Ben Shapiro critiques Justice Gorsuch's Childs v. Salazar ruling and a federal decree blocking conservative labeling, while attacking Governor Whitmer's Transgender Day of Visibility remarks using Manhattan Institute data. He exposes allegations against Kristi Noem's husband regarding cross-dressing fetishes and discusses Iran's potential Strait of Hormuz blockade alongside Shelly Kittleson's kidnapping. The episode analyzes military strategy for unpredictability, features Jared Isaacman on NASA's Artemis II mission, and addresses UK hate crime policing failures before promoting Pavel Widowski's new masculinity-focused show. [Automatically generated summary]
Folks, what do you call a man who has a fetish in which he wears fake breasts in order to communicate with online models?
If you guessed the husband of the former Secretary of Homeland Security, well, ding, ding, ding.
We'll get into the peculiar, bizarre, embarrassing story of Christy Nome's husband.
It's really kind of terrible.
And we'll ask a question.
If this dude were a Democrat instead of a Republican, wouldn't they be elevating him as a magical example of diversity and inclusion?
Plus, some actual news from the Supreme Court and the Middle East in just one moment.
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All righty, so there's a Supreme Court ruling that came down yesterday called Childs versus Salazar.
And the basic concept of the Supreme Court ruling is that the state of Colorado had put forward a law that banned what they called conversion therapy.
Now, when you think of conversion therapy, what you are thinking of is some psychologist in a room somewhere who is zapping a gay kid.
With electricity, like hooking electrodes to him and then zapping him until he is no longer attracted to members of the same sex.
That's what you're thinking of when you think of conversion therapy.
That is not what the state of Colorado is thinking of.
What they are thinking of when they describe conversion therapy is something different.
According to the Colorado law, 2019, that law prohibited licensed counselors from engaging in conversion therapy with minors, defining the term to include any practice or treatment that attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
As well as any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions toward individuals of the same sex.
That same law allows counselors to provide, quote, acceptance, support, and understanding for identity exploration and development and to assist persons, quote, undergoing gender transition.
So, in other words, the Colorado law said that if a kid comes to you with gender confusion, you are not allowed to say, boys are boys and girls are girls.
Let's help you be more comfortable in your body.
If a kid comes, a boy, and he says, I'm a girl, you have to affirm him.
And if you don't affirm him, You're engaged in conversion therapy and you can be prosecuted under the law in the state of Colorado.
If a kid comes to you and says, Listen, I'm confused about my feelings of sexual attraction, you're not allowed to talk that through and say, Well, you know what?
You're 14 years old.
A lot of people are confused about sexual attraction at 14 years old.
You're being hit by hormones that you've never experienced before.
And you really don't have any sort of clear line as to how to live your life.
So let's talk this thing through.
That might be conversion therapy because that could be construed as an attempt to change behavior or eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction.
Toward individuals of the same sex.
Instead, you're supposed to just give that kid a pride flag and tell them to get out there and march.
That is what the Colorado law essentially said.
Well, the plaintiff in this case is a person named Kaylee Childs, who holds a master's degree in clinical mental health and a state counseling license in Colorado.
And Childs doesn't start counseling with any predetermined goals, according to the Supreme Court.
Instead, she sits down with clients, discusses their goals, and then formulates methods of counseling that will most benefit them, seeking throughout to respect her client's fundamental right of self determination.
On some matters of sexuality and gender, the clients sometimes have different agendas, according to the Supreme Court.
Some are perfectly happy being gay or lesbian or trans gender identifying, and others want to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions or change sexual behaviors or grow in the experience of harmony with their bodies.
And under Colorado law, those last people are just plumb out of luck.
There's nothing they can do because if you, for example, are a person who has a fetish, presumably, And you don't want to have that fetish anymore.
According to Colorado law, you are not allowed as a therapist, as a talk therapist, to try to change an individual's behaviors regarding sexual or romantic attractions.
Well, Justice Gorsuch, who again, Justice Gorsuch is not a strict textualist when it comes to these matters, is a typical rule.
His opinion in Bostock, which was a case surrounding transgenderism as a facet of the Civil Rights Act, you'll remember this case was kind of crazy.
That was a case in which Justice Gorsuch suggested that it was discrimination under the Civil Rights Act to say that men are men and women are women in some circumstances.
So he is not a wild conservative on these matters.
He wrote the opinion, and his basic opinion is pretty simple.
The First Amendment allows therapists to say what they want to say during therapy.
That is the basic opinion.
