Episode 5277: Iran Rejects Ceasefire Deal; Oligarchs Push For Data Centers Across The Country
Trita Parsi argues the U.S. must end the Iran war rather than accept a ceasefire, warning against endless conflict while President Trump claims victory after 34 days and asserts regime change occurred. Sam Fattis notes Revolutionary Guard tolling at the Strait of Hormuz threatens global inflation, while Terry Schilling leads a fight against AI data centers, specifically opposing a proposed 4.4 million square foot Stonebridge facility in Fort Meade, Florida, that could consume one gigawatt of energy and colonize rural America. Ultimately, these segments highlight a dual crisis of geopolitical entrapment and domestic resource exploitation threatening American sovereignty. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, let's first better understand what slugging it out would mean.
Trump went in here with some clear objectives.
It didn't work out because it was based on a false understanding of the reality on the ground that had been sold to him by the Israelis.
But at this point, when you listen carefully to what he's saying, it appears that as if Our options here have been reduced to the Israeli strategy of mowing the lawn, which the Israelis use against Lebanon, against the Palestinians, which is every six months to two years, they just go back to bombing them, just to make sure that they can never actually end up achieving anything that could pose a challenge to Israel.
So it's not a solution, it's just a constant state of warfare.
And this is how the Israelis have pursued their immediate security in the region, because they have kind of given up or not been interested in actually achieving peace.
So they're in this Endless state of warfare.
And Trump has said that he's just going to take out as much as possible, bomb them back to the Stone Age, and add it to that.
And then the next president may have to go back and bomb them again in a couple of years.
That means that we would end up in a permanent state of war with Iran.
Now, that may very well be Israel's preference.
I think it is.
But this would be devastating for the United States.
We should not be here.
We should, and Trump himself is the person who, more than any other politician, has railed against these endless wars.
And this would be, by definition, An endless war.
So, I think we have to really recognize that if we agree to that, then we've completely fallen into the trap of doing something that Trump campaigned on not doing and ending actually.
So, what can be done at this point?
I think, first of all, there has to be an effort to fully end the war, not ceasefire.
We don't have any credibility with ceasefires any longer because of what has happened in Gaza and Lebanon for the last two to three years.
So, if we want to have any serious talks, it has to be about ending the war altogether.
Three weeks ago, I thought it would be possible that if we offered sanctions relief, making sure that the Iranian oil got back onto the market, which would be good for the U.S. because it would push down oil prices.
But if we could add something to that, which is to make sure that the Iranians at least sell half of that oil in U.S. dollars instead of Chinese currency, it actually could be a win for us and the Iranians would agree to it, open up the straits.
At this point, I think it's become much harder because now increasingly I'm seeing messages from the Iranian side or signals from the Iranian side that they're not looking at using the Strait of Hormuz as a way of ending the war.
They're looking at it as a way of managing the The post war era in which they're going to use the control of the straits, not to close it, but to control who comes in and who comes out, pays transit fees, and to use that to re establish economic relations with countries that over the last 10, 15 years have more or less ceased to have any economic relations with Iran as a result of US sanctions.
If that is the direction they're going, this is going to become much, much harder.
But when Trump says, hey, I don't care about the straits, we're not getting any energy out of that region, it's all going to Asia, et cetera.
It kind of, I think, has led to the Iranians believing that they can pursue their strategy.
Trump will just give up on the Strait of Hormuz.
They will reopen it.
All will flow again, but they will be in control of the Strait as a new geopolitical feature in the region.
I don't know if that's going to shift, but that is where they seem to be right now.
And I think if we're very honest, we will see that the U.S.'s negotiating position has gradually degraded during these last 35 or so days.
And there's nothing to Point to that really suggests that it could be a shift in a positive direction with some sort of a silver bullet.
And my fear then is that if we wait too long, we will be in an increasingly negative negotiating position vis a vis the Iranians.
So I would move fast.
Now we move fast to just end the war, not a ceasefire, offer some sort of a sanctions relief, but in return, request things from the Iranians that actually really matter to the US, which is, for instance, making sure that the petrodollar is not undermined.
