Rex Jones and Tim Tompkins dissect global chaos, contrasting fake AI Trump videos with serious "No Kings" protests and analyzing Ukraine's defense pact with Saudi Arabia for advanced missile funding. They calculate Russia's war profits at $760 million daily, projecting $280 billion by April as Moscow supplies Shahid drones to Iran, while debating if current conflicts mark World War III or IV. The hosts critique U.S. political structures and CIA autonomy, argue socialism fails due to the economic calculation problem, and promote their newsletter before teasing upcoming guests. Ultimately, they suggest true stability requires consistent ideology rather than temporary regime changes. [Automatically generated summary]
That's the thing, because, like, the dude who shot the guy, or I guess the guy who got shot, the protester here at Foster, like, the 2021 BLM stuff, he had a girlfriend.
He was like this, like crazy, like white, like ginger-looking guy, like crazy, like blue eyes.
And then he had this wife, who was an African-American lady, but she had no arms or legs.
So he was bringing her to the protest.
Like she was in the wheelchair.
Like, he would have his AK-47 with like her stuff.
And he left her on the street and ran over to the car with his gun.
Well, the thing is, is like we were talking about it.
I really love doing a show where I have me and Tim where we can bounce ideas off each other because when you're alone in there and you have to host it solo, it's like running a marathon.
Like you don't get to stop, right?
So like if I'm talking and then I like lose my train of thought, because I have things I want to cover in that period of time.
And this, this relaxed format is actually a lot more information dense than a show.
Cause in a show, you got to be this segment, this segment, that segment, that segment, and you can't really have bleed over like we do here.
We can start one place, take all the places you'll go, Dr. Seuss book journey, and then end up back there at the same time.
And it's not really like, when you do two hours, we do two.
If we need to do four hours, we do four.
But when I'm in there and I'm just talking and I have to keep talking and I forget how to talk.
And then I'm like, well, actually, you know, the grander point here is, well, here's the deal.
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Let me tell you about the deal.
For every subscription, you get a t-shirt and I'm like, okay, like I'm figuring it out.
And you get to get to watch this grow in real time.
But you see what makes that operation so special and the way that it operates is it really is like it's people out in a pirate ship like having their own adventure.
Like they're, they're not working for anybody.
And this is the thing that really grinds my gears about Infowars and just like, I know you know it's true now, Tim, because you've seen it up close and personal.
People always make their assumptions about my dad and his operation, whatever.
It's the most genuine thing you could ever see on the planet.
Like, I just go in there and do a show.
I haven't communicated with Matt one bit.
I'll go in there and do a three-hour show tomorrow.
And me and Tim will do shows all throughout the week.
Nah, but like overall, I will say, just to give you guys context, you know, first day, I had no nerves.
I'm like, all right, same thing.
Let's go.
We're going.
We're doing this.
Second day, it hit me.
I'm like, holy shit, we're doing this.
We're in it.
And you wouldn't have seen it on camera.
Like, and you didn't notice either.
But like, I had like a mini, like, whoa, okay, we're doing this.
And I got nervous, but then I was like, it's so easy to have your, when, when I look over at you and we've done this a million times, it's like muscle memory.
Well, the thing is, is like, if I go to you or you go to me, we know we have like a minute or two and we're on the same program because we've talked about the show.
We've wargamed the show.
We know what we want to cover.
So it's just a natural evolution of our broadcasting.
And we're going to be restructuring things a little bit, starting the shows a little bit earlier.
Well, here's the thing about the no kings protest.
You know, okay, fine.
We're going to go protest, but I always say protest isn't the number one way to get things changed in America sometimes because it depends on who's in control.
And here's the thing, like, as Roman citizens, we deserve the rights that we're entitled to, like having our government be respected around the world so that we, the people, can be respected around the world and do good business and be well loved.
And we have President Caligula making his horse a senator and doing all sorts of stuff like this.
I mean, you know about the crazy Roman emperors of old, right?
I don't know if this was during the first kings protest or during the second one, but you know, it is comical.
And then also there was a tweet that he made.
He made a tweet that was like, you know, America, no, thank God Americans don't have like king, America doesn't have kings anymore, you know, but thank God I'm still your president or something.
He just totally dissed the entire population of people who are protesting.
Because if you're talking about the Trump thing, yeah, very desperate for Trump to do something, as he said many times, like the Democrats want to put him in prison, right?
So that would make sense why he would want Trump to do good.