According to the Supreme Court, and there's an 8 1 ruling, the only person who voted in dissent is, of course, Wade Fritz Katanji Brown Jackson, the dumbest person on the Supreme Court.
That's saying a lot because Sonia Sotomayor is also on the Supreme Court.
But here's what Justice Gorsuch wrote consistent with the First Amendment's jealous protections for the individual's right to think and speak freely, this court has long held that laws regulating speech based on subject matter or communicative content are presumptively unconstitutional.
We have recognized, says the Supreme Court, the even greater dangers associated with regulations that discriminate based on the speaker's point of view.
So, in other words, the big problem here is that it's not just that they are putting regulations on speech.
Those regulations on speech are content dependent.
They're saying you can say these things that we agree with, but you cannot say these things with which we disagree.
As a talk therapist, says the Supreme Court, all Ms. Childs does is speak with clients.
She does not prescribe medication, use medical devices, or employ any physical methods.
And they point out consider where the state and dissent logic leads.
Not long ago, many medical experts and organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, considered homosexuality a mental disorder.
On the view of Colorado and the dissent, a law adopted during that era prohibiting counselors from engaging in the substandard care of affirming their clients' homosexuality would have been subject to only rational basis or intermediate scrutiny review and likely upheld.
So, in other words, they're saying if you are suggesting that a state can determine what is the best course of care with regard to opinions on open matters, Of gender and sexuality, and then mandate that sort of stuff on subject matter basis.
That is a violation of free speech.
And then the court goes out of its way to really slap Katanji Brown Jackson.
They say today, tomorrow, and forever, any professional speech that deviates from current beliefs about the safety and efficacy of various medical treatments could be silenced with relative ease.
It is a consequence Colorado freely acknowledges and one that dissent embraces.
So what if that kind of reflexive deference to currently prevailing professional views may not always end well?
And then they cite Buck versus Bell.
Okay, the reason that that is a really scathing rebuttal to Jackson is because Buck versus Bell is the case that suggested that you actually had the ability under law to sexually sterilize inmates of institutions because that was the prevailing science of the time.
Okay, well, Katanji Brown Jackson then responded, and her basic opinion is I like this law.
That is her opinion.
Now, again, she is in the minority, eight to one.
Even Kagan and Sotomayor ruled against her in this particular case.
She says that Colorado was simply, quote, restricting a dangerous therapy modality.
She says that the court's opinion is unprincipled and unworkable.
And of course, then she has a long statement about how wonderful gender orientation of left wing philosophy is.
Quote, ultimately, scientific evidence supports the conclusion that anticipated harms from conversion therapy are twofold.
First, conversion therapy stigmatizes the patient, telling them that their gender identity or sexual orientation is something to be fixed rather than accepted.
This rejection can lead to shame and guilt.
Which in turn can cause long term emotional distress.
Why is this important?
The reason that this is important is because, number one, it is the court's recognition that the science is open on this, which it clearly is.
That is the most important thing here.
But Katanji Brown Jackson's dissent is a reminder that if the left had complete control over the mechanisms of government, they would simply regulate into law all of their most specious and idiotic views about science.
Jackson's opinion is basically the science says.
I'm right.
She's basically saying that Colorado has the right to regulate therapist treatment because mitochlorians might make you trans or something.
And that's the science.
And if Tyan says that, then we have to just go along with the science.
And the state is allowed to regulate you and prevent you from telling a kid who's experiencing gender confusion that there's a way through this that doesn't involve you taking on the aspects of the other sex physically and emotionally.
And we are this close to that world, by the way.
Without President Trump as president, we were this close to that world.
I really mean that because President Trump is responsible for several selections on the Supreme Court.
And right now, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are ruling with the majority.
But if there were a bunch of Democrat appointees on the court, is that the way this would have gone?
I am not so sure.
Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to more of the Supreme Court's news.
But there is a big settlement, another judicial settlement that we need to talk about.
And this one involves us here at the Daily Wire.
So today, major announcement the State Department actually settled a lawsuit that we brought.
As well as others did in 2023.
That lawsuit was basically over a State Department under Joe Biden methodology.
They were using a federally funded thing called the Global Engagement Center to fund and promote companies that worked to bankrupt conservative news companies like ours.
So basically, they would funnel money to the Global Engagement Center, which would then funnel money to organizations like NewsGuard.
And those NewsGuard like companies would then essentially tell advertisers that they should never advertise with groups like the Daily Wire because we were somehow.
Not compliant with their news standards.
