The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2219: Epstein’s Ranch, Iran War, and the Economic Storm Ahead
Aired: 2026-03-11
Duration: 02:01:08


=== Truth vs Conspiracy Sounds (11:55) ===

[00:00:29]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
[00:00:35]  It's the David Knight Show.
[00:00:43]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 11th of March, year of our Lord, 2026.
[00:00:50]  Well, today we're going to take a look at the pro-life Republican Party cheering for war everywhere, as well as the pro-economy Republican Party burning down the global economy.
[00:01:06]  But we're going to start with the Epstein ranch and the investigation that is ongoing there and why they ramped this back up.
[00:01:15]  There's several reasons why they've opened up this investigation, and there's a lot of reasons why we are in Iran.
[00:01:22]  None of them valid, but the Epstein ranch is one of those.
[00:01:28]  No coverage of this war is complete without the Epstein files and the people behind it, the people who are pushing us into this war.
[00:01:38]  We'll be right back.
[00:01:53]  You can.
[00:02:09]  Well, it's described as a house of horrors, but of course, it's not a house.
[00:02:14]  It's a vast ranch of about 7,500 acres, several square miles in each direction.
[00:02:22]  It's now being searched.
[00:02:23]  Actually, because of what was in the Epstein files, what was learned in the Epstein files, the state of New Mexico legislature was so outraged at the conduct of the federal government that they allocated millions of dollars for an investigation in a bipartisan move.
[00:02:40]  What they found that initiated this was the fact that the FBI had told them under Trump, the FBI, Trump's first term, the FBI had said, we want you to shut down your state investigation.
[00:02:52]  We'll take care of the investigation.
[00:02:54]  We have seen over and over again whether it's Flight 800 or whether it is the Epstein issue or whether it is the killing of people in Minnesota.
[00:03:04]  The purpose of the FBI is to block investigations.
[00:03:09]  And they've done this over and over again.
[00:03:12]  The FBI and local law enforcement descended now on 7,500 acre property in search of dark secrets, including the possible graves of trafficked girls who may have been strangled to death during violent sex sessions on the property.
[00:03:28]  And again, when you look at this, it's because of what was shut down during the first Trump administration, just a day or so after Epstein was killed or escaped.
[00:03:42]  And so this is a continuation of this.
[00:03:45]  But the other reason for it is because of some of the allegations that were discovered in the released Epstein documents.
[00:03:53]  Whether the bodies are on the property or not has remained a mystery.
[00:03:57]  I wonder if they had any massive purchases of acid like they did at the island.
[00:04:03]  Maybe not.
[00:04:04]  Maybe it's easier to bury bodies in the desert.
[00:04:08]  We've heard years of allegations and rumors about Epstein's activities in New Mexico.
[00:04:13]  Unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record, said the person who pushed to create the commission.
[00:04:22]  The issue is not they failed.
[00:04:24]  They failed to even try.
[00:04:27]  Their try was to block the investigation.
[00:04:30]  Everyone is focusing on Epstein Island, says Zero Hedge, but there is much more dirt at the Zarro Ranch.
[00:04:38]  Most that is literal as well as metaphorical.
[00:04:46]  The Epstein files email references a woman who claimed that Epstein offered her money to birth babies for black market use.
[00:04:55]  Now, what would you do with babies on the black market?
[00:04:59]  Well, we pretty much know, don't we?
[00:05:03]  In another Epstein file, a former staff member Zaro allegedly claimed that somewhere in the hills outside of Zarro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madame G, referring to Gwain Maxwell.
[00:05:18]  According to the Daily Mail, witnesses have begun claiming that Epstein may have also used the secluded ranch for disturbing medical procedures tied to his reported interest in eugenics.
[00:05:30]  You know, when you look at the old adage, be careful because you become what you fight in a war, right?
[00:05:38]  Mossad, Israel, Epstein, the CIA, we've become Nazis.
[00:05:45]  They have become Nazis, literal Nazis, even to the extent of eugenics experiments.
[00:05:51]  We have people coming forward saying they were drugged, they had sex organs and sperm harvested from their bodies, and they woke up around medical equipment, not knowing where they were or what had happened to them.
[00:06:03]  Yeah, it's kind of like an alien abduction, right?
[00:06:06]  Except it also has cult overtures to it as well.
[00:06:10]  In addition to the allegedly strangled women, one of the most disturbing threads around Epstein's New Mexico State involves allegations that they have been, they were used for his fascination with human experimentation, particularly eugenics and genetic engineering.
[00:06:27]  And of course, there's a lot of documents about all of the scientists that he communicated with on these topics here.
[00:06:34]  Epstein spoke openly about a plan to use remote property as a kind of baby ranch where women would be impregnated with his sperm in order to create a genetically superior bloodline.
[00:06:46]  Because, you know, of course, he's chosen, right?
[00:06:49]  It's all about the genetics.
[00:06:52]  You want to see a clear marker of evil.
[00:06:57]  That is people who are obsessed with their genetics and their hereditary line.
[00:07:04]  That has consistently been a harbinger of evil.
[00:07:08]  Are you talking about the Aryan bloodline or are you talking about the chosen people of Israel?
[00:07:13]  That is always a part of it, folks.
[00:07:16]  Epstein had a long-standing interest in transhumanism as well.
[00:07:21]  Let's put a modern spin on it.
[00:07:24]  So in another document from the Epstein dump, a victim writes a coded diary where she describes being a human incubator, forced to give birth to a child that was then taken from her.
[00:07:36]  Taken for what purpose?
[00:07:39]  Child sacrifice?
[00:07:41]  Child molestation?
[00:07:42]  What is the purpose of this stuff?
[00:07:44]  And a very sad piece that they took of what she wrote in her diary.
[00:07:51]  She said, he makes her feel my bump.
[00:07:56]  And it is sad and confusing.
[00:07:59]  A superior gene pool?
[00:08:02]  What the heck?
[00:08:04]  To put it mildly here.
[00:08:06]  It makes no sense.
[00:08:09]  Why my hair color and my eye color?
[00:08:12]  This feels very Nazi-like, but in thinking about these stupid, insane theories, it makes my mind, in my mind, it makes sense.
[00:08:24]  She said the piano and the comments that were made to convince me this is right, offering to calm me down, she said.
[00:08:34]  I don't think it works that way.
[00:08:36]  It's making me hate playing piano altogether.
[00:08:38]  Because Epstein played piano.
[00:08:40]  He had one in his temple on the island.
[00:08:44]  Piano, viola, I'm starting to resent both of them.
[00:08:48]  I missed the person I was before I was made into what feels like a human incubator, she said.
[00:08:56]  It's so dark, so perplexing.
[00:08:59]  And I know that if you mention this to someone, it sounds very conspiratorial.
[00:09:05]  Well, the bottom line is, folks, there's more than one person involved in this, right?
[00:09:09]  Even if it were only Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, that's still a conspiracy.
[00:09:14]  That's two people involved in committing crimes.
[00:09:17]  It is a conspiracy.
[00:09:20]  Let's not let the FBI weaponize that term as well.
[00:09:23]  They weaponized that because they were trying to hide what happened with the JFK assassination.
[00:09:29]  And it's not a theory either.
[00:09:31]  Epstein and these people really did this.
[00:09:34]  So it's not a theory.
[00:09:36]  It is a conspiracy.
[00:09:39]  She said, we need to get down to the truth of what really happened here.
[00:09:42]  You need to widen out the conspiracy and see all the people that are involved, not just these two immediate ones.
[00:09:49]  And of course, that certainly applies to all the people who went there and were filmed and blackmailed or whatever.
[00:09:57]  They are also criminals, even though they're being blackmailed and used.
[00:10:01]  They are criminals as well.
[00:10:04]  And see, the problem is, when you look at this, for normal people, you look at this and you say, well, this sounds conspiratorial.
[00:10:11]  No, it sounds crazy.
[00:10:13]  It sounds like somebody made this up.
[00:10:15]  And see, that's the tactic of the federal government.
[00:10:18]  They can charge basically every time they charge somebody, they stack all these different charges on because they don't want you to go to a jury trial.
[00:10:26]  One of the charges that they always do, you know, if you've been charged with a crime, whatever the crime is, they also usually charge you with conspiracy to commit that crime and then charge you with the crime itself.
[00:10:40]  So they always load up everybody with conspiracy charges.
[00:10:44]  It's one of the most commonly levied charges against anyone.
[00:10:47]  And yet the FBI wants to discredit anybody who says that there was more than one person involved in any of these issues.
[00:10:55]  Oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
[00:10:57]  Oh, you're talking about something really strange and occultic.
[00:11:00]  Oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
[00:11:02]  See, the FBI has been able to weaponize that term against people in terms of criminal charges, and yet at the same time, thoroughly discredit it.
[00:11:12]  It shouldn't be discredited.
[00:11:15]  The problem is, when normal people look at this, I give the example of Ted Bundy, a guy who was very bright, very good-looking, apparently, very charming, a serial rapist and murderer.
[00:11:30]  And women just couldn't get that in their head.
[00:11:34]  I mean, they're normal.
[00:11:35]  They can't imagine that there's somebody like Ted Bundy out there.
[00:11:39]  And that's what makes us vulnerable to people like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.
[00:11:45]  Because you just can't imagine what monsters they are.
[00:11:49]  We always underestimate their immorality.
[00:11:53]  And we always underestimate their technology, or as George W. Bush would say, we misunderestimate it.
[00:12:03]  I've used that kind of laughing at George W. Bush so many times that I'm always tempted to say misunderestimation when I say that.
[00:12:12]  But when we project our normality onto these psychopaths like Epstein and Trump, we do ourselves a disjustice, an injustice.

=== Clinton Ranch Secrets Revealed (02:50) ===

[00:12:24]  It spans about 13 square miles of high desert, includes a massive luxury hacienda, guest lodges, staff dwellings, horse stables, a private airstrip, hangar, and helipad.
[00:12:37]  He owned the ranch until his death or escape.
[00:12:40]  After his death or escape, the ranch was listed for sale for $27.5 million in 2021 before the price was reduced to 18.
[00:12:48]  It was eventually sold to a corporation that says they're going to turn it into a Christian retreat.
[00:12:56]  Yeah, like I said before, we better do an exorcism.
[00:12:59]  All I'm saying is I would, you know, I'm not superstitious.
[00:13:02]  I don't believe, you know, there's anything necessarily there or whatever now that he's gone.
[00:13:07]  I still wouldn't stay at the Jeffrey Epstein ranch dedicated to abducting women, you know?
[00:13:16]  Just kind of, just kind of, especially as a Christian retreat, you know, how do you focus on that's constantly in the back of your mind?
[00:13:24]  There's got to be someplace else, you know?
[00:13:27]  Did you just get like a really steep discount because of all the rapes and murders, you know?
[00:13:32]  Well, they did get a pretty good discount.
[00:13:34]  It went from 27 to 18.
[00:13:37]  But it was bought by the family of Texas real estate developer Don Huffines, who's actually running for office in Texas.
[00:13:43]  And a lot of people have criticized him for buying this.
[00:13:46]  What's your connection with Jeffrey Epstein?
[00:13:49]  Well, the family and the corporation has opened this up to investigators, given them access to go looking for the bodies if they can find them in this vast, you know, 13-square-mile area.
[00:14:03]  So prominent guests have been people like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton.
[00:14:08]  But of course, Bill Clinton, many unverified claims by contractors and journalists, Bill Clinton visited it, but he denied being there during his deposition before Congress.
[00:14:19]  So you can take that to the bank.
[00:14:21]  We always know that Bill Clinton never lies, right?
[00:14:26]  He's just like Donald Trump.
[00:14:27]  If he says he wasn't there, he probably was there.
[00:14:30]  So you go with exactly the opposite of what they have to say.
[00:14:35]  Accuser Maria Farmer said that she and her younger sister, Annie, were brought to the Zaro Ranch in 1996 on the pretense of working on an art project.
[00:14:44]  She's alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of child sex trafficking.
[00:14:52]  When she was 15, she was flown to the ranch.
[00:14:56]  Since plans for the Truth Commission were announced, lawmakers have received between 25 and 30 tips from people claiming to have information about the activities at the ranch.
[00:15:05]  We have this massive international story in New Mexico.
[00:15:09]  All these potential conspiracies.
[00:15:11]  Again, this is the person who put this together.