Your father, but see how everyone gets a place on the network.
See, like, here's the thing.
The situation is so crazy.
I don't even know the context in which he asked the question.
Maybe you'll give us the context.
You just said we need other countries' respect.
Yeah, we need to be able to make deals, right?
Like, wouldn't it be nice to have a deal with Russia and mine the Arctic together and get the rare earth minerals and get the oil and not have to worry about nuclear war and all this stuff?
She loves to spend money on new tattoos, but this is a process of asking for donations on a GoFundMe support herself and the nationwide presentation of the Doge Walker live.
But like poverty in China is worse than poverty in America.
But if you are middle class and have some sort of wealth, China does have a lot of cool things.
Now, the trade-off is like you give up a lot of your freedoms and you're under a surveillance state and the social, what is it, the social credit score.
Like I'm not willing to trade for upgraded cities, but there's the whole point Rex is trying to make here is they're actually spending money on infrastructure and technology.
Basically, what he's talking about is China has tried to overengineer, create a bunch of infrastructure, and they're having a liquidity crisis in terms of too much inventory and not enough people actually buying homes.
So they propped up these major cities in these areas and nobody's living in them.
Yes, that is true.
But we're not talking about the ghost cities.
We're talking about specifically the populated cities.
Ukraine signed a defense cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia on Friday as Gulf countries look to Kiev for assistance on developing drone attacks from Iran.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the agreement with senior Saudi officials during his two-day visit to Riyadh.
The accord lays the foundation for future contracts, technological cooperation, investment, also strengthens Ukraine's international role as a security donor.
That's like getting the homeless guy to sell you a house insurance.
Now into the fifth year, Ukrainians are resisting the same kinds of terrorist attacks, ballistic missiles and drones that the Iranian regime is currently carrying out in the Middle East and Gulf region.
Saudi Arabia also has capabilities that are of interest to Ukraine, and this cooperation can be mutually beneficial, he said, without specifying details.
He wants oil, probably.
Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran in February, Saudi Arabia, plus many other countries in the Gulf and Middle East, have suffered from Iranian retaliation and drone strikes against energy, military, and civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine is one of the only scroll up a little bit.
Ukraine is one of the only countries in the world having lived under massive Russian drone swarms since 2022 that has learned how to repel the attacks using cheap Ukrainian-made interceptor drones since the start of the Iran war.
So they've been pitching these drones to the Middle Eastern countries.
But you want to go to the – Yeah, let's go ahead and play that video, Wes, of the Ukraine deal just so we can have an overarching summary of this.
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A handshake and the hope of sealing a new partnership.
Oh, yeah.
Vladimir Zelensky landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday for discussions on a security cooperation agreement between the two countries, both facing the threat of Iranian drones.
The day before, the Ukrainian president highlighted his country's expertise in this area.
Shahid, drones which cause serious damage to infrastructure and FPV drones, which are now used for targeted attacks on military bases and equipment in the region.
We offer the Middle East and Gulf countries a partnership that benefits both sides, our knowledge and technology and their funding.
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Under attack since 2022, from tens of thousands of drones launched by Russia, Ukraine has learned.
Under attack since 2022, from tens of thousands of drones launched by Russia, Ukraine has learned how to neutralize them.
It's developed interceptor drones capable of tracking down and destroying 80% of Shahid drones and has begun large-scale production of these in recent months.
An effective and inexpensive system.
To share this expertise, Ukraine has recently sent military experts to several Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan.
Since the start of the war, these countries have been targeted by more than 3,000 drones launched by Tehran.
Weapons reportedly supplied to Iran by Russia, according to the Financial Times.
Four years ago, it was Iran that supplied its drones to Moscow, but since then, the Kremlin has significantly improved their performance.
The EU's foreign policy chief also accuses Russia of arming Tehran.
And he's not, and you can very clearly see how he's corralled and how they bounce him back and forth like a pingball, a pinball machine, like through various people.
As to where, like, oftentimes, like, I'll feel this way.
Like, doing the morning show, like, I do the morning show, and then boom, my day's gone.
It's because I already know what I have to do, and then it's over.
You think about for him, literally, he's just in an endless loop of just getting older.
And then you got to go through all these appearances.
So, you know, there's no way.
My whole point with that is you're going to make some mistakes.
There's no possible way.
Or you're relying so much on the information chain that's across and underneath you to make those decisions because you're not going to look into every single thing.