We were disinformation.
So we sued them because the State Department should not have the ability to shut down speech it doesn't like simply by rooting money to outside outlets.
And a judge agreed.
So a federal judge today entered a consent decree that put the Daily Wire and the Federalist, one of our co plaintiffs, in charge of ensuring that future State Departments do not fund efforts to deem news outlets disinformation.
This is huge because, again, in the absence of this, anytime a Democrat assumes office, that Democrat could simply take the money.
From the State Department and create outside groups, outside pressure groups determined to treat conservative news as disinformation.
It is a major free speech win for Americans.
It's a major free speech win for the media.
Because of the Daily Wire's lawsuit, it is this simple State departments cannot fund efforts to deem news outlets disinformation, which is huge because this is the thing we fight.
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Well, in response to the Supreme Court ruling, Obviously, Democrats were very upset.
Governor Whitmer over in Michigan, it was Trans Day of Visibility.
Yeah, I know.
We'll get to the Chrissy Numb husband story in a second.
It's slightly related.
In any case, Governor Whitmer vowed to make sure that people can live openly and authentically.
And by openly and authentically, we mean can pretend to be members of the opposite sex.
Well, actually, it is not a human right that everyone should treat you as a member of the opposite sex when you are not.
That is not actually a right.
That is not a right.
It's a free country.
You can dress how you want.
You can basically do what you want, but you cannot demand that everybody act out of accordance with reality.
Meanwhile, Mera Zaran Mamdani, again, the very weird red green alliance, meaning the alliance between radical Islam and radical leftism, it's a very strange thing.
Dinner with at the mayoral mansion to close out Ramadan.
I doubt many of them are in favor of Trans Day of Visibility, except insofar as they are fans of anything that sort of tears away at the stanchions of Western civilization.
Mamdani put out a statement Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
Trans non binary and gender non conforming people have always been here.
From the Hijra of India to the Dini Nadlihi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign movement here in New York, your existence is not up for debate.
Your lives are not a political issue.
We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
I mean, I'm sorry.
First of all, the entire lie that trans people in the United States are at danger of extermination is, in fact, a lie.
City Journal has a great piece today going through the actual statistics with regard to an epidemic, a supposed epidemic of transgender murders.
According to City Journal, a project of the excellent Manhattan Institute, for more than a decade, the human rights campaign has pushed the narrative.
That trans people are facing an epidemic of deadly violence, publishing annual epidemic of violence reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States.
Well, the reality is that trans people are less likely to be murdered than the rest of the population.
Most transgender people are murdered by members of their own race, and intimate partner violence, not hate, is the leading identified motive for such murders.
In fact, here are some facts.
The general population murder rate is 25.8 per 100,000, this is between 2010 and 2014.
The transgender rate, meaning the murder rate against transgender people, is 3.66 per 100,000, that is one seventh of the general population rate.
According to Manhattan Institute, homicide risk is concentrated in one group, one group only young black men who identify as women.
These male victims are usually compared with black non transgender women, females, which makes their homicide rate look unusually high for women.
Well, yes, because they are in fact men, and men tend to murder other men at rates that far exceed the murder by women.
HRC's own data debunks the claim that white supremacy is the cause of any violence.
Among identified suspects, black suspects account for 65.1% of perpetrators.
Well, one more judicial decision, and then we'll get to the spiciest and most bizarre news of the day.
The Supreme Court went Trump's direction on conversion therapy, or at least went the direction of conservatives.
Another decision went the other way yesterday.
There's a federal decision that temporarily halted the construction of President Trump's new East Wing ballroom.
So, the judge, Judge Leon, who was appointed by George W. Bush, the court basically found that the president, Does not have the unilateral ability to simply build buildings at the White House, that he can make small changes, but he can't just tear things down and then rebuild them.
The judge says the President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of first families.
He is not, however, the owner.
The President Trump claims that Congress gave him the authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing Ballroom project and to do it with private funds.
I have concluded the National Trust, which is the plaintiff against President Trump, is likely to succeed on the merits.
And he says, listen, Congress can simply authorize the continued construction of the ballroom project.
The president can go to Congress to obtain express authority to construct a ballroom.
And actually, it's a little bit different than prior remits.
Congress actually was involved in the funding of prior buildings on the White House grounds or on national parks.
President Trump is upset about all of this.
So, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social.
Well, the National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a ballroom that is under budget.
Ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the taxpayer, and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world.
I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center, now the Trump Kennedy Center, where all I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and sprucing up a terribly maintained, for many years, building, but a building of potentially great importance.