=== Doctrine of Attrition Wars (15:20) ===

[00:15:15]  Get a different vocabulary here.
[00:15:17]  All these potential crimes.
[00:15:21]  Horrible things that have happened, she said.
[00:15:24]  And right there, right here.
[00:15:27]  We don't know what is fact from fiction, but we owe it to the people of our state to sort through these threads of information and to get answers.
[00:15:36]  That's right.
[00:15:38]  And this is something that Trump has worked very hard and successfully to get this off of the headlines.
[00:15:44]  But it is the epicenter of all this.
[00:15:47]  As a matter of fact, when I watched that Interview of an Iranian official.
[00:15:54]  Actually, he's not, doesn't have an official office, but he is an advisor to them and very, very much a cheerleader for that country and that regime that's there.
[00:16:06]  He kept referring to the people that they were fighting as the Trump-Epstein group, right?
[00:16:13]  They did not miss the implications of that, that it's a bunch of perverted pedos that have taken over our government.
[00:16:23]  And that's one of the reasons why we're seeing this type of thing.
[00:16:25]  So, what is happening with Iran?
[00:16:27]  What are the chances that this is going to be over pretty soon?
[00:16:30]  You know, it's very interesting.
[00:16:31]  We're going to have Gerald Salinti joining us in the next hour.
[00:16:34]  And of course, I'm sure he's got a lot to say about this.
[00:16:37]  He's been talking about this for a very long time.
[00:16:40]  And all the things that he warned about that would happen in terms of setting the Middle East on fire and all the rest of this, what's going to happen with the oil.
[00:16:48]  That's all happening at this point in time.
[00:16:51]  But there's a lot of people that were looking at trends, a lot of people that were looking at how the U.S. fought wars and how the U.S. lost wars.
[00:17:01]  And a lot of these people were in Iran.
[00:17:04]  And so they made plans for how this war was going to be fought.
[00:17:06]  I thought it's really amazing that you had the oil markets were moved internationally on a false social media post by the Secretary of Energy here in the United States.
[00:17:22]  He wrongfully posted that a tanker was escorted by the U.S. Navy through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:17:30]  That did not happen.
[00:17:33]  And the Trump administration pushed back on that, made him take down that tweet.
[00:17:37]  It did not happen.
[00:17:39]  And even though immediately after he put that out, it moved the markets and the price of oil dropped significantly, both here in the U.S. as well as in Europe.
[00:17:51]  But even though people heard that that was not true, they wanted to believe it.
[00:17:58]  They want to believe Trump when he says that this war is close to an end.
[00:18:03]  I don't think any of that is true.
[00:18:06]  And here's why.
[00:18:06]  This is an interesting article from Al Jazeera about the fourth successor, Iran's plan for a long war with the U.S. and Israel.
[00:18:17]  They understand that our Achilles heel is an asymmetric war of attrition.
[00:18:25]  They've seen this work over and over again.
[00:18:27]  Whether you're talking about Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan, this works consistently.
[00:18:33]  Asymmetric wars of attrition.
[00:18:36]  They've learned that.
[00:18:36]  So they've planned accordingly.
[00:18:38]  Yes.
[00:18:38]  They've learned that you don't have to beat the U.S. military.
[00:18:40]  You have to outlast the American people.
[00:18:42]  That's right.
[00:18:43]  You just have to survive long enough that the American people grow tired of the war.
[00:18:47]  That's right.
[00:18:49]  Especially because we went into this war tired of the talk about Iran and all the rest of this stuff.
[00:18:55]  And he went into this war without approval of the American people.
[00:19:00]  First time that this has happened.
[00:19:03]  He did not get the approval.
[00:19:04]  That's why I said, I was, and we looked at the kicking off of the timing of the war, and you had a couple of the AI, this Jerusalem Post asked for large language models what they thought the date would be.
[00:19:18]  And Grok came out with the exact date, and some others were close to that.
[00:19:23]  But I said, well, my only concern about that is usually I would think that they would have a false flag first in order to generate consensus for the war.
[00:19:32]  Doesn't mean they won't still do a false flag to try to build a consensus after the fact.
[00:19:38]  But they did not do the false flag first.
[00:19:40]  That's one of the things that Gerald Salinti thought as well, that they would do a false flag.
[00:19:44]  I still think that they will do that with the flagging support that they have.
[00:19:48]  So when Iranian foreign minister said Tehran had spent two decades studying U.S. wars to build a system that could keep fighting, even if the capital was bombed, he was describing more than resilience.
[00:20:01]  He was outlining the logic of Iran's defense doctrine.
[00:20:05]  At the center of that doctrine is what Iranian military thinkers call the decentralized mosaic defense, a concept that's built on one core assumption, that at any war with the United States or Israel, Iran may lose senior commanders, key facilities, communications networks, even centralized control, but must still be able to keep fighting.
[00:20:27]  The priority is not simply defending Tehran or even protecting the supreme leadership itself.
[00:20:32]  It is preserving decision-making, keeping combat units operational, and preventing the war from ending.
[00:20:41]  So they are focused on the long war.
[00:20:44]  Iran's military was not built for a short war.
[00:20:47]  It was built for a long one.
[00:20:48]  The mosaic defense idea is to organize the state's defensive structure into multiple regional and semi-independent layers instead of concentrating power in a single command chain that could be paralyzed by a decapitation strike.
[00:21:02]  We have gone in just the opposite direction.
[00:21:06]  We want the most centralized, complex chain of command that we can possibly have.
[00:21:13]  So you have our government continues to centralize things even with the computers that they use.
[00:21:21]  You know, centralizing all the data onto the Jedi approach that they set up.
[00:21:27]  And in terms of putting in artificial intelligence, and just look at the radar, for example, right?
[00:21:35]  The radar that runs the Patriot MathAD systems.
[00:21:38]  They had distributed radar systems, but it was all part of one system.
[00:21:46]  And to make it even worse, it was distributed, all these different areas.
[00:21:50]  And so the Iranians attacked those radar installations.
[00:21:55]  And it makes it a lot more difficult.
[00:21:58]  But of course, it serves the interests of politicians and of the corporations that run the military-industrial complex.
[00:22:07]  They want that kind of centralization.
[00:22:10]  They want a monopoly of making weapons for the Pentagon because it's very, very lucrative.
[00:22:14]  And of course, the people in Washington, everything about that is driven by a desire to centralize things.
[00:22:23]  How many people do I have under my command?
[00:22:25]  And everything is in America, and this is our great underlying disease politically, and that is the centralized structure.
[00:22:36]  And Trump has done more than anybody else to centralize that and to say, I can do anything I want.
[00:22:42]  You try to stop me afterwards, but I'm going to go ahead and do whatever I wish.
[00:22:46]  I don't care what the law says.
[00:22:48]  And of course, War Pete is the same way.
[00:22:51]  He doesn't care what the Constitution says.
[00:22:53]  He doesn't care what the law says.
[00:22:55]  He doesn't care what the Pentagon rules say.
[00:22:57]  He doesn't care what the Geneva Convention says.
[00:22:59]  There are no rules for these people.
[00:23:00]  They will do whatever they want.
[00:23:02]  If you got rules, hey, that's woke.
[00:23:06]  No, you jerk.
[00:23:08]  That's to protect your own soldiers as well as human life.
[00:23:12]  Anyway, if senior leaders are killed, the chain of command does not collapse.
[00:23:16]  If communications are severed, local units still retain the authority and the capacity to act.
[00:23:21]  This doctrine has two central aims, to make Iran's command system difficult to dismantle by force and to make the battlefield itself harder to resolve quickly by turning Iran into a layered arena of regular defense, irregular warfare, local mobilization, and long-term attrition.
[00:23:38]  And so, again, they know what the Pentagon's proven weakness is.
[00:23:45]  Asymmetric war, and attrition.
[00:23:48]  Iranian military thinking does not treat war primarily as a contest of firepower.
[00:23:53]  It treats it as a test of endurance.
[00:23:57]  So, Iran's shift followed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
[00:24:04]  The rapid collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime appears to have left a deep mark on Iranian strategic thinking.
[00:24:12]  Tehran saw what a highly centralized state looked like when confronted with overwhelming American military power.
[00:24:18]  The command structure was struck, the system fragmented, and the regime fell very quickly.
[00:24:23]  So, it moved toward diffusion.
[00:24:26]  Rather than assuming that it could match U.S. or Israeli conventional superiority, it focused on surviving it.
[00:24:34]  Basically, this is what the strategy was that worked in the American Revolution.
[00:24:38]  They went into a guerrilla war.
[00:24:41]  Iran's doctrine assumes that any invading or attacking force will have far superior conventional technology, air power, and intelligence capabilities.
[00:24:50]  The answer in Iranian thinking is not symmetrical confrontation.
[00:24:54]  It is to disrupt the enemy's advantages, prolong the conflict, raise the cost of continuing it.
[00:25:02]  It assigns a different role to different institutions.
[00:25:05]  The regular army, for example, is expected to absorb the first blow.
[00:25:08]  Its armored, mechanized, and infantry formations serve as the initial line of defense tasked with slowing enemy advances and stabilizing the front.
[00:25:17]  Air defense units, using concealment, deception, and dispersal, try to blunt enemy air superiority as much as possible.
[00:25:26]  And then the IRGC and the Baji, I guess is how you pronounce it, B-A-S-I-J, then take on a deeper role in the next stage of conflict.
[00:25:37]  Their task is to turn the war into attrition through decentralized operations, ambushes, local resistance, disruption of supply lines, flexible operations across varied terrain, including urban centers, mountains, and remote regions.
[00:25:52]  This is why it'd be such an incredible disaster.
[00:25:56]  Not to say Trump won't do it, not that Hegseth would be deterred from it, but it would be an incredible disaster to put boots on the ground.
[00:26:05]  But you're not going to achieve regime change unless you do.
[00:26:10]  You can't achieve regime change by bombing from the air.
[00:26:14]  Maybe the strategy is to try to do Gaza all over again.
[00:26:18]  Just turn the place into rubble.
[00:26:21]  But again, I don't think that's going to work either.
[00:26:25]  So this BASIJ group, Bajij, becomes especially important with this, originally founded by the Ayatollah.
[00:26:35]  After 2007, its units were folded into the provincial command system, and they were given the battlefield conditions and kind of a semi-autonomous ability to operate.
[00:26:49]  Local autonomy is central to the doctrine.
[00:26:51]  It means war can continue from below even if leadership from above is degraded or decapitated.
[00:26:58]  Beyond the land battle, naval forces play their part through anti-access tactics in the Gulf and around the Strait of Hormuz, as we're seeing now.
[00:27:07]  Their mission is to make free movement dangerous and costly through fast attack craft, mines, anti-ship missiles, and the threat of disruption in one of the world's most sensitive energy corridors.
[00:27:19]  And by the way, the threat of disruption is not simply oil being able to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:27:30]  Threat of disruption can also be to destroy the means of production, to set the oil fields on fire.
[00:27:38]  This is a part of the strategy, the wider strategy.
[00:27:42]  Missile forces aimed at imposing costs on enemy infrastructure and military targets.
[00:27:47]  Then comes Iran's wider regional network, the allied armed groups and partner forces across the Middle East, whose role is to widen the battlefield and ensure that any war with Iran does not remain confined to Iranian territory.
[00:28:01]  And so time is of the essence.
[00:28:05]  But so is the economic matters.
[00:28:09]  A Shahed drone, for example, the Iranian drone, it's widely estimated to cost tens of thousands of dollars to manufacture.
[00:28:17]  Intercepting it can cost vastly more.
[00:28:20]  And so the asymmetry matters because it turns time into a strategic weapon and it turns the money into a strategic weapon.
[00:28:29]  However, I look at this as kind of actually a perverse incentive to the Machiavellian industrial complex.
[00:28:36]  You know, Lindsey Graham is saying, we're going to make a lot of money.
[00:28:39]  And I don't think he was just talking about oil fields because they're setting the oil fields on fire.
[00:28:43]  Now, at first, Lindsay and Trump were rebuking Israel for blowing up the Iranian oil fields.
[00:28:50]  Hey, this is going to end at some point.
[00:28:51]  We need that money, right?
[00:28:53]  But now they're joining in on that.
[00:28:57]  However, there's a lot of money to be made in terms of replacing the missiles and bombs that they're using all the time.
[00:29:04]  And so when you look at this as part of the asymmetric warfare, one side can produce low-cost weapons in large quantities while forcing its opponent to spend far more to defend against them.
[00:29:14]  Well, actually, the military industrial complex and people like Lindsey Graham bought by them like that.
[00:29:20]  They like that.
[00:29:21]  So that's actually an incentive for them.
[00:29:23]  The problem is for the American people, because at some point in time, this whole infinite credit card nonsense of the fiat dollar is going to bust.
[00:29:36]  And that's a key issue with all this.
[00:29:39]  Just keep putting it on the credit card.
[00:29:42]  So the Iranian military doctrine is built around the possibility that the stronger side may eventually find the price of the continued escalation too high.
[00:29:51]  I think it's already too high.
[00:29:54]  Too high in terms of money, in terms of lives lost.
[00:29:57]  Iran's doctrine didn't emerge in an intellectual vacuum.
[00:30:00]  It overlaps with what Mao did against the Japanese occupation, and it was very effective.
[00:30:07]  These guerrilla wars have always been very effective.
[00:30:10]  I mean, you can even look at what happened with the Boer War against the British Empire.
[00:30:14]  That's where the term, I think, guerrilla warfare began.
[00:30:18]  Iran's doctrine is not a copy of Mao's model, but it shares the same central premise, that it's not decided only by relative military capability at the outset.
[00:30:27]  It is also shaped by time, endurance, adaptability, and the ability to survive the opening shock.

