On this week's episode of the Inverted World Live show, host Shane Cashman is joined by The Daily Signal's own Bradley Devlin to discuss the latest in the latest on Iran and the situation in the Middle East, including reports of Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel, and reports of the U.S. mass-mobilizing jets and refueling tankers into the region, with many speculating the US is preparing to engage directly in this conflict.
00:02:12.000Videos have been circulating over the past week or so of people fleeing the city.
00:02:16.000We have video today of what appears to be one of their news channels being struck by Israeli airstrikes live on the air.
00:02:23.000We've also got reports of the U.S. mass-mobilizing jets and refueling tankers into the region, with many people speculating the U.S. is preparing to engage directly in this conflict.
00:02:35.000Donald Trump, as it has been announced, he'll be leaving the G7 early after a meeting with the world leaders, prepping the situation room, going back to D.C., and it seems like, ladies and gentlemen, we may be in war with Iran shortly.
00:02:51.000There's a lot of ways to speculate on this, and I've certainly got my opinions, but we're going to break through the news and show you what's currently going on based on what he said.
00:02:59.000So, of course, smash that like button, get ready for the show.
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00:05:00.000I am Shane Cashman, host of Inverted World Live.
00:05:02.000I will be running out of this studio around 9.40 to go live at 10 o 'clock p.m. to break down psyops coming out of Minnesota, as well as strange sounds coming from below Antarctica.
00:05:13.000And phone lines will be open until 12 a.m.
00:06:09.000I felt like considering the gravity of the news with Trump that we would just go straight for this big, potentially historical news.
00:06:15.000But there are a bunch of stories that I think are also important.
00:06:18.000You had organizers for the No Kings protest firing into a crowd, killing an innocent guy, and the police arrested one of the guys who got shot at, which is weird.
00:06:27.000You've got the Minnesota, as what Shane was just mentioning, this assassin and all the weird stuff around him.
00:06:33.000There's weird stuff going on, but we're going to get into this news first because this is massive.
00:06:37.000We have this story from the Post Millennial.
00:06:39.000Trump urges immediate evacuation of Tehran.
00:06:42.000Postmanial reports President Trump warned on Monday evening that everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran, Iran's capital city.
00:06:48.000This comes as Israel and Iran have traded strikes over the weekend.
00:06:52.000Trump said, Iran should have signed the deal I told them to sign.
00:08:08.000I heard that as well, yeah, in Haifa, in the northern part of the country.
00:08:13.000And now we have this from Lawrence Jones.
00:08:15.000He says, I've been informed that President at POTUS will have dinner with the heads of state of the G7 nations and immediately depart for Washington.
00:08:22.000He has requested the National Security Council be prepared in the Situation Room.
00:08:26.000So it would seem, ladies and gentlemen, that a war is coming.
00:10:09.000But this is the pattern of American war.
00:10:12.000We have a destabilized nation, which, you know, we are just now still coming out of the lockdowns, which mutilated this country and the rest of the world.
00:10:21.000And just like after the Great Depression, we went to war.
00:10:44.000I think they're feeding us these things to be like, it's going to be another false flag.
00:10:48.000I think there's another false flag coming.
00:10:49.000So what is the implication of a vessel that is one year from decommissioned heading into Even though that second one, Gulf of Tonkin, wasn't actually hit.
00:12:10.000Like, they've been planning to do this very thing.
00:12:13.000You have Netanyahu all weekend saying, you know, first he was coming out and saying that Iran tried to assassinate Trump, which was very clearly a, so come join us in this war thing.
00:12:23.000Today he was talking about how Iran hates America, which, like, as we mentioned pre-show, we know, right?
00:13:00.000We were talking about Israel's need for U.S. bunker busters in order to get to the Fordow deep underground nuclear facility that they want to attack.
00:13:56.000I think the greatest concern with Iran getting a nuke is not that Iran's going to strike anybody, which is the stupidest.
00:14:01.000I got to be honest, when Israel's coming out and even people in the U.S. and they're like, Iran's going to get a nuke and they're going to get you.
00:14:08.000Like, bro, they're not going to be able to build a missile rocket that's going to reach the United States.
00:14:13.000But it is going to get into the hands of some wackaloon crazy-ass people.
00:14:19.000If that were to happen, Persia gets turned into glass.
00:14:24.000I believe that the nuclear program in Tehran was for ultimately the purpose or at least the facade of...
00:14:37.000of attaining a nuclear weapon but ultimately the nuclear program is their best piece of leverage I learned from what happened to Saddam they will learn from what happened to Gaddafi errors wars of choice that the United States undertook and their whole strategy I think here is to move slowly but surely towards that nuclear bomb in order to create right leverage because if they do attain the nuclear bomb then you have
00:15:04.000A North Korea the size of Western Europe in the middle of Eurasia.