Yet the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for a building which has been decimated and destroyed inside and out by an incompetent and possibly corrupt Fed chairman.
That once magnificent building is billions over budget, may never be completed, and may never open.
All of the beautiful walls inside have been ripped down, never to be built again, but the National Trust for Historic Preservation never did anything about it.
And he basically says, Why is it that you're picking on me?
Now, there are mock ups of the new East Wing Ballroom.
I mean, I understand there are people who are upset with it.
It just looks like an extension of the White House.
I mean, it's in the same classical style, it's got the same porticos, it's got the same general.
Outline.
Now, some people are upset because they say it dwarfs the White House because the White House is not very big.
And I suppose that's true, but it is also true that the White House is pretty small.
I mean, if you've ever been there, it's extremely small, even just as a visitor.
All the rooms are small.
The West Wing, which is where most of the action happens, is extremely small.
And of course, you have the executive building, the Eisenhower building, right outside, which is gigantic.
So, Congress should move to simply authorize it.
That would solve the problem.
That would solve the problem.
Okay, quick correction, by the way, with regard to the NewsGuard story.
So, the fund that was created by the State Department, they didn't directly fund NewsGuard, they contracted with NewsGuard, who worked with the GEC.
Okay, now to the spicy story of the day.
So, according to the New York Post, quoting a report from the UK Daily Mail, Christy Gnome's husband has some issues.
Two really large, inflated issues, to be precise.
So, according to the New York Post, Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbofication fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance.
Citing hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from the scene, Gnome's husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented appearances and proclaimed he coveted.
Huge, huge, ridiculous boobs, according to the mail.
One photo from the mail shows Brian Gnome, apparently.
He shared it with these women, and it featured him wearing pink hot pants and a flesh colored skin tight suit.
And apparently, he inflated some actual balloons and then stuffed them in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts and directed the area of the balloon that you tie toward the front to kind of create fake, misaligned nipples.
Apparently, He sent these women some $25,000 via Cash App and PayPal.
And he traded selfies with one woman.
He pledged to worship like a goddess, telling her, You turn me into a girl, before asking if he should put on leggings.
And yeah, not great, Bob.
So there is Brian Nome looking very seriously into the camera as though he is, you know, about to take an insurance exam, but also wearing a flesh colored shirt with gigantic balloons beneath it and also pink hot pants.
Yeah, this is not.
It's not great.
It's pretty not good.
Just gonna, yeah.
Well, obviously, Christy Gnome is not super happy about this.
According to the New York Post, Ms. Gnome is devastated.
The family was blindsided by this.
They asked for privacy and prayers at this time.
So let's talk for a second about what is actually happening here.
So, first of all, people have all sorts of strange kinks and fetishes.
The weirdness of human life is that.
People are drawn toward the taboo, apparently, even taboo as strange as all of this.
Obviously, there is some sort of strange link to autogynephilia of being turned on by the idea that he was himself playing a girl and all that.
I mean, basically, we're now doing clips from White Lotus here.
But with that said, I do have one question, and this is a question for members of the media who are on the left.
If he just came out as trans, or if he just said, This is my fetish, I love my fetish, my fetish is me.
It is a core part of my identity.
I am a person who, like, my identity is wrapped up in wearing giant balloons on my chest, right?
If, in fact, he had done that, wouldn't they make him the assistant secretary of health and human services?
See, here's the thing.
Now, first of all, I honestly, the guy has some sort of pathology, and you got to feel bad for him.
And also, he has a screwed up personal life because Christy Nome, it is widely known in Washington, D.C., has a thing going with Corey Lewandowski.
For a long time.
It is why there was a very awkward moment when Christy Noam was called before Congress and Christy Noam was literally questioned about all of this.
It was literally questioned about all of this.
Christy Noam was asked about.
Corey Lewandowski and cheating with Corey Lewandowski and all this.
And she acted with umbrage, but she didn't actually deny the charge.
And her husband was sitting behind her during the same hearing.
It was really, really awkward.
So there's some strange stuff going on in their personal and family life, for sure, for sure.
But here's my question again for people on the left who are very excited about this story, like bizarrely excited about this story, like excited in some of the same ways that Brian Noam appears to have been excited by fetish models about this story.
If you're on the left, What language do you have to condemn all of this?
I understand that you're claiming that he's a hypocrite and that right wingers are hypocrites.
Well, I mean, I don't feel like conservatives are hypocrites since conservatives don't like this and they say that it is bad.