=== Wall Street Evil Empire (05:22) ===

[00:30:35]  And so then you get, what is the fourth successor?
[00:30:42]  Well, that's just one example of how they have planned to take a hit, a decapitation strike.
[00:30:49]  That's why Trump boasting about killing the leader of Iran and now he's going to have regime change is just foolishness.
[00:30:59]  They had set up a chain of four different successors.
[00:31:04]  And of course, the U.S. does this to an extent.
[00:31:06]  You know, whenever they have a joint session of Congress where they've got the president and they've got the House and the Senate, even the Supreme Court and all the rest of the stuff, and the cabinet members are all there, if that building were to get hit, they have the designated survivor, I think is what they call it.
[00:31:25]  There's actually a TV series about that, I think.
[00:31:28]  They take somebody that is part of the Congress or something like that or the administration.
[00:31:34]  They have one person who is out there to take over in case the building gets hit.
[00:31:40]  And so they've got this four levels deep.
[00:31:45]  They're planning on a very long fight.
[00:31:49]  And so all the boasting from War Pete and Trump, all the talk about how, well, this is nearly over.
[00:31:56]  What are you going to tell people was your strategy of victory here?
[00:32:03]  And of course, since he never did have this debate, he never told anybody what the plan was.
[00:32:08]  what the goal was with any of this stuff, then they can declare victory.
[00:32:15]  And who knows, it's true or not.
[00:32:16]  Just like what he did with the strike against the nuclear facilities.
[00:32:20]  He said, yeah, we completely decimated it.
[00:32:23]  And then he says, now we've got to go back and do it again because they rebuilt it in that short period of time.
[00:32:28]  Well, then you didn't completely decimate it, did you?
[00:32:31]  So the Iranian Supreme National Security Council has told Trump to watch himself or to be eliminated.
[00:32:37]  So they're not intimidated by what he's doing.
[00:32:40]  They're actually threatening him.
[00:32:43]  So they said, we're definitely not looking for a ceasefire.
[00:32:47]  We believe the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so that he learns a lesson, so that he'll never think of attacking our beloved Iran again.
[00:32:56]  So oil prices have fallen back below $90 per gallon.
[00:32:59]  Why?
[00:32:59]  Because of a lie that was put out by the Secretary of Energy.
[00:33:05]  And they continued to drop the price even after it was taken down and shown to be a lie because Wall Street is not based on reality, folks.
[00:33:15]  It's based on what they want to see happen.
[00:33:18]  And many times things that will move the market, the market will go up when bad things happen for you and I, Main Street.
[00:33:26]  Wall Street will go up and vice versa.
[00:33:29]  But it's expectation and desire that moves these markets, not reality.
[00:33:34]  And so when you look at the oil prices, just like any other thing, you know, the reality, you see gold going back and forth and oil, but the reality is you have to look at the fundamentals because in the long term, the fundamentals are the truth.
[00:33:49]  The markets are just reactions to what is happening.
[00:33:52]  So oil prices have fallen back below $90 per gallon.
[00:33:56]  Trump seems to think the conflict is almost over.
[00:34:00]  And he threatened them about mining the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:34:04]  He said the U.S. will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back again if they were to do this.
[00:34:11]  Well, again, he has had nothing.
[00:34:16]  He can't trust anything that Trump says.
[00:34:18]  He's shown treachery as a political candidate in the United States.
[00:34:22]  He's shown treachery as a president.
[00:34:25]  And he's shown treachery in his negotiations with Iran.
[00:34:31]  Treachery seems to be his middle name.
[00:34:34]  Global inflation still fragile.
[00:34:37]  Supply chains strained.
[00:34:39]  And the ever-present risk of energy disruption through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:34:42]  The administration is under pressure to demonstrate control over a situation that it entered without a clear strategic roadmap.
[00:34:51]  So this is a senior lecturer at international relations at the University of West London who's saying this.
[00:34:57]  He said, the financial burden alone is staggering.
[00:34:59]  Modern U.S. military operations can cost hundreds of millions of dollars per day.
[00:35:03]  As a matter of fact, it's like $5.5 billion the first two days.
[00:35:07]  And now you've got Mike Johnson, and the Republicans are going to come around with their hat in their hand for more money.
[00:35:14]  We need to print some more money.
[00:35:16]  We need to raise some more taxes.
[00:35:18]  Eventually, we're going to have to pay that off with interest or the whole thing is going to collapse.
[00:35:24]  So again, they are looking at roughly $8 to $10 billion per month when accounting for carrier groups, air operations, logistics, and munitions, even though they're boasting about the fact, well, it was $5.5 billion just the first two days, but we've slowed down the pace of this, and we're not using our most expensive precision weapons.
[00:35:45]  So now each of these things, instead of costing several million, only costs a few hundred thousand.
[00:35:52]  Great.
[00:35:52]  And look at how many they're using.
[00:35:55]  I just look at this.

=== AI Dictatorship and Back Channels (06:05) ===

[00:35:58]  And I think about how evil this empire is.
[00:36:02]  And it might be the financial issues that break the back of this evil empire in America.
[00:36:09]  And it's something that's going to be very painful for those of us who live here.
[00:36:13]  But in a sense, I think we should welcome it.
[00:36:17]  Anything that would be the downfall of this criminal cabal, which comes after us as well.
[00:36:22]  Don't forget that the Pentagon is adamant that they're going to use artificial intelligence for domestic surveillance and for autonomous killer weapons.
[00:36:34]  And put that in the context of what we've been talking about in terms of the immorality of attacking that girls' school and doing it with a double tap.
[00:36:44]  And in terms of it being selected as a target, it apparently seems that, as Scott Ritter was saying, one of the first things that Pete Hegset did was to shut down the redundancy in terms of people checking these targets to make sure that they were valid targets.
[00:37:02]  Oh, we don't want to do that.
[00:37:03]  That's too woke.
[00:37:04]  We want to kill as many people as possible, as quick as possible.
[00:37:08]  So they shut that down.
[00:37:09]  And then they turn it over to AI.
[00:37:12]  I mean, that's what, you know, Anthropic is saying, well, we've got these red lines we don't cross, but they were the ones who were doing the targeting.
[00:37:19]  They were the ones who selected the school, most likely.
[00:37:22]  And so it was AI hallucination that was part of this.
[00:37:27]  Now, when they assume the power, as they are rapidly doing in the Trump administration, that's what I think all this ICE stuff was about.
[00:37:35]  It was about the militarizing and centralizing policing, having it all under Washington's command and having it be fully militarized and a police state.
[00:37:52]  And once they do that, and once they start targeting people with AI, you can expect more innocent people to die and forget about due process for anybody.
[00:38:04]  So another commenter from the University of London said, many Iranians feared from the beginning this war would devastate the country without producing any meaningful political change.
[00:38:13]  Yes.
[00:38:14]  So I said, if they wanted regime change, the best thing that the Trump administration could have done was just leave things alone.
[00:38:21]  They had massive riots that were happening there.
[00:38:23]  And yet they snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory, if regime change is the goal.
[00:38:30]  So we now see widespread destruction, a crippled economy, and the same political system still firmly in place.
[00:38:38]  The fourth successor.
[00:38:41]  Deciphering of the war is over because it's difficult to determine if the war is over because Trump is shifting the goalposts so many times, said this guy who teaches at the University of London.
[00:38:53]  And of course, that's it.
[00:38:54]  Taco, he always changes his objectives, his orders.
[00:39:00]  And his orders are always capricious and odious.
[00:39:05]  Trump, he says, is a very mercurial president who frequently changes course.
[00:39:10]  So the narrative around this conflict may shift just as quickly.
[00:39:13]  And that is why we don't want to have a dictator.
[00:39:17]  That is why in the wisdom of the founders, they didn't give these kinds of decisions to one individual.
[00:39:24]  But Trump has seized and usurped that power.
[00:39:28]  He has destroyed the Constitution fully and finally.
[00:39:33]  The real question remains, what in concrete terms has actually been achieved?
[00:39:37]  And what purpose did all this destruction ultimately serve other than killing Khamenei?
[00:39:43]  By claiming that the war is almost complete, Trump might be trying to calm markets down and buy a little bit more time.
[00:39:50]  While Washington may have initiated a war of choice, however, Tehran appears to be approaching it as a war of survival, entering the confrontation with a clear expectation of a prolonged struggle.
[00:40:05]  So Trump may be playing 2D checkers, and these guys are the ones playing 4D chess, with the fourth dimension being time.
[00:40:15]  Well, we're going to take a quick break.
[00:40:16]  I want to cover some of your comments here.
[00:40:19]  DG8, thank you for the tip.
[00:40:21]  He says, David, the Trump administration sent Kushner and Witkoff to negotiate peace with Iran.
[00:40:26]  Are you kidding me?
[00:40:27]  They're basically part of Bib's cabinet behind the rebuilding of Gaza.
[00:40:30]  That's absolutely right.
[00:40:31]  Not only that, but when the report came out that said that through back channels right as this thing began, you still had the Iranians saying, hey, wait, can we negotiate some back channels to the CIA?
[00:40:47]  And of course, Israel was spying on America.
[00:40:50]  And Bibi calls up Trump and says, are you talking to these people behind my back secretly?
[00:40:55]  You know what?
[00:40:56]  You're supposed to do what I tell you to do, right?
[00:41:00]  And so that's what we saw from the very beginning of this.
[00:41:03]  And the denial from the White House was, oh, we're not doing anything without Israel.
[00:41:08]  As a matter of fact, Witkoff and Kushner talk to Bibi and Mossad on a daily basis.
[00:41:17]  They are joined at the hip with him.
[00:41:19]  They are traitors to us, folks.
[00:41:21]  I mean, who voted for Jared Kushner?
[00:41:23]  As a matter of fact, a lot of people, I think, voted for Trump because he said Jared Kushner was not going to be involved in this regime.
[00:41:30]  And of course, we knew better, but the people who voted for him were fooled by him.
[00:41:36]  You weren't fooled.
[00:41:37]  I'm sure if you listen to this program, you weren't fooled.
[00:41:41]  We're not going to feed the people who want to believe this stuff.
[00:41:45]  They get fed up with this program pretty quickly.
[00:41:48]  Radisbro, thank you very much for the tip.
[00:41:50]  He says, why is eugenics a Nazi thing?
[00:41:53]  We just had people praising Gattaca in real time with genetically engineered ice skaters.
[00:42:00]  How can a non-chimera compete?

=== TSA Political Footballs Exposed (11:31) ===

[00:42:03]  We should want the best.
[00:42:05]  Well, I think that the reality is that the flip side of eugenics is not just that you're improving people, but it is this idea that some people are subhuman.
[00:42:21]  And what it does is it puts that on steroids.
[00:42:25]  So now you've got two classes of people, right?
[00:42:28]  You've got the Aryan race and you've got the subhumans.
[00:42:31]  You've got the Israeli chosen race and you've got the subhuman goi, right?
[00:42:36]  We see this all the time, and that's why it is evil.
[00:42:39]  Because the people who push this always see themselves as the master race.
[00:42:45]  And they're trying to create a master race.
[00:42:49]  And so that's why it is evil.
[00:42:52]  And it's not limited just to the Nazis and Israel.
[00:42:58]  There were people in the United States who were doing that as well.
[00:43:01]  And what did that lead to?
[00:43:03]  Planned parenthood.
[00:43:05]  It led to Margaret Sanger putting abortion clinics in poor neighborhoods and black neighborhoods, right?
[00:43:12]  That's the ugly side of eugenics, the mass murder of people by denying their humanity, by treating them as subhuman.
[00:43:22]  Fuzzy Mateo says, in 20 years, we place the Taliban with the Taliban.
[00:43:27]  That's right.
[00:43:28]  Exactly right.
[00:43:29]  Well, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
[00:43:32]  My friends, it has often been said that I like war.
[00:43:38]  My friends, I like war.
[00:43:42]  No?
[00:43:43]  Friends, I love war.
[00:43:47]  I love Holocaust.
[00:43:49]  I love blitzkriegs.
[00:43:51]  I love defensive lines.
[00:43:53]  I love sieges, charges.
[00:43:55]  I love mop-up operations and retreats.
[00:43:58]  Wars across prairies, in streets, in trenches, in grasslands, in frozen tundra, through deserts, on the sea, in the air.
[00:44:07]  I love every act of wars that can occur upon this earth.
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[00:45:10]  Well, we have a DHS funding that the Democrats are pushing back against because they don't like what ICE was doing and things like that.
[00:45:17]  It's affecting TSA, which is affecting flights everywhere.
[00:45:21]  People are waiting three and four hours to get in.
[00:45:26]  The TSA is the DMV of air travel, folks.
[00:45:29]  It's absolutely, absolutely unnecessary.
[00:45:33]  And it is there just to clog things up.
[00:45:36]  They don't have the funding.
[00:45:37]  And so now these heroes, air quotes, are going to be working for free for a little while.
[00:45:44]  And they work slowdown as well.
[00:45:47]  And I'm just reminding you that when they first started doing these naked body scanners and pat downs and things like that, the first time we came up to Thanksgiving, there was an opt-out and movement to opt out of all this stuff.
[00:46:03]  And they were going to do it on Thanksgiving to clog the system.
[00:46:09]  At that point in time, on the busiest travel day of the year, the TSA, in order to shut down that protest, just opened up and let everybody walk through without any scans.
[00:46:20]  And because it was building, there was a lot of resentment at that point in time.
[00:46:23]  So they just placated it.
[00:46:25]  They're not doing that now, however.
[00:46:27]  And we learned in 2011, 10 years after 2001, the TSA and its own documents that were discovered as part of a lawsuit, they accidentally uploaded to PACER.gov the unredacted documents that were part of that lawsuit, and then discovered their error.
[00:46:47]  And later that day, they took that down and put up the redacted document.
[00:46:51]  So we saw what they didn't want us to see, which is that in 2011, they said there is no threat against airports or airplanes.
[00:47:03]  And we know that that's true because they do their job so poorly that if there had been threats, we would have had a lot of terrorist events at that point in time.
[00:47:13]  And that happened at the same time that there was a big pushback in Texas against the body scanners and other things like that.
[00:47:21]  And they were threatening to turn Texas into a no-fly zone if we didn't let the TSA do what the TSA wanted to do.
[00:47:29]  And so it's absolutely unnecessary.
[00:47:31]  And when you look at it from a security standpoint, as many people have pointed out, the idea of having these lines that wrap around buildings for hours is the biggest security threat that you could have.
[00:47:47]  You can kill more people by bombing these lines than you could kill with bombing an airplane.
[00:47:52]  We've seen this happen in Muslim countries where they wanted to target Christian church buildings or people having worship service.
[00:47:59]  And so they would have metal scanners, TSA style, and they have security searching people, make sure they didn't go in there with a bomb.
[00:48:06]  So what did they do?
[00:48:07]  The suicide bombers attacked the people that were all bunched up at the metal detectors in the scanning area.
[00:48:14]  So travelers are facing three to four hour delays at airports.
[00:48:18]  And it's causing missed flights, massive delays during peak travel because this is spring break time.
[00:48:26]  Referring to their TSA officers, they said, these frontline heroes received only a partial paycheck earlier this month and now face their first full missing paycheck, leading to financial hardship, absentees, and crippling staff shortages.
[00:48:44]  Hey, get a real job, okay?
[00:48:46]  I have no sympathy for these people.
[00:48:48]  Hobby Airport in Houston stated the passengers should arrive at least four to five hours before flight departure to allow enough time for TSA screening, with estimated wait times for the screening exceeding 180 minutes or two and a half hours.
[00:49:04]  Well, again, when we were in China, we experienced the same thing.
[00:49:08]  This is an announcement when we're coming back from China.
[00:49:11]  For those people going to America, make sure you get to your terminal.
[00:49:16]  And I forget what the amount of time was, way early before your plane flight goes.
[00:49:20]  And, you know, we go there, and we had bought a bunch of toys at the toy market for our daughter to keep her entertained because we knew how long and difficult this flight was going to be.
[00:49:31]  And they just took every single one of those toys out and pitched them in the trash right in front of our daughter.
[00:49:37]  I tell you, it's just, it's insane what they do.
[00:49:41]  The federal shutdown, which began February 14th, is now in its 23rd day, partial shutdown.
[00:49:46]  House of Representatives passed a bill to fund DHS.
[00:49:50]  However, Senate Democrats blocked the funding legislation because they want to see some reform with ICE and Border Patrol.
[00:50:00]  And TSA is also, however, part of this, and so is FEMA.
[00:50:06]  Can't do without either one of those agencies, can we?
[00:50:11]  Trust us.
[00:50:12]  And then you find out.
[00:50:14]  Also, the Coast Guard is part of that.
[00:50:16]  I'd support the Coast Guard being there.
[00:50:18]  I think that's practical as well as constitutional.
[00:50:21]  Chris Sununu is now the CEO of Airlines for America.
[00:50:25]  It's a trade organization of U.S. Airlines.
[00:50:27]  He said the shutdown is having very real consequences, and hardworking federal aviation workers, the airline industry, and our passengers are being used as a political football once again.
[00:50:38]  This is simply unacceptable and un-American.
[00:50:42]  Please give us our TSA scanners, he says, right?
[00:50:46]  It's the TSA that is un-American.
[00:50:48]  It's the TSA that is using us as political footballs.
[00:50:52]  He says we're in spring break travel session, expecting record number of people.
[00:50:56]  America's transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage.
[00:51:03]  Shut them down.
[00:51:04]  TSA, go away.
[00:51:06]  That ought to be the chant of everybody at the airport.
[00:51:09]  That ought to get a chant going with this line that is four hours long.
[00:51:15]  TSA, go away.
[00:51:17]  So one person said, Southwest texted me this morning early to expect a three-hour line, so I left right away.
[00:51:25]  And this is in New Orleans International Airport.
[00:51:28]  He said, I never expected to see what I saw, though.
[00:51:30]  He said, lines stretched from the security checkpoints down an escalator, out to the parking garage, snaking around the entire terminal multiple times, he said, and several hour wait.
[00:51:44]  The TSA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests.
[00:51:49]  That's how they ended this article.
[00:51:51]  It was like, because they don't immediately respond to anything.
[00:51:56]  That's par for the course.
[00:51:58]  Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks.
[00:52:00]  be right back.