They should go to my Twitter, which is tparcy, or go to the Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org, uh, or my sub stack, which is just Trita Parsi.
You know, they were giving me a briefing about that.
And they said, normally when you're in very hostile territory, and I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran, they're capable fighters.
They're very tough people.
And there are others like that.
You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong.
Not so strong like they were about a month ago.
I can tell you, in fact, right now they're not too strong at all, in my opinion, but we're soon going to find out, aren't we?
But when a thing like that happens where a pilot's shot down, in most instances you're really not able to go in because you'll go in with 200 people and lots of jet fighters and helicopters, and you really don't have a chance.
They get shot down.
You lose 200.
In order to pick up one, it's a horrible thing, but it's very rare that you can do it.
And what we did yesterday is we picked up not one, we picked up two.
We kept the first one quiet, and we were able to keep it quiet for about a day, which made it a lot better.
But those two pilots were incredible, brave, and we thank them.
And we're going to be having a news conference today at 1 o'clock at the Oval Office, and we look forward to it.
But I just want to say we have a great military.
We're the greatest military, the most powerful military any place in the world.
You saw what happened with Venezuela.
It's an honor.
I built it in my first term, and I didn't know I was going to be using it this much in my second term, but it's my honor.
And they're the greatest people on earth.
Our warriors are the greatest fighters on earth.
And they very much appreciate you and love you, and that's why they do it.
So this is all about today.
I must tell you, I came out and I expected we were going to be talking about farmers, and we love our farmers.
We were going to talk about so many different products.
But you know what they want to talk about?
Sir, this is about eggs.
Eggs, because we have the egg farmers of the entire country here, and they are unbelievable.
And if you remember when I first got elected, my first news conference with the fake news, a lot of fake news here today, but I had a news conference, and the first question, What are you going to do about eggs, sir?
I said, What's wrong with eggs?
I just got there.
It's my second day in office, I had a news conference, and they were screaming at me, What am I going to do about eggs?
And I said, Well, it's like, Tell me what's wrong with eggs.
The price was so high, it was four times higher than it was a year before.
I said, Well, that sounds like a problem.
Let me think about it.
And Brooke Rollins, our great Secretary of Agriculture, she got involved.
We all got involved.
They didn't want me, as you know, just last year, it's hard to believe, they didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year.
They wanted me to use plastic.
I said, I'm not using plastic.
We'll get it solved.
And within a short period of time, eggs came down.
They came down 40%, 50%.
And by the time we got there, we had so many eggs, we didn't know what to do with them.
And today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us.
So eggs is a big thing, and it was a big thing to our great first lady, who's here someplace.
Let's see.
I think this is our first lady.
What do you think of our first lady?
She's a movie star.
I don't know.
Do we call her first lady or a movie star?
She has the biggest movie.
Can you believe this?
And she deserves it.
Would you like to say a couple of words to your friends?
You're going to be able to watch that because it's always a fun event, historic event.
President Trump and the First Lady really get into this and do it right.
There are thousands of people there right now, including many of the associates of the war room having a good time this morning with their children, as it should be.
We're going to go back to.
To the war, and we're going to leave the White House with enjoying Easter Monday, traditional Easter egg roll.
And what the president just said, one o'clock today, folks, you do not want to miss this.
Now, the president says back in the Oval Office.
I believe because of the demand of so much media, the one so 10, I think they put it into the press briefing room.
I would not be surprised if they moved it to the East Room.
My understanding is there's an overwhelming response by the media to want to be there because it looks like the Revolutionary Guard has said right now they're not interested in a deal.
What did you think about that?
And then we get to Eric Bowling about what Trita said on the oil infrastructure.
Well, Steve, look, here's something you don't hear me say every day.
I agree with Trita Parsi's assessment in the sense that he understands that the center of gravity of this war is the world economy, the flow of oil and gas.
And then all the other really critical byproducts produced from them.
And so we're talking about wanting the Iranians to negotiate.
They don't, we want them to surrender.
We want them to concede.
They don't think they need to concede.
They don't think they're losing.
And they have a point because they have the world by the throat.
So we're fighting this conventional war against their military.
And they've shut down the Straits of Hormuz.
But then they are also.