00:15:10.000You're going to make yourself a pariah.
00:15:12.000You're not going to be negotiating with the Chinese and the Russians to the same degree or be a participant in global affairs to the same degree as they are now.
00:15:20.000And so I don't think the justification of a denuclearized Iran is enough.
00:15:29.000I think it would be wise for policymakers in the United States right now to think about how they're actually going to talk to the public about this war.
00:15:37.000Because everyone's posting on Twitter.
00:15:40.000Actually, if you look at polls, people are really supportive of striking Iran if it means preventing a nuclear weapon.
00:16:19.000Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya combined, plus another Afghanistan on top of that.
00:16:26.000As I said, it's as big as Western Europe.
00:16:29.000So, are we okay with the Mullahs and the Ayatollah retaining control of Iran if we go in there with B-2 bombers and blow up Fordow and decapitate their nuclear program?
00:16:45.000If we're not, who's going to take the Ayatollah's place?
00:16:49.000Because I was promised from the neocons for years that if this happens, within 48 hours, people were going to be in the streets demonstrating and demanding the Ayatollah's head.
00:17:02.000The only demonstrations that we saw in Iran over the weekend were people demanding retribution against the Israelis for carrying out these strikes and the United States, too.
00:19:19.000They're like, we like what Trump is doing now.
00:19:22.000I wonder how long a show like this can last when we are anti-intervention.
00:19:27.000Back in the day, in like the Bush era, the only voices you heard were pro-Iraq war, pro-Afghanistan war, because the media was controlled.
00:19:35.000If you wanted to appear as a personality, you either were the select, low-charisma anti-war activist, so you can feign the opposition or make them look stupid, or you were basically just – you agree with the war to varying degrees.
00:19:52.000Now you've got a show like this, which is decently large, and we're all relatively – now we shouldn't be involved in this.
00:20:04.000He called for Tulsi Gabbard to be national security advisor back in the first Trump administration.
00:20:11.000And, you know, he founded the magazine that I used to work for and am a contributing editor at now, and he was called an unpatriotic conservative.
00:20:20.000There was pieces in the Weekly Standard and in the public interest and in National Review attacking these people for not getting on board with taking out Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
00:20:31.000And these people, when they're riled up in these warlike passions—I mean, we've seen the bloodlust on social media.
00:21:21.000Donald Trump takes a dig at Tucker Carlson after former Fox News host criticizes POTUS's Iran policy and his old employer for war propaganda.
00:21:30.000The split is here, and Tucker is just—he's a substantial—he's one of the most prominent voices.
00:21:34.000Now, when Trump was asked about it, he said, I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying.
00:21:40.000Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen.
00:21:48.000If Trump—I can't imagine— Trump is unaware of the changing media landscape.
00:21:54.000And to imply that Tucker Carlson, because he's not on Fox News getting 500,000 key demo viewers, his voice is not relevant anymore, is maybe just Trump trying to dig at Tucker and say, ha ha, you lost your job?
00:22:08.000But in terms of a dig at Tucker, telling him to be on TV when TV's dead?
00:23:52.000And I love coming on this show, and I can say that that's certainly true.
00:23:55.000But the other thing that no one wants to talk about, the reason why the alternative media podcast strategy had to be the play, is because of the failures of the right-wing media.
00:24:05.000Failures of the right wing media It's not structured To be something that actually We do journalism and man on the street.
00:24:16.000All we got out of 10 years, 15 years of digital journalism on the right was maybe a few smackdowns with respect to the Obama IRS scandal.
00:24:25.000We got a filibuster from Ted Cruz about Obamacare.
00:25:29.000I don't know what happens because now we're at a point where, man, I don't want the U.S. to be involved in a war in Iran because a war in Iran is not Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:25:39.000Like you mentioned earlier, it's massive.
00:25:41.000We're talking about the U.S. dumping hundreds of billions into Ukraine.
00:25:46.000And for the U.S. to be involved in Iran, it's going to be hundreds of billions more and hundreds of billions more than we've already given to Ukraine.
00:25:55.000This is going to rock the U.S. economy in devastating ways.
00:25:59.000The inflation is going to be ridiculous.
00:26:03.000A lot of companies are going to make a lot of money.
00:28:41.000She just posted, U.S. is not joining Israel offensively in its military operation per U.S. officials, despite reports that President Trump asked the NSC and Situation Room to be readied.
00:28:50.000I'm told NSC cabinet members are already on standby 24 hours a day, including since Israel's Operation Rising Line began.