=== Vulnerable LNG Infrastructure (15:18) ===

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[00:53:36]  Common again.
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[00:53:59]  Well, as I said before, it's very interesting that even though the Trump administration's tweets about, well, the war is almost over, meanwhile, you got Pete Hex that say, no, we're just getting started.
[00:54:11]  You know, we've got a lot more people to kill.
[00:54:14]  Even as this kind of stuff is happening, even as they pull back the false statements about escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the market still continues to go down.
[00:54:24]  It went down like about the oil price went down about 10%.
[00:54:28]  I think it was 9% in the U.S. and 11% abroad.
[00:54:32]  But there's other things involved in this as well.
[00:54:35]  We'll be talking to Gerald Slinty in just a few minutes.
[00:54:37]  BlackRock, for example, we talked about that.
[00:54:40]  A lot of people wanted to get their money out of their fund, and they wouldn't let everybody take their money out.
[00:54:47]  And you're seeing a lot of these funds are losing money very, very rapidly.
[00:54:52]  They typically will go up anywhere from a half to percent.
[00:54:57]  It's considered to be pretty good, to go up a half a percent or 1% over a couple of months.
[00:55:03]  A lot of these same funds that were touting their performance of going up a half or 1% over a couple of months, first two months of the year, dropped immediately 3.5%.
[00:55:17]  So when you look at what is happening with this, it is having a big effect economically.
[00:55:22]  And just as I pointed out in that article from Jeffrey Tucker, he said, when you look at the shock to the system that Trump's lockdown and COVID nonsense was back in 2020, we still haven't recovered from that.
[00:55:35]  So many businesses were damaged that they couldn't survive.
[00:55:39]  They might have continued on for a little while as a zombie business, but they're dying or dead now.
[00:55:45]  And a lot of jobs, a lot of small mom and pops, and even a lot of large corporations.
[00:55:51]  And it completely altered the way our society is set up in terms of what Gerald talks about all the time in terms of commercial real estate, people forsaking physical brick and mortar locations for either retail or for office space.
[00:56:08]  And so there's been some massive fundamental changes that keep propagating on.
[00:56:15]  And the same type of thing is going to happen to energy prices, because part of this broader war is not only to block the Strait of Hormuz, but it is also to shut down and damage production of oil and natural gas.
[00:56:34]  And that is something that is very, very vulnerable.
[00:56:36]  And we see it being lit up now everywhere after just a week or so of this stuff.
[00:56:42]  And so they hit Iran, and Iran then starts hitting these other facilities that are out there.
[00:56:49]  And the initial facility that was hit, the large liquid natural gas facility, that was only a partial hit.
[00:56:58]  If they really want to destroy that, they have the capacity to do that.
[00:57:02]  It's not that hard.
[00:57:04]  These things are very volatile and flammable.
[00:57:07]  And they only released a small attack against that.
[00:57:11]  And again, it doesn't even have to do with missiles or drones.
[00:57:15]  It has to do with terrorist attacks and sleeper cells that can do this.
[00:57:21]  So, I mean, if they just go to one of these facilities and start lobbying RPGs into it or something, they probably could achieve the same effect.
[00:57:30]  So if they destroy the capability of these Gulf states, that's what part of this desalinization plans are.
[00:57:38]  They have taken a couple of short shots at a desalinization plant.
[00:57:43]  They haven't completely knocked it out.
[00:57:45]  At a liquid natural gas plant and haven't completely knocked that out.
[00:57:51]  They've also hit some oil refineries as well as some other aspects of it.
[00:57:58]  But there's also the oil ports.
[00:58:00]  The infrastructure that's there is very, very vulnerable.
[00:58:04]  And if you take out the ports, if you take out the oil refineries or the wells or the LNG factories, then it really doesn't matter if the tankers are moving or not.
[00:58:17]  And of course, this is the focus right now at this point.
[00:58:21]  Why it wasn't the focus of the Trump administration earlier is a very telling thing.
[00:58:26]  But now the Strait of Hormuz is the big issue.
[00:58:30]  And the Pentagon is bragging about the fact that I think they took out 16 ships that were mine ships that the Iranians had.
[00:58:38]  Except the Iranians have a massive number of very, very small ships that can carry two or three mines at a time.
[00:58:46]  And so again, it is this decentralized approach.
[00:58:50]  It's going to be very hard for them to shut that down.
[00:58:54]  And all the threats in the world aren't really going to do it for them.
[00:58:59]  Let's take a look at what is happening with oil before we get Gerald Slinty on.
[00:59:03]  And again, the prices dropped based on the lie from the Trump administration.
[00:59:11]  Oil retreats even after Energy Secretary wrongly claims that the Navy escorted a tanker for the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:59:19]  Again, you're being played, right?
[00:59:21]  They're looking for what they want to hear, and they act on it even when they know that it's not true, and even when it's been told that it is not true.
[00:59:31]  And so Trump, Secretary Wright, and the rest of the president's energy team are closely monitoring the situation, speaking with industry leaders, and having the U.S. military draw up additional options to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, including the potential for our Navy to be escorting tankers, said a spokesperson from the White House.
[00:59:51]  So they could potentially do this, you know, something they thought about after the fact.
[00:59:57]  They could potentially do that, but they're not doing it.
[01:00:01]  The IEA, the International Energy Agency, is going to hold an extraordinary meeting yesterday to discuss the possible release of emergency stockpiles.
[01:00:12]  It's more than 30 members.
[01:00:13]  And of course, the members of this are basically European countries.
[01:00:19]  You've got Australia, New Zealand, Canada is in it, the U.S. is in it, and Japan and South Korea.
[01:00:25]  So these 32 countries have stockpiled.
[01:00:28]  They have a strategic reserve like the U.S. is supposed to have.
[01:00:31]  They have a 1.2 billion barrels of oil strategic reserve.
[01:00:37]  Our strategic reserve is 714 million barrels.
[01:00:42]  Unfortunately, when we went into this war, Trump only had the gas tank filled up halfway, more than halfway, 58% was where he had his gas tank.
[01:00:55]  And he never, it's another example of how they weren't planning on doing this.
[01:01:00]  They were forced into doing it, said Marco Rubio, by Israel.
[01:01:04]  And Israel picked what they wanted us to do, and they picked the timing that they wanted us to do it.
[01:01:09]  It would have made sense, wouldn't it, to have filled up the gas tank when oil was cheaper?
[01:01:15]  So Trump is around bragging about how cheap oil is at the moment last year, and he doesn't use it to fill up the strategic petroleum reserve.
[01:01:24]  The same people had criticized Biden for basically squandering it in a non-emergency situation.
[01:01:30]  Those same people who criticized Biden for squandering it did not fill it up when they had the opportunity to do it when prices were down.
[01:01:37]  And he didn't do it in anticipation of this action either.
[01:01:41]  So he goes to war with a half-filled gas tank.
[01:01:45]  And so the strategic petroleum reserve that they're talking about releasing is 400 million barrels.
[01:01:54]  And we are down from where we should be, about 300 million barrels.
[01:02:00]  And they have done this in the past.
[01:02:02]  And so have we in terms of major events.
[01:02:09]  While we have faced disruption in the past, this is by far the biggest crisis the region's oil and gas industry has faced, said a Ramco CEO.
[01:02:18]  Trump warned on Monday that Iran would be hit 20 times harder than it is right now if it attempted to halt oil flows through the strait.
[01:02:27]  Again, all bluster.
[01:02:29]  Have they held back?
[01:02:31]  Warpete says they haven't held anything back.
[01:02:32]  How could they hit them 20 times harder?
[01:02:35]  And has it stopped them from laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz?
[01:02:41]  According to some sources, they've already started doing that.
[01:02:44]  If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they've been hit thus far, said Trump.
[01:02:53]  Well, there's nothing but optimism for some reason in the market.
[01:02:58]  And quite frankly, I don't really understand that.
[01:03:01]  But the Trump comments have lifted the markets.
[01:03:06]  But many people have said it's too early to draw conclusions about this.
[01:03:09]  You better believe that it is.
[01:03:11]  And again, he doesn't back up any of this stuff with reality.
[01:03:17]  So the hedge funds, or a lot of them, are taking a real beating, reports Bloomberg.
[01:03:23]  The title of the article, I really like this, Between a Dock and a Hard Place.
[01:03:30]  The glut of oil on the water.
[01:03:34]  And that's, they filled up these tankers and all these tankers are sitting there and can't go anywhere because they can't go through the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:03:41]  And you've got a couple of the big oil states that don't have any way of getting their oil out except through the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:03:49]  But it's about 20% of the world's oil, which is a much bigger impact than we had during the 1973 OPEC embargo that's there.
[01:03:58]  So the other energy market that's going to get hit even harder than oil is going to be the liquid natural gas market.
[01:04:07]  And so why do we say that?
[01:04:10]  Well, because it is the tankers are much more expensive than the oil tankers.
[01:04:17]  An LNG tanker can cost $250 million.
[01:04:20]  So they are especially have cold feet when it comes to going through the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:04:27]  And as Audi MRR says, that straight is a death trap for the Navy.
[01:04:31]  I think Trump wants casualties in order to get public support for this Iranian war.
[01:04:36]  Yeah, that probably would do it, strangely enough, rather than turning people against it.
[01:04:42]  We have just incurred a lot more casualties, not deaths yet, but I saw that 150 soldiers are just wounded in an attack somewhere.
[01:04:51]  He predicts that LNG exports from the region won't begin again until there is 100% certainty that it's safe to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:05:02]  So a person said, I don't think in the first few days of this conflict, and we're only a week in, that there's an appreciation for the length of time that Qatar is going to be offline and the effect it's going to have on global supply and global market.
[01:05:16]  Because once they shut these things down, it's very difficult to open them back up again.
[01:05:22]  They're very complicated, these facilities that are producing LNG.
[01:05:28]  And of course, when they do that with the wells, they can damage the wells permanently.
[01:05:33]  But it's a very complicated process to shut down these LNG factories, I guess we call them, and to start them back up again.
[01:05:43]  So it's a setting duck, says one person of the LNG infrastructure.
[01:05:48]  If Iran wanted to do a major damage to Qatar's LNG capacity, it could.
[01:05:53]  There's no way of defending completely against an Iranian attack if Iran was hell-bent on damaging the plant.
[01:05:59]  It's not like one node can take out all the Middle East oil production because there's just too many oil fields and there's too many countries and there's too many plants and facilities.
[01:06:08]  However, with LNG, it's basically only one facility, a gigantic complex, but it's just one facility.
[01:06:19]  And they've already hit this facility in a minor way.
[01:06:23]  And so that is something that is on the horizon.
[01:06:27]  The U.S. is seeing signs that Iran is preparing to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:06:31]  And some people have said that it has actually happened already.
[01:06:36]  Steichen 420 said, I just got an email stating that my natural gas bill will go up with an effect of April the 18th.
[01:06:45]  Yeah, that's the thing.
[01:06:46]  Even though we have, even though we're a major supplier of liquid natural gas, what happens is the same effect that we saw during the OPEC oil embargo.
[01:06:56]  Again, that was targeted toward the United States alone.
[01:07:00]  However, it affects all markets.
[01:07:04]  And so even though at that point in time, the U.S. only had 19% of its oil coming from abroad, When they cut off the oil from OPEC, the U.S. started going to other markets to buy oil.
[01:07:19]  And so when everybody is looking for the LNG, that means the price is going to go up here domestically as well, just because people are competing for limited resources.
[01:07:30]  So it's going to affect us as well.
[01:07:32]  We are not going to be making a lot of money.
[01:07:34]  It'll be Lindsey Graham and his crowd of criminal warmongers that will be making the money.
[01:07:43]  So the U.S. military has completely destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying ships in the Strait of Hormuz, says War Pete.
[01:07:51]  However, they have a lot of very small vessels, as CBS News reports.
[01:08:02]  Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry two or three mines each.
[01:08:07]  Iran's mine stock isn't publicly known, but estimates range from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines produced largely by Iran, China, and or Russia.
[01:08:20]  So they've been mining them and producing them.
[01:08:23]  And they've got a lot of small ships that can put these out, and they've got a lot of mines that are there.
[01:08:29]  So during the tanker war, which is part of the larger Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Iran routinely placed naval mines along the major shipping routes used by oil tankers.
[01:08:39]  As the war continues, major maritime insurers have pulled back.
[01:08:44]  And so again, the gas market is the one that's going to be really, really hit.
[01:08:48]  And that's the one that Europe is really dependent upon.