Poised to take out the oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf, which means what?
When the war finally ends, minimum probably five years, and nobody has any idea how many billions of dollars to reconstruct it.
And in the meantime, we go into economic free fall worldwide.
So that's their leverage.
We want them to quit.
They don't think they have to quit because they think they're winning right now.
No, nothing about this surprises me and wouldn't surprise anybody who's worked against them and understands that regime and the IRGC.
If you're going to tee off against them in what is an existential fight from their side, the first thing that's going to come to mind is okay, well, they're not going to collapse.
And at some point when we push them hard enough, They're going to basically take a blowtorch to the world economy.
So, what's the plan for how we stop them from doing that before the first bomb falls?
They're going to send 10,000 drones headed for the oil and gas fields in the Persian Gulf.
So, how many?
And you tell me we got 90% interception rate.
That's fabulous, guys.
That's still 1,000 drones that are going to hit oil and gas infrastructure.
So, how much damage is that going to cause?
And what's the impact?
And all of that should have happened.
Obviously, before anybody pulled a trigger.
But apparently, we were sold this bill of goods that we don't have to worry about that because in a few days it's all over.
But the shouting, the troops will be home by Christmas and we win.
So, what Trita said is something we've been talking about a long time that, yeah, the whole.
Mideast loves $100, $120, $150 barrel of oil.
Here, I also think I'll add to what Trita said and what Sam said is that they do have the ability to go after oil infrastructure in the region.
But before they go down, these people are martyrs.
They'll blow up their own infrastructure as well.
And then they'll do whatever they can to keep the straight clothes as long as they can before any sort of relent or surrender to the Trump administration.
So they're going to fight it out.
I'll also take the other side of both of those very astute, smart gentlemen and say, It's a fool's game to doubt Trump.
Even if you don't see it coming, there's always something up his sleeve that he has.
And I just think he's got some form of a negotiation that he's ready to play.
I've never seen a president that could stand at the South Portico of the White House and talk about egg rolls and Easter bunnies while bombing the spit out of the Iranian people.
He's just got that.
And I just hope that he realizes something that I think they do.
I hope they realize that, yeah, we're up.
We're 412 a gallon right now, Steve.
We're headed to $5 a gallon.
The faster it gets there and starts its way down, the better.
Because this sounds ridiculous on the short term.
We could lose aggressively the midterms, the House, maybe even the Senate.
And that's something that I don't, in America, I don't really.
We've made so many strides with Trump, I'd hate to give it all back over one issue like this.
Talk to me about, Trita mentioned the petrodollar.
People have to understand, I think right now, at least what we're seeing, is that the tolling that the Revolutionary Guard pirates are putting on anything coming out of Hormuz, first of all, it's only going to really their allies, or their new would be ally, I think India, because they're letting India get some of this too.
It's all being, my understanding, everything's being transacted in yuan, the Chinese currency.
He mentioned the petrodollar.
And this is going to get to be the pressure on the US dollars.
This is getting the BRICS nations another bite at the apple and trying to destroy the United States financially, particularly, folks, on this budget that just got put up.
And it's been out three days.
We haven't had a chance to talk to you about it because it is pretty, I think, shocking, right?
And we have to address it because the deficits they're talking about are substantial and going to put additional pressure on the US dollar.
Talk to people about this whole fight behind the scenes on the financial war.
Between using the Chinese currency, and you can tell Iran is hardwired with the Chinese Communist Party on this and treat it as like a give.
Hey, look, as a big negotiation, we'll give you the survival of the petrodollar.
I mean, that's just said casually, that is a huge deal.
And to understand that they think, and remember, he was given their perspective that they think that they've got us by the throat on that is a pretty big headline, sir.
And he's, he's right about one thing that, that if you do open up this idea to the world that the U.S. dollar is no longer the, the, the currency that you trade global commodities, oil, gold, various forms, you have to go to the U.S. by U.S. dollars to trade a barrel of oil all around the world.
If you move to the yuan or some sort of brick, uh, currency, which they've been trying to do, you devalue the dollar greatly, greatly devalue the dollar.
And that means every asset that we hold in U.S. dollars will be devalued as well.