00:29:32.000I mean, and the other thing I'll mention, too, is you look at the assassination attempt on Trump.
00:29:38.000And then Dan Bongino and Cash Patel get in, they say there's no there there.
00:29:45.000Like, double lightning strike, double lottery winning all at the same time for that story to happen.
00:29:51.000My point is that even if the US does engage in some kind of false flag to muster up public support, you'll never get the answers even in the digital age.
00:30:40.000That's why I said I wonder how long a show like this can exist.
00:30:43.000If the machine state says we're going to war, if Trump is even on board and says we're going to war, and then we're sitting here being like, nah.
00:30:54.000It feels like he's struggle sessioning America into the war.
00:30:57.000And then all those people, there's probably other influencers there, maybe like TPSA types or PragerU types, who are using the safe and effective argument for war now.
00:31:10.000The pattern of war has been going on my whole life.
00:31:12.000Since my great-grandparents were in this country, this country's been at war.
00:31:16.000Haven't even declared it officially since World War II.
00:31:19.000So I just oppose this, and I really hope Trump is in charge enough and not having all these horrible people in his ear dragging us into this horrible world.
00:32:38.000Do you want to have a meeting like that?
00:32:39.000Look at US adults, Republican, lean Republican, ages Negative views of Israel have risen in the U.S. from 2022 among all U.S. adults from 42 to 53 percent.
00:32:48.000Okay, now look at ages 18 to 49. 62 to 71. Yeah, but, you know, they're just— Above that.
00:34:26.000I mean, I think the thing is that Israel is a very strong country and they can pretty much take care of themselves.
00:34:31.000And it's up to Trump if he wants to, you know, give them the bunker busters, which I don't I don't know enough about what they're facing to know if that's really what I know they believe that that's necessary.
00:34:53.000Trump is 79, not 80. He just turned 79. We do have this story from the Daily Mail.
00:34:57.000Pakistan tells Iran they will nuke Israel if Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran.
00:35:03.000Regime officer claims a huge World War III apocalypse threat.
00:35:07.000General Mohsen Reze, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a member of Iran's National Security Council, said in an interview, They're downwind.
00:36:16.000While you do that, I just want to say one thing really quick about the importance of going after the media and what Netanyahu's doing, but what all people do.
00:36:22.000All governors of state do presidents and the CIA.
00:36:27.000They know they have to undermine the media to undermine the country.
00:36:32.000In 1953, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. was a CIA officer on the ground in Iran.
00:36:38.000Literally working to subvert all of the media to turn it against the Ayatollah, which is what we did to tackle, to shut down Iran with the coup, right?
00:36:49.000So he spent all that time, I think under a year, to subvert the nation with bad news, right?
00:36:53.000So it's like the same thing of trying to fear monger in the media here.
00:36:57.000And Netanyahu knows the podcast world, the influencer world is the one that's got more people listening.
00:37:03.000I'm not finding this post, they're claiming.
00:37:08.000While we're on that, though, we talked a little bit about the left sway back.
00:37:11.000And we talk a lot about the three-legged stool of the right from the Reagan days, the economic libertarians, the, you know, let's call them the hawks, the national security hawks and anti-communists, and then the...
00:37:33.000The seat of the stool was anti-communism.
00:37:36.000You think of the three-legged stool on the left, for the longest time it had been kind of the technocratic institutionalist left, the civil rights left, and the economic left, the workers'unions, etc.
00:37:51.000Now you have this coming back where you can have an anti-war contingent.
00:37:55.000Senator Tim Kaine today has already introduced legislation or resolution that would condemn any sort of military action against Iran.
00:38:01.000You have a civil rights coalition, which with the DEI mindset, and this is probably the nuttiest leg of the stool, but this is the same thing that drives...
00:38:18.000You bring those people back into the fold.
00:38:20.000And then the institutionalist contingent, we saw they were a total flop, but the No More Kings demonstrations over the weekend, those are the institutionalists here.
00:38:31.000And you're bringing these people back together, breaking apart your own coalition at the same time.
00:38:35.000If you are one of those figureheads on cable news right now, advocating for a war with Iran, Because of the nuclear weapon, but not telling people what is inevitably going to follow if we're not super duper careful.
00:38:47.000So I'm looking up this claim of an ex post.
00:39:10.000The only thing I see going back several days is just pictures of bombs, them saying Israel's going to be wiped off the map, and dead kids from Gaza.
00:39:21.000Also, to just remain suspicious of every news that might confirm any bias you have about anything domestic and foreign.
00:39:27.000I have been seeing so many big accounts share bogus stuff all weekend, especially like the people celebrating allegedly in Iran in the tunnel.
