 in Cuba today

00:32:20.860 as well as Honduras.

00:32:22.980 President Trump

00:32:23.580 and Marco Rubio,

00:32:24.740 the Secretary of State,

00:32:25.520 have made it clear

00:32:26.200 that they will enforce

00:32:28.480 the Don Roe Doctrine,

00:32:30.680 previously known

00:32:31.300 as the Monroe Doctrine,

00:32:32.720 which gives America 0.90

00:32:33.840 the right to protect

00:32:35.060 ourselves

00:32:35.600 in our own hemisphere.

00:32:37.620 And that brutal

00:32:39.040 Marxist

00:32:39.980 narco-terrorism regimes

00:32:41.840 will not be tolerated.

00:32:43.920 I'm Roger Stone,

00:32:45.060 listening to the Stone Zone

00:32:46.180 right here on the

00:32:47.040 Red Apple Audio Networks.

00:32:49.120 Whatever you do,

00:32:50.040 stay with us

00:32:50.580 for a bit more politics

00:32:51.660 because we'll be right back

00:32:52.840 on the other side.

00:32:57.320 The Stone Zone.

00:32:59.340 Entertaining and informative

00:33:01.140 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:33:04.520 Welcome back

00:33:05.320 into the Stone Zone.

00:33:06.980 New investigative reports

00:33:08.100 reveal what may be

00:33:09.240 one of the most horrific

00:33:10.700 mass killings

00:33:11.640 of civilians

00:33:12.180 in modern history.

00:33:13.940 And the Islamist terrorist regime 0.89

00:33:15.660 in Iran 0.98

00:33:16.120 is responsible.

00:33:16.940 According to multiple

00:33:19.060 investigations published

00:33:20.120 this week,

00:33:21.080 Iran's Supreme Leader,

00:33:22.580 Ayatollah Ali Khomeini,

00:33:24.440 ordered security forces

00:33:25.500 to crush nationwide protests

00:33:27.740 by any means necessary,

00:33:30.460 unleashing a two-day slaughter

00:33:32.080 that may have killed

00:33:32.840 as many as 36,500 Iranians.

00:33:36.800 The protests,

00:33:37.780 sparked by economic collapse

00:33:39.240 and repression,

00:33:40.420 were met with extremely

00:33:41.440 barbaric violence

00:33:42.580 from the fledging

00:33:43.740 government witnesses

00:33:44.680 and medical professionals

00:33:46.460 described scenes

00:33:47.280 of unspeakable brutality.

00:33:49.200 Wounded protesters

00:33:50.020 reportedly dragged

00:33:50.880 from hospitals,

00:33:51.960 stuffed alive

00:33:52.560 into body bags 0.97

00:33:53.360 and executed in morgues. 0.80

00:33:55.420 Doctors and nurses

00:33:56.220 say patients

00:33:56.960 were shot mid-treatment,

00:33:58.700 some still attached

00:33:59.520 to IV lines,

00:34:00.980 oxygen tubes

00:34:01.820 and heart monitors.

00:34:03.040 One nurse 0.89

00:34:03.540 was warned

00:34:04.080 of systematic executions

00:34:05.260 reportedly killed

00:34:06.020 shortly after sending

00:34:07.540 her message.

00:34:08.720 Classified intelligence

00:34:09.840 reviewed by international

00:34:11.280 outlets indicates

00:34:12.160 that Iran's 0.94

00:34:12.960 Revolutionary Guard

00:34:14.380 and Bazi forces 0.92

00:34:16.720 were deployed

00:34:17.480 across more than

00:34:18.340 400 cities,

00:34:20.320 firing live ammunition

00:34:21.760 into crowds

00:34:22.520 after Khomeini authorized

00:34:23.980 what one commander's

00:34:25.300 called victory

00:34:26.380 through terror.

00:34:27.940 Communications

00:34:28.440 were cut nationwide

00:34:30.660 to hide the scale

00:34:31.840 of the massacre.

00:34:33.260 Internal regime tallies

00:34:34.500 reportedly climbed

00:34:35.340 from 12,000 deaths

00:34:37.080 last week

00:34:37.680 to more than 36,000

00:34:39.580 within weeks,

00:34:40.320 numbers rivaling

00:34:41.760 the deadliest atrocities

00:34:43.180 of the 20th century.

00:34:44.900 Yet Tehran continues 0.98

00:34:46.080 to lie,

00:34:47.160 publicly admitting

00:34:47.960 to just over 3,000 deaths

00:34:49.660 while continually blaming

00:34:51.280 foreign enemies.

00:34:52.880 The Iranian regime 0.51

00:34:53.740 claims these people

00:34:54.700 were killed

00:34:55.180 by provocateurs

00:34:57.340 from Israel.

00:34:58.620 That's nonsense.

00:34:59.800 This is not law enforcement.

00:35:01.120 This is mass murder

00:35:02.200 by a tyrannical regime

00:35:03.660 that fears

00:35:04.560 its own people.