It's a very dangerous game of, of chicken there as well.
I, you know, there, I think the stability, the global stability of the dollar will remain.
There are too many weird things going on in China, too many things going on in, let's say, Russia and then the BRIC countries where businessmen are smart.
They're not going to do it just out of politics or political feelings or ideology.
They're going to do it where the money is the safest.
And still so far, the U.S. dollar is the safest currency on the planet, bar none by a long shot.
But if you start undermining the integrity of the dollar, yeah, that is a major, major risk.
These things are all so Detrimental to our economy.
A lot of folks are saying, oh, you know, this isn't a big deal.
It's going to go away soon.
It's not.
Prices are going.
Inflation is what we got Biden out of office with.
We're going to be up against some massive inflation at the worst possible time politically.
So I think this thing has to end and end fast, even if it ends badly, end it fast.
Many people are saying, hey, look, this is just another Middle East war.
I'm not interested in it.
I want to watch what's happening on TV or other events or the Final Four.
That's all fine.
You may not have an interest in this war.
This war definitely has an interest in you.
First off, everything about the dollar and what they're trying to do with the dollar is directly involve you.
Interest rates, the 10 year treasury, how we finance all this.
I think diesel price, somebody told me diesel was six over, the engine room in Phoenix told me that diesel was over six bucks a gallon, I think $6.18 in Phoenix today.
Gasoline increasing, fertilizer price for food.
This is all inextricably linked into the global economy.
That's why the Iranians, although they're getting crushed, and Captain Fennell and CENCOM are absolutely correct.
On a conventional military sense, they are getting crushed like very few people in this world have gotten crushed.
I think it shows you their toughness.
Now, there is this thing they've already had to go to a barter economy.
They may be relatively close to a state collapse.
Even in a state collapse, is that going to stop their kind of asymmetric warfare, particularly as you've got these pirates?
That are down close to the Strait of Hermuz and those islands down there that have really set up a tolling operation to kind of restrict flow.
And right now, it doesn't even mean insurance.
Just captains aren't prepared to put it at risk and go there and take a couple of incomings sitting on a million barrels of oil that'll blow them to kingdom come.
So this war has a direct interest in your financial and economic well being.
Eric Bowling, closing thoughts and then tell us where to get your.
We're going to have the presidents at one.
Eric Bowling will be at four.
We're going to do a transition with Eric, talk all about it.
And then at five and six o'clock tonight, live, we're going to break it all down for you.
So the closing thought is this first of all, there's only 13 ships that have navigated the Strait of Hormuz in the past week.
Still ridiculously low.
It's nowhere near open, not even close.
So what happens, Steve, if the dollar gets devalued, a weaker dollar forces inflationary.
It's an inflationary force because you would need more dollars to go after the same goods.
So you're chasing more goods.
Inflation is an up.
It just gets jacked up as the dollar gets sold, which will happen if they take the geopolitical requirement of the US dollar to trade oil and others.
And then you already have the fuel prices pushing inflation higher as well.
You have a double bang effect of inflation higher on the US economy.
There's only one solution to that that's raising interest rates.
That puts a weight, an anchor on the equity markets.
It's all bad.
Inflation is the silent killer.
And it will kill the economy, the U.S. economy, maybe the global economy as well.
Needs to happen fast, faster than better, Stephen.
And again, I'm very, very worried about midterms at this rate.
I'm not being doom and gloom.
I think Trump has the ability, even if it goes to five bucks a gallon, he can start working the down south and go into the midterms with better pricing.
Well, that's a radical left group of lunatics that you're with.
Let me just tell you, let me just tell you, very fair question.
The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go off, they're upset.
They want to hear bombs because they want to be free.
And the only reason they're not out protesting, you know that, is because they were informed that if they protest, like the wrestler and his friends, if they protest, they will be shot immediately.
And that's an edict.
That's in writing.
If they protest, if they go out in the streets, they will be immediately shot.
They don't have guns.
You know, we sent some guns, but the group that was supposed to give, which I said would happen to my people, I said it, I called it exactly.
We sent guns, a lot of guns.
They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs.
You know what happened?
The people that they sent them to kept them because they said, what a beautiful gun, I think I'll keep it.