00:39:48.000But they're from like two years ago, three years ago.
00:39:51.000You know, we keep seeing stuff like that.
00:39:52.000So just be very careful of the things that are making you emotional, you know, when it I was just saying the other day how we were on IRL a year ago talking about the hospital that was bombed.
00:40:04.000We were like, maybe this is not even real news.
00:40:39.000But that fog of war during the Arab Spring was, you know, I think there was a quote from an Eisenhower administration official, might have been Ike himself, that said, like, you know, this is all laying a bank of fog, the fog of war, and allows political operators in that fog.
00:40:58.000To operate very, very, very shrouded, but yet right there in front of the public.
00:41:03.000And you're just like, we need boots on the ground.
00:41:07.000In Arab Spring, what happened with that bank of fog?
00:41:10.000All of a sudden, you have 2 million to 10 million, that's literally the range of the estimates, people coming in and fundamentally changing Western Europe.
00:41:20.000And Western Europe is a fundamentally different place because of the regime change wars that took place.
00:41:27.000And the uprisings that took place, supported by Western powers.
00:41:31.000Funny enough, Eisenhower was the one behind the 1950s.
00:41:33.000He was the president during the Iranian coup, who also gave us the great term, military-industrial complex.
00:41:40.000Because he saw it up in close and personal.
00:41:41.000He inherited the coup from Truman, and then he was like, yeah, let's do that.
00:41:45.000That's how they operate in the shadows, and all of a sudden, boom, your country gets hit with two million new migrants.
00:41:52.000taking over full neighborhoods and completely changing the way that your community operates, the culture of your community, the culture of your nation, the creed of your nation even sometimes.
00:42:43.000I heard this from a friend who works in development in various regions doing like investments and things like this, that it's all tribal leaders now and they negotiate by a group of tribal militia walked into one of the local magistrates, whatever they call themselves, put a grenade on the table and just said, this is how we do business.
00:44:03.000How about we send you, we'll do a documentary, we'll film you talking about what you believe in, why you believe in it, we'll go to the Rafa Crossing, and then we'll film a whole thing about what you're doing, what you want to do, and we'll see what happens.
00:44:38.000They're going to be like, they're going to say, you know, knew, and even talk about on your show how this is going to result in, you know, death or serious injury, and you send them there anyway.
00:45:11.000It's like, you're going to send someone into a place where they're going to get bludgeoned to death, where far-left extremists are going to chase them down to kill them?
00:45:16.000Yeah, your insurance is going to get expensive real quick.
00:45:37.000Ladies and gentlemen, we have a crazy cover-up going on, in my opinion, that involves every level of the liberal establishment and government.
00:45:46.000Now, maybe I'm just being a little silly, but this is a crazy story.
00:45:49.000An innocent bystander was fatally shot at a No Kings protest in Salt Lake City.
00:45:54.000I'm just going to say it right off the bat.
00:47:22.000Man died after being shot in chaotic scene at Salt Lake City's No Kings protest.
00:47:26.000They go on to say, in a Facebook post by Utah's 50501, the group that organized...
00:47:33.000It's working with police saying, quote, our team was directly involved.
00:47:37.000We have been in direct contact with law enforcement.
00:47:39.000Some of you seem to think a keyboard or social media gives you a free pass to be nasty and accusatory.
00:47:43.000Our teams just had to deal with something extremely traumatizing and when faced with personal risk to their own lives, chose to run toward the danger in order to serve the community.
00:48:04.000Two peacekeepers from presumably this group, they're saying they're involved, are holding pistols, pointing it at them, and they fire three shots.
00:48:12.000The dude ducks after getting shot at and runs.
00:48:16.000They had already shot and killed the guy when this guy started running.
00:48:20.000The narrative they're putting out is they saw a man manipulate his rifle, and then when they yelled him to stop, he ran into the crowd, so they opened fire.
00:48:29.000And someone got caught in the crossfire.
00:48:31.000But when you watch the video, you can clearly see that is not the case.
00:48:34.000Now, the police arrested the dude who got shot.
00:50:54.000Police accused Arturo Gamboa, 24, of brandishing a rifle at demonstrators and running away from two peacekeepers who ordered him to drop the weapon.
00:51:02.000Police said Gamboa and Alu were both struck by gunfire after one of the peacekeepers fired three rounds.
00:53:26.000They say two peacekeepers told investigators they saw Gamboa leave the crowd of demonstrators and move into a secluded area behind a wall, which they found suspicious.
00:53:34.000One of the peacekeepers told investigators that he saw Gamboa pull out an AR-15 style rifle from a backpack.