And also, hypocrisy is, as my friend Andrew Clavin likes to say, the tribute that vice pays to virtue, meaning that yes, we all have moral standards and we don't always uphold all of those moral standards, but it doesn't mean the moral standard is wrong.
Hypocrisy is generally a charge.
That is directed at the virtue itself, not at the person violating the virtue.
In other words, the reason the left loves stories like this is because they believe there actually is nothing wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
They believe there's nothing wrong with that.
They're actually angry at the people who say there is something wrong with what Brian Gnome did here.
That is the point that I'm making about Rachel Levine, the former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
If Brian Gnome came out today and said, listen, this is my core identity a man who loves gigantic boobs and wears fake balloons in my shirt.
The left would be like, they would elevate him in American public life for violating the virtue, for violating the standard.
It's that he has the gall, and members of his family have the gall, to say that traditional virtue is good, even if they violate it, that the left is really, really on top of this story.
See, the right has language to condemn behavior like this.
We do.
The left doesn't have any language to condemn behavior, just the social left.
The social left believes that the core element When it comes to sexual behavior and fetishes and all the rest of it, it is just consent.
That's the only thing that matters.
As long as these are consensual adults, everything is fine.
The right believes that lots of people consent to lots of things that are terrible for them.
And that actually you can do things that are sinful.
Like the language of sin exists on the right, the language of taboo continues to exist on the right, the language of unnaturalness continues to exist on the right.
And so we can all look at that and go, yeah, that's unnatural, and that's sinful what he's doing there, and it's bad, and it's wrong, and it's strange.
We can use that language.
If you're on the left, by what stretch of the imagination can you even condemn what he's doing?
And the answer is you can't condemn what he's doing.
All you can do is condemn the people who condemn what he's doing for real.
Make no mistake, people on the left are not upset about Brian Gnome doing this.
They're happy that Christy Gnome is humiliated by it.
That is the real answer here.
They are very happy that Brian Gnome is humiliated by this because he's a Republican.
There's a good piece in the New York Times actually asking members of his local community about this.
And honestly, I think that the members of the local community have it right.
They basically said it's sad.
We feel bad for him.
We hope that he gets past this sort of stuff.
We feel bad for the family and for Christy Noam.
And honestly, I think that that is the proper approach to things like this.
I think that sympathy for people who sin, not in their sin, but as human beings, because everybody sins, is the proper response to all of this.
And also recognizing that the standard of sin still ought to apply, that the standard of bad behavior still ought to apply.
Now, that is the proper response to all of this.
And so, again, is it inherently kind of funny?
It's inherently kind of funny a little, just because when people do weird things, it's funny in the same way that Bugs Bunny dressing up in a dress is funny.
And there's no way to look at those pictures and not kind of laugh at it.
But by the same token, comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin.
Tragedy in the criticism of Walter Cruz, a theater critic from the 1950s and 60s, he said that tragedy is the notion that human beings have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot toward the stars, and then also we die, right?
That's tragedy.
And comedy is the fact that we have aspirations to understand the cosmos and shoot for the stars, and also we fart.
And so they're basically two sides of the same coin.
And so you look at this and you say, yeah, I mean, it's comic, obviously, but it's also kind of tragic because human nature is to violate taboo, to sin.
And again, my bigger call here would be for people not to.
It doesn't matter to me very much about your personal feelings of sympathy for the person who engages in bad behavior.
But don't fall for the trap of believing that virtue itself, that virtuous standards themselves are wrong because people are hypocritical.
Yes, people are hypocritical.
And yes, values continue to exist.
And better that the values continue to exist and be upheld as the standard and people fall short than that we do what the left has done and totally destroy all values and standards utterly.
Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Iran and the latest there and gas prices.
The president is supposed to make a big speech tonight to the nation.
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Okay, so.
Yesterday, the markets jumped on the possibility of an early end to the Iran war.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average actually jumped 1,000 points at close.
And that demonstrates a couple of things.
One, the markets like stability, they do not like instability.
And also, when this is over, even when there's a perception it's going to end, the markets are going to jump.
So the question isn't really whether the markets will recover because they will.
Once the conflict in Iran ends, the markets will jump.
The real question is do we win?
Is there a long term win there?
And the circumstances of victory are going to determine how robust the recovery is.
If people in the markets figure that the Straits of Hormuz can be shut anytime by the Iranians, well, that's going to get priced into the market as well.
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan gets it right.