You'd be like, Mr. Sir, I have the best thing since sliced bread.
We should go and tackle the Iranians.
Well, absolutely, we should go do that.
Like, I think those things do happen at certain points.
And then you take a step back and you look at the justification given for the Ukraine war.
And they said this openly.
So anyone who says I'm not saying the truth or anyone who says I'm not telling the truth is just lying to you or you're ignorant of the facts of history.
No, we were just talking about like the fact that Russia holds all the cards, that they're sending things over to Iran and the United States can't do anything about it.
So if a large-scale conflict that causes one side, the bigger side, to expend a lot of resources to take out the smaller side is bad, why isn't the same thing true about Iran, where a larger power is attacking a smaller power and it's costing larger power a lot more to do that in things that are not regenerative.
Okay, like missiles don't grow on trees.
So it's not just a monetary thing of like, oh, we can print more money.
And the grand lie with Trump has always been his relationship with Russia.
People said he hated Russia at the beginning, he really didn't.
Or people said he worked for Russia at the beginning, you really didn't.
And then over time, as the law fair and as the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax stuff drag on, if you're a liberal in the audience and you've gravitated towards our show because we give middle-of-the-road commentary, you still believe in Trump-Russia stuff.
Well, I kind of agree with your first point where they have no choice but to succeed.
And what we're seeing right now, like with these FPV drones, really like terrorist tactics, it's a war, but they're asymmetric warfare tactics, what these people are doing.
It's a whole new thing.
So like back in World War I, but instead of the terrifying weapon being a poison gas that makes your lungs turn into chalk, the main problem is these drones, right?
And you think about the nature of that.
Like this is a terror war.
I want to work my entire life to make sure that all these things, all these automated weapon systems are considered to be war crimes.
It should be war crimes to outsource murder to a robot.
But the last thing I have a question for you now, because this is bringing me to a thought experiment, because we're seeing like each administration comes in after eight years, four years, whatever your term is, making different decisions.
Do you think presidents should have longer terms than eight?
And then the intelligence agencies are like the teachers that have to make sure the little kid goes to school and does his assignments and is a good boy ultimately.
Attacks ramp up in Iran war, including strikes on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
Israel struck Iran's nuclear facilities hours after threatening to escalate and expand.
Its campaign against Tehran on Friday.
Iran vowed to retaliate and struck a base in Saudi Arabia, wounding U.S. service members and damaging planes.
A month into the war, however, there appeared to be a breakthrough as Tehran agreed to allow humanitarian aid and agricultural shipments through the straight or moves, accepting a request from the UN and the Iranian ambassador, which said Iran agreed to facilitate and expedite such movements, even if it or even as it endures strikes on its nuclear facilities.
The vital waterway usually handles about a fifth of the world's oil shipments, usually not anymore, and nearly a third of the world's fertilizer trade.
While markets and governments have largely focused on blocked supplies of oil and natural gas, the restriction of fertilizer ingredients and trade threatens farming and food security around the world.
You know, it just, let's just see what happens here.
You know, you got 10,000 more troops that went over there.
Iran is saying they're ready for anything.
They're ready to kill on site, essentially.
So we'll see how that one goes.
I don't see how it doesn't become like the Bay of Pigs where like you go in there, you think you're about to take the island and you just get overwhelmed by like 100,000 troops.
Recognition of the role we've played in stabilizing Syria.
Recognition, despite what they may have said in the press, that what we did in Venezuela was good for the world and good for our region in the Western Hemisphere.
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A recognition of the role we've played in setting up, along with others like Canada, the gangster oppression force.
But I will say one thing that he said in there that I specifically did agree with him on is like Cuba is in a state where it does need change, right?
Cuba is a they you call it a so a communist state, but it's really socialist state.
There's actually never been officially a real true communist state.
And that's because if you go by the textbook definition, it's really socialism because the government is still having control, but it's also managed by you still have certain personal rights.
So I'm going to cover the difference between socialism and communism here because it's a very clear distinction.
Because he says, well, Cuba is a communist state.
Now, if we do regime change, I think the regime change does need to happen in order to allow Cuba's like in order to allow Cuba's population to actually flourish as well as their economic.
Like if you go and it's like going back into the 60s.
One is when Russia left it that way and we did do the sanctions thing, but we also have the scenario where they had taken a lot of the assets that the Americans had created.
That's why they did the sanctions, okay?
We covered that on the American Journal.