=== Practical Standpoint on Mines (04:36) ===

[01:08:52]  They have moved in a big way to the gas lines.
[01:08:55]  And that's why the Nord Stream 1 and 2 were such a big deal when they were blown up by America.
[01:09:02]  Iran begins laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, say sources.
[01:09:06]  This is from CNN.
[01:09:07]  Iran still retains upward of 80 to 90% of its small boats and mine layers.
[01:09:14]  One of the sources said.
[01:09:15]  So its forces could easily lay hundreds of mines in the waterway.
[01:09:20]  So again, Donald Trump is very furious about it and shaking his fist and making threats.
[01:09:28]  But it remains to be seen if there's anything that he can really do about it.
[01:09:32]  Do we have Gerald yet?
[01:09:35]  Still working on it, I guess.
[01:09:36]  They've joined, but Gerald is not set down yet.
[01:09:39]  Okay, all right.
[01:09:40]  State of the Strait, that's what I was saying.
[01:09:44]  The State of the Strait.
[01:09:45]  Again, would you think that if you're going to go to war, you might want to think about the possibilities strategically of what could happen?
[01:09:52]  You know, if we're going to go to war, well, we're going to win it right away.
[01:09:56]  We're going to take out their leader and the war is going to be over.
[01:09:59]  We don't need to worry about protecting the Strait of Hormuz, right?
[01:10:03]  They just don't understand what's going on, I think.
[01:10:06]  They went to war without planning for this to last at all.
[01:10:10]  They went to war without filling up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
[01:10:14]  They went to war without having plans to defend the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:10:18]  And so now they're thinking about that after the fact.
[01:10:22]  And nothing about this makes any sense, even from a practical standpoint.
[01:10:27]  But of course, it is an absolute abomination from a legal and moral standpoint.
[01:10:33]  We'll be right back.
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[01:12:27]  All right, joining us now is Gerald Slinty of Trends Journal.
[01:12:31]  And Gerald is spot on with the trends.
[01:12:34]  Who knows in terms of time precisely what's going on?
[01:12:36]  But he even predicted that it would be over the weekend as it was.
[01:12:41]  And he also predicted that the Middle East would be set on fire.
[01:12:44]  And unfortunately, you were right, Gerald.
[01:12:47]  Sad to say that this is happening, but we're going to take a look at some of the knock-on effects of this as well.
[01:12:53]  What is really behind what's going on with BlackRock and the private credit market?
[01:12:57]  Why are these funds doing so poorly and all this?
[01:13:01]  And what is going to be the effect of what I consider to be the OPEC oil embargo 2.0?
[01:13:09]  Except this is the Trump oil embargo, T-O-E, I guess we call it the toe.
[01:13:15]  He's going to toe the line.
[01:13:16]  So joining us now is Gerald Slinty.
[01:13:17]  Thank you for joining us, Gerald.
[01:13:19]  Oh, thanks for having me on, and thank you so much for what you do.
[01:13:21]  Well, thank you.
[01:13:22]  I've been at this for 46 years.
[01:13:27]  Yeah.

=== BlackRock Market Manipulation (14:16) ===

[01:13:29]  Best-selling books, Trends 2000, Trend Tracking, Far Better than Megatrends, Time Magazine.
[01:13:34]  Been writing the magazine, The Trends Journal, since 1991.
[01:13:40]  These are the most dangerous times in my lifetime.
[01:13:44]  And I'm the same age as Trump.
[01:13:47]  And if I look like him, I'd blow my brains out.
[01:13:50]  And this is serious.
[01:13:53]  We got mad men running this country.
[01:13:57]  Yes.
[01:13:59]  They're not only crazy, but they're fools as well at the same time.
[01:14:02]  Yeah.
[01:14:03]  Well, yeah.
[01:14:04]  You look at the cover of this week's Trends Journal magazine.
[01:14:07]  It goes basically says, Trump said, it was my opinion that Iran was going to attack us.
[01:14:19]  And we write, shove your opinion up your you-know-what.
[01:14:24]  Show us the facts.
[01:14:25]  Don't start wars on opinions.
[01:14:28]  Where is the outrage?
[01:14:31]  Hey, hey, it's my opinion, all right?
[01:14:34]  Yeah, that's right.
[01:14:35]  Show me the facts.
[01:14:37]  I want to show you the facts.
[01:14:38]  Don't you know who I am?
[01:14:40]  I'm some lying bastard who lied my way into office by saying things like, I'm not going to start a war.
[01:14:53]  I'm going to stop wars.
[01:14:55]  Oh, he said that in a campaign speech on October 20th, 2024.
[01:15:01]  Yeah.
[01:15:03]  Hey, hey, we want to have peace on earth all over.
[01:15:07]  Oh, he said that on September 25th, 2024.
[01:15:13]  Yeah.
[01:15:14]  How about this?
[01:15:17]  Five days after he's elected.
[01:15:22]  I'm moving quickly to end wars, settle conflicts, and restore the planet to peace.
[01:15:28]  I want peace.
[01:15:30]  Said the piece of crap.
[01:15:32]  Yeah.
[01:15:34]  Lies.
[01:15:36]  So now let's go back to the opinion.
[01:15:38]  So here it is.
[01:15:40]  You know, the guy across the street over here, we've been having a fight.
[01:15:44]  You know, I think this guy's going to kill me.
[01:15:47]  So I, so I shot him.
[01:15:49]  It was my opinion that he was going to kill me.
[01:15:52]  So I shot him.
[01:15:53]  Yeah.
[01:15:54]  All right.
[01:15:55]  Now, what would, if I went to court, what would happen?
[01:16:00]  Well, let's take your example there.
[01:16:02]  And because what Trump is saying is that they were going to destroy Israel.
[01:16:05]  So we got them first, right?
[01:16:06]  So that you'd say, well, I think my neighbor who's been arguing with my other neighbor, I think he was going to kill my other neighbor.
[01:16:13]  So I went over there and killed him first, right?
[01:16:15]  Yeah.
[01:16:17]  It is insane.
[01:16:18]  Get away with this.
[01:16:19]  Yeah.
[01:16:19]  If I killed somebody because I thought they were going, thought they were going to kill me and I went to court, Your Honor, it was my opinion that he was going to kill me.
[01:16:30]  So I killed him.
[01:16:32]  What would they do to me?
[01:16:33]  Yeah.
[01:16:34]  They locked me up.
[01:16:36]  This guy should be locked up.
[01:16:38]  He should be.
[01:16:39]  You know, as you know, I taught close combat for many years, a black belt.
[01:16:44]  You know, you know what you learn in close combat?
[01:16:48]  You only attack the attacker.
[01:16:51]  Yeah.
[01:16:51]  Got it?
[01:16:52]  Yeah.
[01:16:54]  You only attack the attacker.
[01:16:58]  That's right.
[01:16:59]  And it's the moral issue of this, too.
[01:17:01]  I'm so disgusted with these people who wear their Christianity on their sleeve like a tattoo, like Hegseth, who's out there talking about how he can kill everybody.
[01:17:10]  He's raining death and destruction down on people.
[01:17:12]  And we're just getting started.
[01:17:14]  If they think they're going to survive, they got another thing coming.
[01:17:16]  He is the aggressor.
[01:17:19]  You know, we are the aggressor in this.
[01:17:20]  We're the bad guys in all of this.
[01:17:23]  There's no question about it.
[01:17:24]  And it's nothing that he's doing as Christian, right?
[01:17:30]  It's like, no, no, I have to interrupt you.
[01:17:34]  Go to hell.
[01:17:35]  I'm going to read you headsets bullshit that he spewed out yesterday.
[01:17:41]  He's the real Christian.
[01:17:42]  Here's what he said.
[01:17:44]  This is at a press conference.
[01:17:46]  Now the chairman and I are having just returned from Dover last night.
[01:17:51]  Our troops and their families and their enormous sacrifice that they make is clearly, is certainly heavy on my mind.
[01:18:00]  You ready?
[01:18:02]  So I'll close with scripture drawing strength from Psalm 141.
[01:18:12]  Blessed be the Lord.
[01:18:14]  You ready?
[01:18:15]  Yeah.
[01:18:16]  My rock who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.
[01:18:24]  Yeah.
[01:18:24]  The problem is.
[01:18:26]  Try that finger.
[01:18:27]  Yeah.
[01:18:28]  If he was a Christian, he would also know that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood.
[01:18:33]  And so that's what our hands are trained for.
[01:18:35]  That's the warfare.
[01:18:36]  God says, what God says, my hands are trained for war.
[01:18:40]  Yeah, spiritual warfare.
[01:18:41]  And what he's doing is he's on the side of the enemy when he's out there bragging about how many people he kills.
[01:18:48]  Christ said, blessed are the peacemakers because they'll be called the children of God, not the warmongering Israelis who think that they are the only children of God.
[01:18:58]  That is not what any of this is about.
[01:19:02]  And I have to speak against Hegseth all the time because I want people to understand he does not represent Christ.
[01:19:08]  He does not represent Christians.
[01:19:10]  He is antichrist.
[01:19:12]  Yep.
[01:19:13]  So I'm going to go on.
[01:19:15]  Again, blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war.
[01:19:21]  Who the hell are you talking to?
[01:19:25]  God doesn't train your hands for war.
[01:19:28]  Satan does.
[01:19:30]  You got it?
[01:19:31]  That's right.
[01:19:33]  And my fingers to battle.
[01:19:35]  As I said, that's your finger.
[01:19:38]  He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield in whom I take refuge.
[01:19:48]  May the Lord grant unyielding strength and refuge to our warriors, unbreakable protection to them and our homeland, and total victory over those who seek to harm them.
[01:20:03]  And amen.
[01:20:05]  God bless our troops and his mission.
[01:20:08]  His mission isn't to slaughter people, you sliny bastard.
[01:20:15]  That's right.
[01:20:15]  That's right.
[01:20:17]  Yeah, he was set up to defend America, right?
[01:20:20]  If somebody attacked us as an aggressor, but that's not what they wanted.
[01:20:24]  They wanted the Department of War.
[01:20:26]  He absolutely hates law and morality.
[01:20:30]  He despises it.
[01:20:31]  That's why they attacked people in Venezuela.
[01:20:33]  That's why they went back and killed survivors in the water.
[01:20:37]  This guy hates the Constitution.
[01:20:39]  He hates international law.
[01:20:41]  He hates the Geneva Convention.
[01:20:43]  He hates what Christ has taught us.
[01:20:45]  He hates all this stuff.
[01:20:46]  He wants to kill people.
[01:20:47]  That's his only mission in life is to kill people.
[01:20:51]  And I got to say, you know, if even if you go back to some of the Old Testament kingdom statements, Israel was condemned because they said, no, you put your trust in horses and chariots.
[01:21:04]  And these guys, all they do is count their horses and their chariots and their bombers and their missiles.
[01:21:10]  That's what these creeps in the Pentagon trust in.
[01:21:13]  They're not trusting in God.
[01:21:15]  Nope.
[01:21:16]  Nope.
[01:21:17]  Yeah.
[01:21:18]  This is serious stuff.
[01:21:19]  It is.
[01:21:19]  Pentagon chief Hegset said Tuesday will be the most intensive day of strikes inside Iran.
[01:21:27]  Yeah.
[01:21:28]  Slaughter people.
[01:21:29]  Hey, how about they're killing 175 kids in that school, huh?
[01:21:33]  And they don't care about that.
[01:21:34]  They don't even have the decency to apologize.
[01:21:37]  That's one of the stories I've got here.
[01:21:38]  Senator Kennedy out of Louisiana apologized.
[01:21:42]  He's the only one to say, I'm sorry it was a mistake.
[01:21:45]  Why couldn't Trump and Hegseth say that?
[01:21:47]  Why couldn't they say that was a mistake?
[01:21:49]  I'm sorry that that happened.
[01:21:51]  They won't acknowledge that it was even them.
[01:21:54]  They come up with implausible lies that it was Iran, that Iran has got tomahawk missiles.
[01:21:59]  It's like they don't have, Iran doesn't have tomahawk missiles.
[01:22:02]  Not even Israel is given tomahawk missiles because they want to keep it proprietary, keep it secret, you know.
[01:22:11]  Trump blamed Iran for bombing that school.
[01:22:13]  Yeah, I know.
[01:22:14]  It's ridiculous.
[01:22:15]  It's like the excuses that they made in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
[01:22:20]  Just come up with stuff like Christine Holmes said, well, they were stuck in the snow and they were attacked by her.
[01:22:26]  You know, I mean, they just make this stuff up.
[01:22:28]  They're worse than Clinton.
[01:22:29]  At least Clinton would try to come up with something that was somewhat plausible, even if it was a lie.
[01:22:35]  But Trump will just look at you and lie straight to your face.
[01:22:39]  I think he learned that from Fauci.
[01:22:43]  Yep.
[01:22:43]  Yeah, it's amazing.
[01:22:45]  Well, what goes on with this?
[01:22:47]  How do you read what's happening with gold?
[01:22:50]  It's been oil that has skyrocketed in price.
[01:22:53]  What about gold?
[01:22:54]  What do you think is going to be going on with gold?
[01:22:56]  They're doing everything they can to manipulate the markets.
[01:22:59]  You made up that clown, what's his name?
[01:23:02]  Chris Wright, the energy secretary.
[01:23:05]  How about Chris Wrong?
[01:23:08]  That's right.
[01:23:09]  A lie, little bastard.
[01:23:12]  Hey, hey, hey, Lord.
[01:23:16]  I'm the energy secretary.
[01:23:17]  Iran.
[01:23:18]  Here's what's going on.
[01:23:20]  Our naval ships, we're bringing tankers to the Straits of Hamuz.
[01:23:27]  Down goes the oil prices.
[01:23:29]  Up goes the markets.
[01:23:31]  Total lie.
[01:23:33]  Total lie.
[01:23:34]  And then a couple of hours later, United States admitted that they weren't doing it.
[01:23:39]  That's right.
[01:23:40]  But it brought down the market.
[01:23:41]  They're manipulating.
[01:23:42]  Now I'm going to go back to another manipulation.
[01:23:45]  And again, gold prices.
[01:23:48]  And as you well know, a week, yeah, it was like, what, two weeks ago, I do Judge Napolitano every Wednesday.
[01:23:57]  We'll be on tonight at 6:30.
[01:24:01]  I said, you could Google it up.
[01:24:05]  I said, I believe that Trump is going to bomb Iran this weekend.
[01:24:12]  I said it on a Wednesday.
[01:24:15]  I said, it's in the Trends Journal.
[01:24:18]  I said, all the polls show how he's going down.
[01:24:24]  They're hiding the Epstein files.
[01:24:27]  They're going to do everything they can to get the people's minds off this.
[01:24:31]  Everything they can.
[01:24:33]  The markets were going down big.
[01:24:36]  And we'll get back to that.
[01:24:37]  We'll talk about what you talk about, BlackRock and the other ones.
[01:24:40]  Everything was going down.
[01:24:42]  So now, gold.
[01:24:45]  He attacks Iran, right?
[01:24:50]  Gold prices spike.
[01:24:52]  Again, he did it on the weekend.
[01:24:55]  The equity markets open over in Asia.
[01:25:05]  Gold's going through the roof.
[01:25:07]  $5,400 an ounce.
[01:25:12]  The markets open in America.
[01:25:15]  Foom.
[01:25:16]  Down goes gold.
[01:25:19]  We write about it in the Trends Journal.
[01:25:21]  They're manipulating the market.
[01:25:23]  Oh, you don't believe me?
[01:25:24]  We put the quote in there from Reuters.
[01:25:28]  September 2020.
[01:25:31]  JP Morgan Chase is fined, September 2020, $920 million for rigging the precious metals market.
[01:25:40]  Yeah.
[01:25:41]  Yeah.
[01:25:44]  So we said, we're not saying J.P. Morgan Chase is rigging the market.
[01:25:48]  And we're not saying the Federal Reserve or the government's rigging the market.
[01:25:51]  We're saying the facts.
[01:25:53]  This is what happened before.
[01:25:54]  It's happening now.
[01:25:56]  They're doing everything they can to bring down the price of gold and silver because it's a safe haven asset and people are showing the fear that's really there.
[01:26:06]  Again, it's at $5,400 an ounce.
[01:26:12]  As soon as the American markets open, boom, it goes down about $300.
[01:26:18]  But that's a good news because it's on sale for the rest of us who know that reality is going to eventually catch up.
[01:26:26]  You know, so if you play the long game, yeah, that's right.
[01:26:28]  Now let's go back to Monday.
[01:26:32]  The markets open up again in Asia Sunday.
[01:26:38]  Brent crude over $120 a barrel.
[01:26:43]  What happens on Monday?
[01:26:46]  Markets way down.
[01:26:48]  Trump comes out.
[01:26:50]  Looks like the war is going to end soon.
[01:26:54]  It's almost over.
[01:26:55]  Yeah.
[01:26:56]  We're going to stop it.
[01:26:58]  And what happens to Brent Crude?
[01:27:00]  Foom.
[01:27:01]  Way down, and the markets go up.
[01:27:03]  That's going to be a quote we're going to be playing for years.
[01:27:06]  Trump said that.
[01:27:07]  It's going to be like George W. Bush, mission accomplished, right?
[01:27:11]  On the aircraft carrier.
[01:27:13]  That's going to be a quote enshrined in the annals of lies of politicians for centuries.
[01:27:21]  Yep.
[01:27:22]  They're manipulating the markets.
[01:27:24]  Yeah.
[01:27:26]  A little slime ball right.
[01:27:29]  Lying, lying in front of everybody's eyes.
[01:27:33]  That's right.
[01:27:36]  And it's almost like the markets knew that he was lying and still kept pushing it down.
[01:27:40]  So, I mean, there's other things on the ground.
[01:27:41]  I don't know what's going on.
[01:27:43]  I don't know what's Brent Crude now.