He says, listen, the markets are down, they're having some problems, but the outcome of the war is significantly more important than how the market performs today or tomorrow.
It turns out that actually, if you want long term economic growth, having fewer enemies on planet Earth, we're capable of shutting down major waterways.
That is a good thing.
Well, President Trump's team announced late last night that the president will be giving a primetime address to the nation tonight.
It's unclear what exactly the president will say.
Brent Crude already dropped on the announcement.
So the markets believe that President Trump is moving closer to the end of the war, which of course is likely true.
Now, some good news is that our Gulf allies would like the fight continued until Iran is no longer a threat.
And finally, it looks like they're willing to put their money.
Where their mouth is, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning, quote, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, according to Arab officials, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant after being hit by Iranian attacks.
The UAE has been lobbying the United Nations Security Council for a resolution that would authorize such action.
Now, of course, they're not going to get it.
They're not going to get it.
I mean, the Russians and Chinese will block it.
Emirati diplomats have urged the U.S. and military powers in Europe and Asia to form a coalition to open the Strait by force.
A UAE official said the Iranian regime thinks it's fighting for its existence and is willing to bring the global economy down with it in a chokehold on the strait.
And the Gulf state also said the U.S. should occupy islands in the strategic waterway, including Abu Musa, which has been held by Iran for a half century, and UAE claims it.
The basic idea here would be you know what would be better for global commerce is if a friendly country controlled the islands that overwatch the strait.
And that, of course, is right.
The Saudis, too, by the way, are very into the idea that Iran's regime needs to be brought low.
One Trump advisor, no doubt part of the isolationist splinter faction within the administration, it is very loud and it is very leaky, told Axios, The Saudis sound like Mark Levin.
Again, you can always tell who's talking by who is saying what.
They want the U.S. to finish the job by wiping Iran off the globe.
Now, we don't want to.
Well, I'm sure the person who is leaking does not want to.
We'll soon find out where the president stands.
Now, again, the Strait of Hormuz remains the kind of largest outstanding issue.
Iran has now been activating its friends, China and Pakistan, to try to bribe the United States into stopping the war.
So, Amit Segal over at Channel 12 in Israel is reporting.
That the Pakistanis and the Chinese are asking for five conditions.
One, immediate ceasefire, like before any sort of concessions.
Two, a start of negotiation talks.
Three, cessation of attacks on non military targets.
Now, I mean, presumably, non military targets they believe would include things like steel factories, which are the inputs for their economy, or oil facilities.
Four, reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
And five, establishment of a peace agreement based on the principles of the UN Charter.
Okay, well, let's be real.
The principles of the UN Charter, as interpreted by China, And Pakistan and Iran, they don't mean crap.
The list is totally reverse of what actually should happen.
Iran could open the Strait of Hormuz today.
Iran could concede its nuclear program today.
If Iran did those things, they would be part of the world economy again.
This is the thing that's amazing.
Everyone is ignoring.
There are preconditions available to actually allow Iran to rejoin the world economy.
It is not that difficult.
Truly, all Iran would have to do is not support global terrorism, not build ballistic missiles directed at its neighbors and at Neighbors beyond in Europe and Africa and all the rest, and our base in Diego Garcia, all they would have to do is stop policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to toll the Strait of Hormuz.
If they just stopped doing that, you know, it's funny.
There are legitimately almost 200 countries on planet Earth, and the vast majority of them are not treated like Iran.
I wonder why.
Maybe it's because Iran is acting crazy, and they've been acting crazy for almost 50 years.
Well, here was Marco Rubio talking about the nuclear threat of Iran.
So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down.
But why the attack now?
Well, what was Iran trying to do?
Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones, that no one could attack them, and they were well on their way.
We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones, that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future.
That was an intolerable risk.
Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons.
And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program, And their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about.
This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.
And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.
That is the goal of this operation to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never ever having nuclear weapons.
Now, as for the Strait of Hormuz, we'll get to that in just a minute.
Well, the Iranian leadership has been appearing publicly at this point.
Like they're walking around.
Seems like kind of a bad idea, given the last time they did this, it totally blew up in their face.
Like literally blew up in their face.
So just a couple of weeks ago, the Iranian security chief Ali Larajani was appearing publicly, and then he exploded.
So now you have Abbas Arahi, who is the foreign minister, appearing on the streets of Tehran.
You also had Mohammed Pajeshkin, who is the president, appearing on the streets of Tehran.
They're trying to demonstrate confidence, but the reality is that the Iranian regime is in serious, serious trouble.