But what I want to talk about specifically here is if they do regime change, they need to put somebody in place that is for the Cuban people.
I don't want him to be a shill for the American government.
We need somebody who's like pro-Cuba, pro-Cuba, but also is going to bring in deals that make money for Cuba.
Because if Cuba does get in the right side of the United States, they could be like Puerto Rico, where they've got like a good standard of living and you've got like ability to like have resources and travel freely to the United States.
Okay, Wes, go ahead and play number six because I want to talk about specifically, I want you guys to learn something today about communism and socialism.
This is a good video.
Okay.
It helps you distinguish between socialism and communism.
And next time somebody says Russia's communism or Cuba's communism, you say, no, communism has never actually truly existed if you look at the textbook definition.
And when I say never work, I mean it's pretty much impossible.
But first, let's define our terms.
Socialism is a socioeconomic system where the means of production are collectively owned and controlled by a community or the state.
This means that resources, factories, and machinery are all owned in common and decisions about their use are made democratically.
At least that's how it's advertised.
Now, that might sound good in theory, right?
I mean, even some conservatives say so.
But socialism doesn't just fail in practice.
It actually fails in theory too.
And here's why.
Socialists believe that by seizing the means of production from those who own it and putting them in the hands of the people, we bring about a leveling effect, eliminating exploitation, tearing down artificial hierarchies, and achieving greater social equality.
But here's the problem.
Without private property rights, the goods that go into the means of production can't be openly traded since they're all owned collectively by the people.
And without trading, there are no actual market prices for these goods.
Now, some may be asking, well, wait a second, can't the government just establish prices?
You see, prices in a free market system reflect how abundant or scarce a particular good or service is in relation to the demand.
This reflection helps inform people about how to use their resources most efficiently.
Business owners that make mistakes on the goods or services they purchase or produce can be instantly punished by customers.
This system of profit and loss creates powerful incentives that lead to a more efficient distribution of resources over time.
What's more, you get to help determine that system based on how you choose to spend your own time and your own money.
If you buy one good instead of another, you're actually signaling to the marketplace that it needs to provide more of that thing you just purchased.
But under socialism, the central planner lacks this basic feedback because there are no real prices since it's all owned by the collective.
This is why countries like the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and North Korea have all experienced catastrophic shortages of everything from oil to toilet paper because central planners were allocating resources not based off of consumer demand, but government edicts.
And this phenomenon is known as the economic calculation problem.
It's a challenge that no socialist philosopher, political party, regime, or economist has ever been able to solve.
Not because they haven't tried, but because it's just not workable.
And this problem doesn't even get into the ethical questions about socialism.
Because in a system with property rights, who gets to use a resource is determined through ownership.
But if the means of production are all owned by the collective or probably the government, then what happens if two people want to use a resource for different things?
Well, there's only one way to solve the dispute by forcing one person to bow to the demand of another.
So how do you get in a position to make sure that you get what you want?
Historically, in a society where the economy is run by the government, whoever has the most poll with the government wins.
And that's exactly how socialist economies have played out all throughout history.
Here's the bottom line.
This is not some trivial issue that just needs a few more years and the right type of experts to work out.
This is something they've tried to contend with for centuries.
And the reason why it doesn't work is very simple.
The economy is just us.
It's people working in voluntary cooperation and competition with one another to deliver the goods and services that people demand.
And when you take the people out of that equation and replace them with a room full of politicians and bureaucrats, the results are not just bad.
They just don't get enforced because you're able to pay.
The only way it would work is Congress is supposed to be the check and balance to the monopoly and the fact that there needs to be a free market.
And they're not doing that because they're bought out.
If you were to say, okay, from now on, which it used to be this way, by the way, that you couldn't pay money to like political, you couldn't play, like companies couldn't pay to political people.
That used to be the scenario.
And then somehow, I think in the 90s or something, we rolled that back or there was at least a cap.
But the last thing, and I'll summarize this, right?
It doesn't work when there's a monopoly because a monopoly sets the prices and then somebody's always winning.
And that's why you're seeing capitalism not working and there's not a true free market.
True capitalism means there's a free market and the government has the checks and balance.
And really, like the reason why we're so much more harsh, we're so much more critical on people that traditionally you might think, I mean, we both voted for Trump, the reason why we're so much harder on people like him is because of the actions of people like him refusing to break up the monopolies, refusing to help the small business person, the employee on the street, refusing to help these people.
It creates the ultimate argument for these other systems that we don't want.
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