=== Einstein Against Crusade Lies (05:42) ===

[01:27:46]  Do you know?
[01:27:46]  I don't know.
[01:27:47]  I saw that it was, I think it dropped based on what he had to say.
[01:27:51]  It dropped, I think, 11%.
[01:27:52]  And I think West Texas Intermediate, I think, went down like 9% or something domestic.
[01:27:58]  Yeah, but it's still, the last time I looked, Brent crude was over $90 a barrel.
[01:28:06]  And you're looking at, hey, hey, my standard union address, all right?
[01:28:11]  Hey, hey, hey.
[01:28:14]  The average price of most states of a gallon of gas, $2.30.
[01:28:21]  And, you know, he's bragging about that, Gerald, but he doesn't fill up his gas tank, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
[01:28:27]  Even as he's boasting about cheap oil prices, they don't fill that up.
[01:28:32]  What's the matter with these people, right?
[01:28:34]  When he said that, it wasn't $2.30.
[01:28:39]  It was $2.93.
[01:28:44]  According to AAA.
[01:28:46]  Now, it's around $3.54 a gallon.
[01:28:54]  Bragging two weeks ago.
[01:29:02]  How about you not bragging now that you brought the prices up?
[01:29:05]  I pulled that up because I wanted to show Trump did that to the audience.
[01:29:10]  This is the thing I put up.
[01:29:11]  Remember the sticker, Gerald, of Biden, where he's pointing with his index finger to the, he put it right next to the price on the gas gauge there on the gas tank.
[01:29:24]  And I said, we need one with Trump says, I did that, but instead of the index finger, he's using the middle finger.
[01:29:31]  Yeah.
[01:29:33]  Pointing to the price of gas.
[01:29:35]  He did that.
[01:29:35]  And that's what they've given us, the middle finger.
[01:29:37]  Yeah.
[01:29:39]  Yep.
[01:29:41]  Yeah.
[01:29:42]  They are toast, Pentagon Chief Hegson said.
[01:29:47]  Sheer destruction of radical Islamic, Islamist Iranian adversaries, Islamist adversaries.
[01:29:57]  Did you hear that guy, Rosenberg, on WABC radio calling the mayor of New York City a jihadist terrorist?
[01:30:09]  I didn't hear that.
[01:30:09]  A Muslim jihadist terrorist.
[01:30:11]  Hardly reported.
[01:30:12]  It's in your Trent's Journal.
[01:30:14]  Yeah.
[01:30:15]  I'm mentioning this.
[01:30:16]  This is the Ninth Crusade.
[01:30:19]  They're going to teach the people to hate the Islamists and the Muslims.
[01:30:26]  Him calling Iran Islamist adversaries.
[01:30:38]  Well, of course, the difference with this crusade is that they're not trying to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims.
[01:30:44]  What they're trying to do is liberate the entire Middle East for Israel, which is what you're seeing with Mike Huckabee and other people like that.
[01:30:52]  And when he talks about all of Islam, what he's done is he's alienated the allies that are there as well.
[01:30:58]  We're not only short on ammunition, but we're short on allies as well.
[01:31:02]  And he's out there pushing them away.
[01:31:08]  You know, you're talking about Israel.
[01:31:11]  Once upon a time, there was this guy by the name of Albert Einstein, Atomic Bombcat, a Jewish.
[01:31:22]  And there's this whole thing about the new Palestinian Party.
[01:31:26]  Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence of the newly created state of Israel of the Freedom Party, a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazis and fascist parties.
[01:31:45]  Yeah, that's right.
[01:31:46]  That's Einstein coming out against this.
[01:31:49]  Einstein.
[01:31:52]  Yeah.
[01:31:53]  Made up crap in 1948 giving Israel the Palestinian land.
[01:32:01]  And again, it's in your trends journal.
[01:32:04]  We did a whole article.
[01:32:06]  I've done this before, Crusades 2000, about the Balfour Declaration in 1917 that His Majesty's government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and we will use our best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this objective.
[01:32:32]  His Majesty's government?
[01:32:34]  Some murderous slime ball from the UK, where the sun never sets on the British Empire?
[01:32:39]  Oh, the Balfour Declaration that went to the Rothschilds?
[01:32:43]  That one?
[01:32:44]  Yeah.
[01:32:46]  Yeah.
[01:32:46]  I had, you know, I was talking about Jeffrey Epstein and his eugenics program at the Zara Ranch earlier in the broadcast.
[01:32:53]  And one person said, well, what's the matter with eugenics, really?
[01:32:55]  Because don't we want to have the best people?
[01:32:57]  I said, well, the problem is, is that when you start with eugenics, where the eventually goes is to the situation where you dehumanize people that you don't think are part of the master race, right?
[01:33:11]  We saw it with the Nazis, and we see it with the state of Israel, this ethnic state that is set up.
[01:33:17]  You know, they think that they are God's chosen people because of their ethnicity, and they think that everybody else is subhuman.
[01:33:25]  I know.
[01:33:26]  This is where eugenics always goes.