Their economy is non existent.
Their military has been absolutely wrecked.
So they have been essentially relegated to firing desultory missiles at America's allies in the region and at American bases and a few drones and harassing shipping.
That's what they are right now.
That is what is happening.
Iranian forces, also, again, these are desperation plays by Iran, truly desperation plays.
They're now activating terrorist groups to kidnap Americans.
So an Iranian linked Terrorist group in Iraq kidnapped an American journalist in Baghdad yesterday, according to the Associated Press.
An American journalist was kidnapped on Tuesday in Baghdad, and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, according to Iraqi officials.
The journalist was identified as a freelancer named Shelly Kittleson by one of the outlets she worked for.
And again, it was an Iran backed Iraqi militia named Qatayib Hezbollah, which again, Hezbollah is an Iranian backed terror group that spans the region.
Here is some CCTV footage of Shelly Kittleson being kidnapped.
So you can see there she is, you know, all the way down the street near the cars, and she's essentially grabbed and then forced into a vehicle.
Presumably, the idea here would be to pressure President Trump, obviously.
Well, Dylan Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs, then put out a statement The U.S. State Department is aware of the reported kidnapping of an American journalist in Baghdad.
The State Department previously fulfilled our duty to warn this individual of threats against them.
We'll continue to coordinate with the FBI to ensure their release as quickly as possible.
And the State Department strongly advises all Americans, including members of the press, to adhere to all travel advisories.
Okay, so back to the Strait of Hormuz for a second.
Pete Hegseth points out yesterday, the Secretary of War, that this is an international waterway.
The President was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well.
It's not just the United States Navy.
Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well.
So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most.
In fact, dramatically less than most.
So the world ought to pay attention and be prepared to stand up.
President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world.
To address this threat of Iran, it's not just our problem set going forward.
The President put out a statement earlier this morning saying, quote, Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire.
We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free and clear.
Until then, we are blasting around into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages, President Trump.
Again, fair enough.
And we'll see what the president has to say tonight.
We will be covering that live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Meanwhile, it is worth noting once again that there is a difference between people who are asking legitimate questions, which we should always ask about any foreign intervention or any military conflict, and the people who openly root for America's enemies.
You know, people who are saying we ought to cede global power to China, Russia, and Iran.
The people who pretend to be America first.
And the way they mean America first is what if we are just fans of the mullahs?
Well, here's Nick Fuentes doing that routine, literally saying that he is praying for the mullahs yesterday.
Well, again, if you are so brain poisoned, if you are so brain poisoned that you are now in the position of arguing in favor of the Iranian regime, which is responsible for the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans, the spread of terror all over the globe, threatening Europe with ballistic missiles, and development of nuclear weapons because you hate Jews that much.
Let me just suggest that your problem isn't really the Jews.
Your problem is something well beyond that, which is hatred of the civilization that grants you your rights.
Okay, meanwhile, speaking of the glories of Western civilization, NASA is launching its Artemis II mission today.
It's very, very cool stuff.
Joining me on the line to discuss is Jared Isaacman.
He's the 15th administrator of NASA and, of course, a billionaire, entrepreneur, accomplished pilot, and commercial astronaut.
Yeah, so we can certainly talk about this all day.
I personally believe the number one point is a lack of competition.
Look, it worked really well for us in the 1960s, right?
I mean, we were able to mobilize the resources of the nation, the best and brightest from across the country, and concentrating on achieving something that many people thought was impossible and sending astronauts July 20th, 1969, to the surface of the moon and bringing them back.
But after that, in hindsight, it turns out we had all the schedule margin in the world.
No humans have set foot on the moon since 1972, and it was only America.
So what did we do?
We started to spread out very thin.
We partnered with everybody, we brought goodwill around the world.
We, we, uh, we indulged every stakeholder that, uh, imposed their projects on us.
We did a number of self-inflicted projects, I'll tell you as well.
Some of them cool, but we kind of lost that extreme focus on the mission we've been entrusted to do by the taxpayers.
Well, I'll tell you what.
There is a new space race again.
The Chinese space program is very impressive.
They have stated publicly that they will land their technonauts on the moon before 2030.
We've said before the end of President Trump's term that means success or failure is measured in months, not years.
Now we have to get back extreme focus on the actual mission itself.
And that's what we're doing.
That's why we're getting back into the business of launching these kind of rockets on a yearly cadence.
It used to be every three years.
We're pulling in production right now.
We're kind of rallying all of our resources around us to start moving with urgency once again.