00:35:05.960 President Trump

00:35:06.540 is right to call 0.86

00:35:07.220 for new leadership

00:35:07.920 in Iran.

00:35:08.480 The free world

00:35:09.460 must stop appeasing

00:35:10.460 this regime,

00:35:11.700 expose its crimes

00:35:12.800 and stand unequivocally

00:35:14.100 for the Iranian people

00:35:15.420 against Islamic terrority. 0.56

00:35:17.420 The time for the 0.84

00:35:18.120 Atai's reign of terror

00:35:19.440 is about to end

00:35:21.280 right about now.

00:35:22.900 That does not mean,

00:35:23.860 by the way,

00:35:24.340 that I favor

00:35:25.000 the return to a monarchy

00:35:26.900 to go from a theocracy

00:35:28.540 back to the monarchy

00:35:30.240 of the Shah.

00:35:31.220 I believe would be

00:35:32.200 a gigantic mistake.

00:35:34.460 Instead,

00:35:35.060 what we need to do

00:35:36.160 is the free,

00:35:37.740 fair,

00:35:38.240 open elections

00:35:39.240 in Iran

00:35:39.900 and a democratic system

00:35:42.020 built on

00:35:43.800 the precepts

00:35:44.880 of a solid constitution

00:35:46.660 and the basic freedoms

00:35:48.560 we enjoy here.

00:35:50.140 It is hard to remember

00:35:51.240 that even under the Shah,

00:35:52.700 Iran was a relatively 0.73

00:35:54.160 civilized

00:35:55.240 and cosmopolitan society

00:35:56.860 where women 0.97

00:35:57.880 were allowed

00:35:58.460 to be freely educated,

00:36:00.500 students were allowed

00:36:01.400 to study abroad.

00:36:02.720 Of course,

00:36:02.980 all of that disappeared

00:36:04.040 due to the effectless weakness

00:36:06.120 of the peanut farmer

00:36:07.280 from Georgia,

00:36:08.480 Jimmy Carter,

00:36:09.260 who undercut

00:36:10.220 the Shah 0.84

00:36:11.160 and their alliance

00:36:13.960 with the United States.

00:36:15.760 President Richard Nixon

00:36:16.700 at the time

00:36:17.440 said that this very day

00:36:18.900 would come

00:36:19.740 precisely because

00:36:20.860 of the weakness

00:36:21.480 of the Carter administration.

00:36:23.240 And now it appears

00:36:24.080 that in Iran,

00:36:25.320 the chickens

00:36:25.720 have come home

00:36:26.620 to roost.

00:36:27.920 Every American

00:36:28.580 should be praying

00:36:29.260 for freedom

00:36:30.200 and safety

00:36:31.140 for the Iranian people.

00:36:32.280 This level of brutality

00:36:34.160 is unlike we have seen

00:36:35.520 literally in centuries.

00:36:38.160 And it is very clear

00:36:39.580 that things are moving

00:36:40.500 very swiftly to a head.

00:36:42.960 I don't believe

00:36:43.480 the president

00:36:43.980 will send troops

00:36:44.980 to Iran,

00:36:45.920 nor do I think

00:36:46.720 he will necessarily strike,

00:36:48.340 but it's not clear

00:36:49.060 that he needs to.

00:36:50.400 This system is wobbling.

00:36:52.680 It is unstable.

00:36:54.440 And I salute the strength

00:36:56.220 and the courage

00:36:57.060 of the Iranian people

00:36:58.180 under this kind

00:36:59.100 of brutality,

00:37:00.120 under this kind

00:37:00.840 regime.

00:37:02.040 Raising a hand

00:37:03.780 in protest

00:37:04.360 against this government

00:37:05.440 is extraordinarily

00:37:06.600 dangerous.

00:37:07.920 It shows the American

00:37:08.760 people how much

00:37:10.020 the people of Iran

00:37:10.880 desperately want freedom.

00:37:13.300 I'm Roger Stone.

00:37:14.220 You've been listening

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00:37:59.760 so you never have to wonder.

00:38:01.800 What the heck

00:38:02.520 is going on here?

00:38:03.980 Every week,

00:38:04.860 the Payne family

00:38:05.680 cuts straight

00:38:06.360 to the real financial story.

00:38:08.320 The one question, Bob,

00:38:09.480 everyone's asking is,

00:38:11.280 are we in an

00:38:12.100 artificial intelligence bubble?

00:38:13.980 You've been through

00:38:14.700 boom and busts.

00:38:15.980 What do you think?

00:38:16.720 No hype,

00:38:17.700 no myths,

00:38:18.920 just what actually matters

00:38:20.260 to your money.

00:38:21.340 It does feel

00:38:22.040 very similar

00:38:22.900 to what we experienced

00:38:24.140 in the 90s.

00:38:24.820 Where are we, though?

00:38:25.480 Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

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