=== Stagflation and Gold Buying (08:00) ===

[01:33:28]  And so they have basically become what they fought.
[01:33:32]  And I think Einstein could see that.
[01:33:35]  He lived in Nazi Germany.
[01:33:37]  He could see that.
[01:33:38]  Yeah.
[01:33:39]  Yeah.
[01:33:39]  His words.
[01:33:40]  Yeah.
[01:33:42]  Again, look who they are.
[01:33:43]  And again, don't call me an anti-Semite.
[01:33:45]  None of these leaders of Israel are Semites.
[01:33:48]  They're all Eastern Europeans.
[01:33:51]  Semites from the Mesopotamia region.
[01:33:54]  Yeah.
[01:33:54]  Yeah.
[01:33:55]  Largely from Ukraine.
[01:33:57]  And Ashkenazis.
[01:34:01]  A-S-H-K-E-N-A-Z-I, Ashkenazis.
[01:34:08]  Yeah.
[01:34:09]  Yeah.
[01:34:10]  It's interesting.
[01:34:11]  So going back to gold, we're very bullish on gold and silver.
[01:34:16]  It's going to continue to escalate.
[01:34:19]  And what's going on with the BlackRock and these other companies, again, everybody forgets that this thing was going down.
[01:34:28]  The equity markets were tanking before Trump launched this war.
[01:34:34]  Again, when all those fails, they take you to war.
[01:34:37]  And the reason being is that they've well, we again look at your top trends.
[01:34:43]  By the way, one of them is World War II, World War III would become official this year and the dot-com bust.
[01:34:50]  China, when they had a big summit meeting in Asia where the top AI guys and world leaders went to a couple of weeks ago for AI, 1.4 billion people in India, 1.4 billion in China.
[01:35:05]  China's investing heavily, both Asian countries are investing heavily in AI.
[01:35:10]  They're going to lead the world in AI.
[01:35:13]  They're pulling the money out of these big hedge funds and venture capitalists and private equity groups because they see the markets going down.
[01:35:23]  And they're realizing what we had forecast that nobody wanted to talk about, and that's the office building bust.
[01:35:30]  There are defaults after defaults after defaults on office buildings that they're not reporting on.
[01:35:37]  And what about the private credit thing that's going on with what was it, Blue House or something like that?
[01:35:41]  Yeah, that's that tied to the business.
[01:35:43]  They're pulling the money out.
[01:35:44]  But they're saying, yes, real estate's a big part of it, but also the AI because they're doing away.
[01:35:50]  You don't need these companies anymore, the software companies, et cetera, that they've invested very heavily in.
[01:35:57]  AI's taking out these jobs.
[01:35:59]  You saw IBM.
[01:36:03]  IBM had its biggest fall since the dot-com bust a couple of weeks ago.
[01:36:11]  IBM.
[01:36:12]  Wow.
[01:36:14]  So these private equity groups have invested in all the rich people invested in these private equity groups and put their money in these things, and now they want the money out.
[01:36:22]  But the private equity groups, you only can get this much out.
[01:36:25]  Yeah.
[01:36:26]  You only get this tiny bit out.
[01:36:28]  Yeah.
[01:36:29]  And I want more of it.
[01:36:30]  No, you can't get it because we don't have it.
[01:36:36]  I'm telling you, this is going to be worse than the Great Depression.
[01:36:42]  Yeah, I think so.
[01:36:43]  Yeah.
[01:36:43]  Certainly, it's going to be worse than what we saw with the stagflation of the 1970s because when you look at that, I said this very early on.
[01:36:52]  I said it's the OPEC oil embargo was only directed at the United States.
[01:36:56]  At that point in time, we only had 19% of all of our oil was from foreign sources, and not all of that was coming from the Gulf states.
[01:37:05]  And look at the chaos that happened here in the United States and around the world because of that.
[01:37:10]  Now we're talking about with the Strait of Hormuz, we're talking about 20%.
[01:37:14]  And if the Iranians really want to go for the long war and inflict a lot of pain, they can start, they don't have to just block the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:37:23]  They can start taking down oil infrastructure and natural gas, liquid natural gas infrastructure all over the place.
[01:37:29]  They can take out ports and have the same effect.
[01:37:33]  So I think this is going to be a very long-term thing.
[01:37:35]  What has happened already is going to take a while to unwind.
[01:37:39]  And the longer this goes and the more knock-on effects, the more this is going to have a very long-term effect.
[01:37:47]  As a matter of fact, Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone put out an article that I covered this week talking about the fact that six years on, we're still feeling the effects of Trump's lockdown in 2020.
[01:38:01]  And absolutely true, because that's what you talk about all the time.
[01:38:04]  Commercial real estate is one aspect of it, but it is permeated in so many different ways.
[01:38:09]  It has changed our society structurally.
[01:38:13]  And this is going to do the same thing.
[01:38:15]  Even if they were to pull it off right now and stop, it would still have a long knock-on effect.
[01:38:20]  And one of those effects is going to be inflation.
[01:38:22]  And so when we look at the price of gold and silver, I think this is basically a buying opportunity.
[01:38:28]  The same way that when Trump was elected because of all of his promises to the crypto community, crypto automatically went up and gold and silver went down.
[01:38:38]  And I said at that point in time, I said it's on sale.
[01:38:42]  It's as good as it's going to get.
[01:38:43]  I think that's the situation right now.
[01:38:45]  They're manipulating this to go down because they don't want to damage the dollar.
[01:38:49]  But I think in the long term, that's what happens.
[01:38:52]  The dollar gets damaged because they're just going to keep pouring money into this black hole of war with more weapons and more treasure into that.
[01:39:04]  And so just from a financial standpoint, it's going to be devastating to the debt.
[01:39:10]  Again, you're seeing the dollar go up.
[01:39:14]  And the reason the dollar is going up is because Europe is really getting hit hard.
[01:39:20]  These energy prices in Europe are going to, they're way, way up.
[01:39:25]  America has, you know, we have the, we're the biggest supplier, a creator of oil in the world.
[01:39:33]  We're producing more than anybody else.
[01:39:36]  They got to import it.
[01:39:37]  Yeah.
[01:39:38]  So that's why you're seeing the Euro going down and the dollar going up.
[01:39:42]  But it's even affecting the Asian capital.
[01:39:44]  It's even when you look at liquid natural gas.
[01:39:46]  Yeah.
[01:39:47]  When you look at liquid natural gas, it's going to affect us even though we are the major provider of it.
[01:39:52]  Just had one of the viewers here saying he got notification that their gas bill is going way up in April because even though we're producing it, you've got this international competition for this scarce resource.
[01:40:04]  So the price is going to go up domestically, even though we're the major producer of it.
[01:40:08]  Yep.
[01:40:10]  Yeah.
[01:40:10]  No, it's again, they're all saying stagflation.
[01:40:14]  It's not going to be stagflation.
[01:40:17]  Stagflation means the economy is stagnant.
[01:40:20]  It's going to be dragflation.
[01:40:22]  The economy is going to go down and inflation is going up.
[01:40:29]  And you've been saying that for a long time.
[01:40:31]  Yeah.
[01:40:31]  You've been saying this is where it's going.
[01:40:34]  And this has been basically a slowboat.
[01:40:36]  It's front of everybody's eyes.
[01:40:38]  Yeah.
[01:40:39]  And you're talking before about COVID, what Trump did.
[01:40:42]  Yet the guy that sold the Operation Warp speed jab, that guy, the guy that locked down, you and I talked about it when it happened.
[01:40:54]  He closed down the called a state of emergency on, what, March 13th, Black Friday, 2020.
[01:41:04]  And then what happened?
[01:41:06]  All over the world, Italy was the first one to lock down.
[01:41:09]  Average age of the people dying, by the way, back then was 81 years old.
[01:41:13]  And when it hit a barricade at Kirkland, Washington, a old age home up in nobody ever heard of the place.
[01:41:21]  But anyway, the whole world has gone down.
[01:41:24]  The whole world has changed since COVID.
[01:41:27]  It's a whole different world.