Well, there's no doubt there is a big difference between the missions that send astronauts to the International Space Station.
That's again 1.8 million pounds of thrust, about 17,500 miles an hour in orbital velocity, to going to 8.8 million pounds of thrust on a vehicle as complicated as SLS that has never, Artemis II crew are the first crew to ever fly this spacecraft before.
So this is very much a test mission, and we are going to put so much energy in this vehicle. that it can go nearly to Earth escape velocity, 25,000 miles an hour out and around the moon in an incredibly harsh environment, right?
I mean, there is micrometeorite orbital debris out there.
There's radiation as you go through the Van Allen belt.
Um, you know, but the, I, I think the trick here is to understand the risk, right?
This is, this is why we do testing at every level, the subcomponent level, the component level, integrated level.
We do pre-flight readiness reviews, flight readiness reviews, because we want to make sure We understand the risk and that we have done everything we can to bring it down close to zero.
But at some point, you accept the risk because you are not going to be able to explore the worlds beyond ours without taking some risk in the process.
So, the only way that the Iranians are capable of preserving themselves at this point is basically they're trying to scare the Americans into pressuring Trump to save them.
This is why Mohammed Khalibov, who is the parliament speaker, is basically Jim Cramer now.
He's putting out tweets talking about how your 401k is going down because of the Israelis.
Quote, I just read about Sarah and others in the U.S. skipping meals because gas prices keep climbing.
Sad, but this is what happens when your leaders put others ahead of hardworking and ordinary Americans.
It's not America first anymore, it's Israel first.
Again, you can tell who they're using as their tools, and you can tell who exactly is repeating their propaganda.
Guys, gas prices are bad right now, right?
They're not great.
It is also worth noting they are not historically terrible.
Again, this is not a lack of sympathy for people who are paying more at the pump.
We're all paying more at the pump.
We're all paying more at the pump, and that's bad.
But the whole point is that gas prices are going to dive after this war is over because you're not going to have to worry about the Iranians being in charge of the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in some respects, $4 a gallon gasoline should not put much of a dent in the consumer spending in the economy.
When adjusting for inflation, consumers are paying less for gasoline now than they were in the past.
Energy Department data show regular gasoline touched $5 in June 2022.
Adjusted for inflation in today's dollars, that would be $5.56.
Even that is low in comparison with the inflation adjusted $6.17 hit in June 2008.
Also, our vehicles are generally more efficient, and we spend less of our income as a percentage on gasoline than we did in the past.
The Europeans are still freaking out because that's what they do, because they don't have any production of their own.
And of course, Americans ought to be concerned about gas prices.
Going forward, but that's the whole point.
This is not going to be a long war.
How many times can President Trump say it?
Everyone keeps saying forever war.
Again, I'm just going to point out that everyone who is now saying forever war, we are now in a couple of days, we are on day 32, day 32 of this war, day 32.
Okay, we're not talking about a six month war or a year war or a 10 year war or a 20 year war like Afghanistan.
Day 32.
Day 32.
So give President Trump some room to actually win.
Since the United States military is in fact wrecking one of our chief enemies.
Well, in other news, the UK is now scrapping its policing of so called hate incidents.
This is actually a good thing.
I know, a rare piece of good news from the UK.
The UK government has announced that police will be told to stop recording everyday rows and online spats as non crime hate incidents are set to be scrapped by the government.
Over recent years, unclear guidance has led to officers being called out to people's homes over insults and routine arguments.
They are stopping that.
The UK Home Office says that police will no longer investigate social media posts.
Which is a step in the right direction, obviously.
And I think that happened largely because of pressure from Elon Musk and from the Americans.
It certainly didn't happen because of internal pressures inside the UK.
And then the UK Home Office actually did something magical yesterday.
They announced that the grooming gang scandal is, in fact, real.
So they kept pretending that it was really not a thing.
The grooming gang scandal is, of course, Muslim gangs, largely of taxi drivers in Britain, who were essentially preying on young white girls.
And this was covered up by the police because the police thought that it would generate outsized Islamophobia.
This was legitimately what happened.
Well, now the UK Home Office has put out a statement The grooming gang scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country's history, where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists.
The independent national inquiry will now begin its work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred.
This was a massive pedophilia controversy.
It was ignored and covered up by the police because, again, they did not want to give credence to the quote unquote anti immigrant groups inside the UK.
Well, better late than never.
But again, a reminder that when you let political correctness dictate how you do policy, this is what you end up with actual human suffering.
All righty.
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