00:53:39.000The peacekeepers then drew their firearms and ordered Gamboa to drop the rifle.
00:53:44.000Witnesses reported to authorities that they saw Gamboa lift the rifle and run toward the crowd while holding the weapon in a firing position.
00:54:22.000So my first time covering an active shooter situation was at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally last July.
00:54:31.000One of the things that I was told by my boss and friends who had more experience with this before was make sure that when you're doing voice interviews, take people who are willing to put their name on it.
00:54:46.000Have detailed documentation of this because one of the things that me, myself, and a bunch of other people saw was not only...
00:55:12.000And so that, at least from my experience, gives a little bit more credence to the idea that this is something that is going towards yet another cover-up.
00:55:27.000And I don't want to distract us from what actually is going on in our country, but I will say, a glimmer of hope from our last subject, Sean Parnell, who's a patriot who was there at that Butler Pennsylvania rally, who I saw physically pulling people out of Butler who were struggling to walk and things like that because they were elderly or fatigued.
00:55:44.000He is now one of the DOD spokespeople.
00:55:48.000He said, American forces are maintaining their defensive posture and that has not changed.
00:55:51.000We will protect American troops and our interests.
00:55:55.000Hopefully they were watching and they saw how upset we got.
00:55:58.000Let's jump to the story from the New York Times.
00:59:47.000The one thing that I can kind of say about this though is like with this conflicting left-right narrative, I don't think that's as important.
00:59:54.000And of course, it's going to be way more important because we're talking about the assassination of political leaders at this point.
01:00:01.000But it just kind of speaks more to a portion of the population that is...
01:00:36.000The deep state are accelerationists that want to drop evidence on these people all the time that make either political side believe it's their enemy.
01:00:43.000So it's like the no kings evidence then becomes evidence for either political side to be like, he's the other.
01:02:22.000How would you describe the deep state plant?
01:02:26.000It's to destabilize the entire country, throw us into chaos, hate each other, create this illusion of the left-right binary, and they just feed off of all of us.
01:02:39.000If we have zero answers six months from now, I will be more inclined to believe your position because we still don't know anything about Vegas.
01:02:45.000The thing is, though, you're not going to get answers.
01:03:57.000And you look at these Antifa protests, you look at the things that these people do, and they are standing on the razor's edge, ready to be these assassins.
01:04:06.000I believe in real monsters that are totally disconnected from the establishment, and they're not puppets of some deep state.
01:04:53.000So, like, let's say the congressional baseball shooting when Steve Scalise gets shot.
01:04:58.000It almost seemed like, in my opinion, you probably know way more about this case than I do, but it was like, They wanted to shift the power in Congress intentionally.
01:05:08.000Yeah, who's-Thin majority and they said if we get rid of- And if we get rid of the Republicans, it'll be a Democrat majority.
01:05:13.000Right, but do you think that was – I don't know.
01:05:29.000I try not to jump to everything being connected to the deep state, but it does seem like a lot of that is, especially in the last five years.
01:07:43.000That tweet that I had read aloud from Sean Parnell.
01:07:47.000You know when Marco Rubio and Trump posted the same exact statement right after the first strike saying the U.S. had nothing to do with it?
01:07:54.000Alex Pfeiffer, who I'm not going to mess up his...
01:08:02.000Principal Deputy Communications Director, he has posted the same exact thing that Sean Parnell had posted.
01:08:12.000So this is literally copy and paste and several Trump administration people are posting this right now.
01:08:19.000I think the likely scenario, as I mentioned, is U.S. forces protecting the Strait of Hormuz get attacked or we have Iranians in the country right now.
01:08:30.000That crossed through Joe Biden's porous border, and they engage in some kind of attack, retaliation against the United States.
01:08:41.000That's going to get all of MAGA, not literally all of them, but a lot of MAGA people are going to be like, you see, we can't let them do this.
01:09:50.000We actually took weapons from Ukraine that we gave them and gave them to Israel.
01:09:54.000We give them way less money than we give them to Israel.
01:09:55.000No, we give money to weapons manufacturers in the United States.
01:09:58.000They make weapons, then they take those weapons and they give those weapons to the Israelis.
01:10:03.000So the United States government gives...
01:10:09.000Gives X billion dollars to a foreign country.
01:10:12.000The foreign country enters into a purchase agreement of U.S. weapons with the U.S. government.
01:10:17.000Then the taxpayer dollars that we had given to that country comes right back into the country but only goes to folks who live in McLean and Reston.
01:10:28.000I mean, yeah, that's how this thing kind of goes time and time and time again.
01:10:35.000And here we are talking about modernization and this pivot to Asia.