=== Fox News Little Clown Trump (14:38) ===

[01:41:28]  That's right.
[01:41:29]  I have people from Turkey, from Portugal, from Italy.
[01:41:33]  Everyone tells me how it all changed.
[01:41:37]  It's a whole different world.
[01:41:39]  Yeah, we'll start talking about it.
[01:41:40]  The damage is done is incalculable.
[01:41:43]  We'll start talking about BC, right?
[01:41:45]  Before COVID.
[01:41:47]  Yeah.
[01:41:47]  There you go.
[01:41:48]  Changed the world.
[01:41:50]  Perfectly.
[01:41:50]  Yeah, I remember when we actually had a real world here, and now we've virtualized everything.
[01:41:55]  Yeah, you bust stuff.
[01:41:57]  This is a broken window fallacy.
[01:41:58]  They're not helping anybody.
[01:41:59]  I mean, Lindsey Graham is going nuts and saying, we're going to get rich with all this stuff.
[01:42:05]  We're going to control most of the world's oil resources.
[01:42:09]  We're going to have a third of the world's oil resources between Venezuela and Iran.
[01:42:13]  It's like, you're not going to have that.
[01:42:15]  You're blowing up those oil fuels right now.
[01:42:18]  You know what the amazing thing is, why the hell does anybody quote Lindsey Graham?
[01:42:24]  Because he's so unhinged.
[01:42:25]  He's got a crap spewing out of this little nobody's mouth from South Carolina for decades.
[01:42:31]  Yeah.
[01:42:32]  A little piece of garbage scum crap.
[01:42:36]  And they keep repeating what this imbecile has like that little cruise crap head.
[01:42:42]  Yeah.
[01:42:43]  Yeah.
[01:42:43]  Well, it's just because Lindsey Graham is so off the charts crazy.
[01:42:48]  He's totally insane.
[01:42:50]  And that makes him eminently quotable, I guess.
[01:42:54]  It's like, look at what this idiot just said.
[01:42:56]  This guy is truly dangerous.
[01:42:59]  And he's never seen a war that he gets on Fox News and goes, here's my hat.
[01:43:03]  We're going to go to Cuba.
[01:43:05]  Here's my hat.
[01:43:05]  We're going to go to the next country they're going to attack.
[01:43:08]  And it's like, at some point in time, he's going to lose his head and he's not going to have a hat.
[01:43:14]  I'm quoting this clown.
[01:43:15]  You know, we talk about Fox News.
[01:43:16]  Yeah.
[01:43:17]  You've been up here where I am.
[01:43:18]  Back in the day, they had the satellites.
[01:43:20]  Fox News is doing an interview with me live with this with former CIA director who I'm going after as Obama is bombing Libya.
[01:43:33]  Right?
[01:43:34]  Yeah.
[01:43:34]  Oh, we have it.
[01:43:35]  We have to.
[01:43:36]  I'm sorry.
[01:43:36]  We have to take a break.
[01:43:37]  Remember, they have the satellite truck up here.
[01:43:39]  Senator Lindsey Graham is coming on.
[01:43:43]  They replace you with Lindsey Graham.
[01:43:45]  Yeah.
[01:43:47]  Yeah, that's Fox News.
[01:43:48]  All right.
[01:43:48]  Yeah.
[01:43:49]  Yep.
[01:43:50]  I'm going back to 2011.
[01:43:52]  Yeah.
[01:43:53]  One of these things is not like the other.
[01:43:54]  Around there.
[01:43:55]  Yeah.
[01:43:55]  Yeah.
[01:43:57]  That's crazy.
[01:43:58]  Yeah.
[01:43:59]  Yep.
[01:43:59]  Well, of course, they just covered for Trump as well.
[01:44:02]  You know, he goes to this dignified transfer of the bodies that they brought back of soldiers.
[01:44:07]  And he shows up wearing a cap and he doesn't take it off.
[01:44:09]  So he gets criticized by a lot of people for doing that, not showing respect at the dignified transfer.
[01:44:15]  Take your hat off.
[01:44:16]  All these people are saying, well, Fox News ran an archive clip of Trump where he didn't have a hat on.
[01:44:23]  Right.
[01:44:24]  I saw that.
[01:44:25]  Pretty much.
[01:44:26]  Those people are unbelievable shills, aren't they?
[01:44:28]  It's amazing.
[01:44:29]  Of course, that's where they found War Pete was in the dregs of Fox News.
[01:44:32]  They pulled him out of there and put him on.
[01:44:34]  Oh, and look who they have is his defense secretary, a little clown boy from Fox News.
[01:44:38]  Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
[01:44:40]  Oh, not defense.
[01:44:41]  I forgot.
[01:44:43]  War.
[01:44:45]  Trump changed it from the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
[01:44:48]  He meant it.
[01:44:49]  Yeah.
[01:44:50]  Again, this is the draft dodger.
[01:44:53]  Five draft affirmments he got.
[01:44:55]  The Vietnam War.
[01:44:56]  And now he's in charge because here's Hegset yesterday.
[01:45:01]  Hegsit said President Trump, quote, gets to control the throttle.
[01:45:09]  He's the one deciding he's the one elected on behalf of the American people.
[01:45:17]  So there you got it.
[01:45:19]  He's deciding a reality show star playing the role of the president of the United States, a draft dodger who knows nothing about anything, is in full control of the throttle.
[01:45:36]  And you got this Hegset that lies about how he said the nation was being threatened because of Iran's nuclear bombs.
[01:45:58]  No, you know.
[01:45:59]  They just told us they took care of all those.
[01:46:02]  And of course, we've been hearing from BB for 30-some odd years that it's any week now, right?
[01:46:07]  They're going to have a nuclear weapon or any day.
[01:46:09]  Yeah.
[01:46:09]  They're going to have it.
[01:46:11]  This is the eternal lie.
[01:46:12]  Yeah.
[01:46:13]  How about Witkoff saying the same thing?
[01:46:15]  Yeah.
[01:46:16]  Yeah.
[01:46:16]  Or Jerkoff.
[01:46:17]  Witkoff with Jerkoff.
[01:46:18]  I forgot which his real name is.
[01:46:19]  Right before it happened.
[01:46:20]  Well, you know, one of the things, I guess, is when you look at Trump and the way that he talks, the way he insults people and the rhetoric that he uses, which is just like eight-year-old, you know, schoolyard rhetoric that he uses against everybody.
[01:46:35]  And then you got Pete Hegset, who is just like wide open with all these toys that he can use to kill people.
[01:46:42]  It's disgusting to watch these people talk.
[01:46:45]  In the past, when you'd have somebody who is Secretary of Defense, they would have the gravitas to control their speech.
[01:46:56]  And even if they did have glee in the fact that they were killing people, they would at least have the decency to try to hide it.
[01:47:03]  This guy revels in the carnage that he is inflicting on people, and he's constantly boasting about it.
[01:47:10]  So here's his boasting.
[01:47:13]  Hegzet said the United States and Israel Air Force will have complete control of Iranian skies and uncontested airspace.
[01:47:21]  You ready?
[01:47:23]  We will fly all day, all night, finding, fixing, and finishing the Iranian military and their leaders.
[01:47:35]  Iran's senior leaders are dead.
[01:47:38]  The so-called governing council that would have selected successors are dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
[01:47:54]  Iran's officials cannot talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated, sustained offensive.
[01:48:02]  That's his language.
[01:48:04]  Totally opposite of what you were just saying that they used to say.
[01:48:08]  Yeah.
[01:48:08]  Yeah.
[01:48:09]  You know, these to have some decorum and some respect.
[01:48:12]  And of course, a long time ago, we used to try to avoid civilian casualties.
[01:48:17]  That's one of the things that really bothered me in that back and forth on the airplane when Trump was first asked about this stuff.
[01:48:24]  And he says, well, I don't know.
[01:48:25]  I don't think.
[01:48:26]  And Hegset says, well, we're looking into it, which you've had a week to look into it.
[01:48:31]  You don't even really care.
[01:48:33]  And you're not going to apologize to anybody for it.
[01:48:35]  You're not going to say it's a tragedy.
[01:48:36]  Instead, he says, we don't target civilians.
[01:48:39]  And yet, that's what he's doing primarily, is targeting civilians.
[01:48:44]  Again, going back to Hegset's crap, he goes on to say about Trump.
[01:48:52]  He said that he's the one deciding he's the one elected on behalf of the American people.
[01:48:59]  Okay.
[01:49:00]  Yeah, he's elected to not start the war.
[01:49:02]  You see the Quiniak poll?
[01:49:04]  The American people?
[01:49:08]  53% of Americans voters oppose the U.S. military action against Iran.
[01:49:16]  Okay.
[01:49:17]  So, okay.
[01:49:18]  The American people voted for him.
[01:49:20]  How about doing what the American people want?
[01:49:22]  Yeah.
[01:49:22]  Only 40% of the people support the war.
[01:49:25]  The majority are against it.
[01:49:27]  That's right.
[01:49:29]  How about doing what we want?
[01:49:31]  Go to hell.
[01:49:32]  Hey, you know who I am?
[01:49:34]  Look at the clown circus he has.
[01:49:36]  Marco Rubio.
[01:49:38]  Yeah.
[01:49:38]  Hegset.
[01:49:40]  Yeah.
[01:49:41]  What?
[01:49:41]  Witkoff?
[01:49:43]  Rutnik.
[01:49:44]  Skutnik.
[01:49:45]  Slutnik.
[01:49:47]  Yeah.
[01:49:48]  Where's the adult in the room?
[01:49:49]  Where is there anybody that isn't a criminal?
[01:49:52]  It truly is amazing.
[01:49:54]  Yep.
[01:49:56]  No, this is serious.
[01:49:57]  This is the most serious time of my lifetime.
[01:50:01]  And if we don't have peace on earth, it's going to be hell on earth.
[01:50:04]  And Trump is going to do everything he can to stay in power.
[01:50:07]  And again, I'm concerned about a false flag event.
[01:50:11]  Yeah.
[01:50:11]  Yeah.
[01:50:12]  I, you know, I talked about the timing because it was on Wednesday there was an article that was done by the Jerusalem Post.
[01:50:19]  They asked four of the large language models when they thought it was going to happen.
[01:50:24]  And Grok was spot on, and all of them said it predicted it within about a week.
[01:50:30]  I was reluctant to say that it would happen.
[01:50:32]  I knew it was going to happen on a Saturday because that's a pretty predictable pattern that they've got.
[01:50:38]  You had talked about that as well.
[01:50:40]  But I thought they would do a false flag first.
[01:50:43]  And so I put up a thing, you know, hey, where'd my false flag go?
[01:50:46]  He doesn't even bother to get a consensus of the American people.
[01:50:50]  He could fool a lot of people with a false flag and he could get a consensus for attacking.
[01:50:54]  But he didn't even care about that.
[01:50:56]  Just like he doesn't care enough to come up with a plausible deniability when they kill a massive number of children.
[01:51:03]  And so I think they're going to do a false flag attack and try to consolidate and try to build up his numbers of approval.
[01:51:12]  And the other thing, too, that's totally just about out of the news, what 700,000, 700,000 Lebanese had to leave their homes because Israel is bombing southern Lebanon.
[01:51:27]  Yeah.
[01:51:28]  Yeah.
[01:51:28]  700,000.
[01:51:30]  So everybody listening, get out of your house.
[01:51:33]  Imagine being forced out of your house as being bombed.
[01:51:37]  Yeah.
[01:51:39]  Imagine.
[01:51:40]  Oh, and they're blaming Hezbollah for doing this because Hezbollah struck.
[01:51:46]  Okay.
[01:51:47]  How many times has Israel violated the ceasefire agreement that they signed with Lebanon in 2024, in November?
[01:52:00]  The numbers?
[01:52:01]  About 10,000.
[01:52:03]  10,000 strikes.
[01:52:05]  Well, just look at Gaza.
[01:52:06]  They immediately started violating that ceasefire agreement.
[01:52:11]  Didn't abide by any of that.
[01:52:13]  Where is the outrage?
[01:52:14]  Yeah.
[01:52:16]  Where is the, and as I say, where are all these religions?
[01:52:20]  Could you imagine if all the religions went up, the leaders of the religion said, everybody get out to the streets.
[01:52:28]  We must all get out to the streets in the name of God, in the name of peace.
[01:52:33]  We have to stop these wars.
[01:52:35]  But it would end like that.
[01:52:37]  It would end like that.
[01:52:38]  Was the Pope got locked?
[01:52:40]  Sure.
[01:52:40]  How come you're not out there?
[01:52:42]  Where are you people?
[01:52:44]  And the other thing, too, is this thing, look at Congress.
[01:52:56]  They opposed the War Powers Act.
[01:53:00]  Yes.
[01:53:00]  Yes.
[01:53:02]  Hardly reported.
[01:53:04]  Did you see what Mike Johnson said?
[01:53:06]  He had this press conference and he said, well, they attacked three of our embassies.
[01:53:12]  You know, they attacked us, he said.
[01:53:15]  After you dropped how many hundreds of bombs on them.
[01:53:18]  You know, it's like, it's just amazing how insane the excuses that come from these people and the lies and the way they twist the facts.
[01:53:28]  And look at the little clown boy of nothing, Mike Johnson.
[01:53:33]  Yeah.
[01:53:34]  A little gutless little clown.
[01:53:38]  A little nobody of nothing.
[01:53:42]  Mike Johnson, one freak after another.
[01:53:46]  A couple of people come out against this and that's it.
[01:53:51]  It's horrible.
[01:53:52]  And again, you look at here.
[01:53:55]  President Trump, this is in the Trends Journal in the letter to the subscribers.
[01:54:02]  President Trump has offered shifting explanations for why the U.S. went to war, stating that he believed Iran was preparing to strike first.
[01:54:11]  He said his quote opinion was shaped, you ready, by discussions with key advisors, including Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Secretary of War, Pete Hegset, and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
[01:54:33]  His son-in-law, oh, Jerry Kushner, when Netanyahu used to come to America, stayed at the Kushner's house.
[01:54:42]  Yeah.
[01:54:42]  Oh, that one?
[01:54:43]  Yeah.
[01:54:44]  Witcoff, Witkoff Cherkoff, who said Iran was ready to, in a couple of weeks, they'll have nuclear capabilities.
[01:54:52]  Words to that effect.
[01:54:55]  Yep.
[01:54:56]  Well, you know, when the reports are.
[01:54:57]  A little clown boy of nothing who Trump used to make fun of?
[01:55:01]  Yeah, that's right.
[01:55:03]  Little Marco.
[01:55:04]  Yeah.
[01:55:04]  You know, when the reports, Gerald, came out that, you know, the Iranians reached out to the CIA and wanted to have some more talks about this stuff right after they broke out.
[01:55:15]  And then Bibi called Trump on the carpet.
[01:55:18]  He said, you're not talking to these people behind our back, are you?
[01:55:21]  And so the White House, to say, no, we have solidarity with Israel, said that Witkoff and Jared Kushner talked to Bibi and the Mossad on a daily basis.
[01:55:32]  Yep.
[01:55:33]  And maybe that's where they got the information that there was an outreach from the Iranians for peace.
[01:55:39]  Maybe it was Jared Kushner who told him that.
[01:55:42]  But again, do they get daily briefings from the Pentagon?
[01:55:46]  Do they get daily briefings even from the CIA, which is probably fully on with this war and regime change?
[01:55:53]  No.
[01:55:53]  No, they get daily briefings from a foreign government and a foreign intelligence agency.
[01:55:58]  That runs our country.
[01:56:00]  Yeah, they're spies.
[01:56:02]  They're spies.
[01:56:02]  You know what we do with spies?
[01:56:04]  Yep.
[01:56:05]  That's what should be done.

=== Everything US Constantly Screwed (05:02) ===

[01:56:06]  But it's really sad.
[01:56:08]  I got a comment here from a listener, DG8.
[01:56:11]  He says, David, can you let Gerald know when Trump and Hegseth say they're going to hire toolmakers to build missiles?
[01:56:18]  I'm in Ohio, 61-year-old toolmaker.
[01:56:20]  Nobody is joining this trade.
[01:56:22]  We can't find anyone.
[01:56:24]  Yeah, and that's a big part of what is happening to so many fundamental aspects of our country.
[01:56:31]  The whole country's gone down.
[01:56:32]  Yeah.
[01:56:33]  So terrible.
[01:56:34]  Yep.
[01:56:35]  No, this is really serious.
[01:56:39]  Again, when all else fails, they take you to war.
[01:56:42]  Yeah.
[01:56:42]  And the economy.
[01:56:43]  Yeah, he's right.
[01:56:44]  Young people, look at them.
[01:56:46]  Again, go back to COVID.
[01:56:49]  I'm a young guy, right?
[01:56:50]  Come home three o'clock.
[01:56:51]  Mom, I'm going out.
[01:56:52]  Make sure you're home at six o'clock.
[01:56:54]  We used to eat dinner at six o'clock, everybody.
[01:56:56]  Imagine being a young kid during COVID.
[01:57:00]  You can't go out.
[01:57:01]  Stay in your house.
[01:57:02]  You can't go to school.
[01:57:03]  You can't go to the beach.
[01:57:04]  You can't go out and play.
[01:57:04]  You can't do anything.
[01:57:06]  That got all screwed up.
[01:57:07]  Well, we already had a lot of that.
[01:57:09]  I mean, we had, I cover story after story of the fact that nosy neighbors call child protective services if they see some kids that are out playing.
[01:57:18]  Karen and I were driving around and we saw some kids playing in the yard.
[01:57:21]  And I said, you know, that strike, I don't ever see that.
[01:57:25]  And it struck me as odd.
[01:57:26]  And then I thought about it and I thought, why is that odd?
[01:57:29]  That's the way we used to live.
[01:57:31]  But you just don't see that anymore.
[01:57:32]  You see everybody locked in their houses.
[01:57:35]  So when he's talking about they can't find people, there were young people who were all screwed up.
[01:57:40]  Yeah.
[01:57:41]  They got, again, and that's the other thing.
[01:57:43]  Everybody's totally addicted.
[01:57:46]  They're on their phones constantly.
[01:57:49]  Constantly, constantly, constantly.
[01:57:51]  They're totally wiped out.
[01:57:54]  As I said, you've heard me say it.
[01:57:56]  They got it wrong in the King James Bible when they said the meek shall inherit the earth.
[01:58:00]  They misspelted it.
[01:58:01]  The geeks have inherited the earth.
[01:58:04]  These kids are all screwed up.
[01:58:06]  Well, even talk about it as doom scrolling.
[01:58:08]  You know, you just sat there scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
[01:58:11]  And that's really where this is all leading to.
[01:58:13]  Doom.
[01:58:14]  It really is.
[01:58:15]  Doom for individuals and doom for society collectively.
[01:58:18]  That's where all this stuff is headed.
[01:58:20]  Well, you know, when you look at Trump, he is a one-man fourth turning, I've said.
[01:58:26]  You know, he wants to create chaos and conflict everywhere.
[01:58:30]  Look at everything that he's done.
[01:58:31]  He gets Canada angry at us to the point where they're booing our hockey teams and things like that.
[01:58:37]  We've never had a problem with Canada before.
[01:58:39]  He wants to attack Greenland.
[01:58:40]  He wants to attack everybody.
[01:58:42]  He sets everybody against each other.
[01:58:45]  And so now this guy who took it to the next level with tariffs, now he's going straight on to war.
[01:58:52]  It's like his whole mission that he's been given by his masters who put him in office is to shut everything down.
[01:59:00]  Again, and he lied his way into office as a peace candidate.
[01:59:03]  The facts are all there.
[01:59:04]  The quotes are all there.
[01:59:06]  I'm not going to start a war.
[01:59:07]  I'm going to stop wars.
[01:59:09]  One lie after another.
[01:59:12]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:59:14]  It's incredibly crazy.
[01:59:15]  But again, you've been telling people about this and warning people about it.
[01:59:20]  And there is absolutely no reason for oil to be dropping or for gold to be dropping.
[01:59:25]  Anybody that's paying attention to what's going on, you can see where this is all headed.
[01:59:29]  Look, if we would have peace tomorrow, and I hope we do, but I don't think it's going to happen.
[01:59:33]  But if we had that, the inflation and the disruption and everything is already baked in for another wave of this stuff.
[01:59:41]  So take advantage of that information.
[01:59:43]  Take advantage of Trent's Journal because that'll give you the information that you need.
[01:59:47]  Thank you, Gerald.
[01:59:48]  Appreciate it.
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