So I'm very upset with a certain group of people, and they're going to pay a big price for that.
But the Iranian people will fight back.
As soon as they know they're not going to be shot and as soon as they can get weapons.
If they had weapons, not many of them, if they had weapons that would go in the other way, and you know what would happen?
Iran would give up in two seconds because they wouldn't be able to take it.
But in Iran, they have absolutely no weaponry, and they've been told point blank, if you come out, if you come out to the streets, you will be killed.
As of this morning, and we have this on pretty good information, 45,000 protesters have been killed.
I mean, they have some missiles left, they have some drones left, but essentially they have no capability.
They had a lucky shot with an airplane, but we got them back out.
The rescue was incredible.
And it wasn't of one person, it was of two persons.
There are those that say that's never happened before, because usually when you're shot down in strong enemy and deep enemy territory, You can't go after them because you'll end up losing 250 people to get one.
So it's a terrible thing.
But we had to make a decision do we do it or do we not?
And we did.
And, you know, we have some helicopters with a lot of bullet holes in them right now.
Probably you know that.
Now, I'm very honored to have rebuilt our military.
We rebuilt our military in my first term.
I'm using it in our second term.
And we are the most respected country anywhere in the world with the greatest military anywhere in the world.
Thank you.
So we have a.
news conference you'll all be there so you could ask the question a little while we have a news conference in a little while what would you like to ask her Well, all of this is happening for their future.
We're fighting for our children that are now in a war zone.
We're keeping them as safe as we can possibly keep them.
But we're fighting for their parents, their grandparents.
We're fighting for them.
We're fighting for their future.
And I will tell you, it was given to me loud and clear the time the Iranian people are the most unhappy when you hear bombs all over is when those bombs stop.
That's the problem.
When they stop, because that means that, are they coming back?
We want to have them back.
And, you know, everybody knows it.
Everybody sees it.
So hopefully it could be over with quickly.
Again, there are lots of different alternatives.
We have many alternatives.
We could leave right now, and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they have.
We could leave right now.
But I want to finish it up.
Iran, ready, cannot have a nuclear weapon.
They are lunatics, and you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic.
Okay, President of the United States right there taking questions.
He's got a press briefing in an hour and a half.
It looks like now Oval Office, Caroline Levitt said it might be in the press briefing room.
I think with the volume of major media globally that want to see this, you would think this might even be in the East Room because it's going to be absolutely packed.
Oval will be packed.
Real America's Voice will be there, cover all of it live.
And then, of course, Eric back at four o'clock.
We're here from five to seven tonight to cover all this.
And you saw right there, you know, President Trump is the best spokesman for this.
He really pulls together all the strategic, you just heard right there, how he's, and he's some of it's thinking out loud.
So it's going to be quite interesting at one o'clock.
And then the deadline's tomorrow night at eight.
And it sounds like, you know, he's, he did say, broke some news there.
It's been reported up to President Trump, took the microphone, went to the sticks, is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard rejected a ceasefire proposal.
He said, hey, we're actually in discussions.
And they've come back, and there has been this discussion that, and they've said, we're going to come back with our own 15 point plan.
President Trump says they're in discussions, and, you know, the U.S. and President Trump is chewing things over.
I'm sure we're going to get more of that at 1 o'clock, 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Do not miss it right here on Real America's Voice.
So much other news we have to get to.
This is why, when you start, when the balloon goes up and you start going kinetic, it kind of sucks everybody's attention as it should.
But there's so many other important things going on.
A couple of things.
I want to get Jeff Reyer and really give a shout out to and any support we can for the heroic effort of the grassroots in three areas, as I said at CPAC in Texas, in Georgia, and in the Commonwealth of Virginia have given, if people say, hey, the MAGA movement's dead and people are not responding and running and In writing to the sound of the guns, they would be incorrect.
Jeff Ryder, the chairman of the GOP.
Tell us the mainstream media, New York Times, Politico, full meltdown that it looks like the grassroots are on fire in the Commonwealth of Virginia to basically potentially win this referendum that they've spent.