01:10:39.000And I mean, this totally throws a wrench in all of that, in all of the, I think, dreams that the Trump base has for his presidency.
01:10:51.000And still, I think a lot of them still think that...
01:10:55.000The number one way that he differentiated himself were to take on the globalist sacred cows in 2016.
01:11:02.000It was foreign policy, trade, and immigration.
01:11:04.000And all those things were so tied together after 20 years of failed U.S. hegemony and new conservative leadership.
01:11:14.000And that's what attacked him in the end.
01:13:15.000It's a totally separate understanding of reality.
01:13:19.000It used to be like with the boomers, when the boomers were middle-aged, when they were in their ascendancy, they had essentially, right and left, had the same vision of what prosperity is in the United States.
01:13:33.000They had the same vision of what success would look like.
01:13:37.000They just had different pathways of the right way to get there.
01:13:40.000And that's what they were always arguing about.
01:13:43.000Like when my stepmom, who's Democrat, and my dad, who was a Republican, would argue at the dinner table, it wasn't about what the goals should be.
01:13:54.000Totally different goals if they can even identify what they are in the first place.
01:13:58.000And you have the elders of Gen Z, like the millennials and Gen X, have a completely different worldview as well.
01:14:08.000It's hard to mesh a millennial worldview with a Gen X worldview.
01:14:12.000And if Gen X, they're supposed to be the leaders, they've been checked out since they got their first Atari.
01:14:19.000We'll notice that we're probably going to skip right over.
01:14:21.000Gen X. Well, you thought that with the silent generation and then we got Joe Biden.
01:17:25.000You talked about the boomers kind of...
01:17:30.000And I'll adopt that framing for this, but it's kind of weird to see all these people who supposedly agreed on the ends and disagreed on the means living in and absolutely hating the world that their leadership and their parenting created.
01:17:48.000That's because they have spent their entire lives, like since they, you know, since Woodstock or whatever, since they took their first hit of acid, they've been...
01:18:00.000And even with their parents dead, they're rebelling against their parents.
01:18:56.000I know we hang out and talk about this stuff a bit.
01:18:59.000But if you look, there's all these posts from Gen Xers and millennials being like, when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents.
01:19:08.000They would drop us off for a whole month with our grandparents, and we loved it.
01:21:13.000They will never admit it, but is it part of an awakening where they realize that they've squandered the inheritance that was given to them by the greatest generation?
01:21:24.000No, they don't realize that because they are entitled to it.
01:21:27.000They feel very entitled to it, and they plan to squander whatever left of it they have.
01:21:32.000So that they don't have to give it to their kids.
01:21:35.000And they project that entitlement onto everybody else.
01:21:37.000Yeah, and also don't forget the Millennials have really nice CVs because they all have these participation trophies so they can really pad it up.
01:21:45.000Wait, were they the ones that were actually getting the participation?
01:21:48.000They were the ones getting the participation trophies.
01:21:56.000And then Gen X is like ultra-competent, but they're ultra-competent in that way that people with traumatized childhoods are ultra-competent.
01:22:04.000It's like these are all just trauma responses.
01:22:08.000They're ultra-competent, but totally completely stay to themselves.
01:23:00.000I mean, he's got Vance, who my guess is...
01:23:09.000And we actually ran a story at human events over the weekend with some inside sources who were like, basically, hey, Mr. President, don't do this.
01:24:16.000It was Israel gets hit on October 7th.
01:24:20.000They pass about $10.5 billion, I believe, in aid to Israel.
01:24:24.000then 2024 rolls around and at the time mcconnell mitch mcconnell was advocating for attaching a 95 billion dollar supplemental uh foreign aid package for ukraine the indo-pacific and israel to keeping the government open he was rebuffed by his conference that ultimately ends in mitch mcconnell saying that He's going to step down as Senate leader.
01:24:50.000But one of the mistakes that Mike Johnson made, that Republican leaders made, was they decided to go forward with this supplemental spending package.
01:24:57.000And it was only $12 billion, $14 billion-ish for Israel.
01:25:05.000$12, $10 billion for our pivot to the Indo-Pacific, and another $60 billion was for Ukraine.
01:25:13.000And it was one of the things that folks that I knew on the Trump campaign were concerned that it was going to blow up the coalition in the run-up to the election.
01:25:26.000Because if these are the leaders that we have, if this is the Congress that we have— What's the point of all this?
01:25:44.000And so they were concerned that Trump was going to win the election and go in there without both chambers.
01:25:50.000They were concerned that that was going to cost them the trifecta.
01:25:53.000And frankly, in a certain way, it almost did.
01:25:59.000And we're going to have another supplemental spending package, another foreign aid package, coming down the pike with what's going on right now in Iran, for sure.
01:26:08.000Because Libya, you said this earlier, and I keep saying things that Libya has said.
01:26:17.000You could go back to middle school and they haunted me by calling me Libya.
01:26:20.000what Libby said earlier because she made a lot of good points which is Israel says that they can do this thing alone, but the retort to that is they actually really can't because just as Iran is facing restrictions or limitations in their own capabilities, the Israelis are going to face that too, and it's going to push Congress in the direction where they're going to have to act.
01:27:19.000Young players are transforming the popular gaming platform into a hub of political expression.
01:27:22.000The movement, coordinated through group chats, is rapidly gaining traction, especially in Brookhaven, Roblox's most popular server.
01:27:29.000At the same time, some players are role-playing as ICE agents, conducting raids on illegals, and even opening fire on anti-ICE protesters in the game.
01:27:38.000What this says to me, kids are going to grow up living in...
01:27:48.000Like in that Black Mirror episode where everybody lived in a box that was all TVs and they had an avatar version of themselves in the audience, but they never actually went anywhere.
01:28:17.000I can't believe the amount of people that I've seen who have kids and claim to be conservative, claim to be aware of what's going on, and then I see them hand a tablet to their kid and then turn around.
01:28:25.000And I'm like, yo, your kid is going to be, their brain will be jello.
01:28:29.000Outsourcing parenting to the digital landscape.
01:28:33.000And on top of all that, you also don't know who else is playing this.
01:28:36.000Like, you know, when I did that story with the predators and stuff, a lot of those sick people, demons, are using things like Roblox to talk to kids, too.
01:28:43.000Pretending to be kids and lure them out of the house.
01:29:05.000Yeah, we'd be like, we're ICE agents and Roblox, and we're taking you down, mofos.
01:29:08.000But these kids are going to grow up, and it's funny because you see this, their political action is going to be The state will be able to do whatever it wants, whatever it wants, as long as they can live their life in a virtual reality.
01:29:20.000And I wonder if that is a goal and intention of powerful corporate interests.
01:29:25.000Well, if people are in a virtual reality, then they're not going to be motivated to go out and protest and stuff, especially when they can protest in the virtual reality where it's the ultimate slack.
01:29:38.000There's not going to be any real protest.
01:29:40.000You're going to go into virtual reality, and you're going to be a demon slayer, and you're going to have exactly what you want.
01:29:50.000And no one will care because they grew up on it.
01:29:52.000It's exactly like Let me tell you this.
01:29:54.000What if I told you A number with the federal government where they would document and log you and your history and your work and what your family does.
01:30:35.000And what they are doing in the public space by calling illegal immigrants undocumented is lumping up anybody who doesn't enter the machine state with anybody who came here illegally.
01:31:37.000Did you see the thing where there are a lot of American airlines, like I think it's American, Delta, and United, and they sell passenger data to the federal government?
01:31:59.000They are working with federal government to consolidate all the data so that there's no divisions between – Yeah, unfortunately, they've been doing that since 2003.
01:32:10.000They've been doing that for a while, but that's kind of...
01:32:12.000it'll be much easier when they decide to implement the social credit system.
01:32:16.000So you guys are more of my libertarian friends than...
01:33:48.000Computers and government talking to each other would be more efficient.
01:33:50.000So that like the federal government as a single entity, they have a single database so the IRS can see – Can the humans understand the language that the computers are using?
01:34:42.000My attitude is the government has access to it already.
01:34:44.000It's already public data the government has.
01:34:46.000I don't care if the IRS goes through it and can see what DHS has.
01:34:51.000One of the counters that I've heard from someone who is actually on the libertarian side of the spectrum is if I'm under investigation for something from the FBI or something like that, and I'm at the same time, I've never been convicted of anything, I'm innocent until proven guilty, and at the same time, I'm applying for a small business loan, for example.
01:35:10.000Do I want the Small Business Administration to be able to see that I could be a no-good scoundrel?
01:35:17.000Except they usually have in the application, are you currently – There's even a box you can check on, you know, are you a no-good scoundrel?
01:35:32.000that's the whole ban the box conversation but do you think I guess in the scenario that I was Let's just say there's information that the government has that shouldn't be handed over to all the different organizations.
01:36:26.000The one thing that I think is, so when Obama did the ACA, there was a lot of consolidation of data, computerization of data that had not been done before.
01:36:36.000And what that led to, right, was HIPAA, where you have to say, like, you agree that they can't share your data anywhere, or, like, you have to sign off on that.