Somebody told me they'd raised and were spending $40 or $50 million and thought they were going to bury this to flip the Virginia delegation from 6'5 Democrat to Republican to 10'1.
And virtually assure, I think, I'll come very close to the impeachment of President Trump, to flipping the House and having them come after President Trump.
Jeff, can you give us an update with a couple of weeks to go?
It's really getting kind of electric here on the ground.
We have so many different efforts going on simultaneously, and we've gotten a tremendous amount of support from the grassroots who are really driving this entirely.
We're starting to get monetary support as well from outside, not to the extent that the Democrats have.
But at the very beginning, nobody was looking to give us much of anything.
And now we actually have resources to be able to deploy with our grassroots.
So it's been huge.
We have this morning, I was at a rally town hall hosted by our former attorney general.
There are several of these going on during the course of the week.
We also have rallies at the end of the week with Governor Youngkin.
We're going across the state.
Energizing our volunteers.
And we have so many of them, and we've put it in the hands of our volunteers.
Tell people because the Republican establishment kind of folded and collapsed in the November elections, and it was just unbelievable.
How did you take it?
Because the whole word is that MAG is dispirited, that the grassroots don't care anymore, that you can't get people motivated, and the Democrats are playing on this is that they've got the momentum.
What was it at the very early days of this?
Because this is like back in January, February, March, April of 2021, where President Trump was sent into exile.
And people are just going, man, if they can steal it from Trump, they can steal it from anybody, I'm going to give up.
What was it?
And what was the motivational factor you and your leadership and the grassroots leadership there to get people motivated because you had no money and not quite, it was kind of dismissed.
This thing in Virginia is gone.
Spamberg is going to get it.
And she'll be Newsom's running mate once she delivers that.
What did you guys do to motivate people to get them start going door to door?
The hardest thing you got to do, knocking on doors and convincing people that this thing was unfair.
First off, the Democrats, in a weird way, did us a favor because nothing excites our voters more than the idea that they're going to be silenced because they experienced that during the Biden years when it wasn't just that we were being disagreed with, it was that we were being silenced and they were doing everything they could to silence us.
This particular referendum is designed to silence conservative and Republican voices across the state.
So that was assist number one.
But assist number two came, and I think it really helped to.
To generate a lot of interest among our base is when they watched what the Democrats were doing.
Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate and then governed as a far left liberal.
We have had legislation after legislation submitted by the Democrats that's sitting on her desk that she's inevitably going to sign that makes us a mirror of California, really transforming, taking those policies from the West Coast and bringing them here to the East.
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We're trying to put together some extra people on the ground and bring some other people into the state.
We're doing everything we can to fight.
And Steve, I've got to thank you because, frankly, the My appearances on the war room have brought us a lot of support and made me quickly recognizable around the state.
I hear from so many volunteers now.
Oh, I saw you on the war room.
This exposure has been fantastic for us and it's really appreciated.
You use and what Virginia, the Commonwealth shows you, Ryer, in this band of patriots down there, is human agency.
If you just got too much grit and cussedness and say, hey, Spamberger is a radical, she's a CIA trained, absolute neo Marxist, and she showed that being in your grill the first couple of days of her regime, and she thinks she's going to turn the Commonwealth of Virginia into California, Jeff's 100% correct, and be Newsom's running mate, that's what America's got in store for you.
Look at what they've done, and to see these grassroots patriots with no support, and quite frankly, people just dismissing it.
The establishment is saying, Oh, this thing's over.
Just like the folks in Georgia on the 2020 election, the heroes down in Georgia, the heroes in Texas, both on Prop 10 and also the Paxson campaign and so many other grassroots campaigns in there.
If you think that MAGA is over, if you think MAGA is disgruntled, if you think MAGA is despondent, you couldn't be farther from the truth.
There are areas in this country where they're fighting as hard as people have ever fought.
Terry Schelling, you've led the fight on this transgender ideology and we're winning, but every day on that is a grind because I don't think people realize how dug in they are in the economics.
This is, first off, demonic, but it's demonic and they're making money, which is the worst of all worlds.
The other day, you came as part of the alliance on this artificial intelligence.
I know you guys have been working behind the scenes and you've got such a great team over there.