01:36:46.000I wonder if there is sensitive information that could be, you know, agreed upon of what sensitive information could be defined as if you could have some kind of HIPAA thing.
01:36:57.000Or, I don't know if the armed EPA agents know this or can access this already, but do you want the armed EPA agents knowing that you are a registered gun owner?
01:37:36.000Because I'm more inclined to think that those are like the second and third order effects of Doge that could really modernize and revolutionize government.
01:37:43.000The principal issue with government is corruption.
01:37:45.000Yeah, because it's always going to turn into something.
01:37:47.000They sell it with like good short-term benefits, like we're going to take care of immigration and stuff, which I want.
01:37:53.000Mass deportations, but it turns into, I think, uglier stuff, especially who knows how the social credit score will work and what they could pull from from there.
01:38:01.000It's going to be beyond just government collected data.
01:38:35.000So the way I tend to explain it is, when you live in a small town, and Shane is a young man, and he's speeding down the highway, and he gets pulled over, and the deputy comes up to the car and he goes, Shane?
01:38:48.000What am I going to tell your daddy when I see him down at the bar?
01:47:24.000I can't remember who it was from, but it was like all the birds were singing, and they were just like, Man, I wish I could understand what those birds were saying and know their language.
01:48:10.000I went on a road trip when I was driving from the North Dakota Pipeline protest across the U.S., and all I did was listen to this podcast where it was people who called in and told ghost stories, and it was the best podcast.
01:49:38.000I swear we're going to wake up and it's going to be like U.S. jets bombed by Iran because we've already had Iranian-backed rebels attacking U.S. military assets.
01:49:49.000Sirens across northern Israel following another barrage of Iranian missiles.
01:49:52.000All installations across the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility have raised their forest protection condition from...
01:52:21.000Heron Gaming News says, do you think that it's possible the police won't arrest the 50501 terrorist that ended that guy in black because they want to wait until the officers aren't in danger?
01:52:30.000The guy in black was arrested and charged with murder.
01:52:33.000The guys who did the shooting haven't been arrested or charged.
01:52:36.000It was some random guy walking past who was shot and killed.
01:54:45.000You're going to get two-thirds of the Senate?
01:54:49.000To vote against President Trump on this particular issue where there has been a lot of bipartisan support, whether that's genuine or manufactured by our current political system, you're not going to get that.
01:55:02.000The best thing that you could do is make yourself heard in the ballot box and make yourself heard in the public square.
01:55:07.000I think one of the things that we underestimate a lot is how closely, whether that's this administration or previous administrations, do pay attention to the online discourse.
01:55:17.000And use that to the best of their ability to figure out where the American people are at.
01:55:22.000And luckily, if you are loud, louder than the pro-war contingent, maybe you can have your voices heard before then.
01:55:49.000And I'm like, I'm generally just saying you support U.S. involvement in foreign conflict.
01:55:53.000And like, let's look at how this narrative has shifted for the last, you know, however long this has been happening, 72 hours, more than that now.
01:57:18.000I think we're going to see all the polls skyrocket and the media is going to be like, you know, this is the first time we've seen Trump truly doing what a president needs to do.
01:57:41.000I think it's all baked in at this point.
01:57:43.000Yeah, I'm not so sure that – I mean I think the only thing that can derail – at this point, the Democrats are in such a mess and in such disarray.
01:57:59.000So just as long as the economy's, you know, plugging along and people are feeling like they're going to be employed and their job is safe and they're feeling like they can pay the bills, then I think that's the best chance the Republicans have.
01:58:56.000Because in their mind, the average person doesn't know or remember the data points they've collected that brought them to that point.
01:59:05.000So it's not even an issue of, listen, you hate Trump because of these stories principally.
01:59:09.000It's, you don't even remember why you hate Trump.
01:59:13.000When you see a video of him, your brain goes into the, this is wrong for all the reasons, I assume, trying to explain to someone why, like when that soy pill guy came on and said, Trump didn't call, he did say he wants to condemn the neo-Nazis, but he made the argument that Trump and everybody knew it was organized by neo-Nazis, so Trump shouldn't have been defending it at all.
01:59:35.000They're still always going to make an excuse why it doesn't matter if they're wrong because they're technically right.
01:59:41.000So take an anti-Trump person, seven years later, and their entire body is just ingrained.
02:00:46.000And it's hard to imagine, I think, an economic scenario in the next 18 months where we can get there, even if they're able to pass this big, beautiful bill by July 4th.
02:00:57.000I don't think that I think the key to winning is having an economy where people don't feel like they don't feel the inflation anymore and they don't feel like they're treading water and still drowning or they're constantly getting behind.
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