But I wanted you on here today to talk about data centers and particularly some things that are popping up here recently.
First off, give me your overall assessment of now you've joined the alliance to fight artificial intelligence.
And, folks, behind the scenes, this is the single biggest fight that's going on in the imperial capital because it's only dealing with, I don't know, the future of the species.
Right?
And unlimited money and power.
And that's what in the imperial capital, that's what they're fighting for.
We can't let our foot off of the gas on the trans fight.
It's going very well.
President Trump's essentially doing every single thing he can and then some to protect our children.
I kind of stumbled into this AI fight primarily to protect children.
But as I've traveled the country more and more, trying to figure out how to make life more.
Affordable and attainable for families and for young people who want to get married and have kids.
The issue of these AI data centers keeps coming up.
I sit down with donors and I tell them we're trying to make life more affordable.
And they always say, Hey, you know, it always threw me off in the beginning.
What are you doing about these AI data centers?
Those are going to jack up the price of living hugely.
And you take into it, I stumbled upon this AI data center that they're trying to build in Fort Meade, Florida.
It's Fort Meade, Florida, a small town, 5,300 people.
I grew up in a town of 6,000.
So I understand.
Just how small it is.
Everyone knows each other essentially.
But this data center, we don't even know who's behind it, but it's being run by this DC real estate group called Stonebridge.
And they're trying to build, Steve, I'm not exaggerating.
I'm not lying.
This is a 4.4 million square foot data center right in the heart of rural Florida in Fort Meade.
The city council right now is going to be voting to rezone the agricultural land to industrial to allow this data center.
It's a nightmare, Steve.
This data center, they estimate, will take up to one gigawatt of energy.
To put that in perspective, nuclear power plants, that's how much they generate, each of them.
The bigger ones generate 1.3 gigawatts.
This is going to drive up energy costs.
It's going to drive up water costs.
It's going to drive down the value of the land, especially by the people closest to it.
And we have to stop it.
We have to stop this all over the country.
Steve, the ultimate fight, you put it exactly right.
This is about the future of humanity.
We're being promised that AI is going to usher in a new age of prosperity.
When the reality is, it sounds more and more that AI is going to be using us to make AI more powerful, not us using AI to make our lives better off.
So I'm coming on.
The War Room Posse has come through on so many awesome fights, and we got to flood the phone lines of the Fort Meade City Council and tell them, no, we don't want this data center.
I got the number, Steve.
It's 863 285 1100.
863 285 1100.
We've got to stop these things, see, because they don't want to help us.
They want to subjugate us and colonize all of rural America, which is where the heart of America truly is.
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We got to defeat this down in Fort Meade, Florida.
Agriculture lands got to stay down there for agriculture, not that these data centers are a pestilence.
Well, Steve, I think everyone's big concern with AI is that we're being promised that AI is going to be used to help usher in a new age of prosperity for us as human beings.
But the more and more we see of AI and its development, The more it seems like we're going to be working for AI and working for the system.
I'm reading this book right now, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis.
It's the third of his space trilogy.
And it reminds me so much of the era we're in, even with these secretive committees.
Like they have in this book, they have this committee called The Nice.
And it's all about ushering in a new age of prosperity.
They're going to unleash knowledge upon the people.
They just want control.
They just want to control us and treat us like the cogs in a machine that they view us as.
And they don't want us having.
Freedom and real education, real formation, because that's a threat to them.
But the reality is, we have to shut this thing down, Steve.
If they can do this in these rural parts of the country, they'll do whatever.
They've already won the cities, they've already won urban America.
Now they're taking over rural.
So we need everyone to flood the zone with the Fort Meade City Council, the phone number to call to make sure that you voice your opposition to this new 4.4 million square foot data center that's going to take up an entire nuclear power plant of energy and jack up everyone's rates for energy and water.
And jack down or knock down your home prices is 863 285 1100, 863 285 1100 for the Fort Meade City Council.
Call them today all the way up until their meeting tomorrow night to make sure that they know that you are greatly opposed to more AI data centers.
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It never happens when pilots go down in war and you're in tough territory, Vietnam and places like Iran.
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It seems like the diplomatic talks are picking up.